First of all I just want to say that I completely agree with all of the technical things you talked about in his question but I think you kind of miss his question.

OP doesn’t wanna be on SS7 (the thing that gives you your phone number), neither do I. I’ve just come to the conclusion that when it comes to infrastructure and paying for your goods SS7 is the only realistic option I have.

There is no distributed communication network anyone can just connect to. And the dream of leaving WiFi access points open for free (or for some kinda crypto-pay, e.g SkyNet) is just a dream, individuals have to invest in it and nobody wants to or take responsibility for it.

Here are some rules:

1. Somebody* has to build the radios and computers that our phones connect to and has to build them all over the world (*doesn’t have to be an individual, could be a company or government)
2. You gotta pay to use it (whether it’s with a billing account where they have your full name and house address, or crypto)
3. It’s gotta be the easiest option

If we can come with a solution that fits these rules we can do away with the SS7 cellular protocol and have a truly anonymous network.

They are categorized as headphones

Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, Audio-Technica and Sony aren’t famous luxury brands in the same way that Beats are.

huh… in hindsight I didn’t think about my position about headphones all the way through, I was just mad about the existance of beats.

sry

Cloths, headphones, handbags. Anything that’s just buying the brand.

I don’t get why I should want these high end brands when the only thing I can afford from them is plastered with their logo.

I’ve seen the Gucci tracksuit, the Jordans, the Beats, everything and I’m not impressed. Even though luxury things are luxury I don’t even agree with the luxuriousness of many of these products. For example, if I’m going to wear a Gucci tracksuit covered in the Gucci logo and using Gucci colors then it’s gotta look good first and foremost. If I’m going to hold a Hermes bag that’s not comfortable, or durable, or robust but is just supposed to look cool, then it’s gotta actually look cool! Not like something Shien could design.

And yes I am aware of the concept of buying a store of value: diamonds, expensive watches, actually rare and valued handbags. But most of the famous luxuries I see in public are not that. They’re literally a poor man’s status symbol IMO.

Same tbh idk if it’s the community or the app for me

Stranger in a strange land

For the chaos

Discreet math, Calculus, and Physics change the way I think about code

I’ve been using it for years. That plus i3 and vim means that I never touch my mouse while working

Ned mor branrot plz

Termux

I mean… Sure it can look alittle different in the database but I’d assume 99% of my Internet footprint is plain text

Aren’t some wolves also persistent hunters?

Maybe that’s why current year sitcoms are so lame, the laugh track made the "mean"ness a joke

Good to hear that I didn’t invent the “pro the mother’s life” opinion first, I’ve just never heard anyone else articulate it out loud

My mother works in HR, she told me a story I didn’t retain too much of, long story short someone she’s interviewing thought the job was for a higher salary because they saw a freebooted job post.

I think some recruiting firm (that probably shares an office with IRS scammers) posted my mother’s job post with a higher salary so they could offer that candidate to my mother.

Just to have the frame of reference, is there at least 1 on these wilderness camps that isn’t a pedo operated blood bath?

Isn’t threads.net activitypub?

TBH I kinda agree with the states here… I started watching porn waaayyyy too early and it’s fucking me up… without a doubt… I shouldn’t have seen all the things I looked for and now I gotta put up with it.

But I also agree with PornHubs decision. There is no way to verify age without exposing your identity. There isn’t even a way to trust a 3rd party to verify someone’s age.

There really isn’t a middle ground, the only way to protect kinds (like little me) is to block the porn. But websites go on and offline every few minutes, VPNs and Tor are free and hard to blacklist.

How do we censor internet porn?? ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

I mean if it’s just a private server for just the people he knows then I don’t get why this would be a concern, but if it is to mitigate family drama then rocket chat definitely has end-to-end encryption https://docs.rocket.chat/use-rocket.chat/workspace-administration/settings/e2e-encryption

Rocket chat is like slack but FOSS… haven’t tried it myself but it could be something