i use molly. that is fucked up. yeah hope he is all right. probably need to switch to signal now. not gonna stay on something that has not been updated in three months when we had all these vulns and hacks in just a couple weeks.

i do not have podcasts but i like mike israetel and his commentary vids. i listened to some interviews with him. he has a phd in sport physiology and lives it too. think he knows his shit and he is funny. unlike other fitness influencers who just make shit up.

does it impact anything monero uses?

the post was not about any person. it was about government techniques. the fact you do not like one guy does not mean the same will not be used against us. look at what @spirobel posted in the edit. it clearly looks like the same is already going on with monero devs. same playbook. they do not care who the target is. if you are inconvenient they will use it.

jeez. thanks @spirobel and @samourai . you just opened two huge rabbit holes for me.

you can probably have a kid in states that have a good procedure for dealing with this. Then you can prepare all documents and proof required that way when the kid is of age you can hand over the documents and give them the choice. You basically begin with a plan to facilitate them getting documented status anytime they want.

yes that is what i mean by winning the parent lottery. but if you did not and they are drug addicts or a religious cult that bans kids from leaving, like the whole apostasy thing in islam, or just sick mothers like you said, then you are fucked. "they can kill you anytime" is not that hyperbolic if the parents are the wrong ones and you have zero paper. the state at least has to pretend. abusive parents do not. i think you are looking at it from the perspective of a parent, and a potentially good one. i just projected from a kid's perspective. what if my parents are psychos. it is not just travel. it is everything. like @mongoose said. i would not even be able to rent a place with roommates if my parents did not agree to be cosigners on the lease.

shit. i would prefer to be invisible to the system. but i have ok parents. so it only works if you got lucky with fine ones. if they are abusive or religious retards you are fucked big time. maybe worse than the state they have full control while you are most helpless. and since you officially do not exist they know they can kill you anytime.
both are traps. there should be a third way. not state monopoly and not family monopoly. independent identity on an immutable ledger or something.
i searched and found more people like that. so if it is not unique and there are lots of people like this, and also people who want to be stateless like @OldNorseAnarchist, why is there no third alternative yet?

also apple's response is a bizarre anti-security response: https://support.apple.com/en-us/149555. not only are they dragging their feet on the fix, they are silently reverting any manual fixes with every update. that is worse than doing nothing.

i play tennis since i was a kid. both my parents play and met as tennis partners. people think i play well. coaches think i am lazy and waste good potential but i just do not want to play professionally. i also do skateboarding and snowboarding. wish i can try surfing soon. started going to the gym recently. it is downstairs next door and my roommates are into it. i am no fan of it tbh.

thank you. good read. monero hides the on-chain stuff. the exchange and the swap still have the name and the ip. that is the real leak. bought mine from a friend. skipped the whole kyc and swap step. still the point. the coin is private. the way you get it is not. if you need an id to get the money, the money is already leaking. friday is a good day. i will be leaving to go snowboarding on fridays when the season starts. but whatever. can read on the phone.

the amount of brainwashing and busywork in school is almost 100%. no creativity. just obedience and do what you are told by this deadline. if anyone had a spark it is dead by graduation. not even in college. or you get labeled a problem and diagnosed with some executive function thing or autism or adhd. my case. kids still have the spark and the imagination and they work hard to kill it. college already gets mostly braindead. the filter starts way before the phd.

thank you @stasher and congrats @OldNorseAnarchist.

thanks for the rec. i do not like twitter but i still want to see what some people say. unfortunately a lot of them only use twitter. this is the only way to know.

@monerostar you mentioned you are from canada. this one is for you.

easy to integrate is cool so upvotes here will be more like a real zap then? has this been audited or something?

but grapheneos will not be affected by this right? stock android gets the block but grapheneos is not stock. if the lockdown is through play services, the custom os is the out.

The real question is mostly: what do you wish you could buy without ID?

if you have money you should be able to exchange it for whatever you want. that is the whole point. why is this even a question. gold and silver did not need any permission. you had the coin you got the thing. if the money needs an id to spend, the money is fake.