rstein

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[–] rstein@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

If you used pandoc hen you were programming your thesis. ;-)

[–] rstein@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

It depends on what you want to achieve.

Vi and it’s descendants are brilliant editors for a programmer but not for writing prose. So stay away from them. ;-)

Do you want just to write text without being distracted by an overwhelming gui or are you fine with the hint at options?

Do you want to write in a terminal?

How much do you want to format while typing? By typing the format commands into the text or by clicking on buttons or ctrl-key magic?

Do you need version control?

For each of your combination of answers there are different solutions.

[–] rstein@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can’t delete a mail you sent me, nor put your hand written letter to me in the bin. I can keep both and I can keep your name and addresses in my little black book. So there isn’t even that level of privacy in the real old fashioned communication.

And communication over the Internet was always the subject of storage. Your mail may be on the backup tape of a mail server. Your usenet posting is on archive.

So the assumption that the fediverse can forget….

[–] rstein@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Interesting. And how does the system knows who got the real coins? 15 dummy accounts and one real? And can it be backtracked if a dedicated agency in possession of a heavy wrench convinces my arms dealer to give up his keys? Another thing to read up.

[–] rstein@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There is no trace of the transaction in the exchange? No way of getting a connection between credit card and Monero transactions?

[–] rstein@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

So with Monero it’s impossible for a state actor with subpoena power and perhaps access to digital intercepts to untangle a payment?

[–] rstein@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Crypto isn’t as anonymous as one would think. The ledger is public and if the wallet can in some way associated with your person (credit card for buying crypto, shipping address for something bought with crypto… ) it can be traced.

[–] rstein@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago

Started with Lastpass, but migrated to Bitwarden because of open source. And then came the trouble at Lastpass.