What’s up today? (Part 2)

Paxful has just announced they are shutting down.

We are losing the centralized P2P trading arenas. There are some remaining and some on the dark web and then there is Bisq - a decentralized P2P app.

But things are getting tighter and I can only suppose it’s because of the threat of governments getting nasty.

Make sure you have Tor, Lokinet, and Bisq. As well as any self-custody wallet apps you need to trade P2P from your own computer.

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Just learned of “Haveno” which is a port of Bisq (maybe not working yet?) - the main difference is that Monero is the core currency instead of Bitcoin

Hopeful that someday we will have something like this for SNT - preferably WASM so it can run from the Safe Network.

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DAOs are governed by humans, AIs are governed by data and learn in simulation time.

This all works to the advantage of the SAFE Network, especially now that everyone can join, no throttle. :partying_face:

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JimmyDore:“The Restrict Act Takes Away ALL OF YOUR RIGHTS – Not Kidding”

If ya got a congressman, let know how you feel:
https://www.house.gov/representatives
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

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That was silly wasn’t it of people to claim that. DAOs were never going to do that.

The AI taking a lot of office jobs has been in the works for around 15 years now. Accounting programs has destroyed a lot of book keeping jobs. Legal programs have reduced the number of legal researchers needed to do the work. Online service AI has reduced the number of service staff. And so on

Now AI (conversational and process) has advanced to the point of being able to replace many middle managers whose major job is collecting info and reporting and assigning work to others. Soon it will be able to confidentially do many tasks. Maybe small at the moment but much more later on.

Its not taking the whole of a job, but taking over say 10% now, maybe 60% in 2 years means that you need corresponding less people to do the reduced amount of work. So office staff of 50 people may reduce to 25 people in just a few years. Maybe 10 years, but like accounting it will come where 1 accountant does the work of what took 5 40 years ago

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The lawyers will go first #donotpay.com

Explain it like I’m 41 (comedic close to 42).

What if everybody had their own AI? It could be a better informed lawyer, account :ant:, friend etc simultaneously…

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In Australia the tax man knows all your income from normal working, all your interest payments, all your share earnings, all your crypto earnings from Aust Exchanges, and so on.

The only reason for a tax return now is if you earn extra money to declare (work, crypto, etc) and to “sign” the return. And all online. 10 minutes to do the return now unless you have extras.

Basically tax accountants have pretty much lost the majority of wage earners. No AI needed

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Sounds like this guys need a bit of a shakeup, don’t you think?

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Lolwut! :hushed:

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Zionists gonna Zionist

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/is-netanyahoo-again-looking-for-war.html

Isn’t someone facing a trial for election interference for posting a meme :joy:

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“Your privacy is enormously important to us”. Always to be taken with a pinch of salt.

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yep. Just imagine what the phone companies and intelligence agencies have been sharing around with all the phone cameras about! Always cover those cameras with something. And find ways to disable microphones too. Otherwise you never know how you’re potentially going to be ripped-off or blackmailed down the track.

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Seems to be external cameras right? Surely what happens outside the vehicle is really public info for the most part.
I get that is not necessarily correct but camera footage inside the vehicle would/could be significantly more of an issue.

I have wifi cameras on my property, footage stored by the company.
External cameras, that does not bother me.

I remember being given a bunch of wee stickers for that exact purpose from Maidsafe . Cant mind just how I got them, maybe they came with my T-shirt or Dug Campbell^ handed them out at some speaking event.

^Dug is well but no longer so tech-focused. He is composing music for plays, film and TV these days.

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No, this is cameras inside filming the occupants and you know what people get up to in cars :astonished:

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The Apple putting the bitcoin white paper on every iPhone story develops…

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Tabby, a personal CoPilot that doesn’t share your data with Microsoft…

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Companies saying “ohh, you can trust us with your data!” should be actively presumed to be lying unless they can prove to you that they can’t access your data, I would say.

Not your machine, not your data, in most cases, then

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I am reminded of the telecommunications (phone) network back prior to the 80’s where abuses were quite regular and the laws were not yet developed enough to cope fully.

But in the early days of my work I had reason to do the odd job in a telephone exchange (before AXE ARE computerised exchanges) and they were quite large with lots of relays (crossbars and decadic). Well it was quite common for the techs to put a speaker across certain pairs to listen in to “hot” lines. Hot belonging to a (illegal) brothel or (illegal) sex talk line and listen in while working in the exchange.

Now in the 80’s things changed where the laws had caught up and so while the workers could still tap those lines they would now lose their jobs over it and probably have court appearances over it. I see Telsa employees doing the same sort of things with these videos and eventually the law will catch up. And as in the telecommunications case the workers would see disciplinary action if/when discovered in the old days it will not be enough to stop it, the law has to catch up and the workers potentially have to front in court to answer for crimes.

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