I normally spend less than that, but am a heavy "regular" computer user...

You only giving up the phone?

Saw this peep. Went outside.

Can confirm.

Moon looks amazing.

Far less toxic.. let's hope our community can grow by leaps and bounds by keeping toxicity at bay.

Welcome to Peepeth!

Thanks for spreading this info.

This is a lovely first peep.

Welcome to Peepeth!

What about something like Mycroft? (Would link to them but their website was recently compromised... yeah, not that confidence boosting...)

I like to imagine these open-source, open-hardware initiatives can save people from making poor privacy choices just to have cool gadgets.

Has it been six days already?

Jetlag lingered a bit longer than I had hoped. Making sure this stays close to the top of my stack of to-dos.

Thanks, @arnav

Could this be because the Chinese have witnessed and heard stories of life improving much more rapidly in recent history and they mentally carry that trend forward? 🤔

What does your workflow look like @arf? I just got up to speed with my b9labs course and have *finally* shed my jetlag. Will check out the master course shortly to reinforce topics and get another perspective on things.

A couple years ago you could make much more than a buck. Fun times. Emerging markets are so interesting.

So much excitement, so much uncertainty, so much chaos... and, with this one, so much potential to change *everything*.

Didn't you look at the pics as they were coming out? ...

Programming solidity isn't nearly as hard as getting up to speed with the tool-set and the javascript programming language, promise (pun intended).

Slow and steady...

Hey. Careful out there.

Glad you are ok.

Australia really **is** dangerous! 😜

Glad we can laugh about it, because you're alright. Whew.

Being physically present in a courtroom, passing judgment according to laws written by people decades ago (with uncertain legitimacy) seems like a bit of an antiquated theater to me.

I've never been on a jury. I would be more inclined to participate if it were less archaic.

Is that eggplant?

What if blockchains actually, eventually, prevent that kind of concentrated "success"?

🤯

This might be a little confrontational: we teach our children not to let strangers touch them, don't take rides with strangers, etc.

*Their data is as precious.*

With their data, their thoughts and purchases are malleable to the will of others.

**They lose their freedom.**

Support a charity... get some blockchain books... what's not to like?

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/blockchain-cryptocurrency-packt-books

Maybe not any given one... unless it's instant portability.

I can't imagine that the ability to switch front ends - to boycott corporate bad behavior, if nothing else... but mostly to experiment and support innovation - with no effort required by the user, is not a game changer

🤯

We take civics classes to learn how to be nice state citizens. Why is there no class to learn how to be a good digital citizen?

Teaching typing alone is not preparing people for the data-driven world they inhabit.

How often do they need to replace the battery? Is that just because it's not user-replacable?

If users wanted easily replaceable batteries, wouldn't the market trend in that direction?

Tell me more.

Stunning. Love the username.

Glad to have you on peepeth!

I used to think the space would be better off making web3 a requirement and driving people to get on board.

I now realize that giving people a choice is more in the spirit of web3 and public, decentralized blockchains overall.

Kudos to @bevan
Pioneering the space on many levels

Have you seen people go nuts when the social media services get hacked or suffer an outage?

Blockchains can certainly address the latter issue... and possibly the former too at some point.

*People will care as soon as they understand.*

I truly believe that.

If governments demand KYC docs, then the scams have to collect them if they want to look legit... and the people handing it over think it's just routine.

If there were no requirement, might people be safer overall? How much does KYC cost and what are the benefits? I'm skeptical.

This is really interesting. Did you happen to take an up-close shot?

Data silos give companies more control. They have allowed the big corps to capture lots of value.

Open data allows users to benefit more, often, at least theoretically, at the expense of current monetization channels for big corps.

Speaker background was very illuminating here.

What's something beautiful that you may have often overlooked in your every day routine?

The sunlight dancing in the shadow of this glass was superb.

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

And remember, nobody cared about **computers**. There was a market for only a few a year at one point.

Pioneers *care* because they can see the future potential of technologies despite the rough edges. Or maybe they can just see all the drawbacks to the present systems...?

If you tweet you make value for a / with the permission of a single corporate entity.

If you peep, you make value for the ethereum network, interoperable blockchain social networks, devs that want to experiment with front ends, etc... and the world broadly.

Data portability and interoperability potential into perpetuity...

Signatures and verifiable content attribution.

Auditable censorship is better censorship.

I'll gladly look this over @arnav

Just recovering from a little jet-lag, so allow me two or three days.

Opened it in a new tab though - so that will be there to remind me!
Looks sharp. Will examine it more closely soon.

Touché!

Mine was using a wireless mouse that had a built in gyroscope so it could track your movements in the air. Can't remember the brand name off the top of my head, but it was AMAZING.

I wasn't giving presentations or anything, but something about reclining at my desk was very cool.

A little slow in here today...

What's your best memory involving a remote control of some sort?

This would mean that the majority of the world has "bigger problems".

Maybe $5 a day would be better spent fixing those?

"Two weeks ago there were no flowers on the hills at all. Then they exploded into bloom and the color spread like wildfire."

You've heard blockchain tech called tulips, I'm sure. It's not. It's poppies...

you're**

@bevan Where's the grammar check for those sleep-deprived peeps? :-)

I get what your saying and agree strongly on a philosophical level.

Being pragmatic, though... it's because those organizations can interfere with people's wealth. People can't afford to rock the boat.

It's a problem crypto is fixing.

Chicken, egg, etc, etc.

I never mentioned Google. But you and emanuele both did.

The problem is there are really only two choices. One is openly selling your data and the other is a black box.

We need alternatives.

Hoping the Librem 5 phone can move us in the right direction.

How can you (truly) push for privacy with a closed source product? Who can ever know for sure what data is being saved for later, when a backdoor is rolled into an update, etc etc...

I applaud the message, but can't trust it.

What would make you change your mind?

Not much of a market watcher myself, but am interested in doing my part to keep the network honest when the time comes.

Thank you, @emanuele

This. Is. An. Important. Peep.

You can schedule a single peep ... once per week. Absentee peeping?

**Illusions** by Richard Bach

Closely mirrored my own suspicions about what this existence might be. Also got me excited to realize that other people are thinking "outside the box".

That was a much younger me, but I do like to reread it on occasion.

We all started there! Kudos to you for exploring. In the case of Trust, I know you can add another wallet rather easily.

If you need any assistance, the community here is particularly helpful.

The scammy companies don't comply. Only the ones trying to not be scammy try to comply.

And then, do you go check the business registration certificate when you make a purchase?

Neither does anyone else...

You give the people in charge too much credit, I think. This isn't about anything other than tax collection and the never-ending expansion of bureaucracies...

Also looking forward to it...

👍