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I was thinking of people outside of lemmy entirely, but yah

Honestly its possible I was just thinking of the youtuber who taught a pug to do a nazi salute

true cashless, ie; a moneyless society.

I'm young and like cash, I don't give a shit about saving a few seconds when I buy coffee or whatever, if anything the slight slowness makes the interaction better or is neutral, and it takes things like tipping out of the control of the business owner to disable electronically (in addition to not being subject to built-in electronic surveillance and not forcing me to use technologies and do business with companies I prefer to avoid). I'm not against tap-to-pay or anything being an option, just annoyed at the removal of cash as an option.

This is like 1 or 2 steps removed from the "functional medicine" fuckheads that my mom was introduced to a year or two ago and is now pretty into. Thankfully she's not at the point of eating red meat and butter and eggs exclusively but there's some kooky stuff in there and the fact that you can find licensed doctors promoting every fucking variety of horrible misinfo makes my blood boil

Audacity is the actually FOSS answer, afaik. I've used it a lot, but not for music (much). It's not a DAW, but if it's just recording and stitching tracks together it will 100% work, and with some effort you can do fancier stuff.

There's also Ardour and Zrythm which are more real DAWs Ithink? but I know nothing about them. Maybe try ardour if you already know you don't want to do audacity

would it be fine if it was centralized? I'd rather not be mandated to use one of the 3-4 credit card cartel companies/one of the two tech giants payment systems, just to exist in society. If you're going to issue cash as legal tender, places should really accept it. Maybe it'd be fine in an AES country or something but not loving it where I live.

https://skysedge.com/telecom/RUSP/index.html its a thing (almost works even)

I'll be honest I really want one but I'm not sure I could swing it even if it did work ootb with carriers already. and at that price I can't have it just be a very cool toy

Add me to the list!

This is all true, but there's more to worry about than just feds. Similar deanonymization attacks can be leveraged by fascists and liberals who want to harass our users. Not compelling google to reveal IPs, sure, but linking to a malicious domain (and obscuring the link destination with markdown), or to a targeted social media post and seeing who interacts, or a bunch of other vectors.

No reason to make attackers jobs easier, but also true that even the most careful of us should not feel a false sense of security

This was a good one actually for once, IMO

The point about there always needing to be a blackhole conflict where we dump guns and money and such and they just disappear into the ether to be used elsewhere was interesting.

this happened to me a couple times going out with my very very straight cis housemate for lunch/errands. It usually is over before I even process it's happened but one of the times it was pretty affirming ngl, and the other it was just... bizarre?

Not sure what multi account containers buys in this context, I think the default behavior of firefox mostly mitigates the 3rd party tracking that used to be rampant. Maybe I'm just not thinking though. They'd still get your IP, and the fact that you clicked on a link shared by x other person?

I guess it would open links posted on hexbear in the hexbear container, on which you won't be logged into the other site? But iirc common practice for sites you do have a sign in for is to auto-open them into their own container so you'd have to be configuring it pretty paranoid-ly.

Attempting to work around and mitigate these issues at the site level is probably a good idea, because people individually will not all be so careful. But it has to be done in as like, convenient a way as possible, otherwise it'll just piss users off