There’s enough to be upset with Biden about, the failure of his student loan forgiveness plan isn’t one of them. Even after being shot down by the Supreme Court, his administration has continued to forgive millions in debt through various other means.

They really have been trying to get it done. He’s not the one you should be criticizing for this…

Aren’t those, like, the only two brands of GPU?

Ohhh I love a nice paranoid scheme and murder web. Something to look forward to

I seem to recall that the anonymity of car is based on obscuring transactions through bundling

Car? Autocorrect maybe?

I’m not XMR fanboy or expert, and it is some beautiful mathematics, but wayyyyyy over my head. That said, you might be referring to “ring signatures” that I guess you could say “bundles” the transactions together but that would be far too reductive, it’s way cooler and more complicated than that.

If I recall, there was talk of possible attack vectors, so they made it even more private. I’ll let wiki explain:

The transaction outputs, or notes, of users sending Monero are obfuscated through ring signatures, which groups a sender’s outputs with other decoy outputs.[14] Encryption of transaction amounts began in 2017 with the implementation of ring confidential transactions (RingCTs).[8][15] Developers also implemented a zero-knowledge proof method, “Bulletproofs”, which guarantee a transaction occurred without revealing its value.[16] Monero recipients are protected through “stealth addresses”, addresses generated by users to receive funds, but untraceable to an owner by a network observer.[8] These privacy features are enforced on the network by default.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero#Privacy

So it looks like it was 2017 when they changed things. I know there was some discussion of switching from RingCTs to zk-SNARK (a form of “zero-knowledge proof”) which, in and of itself, is an amazing cryptographic concept. I implore you to check out the wiki on it if you have any interest in cryptography or mathematics I think it’s brilliant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof

So yeah, according to wiki, it seems as though they adopted zero-knowledge proofs… So not only ring signatures, but RingCTs (encrypted), plus ZKP, makes Monero pretty impenetrable. Which I think is cool af. As an engineer, I like seeing a typically abstract field/form of math be used in practical, real-world examples, as it doesn’t happen often.

I’m not sure I understand the question… Monero doesn’t need a “mixer,” that’s kind of the entire point. You swap your BTC (or literally anything, shoutout to godex.io) for XMR and poof, it’s gone.

Unless someone gets physical access to your wallet keys, there is no way for anyone to know where that money went, where it came from, or where it will go in the future. For all intents and purposes, it’s invisible.

I mean just because you say some pithy thing at the end doesn’t make it wrong. Nobody should still think, in 2024, that Bitcoin is in any way anonymous. If you want privacy you don’t use Bitcoin.

I guess that makes me a shill for Monero 🙄

Why the /s, that’s literally true. A clear boondoggle

Yeah this doesn’t actually happen and no you haven’t fucking seen it first hand.

Nobody falls for that shit anymore. Try to come up with something more convincing.

And you’re basing that conclusion on…?

Ooooh boy it must feel super special to have this secret knowledge that nobody else but you can seem to keep up with. Almost as if it’s bullshit.

Tell me, based my one reply to you, who am I following? Is anyone who disagrees with you automatically a “follower”? That would seem a little too convenient, no?

The fact is you’re a basic-ass, run of the mill contrarian. Most of us have learned how to deal with people like you in our real lives, but it’s always a little bit sad to see someone who clearly doesn’t have anyone in their life to tell them to shut the fuck up every now and then.

So here, I’ll do everyone a service: Shut the fuck up.

Then why put any stock in it whatsoever

It’s “real” as in it exists, but you say so yourself that it’s just an estimate.

Dude, Anthony Weiner? Did you skip the second half of his wiki page, or…?

Yo, same… Add on a history of past drug abuse (several years clean), and I can’t imagine any doctor not immediately assuming I’m drug seeking and just trying to get some Adderall.

I’m not sure if I have ADHD per-se, but I’m certainly neurodivergent and the venn diagrams of ADHD and my flavor of neurodivergence overlap quite a bit.

First Lemmy comment I’ve Saved. Well said.

I’m not sure if I have ADHD, but I’m certainly neurodivergent in some way(s), and I definitely struggle with executive functioning.

I’m literally doing it right now.

I would never go as far as to say that they’re “quality,” but I do think YT comment sections aren’t the complete shitshow that they were a decade or so ago. It really does depend on the channel though too.

It isn’t a real count of users who have clicked the dislike button, YouTube no longer makes that data available.

So I would not put much stock in that number.

It’s not real though, you do know that right? There isn’t some hidden dislike count that YT has that the extension can access.

I imagine it’s taken from other users of the extension clicking the dislike button. A biased and wildly uneven sample. I would not put much stock in it at all.

Whoa this guy’s badass.

He knows what’s really going on, and it just happens to always be opposite of whatever “the media” says.