Yeah, I’ve been looking for alternatives for several years now. I’m hoping that the European digital currency efforts will translate into something that will facilitate global creator income, but it’s unclear how far away that is or what the reality might be.

What a shitshow … but not unexpected given the utter lack of enforcement this privacy aspect of our lives has.

At one time I started cataloging the absurd required permissions that essential mobile applications have, things like banking, telecom, utilities, government and many others.

The sheer volume of data harvesting behind the scenes is mind boggling.

Liberapay uses Stripe and PayPal as their payment processor.

OpenCollective appears to use PayPal and Wise as their payment processor.

Also for Australian users.

Edit: Hmm, it’s the search results for “Lake Ontario” that return “Lake America” spam, the underlying map currently shows “Lake Ontario” here in Australia.

Charge back is only available on credit cards, debit transactions are “negotiated” between account holders.

For how much data?

What are you using to get it there and back?

I’m asking because I had been using this for years and only after a catastrophic event, discovered that my “helpful” backup software had turned on versioning which AWS, also helpfully, doesn’t explicitly tell you when you attempt to delete old backup sets, showing no objects but charging you anyway.

I did recover all my data after a catastrophic event, but it was an expensive experience to put it mildly.

Stripe and PayPal are both used by Liberapay as their payment processor, both of which have a track record of holding funds and blocking accounts without any due process or right of dispute.

AFAIK ko-fi uses Stripe.

Paying for food using crypto, let alone picking the “right” one seems like another dead end.

AFAIK, getting actual money into and more importantly, out of Crypto, to pay for things like food, not to mention picking one, is “non-trivial”.

As for IBAN/SWIFT, that’s like publishing your bank account details online which has a whole lot of other risks associated with it, least of which is people supplying your details to a charity of their choice.

Hmm … “escaping” … you mean like say an internet worm or a virus?

Can’t wait to hear the next startup venture capital pitch:

“We’re like the Ghostbusters of AI”

What’s with the watermark on the video?

“The Archbishop of Banterbury”

AFAIK Liberapay uses Stripe and PayPal as their payment processor.

elementary OS should really just move away from them

To where?

I wonder if antenna polarisation was a factor.

https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/antennas-propagation/antenna-theory/polarisation-polarization.php

Thank you for documenting your journey. Regardless of the outcome, in this case excellent, it’s what helps the entire community because it provides information and inspiration to the next amateur who finds something odd in their shack.

I haven’t watched this, but I can tell you without any doubt that this is absolutely rubbish.

The disaster zone is still in rescue mode, infrastructure is pretty much wiped out, humanitarian aid hasn’t even started arriving and there’s no evidence of scientists being on the ground to physically inspect the area to figure out exactly what happened and how.

Mind you, that’s not stopping the armchair “experts” from making YouTube videos, complete with Assumed Intelligence slop, that explain everything as fact, rather than the fiction it so clearly is.

What is it that drives your desire to increase the size of the fediverse and what makes you think that sport is something that everyone cares about?

If you want to have more sports because it interests you, then start a community on an instance that wants it, or failing that start your own instance and put whatever you want on it.

The beauty of the fediverse experience is that I can choose to engage with or ignore your efforts exactly to the extent of my level of interest, as can everyone else.

What you appear to have failed to understand is that there is nobody who will do this for you, it’s your responsibility to do the work.

The “space dominance” you refer to is not real. There’s exactly as much space available as you want, because all of it is virtual.

We’re not here to make money, we’re here to build a community and the decentralized nature of the fediverse is intended to keep communities small, cohesive and personal, rather than large, disjointed and impersonal.

I can’t tell who’s enjoying it more, you or the Joey.

And using a light pen you could record from the TV!

Haloumi