Gravitywell

I am sure it is a honeypot, they will work with feds. I base that on the people behind it.

Also it reminds me a lot of encrochat which had similar vibes about it.

100% honeypot

Big encrochat vibes

I use Dockge to manage everything.

When I last needed to get on IRC I used pidgin, because it’s what worked.

I bet people who know exactly who and what GWAR is, decided to do this as a promotion for GWAR, its just way too obvious. GWAR has been on fox news, its well known they do this, and the fact that the outrage was over musk and not trump goes to show whoever started it knew there would be a response pointing out they’ve done it to ALL the former presidents. It just seems so unlikely that anyone would see a gwar show and think “if only more people saw* this, they’d be canceled”, there’s just no way.

They’ve been killing musk since at least may of this year so even that isn’t new. Honestly after this I kind of hope they do make one of Charlie Kirk just to keep the rage going, but honestly I don’t think kirk was that well known until after he lost his last debate.

Not enough spray for a gwar concert, kirk looked like if the blood spay thing malfunctions and just leaked all at once.

Wouldn’t that just make a file full of zeros?

I think the proper (joke) command here would be

rm -rf /var/*

2 minutes on average

Funkwhale is the best option for replacing Spotify. It can be private or public and federated so you can follow users who want to share their playlists and such.

Navidrome is another good option although i don’t use it personally I hear nothing but good things.

Avoid subsonic directly but youll find funkwhale and other services support it as a protocol very well. Its just the subsonic server software itself and all of the forks seem to basically just be reinventing the same wheel over and over so they can charge for “premium” features.

Consider if you truly need root on your device because its more of a risk then a benefit in most cases these days. Most features that used to require root no longer do or have more secure alternatives

Another consideration is that while you can buy a phone with grapheneos preinstalled, it’s much better if you take the time to do the web install yourself because anyone selling preinstalled phones could potentially be a honeypot.

Pixels don’t include bloat other than google, installing grapheneos is a simple and easy process you can do from your browser, unfortunately that’s about the only truely secure option available currently any other devices (ie fairphone) will be a trade off of less/slower security updates and/or lack of ability to relock the bootloader.

They are disrupting services that use Monero

Are they really though? I mean what services are they actually disrupting, Ive made several xmr payments without probkems, in the past few days including during the alleged reorg.

orphaning miners’ blocks

Yeah they are getting lucky and being selfish, but not technically breaking anything

devs are trying to figure out how to stop it, so I would call it an attack.

That’s a fair point, I think “attack” is giving too much credit, its more like rudely taking advantage of how mining works.

I think a good portion of the attention to this is being paid for by qubit and driven by bots, it doesn’t seem to be working and can’t really last.

Censorship is never good though.

For an “attack” it doesn’t really seem to be working. People who use xmr don’t seem to really care, no harm has been done.

Maybe I’m not understanding it correctly but they claim txs have been invalidated, yet no double spends, that seems like a contradiction… Either the txs are processed and thus they did not become invalidated or if they became invalid, they have been double spent.

I see no evidence of double spending, but if you know of some please share. From my understanding they are getting better then average luck with mining rewards but that’s not really the same thing as a 51% attack.

I dont really agree with censoring the posts but redditers gonna reddit.

The cheap monero was nice but I think people are now aware of what’s going on and don’t care to spread misleading info.

https://archive.is/KhMRB

Yes it does

Don’t spread misinformation

Okay I don’t drive so im a bit out of the loop on this but last time i rented a car some 15-20 years ago it had GPS built in that didn’t require connecting, it was a tablet sized interface on the console… is that not a thing anymore? Like do cars in 2025 not have functioning GPS without a phone connected to them? Thats wild if so. A 2008 Toyota Prius could have a built in console navigation system, it ran off a DVD or USB key that you got updates for by mail, and here we are in 2025 you need a phone just to power the cars computer for navigation.

It was not that common 10 years ago, it was only JUST being fully rolled out in the US in 2015 when they finally made it mandatory for cards to have chips in them. I guess I’m just an old man yelling at clouds here, but i just never really felt like using cash or a card was that inconvenient.

I suppose for you tap2pay is as essential as being able to run custom software on my devices is to me, I have been using custom roms since 2009 and I wouldn’t be willing to sacrifice my ability to use GrapheneOS just so i can carry one less card that i can literally fit in my phone case, but hey, different strokes ig.

And what did you do five years ago or ten years ago? At what point did Tap to Pay become so convenient and so essential to your life that you’re willing to give up your ability to have complete ownership and control over what’s installed on your phone rather than go back to having a card on you?

It just doesnt seem like that big of a deal to me, but then i never was able to use it anyway because ive been running grapheneOS or another custom rom since before tap2pay even existed.

So you sacrafice your ability to use a more free device because youd rather leave your credit card at home, but thats A choice that you made. If you wanted you could bring a card with you or cast with you or a wallet full of things. Do you not carry ID with you either?

Honestly tap2pay seems like very little advantage over a credit card for having to sacrafice privacy and the ability to control the software on my phone, but thats just me.

Im not saying its a problem to want features, just saying its sacraficing freedom for convience, its a choice.

If you really wanted to use a Linux phone, there are options. You would have to adapt, you would have to use non-standard solutions, but in the long run you’d have more freedom because of those sacrifices in convenience.

None of the 3 things you mention was common place 10 years ago, its not that much of a setback to carry cash or a card, or to use a dedicated device for navigation. Its fine if you dont want to do that but dont act like you can’t live without tap2pay or a voice assistant if you really wanted to.