I’ve been told that Artemis Fowl in the books is actually a nice and smart person. In the movie he comes across as an arrogant dick for a larger part.

I don’t think that’s important, given that it’s all just propaganda anyways.

I mean I’ve seen a few recordings of Chinese officials calling folks abroad and making „suggestions“. That was more than just reading headlines.

But I guess you are right. It’s likely all propaganda and China is a paradise.

I mean the nice thing about the internet is that you can at least find videos documenting what the article claims. I mean sure… it could all just be propaganda. But somehow there is a little much of it from so many different sources.

It’s also about the people though. Been living in the south for some time. Hard to talk to people, even harder to make friends, very rural for the most part. I even would describe a city like Stuttgart as rural. At work people approached me and said „hey you also aren’t from the south right? I noticed“ and were happy to have someone to chitchat with.

Just my own experience… I’m very happy to have made the decision to move away again.

Maybe it’s easy if one isn’t a German since there are kind of expat communities? I don’t know.

Yeah right. It’s that easy :D

What value does Blockchain provide here? It feels like none whatsoever.

But what value does Blockchain bring to the table here that other technologies wouldn’t?

These sound more like publicity stunts than anything else. There isn’t really much value in running a private Blockchain. At that point it lost all value a Blockchain would provide. Who are you protecting yourself against?

But you would still need an authority that can unilaterally make changes to these ownership records. People die, things get lost, stuff happens. So it can’t all be based on signing with private keys of individual persons. At that point: Why not run a central database of it all. It’s cheaper, more efficient and you could still publish a public record for traceability.

I really don’t see any problem that Blockchain could solve better than other solutions. Except Cryptocurrency.

Ah. Feels similar to the relevance discussions on the German Wikipedia. Gatekeeping at its finest.

Just fyi: That person was trying to make a joke.

Yes. But instead of spending ever free minute on it I’ll only check it once or maybe twice a day.

Most communities I cared about feel less lively. Except for maybe two or three.

I mean if there was one solution to remove all or most of the cancer then yeah maybe we wouldn’t have to dig too deep. We should still do it. But at this point it only serves to derail the conversation.

I guess some killings are worth then other…

That’s not entirely how this works though. I mean you aren’t wrong, but it’s not fully automatic (anymore). At least as far as I know.

They can’t necessarily association your phone with you if you don’t choose to provide them with access to your tracking ID. That was the default in the past, but isn’t anymore. Facebook was really really pissed about Apple making this a user choice.

Additional they can only track you within your browser if you signed in with a Meta/Facebook account on one of their services. But yes. If you do that every site that contains something from Facebook (Login with Facebook, a post, some other thingy from Facebook) will report back to Facebook that you’ve visited them.

This all being said: Facebook is the worst if it comes to this stuff.

Edit: we were talking about the Threads so here right? You are totally correct if over just used the browser or a PC.

Except for OP. Who seems to be hostile on purpose and doesn’t look like he wants to have any help on the first place. Super weird dynamic.

Don’t closed ones like 1Password also have audits? But I guess it’s a personal philosophy.

Why are these the only real choices? What makes the others not real?

Not sure if you are joking or not. But at times that’s actually what I think about and sometimes even do. If there is a car with too bright lights coming down the road I’ll turn on the high beams because it reduces my ability to see the road otherwise.