Not just frustrating, it's a security hole. Stealing focus means a user may expect to be typing a password but find it's inputted somewhere they did not expect.
Monero gives people the ability to transact privately online. Privacy is a human right; therefore, through the technical innovation of private cryptocurrency, Monero allows individuals to exercise this right, adding value to the world.
Please look into Monero and try to understand privacy activist's, marginalized peoples', and my point of view. You don't have nitpick, you can accept this one cryptocurrency as having benefits—I agree that a vast majority of cryptos are a scam and are unnecessary and bad for the environment, but there are some cryptos that are less flawed than the banking system.
Monero is only as private as its entry and exit wallets and the availability of the appropriate keys.
This can be done with cash delivered via post with no return address. Observers cannot know who sent the money or even that the receiver is getting money without opening their mail. The sender remains anonymous regardless.
Anyway, we can compare cash to Monero. I'm not sure why some people here are obsessed with cash. I like cash too, it has some advantages any digital payment solution in general, but it's not more anonymous than Monero. It's not as easy to use as Monero, it's not as secure as Monero, and it's much more centralized than Monero.
Cash is more private than Monero. It is possible to engage in untraceable transactions through drop sites and post, whereas Monero wallets can reveal transaction participants when view keys are available.
I don't need to connect to any network to exchange cash, or engage in mathematical backflips to convince the network to accept my transaction. That makes it more decentralized and more fault tolerant.
>Ok. Where is crypto currency used in a way that fiat currencies cannot be, and is adding value to the world?
>I can think of nothing.
Buying/selling drugs, weapons, hiding bribes/extortion transactions, pretty much anything that the issuers of said fiat currencies would put you in a cage for doing.
That's not to say that fiat currencies aren't also used for such things, but relatively untraceable coins like monero make it easier to do those things across large distances, while fiat currencies need to be physically exchanged.
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Replying here to Cider9986's (now dead) reply[0[ to the above, where they said:
So Signal or Tor is only useful for criminals? Privacy is
a human right, financial privacy is no exception. 1000s
of legal service accept Monero.
Buy Italian cheese with XMR (https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/LJ4F/)
I'll ask you, where exactly did I say anything about Signal or Tor (I use both, BTW, as well as using monero for the stuff for which it's useful -- to pay for my VPN subscription, among other things)? In fact, I didn't mention either at all. Don't put words in my mouth.
As for your Italian cheese link, GP asked "Where is crypto currency used in a way that fiat currencies cannot be, and is adding value to the world?"
Am I unable to purchase Italian cheese with fiat currency? What additional value is there using Monero to purchase such cheese rather than fiat currency?
I'd also point out that since you replied to me, I cannot mod you down, nor would I have done so if I was able. That said, you're not making a very good argument for monero by railing at (really bad) strawmen, especially since I think monero is a good thing, because governments love to put people in cages for really stupid reasons.
Not sure why you're so bitter/angry, but it might help to talk to someone.
"Government funding" these days would mean that Trump pays Elon Musk (or more likely vice versa) to make Grok 4.20 the only legal LLM for use by Americans.
Not every country is in a crypto-libertarian race to hoard power and wealth.
Meanwhile, in the EU, the model would be collectively financed, trained by a competent, neutral agency... and then completely lobotomized in the name of "the children," "safety," "IP rights," "correct speech," dozens of individual countries' legal and regulatory requirements, and any number of additional vocal, noncontributing NGOs.
So no one would get rich off of the public model, but no one would get much of anything else out of it, either.
As another reply suggests, there's a reason why things happen in the USA first. Even when they don't, the prime movers move here as soon as they can. Or at least they used to.
EU models are not, in fact, competitive with US or Chinese models.
And that's not how these things work. If you censor the model for one purpose, you will degrade it for others. We both know that the bureaucrats won't stop at either of those purposes. It's not in a censor's nature to walk away satisfied.
I have been converting old tapes to digital and they do sound both different and better.
I think there's an aspect of this format having been a target for professional mixing. But there's also the background hiss and the warping of rolling tape and the low fidelity of the heads... It all mixes together nicely for a dirtier sound.
They make it quite clear that these layoffs are in response to adapting to using AI at the company:
> The way we work at Cloudflare has fundamentally changed. We don’t just build and sell AI tools and platforms. We are our own most demanding customer. Cloudflare’s usage of AI has increased by more than 600% in the last three months alone. Employees across the company from engineering to HR to finance to marketing run thousands of AI agent sessions each day to get their work done. That means we have to be intentional in how we architect our company for the agentic AI era in order to supercharge the value we deliver to our customers and to honor our mission to help build a better Internet for everyone, everywhere.
The rest is hand-wringing about the emotional weight of the decision and what employees can expect from the process.
What remains to be seen is whether relying so heavily on AI will have similar outcomes to what we've seen from Microsoft and others. Which is to say, is now the time to stop using Cloudflare?
If a game takes more then five minutes to become fun then return it. I've returned plenty of games with under five minutes of play time, because I don't have the patience to purchase boredom.
Two hours is far more than enough to determine if a game is for you.
There are entire genres where that makes no sense. It would be like returning a book because the first page didn't immediately grab you. Not everything should be designed for attention deficit teenagers.
All skill degrade with disuse. For example, here in Canada we have observed a literacy and numeracy skills curve that peaks with post-secondary education and declines with retirement.[0]
That is one factor, but it’s not the whole thing. The other key element is “cognitive offloading” where your brain stops doing stuff when it thinks it is redundant.
This is similar to the photo-taking impairment effect where people will remember an event more poorly if they took photos at the event. Their brain basically subconsciously decides it doesn’t need to remember the event because the camera will remember the event instead.
If the tool is reliable, it's a win. Saved brain power doesn't disappear, it can be applied elsewhere.
If the tool is powerful enough to do a better job than our brains would, it's a big win. In fact, we built the entire technological civilization on one such fundamental tool: writing.
Or from another perspective: our brains excel at adapting to the environment we find ourselves in. The tools we build, the technology we create, are parts our environment.
This argument has held up in the past but there’s no certainty that during this current period where LLM’s are not perfect (and in many cases far from perfect) - they can ever become perfect that it’s fine for one’s existing human capital to depreciate.
I feel like it said a whole lot without giving me much to take action on. Like great, you summarized the current state of affairs but it doesn't make clear what I am to do about it.
> I feel like it said a whole lot without giving me much to take action on. Like great, you summarized the current state of affairs but it doesn't make clear what I am to do about it.
To be fair, not every article is a call to action. Sometimes they exist purely for informational purposes.
Are you making this claim specifically about this one particular post, or about everything on the blog, which dates back about a decade ?
Like "These Artemis 2 photos were generated by AI" is wrong but "The broadcast footage of the Apollo missions was generated by AI" is incredibly stupid and I want to understand if I'm about to engage with an incredibly stupid opinion.
There is a clear and sudden transition on this blog where prior to a certain date there are zero instances of the em-dash and then suddenly it appears like crazy. Like look at his archived posts from 2023, absolutely no em dashes... now look at every post from 2025 and almost every single one of them are literred with them.
The fact that the average person is seemingly incapable of detecting LLM text drives me insane. Every aspect of that article screams LLM. The tone, the punctuation, the sentence structure, the overall structure, it's so incredibly obvious. But the average person really is oblivious to it.
why?
Before comments about LLM I didn't notice this. After I compared pre-LLM posts and post-LLM and looks like AI was used to write/edit this article.
But.. why should I matter? Why my ignorance of this fact insane you?
It definitely feels like it was edited with AI, structure and tone seem like the usual AI "polish".
Lately I've been working on an embedded system with limited access to std lib/libc and this was very interesting but I was hoping to see more information, like how can I tell if something will be supported? what are alternatives? what does implementation specific mean?
I guess I am used to HN having more in-depth articles.
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