flaccid_corn_husk

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[–] flaccid_corn_husk@lemmy.cafe 1 points 6 hours ago

Right but can you give more details? Like are you actually streaming? I only assumed you were based on what I read about livepix. If so what platform are you using? How exactly does the thing show up that has your name? Is there a way you could change it to a username instead of an actual name, or are you also trying to hide the username.

Like I said I'm not familiar with streaming, so I need a lot more details to understand what your trying to do and how livepix fits into that equation. I'm trying to help you but I can't do that based on that one vague question.

[–] flaccid_corn_husk@lemmy.cafe 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not sure, maybe if you explain exactly what your trying to do and what your looking for I might be able to help further. My thought was maybe there's a software or plugin that can do whatever you're trying to do, but I can't know without more information.

Yeah, someone else mentioned that gold was better for physical savings as well. I'll definitely keep that in mind.

I think it's so interesting to see how we can live without the overbearing industries that seem to be facts of life. It's so easy to forget that the people of the past that didn't have these systems were able to get by just fine, and they were just as capable as we are now. They didn't have special advantages that allowed them to live their ways of life, in many ways they had less advantages, but humans are incredible creatures and we don't need an abundance of simplicity and convenience in order to exist. Often times those systems of convenience just end up becoming systems of control.

[–] flaccid_corn_husk@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Unfortunately no, sorry

[–] flaccid_corn_husk@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I'm not entirely familiar with this field but I took a look at there website and some other stuff online. It seems like they are a middle man between the viewers paying on the platform you stream on and you getting the payment. I've heard some pretty awful things about companies like that, so I would definitely be wary. I looked through their privacy policy and here's what they claim to "generally" collect.

  • Full name;
  • CPF;
  • Date of birth;
  • E-mail;
  • Phone/mobile;
  • Payment information.

Most of that seems fairly reasonable, it doesn't seem too excessive. I'm not sure what a CPF is but it seems to be a Brazilian thing. According to one user on reddit it's an identification thing similar to social security but not nearly as harmful if someone gets a hold of it. Supposedly the worst they could do is sign you up for a political party or something.

I also looked at there github page and it's definitely closed source, and only 7 people follow the repository so either not many people work on it or I found the wrong repository.

Again I'm not super familiar with this or the industry of streaming (which I assume is what you are doing based on the description of what the service is), but from what I've found I would recommend that you try to find something else that can offer what you're looking for, preferably open source, and if that doesn't exist then this seems like it might not be a terrible option.

If you do go with this I would recommend going through their privacy policy more thoroughly than I did, and also after you use it for a while request a copy of your data. If you discover that you don't like how much they have on you then stop using them and look for something else.

Hope that helps

[–] flaccid_corn_husk@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wow thanks, that's all super helpful!

Yeah sorry, and on that second part I'm not sure. I mean the freedom loving part of me thinks that there's no way the government should be able to audit you just cause you have a physical safe with money in it, but maybe they do I don't know

Thanks I'll check that out

I guess you're right, I just think there are some gaps in my knowledge on the finer details. For example I know that prepaid debit could be used as a replacement for debit and credit cards, but I'm not sure if there's a better way to go about that other than just buying visa gift cards constantly.

Also I think one of the big things I'm curious about is if there's a more convenient or just better way of storing my money other than a safe full of cash (or gold), or crypto.

There's also probably some catches related to paperwork stuff that I'm not aware of yet. I think taxes should be relatively fine, because my employer will have payment records regardless of what I end up doing with my money, the only thing that might be difficult would be deductions but at least I won't piss off the IRS with tax evasion.

[–] flaccid_corn_husk@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

That's not necessarily true, my last job would give out physical checks if you didn't have direct deposit setup, and I could cash them out at my local grocery store without a fee because I didn't get paid much.

As for a house as far as I know you only need a bank if your getting a mortgage. If you buy it outright then you don't need them. It's a tall order I know but I was already planning on attempting that route because I don't like credit.

This defeatist mindset is exactly what I was finding everywhere else, and most of the time I think it's just invalid. I know it's a lot of work and would need to take advantage of niche systems but I really don't think it's impossible or even infeasible

 

So I was toying around with the idea of what it would take to go full Snowdon mode. I starting looking around for info online about how to de-bank yourself and unfortunately non of what I found was useful. One comment on a related reddit post literally said you should just get over your irrational fear of banks, which I get what he means from a great depression standpoint but that's still incredibly unhelpful. Other resources pretty much all said it's too inconvenient, too expensive (because a lot of services you would use might charge fees), and not worth the effort. Most of the discussion around this topic though was focused on normie reasons like not trusting them with your money or whatever, but not much discussion was related to how banks participate in the ever expanding data market. I figured it would be more helpful to ask this wonderful community of like minded privacy enjoyers.

A bit of context on the scope of the question:

  • I love monero and would use it for most of my online purchases where applicable, but I don't want to store my money in crypto unless I can be 100% sure it's a reliable stable coin, and I don't trust the current state of crypto to be capable of that so a different way of storing money would make more sense (the obvious answer being cash in a safe like the good ol' days).
  • I'm sure this community would take this as a given, but I'm not looking to move from a bank to another service that requires a similar level of PII, like cash app. Only based anonymous methods allowed
  • However I don't necessarily mean untraceable. I'm not looking to start beef with the IRS, I just don't want my financial info in the data market

Ohhh, that's clever and really cool!

[–] flaccid_corn_husk@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What's that character you use for "th"?

 

What I mean is if you depend on paid services for things like email or your password manager, you have to be able to guarantee that you will always be able to pay for it or else you will be locked out of that critical service to some extent. For example if you were to sign up for Tutanota and have one email for personal use, another for healthcare, and another for banking, and then at some point you are either in a tough financial spot or your payment method gets lost or stolen, you might lose your email for critical services.

Simple login doesn't have this issue because they promise that even if you stop paying you get to keep the aliases you've made. But most services don't operate like that.

I know the default answer would be "what are the odds you won't be able to afford $10 a month". For context I am poor and have always been poor, so it's very easy for me to understand that even if I become successful there will always be the possibility that I might lose everything, and the whole point of security is preparing for when bad things happen, even if they don't.

I'm curious if anyone else shares this opinion, because I haven't heard anyone else in the privacy space talk about it. Probably because most prominent people aren't dirt poor and don't factor that into their threat model.

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