VolunTerry

Thanks very much for maintaining this.

Good discussion here. Thanks for your thoughts. I agree on the points of barter vs speculation. I'd lean toward preferring the leveling out of the barter route for xmr, but I'm only one user in a market. We'll see where it goes.

Thanks for posting an invidious instance link for the main linkout. I'm going to give this a listen.

Can I suggest invidious for the other links as well?

Or, if anyone else prefers, here are the links to the two vids as well as Naomi Brockwells channel on Odysee, listed in the same order as the original post

edits to add direct LBRY links for those who don't like the Odysee front end

https://odysee.com/@jackrhysider:4/the-great-privacy-awakening:5

lbry://the-great-privacy-awakening#5

https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4

lbry://@NaomiBrockwell

https://odysee.com/@jackrhysider:4/one-more-reason-to-never-answer-your:a

lbry://one-more-reason-to-never-answer-your#a

Sounds cool. Cypherpunk with a dose of XMR gets a +1 in my book. I'll add this for a later listen when I'm caught up on my backlog.

Great post title and passage. We would all be stronger for heeding the advice to simply not bow.

I see far too many around me waiting to bow for the next celebrity or strongman that comes around dripping the honey they want to hear into their ears. Practice strength of will individually and collectively we won't need them.

If there aren't, then I hope some come about.

Risks of fiat aside, I'd love to see identity decoupled from service as well, but am not holding my breath on that.

I think many regions would benefit from additional options and conpetition in ISPs. Add Monero to that and even better yet.

I was relatively unfamiliar with the details of the service but just looked into it more.

Firstly, I'd think avoiding as much closed source big tech as possible would be ideal, so I'd support any efforts to minimize or eliminate use of AWS or other Amazon.

Secondarily, it looks like it will ship from many sites, not just Amazon and for those orders it also only ships to addresses beyond just lockers, for obvious reasons.

I was going to post screengrabs, but Lemmy is tossing errors for upload at the moment for me. Check the homepage of anonshop.app where it says

"Spend Your Monero Anywhere

I have built a open & private system that gives you the ability to spend Monero on any website."

And then the separate order option:

"Address Delivery 15% (Min 15) USD

Deliver Any Item to Any Address

Requires Address

Works on Any site like Amazon, Ebay, etc.

Super Flexible Service"

Self hosting is best if you have the knowhow, inclination and time to maintain it, but there are alias services that will encrypt any mail they forward using a key you provided so this would eliminate the ability of your chosen non-self-hosted email provider/server to easily read your received mail limiting their ability to profile or target to any metadata and header info that is passed along unencrypted.

Of course, then you are placing trust in the alias service's privacy and logging policies. But some are open source and you could host an alias forwarding service yourself if you wished as well.

I like the concept. I'd like it a lot better if it addressed these issues.

I've been imagining it for a long time. I look forward very much to that point arriving.

Well said.

Better to have no lords at all and to govern oneself.

But if there must be self-proclaimed lords and masters, then better to have them be known and near and less empowered by large state sized apparatus, so there is hope to change them, hold them accountable or challenge them directly, rather than so many layers of beuracracy and thugs doing their bidding by proxy that the mountain looks unsurmountable to the individual.