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Have you considered how much money you could loose to credit card chargebacks and similar fraud?

How will you stop a flood of scammers trying to use your service to pay a 'freelancer' that is actually an accomplice in Nigeria by paying with a credit card then calling the card company and saying they never did that, or using stolen cards?

Have you seen the recent news stories about North Korea using fake identities and proxies to get North Korean workers remote jobs?

You will need to verify the identities of people you are sending money to.

This sounds like a cryptocurrency exchange with extra steps. Cryptocurrency exchanges have found it very difficult to avoid having their bank accounts closed as soon as the flood of fraud claims starts. Expect most banks to refuse to give you a business account as soon as you mention cryptocurrency.

There are lots of laws around this such as international sanctions, money transfer laws, money laundering regulation, the US Patriot Act, and the requirement for a payment processor to submit form 1099-K to the IRS for anyone receiving over $600.

The entity that is paying will, in many cases, be required to withhold 30% and give it to the IRS, so it will not be as simple as a client just paying you with a credit card. "Withholding tax" can be complicated.

"with the latest policy update in 2021, WhatsApp made data sharing with Meta mandatory for all users"

"Given the network effects and lack of effective alternatives, the 2021 Update forces users to comply, undermining their autonomy, and constitutes an abuse of Meta’s dominant position"

"all users in India [...] will be provided with [...] the choice to manage such data sharing by way of an opt-out option"

The background to this:

In the early 2010s Whatsapp charged a $1 per year fee, which brought in hundreds of millions of dollars.

In 2014, Facebook bought Whatsapp for $19 billion.

Before the buyout, Facebook claimed they would not be able to link Whatsapp and Facebook accounts.

After the buyout they did that, they began doing things like using location tracking in Whatsapp to allow Facebook to know where someone has been and use Whatsapp calls to allow Facebook to know more about who a person is in contact with.

Meta has been fined much more money by the EU and UK for things they have done with Whatapp.

In comparison, this $25 million fine is so tiny that they won't care about the fine at all.

India forcing them to give everyone in India an opt-out option is a worthwhile win.

I think it is a good thing that people in India will be able to use Whatapp with somewhat more privacy.

I think this would be better with a "How do I use this?" section at the top.

Normal people are unaware that the person who wants to receive a file or message should be the one who generates the key pair (in a public key system).

"To use this, the person who wants to receive a file or message generates a key pair, saves the links on their computer then sends the public link to a friend who uses it to encrypt, saves the encrypted file then sends it to the first person by any convenient means such as email. Messages and files are not stored on this website or sent to this website."

DRM is "Direct Rendering Manager"

KMS is "Kernal Mode Setting"

In Chrome browser on Windows and in Firefox and Chromium on Linux, the text on the /signup page is black. The background is black. That makes the text invisible.

The create-an-account pages have black text on a black background.

The text and submit buttons are not visible unless you ctrl+a or drag-select.

It sometimes makes sense to made a distro that is specifically for new or unusual hardware.

I point to Asahi Linux, supporting Apple computers based on their M1, M2 and M3 ARM cpus is a load of work that is still in progress and sometimes issues are only found when a load of people use it. Eventually the source code that has been written or modified to support Apples relatively-new hardware will reach mainstream distros so people can run Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat etc on an M1 mac with working sound, gpu etc.

If some new RISC-V single board computer reaches the market it might make sense for someone to make a distro specifically for it.

A distro for specific hardware may get better performance by being compiled to use the specific instruction set and cpu features.

This creates a booby trap for everyone who avoids using a Microsoft account to log on to their computer.

If you use a local account and don't keep a backup of your bitlocker key then you can loose all your files if windows won't boot.

You can't take the drive out and read it with a different computer if you don't have the bitlocker key.

Debian stable, but my hardware is all old.

Hardware that uses a new chip, such as some wifi devices released in the last couple of years, may require using a kernel from backports or waiting a couple of years for a new major version.

I like that Firefox still exists, despite the questionable management at Mozilla, and this is almost entirely funding it.

At least some good comes from this.

I prefer having a medium amount of RAM, 32GB, because I mainly run Linux with xwindow and many years ago I generally found that it handled out-of-memory condition very poorly.

I do not like the whole of xwindows crapping out or applications being killed.

I don't really know if it is better than fifteen years ago and have little interest in finding out.

Also I sometimes have 9000 browser tabs open.