there’s always the potential for a very near future breaches or compromise
That is a goalpost that will never stop moving. There is always a potential threat and you can never reduce your risk to zero. Right now, encrypting the data yourself before uploading it is your best option outside of encrypting AND hosting the data yourself. You’re basically anticipating that the well-known secure encryption algorithms will eventually be broken, which is not impossible no doubt, but at the moment not likely. You also have to step back and figure out your threat model, in order to come up with an adequate solution.
If you don’t mind having to take an extra step to access them and probably not having the convenience of online sharing, you can encrypt your photos/videos before uploading them to online cloud storage.
!nba@lemmy.world has a bunch of active users, including me.
I believe most banks will have residency requirements to allow you to open an account. Not permanent residency per se, but proof that you’re at least legally residing in the country at the time of opening an account. But as the other commenter said, Canada might have options since it shares lots of stuff with the US. Of course the rich are always exempt from the rules, and I’m just guessing here, but maybe they do it via corporations/businesses; so maybe you can set up an LLC or something.
you’ll never really be able to stop scalpers
Sure you can, or at least bring them down to a very tiny fraction. But like we both agree on, ticketmaster earns a lot of money from enabling scalpers, so they let it happen. It’s not that they can’t, they just won’t.
If they applied what I mentioned, scalpers will cease to exist:
Scalpers literally won’t waste their time buying up all the tickets because they can only sell them for the same price. The only way they can do it is to sell to some desperate fan who’s willing to pay more (directly to the scalper outside the app), but they’ll have to figure out how to accompany the buyer through security because they can’t transfer the ticket barcode to the buyer’s phone if they don’t sell through the app. A scalper won’t go through that for every resale.
The only problem with that is ticket transfers on the app won’t be allowed unless it’s a re-sale, so sharing tickets that you bought for your family/friends will no longer be possible and you’ll all have to enter the venue together as a group because all the tickets are on your account/phone only. But that’s a small price to pay to get rid of scalpers.
Like I said, reselling is not the issue, scalping is. People can have many legit reasons for selling their tickets (sick, accident, emergency, etc.), and there should be a way for them to offload those tickets for someone else to enjoy and at the same time get their money back. If tickets aren’t allowed to be sold above their original price, scalpers won’t be able to profit from them, so they’ll stop doing it. Then people who want to sell just to get their money back are able to, while the people who weren’t able to buy during the initial sale period get another chance to buy tickets without getting scalped or scammed. It won’t matter if the ticket you present wasn’t originally yours, as long as you got it for the same price.
It’s a win-win for everyone except ticketmaster who doesn’t get to profit off of the resale market, that’s why they don’t do it. I can’t remember who it was, but there was an artist who demanded resales to be done that way and it worked out well.
Ticketmaster can easily prevent out-of-band reselling by only allowing resales on their site. So anyone selling their tickets on ebay or wherever will still have to transfer the tickets and get paid through ticketmaster, which should only allow you to sell at original purchase price with no extra fees. This would also help prevent scams and fraud because all transactions would be via their system and they already implement that rotating code technology to prevent screenshots from working.
Of course ticketmaster doesn’t do that because they charge a fee on resales, which gets them more money.
It doesn’t matter if it’s resold. If tickets can’t be resold with markup prices, scalpers won’t have any incentive to hoard and resell (assuming there are no fees for reselling, in an ideal scenario), therefore reducing the resale market to people who actually have a legit reason to sell their tickets.
This is why Mint is what I always recommend to people who are switching over for the first time. Congrats and welcome.
It would be easier to not allow resales above the original purchase price.
This one I just found last week. I’ve been trying to get my tv on my vpn without having to flash my router with openwrt. It’s a samsung running tizen so not customizable unlike an android tv. I discovered the GL.Inet Mango and Shadow mini routers that come with openwrt pre-installed. Now I have my tv and older devices that don’t support my vpn client connected to it. I can also take it along with me when traveling to use when on hotel or public wifi.
By keeping a fashion-neutral wardrobe. Your closet will look a little more boring, but having solid and neutral colored clothes that fit right (not skinny or baggy) will go a long way. A collared shirt, slim fit pants, and a nice pair of sneakers will fit any fashion era.
The other way is to have a large, fixed, revolving wardrobe. Fashion trends are a cycle and something popular now will go out of style in time but will eventually come back, then go out of style again, ad infinitum. So have a variety of clothes, but stick with them and don’t keep on buying.
I find the first option cheaper, more practical, and more economical though.
Supply chains. It’s mindblowing how that patch of cabbage got to the produce section at your grocery store. Or how the parts of that gadget you bought at best buy were sourced, assembled, and shipped to the store. Some products that have multiple parts are shipped multiple times across countries, sometimes back and forth, as they get built and assembled by different factories.
For such a large org, they did not have 2-party review/approval for high risk changes prior to this incident. You’d think there would be at least peer review and approval before a change is implemented.
It’s laziness. Them being “tech literate” is probably akin to knowing how to use the internet and signing up for a social media site. Enter email, new password, verify account, done. Understanding how federated social media works should technically not be an issue for them, because it’s literally just an extra step (choosing an instance to sign up with), but they are just too lazy or can’t be bothered to do it.
Doesn’t micro-manage.
I think you’re underestimating how tech challenged the average user is. It’s likely that your circle and the lemmy community as a whole tends to be more tech savvy which kinda skews it a bit; but it’s a very, very tiny subset of people and not representative of the general population of internet users.
I saw one thread where lemmy was being recommended and some people were on board with moving over, so that was nice to see.
I was sad to hear that it shut down. I was just about to consider uploading my music there. Unfortunately I don’t have the resources to host it on my own so couldn’t really contribute on that end.
As a dude, drinking sweet cocktails instead of beer and not having more than one or two drinks. First of all, I have the asian flush so I get red very easily. Even if I’m not drunk at all, I look like it. So I nurse my drink and sip slowly. I also usually don’t have more than 2 in a night. And if I’m gonna nurse a drink, I might as well have something that tastes delicious.