Casey Rollins 🔵 @realcaseyrollins@qoto.org

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@realcaseyrollins The tool is not working, I tried it earlier.

There's nothing installed at https://toot.works - it brings up a generic 'domain parked and available' message.

Pity, I think it would be super useful.

The tool is currently NOT working, the domain toot.works seems to be parked, not in use.

I visited the author's projects page and sent a message, asking if it would be possible to get the source code, maybe get it installed somewhere else.

I think it's a very useful too, and could help us with the foreign language posts, as well as the users whose native language is not English and have some difficulty translating into it.

Will update with author's reply if I get one.

This seems like a wonderful tool, we could really benefit from it.

"Translate Your Status

To translate your status, include this anywhere in the status content:

@translator@toot.works LANGUAGE

Where LANGUAGE is the 2-letter language code for the language you wish to translate the status to (see the table below for a list of language codes)."

From https://christopher.su/projects/translator/

NOT Working. 😞

Visited domain site, and it's offline.

Another #QOTO moderator election has just begun. All users are encourage to follow along and cast your nominations here:

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nomination-for-moderator-december-2019/110/2

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@realcaseyrollins The article does mention many varied concerns, one being that a centralized, globally active banking entity of this kind could allow someone's funds to be blocked and traced internationally. Handy for powerful governments, which could starve some opposing party simply by freezing their assets.

Combine that with FB's known sneakiness and past incidents of manipulation, selling people's information to private operators (and this being used in the 2016 campaign, see Cambridge Analytica).

I don't trust crypto currencies as they are, there are so many incidents of irrecoverable loses thru hacks, exchanges going bankrupt with hundreds of millions in client assets evaporating. And the price manipulation reported by trade analysis in 2017, when BTC hit huge peaks, then dropped substantially.

A lot of people got wiped out, many who had bought crypto using credit cards and debt.

" Libra: Facebook Wants to Control Your Money
Facebook - backed by some of the largest banks and corporations on Earth - seek to create a global digital currency and reassert Western dominion over the global economy."

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2019/11/libra-facebook-wants-to-control-your.html#more

A long and rich article which Dr Dejahang posted here yesterday. ( https://qoto.org/@drdej555/103239575953234069 )I read thru and he covers a wide variety of implications. A good read, requires focus.

We've gone full circle. Capitalism is just awesome.