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Crypto can technically implement privacy and anonymity in a way that regulators cannot prevent. Now what do we do about it?

Also, Ethereum could adopt privacy by default some day, via their proposal process.

It's fascinating to watch regulators talk about "bitcoin" and "ethereum" as if they're "gold" and "oil", unchanging commodities that just need to be categorized and dealt with appropriately.

Ethereum is totally publicly visible today, but it does not need to be that way tomorrow. These are living projects.

I think this case is a pretty clear example of why.

The regulators are supposed to be protecting who from what exactly? And at whose expense?

So far I've seen two lines of reasoning:

1) Regulators are needed to protect me from myself. I can't assess if these dog-coins have long-term investment potential or not, so I want the government in the loop somehow. If I can purchase something on the internet, I assume it's safe, or the government wouldn't let it be sold.

2) Regulators need to protect the government from the effects of money laundering. I must give up privacy for the greater good, as the money laundered by North Korean hackers will be used against my country. Giving up all privacy in exchange for a small reduction in the funding of our enemies is always a good trade.

Even if I buy one of these arguments wholeheartedly, the practical matter is that we're trying to prevent math from being done here, and it's just not going to work. It's sort of like preventing piracy.

But public sentiment has become very anti-crypto, so I suspect we'll land in a war-on-drugs type situation where the crypto never really goes away and you can still transact it anonymously, but we mostly just don't talk about it except for the occasional bust to ensure more enforcement budget next year.

I think this is exactly the kind of privacy you can defend in court.

The reason we don't have privacy is because technology has been centralized and it's easy to pressure providers to give up user's privacy.

The idea that parties have financial privacy between each other is actually the default. I can hand you physical cash. This is normal.

That's not because of some special provision that "allows" for cash to be private. That's just how it's always been done.

If you do work for me, and I hand you a gold coin, you don't have to do something special to make sure the government can track the item of value. You just mark it down on your taxes as income.

This is how things had been done until maybe the last 20 years or so, when 9/11 greatly expanded the government surveillance requirements on financial businesses.

There's a mountain of law to support private property transfer.

If you're concerned about "work life balance", you're probably the rich that would be eaten.

Does anyone know what depression is?

You don't take a blood test or get a brain scan or anything like that.

Instead, you do this: https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/educat...

These patient assessment measures were developed to be administered at the initial patient interview and to monitor treatment progress, thus serving to advance the use of initial symptomatic status and patient reported outcome (PRO) information, as well as the use of “anchored” severity assessment instruments. Instructions, scoring information, and interpretation guidelines are included.

From that page, here's how you measure how severe your depression is: https://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Psychiatrists/Prac...

These are the "guidelines" in the article.

Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much

Am I having trouble staying asleep because my alarm is going off? How much sleep is "too much"?

Feeling bad about yourself—or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down

What about people that have let themselves and family down? Is that not valid?

Poor appetite or overeating

Relative to what? I'm not being fed per gram with a feed chart. I have no idea how I'd answer this.

Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way

This one's a trick question, because I think it's "nearly every day" for most people for at least a brief second per day? But say that and you might get shipped off to in-patient, so I know the answer is "never".

According to this thing, I probably have severe depression. I don't think I'm depressed though? There's no way to tell.

A better way to look at it might be that anyone who talks to a mental health professional has a good likelihood of leaving with a depression diagnosis, an SSRI prescription, and a follow up appointment.

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I think the original article painted it pretty well. If you could disappear and nobody would notice, you probably aren't part of a community. Shared interests and activities definitely count if there's meaningful interaction happening. Work can be a type of community too.

The hallmarks of community IMO are some shared values, some shared purpose, recurring interactions, united under some named banner. A well functioning workplace can feel a lot like a thriving community.

I don't really have much in the way of community myself at the moment, but I have experienced it before. I think it's one of those things like sex where everyone who's never participated thinks it's a huge deal, but once you've been at it a little while, it's still important, but the framing shifts a lot.

It's one thing to be a stable loner that's not invested in any group, but it's another to desperately be seeking a community without the experience to know what's "normal". That's where the parasocial stuff starts happening.

Non-incel here (I swear, ignore the username) who read your post and some of the accompanying thread. Valid feelings, a little cringey, I hope you figure yourself out, but that's not what I want to comment about.

I spend more time than I should reading extremist content (ok, go ahead, look at the username) because I think the behavior of that crowd is fascinating and disturbingly influential. And sometimes it's funny. Also, they now set US policy, so maybe we should be paying attention.

I will clear it up now: I am not any kind of incel, conspiracy theory believer, advocate of violence or racism, or follower of any dogma, philosophy, or charismatic person of any kind.

When people talk about "alt right pipeline", this is it, but casper isn't the perpetrator. He's the target.

Ok, not casper specifically. In those circles, they'd make fun of him blogging about his feelings for obvious reasons. Then they'd make fun of his artsy picture, then that he took down his picture, and once more if he puts it back up. The cycle of abuse would continue until he stops reacting to the crowd.

But it's a window into just how isolated people are and what it feels like to not have community. And we know there's millions or maybe tens of millions of people that feel this way and are nowhere near capable of articulating it.

It's so easy to imagine someone in his position be enticed a movement that has a consistent-ish ideology and purpose greater than yourself. And as a bonus, it comes with a group of regular guys that also hang out on discord or telegram all day and share memes. They might even meet up in the woods sometimes, just to drink some beers and bbq and shoot some guns once a month. Or "protect" an election or school board by providing "security". You know, community stuff.

No, I am only interested in something real, whatever that may be.

So few can cope with this emotion by blogging about their feelings. For a lot of people "blame the others" seems to be the easiest way to cope with this feeling.

(Also, archive.org still has your picture up, either fix your link or remove the broken img tag. You just look like another @jack clone anyway and nobody cares.)

We might have trains!

All the fascist stuff is pretty bad -- nationalism, strongman leaders, isolating an "other" with violence, grifters selling out the people's interests to corporations -- I'm not down with any of that.

But maybe we could have some kind of system where corporations are forced to vote on governance that applies to all other corporations for the collective good of capitalist progress?

There needs to be some kind of unified governing principle to make everyone's lives better.

We can't go on with BIG_CO hiring lobbying firms to most efficiently snake their legislation through the system unchecked.

In my thought experiment here, most corporations would want to enact policy responsibly for the public good. Cooperation between corporations would happen, but the default position would be for more happy consumers.

So far we've tried letting representative democracy work out hard issues and that hasn't gone well. We've also tried deferring governance entirely to the courts with poor results.

I'm open to suggestions.

I don't think non-Americans appreciate the complexity here.

To anyone unfamiliar with our health care system for typical employees:

Once a year, most companies have a "benefits training" session that explains this year's crazy health care situation. They're boring and I only go to the first one when I join a company.

But it's 2022 and we have youtube, so I found Ohio State's training in public: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjAWj0f6DAc

Anyone employed with benefits needs to have at least a vague understanding of everything in there or they're at financial risk.

So when you hear about contractors fighting to become employees so they have access to benefits, they're fighting for the opportunity to make these benefits elections.

I know plenty of people who design systems for a living that find getting their elections right to be confusing.

You'll notice that a big part of our health care cost mitigation is projecting expenses. It's like a prediction market where you can only lose less, but if you get it wrong you can lose a lot.

Fun!

This is the n'th tech company today that's made an announcement similar to this.

Even Disney is going to transport workers to abortion-legal states as needed as "health benefit".

It's certainly a perk and good on Google for this one, but we're headed to a dark place if your best shot at human rights is to retain employment by a big tech company.

You can confirm it's non-commercial and they let you keep it for free... for now.

They made the change fairly late in the process, and supposedly there was a way to undo the paid migrations by opening a support ticket, but I saw lots of posts about people being unable to migrate back and get refunded.

Honestly though, it's not "fuck Congress", it's "fuck the electorate".

One of the great ironies about the rise of corporate fascism in the US is that the democracy does function on a technical level. If enough people worked together to do the right things, ballots could be cast and there is no dictator to prevent the will of the people from being heard.

Of course, that does not happen. The people have proven ineffective at self-governance.

At this point I'm wondering if we should just hand all governance over to a consortium of industry leaders that are accountable to shareholders. If we're going to do an oligarchy, let's at least be efficient about it.

That seems better to me than the current system of an easily brainwashed public electing whoever has the best disinformation campaign.

Do you think we'd have all these crazy IP laws if the big IP holders and big tech companies had to get in a room together and actually figure out what the law should be?

Japanese people are just Asian English people.

That's hilarious. I don't know many English or Japanese people, but all of my stereotypes of both have way more overlap than I thought.

Maybe it's something in the tea.

I love TE's stuff and I've always thought it was a huge miss that they don't opensource everything.

The new OP-1 looks great and so does the TX-6, but I'm not buying either knowing that I can't maintain/upgrade/contribute.

Will I pay $1200 for a 6-channel mixer with dsp effects? No.

Would I "sponsor" the same exact mixer if it was open hardware/software and hackable? Absolutely, because that should exist in the world.

Same with the M8 (which appears inspired by TE and LSDJ): https://dirtywave.com/products/m8-tracker

Glad to see more open source music hardware happening.

Maybe we're at the beginning of a new DIY wave.

I think you've missed the point entirely.

Practically, there are a ton of ways to turn 500,000 EUR into "anonymous" crypto, depending on what you mean by "anonymous".

You can use an exchange (KYC or non-KYC) that lets you trade USDT/XMR pairs. Wire 500,000 EUR and convert to USDT. Buy the full amount worth of XMR and send it to your own XMR hardware wallet. You now have anonymous XMR (assuming you trust their math).

You can do something similar with ZEC shielded transactions. Many KYC exchanges support ZEC (but without shielded transactions). You can get your ZEC this way and then shield it.

If you're interested in anonymous crypto, XMR or ZEC is probably what you'd want to have anyway instead of BTC.

Also, LTC recently adopted a new privacy-enabling feature. It's not functional yet as far as I know, but it did cause LTC to be delisted from several korean exchanges last week. This one is interesting because of the widespread adoption of litecoin before it added privacy features.

Or if you'd rather use the ETH ecosystem, you can use https://tornado.cash/. Buy your KYC'd ETH, send to tornado.cash, wait, withdraw a partial amount to a fresh anonymous ethereum address.

There are even privacy-oriented wallets like https://unstoppable.money/ that can use tor to further improve anonymity while doing wallet actions.

But let's say you really do want bitcoin only. Take your 500,000 EUR and wire it to a KYC exchange. Buy your bitcoin and send it to your wallet. Send that BTC into renVM pools, wait, send your renBTC to a new address, release renBTC back to BTC on the new address: https://bridge.renproject.io/.

In other words, your point does not hold at all. There are probably a dozen different ways to get anonymous crypto right now. In the near future, many common coins will have privacy features anyway, maybe even by default.

You have to think about what level of anonymity you want and what premium you're willing to pay, but there's a wide spectrum of options.

And if you think it's not easy enough yet, just wait. The math works, it's just not wrapped up into a convenient user experience yet.

I can't believe I've never come across this before.

Wireguard gives you an interface like any other network interface.

You manage the traffic the same way you would manage a physical network. That's the whole point.

The actual complaint here is that wireguard isn't productized in a way that produces clearly visible metrics.

I'm sure this author would be absolutely thrilled at a wireguard SaaS product that provides "observability" and "traceability" to meet "KPIs" or whatever.

As an inevitable crash occurs, many of the swindles and alleged swindles are coming to light.

Yeah, bubbles make overvalued prices. Crashes occur. Losers fail. Winners gain bigger marketshare and mindshare.

Spectacular failures are actually a sign of a functioning market. The worst possible thing that could have happened last week would be the federal reserve offering Do Kwon a very cheap bridge loan to stabilize his section of the crypto economy, lest we risk broader market contagion.

Crypto failures are fast and painful as opposed to long and corrupt. This is a feature, not a bug.

Also, ironically, this author has spilled a fair amount of ink over all the market crises of the years. He wrote a whole book on the dot-com bust. The Luna saga was over in about 3 days.

The list includes some traditional tactics for illicitly relieving rubes of their money, such as pump-and-dump schemes and phishing for passwords. It also describes new, more novel schemes, including the “pig butchering” crypto scam, which often involves an attractive person approaching you online and offering you spectacularly lucrative crypto investments.

Sure, I get these DMs on discord too. Don't fall for scammers. They were doing the same nonsense with "Double your Square Cash!" scams shortly before the crypto boom. Or offering great deals on "GPUs" during the shortage. This is not a crypto problem in the slightest and crypto probably makes these lower end scammers easy to prosecute.

The over-all aim was to make crypto investing seem mainstream and draw in gullible investors who feared they were being left on the sidelines.

Does anyone seriously believe that etrade or robinhood advertising options trading to me is somehow different? There are constant commercials for precious metals and ETFs and all kinds of things.

I know a fair amount of bitcoin millionaires, all of whom were called "gullible investors" at the time.

What really bothers me is the incredible amount of ignorance I see in the comments section about crypto, blockchain technologies, poor understandings of economics, etc.

Wtf HN. Do better. I feel like I'm watching my peers get old and resistant to change and dismissive of new technologies and exciting possibilities.

Also, if you appreciate my contrarian (for HN?) view and are looking to take on more risk, now is the time to build for web3. The people chasing easy money will give up and the people moving the tech forward will build while no one is watching.

Serious question for HN: How do we replace eBay with a reliable, sensibly run public service?

It's extremely disheartening that it's now 2022 and we haven't figured out a way to replace eBay.

It's the most basic form of commerce. Select a product from the listings, check the seller's reputation based on how active the seller is, ask a few questions, finalize a transaction. On rare occasion, in some markets, adjudicate a dispute.

Everyone in the world should be able to have access to this service for essentially free.

eBay is such a basic thing that it was started as a hobby because of course people should be able to buy and sell online with minimal friction. It's obvious.

Why don't we make new things like this anymore?

I hear all this hype about the fediverse and web3 and crypto, but the reality is that the public cannot even reliably send messages to each other without invoking a big tech company.

Crypto barely works and there have been billions of dollars made and lost just trying to keep track of account balances.

It feels like we're forever away from having a well run public global market.

Uber and Twitter and Netflix and eBay and the rest of the "essential" services seem so basic, but we can't seem to get enough nerds together to start replacing them.

We're each individually globally connected with more bandwidth than I ever thought would fit in my pocket.

But I can't hail a ride without involving Uber.

I can't deliver a 140 character message to a lot of people without involving Twitter.

We can't crowdfund the creation of great art, unless we all pay Netflix to do it for us.

Don’t use eBay.

And, as OP is soon to notice, it's very hard to sell used electronics without using eBay.

What can we actually do, today, as hackers, to replace eBay?

If I was actually going to do it, where would I start? Would replacing eBay be a government project, a web3 project, a federated network?

Is there actual hacktivism to be done here by simply replacing services with p2p equivalents without engaging in the current corporate system?

I've had enough of relying on companies for what should be human to human services.

Any of them work, and it probably depends how deep you're in.

If you can't fall asleep without a drink, xanax would be a good choice. If you need a drink in your hand all day, I'd guess librium. If you're drinking from shift end until you pass out, probably ativan.

Alcoholism takes a lot of different forms, and obviously a doctor should come up with a taper plan.

But I think the reason these drugs (which actually work) aren't first line treatments is puritanical. They feel good, so giving them to alcoholics to feel just as good (or better) than they did with their drinks feels uneasy. But it really works, and it can be much more easily tapered and controlled.

It's frustrating to watch after having seen multiple people successfully taper themselves off booze with other drugs (without doctor's supervision, sadly).

With uart output.

Not super familiar with hardware hacking. Does this essentially mean you plug in the write wires, run minicom, and get a terminal with a shell?

Pedantic, but: from the device's point of view, it's always a "pull". You can't "push" to something that's not publicly addressable.

From your app's point of view, you receive a "push" from the OS.

Sure.

RSS is a neat standard, but if you're writing your own app, you might as well use a custom JSON payload that's exactly what you need. If you use RSS but never actually use an RSS reader or expose it to the public, you may end up deviating from the standard, or doing extra work to be compliant with the standard that never gets used.

As far as push notifications, the reality is that "push" is a bit of a marketing term. Every time your phone wakes up and gets on the network, it contacts Apple or Google and sees if there are any pending pushes to be delivered. By using the "push notification" systems, you get to piggyback on that highly optimized connection already provided by Apple or Google. These pushes have to be much smaller than your typical RSS feed and are intended for high priority delivery.

An alternative, if you don't want your data going through the "push" networks, is to have your app "background fetch". You might want to do this if it's too much data (like an RSS feed would be) or if it's sensitive data (Apple and Google can obviously read all push messages). In this case, the iOS and Android have special "background fetch" use cases, which gives your app a chance to pre-load data. News apps are the canonical example.

it feels like you don't need some fancy realtime queue service for most push notifications, so why not use something that offloads the checks to the client

Mostly because the realtime queue already exists, it's provided mostly for free, it comes with extra features like sounds and badges, it was available before background fetches, and business people know to ask for "push" by name.

You can be happy and smart—it’s just going to take more work.

If you’re smart, you can figure out how to be healthy within your genetic constraints and how to be wealthy within your environmental constraints.

Dumb and unhappy here (maybe? not sure, probably because dumb).

I think there's a lot of us in the middle that can do some things reasonably well enough to be happy, but not all the things. It's hard to be happy if you're smart enough to know you have toxic traits or unhealthy habits that need to be addressed, but you don't have the time or energy to address them.

I might be able to do a career and hit the gym, but not able to have any hobbies or enjoy social events. When I say "not able to", I mean "may cause depression and burnout that could lead to trouble maintaining employment if attempted and failed".

Other people might be able to do a career, have side projects, and network at all the important events, but can't stop smoking cigarettes and chugging energy drinks. I see this all the time.

People seem to generally alternate between goal-seeking behavior and coping mechanisms for damage caused by the former.

Real people, perhaps dumb people, might be smart enough to know that happiness is attainable, but dumb enough to be incapable of precisely juggling all of a modern life in a way that feels successful.

I can see the right answers to lots of things, but trying to keep up with all of it is exhausting.

As I write this post, my neighbors from above, probably college students, are having a party of their lifetime, laughing, kicking and screaming. I'm not even mad at them, just full of envy.

If you're fun (warning: it sounds like you're not fun), you can probably just party with them. We're the same age and I've had girlfriends that are still in college. It's not weird if you're not weird about it.

If you haven't had kids and aren't boring, 18+ is a valid dating range.

Finding friends in my teens and 20s was as easy as going out literally anywhere.

It still is, you're just going to the wrong places or presenting yourself wrong.

When I eventually went to work, I thought my life would only get better. And I made a good career, but in the process, steadily drifted off into isolation.

I think there may be some naivety here. Work is to acquire capital, to invest in assets, to generate capital, to avoid work. Work is not supposed to be fun or satisfying. Work is supposed to acquire capital.

I think in previous generations, you could ask coworkers out on dates, but that's dangerous and most SWEs are remote now anyway. It's best to keep work to just work.

they're all full of lonely developers and other socially awkward people - short guys looking for girlfriends, unattractive/aging women looking for husbands, etc.

If that's not your scene, then don't go to those places. Find something that's cool and happening now and meet people doing things that excite you.

If the goal is young women, you can be in your 40s and find plenty of college girls interested in age gap relationships.

All the "normal" people I knew in the past are now changing diapers and working to pay off their mortgages, which I guess is a kind of consolation.

The people I know with kids end up so defeated that they essentially martyr themselves with employment to give their children a better future. I understand that people willingly make this choice, but it's not for me. It's really good to see times changing and the idea of "normal" going away.

Still, I'm only in my 30s, and it feels like my life is pretty much done. Doing things by myself is boring and depressing, and getting into a group of "normal" friends, of both genders, to hang out and laugh with, seems like an impossible goal.

This is your error because it's not impossible. I've seen whole communities of old people form meaningful friendships and they're all 70+.

It might be impossible for you while you're doing your career. That's ok. People will still be around when you're done working.

If you're at the peak of your dev career in your 30s, you can probably be retired by 40 with some good negotiation/investment.

In case someone has any advice beyond finding a hobby, going to therapy, approaching random strangers, it would be greatly appreciated. I don't have any skills other than coding, so quitting the career would be a major financial hit. On the other hand, I feel that finding a non-coding job would be ultimately the best way to find new social groups, and get out of the apathy

IMO you're already in deep enough that you might as well see it through. Try to get a job with high total comp, work hard for a few more years, retire before 40. Learn enough about investing and finance that you don't screw it up.

Then simply do things you find legitimately interesting that involve other people. It's important that you actually care about the activity, so you can be happy and confident and present at your best.

You can't just "try ballroom dancing" and expect to meet a new group of cool friends. Compete with cool people at doing cool things, and then you'll have groups of cool friends.

Maybe audition for a rock band. Or start an NFT project. Or become a nature youtuber. Or dance on TikTok. Or whatever you'd do anyway, once you're not tied down by a tech job.

Prescription stimulants. That's not good advice though.

Better advice is to look within yourself, figure out what you really know you should be doing, and go do that instead of whatever it is you're not motivated to do. Figure out what matters to you, find like-minded people, and the motivation will reverberate between you and your chosen community.

At least, that's what the successful people I know do.

I don't think we actually disagree too much, let me try to update your view:

I'm more familiar with the people behind Tether, where I'm fairly confident they are crooks. I know nothing specifically about USDC except that the issuance patterns look similar.

I think Tether are probably crooks that won't ever get caught, because I don't think their scheme will collapse, but I agree.

The main difference in issuance between USDC (Circle, New York) and GUSD (Gemini, Boston) vs USDT (Tether, US Virgin Islands) is that these are US companies playing by US laws to do business with US exchanges. They exist primarily because everyone is skeptical of Tether.

To be clear, neither USDC nor GUSD have full audits (they provide attestations like Tether), so some skepticism is definitely warranted. But know that these are US companies backed by US investors, selling products to other US companies.

For example, we know Gemini was founded by the Winklevoss's because they're very public about it. We know Tether was founded by Bitfinex because of the Paradise Papers.

While they could all technically be insolvent and none of us would know until it's too late, I trust the US stablecoins backed by prominent investors a lot more than I trust USDT.

If there is an investment sector that promises such a massively higher yield than the rest of the economy, there are really only two possible explanations: (1) a massively higher risk of loss or (2) a scam.

I appreciate your skepticism, but you're missing another explanation: (3) innovation.

I've yet to see an explanation for why there is an enterprise that (a) can generate a 40% return

Let me show you a live example for a hot project in DeFi right now. This launched 4 days ago: https://www.oxdao.fi/

See their medium post if you want to know why the DAO exists, but "farming" is a common thing in DeFi and you don't really have to know what the project does to do it: https://medium.com/@0xdao?p=86a8d6026191

If you stake your USDC there, you would currently be earning 37% APR on your USDC, paid to you in OXD. This rate of earning is highly volatile as it's based on the price of OXD, which is a brand new cryptocurrency that's still in price discovery. If you were to claim and sell your OXD as you earn it from staking USDC, the rate would be real.

If OXD is a very successful project, it could be worth a lot more. If it's a total failure, it could be worth noting. You get to decide when to enter and exit.

Assuming there's not a contract bug, the USDC will be returned to you in full when you decide to exit. If there is a contract bug, you lose your USDC and you get to read about what happened here: https://rekt.news/

This isn't a scam and the 40% return is real, but it's transitory. You're essentially temporarily pledging an asset to show support for the project, and you're receiving a share of the project in return.

When you decide to exit, you get the full amount of USDC returned to you, plus the OXD you earned, so your USDC is only at "contract risk" (vulnerable to a programming bug) and "opportunity risk" (maybe it could have made more elsewhere), but not "price risk" (vulnerable to a market crash).

and (b) would take crypto loans at 40% instead of taking fiat loans at much lower rates and buying their own crypto.

The 40% isn't because someone is paying you to borrow that, it's because they're paying you in shares of their own (currently worthless?) project, and you're betting it'll perform better than USD parked in a money market account or treasury or wherever you keep USD.

This is an extremely common way of generating yield. Here's a dashboard you can use to learn more: https://defillama.com/protocols/yield

What does the project get out of this? Marketing, branding, confidence.

It's a huge vote of confidence that this project was able to lock over $4B in 4 days. The project is now has a market cap of over $30M on the tokens they've already handed out.

I've also yet to see an explanation for where those massive DeFi returns are supposed to come from.

This particular example is a wonky one about DAO voting itself, so it's a bit meta, but the short answer really is "innovation".

If you don't find this explanation sufficient, let me know what's confusing and I'll try to help you understand it.

Awesome, maybe it's worth a look then. "amdgpu" seems supported, which I assume is very similar to the linux one, since it has the same name and is open source.

I wonder how FreeBSD will fare as Linux users slowly switch over to wayland.

I found this, but it doesn't tell me much: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Wayland