Hi @samve. Stumble, indeed! I am as passionate about this issue as you are about climate. I try to remain calm :) as I raise issues, but for me it is such a clear case of suffering vs. not suffering. Plus, I think, it damages the researchers who inure themselves to the pain of countless animals in service of a goal. It can't be good for the psyche to close your eyes on a constant basis to the suffering of any creature--even a spider or fly.
Anyway, great opportunity here to ask someone I trust about Steemconnect. I'm afraid to use this function because I have to supply one of my keys. Is that secure? And yet, if I don't, so many aps (or whatever you call them) are closed to me here. So, if you tell me it's safe, I will believe. Because I do trust you. And please advise me on how to proceed. I love the blockchain, but the technical aspects of it are confusing to me sometimes.
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Just as passionate? Than this post must have definitely triggered something! The aspect of the researchers themselves is indeed something I did not even think about...
Ah SteemConnect. It can indeed be daunting to type in your private key, but SteemConnect has been designed to eliminate exactly that. Steemconnect can, in your place, give third party apps a temporary token that is different from your private keys. With this token, apps can then perform operations such as upvoting, commenting, creating posts etc. This token expires after a certain time and can also be revoked at any moment with the steemconnect app. So in this way SteemConnect is a gateway to almost any application on the blockchain without giving each app your private key to perform the needed operations.
So in this example, debato sends you to the site of SteemConnect where you can authorize the app, and when complete, debato gets an authorization token from SteemConnect (when logging in you can also see what that token can be used for, upvoting, commenting etc.). Then you can use the app to perform operations in your name without ever giving your private keys to that app.
It's a pretty established feature and open source so I do tend to trust it :)
Thank you for that explanation. I will go boldly forth (slowly forth) and sign up for Steemconnect. So much I am cut off from because of my reluctance. I appreciate that you took the time to walk me through it.
As for passion about animal experimentation--it is not new-found. An essay I wrote for a blog (since inactive) in 2013 kind of shows the interest I have had for a long time. You don't have to read the blog--just adding it for your interest. Leave My Beagle Alone