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Love these old videos from YT, golden treasure from before AI slop and MrBeast like production with all the crazy empty thumbnails. Also nice to see the reunion (in vid description).

The origins of the git:

Who would have thought we would have this Xiaomi MiMO V Pro to boost our passion for many things! (The ad in magazine InfoWorld - 12.7.1999)

"By the time they reach the eighth grade, 30% of them will be able to hack into your system." The ad in magazine InfoWorld, 12.7.1999. How precise - the 30%! And what crimes they will commit, huh?

"If you're unable to predict a disaster, make a disastrous prediction about the future" - Nicholas Petreley

Friendly reminder: you do not need the fcuking Docker Desktop. It's sluggish, wannabe AI enhanced, idk what else it does, fancy dashboard(?). Basically all that is needed can be handled from the cli, goddamn. Also it does create the infamous ~/.docker/desktop/vms/0/data/Docker.raw and this is (despite a setting in the GUI) often overridden by Docker resulting in insane amounts of storage taken by this volume. And to make this worse, it's a static size regardless of whether there is something inside or not. Any prune won't make it smaller. And if there is encryption in place it will get stuck forever creating this volume black box blob. It's really beyond my understanding why the Desktop is always bundled with many installation guides, war crime this is.

There is only one Slavia I tolerate. View quoted note →

Look @Grafton, with never ending enshittification of every corner on the internet - there is new opportunity for filling the Vexl marketplace. (OK, the owner of the place hates BTC all the time and even banned the word in the text of the offers, though that could be avoided with some wording.)

#asknostr Today (on a profile I help to run) this error response for a 'like' reaction on post has been given to me. Yet after refresh the reaction is accounted for. I don't understand much what does it mean and why it ended all good after all despite the error. I mean the policy and WoT.

Another one down; many to go. View quoted note →

Some notes carry a wisdom with them. Apply carefully. View quoted note →

This is great podcast - good baseline for the current situation with Iran. Hidden Forces: Iran's Counterrevolution & the Future of the Greater Middle East | Kamran Bokhari Episode webpage:

Hidden Forces

Iran's Counterrevolution & the Future of the Greater Middle East

From the 1979 Revolution to today's nationwide protests: Kamran Bokhari explains how Iran's internal crisis could reshape the future of t...

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While surfing the YT for new sounds, stumbled upon this and it's the same artist (seems to me) you have the profile pic from him. Who is it? @Vezire

@Zapstore the web page Download > Verify > Mobile does have link from the "Use AppVerifier" for the GH repo that does not exist / (/nicman23/appverifier) 404. The repo you possibly should link is the: github.com/soupslurpr/AppVerifier

OK, there is some work on it. https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability/issues/269 View quoted note →

Proton does have now Palestinian Territory (Ramallah) VPN servers. P2P allowed. And even they are, as of now, marked like full HW presence in the area - in contrast to some virtual servers using the Smart routing. 2026 and users can torrent with the ✡Hamas✡, lol.

Today I updated my Matrix server because of a fix to mitigate a signing-key compromise in Element Server Suite (ESS) by ignoring the affected key by default. For my rooms, this means a migration, and after that everyone sees: "This room has been replaced and is no longer active." The only quick, meaningful explanation of why this message is displayed is to be found here: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-project-matrix-room-upgrades-coming-next-week/20536. It's funny; the average user has no idea, everyone just clicking on it. In effect, this also means old messages can't really be deleted anymore. That's only possible in the currently active room. Also, if the room is private, users cannot migrate on their own. An admin must invite them one by one. Manually, there is no script. In general, I realized a few more things: Communities are in the documentation but aren't used anymore; there are Spaces instead. And Spaces don't have any (non-technical, user-facing) documentation on Matrix . org. Rooms can't be migrated between Spaces and standalone rooms easily anyway. (At least in Element, I couldn't figure it out, maybe it's client-dependent for now.) Not to mention: the biggest hurdle is still identity (MXID) in Matrix, which is DNS-dependent. DNS is a scam, a chokepoint of rented addresses. Resilient, DNSSEC provides nice protection against response tampering, but that's it. @username:sub.domain.xyz. That's all. If the server where you create the account isn't hosted well, you're cooked the moment the identity is created. Stolen, seized, or expired domains. Or just the fact that, along the DNS chain of command, there's usually a SPOF, with a single person holding the credentials. This is something Nostr definitely handles better. View quoted note →

What is the matter with Simple Taproot Channels on LND not being used much? Having trouble finding a node to open one. Also, it's impossible for me to filter out nodes by this feature or any info at all basically. But we have some 'AI powered liquidity' here instead. View quoted note →