All right, am I missing something? Time to see :pepeD:

Enjoyed trip down the memory lane, that's some quality shizo context. Now everyone should scroll up only from there, educating themselves on how great cycle works. History is written by the survivors. View quoted note →

I have shit to do, like quoting this one note! View quoted note →

FUTO - Perry Metzger Thinks AI is Awesome Interesting info about the mirrors at start of the video. It serves as a good reminder of how, for most of history, we had no 'clear picture' what we looked like. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I was walking a riverside the other day, ducks were feeding nearby, sieving the water - no steady surface on the river - outpacing a young woman. I'm not much of a city outdoor person so many of the quirks people do are a bit of novelty for me. Noticed that as she swiftly pulled her phone out of the slimfit jeans pocket and immediately started front camera, she was just quickly checking herself. She didn't stop stop walking for a pose, yet she swung the head left-right and adjusted the phone so her face fit the screen. Took me a while to realize I was moving myself out of the camera's view for no purpose as there would be no photo. She frowned on me catching the situation; we departed shortly. It reminded me, the adjusting movements, a robotic arm fitting some prefabricated part with help of a worker to the frame of a product. One thing came to my mind, as the video intro put my brain on this path - there is the long story of female beauty and it's importance on the dating market, sexuality and so on. So but basically for the human eternity, only the past few hundred years the ability to see oneself and compare to others was there. And just for a few selected an maybe also quite ritualized. Not everywhere they had a steady water surface readily available for the morning routine, not to mention hardly anyone had surplus of skilled stone polishers to make one in room from a big obsidian. And so basically the mirror became perhaps one of the first regularly available personal possessions, one of many necessities humans have around nowadays, functioning somehow as the first beauty pressure mechanism. With no network effect yet, the one that remained within the reach of a one's steady group of peers at the time. We've created truly the mirrors of next gen. The phone itself has reflective coating despite the finishing to suppress reflections for better screen readability. Hence, the selfie camera. And added the network effect with the socnets, completely removing the steady group of peers. And now we back propagating the behavior observed over the past few decades into entire timespan of the modern human species. Cherry picking the selected few from nobility to fit our narratives on the mating competitiveness. Perhaps. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

"This shouldn’t sound radical. None of it should sound radical. It only does because our culture has become so stupidly binary." *For some reason can't just repost, must quote entire post. View quoted note →

Calvin Ayre walking their path View quoted note →

#TIL with Ungoogled Chromium there is no store for the extensions. Only with manually added extension Chromium Web Store it's easy to install some extensions. But to update them the manual action is needed from menu of this very same extension cos there is no autoupdate. And as having all extension not displayed I completely forgot about it and lived with broken YT for several months because all my YT enhance extensions were out of date versions. #fml

Didn't know he did enshittificate himself long before. "Maybe many of you don't know Cory Doctorow, but he's a great person, very popular, and has written a few books. He has an Apple logo tattooed on him and in an article, he blurted out:"

10 types of tattoos you should never get - Minid.net

@Grafton I'm using Flotilla. In the listing, your room (or space, server, whatever the name is) appeared publicly available at that time. Entered it a month ago; there was no invite code. Posted a meme today, it was visible for a moment with no error, yet it disappeared shortly after. Many room names consist of random strings (such as #fd45s45). I'm unsure whether this is a bug or a misconfiguration (the open gates) so letting you know. (Can't send you a PM - Flotilla says 'Direct messages are not enabled'.)

Very interesting. "The reply took and the closure of the ticket took half an hour or so. The reasons behind it took five hundred years to pile up, and they involve a twice-mutilated vizier, a Qurʾān that vanished for four centuries, a Beirut newspaperman with a deadline, and an Egyptian physician who taught himself font engineering for fun (or that what I imagine about him). Walking through these, ended up to be the most enjoyable couple of weeks in that job, and I want to go through it here too." View quoted note →

Sparkle 2 Evo (2011) devs are <3

TIL the Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the use of force following 9/11 attacks.

Barbara Lee - Wikipedia

Also this woman have interesting path to the power, kinda not the silver spoon way.

In Czechia, there is corruption case 'Dozimetr' - here the ex-minister is responsible for delivery of 'krypťáky', a secured phones for the group. https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/o-dozimetru-bude-svedcit-exministr-nemec-skupine-kolem-redla-mel-shanet_2606111246_mst Never cease to amaze me how tech-illiterate idiots on the broad spectrum of power hungry hierarchies, here specifically politicians, who constitute a subset of organized crime, fall for this scam of so-called "secured phones." The inability to set up with of the shelf HW, the dependency on external chain of supply is weakness and being harvested by enemy for many decades. Like good for us, knowing the members capabilities, and it shows some cracks within the ranks. Just there is the GOS for years, verified by the 3 letter agencies as the secure option. On top of that - bunch of messengers starting from most convenient normie lvl, the Signal. That is basically all one need (for what the AiO devices exists basically) - rest is about group hygiene and trust within. None can be anyhow covered for by encryption, auto-delete, not storing messages and alike. If counterparty snitch, make prtscn, store messages elsewhere, you're fucked up anyway. The latest famous additions are:

ANOM – Darknet Diaries

In this episode, Joseph Cox tells us the story of ANOM. A secure phone made by criminals, for criminals.

Operation Trojan Shield - Wikipedia

Bitcoin died when Silk Road busted. Or is it? View quoted note →

"Beauty will save the world" - as they claim, but will it? Fyodor Dostoevsky, from novel 'The Idiot'.

'Always Work' View quoted note → That is why I do follow this, to make it work. #nohate View quoted note →

Definitely will View quoted note →

Yes - this is nice write-up and many arguments are to the point. The biggest, not well known, hurdle for me is the support being done outside of Proton by default.

Sam Bent

The Proton Problem

Proton has handed over user data in response to over 40,000 government orders since 2017. Their own transparency report shows a 94% compliance rate...

But also - fighting Big tech (namely Google) and having this in the very same page you fighting from is just sus.

I have some questions for @BitBlik , 2 sets: App in general: 1) What can be done while waiting for the counterparty to provide a code? For example, can I leave the app, switching to another one while shopping on the same device? 2) Regarding liquidity: this assumes someone is monitoring offers - so we are basically dependent on Polish daytime (and holidays)? 3) How long is a BLIK code valid? Can I generate one in advance for later use (e.g., a few minutes ahead) to avoid bothering the cashier? Troubleshooting: A) How long does it typically take for the coordinator to reach out via DM? Is it measured in days or hours? Does response time depend on whether I'm the taker or maker? B) Nostr DMs are finicky; some apps don't work well or refuse cooperation with external signers like Amber. Should I switch to some preferred client? C) I believe I encountered a bug and want to report it, but can't enable logging anywhere. If I provide the date and time of the event, can you retrieve any relevant data? D) During disputes, the "Pay/Buy" option appears inactive on the main screen, though I can create a new payment offer via the right-side submenu. Is this a bug? E) While the HTLC is settled - Dispute is in orange state - but why? If manually confirmed (I assume by coordinator) the dispute is in 'Coordinator is in review' state, is this not dependent on HTLC status? Thank you for info on this, I'm not in hurry.