Beware the above is a BCH-associated social network using spam replies to promote themselves. I recommend that you report and block these when you see it.
Japan's tax laws are perhaps the most hostile to Bitcoin adoption in the world. The bank regulator FSA and industry has tried for years to get the NTA to cooperate on reform but it seems impossible.
Unfair tax laws:
* 55% rate in the etc undefined income category. This part I don't mind personally. If you choose to live somewhere due to the quality of life you pay for it.
* You pay taxes on gains but you can't carry forward losses to future tax years like you can for other investment losses. This led to some strange situations where shitcoin traders went bankrupt due to paper profits and losses happening on separate years. This is the most broken and unfair part of their laws today relative to carry forward or even backwards allowed for Japanese equity trades.
* Average cost basis - this is significantly worse than FIFO, LIFO, or lot selection methodologies allowed like in America. I doubt this can ever be fixed in Japanese law because average cost basis is also how they tax stock trading capital gains.
A few bitcoin devs considered moving to Japan in past years but decided against it almost entirely because of these tax laws. A few Bitcoiners also left Japan over this.
Big Mac price in the US is up 22% since before the pandemic.
According to Google Project Zero they discovered 0-day "Internet-to-baseband remote code execution" affecting many millions of Samsung and Pixel 6+ modems.
Read it for yourself. It sounds very bad. If you have an affected phone you may want to turn off your SIM card because the recommended "turn off VoLTE and WiFi calling" is impossible for many of these phones after they removed the VoLTE option back in 2021.
Only thing you can do is turn it off and put pressure on the vendors to fix it.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-internet-to-baseband-remote-rce.html
The writer claims it's already patched by Google in the March 2023 patch level. Unfortunately that patch had been withheld from Pixel 6* due to bugs so the blog is incorrect about this already being fixed for Pixel owners.
It sounds like Samsung has a much bigger mess due to the wider variety of phones, firmwares, and providers for which they must now rush an update without breaking it. Not an easy task but they must do it.
Don't blame Google for releasing this advisory. Samsung had months to respond in a timely manner.
Do blame Google for failing to protect their own customers prior to their own advisory. I like Pixel and I want them to do better.
Pixel 6 update is now available. Protect yourself ASAP.
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According to Google Project Zero they discovered 0-day "Internet-to-baseband remote code execution" affecting many millions of Samsung and Pixel 6+ modems.
Read it for yourself. It sounds very bad. If you have an affected phone you may want to turn off your SIM card because the recommended "turn off VoLTE and WiFi calling" is impossible for many of these phones after they removed the VoLTE option back in 2021.
Only thing you can do is turn it off and put pressure on the vendors to fix it.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-internet-to-baseband-remote-rce.html
The writer claims it's already patched by Google in the March 2023 patch level. Unfortunately that patch had been withheld from Pixel 6* due to bugs so the blog is incorrect about this already being fixed for Pixel owners.
It sounds like Samsung has a much bigger mess due to the wider variety of phones, firmwares, and providers for which they must now rush an update without breaking it. Not an easy task but they must do it.
Don't blame Google for releasing this advisory. Samsung had months to respond in a timely manner.
Do blame Google for failing to protect their own customers prior to their own advisory. I like Pixel and I want them to do better.
If you have Pixel 6 and can't wait for the rumored patch tomorrow you can instead opt-in to QPR3 Beta also with the March 2023 patch level. Read the release notes and "top open issues" to decide for yourself if it is worth being stuck in beta until June.
"March 20th" is rumored from a screenshot of a customer service rep. Even if it is made available to the public tomorrow, there there is no guarantee you'll get it immediately from OTA as providers also need to approve of updates.
The beta known bugs don't look too bad to me.
My primary concern about being stuck in the beta stream until June would be it is time consuming to apply patches multiple times per month. Otherwise I'm not too concerned about running the beta and seeing new features months before other people.
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/13/release-notes
Bitcoiners should ignore the attention seeker acting out of ulterior motives.
He's been mostly an unhelpful antagonist of Bitcoin over the past decade. Bitcoin worked just fine despite his best efforts. Being rich doesn't make him better at predicting the future. Ignore.
According to Google Project Zero they discovered 0-day "Internet-to-baseband remote code execution" affecting many millions of Samsung and Pixel 6+ modems.
Read it for yourself. It sounds very bad. If you have an affected phone you may want to turn off your SIM card because the recommended "turn off VoLTE and WiFi calling" is impossible for many of these phones after they removed the VoLTE option back in 2021.
Only thing you can do is turn it off and put pressure on the vendors to fix it.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-internet-to-baseband-remote-rce.html
The writer claims it's already patched by Google in the March 2023 patch level. Unfortunately that patch had been withheld from Pixel 6* due to bugs so the blog is incorrect about this already being fixed for Pixel owners.
It sounds like Samsung has a much bigger mess due to the wider variety of phones, firmwares, and providers for which they must now rush an update without breaking it. Not an easy task but they must do it.
Don't blame Google for releasing this advisory. Samsung had months to respond in a timely manner.
Do blame Google for failing to protect their own customers prior to their own advisory. I like Pixel and I want them to do better.
If you own Pixel 6 or Samsung Exynos phones do the following until the patch is available.
* Turn off WiFi calling.
* Enable Airplane Mode.
Depending on your provider this may allow text messages to continue to work over WiFi. You must block incoming VoLTE and WiFi calls until your device has the Android March 2023 security patch level.
According to Google Project Zero they discovered 0-day "Internet-to-baseband remote code execution" affecting many millions of Samsung and Pixel 6+ modems.
Read it for yourself. It sounds very bad. If you have an affected phone you may want to turn off your SIM card because the recommended "turn off VoLTE and WiFi calling" is impossible for many of these phones after they removed the VoLTE option back in 2021.
Only thing you can do is turn it off and put pressure on the vendors to fix it.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-internet-to-baseband-remote-rce.html
The writer claims it's already patched by Google in the March 2023 patch level. Unfortunately that patch had been withheld from Pixel 6* due to bugs so the blog is incorrect about this already being fixed for Pixel owners.
It sounds like Samsung has a much bigger mess due to the wider variety of phones, firmwares, and providers for which they must now rush an update without breaking it. Not an easy task but they must do it.
Don't blame Google for releasing this advisory. Samsung had months to respond in a timely manner.
Do blame Google for failing to protect their own customers prior to their own advisory. I like Pixel and I want them to do better.
Satoshi wouldn't use lawsuits.
Only Fake Satoshi uses lawsuits.
I wonder if I could use Tor in the desktop application https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/core/doc/rust/arti_client/index.html
I tried Iris via Tor exit nodes. It is very slow and unreliable. I switched to VPN and Iris is a lot better now.
Yes this feature is very helpful in Amethyst, would be great in Iris. They also allow you to turn off Public Chat and Global per relay which is even more helpful.
Yup the above post looks a lot better in Amethyst.
I also strongly prefer unpositioned images to be below, not above the text, and tiles instead of top-to-bottom in sequence when you have multiple.
I understand these changes are necessary to improve reachability but it also expands the number of parties that learn 1) exactly who is reading 2) and when they are reading it and 3) giving up their location while doing so.
I just hope more Nostr users learn they really must use a VPN.
Pro-Tip: The books for each bank including Hold to Maturity vs Available for Sale securities are public record. You can lookup for yourself which banks had prudent management and saw this coming months and years ago.
Management of a small bank told me this. Aside from targeting "crypto" beyond the scope of the law (Operation Chokepoint 2.0), he's also mad that responsible banks who wisely avoided long dated HTM securities are being punished by withdrawals as depositors flee to large banks for safety. They did everything right but only the big banks benefit from the moral hazard of these bailouts.
My yard guy is hustling to stack sats. In the past 30 minutes he's been disrupted five times by neighbors asking for his services next.
Rather than gambling with token speculation he's out there creating value in the real world.
I bought a retail SIM card only to learn online activation requires the SV national ID number. Wasted $3.
Instead a kiosk in a supermarket had a guy selling phone plans. I asked for an activated SIM card. He asked for ID. "Oops I forgot it at the hotel." He just went ahead and activated it in his own phone before handing it over. YMMV.