If coffee is poison, and alcohol is poison, then maybe together they cancel out!? *drinks buckfast*
Happy MayDay to all the Americans out there. Don't let international consensus stop you celebrating four months late, you do you!
Up the workers!
Haven't logged in since they blocked my twitter-to-rss robots ages ago, but fully deleted my Twitter accounts today.
Not gonna be giving 'em biometrics or attaching my bank acounts or helping them train the AI thanks.
They can't even be trusted with shitposts any more.
Well I say deleted. "Deactivate" is the only option they present really. 😕 🤷
Nice. Moderation is a group activity, and it doesn't work if it's everyone for themselves. Glad to see some experiments on doing it communally.
Episode 11 of my "Observers" cartoon in which the aliens discover a planet where the people squabble while their planet is on fire.
Also not actually convinced that adding a payment channel to the network is that great an idea TBH.
People do ridiculous stupid pointless things for karma even then they're just worthless internet points.
I'm glad experiments are happening, but I don't expect it to enhance the conversation.
I'm trying to rebuild my lightning node but I think maybe the new hardware is faulty, it keeps stopping. Current error is "Panic before malloc heap initialized" and I have no idea what to do with that really.
It persists after turning it off and on again.
I think the hard-drive is screwed coz of constant mid-write freezing due to overheating?
Probably needs a CPU less prone to overheating. Took fucking months to download the blockchain again over TOR.
Zap was connected to my old wallet then Zap went and became something else that won't set up properly.
I'm between wallets I guess.
"Don't sell at all", anywhere is the obvious answer I guess ;)
This is a question that hadn't occurred to me till you said that: Where will Blackrock buy their bitcoin?
They aren't going to set up an exchange presumably, so it's like, just buying it on Coinbase? Or will they spread it around the other markets too?
If I'm selling on Coinbase then presumably I can't say "Only not if it's Blackrock what wants to buy", so that'd mean you're saying don't sell on Coinbase at all?
I was out at a friend's place this weekend. They've got a tiny bit of land. Growing their own food, planting an orchard, solar panels to go mostly off-grid.
They're selling some power back to the grid at times, but seemed dismissive as though it wasn't really enough cash to be worth doing. And I also suspect it's more accounting-trick than actual-power-distribution that means they can turn off a gas boiler or anything.
When I wondered about running a bitcoin miner instead, they looked fairly offended. These green folks can have a visceral reaction to Bitcoin's energy consumption.
Didn't get into it.
But really, if you hate Bitcoin's computing power being run from oil-burning generators: best thing you can do is take the free wasted solar energy you already have and out-bid the oil-burners in the hashing market.
The oil-burners will have to stop burning the oil if they can't sell profitably, and if everyone else was mining with their excess solar they wouldn't stand a chance with their expensive oil.
And if you want Bitcoin's price to go down, so it can't justify so much hash-rate, best thing to do is get some of the coins and sell them to make the price go down.
I dunno the actual amount of stranded-power they have so dunno what the economics would be really.
Looks like you'd need about 3000 watts to run the machine, and if the power is stranded and so otherwise-wasted or free, then it will be profitable to run it whenever the power is there.
Roughly two grand or so for the hardware to get about 10 dollars a day in current prices.
You'd pay for the miner in about about ten months then be earning 10 dollars a day after that.
Or more. Or less. Depending what the price does.
Also you'd have to reduce that by all the time you have to turn it off coz it's dark or you need the power for the washing machine and lights and kettle or whatever. It may only be viable in summer.
But every satoshi you earn and sell lowers the price, and reduces the proportion of Bitcoin which is mined by carbon-burning.
Things looking bad for Binance-coin.
It went up 3x in about 2 weeks back in Feb 2021.
A move that looks entirely likely to reverse shortly, dropping it 75%.
No support between 210 dollars and 45 dollars really.
Don't have an account anywhere I can short it though I don't think.
The message-forwarding is illustrated here, but the moderation is not illustrated.
The two protocols embody different moderation approaches.
Censorship resistance, vs community moderation.
Are there any relays that are built around communities, with common goals for moderation polices on which they can cooperate?
If there are, are they stapled on top of a protocol designed for censorship-resistance, rather than being built into it's core?
I think moderation is a group activity. I don't know Nostr well enough to know if group-moderation and community is a thing here, or if it could be rooted in rather than stapled on.
When Channel Four first launched the show "Big Brother" I thought, that name is going to corrupt the meaning of the Orwellian phrase.
Little did I expect the more lasting consequences.
Copy-cat shows piped up, and since the stars were so talentless they were incredibly cheap to make.
When it became so cheap and engaging to make Reality TV that no other types of TV could be justified, we passed the Reality TV event horizon. They saturated the culture with mass-drivel.
Soon, the only people who could be elected president or prime minister or even MPs were the kind of vapid uninteresting nobodies that reality TV feeds upon. First Trump, then Johnson, and then all the others.
Not only did they saturate our airwaves, now the reality TV stars also filled the corridors of power.
The end was inevitable after that. The mega-scale problems facing our civilization would have been difficult even with our best minds unleashing our utmost effort. Instead we had reality TV stars arguing about conspiracies directing effort at walls and garden-bridges and vanity projects.
It is too late for our world now.
I broadcast this message to the galaxy only in the hope that any who find it can avoid this terrible memetic hazard for their own culture.
Burn this planet, and never let the phrase "Reality TV" be uttered in all your galactic empire. It is the kind of mind-virus that can collapse civilizations.
Sorry he's such a wanker and cost you so much time and effort Peter. Glad it's coming to a close.
Remember everyone, do not visit X.com unless you like to get Xed. Literally all they do there is just X each other all day long, like it's some kind of Xing festival.
Disgusting if you ask me, but I wouldn't wanna kink-shame if you're into that. Some people just like getting Xed and that's a valid life choice.
But you should be aware of what goes on there before you visit.
Then introduce the stealth blue-check, sew discord and suspicion. "One of us here is a secret blue-check, and none of us are leaving until we work out who is the spy!"
Bitcoin is rubbish because you can't use it for close-form magic tricks like real coins? How you gonna fake pulling a bitcoin from behind someone's ear?
Yeah, Git is already very decentralized by it's nature. You already have a full copy on every machine that's checked out the code, and any of them can easily add a new remote and push to it.
Plus we already have gitopia and sourceforge and gitea and codeberg.
Microsoft would have more trouble enclosing it's commons than Twitter.
But they will still face legal pressure to shut projects down.
Yesterday:
* Reddit ends free API access.
* Twitter turns off anonymous reading.
* Youtube is talking about banning ad-blocking users.
The tech industry was living on cheep money and low interest rates, and now they're all afraid to let their precious content get used for AI training.
The walls are going up, the lawful corporate web is collapsing in on itself.