Over/Under on how many times he says energy over the 2 hours?
I'm not convinced that Elon Musk has a firm grasp on what the word "moral" means at this point. https://www.mediaite.com/tv/elon-musk-calls-remote-work-bullsht-and-morally-wrong/
What’s the incentive for most who can work from home to come to the office? Congregating is literally discouraged in MANY office spaces where work is assigned individually.
Many employers stripped away so much fun at work in our obsession over efficiency that they can’t even lean on social currency to lure people back into the office.
Idiots.
I was told by a few that I would never leave Twitter for an extended period of time, but I remind those in doubt that I along with many others left Facebook and have never looked back.
Permanence is a funny thing online. Those who posted on email lists and bulletin boards in the past will remind those that while the services might exist in some form, the next generation doesn’t care about the communities we’ve built. They select the platforms that best suits their needs.
I’m on nostr more now, #[0] and Jay Graber being a bit stingy with the invites to watch the blue sky 😔
Hopefully there will be less people obsessed with a particular 92 year old on here.
Shame what Twitter has become.
Jack understands us.
The legendary RSA shirt is still up for sale btw.
It’s not about questioning whether people CAN do it, it’s a matter of accepting the fact that most prefer not to.
This is better in the long run anyway as it forces development. If it wasn’t for this fact we would still be operating with paper wallets and private/public keys.
Incredible how far the iPad has come. Apple needs to step up and throw Xcode on there for the pro models. nostr:note1p6g2we7kmp0u9cng664x2vyh5d2e32fz3ulq6t268e6qxtf0rvuq53j4hg
Yes #[1]. Well known suppressor of speech, scammer and every other nonsense I saw on Twitter since you exited.
All noise at this point. Assuming it’s not satire. Not reading.
I was worried this day would come since Ordinals started, but here we are. My gut ultimately tells me that things will be fine considering that people willingly pay hundreds of dollars in gas fees on Ethereum.
Happy Birthday Hal!
Hal contributed so much in cryptography outside of Bitcoin. I recommend anyone who hasn’t done so to read ‘Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney)’ to see how lucid he was even as he battled with ALS
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0
My favorite bitcoin related artwork by @cryptograffiti. Glad to own one of these.
Full text for those who prefer to stay on nostr.
Hal Finney:
I thought I'd write about the last four years, an eventful time for Bitcoin and me.
For those who don't know me, I'm Hal Finney. I got my start in crypto working on an early version of PGP, working closely with Phil Zimmermann. When Phil decided to start PGP Corporation, I was one of the first hires. I would work on PGP until my retirement. At the same time, I got involved with the Cypherpunks. I ran the first cryptographically based anonymous remailer, among other activities.
Fast forward to late 2008 and the announcement of Bitcoin. I've noticed that cryptographic graybeards (I was in my mid 50's) tend to get cynical. I was more idealistic; I have always loved crypto, the mystery and the paradox of it.
When Satoshi announced Bitcoin on the cryptography mailing list, he got a skeptical reception at best. Cryptographers have seen too many grand schemes by clueless noobs. They tend to have a knee jerk reaction.
I was more positive. I had long been interested in cryptographic payment schemes. Plus I was lucky enough to meet and extensively correspond with both Wei Dai and Nick Szabo, generally acknowledged to have created ideas that would be realized with Bitcoin. I had made an attempt to create my own proof of work based currency, called RPOW. So I found Bitcoin facinating.
When Satoshi announced the first release of the software, I grabbed it right away. I think I was the first person besides Satoshi to run bitcoin. I mined block 70-something, and I was the recipient of the first bitcoin transaction, when Satoshi sent ten coins to me as a test. I carried on an email conversation with Satoshi over the next few days, mostly me reporting bugs and him fixing them.
Today, Satoshi's true identity has become a mystery. But at the time, I thought I was dealing with a young man of Japanese ancestry who was very smart and sincere. I've had the good fortune to know many brilliant people over the course of my life, so I recognize the signs.
After a few days, bitcoin was running pretty stably, so I left it running. Those were the days when difficulty was 1, and you could find blocks with a CPU, not even a GPU. I mined several blocks over the next days. But I turned it off because it made my computer run hot, and the fan noise bothered me. In retrospect, I wish I had kept it up longer, but on the other hand I was extraordinarily lucky to be there at the beginning. It's one of those glass half full half empty things.
The next I heard of Bitcoin was late 2010, when I was surprised to find that it was not only still going, bitcoins actually had monetary value. I dusted off my old wallet, and was relieved to discover that my bitcoins were still there. As the price climbed up to real money, I transferred the coins into an offline wallet, where hopefully they'll be worth something to my heirs.
Speaking of heirs, I got a surprise in 2009, when I was suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease. I was in the best shape of my life at the start of that year, I'd lost a lot of weight and taken up distance running. I'd run several half marathons, and I was starting to train for a full marathon. I worked my way up to 20+ mile runs, and I thought I was all set. That's when everything went wrong.
My body began to fail. I slurred my speech, lost strength in my hands, and my legs were slow to recover. In August, 2009, I was given the diagnosis of ALS, also called Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famous baseball player who got it.
ALS is a disease that kills moter neurons, which carry signals from the brain to the muscles. It causes first weakness, then gradually increasing paralysis. It is usually fatal in 2 to 5 years. My symptoms were mild at first and I continued to work, but fatigue and voice problems forced me to retire in early 2011. Since then the disease has continued its inexorable progression.
Today, I am essentially paralyzed. I am fed through a tube, and my breathing is assisted through another tube. I operate the computer using a commercial eyetracker system. It also has a speech synthesizer, so this is my voice now. I spend all day in my power wheelchair. I worked up an interface using an arduino so that I can adjust my wheelchair's position using my eyes.
It has been an adjustment, but my life is not too bad. I can still read, listen to music, and watch TV and movies. I recently discovered that I can even write code. It's very slow, probably 50 times slower than I was before. But I still love programming and it gives me goals. Currently I'm working on something Mike Hearn suggested, using the security features of modern processors, designed to support "Trusted Computing", to harden Bitcoin wallets. It's almost ready to release. I just have to do the documentation.
And of course the price gyrations of bitcoins are entertaining to me. I have skin in the game. But I came by my bitcoins through luck, with little credit to me. I lived through the crash of 2011. So I've seen it before. Easy come, easy go.
That's my story. I'm pretty lucky overall. Even with the ALS, my life is very satisfying. But my life expectancy is limited. Those discussions about inheriting your bitcoins are of more than academic interest. My bitcoins are stored in our safe deposit box, and my son and daughter are tech savvy. I think they're safe enough. I'm comfortable with my legacy.
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Happy Birthday Hal!
Hal contributed so much in cryptography outside of Bitcoin. I recommend anyone who hasn’t done so to read ‘Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney)’ to see how lucid he was even as he battled with ALS
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0
My favorite bitcoin related artwork by @cryptograffiti. Glad to own one of these.
Thanks Jack and everyone involved.
Have you considered something like the punkt MP02?
I wish it had a full QWERTY keyboard, but that’s close to something I’ve been wanting lately. Phone calls and SMS only, minimal features on top of that.
Twitter truly is becoming an unusable platform and it’s heartbreaking to see as someone who was around when the platform was one large feed of people saying hello. Spaces are full of conspiracy theories, propagandists with some wacky ideas across the board.
I miss clubhouse when it was invite only. Nostr is hope better tools continue to improve.