Just finished listening to the audio book version of “pushing ice” by Alastair Reynolds.

A very enticing story to the end.

People discover that Janus, a moon around Saturn, is not a moon at all, but an ancient artefact that starts to accelerate to exit the solar system. A team of ice-pushers is asked to attempt a flyby and take pictures and radar readings before the object moves out of view. By mistake they land/crash on Janus and have to live out their lives on the ice surface of this not-moon. After a while, Janus slows down, and the team discovers they are not alone….

I Tried not to incorporate too many spoilers here, but like I said, the book was fun and exiting to the end.

#bookstr

Interesting history fact: nobody knows what sword fights looked like.

Swords have been around since ancient Babylonian times. Also maces or lances and bow and arrow and stone slingers.

We can reasonably assume or reconstruct how they would have been used. But for swords? Nobody knows. Where fighters dancing around like modern fencers? Or just hacking away as mostly depicted? We really have no idea.

Yes Tor is preserving privacy form fingerprinting quite well.

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Google fulfilled the prophecy in its founding technical document, the Pagerank paper: "advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers." They, too, offered cheap, highly targeted ads:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

We accidentally invented computers that can lie to us.

ChatGPT lies to people. This is a serious bug that has so far resisted all attempts at a fix. We need to prioritize helping people understand this, not debating the most precise terminology to use to describe it.

https://simonw.substack.com/p/we-need-to-tell-people-chatgpt-will

Feature request for #[0]​ : a short explainer of that these symbols mean?

I guess the spinning thing means it’s waiting. But what is the red exclamation ❗️ thing? And the other symbols ? Green is good I guess?

It turns out that 3 browsers are good-ish at defending a user against this kind of tracking: LibreWolf, Mullvad and Tor.

See also: note18dk3yt83p9jnhwmvtxawz7u55h7q0ea9yyq78j6q5fcjgfrn2arsjpzjnn

They choose to support shitcoins over Lightning.

Mi love it though how a user can increase privacy a bit by saving in bitcoin but paying with XMR.

Still, would have preferred lighting support (with privacy options) more 😅

Those numbers are very hard to come by.

Based on on-chain analysis I assume?

Very bullish if true 😊 👍

Wait. We have official hashtags with icons on nostr ( in #[0]​ ) now?

Testing 123 #nostr

Testing testing 123 #Bitcoin

Every illusion of privacy , even when using a VPN, Safari relay or other anti spying measures, is nullified by “fingerprinting”.

See for yourself here: fingerprint.com

We have no privacy online.*

*not tested yet with tails. Will report back on this 🤔

Why would you need nostr?

I guess a restaurant would run BTCPayserver with LN and a QR CODE per mail/table combo is all the I formation you need to start preparing in the kitchen.

Or do you have a different flow in mind?

Reminds me of the song “just a smile” 😃

https://www.jw.org/en/library/music-songs/original-songs/just-a-smile/

This. Also.

You can always send a few sats to a worthy cause, like this one:

https://geyser.fund/project/payjoin

Both Aaron and Sjors are on nostr and till today I had no clue 😱

Rectified this now 😊

Give these 😊 young fellows a follow peep:

Aaron: @aaronvanw

Sjors: #[0]