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Ruminant Llama
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Nostr Class of 2023 Bitcoin Class of 2021 🕶️🌻🥩🌜️🕹️🤖🔐☕🍺 #plebchain #coffeechain #ai #IT #foss #hardware #multilingual 🇩🇪🇵🇱🇬🇧 Industrial Hardware Engineer - looking for new jobs and project opportunities. Highly interested in IT, Cybersec, internet politics and online privacy. I have a weak spot for the ridiculous & absurd 😜 Always curious, always learning ... and shitposting occasionally.

Here’s a fun little story about yesterday’s #DDOS attack…

As per usual I was sitting in front of the local bank, but unlike Saturdays there were people "working" there yesterday.

I put my chair right at the border of the private property of the bank and the public sidewalk, put on my speakers on medium volume and fell into the familiar state of Kosmos (a Greek word, that describes the meditative state of watching life pass by, while being an aware and silent observer).

After approx. 21 minutes I was rudely approached by the security manager of the bank: "I have domestic authority here, fuck off immediately! Otherwise I’ll call the police."

I calmly asked him to do so, if he thought it was necessary, knowing that his domestic authority wouldn’t affect me on a public sidewalk.

Some blocks went by, then I spotted two young policeman talking to the security guard and a guy in a suit.

One of them approached me.

👮🏼‍♂️ "Hello Sir, we were called…"

I immediately recognized the person standing in front of me. We had spent years together annoying our teachers in school.

🐰⚡️ "Till?"

The recognition was both ways. Old friends meeting again in vastly different contexts. Till had this broad grin on his face and asked me: "WTF are you doing here?"

I tried my best to explain but didn’t need to because he quickly recognized the situation. We checked if we still had each other’s numbers and decided to move the conversation to catch up on each other’s life’s to a different space and time.

He went back to the banksters and told them in a decisive tone and with the authority of the police uniform, that there is nothing they could do. That they should not harass me, since I’m just there using my right to voice my opinions.

Till and his colleague left with a 21 #Bitcoin bill each, a wink, and left me with an empowering feeling.

For the first time in my life I truly felt that I was talking on an eye to eye basis, with the police.

One could assume: Vitamin B helps 😜

I just don't get the shorts with blanket combination 🤔

As far as I can tell she works as a lawyer without political affiliation.

Where exactly do you read her being a socialist?

Also don't you think surveillance and big data analysis is a problem?

I think certain harmful practice by big corporations is incentivised when there is no regulation

Interesting interview

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/new-polish-government-no-change-has-happened-absolutely-none/

"We’re fixing bits and pieces of it, but the whole machinery which controls the logic of surveillance capitalism prevails in politics, in media – also in humans that in recent years became digital biomass and not thinking individuals. To me, it feels like even with all the progress we have made, the Titanic is going down, and we probably have to accept that the deep crisis is still in front of us."

Ok. Maybe I was unclear...

I wanted to know if you have any proof for this theory besides your personal experience/anecdote

Have a nice whitepaper day!

Remember what this is all about.

The inflation reaching 2% again is as probable as the mempool clearing 🙃

Still (but hopefully not forever) outraged about how broken our money is 😏

Data, Measurements, Bugfixing...

I really dig the new GUI on @zapstore v0.14.

Keep up the good work!

Plot twist: German is my native language 😁