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You can look at it or not look at it whenever you want.

Your response really confused me, until I just figured out the disconnect.

Alt+Tab is a useful hotkey on Windows and Linux. The command is different on a Mac. Since you don't use a Mac, try Alt+Tab. It switches windows. Makes a single monitor more useful.

Hopefully I phrased it in a more clear way this time.

Do you know about alt+tab? It's a different command on Mac. It's a way to switch windows. Makes 1 monitor a lot more productive.

I did.

I took 2 years of Spanish in high school. That had the same almost useless effect that it had on every other high school student, but it did lay some groundwork.

Over 10 years later, I achieved a conversational level of Spanish using maybe 80% Duolingo. It was inefficient, but the gamification kept me going.

I think it is now much less efficient than it was when I used it, maybe half as efficient, because the app is now hammering and testing every detail to an unnecessary degree, and they are also trying to increase usage time.

I am probably not conversational anymore because I haven't kept up with it. If I had to learn again I might try to incorporate only like 25% Duolingo. I'm not sure if that's possible though. I might just not use it at all.

It's people saying stuff. I'm pretty sure it is in fact true that they said the stuff.

Update: Maybe increase in volume and chance since nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyvhwumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshs9rgwy9 posted. It's now 85% chance with $2.3 million volume.

https://polymarket.com/event/trump-declassifies-ufo-files-in-2025

Many government officials have pretty much already come out with disclosure in this documentary.

https://youtu.be/DkU7ZqbADRs

Yeah. I was really curious about TBD so I followed him. He's the biggest midwit of all time.

I was gonna go with Rushmore but I still might have to accept that Royal Tenenbaums beats it. Perhaps I gotta rewatch them.

Thorn did not ask people if they are worried, or if they are trimming their positions. His poll is totally orthogonal to this issue.

With regard to 'where they stand,' 18% are pro core and 36% are ambivalent or do not know where they stand. That's 54% of the group who have some awareness. I have spoken to OGs who trimmed their positions in BTC over concerns that this issue could lead to price volatility.

Sure, it may not be the main driver, but your reasons for discounting it are not compelling.

Watch the vid: his answer is no. He's combatting FUD from "The Rage" which got a lot of traction yesterday.

Yeah I'm early 40s and I have no idea

On cold card, nunchuk, and others*, it looks like they use the term "wallet" to refer to a watch only wallet. It's confusing.

*I haven't transacted with cove yet.

Fiat games on Bitcoin. So hot right now.

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Here is an updated version of my email to the bitcoindev ML, which fixes a typo:

Hi list -

I was hoping to post this on the PR, but it's still locked so I will post it here. I don't really have any other methods of addressing the public as my X account has also been suspended due to trolls reporting it. I did create a Nostr account, but Nostr doesn't seem to have many users.

There is a wild misconception floating around that the BIP I am proposing is a "legal threat from Ocean Mining". This could not be further from the truth, and I suspect this nonsense is being pushed by people who would love to see Bitcoin become a data storage service.

I would like to take this opportunity to correct the record.

Though I am in direct communication with some Ocean employees (and the BIP was originally drafted by one of them), I am not affiliated with Ocean in any way. I am just a Bitcoin dev who is concerned about the implications of Core 30 having been released and gaining adoption.

The references to "legal risks" in the BIP are not "threats". They are warnings about a major legal and moral threat that has been created by Bitcoin Core 30's officially designating Bitcoin as a storage service for files up to 100kB. Specifically, there is an unknown level of risk that node operators could be classified as sex offenders (or some other type of criminals depending on the content) for possessing and distributing toxic content.

This threat does not come from me, or from Ocean, but rather from Core 30 and its effect on node operators themselves, their consciences, and the communities in which they live. Core 30 forces every single node operator, from the moment toxic content is posted to the blockchain until the end of time, to be complicit in sexual (or other) crimes via possession and distribution of illegal data.

So now that Core 30 is gaining adoption, it's very likely that, given the choice of whether to participate in Bitcoin or not, most normal people will simply choose not to participate, and then Bitcoin becomes just another BSV. If Core had just left the OP_RETURN limit where it was, no significant legal threat would exist, and no consensus changes would be urgently needed.

I am not saying "I'm going to sue you if you don't support the fork". That is ridiculous.

I am saying "you probably want to support this fork if aiding and abetting sex offenders (and potentially being one yourself) does not appeal to you, and you may not want to run a node once Core 30's new default policies become the standard (which is about to happen)."

Most Bitcoiners I know signed up for permissionless money, and believe strongly in the freedom to transact, even for people who do things we don't like, since the vision of a maximally neutral monetary standard is why we're all here in the first place. Because Bitcoin's purpose is to be permissionless money, simply storing and forwarding a record of an "illegal" purchase is acceptable to most node operators, because that is the price of entry for trustless, digital money.

Storing and forwarding actual illegal content, in the clear, however, is not a problem Bitcoin was ever intended to solve, nor something in which Bitcoin node operators are interested in participating. Indeed, permissionless censorship-resistant data storage is probably not a sustainable idea, without some kind of periodic payment to the person tasked with storing the data.

In any case, forcing all Bitcoin node operators to knowingly commit crimes totally unrelated to the operation of Bitcoin as permissionless money, for the rest of eternity, is obviously a foolish idea and will quickly lead to node centralization and irrelevance if we do not act. Yet this heavy-handed and completely unnecessary imposition is precisely what Core 30 achieves, unless it is enthusiastically opposed by the community. Even in the best case, Core 30's new default policies set a terrible precedent that must be immediately reversed.

Since almost all forms of illegal data can be avoided by limiting data fields to 256 bytes, BIP-444 seems like a no-brainer to me, because it neatly dodges the dark fate that awaits us down the data storage path.

Having engaged many principled Bitcoiners on this topic for a long time, I can confidently say that Bitcoiners overwhelmingly support keeping Bitcoin as permissionless money, and overwhelmingly oppose Bitcoin's block space being used for data storage. Limiting large data storage in consensus, as BIP-444 does, is the easiest way I can see to give everyone what they want.

So even if BIP-444 does not activate in its exact current form, I am dedicating myself to helping Bitcoin re-affirm its commitment to permissionless money while re-affirming its opposition to data storage. I am incorporating all feedback I am hearing (which is a lot!) into the next draft of the BIP.

Thanks again to everyone for your thoughtful and respectful engagement on this matter critically important to the future of Bitcoin. Together we will find the way forward.

Sincerely,

Dathon

nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcprfmhxue69uhhxetwv35hgtnwdaekvmrpwfjjucm0d5hszxthwden5te0wpex2mtfw4kjuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcuauf96 Look who was forced onto a more censorship resistant platform. (Many such cases.)

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Good morning.

running Chromium and using its password manager? It uses an unencrypted sqlite database for your secrets

```

$ file ".config/chromium/Profile 1/Login Data For Account"

.config/chromium/Profile 3/Login Data For Account: SQLite 3.x database, ...

sqlite3 ".config/chromium/Profile 1/Login Data For Account"

sqlite> .tables

insecure_credentials password_notes sync_model_metadata

logins stats

meta sync_entities_metadata

sqlite> SELECT * from logins;

...

```

if you're on Linux, Chromium integrates well with system keyrings like KDE wallet. that means it'll encrypt your secrets and unlock them when you log in. This can be especially nice if you restart a system frequently. I restart one of my systems once or twice daily, and unlocking Bitwarden is getting a bit tedious.

```

chromium --password-store=kwallet

chromium --password-store=gnome

```

if you use nix, you can set a policy to have Chromium use the system keyring (kwallet). Here's my NixOS policies for Chromium:

```

programs.chromium = {

enable = true;

extraOpts = {

# https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/

"SpellcheckEnabled" = false;

"DefaultSearchProviderEnabled" = true;

"DefaultSearchProviderName" = "Kagi";

"DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL" = "https://kagi.com/search?q={searchTerms}";

"SearchSuggestEnabled" = false;

"DefaultSearchProviderSuggestURL" = "";

# 1=Allow, 2=Block, 3=Ask

"DefaultGeolocationSetting" = 2;

"DefaultClipboardSetting" = 2;

#"DefaultNotificationsSetting" = 2;

# "PasswordManagerEnabled" = true;

"PasswordStore" = "kwallet6";

};

};

```

Is there a setting that you always toggle when you create a profile? you can declare it here has a policy, forever.

if you use nix home-manager, you can configure extensions that'll always be present in all your profiles

```

chromium = {

enable = true;

extensions = [

{ id = "nngceckbapebfimnlniiiahkandclblb"; } # Bitwarden

];

};

```

the home-manager module even supports doing that for other derivatives of chromium

```

chromium.package = pkgs.brave;

```

Bitwarden's UI got re-hauled last year and I haven't liked it as much ever since. Using it on my desktop which has long-lived boot sessions makes sense. Using it on my VR machine/workstation makes less sense these days.

I was referring to playing Russian Roulette, usually done with a revolver that holds 6 bullets. What the exact odds are for AI disaster, I do not know. But even if the odds are small, it's still a big deal.

One way I think about it is akin to Russian roulette: 1/6 chance you die. Not a big chance. Most likely you won't. Overwhelmingly likely you won't. Therefore, just go for it. Right?

You added soooo many things in this new post.

Anyway, I disagree. I think human action is a type of action, animal action is a different type, and AI action is (or will be) even more different. It may not have consciousness, or be able to own things (although in some sense they will be able to exclusively control some Bitcoin, so maybe that is a type of ownership). But I don't think an entity needs consciousness or ownership in order to act.

To further discussion, what if we agree to disagree regarding action and instead talk about whether it can "do stuff". Do you think it can do stuff?

So you're just asserting AI can't act, and the definition is not related to any argument supporting your assertion? That's fine if that's the case, I'm just wondering why you think an AI can't act.

2oz gold is $7,000. That's not a boat load of money but when shit is hitting the fan, 7 grand helps. I think the vast majority of gold dealers could buy 2oz at the drop of a hat. Frankly selling gold might even be easier than selling Bitcoin in a lot of cases, especially as the amounts go up.