Hashcash is still the answer to email spam. Gmail is a second order problem.
PSA: The functionality of multiple Fedimint federations is significantly degraded due to severe DNS issues.
It seems to be the case that some federation guardians have an XYZ domain that the DNS registrar has taken over. Freedom One and Bitcoin Principals appear to have one guardian offline due to this.
Unfortunately, despite the server and keys for these guardians being intact, there is no way for the DNS of a guardian to be swapped out after the fact. We became aware of this issue last week and then became aware that multiple federations are experiencing this: https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint/issues/5482/
Given the critical state of these federations, with one guardian out of four being permanently offline, it's essential that if you have funds in these federations, you should withdraw them immediately. Unfortunately, we're unaware of other public federations, so you must withdraw to another lightning or on-chain wallet.
From our experiences, intermittent/connectivity issues can occur with guardians, and this may result in errors if not all three remaining guardians are consistently online. No other guardian of these federations has XYZ or other domains like it. So, if you're having issues, please try again later.
Unfortunately, not much can be done on the Mutiny side, so we're removing the federation setup flow in the UI as a first step. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Better to discover problems sooner than later.
Money lets you spend other people's time
It's amazing how many things we don't pay for simply because paying for them is onerous
Have you tried VTOL VR? The UX so good that it feels immersive even with simplified graphics. Also, good community.
When judging participants it's helpful to separate the Secession from the War. The Secession was an act to preserve the status quo of slavery by asserting what those states thought to be their self determining rights. The War was an act to prevent secession based on the notion that states, having moved from colonies of the crown to members of the union, had never been self sovereign and therefore did not have the right to leave. As war broke out the Union found it didn't have the military support that it expected and needed something to galvanize support. As Grant would later say, "when the war broke out the army dissolved. We had no army â then we had to organize one." This, after war had begun and lines had been drawn, is when the states purpose became emancipation. The average soldier didn't care about preventing secession, but they could be stoked by a crusade to end slavery. With this framing you could say that to the soldiers the War was in fact about slavery, but if we want to judge leadership and governance, slavery was profit to the Confederacy and a tool for the Union. As Reddit would say: Everyone Sucks Here.
Claude is a disturbingly rational, deeply philosophical chatbot. It never occurred to me that taking the humanity out of a debate might end up keeping it real.
#eppurSiMuove
People think that Dad Jokes are lame because dads don't have a sense of humor. Now that I'm a decade in I have a different understanding. A dad sees something funny, but they've made this mistake before, so they stop and think about what they're going to say. It was damn funny, but it's also going to offend literally everyone in the room. So he does the right thing, and keeps it to himself.
But damn... it was funny. He's still laughing to himself. Maybe there's some way to say it *without* offending everyone. Yeah, maybe this other angle... well, nevermind, that doesn't really work either. The room is so quiet though... ok, there's a silly pun that kind of fits, let's just say that.
But if you took him aside... Really poked him about it... Committed to getting that real answer... He might just tell you what he's been thinking the whole time. Because honestly, he just wanted someone to hear what he had to say, without it being a big deal.
Just because Apple could do better doesn't make them the same as Google. Take web browsers: Safari could do better, but they were the first to limit tracking cookies, and they took some hits on compatibility to do so. Chrome is now also limiting tracking cookies, but only for other people because Chrome quietly includes an almost unique set of experiment flags, but only when talking to Google owned sites. This is why I can't trust Google.
Saying that a device made by an ad company is less concerned with privacy than a company that's been beating the privacy drum for more than a decade? There are many things to criticize Apple for, but this isn't one of them.
Yesterday I downloaded a local LLM app to my iPhone 15 Pro Phi3 mini was throwing 15 tokens / sec. Don't get sidetracked by Apple, everyone is going the same place, and very soon.
Having followed Apple for close to three decades, I knew this would happen as soon as the first llama dropped. They tend to have a longer horizon and miss out on a lot of practical opportunities while lining up for something most people aren't thinking about yet. Given their surprising advance in unified memory and decision to make over-powered but under-featured mobile devices, preparing to run something heavy in the near future is a reasonable conclusion.
But, their advantage is going to be limited by their ecosystem. iOS is a lot more constrained than an open source OS, and while it can be a hot mess, it's also possible to lock those down too. It just takes time and code. Perhaps code written by LLMs.
Wait, I can already get 15 t/s of Phi3 mini on my iPhone 15 Pro? #llm
That one slide with the winking emoji
You can't help society escape the boot by crating a more perfect boot.
In the 90s you could get $10m by knowing how to register a domain name.