systems that are down aren't updating tho

Are there two separate outages? One from a crowdstrike product and one from Azure? Or are they the same outage?

i don't think so, but they could have been, it was an antivirus app right?

the crowdstrike outage highlights the fact that software engineering is a slowly improving business and that the apparent gains created by closed source and shitloads of VC capital do not win honestly against open source

they only appear to be better, until the outlying factors, the long tail, shows its head - and everyone has the proof of the error of centralization and closed source and this endless parade of update patches proves to be a bad production model

meanwhile bitcoin nodes are running right now for years of uptime that were written in 2015, without being updated, built on technology and using designs that are well proven and not squeezing that long tail and inviting this kind of broad scale problem

now, where is that saturnian wannabe Dr Evil Schwab right now on the subject of the cyberpolygon?

literally we are watching what could be interpreted as a cyberattack but is probably some addled devops person who forgot to run some tests before dropping the update, who probably is going to be villified and doxxed in 3, 2, 1...

the crowdstrike outage highlights the fact that software engineering is a slowly improving business and that the apparent gains created by closed source and shitloads of VC capital do not win honestly against open source

they only appear to be better, until the outlying factors, the long tail, shows its head - and everyone has the proof of the error of centralization and closed source and this endless parade of update patches proves to be a bad production model

meanwhile bitcoin nodes are running right now for years of uptime that were written in 2015, without being updated, built on technology and using designs that are well proven and not squeezing that long tail and inviting this kind of broad scale problem

now, where is that saturnian wannabe Dr Evil Schwab right now on the subject of the cyberpolygon?

literally we are watching what could be interpreted as a cyberattack but is probably some addled devops person who forgot to run some tests before dropping the update, who probably is going to be villified and doxxed in 3, 2, 1...

Apps to use in Prague: Vexl.

Czechs are quite privacy-conscious, so it's only natural that one of the most ambitious p2p KYC-free apps emerged here. Vexl is a phone app giving its users a simple way to discover peers for buying & selling bitcoin locally, in a private manner.

Vexl works through a social graph based on imported phone contacts, is end-to-end encrypted, has no escrow, takes no cut of the trades. It is an open source public good.

Vexl is simply the best way to buy & sell some bitcoin in Prague, with privacy (cash-for-sats recommended to maintain the highest level of privacy).

Check it out at vexl.it

I am silent not because I don't have anything to say.

I am silent because there's nobody to listen to me here.

It's interesting how the words "listen" and "silent" are anagrams.

Why do people say things like "this is what is called an asymmetrical response quote unquote" when they should be saying "this is what is called a quote asymmetrical response unquote"? Is it just laziness? In the first form, the quoted statement is empty so really maybe they aren't quoting anybody at all and it's just another tricky way to lie.

A decade ago I was in my car at a stoplight, and there was a bunch of seagulls eating a discarded bag of fast food in the intersection.

When the light turned green, the car in front of me went slowly to give the seagulls a chance to fly away, but they didn't. Instead, the car's tire just slowly ran over a whole pile of seagulls, who just kept going after the fast food as they were run over. I just watched horrified as this played out.

Every once in a while, I just wonder why the seagulls never got out of the way despite how slow the threat was.

Anyway, looking at the bond market reminded me of this again today.

Pay him in cash, chuckle, and tell him cash is great because it's completely private and cannot be censored - just like bitcoin.

Yesterday I was at a jewelry store buying my sister a graduation present. The store owner only wanted to accept cash, no Venmo or Zelle. I didn't have enough cash on me at the time, so I offered to pay him in Bitcoin.

His response was all too familiar, a little chuckle and then an explanation that he doesn't want any Bitcoin because he can't hold it in his hands.

Is there any way to get the concept of digital money through to boomers or is it not worth the effort?

The reason why he likes cash is because it is base money. When he holds the cash, it's not a liability of anyone else, nobody will default on a promise, he can do with it what he wants, and nobody can take it away from him, and

This is why he doesn't like venmo or zelle or bank transfers, what he gets is not base money, but a claim on base money, a digital credit that he can later redeem for cash at the atm, but the bank can always go bust and his cash is gone.

Bitcoin is the very first time that we have base money in cyberspace. It's not a bank credit or IOU or some token that can be redeemed for an underlying asset. Bitcoin is the thing itself, just like gold atoms or fiat cash.

So don't onboard him to a bitcoin money warehouse like wallet of satoshi, recommend him a self custodial wallet and explain him what the 12 word private key does.

They will die shortly anyway. When cash was invented, people only wanted to accept gold or silver.

Guys: When the war in Ukraine is over, there will be a dearth of men, but still plenty of women... stunningly beautiful women. And they will want to make babies to repopulate. If you went to Ukraine after the war, you could probably land a woman quite a lot hotter than you ever expected... as long as you want children. Maybe this is a crude way of thinking, but that doesn't make it any less true. Who knows, maybe this post changes someone's life.

I love bread and other wheat based products. But as of late my gut rejects these foods... forcefully. Especially whole grains, and especially homemade organic fresh-ground whole wheat and spelt tortillas. Worst result ever.

I've heard 80% of people who think they have gluten intolerance actually don't, and for many they actually suffer from FODMAPs. So after a day of 'cleansing' from the tortillas (no food for a day), today I'm eating only high FODMAP foods: apples, cabbage, onions, black beans. I don't recall ever having any problem from these foods, so I want to prove to myself that I tolerate them well and that FODMAP is not my issue. Fingers crossed. Certainly beans will give me gas, but not the wholesale 'rejection' that wheat has been giving to me.

Any registered dietitions on here that can advice, please respond and indicate that you are a registered dietition.

One place I don't have to deal with this... #GrowNostr

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Logged into Facebook today...

Me: [goes to Facebook]

Me: [enters email & password]

Facebook: "Confirm you are human"

Me: [identifies stoplights]

Facebook: "We sent a code to your gmail account"

Me: [goes to gmail]

Me: [enters email & password]

Gmail: "Confirm you are human"

Me: [identifies bridges]

Gmail: "We sent a code to your recovery email"

Me: [opens new gmail tab]

Me: [enters recovery email and password]

Gmail: "Confirm you are human"

Me: [identifies more stoplights]

Gmail: "Would you like to setup a recovery email?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Would you like to give us more personal information and your phone number?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Can we put cookies that track your entire web experience in your browser for your 'security' and 'convenience'?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Welcome to your email!"

Me: [finds security code for other gmail]

Me: [enters security code for other email login]

Gmail: "Would you like to give us more personal information and your phone number?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Can we put cookies that track your entire web experience in your browser for your 'security' and 'convenience'?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Welcome to your email!"

Me: [finds security code for facebook]

Me: [enters security code for facebook]

Facebook: "Would you like to give us more personal information and your phone number?"

Me: "No"

Facebook: "If you let us install this thing you'll conveniently be logged in every time you return to our website!"

Me: "No"

Facebook: "Welcome to Facebook! Also there's a much better experience if you let us install this thing and you'll conveniently be logged in every time you return to our website! Have you changed your mind from 6 seconds ago?"

Me: "No."

...

This is not an exaggeration. The internet is broken.