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#Bitcoin #btc is still a bubble 🤡

You know, I was thinking about it some time ago and got to conclusion that actually it was good decision. I was not ready for it, I knew nothing, did not understand it. Had I bought it then I would probably sell it at 2k and then regret it, bought at the top, sell the bottom, got burned, hatted it and never want to comeback to it.

Years passed, I discovered Bitcoin myself, learned, listened, read whatever I found. Got burned in the meantime on shitcoins which only made me better, transformed my to Bitcoin only. Now I am in much more comfortable situation. I found bitcoin on the price level I deserve. Now I am just staying humble and stacking sats.

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you'll know bitcoin is a bubble when all the uber drivers and shoeshine boys are talking about it, and boomers are selling their vanguard funds to ape in

we are so far from this it's not even funny

I will say it's designed that way. There were more behavioural psychologists on the boards of covid "scientific advisory" groups than statisticians.

Getting people to comply with nonsense is a classic demoralisation strategy.

nostr will have the best tech and the most devs, people won’t be able to ignore that for long. other clients on other protocols will run into heavy handed moderation issues due to centralization of power, government pressure, and lack of user keys. This is the main risk I see for mastodon, bluesky and big tech, regardless of current user numbers.

As long as people care about freedom and building a sovereign presence in cyberspace, nostr is inevitable.

It’s possible most people don’t actually care about these things, but at least we’ll have the best solution for people who do. Those people are the coolest to hang out with anyways.

"Pronouns", as reimagined by twee liberal types, are to the English language what fidget spinners are to a mechanics toolbox.

Got your #BWEST ticket yet? Tick tock.

Got your #BWEST ticket yet? Tick tock.

portugal also has a pretty strong "council" (junta) influence too, as does italy... france it's unions, which leans more to communism but it's on a continuum

HFSP

Basically every state is trending this way.

Something I’ve struggled with for a while now... I’m sure there is plenty of philosophical thought devoted to this idea which I have yet to find. I’m sure this is not an original idea. But nonetheless, it blows my mind.

You can’t change the past, and it is the past which has formed your present. You don’t know the future and how your decisions will affect it, all you can do is guess the outcome, and that guess is based on things that have already happened and cannot be changed.

So really you are just on a ride, experiencing.

Your decisions aren’t really yours, they are determined by everything that has happened in the world, before the moment they were made.

Everything you will go through in life has really already been determined, before you were even born.

The experiences you will have, people who will shape you, ideas that appear to you, decisions you make, mistakes you will regret, emotions you feel, success you acheive. None of it was really because of you, it was just you who experienced it.

Even gratitude and appreciation of this is not a decision, it is itself an experience. If there is a point of life, it is to experience. And if there is something after this life, our experience here is all that will matter there.

The text below is the complete reason why Elon and the ID Card fanatics are 100% wrong.

The UK ID card is not what you think it is. It is not a simple identity document like your passport or driving license. It is in fact, a database backed control grid and the fulfilment of Orwells nightmare.

You may have heard that legislation creating compulsory ID Cards passed a crucial stage in the House of Commons. You may feel that ID cards are not something to worry about, since we already have Photo ID for our Passport and Driving License and an ID Card will be no different to that. What you have not been told is the full scope of this proposed ID Card, and what it will mean to you personally.

The proposed ID Card will be different from any card you now hold. It will be connected to a database called the NIR, (National Identity Register)., where all of your personal details will be stored. This will include the unique number that will be issued to you, your fingerprints, a scan of the back of your eye, and your photograph. Your name, address and date of birth will also obviously be stored there.

There will be spaces on this database for your religion, residence status, and many other private and personal facts about you. There is unlimited space for every other details of your life on the NIR database, which can be expanded by the Government with or without further Acts of Parliament.

By itself, you might think that this register is harmless, but you would be wrong to come to this conclusion. This new card will be used to check your identity against your entry in the register in real time, whenever you present it to 'prove who you are'.

Every place that sells alcohol or cigarettes, every post office, every pharmacy, and every Bank will have an NIR Card Terminal, (very much like the Chip and Pin Readers that are everywhere now) into which your card can be 'swiped' to check your identity. Each time this happens, a record is made at the NIR of the time and place that the Card was presented. This means for example, that there will be a government record of every time you withdraw more than £99 at your branch of Nat West, who now demand ID for these transactions. Every time you have to prove that you are over 18, your card will be swiped, and a record made at the NIR. Restaurants and off licenses will demand that your card is swiped so that each receipt shows that they sold alcohol to someone over 18, and that this was proved by the access to the NIR, indemnifying them from prosecution.

Private businesses are going to be given access to the NIR Database. If you want to apply for a job, you will have to present your card for a swipe. If you want to apply for a London Underground Oyster Card,or a supermarket loyalty card, or a driving license you will have to present your ID Card for a swipe. The same goes for getting a telephone line or a mobile phone or an internet account.

Oyster, DVLA, BT and Nectar (for example) all run very detailed databases of their own. They will be allowed access to the NIR,just as every other business will be. This means that each of these entities will be able to store your unique number in their database, and place all your travel, phone records, driving activities and detailed shopping habits under your unique NIR number. These databases, which can easily fit on a storage device the size of your hand, will be sold to third parties either legally or illegally. It will then be possible for a non governmental entity to create a detailed dossier of all your activities. Certainly, the government will have clandestine access to all of them, meaning that they will have a complete record of all your movements, from how much and when you withdraw from your bank account to what medications you are taking, down to the level of what sort of bread you eat - all accessible via a single unique number in a central database.

This is quite a significant leap from a simple ID Card that shows your name and face.

Most people do not know that this is the true character and scope of the proposed ID Card. Whenever the details of how it will work are explained to them, they quickly change from being ambivalent towards it.

The Government is going to COMPEL you to enter your details into the NIR and to carry this card. If you and your children want to obtain or renew your passports, you will be forced to have your fingerprints taken and your eyes scanned for the NIR, and an ID Card will be issued to you whether you want one or not. If you refuse to be fingerprinted and eye scanned, you will not be able to get a passport. Your ID Card will, just like your passport, not be your property. The Home Secretary will have the right to revoke or suspend your ID at any time, meaning that you will not be able to withdraw money from your Bank Account, for example, or do anything that requires you to present your government issued ID Card.

The arguments that have been put forwarded in favour of ID Cards can be easily disproved. ID Cards WILL NOT stop terrorists; every Spaniard has a compulsory ID Card as did the Madrid Bombers. ID Cards will not 'eliminate benefit fraud', which in comparison, is small compared to the astronomical cost of this proposal, which will be measured in billions according to the LSE (London School of Economics). This scheme exists solely to exert total surveillance and control over the ordinary free British Citizen,and it will line the pockets of the companies that will create the computer systems at the expense of your freedom, privacy and money.

If you did not know the full scope of the proposed ID Card Scheme before and you are as unsettled as I am at what it really means to you, to this country and its way of life, I urge you to email or photocopy this and give it to your friends and colleagues and everyone else you think should know and who cares. The Bill has proceeded to this stage due to the lack of accurate and complete information on this proposal being made public. Together & Hand to hand, we can inform the entire nation if everyone who receives this passes it on.

Frances Stonor Saunders

I invested a lot of time learning linux/bsd fine tuning my systems many times from ground-up. Now use daily my nerdy gentoo, compiling my kernel regularly with fine tuning for my machine, with only the feature that I use and extensive hardening and code-reduction. I compile my compilers regularly with security hardenings and stack protection, maintain my minimal fork of dwm for wayland and so on... In the end I builded the distro I wanted and didnt existed.

And I'm happy using it daily, the maintainance is all automated and really all works and dont need to loose time thinking too much everyday. The most of time/resources I loose are due to heavy long compilations, around 4 hours every mounth I think.

Things that require much more compile-time are GCC (~1:30h), glibc (~45mins), openssl (~45mins), linux kernel (~1h).

Pretty much this, maybe I'm missing something, but all other things compiles in max 30 mins, like python, go toolchain + rebuild all my go programs cause static libs, openssh...

I use binary for firefox and rust cause they are shit and dont want to compile. And because firefox would take at least ~3/4 hours.

I dont use GUIs, I dont need qt libs. I need just basic gtk gtk+ libs for basic things.

I use binary for monolithic heavy gui programs.

I also just put a binary when I need a jvm.

Thats it, I like it, I learned a lot diving into nerdy stuffs to make this thing works.

But today, if I will buy another machine and will need a new operating system, I'd absolutely go for a simple debian with some hardening and tweaks (like the kicksecure/whoonix approach).

Someone says "linux is free if you dont value your time" and this is half truth.

For the time and effort I put into this things I obtained in change a lot of experience and practice that I can use in other situations to makes machines work for me.

So I suggest anyone who want to learn more about these stuffs to go deeper, configure things manually, invest time in break things so then you can repair it. The value you can get from this approach is immense.

Then, at some point, real works need to be done, real things that makes life good require attention and life is too short to compile GCC forever just for the sake of.

So at some point you will know when is the moment to just go for things that works and have a "social convergence" of people. You will know when the "new time invested in deep nerding and auto-complicare your life" is not so valuable anymore in terms of "learning experience".

When this happens means its time to move on, keep what you learn with you and start nerding on other things, even other fields. Gardening this time? Nostr? Idk.

But after all I learned from my linux/bsd experience, today I'll go for debian as main os (or ubuntu/mint if my hardware need proprietary shit), where I dont need to think about nothing under the hood, knowing that is the standard.

And as all standard it is not perfect, nor the most secure, not the most fast and so on... but is reasonably good and a lot of people are thinking about how your system works for you, with you.