Happy New Year, Vitor!
NIPs are like beer: a few are fun, too many are a headache waiting to happen!
Participatory Budgeting, but with npubs!
Love it!
Best wishes, Derek, and I hope you inherit their resilience
There's a use case for (nearly) everything.
Blockchains use cases tend to be "trustless" global replication of small amounts of data. Cryptocurrencies are the best-known example of where blochchain really shines, but there are potentially others, like supply chain management and certain kinds of property rights.
Putting to one side questions of ethics and politics and should-they-even-be-there, this video shows terrifying incompetence by the chain of command.
Where the f--- are the IDF infantry?
If you drive a tank around by itself in a built-up area full of rubble you created and tunnels full of people whose families you killed, the tank is going to get shanked.
For sure.
Even if the only opposition are starving untrained partisans with improvised explosives.
But a single fire team of infantry following the tank around could protect it and kill any reasonable number of angry young men with improvised explosives.
Infantry are cheap, and Israel has plenty.
Coordination between different combat arms was never Israel's strong point (the teamkills on Oct7 were disgraceful), but f--- they really should have learned by now. Who's running that circus?
Dirlewanger morals => Dirlewanger performance
I have some in Canadian silver, and no one else knows where they are. I reckon I own them :-p
https://x.com/womenpostingls/status/1741161356030579186 these stories are everywhere now. So sad. Justified murder
More common than most guys think...
Bittorrent is near-useless for normies here in AU, they block most of the trackers
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/3ca20f2d7f27a203b076f448dfaf5d30d7073b4f
Q(H) approaches zero if you are relying on blackbody radiation into deep space for the cold side of your heat engine.
Especially if said radiation is expected to pass through an atmosphere loaded with H2O vapour, but even if it isn't (space-based or lunar applications)
Need to watch the whole thing. I usually get Tucker secondhand from my mum :-D
If you kill women, kids and noncombatants, yeah it is. You must have been asleep in class that day...
Tucker went to visit Assange, and reported on it. He may be a lot of things, but working to please any government is not one of them
First time I've agreed with Tymoshenko.
Yes, regime internal security forces should be fed into the meat grinder before conscripting the disabled and single fathers.
Of course, the stability of the post-democratic Maidan regime might be just a little compromised by that. Lol
Tymoshenko expects to survive regime change again, like a rodent in a drain...
Terrifying levels of KYC and surveillance. Better off using cellular networks
But you don't need Helium to use LoRa over wide areas - I'd like to see more use of https://Reticulum.network (with internet backhaul if needed)
Yes, images, especially photos, usually contain EXIF data - GPS coordinates, device type, device name etc etc etc
https://www.howtogeek.com/203592/what-is-exif-data-and-how-to-remove-it/
During COVID over here we were allowed to pull out some of our Superannuation (401k, but with extra steps and more government). I took out the maximum allowed.
I spent that money badly (propping up a failing business), but still better than my money being spent to prop up a failing régime!
Feature bloat kills so many projects.
Is there a process for de-authorising NIPs?
They make such epic Gothic ruins.
(after the State nicks their roofs to pay mercenaries).
Have never seen a "live" one...