As if screen-shots aren't a thing? Perhaps the suggestion that this is at all effective speaks to the intellect of the modal #BlueSky user.
Morons. They didn't appear to be wearing gloves... I think I'd consider covering the pole with some kind of permanent dye for the next time... or maybe cover the flag in different colored dyes camouflaged by the colors on the flag.
BTW, to the extent pricing BTC in USD is even relevant, I would argue in terms of U.S. monetary base IS the correct measure. That is, I only care what BTC is worth as a share of made-up Federal Reserve liabilities; not what it's worth as a share of liabilities made-up by anyone else.
Yesterday, Bitcoin reached a price of ~$68,970. This marked a new all-time high in terms of deflation-adjusted U.S. monetary base (+overnight reverse repos).
The monetary base is currency in circulation + bank reserves held at the FED. Believe it or not, the most recently reported monetary base is lower now than it was in March when Bitcoin hit its nominal high price of ~$73,790 - hence the need to adjust for deflation. Furthermore, the Overnight Reverse Repurchase Agreements - which are essentially just bank reserves held at the FED that are backed by IOUs from the federal government rather than by the FED itself - is also lower now than it was back in March.
Taken altogether, the high in March was actually ~$68,732 in terms of deflation-adjusted U.S. monetary base (plus overnight reverse repos) - which was just surpassed yesterday: ~$68,970.
Half explanation: A complete lack of understanding (or caring) of fee mechanics. They see a fee price, they pay it. It doesn't even occur to them to wait.
I have 1 or 2 contacts that I still rely on Facebook Messenger for (or I'd be able to ditch FB altogether). These communications are rare enough that this does not present a huge inconvenience for me.
Every once in a while, though, FB notifies me of something random that I don't care about, so I finally opened the settings panel to try to rectify. Boy, is the FB settings regime a disorganized mess of choice overload! So much so, that it HAS to be intentional. "You want to change something? Okay, fine. You can pretty much change anything. Here's the entire menu tree with no particularly intuitive branches. Good luck navigating to something that more than tangentially applies to what you want."
FB clearly just doesn't want users customizing what FB has determined users want.
It occurs to me that the vast majority probably aren't so quick to switch browsers. They may just be less inclined to visit sites that bombard them with ads so much. It would be interesting if this resulted in a significant decrease in traffic to those sites... or maybe the vast majority just aren't using ad blockers in the first place? 🤷
Without a credible threat of losing you, employers will almost always try to keep you complacent with a token carrot. Remember that a fair price for your labor is determined by the market; not just your current employer. It's good practice to assess your alternatives from time to time even if just to keep yourself informed on that price.
I just noticed that the upcoming U.S. Presidential election will fall on Guy Fawkes Day. I'm not sure what; but, this feels like the universe trying to tell us something.
As I understand it, this is due to X no longer blocking a user's posts from accounts that user has blocked. So, I guess this is something Bluesky does? Is obscuring nostr events from npubs that have been muted even feasible; let alone really desired?
Get out of bed... it's pretty much all downhill from there. 😉
nostr:note1v0pl8zp4v40jujvh4mmqu2jl3ll9n5a2thzn5lllznnm44gejnnsm9cu5yI have no doubt that the Wired article is designed to stoke alarm; but, I don't see an explicit criticism of SimpleX or privacy in general. To the contrary, I read what it essentially says "so securely private that even scumbags like neo-Nazis and terrorists can feel free from prying eyes" as quite an endorsement.
Yeah, that's pretty much what you'd expect when the only 'force' the market attempted to apply seemed to be "Stop doing business with me, or I'm taking my business elsewhere."
Good question. Ideally, consumer demand should have organically prompted change long ago; but I think consumers as a whole have become too apathetic. I chalk it up to Deranged Fiat Mind syndrome.
Call me skeptical of this making any material difference. Until there are reliable ways to cut off the funding for subscriptions at the source, I will continue to avoid.
After having to get a new credit card account number, I anticipated having to update all applicable subscriptions. Nope. For the subscriptions I wanted to cancel, but couldn't figure out how, the credit card company took it upon themselves to honor those subscriptions made with the previous account number anyway "as a convenience for their customers".
Hmmm. When it's revealed that the nation's chancellor's cell phone had been secretly tapped by a foreign intelligence, and the response is essentially "we don't like it, but what can we do?", I don't think that suggests 'superpower'.
I guess the same way we're gonna deal with inheritance of bitcoin keys. 🤷