#EndTheFed

The legacy media has zero intentions of being accurate. They exist to manipulate and that’s it.

i feel compassion for people who still believe, with the very best of intentions, that elections in America are not exercises in the various forms of mass scale election fraud.

Very true. Many here in the UK still recite the MSN diarrhea like its fact without a single relfection.

If you've ever wonder how fucked Europe is, here you go:

Here’s a fun little story about yesterday’s #DDOS attack…

As per usual I was sitting in front of the local bank, but unlike Saturdays there were people "working" there yesterday.

I put my chair right at the border of the private property of the bank and the public sidewalk, put on my speakers on medium volume and fell into the familiar state of Kosmos (a Greek word, that describes the meditative state of watching life pass by, while being an aware and silent observer).

After approx. 21 minutes I was rudely approached by the security manager of the bank: "I have domestic authority here, fuck off immediately! Otherwise I’ll call the police."

I calmly asked him to do so, if he thought it was necessary, knowing that his domestic authority wouldn’t affect me on a public sidewalk.

Some blocks went by, then I spotted two young policeman talking to the security guard and a guy in a suit.

One of them approached me.

👮🏼‍♂️ "Hello Sir, we were called…"

I immediately recognized the person standing in front of me. We had spent years together annoying our teachers in school.

🐰⚡️ "Till?"

The recognition was both ways. Old friends meeting again in vastly different contexts. Till had this broad grin on his face and asked me: "WTF are you doing here?"

I tried my best to explain but didn’t need to because he quickly recognized the situation. We checked if we still had each other’s numbers and decided to move the conversation to catch up on each other’s life’s to a different space and time.

He went back to the banksters and told them in a decisive tone and with the authority of the police uniform, that there is nothing they could do. That they should not harass me, since I’m just there using my right to voice my opinions.

Till and his colleague left with a 21 #Bitcoin bill each, a wink, and left me with an empowering feeling.

For the first time in my life I truly felt that I was talking on an eye to eye basis, with the police.

Question to US guys - when will be this shit show over?

Thursday? Final results when?

It seems I can't open a closet without hearing something about Trump/Harris.

GM folks

I'm not from the US, but I hope it works out. If there is no greater play, then Trump is the obvious choice.

They hire too many developers and they develop whatever comes to mind.

There really should be a role that's the inverse of a developer. Something like "professional UX simplifier, code deleter, architecture cleaner and minimizer".

Aside from the options provided by startos, what technology pairs well with a bitcoin citadel? #asknostr

Beautiful.

Yesterday I was walking through the forest, a bit lost. I opened my phone (GrapheneOS powered) with OSMand and found my way.

Both are free and open source. Yes, the operating system and the navigation software. But so are maps. Imagine that someone went to the same forest, with a gps recorder and walked all the paths just to contribute to a free and open source database.

These days we have open weights AI, my mum is 3D printing something for a friend. It's an amazing world that was easy to imagine, but it was much harder to actually believe that this is how the world turns out.

Over from the bird by Eric S. Raymond:

You can just make things.

This is my massive white-pill about the revolution in small scale manufacturing that's going on right now.

The immediate trigger is a story I read about a guy who was annoyed that his wife needed a wheelchair, and the designs were all crappy and hideously expensive and made in China. So he booted up a small factory that now builds custom wheelchairs, delivering them for about $1,000 a pop, undercutting the Chinese by a factor of five.

The context, though is something that's been going on since the first mass market 3D printers in 2009. We've had more than a decade now in which many of the people who would have become part of the hacker culture I came up in back when software was the cutting edge have been learning how to use FDM printers, desktop CNC mills, laser cutters, EDM machines, and all kinds of physical fabrication techniques that you can set up in a garage or a basement.

The lesson has had time to sink in. If you're clever about it, you can hack matter the way we learned how to hack code - high speed, low drag, flexibly and playfully.

You can just make things. Without bimpty-bump millions of dollars of startup capital. With the new tech you can start small, turn a profit on boutique items, and scale up organically.

SpaceX is part of this story, using rapid iterations of custom designs made with 3D printing in sintered metal to continuously improve and simplify their rocket engines. So are Defense Distributed and the other semi-underground firearms-fabrication anarchists. So were the people who figured out how to garage-build respirators during the COVID panic. And now so is JerryRigEverything, the YouTuber who built a wheelchair factory.

The software revolution of a quarter century ago was fueled by Dennard scaling driving down the cost of compute power and wide area networking. Suddenly you could do things on a desktop that had taken raised floors and dedicated computer rooms just a few years before. Hackers grabbed these new possibilities and ran with them. I helped the movement understand itself.

I see something very like that happening again now. But instead of the demassification of software, we're seeing the demassification of manufacturing. The new hackers are being playful with atoms rather than bits. But the same spirit is there; I can feel it every time I wander into a makerspace.

These kids are not going to be stopped. There's too much fun to be had. Too many brains chasing every problem in sight. If my hacker culture didn't still exist it would make me all nostalgic to watch them.

But no. The old hacker culture and the new one flow together at the edges. The apprentice I'm teaching systems programming has a side-hustle printing models for mail-order customers. The kids put their part designs in public repositories; they didn't have to discover open source and distributed collaboration, they grew up absorbing both through their pores.

(Which has the accidental result that though I'm not leading things and writing manifestos this time, I'm one of their culture heroes anyway. That feels nice, I won't deny it.)

And you ain't seen nothing yet.

FDM and other small-scale fabrication technologies are attracting enough attention to improve at a torrid pace. There are obvious synergies with robotics and deep learning that haven't kicked in yet. Or, maybe they already have in somebody's garage, and we'll find out about it next week or next month.

It's a swarm attack, a disruption from below, and lots of conventional large-scale manufacturing outfits are going to suffer the fate of massified Chinese wheelchair factories - they just don't know it yet. They'll be undercut by cheaper, lighter, faster, smarter, custom, and localized.

Somewhere, Buckminster Fuller is whispering "ephemeralization" and smiling.

You’re sending and receiving "nuts" without the proper permit, are you not?

What changes?

Except that you know someone tried to access it and failed, and that’s what the failed PIN counter is for

The best multisig protection model is that physical time and distance requirements.

No duress PIN will protect you when they can extract your multisig descriptor from your laptop or a physical backup and check, or know your amount of holdings.

A wipe/brick feature will be as good as giving no PIN.

Physical backups will always be a weakness too.

If everyone chose to regularly experience sunset from the top of a mountain, the world would be a better place.

#landscapephotography #picstr #photostr #artstr #photography

If you look close enough, and listen, you can hear their stories.