Because financial technology has been limited over the past several decades, credit card payments are basically like, "okay so, hand over your private key and pin, and then we'll use them to get that transaction completed asap".

I would go so far as to say that god is undefinable and therefore questions of his existence are meaningless.

If anybody dains to define god and claim that such a god exists, given any typical definition, I would believe it about as much as I believe that every dog turns itself inside out on a daily basis. Like, maybe they do. I've never watched a dog for 24 hours straight. But I have no reason to believe it. No evidence, no logical inferrence, nothing.

Belief in God is delusional. But it is a social delusion, and thus persistent. It is also deeply rooted, and not shakable via argumentation. So I don't bother to argue the position. I was raised as a Christian and gave it up as I matured, so I know what it is like to have a strongly held belief, and I don't think less of believers.

Tape is amazing. I love these simple effective hacks with tape.

Tape cured my plantar fasciitis: took all the tension off the ligaments and let them heal. This website heelspurs.com (which doesn't come up in search engines I had to remember it) is where I learned about it.

youtube’s recommendation algorithm is really bad now. more of exactly the same after one view. swings way too much.

We use websockets to talk to the damus lightning node, for some reasons there are issues with that in firefox. It should work in safari or chrome using the same url

I've concluded that npm is superior to yarn.

If there was a tool to cross-post from X to Nostr I would.

But I just simply don't have time for both and think the audience on X needs pro-privacy, pro-freedom tech, pro-freedom money content more right now.

Would you guys say ostrich have feet, claws, or paws?

Make Alex Gleason a bitcoiner 2024 I’m here for this.

Increasing block size makes it more restrictive to run a full node and use bitcoin non-custodially. Lightning isn’t perfect but it does greatly increase transaction efficiency while keeping the ability for users to run nodes on the base layer