So when a nation-state penetrates the cloud VPN vendor, they get full access to all customers’ tunnels?
Food pics are welcome. I’m not familiar with stories, but food pictures are always welcome.
It's almost New Year, and in just a few hours Steamboat Willie will enter the public domain: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/disney-to-lose-copyright-of-early-version-of-mickey-mouse/ar-AA1mfxRH
Steamboat Willie was originally going to enter PD in 2004, but Disney got passed the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" in 1998 to stop that from happening. They extended the length by 20 years, and it is now 20 years later, so Disney is finally forced to swallow what it chewed.
To celebrate this momentous occasion, I present to you "Copying is Not Theft" by nostr:npub18jnj0lr27gacdnxvkvzgdjjjfj4u8gn78j04d6rrqcw8zq7nqt0s7t7898 :
https://media.gleasonator.com/1c8ebb4ccd803d651e33d8ee80a6eca5bba2c974a92b83d471bafb848a9ae076.mp4
Their headline saying “Disney to lose copyright” seems phrased to generate sympathy for the billion dollar corporation. They should have said “Disney copyright to expire” which is factual without being sympathetic to any PoV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QboJM9EsYv8
Remembering Christmastime.
I’m trying to imagine that airplane in Walmart doing its grocery shopping. It probably uses more motor oil and windshield washer fluid in a day than an average store stocks.
Yeah, the Android client scene is still evolving as well. I’m possibly going back to using web-based clients and ephemeral keypairs.
The nostr:npub1cc79kn3phxc7c6mn45zynf4gtz0khkz59j4anew7dtj8fv50aqrqlth2hf bot is a great tool to help prune your following list. I'm purging most npubs that haven't posted in 3 months to make way for new Nostriches. 🤙🏻💜🫂
Some of them may just have real life interfering with their use of online tools.
They may be back in another month or two.
A home nearby had a sign yesterday. “LP Records for sale”
I didn’t look at their selection of records because I have never owned a record player. They probably have some interesting records, too.
Thieves eventually figured out how to defeat the club. They sprayed some component chiller canned air on it, then smacked it hard and it would break into pieces.
It's almost the time of year when I transition into using Bitcoin to heat my home. I'm the same Derek, but happier, because I'm using energy I'd need to use to run my heat pump, but instead of just using the electricity, I'm putting it to work for me. I'm getting non-KYC sats.
Last night, I turned on the basement heater because it was a little colder than I would have liked.
My setup isn't overly complicated, because it doesn't need to be. I have 3 S9s underclocked to 800 watts each with Braiins OS+ sitting in various places throughout my house.
This essentially turns my Bitcoin ASICs into space heaters. They're not overly loud, a similar decibel to normal space heaters. I had thought about modifying my ductwork in my basement and adding them in line, but this is much easier for me and my house.
If it warms up during the day and I need to turn them off, I just pull the plug.
If it gets extra cold at night, the heat pump kicks on to help the ASICs struggling to keep the house warm.
My setup works for me and may not work for you. You need to test and experiment a bit.
I experimented 3 winters ago by running them full bore at 1420 watts in my basement. That was loud. That was hot. We're talking opening basement windows so the upstairs was not boiling at 80 degrees. The basement was a sauna with a cool breeze 🤣 I eventually moved them throughout the house trying to find the optimal placements, heat to noise to wattage ratio, etc.
Last year, CryptoCloaks added a great guide making this whole process all that much easier for people looking to get into heating their homes with ASICs.
https://www.cryptocloaks.com/the-future-of-space-heaters-s9-bitcoin-asic/
I don't have any cases or sexy enclosures, though I keep saying I'm going to 3D print them. I probably still have time, but I'm fine with not making them look pretty too. They just sit in the corner and flash pretty lights from time to time. It's worked this way for 2 winters and I'm sure it will work the same for a 3rd without a pretty case.
There’s a company that advertises its products as heaters powered by BTC mining.
That’s interesting. I’m not in either party, but I think the inclusion argument would be much more persuasive to me, just because of the history of abuse and exclusion delivered through the banking system and its regulators.
I don’t find separating notes from notes and replies to be useful. I know Twitter and Mastodon both do this, but they’re both wrong.
One time, it was a guy telling me that he was out of food and money.
Another time, it was someone asking for help with rent.
Mastodon is a cesspool. https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23806093/mastodon-csam-study-decentralized-network
I have been a Fediverse (the Fediverse predates Mastodon) member since 2009, and I have almost never seen anything that would be illegal in the USA. Each nation has different rules, so for example, I don’t follow anyone from the big Japanese instances, because they allow things that other nations don’t. Likewise, the USA allows things that many other nations don’t.
This article is mostly FUD. If you don’t follow or interact with people on instances that allow such things, you never have to worry about running into it. I also think almost every instance has a “we call the cops” policy for such situations.
There are plenty of angry people out there. Even on #Nostr.
We need to continue building stream curation tools into our clients. That way, we can deflect the worst offenders without relying upon centralized and federated administrators and moderators to silence them.
I’m not going to pay for Twitter / X / whatever.
But limiting DMs (within reason) is something that should have been done years ago.
First of all, people act like their DMs are private, sending personal contact information, banking information, etc. If people always knew that DMs were limited, then they would always have an alternate channel for private personal communication.
It has Adyen as one of its founding institutions. Yuck!
But cryptocurrencies aren’t just about faster transactions that are always available. They are about payments and finances not being subjected to interference by banks and the governments that they control.
For good reason, I don’t trust any government not to misuse this. Maybe they will turn off your money if your kids download in violation of copyright or if they use “gamer words” in Fortnite. Or maybe you didn’t vote for the “right“ candidate, so they turn off your money.
Building this into a currency is a BAD thing.