UMA adopters will probably deny connections to Tor nodes and any node that has UTXOs from coinjoins.
Improving Lightning routing and mitigating probing attacks with Payment Splitting and Switching https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/payment-splitting-and-switching-improving-privacy-and-payment-success-simultaneously
Just keep using Bitcoin how you want, even when FinCen says it's illegal to mix your coins or use Lightning.
Never had a problem with bisq.
It would take a war with China or a US civil war for the draft to happen, IMO. Possible though.
Thoughts on Home Assistant?
A lot of it may have been larping from the beginning. Being all about freedom tech until there’s an actual threat of getting a knock on the door or massive fines.
The upcoming FinCen rules will be an interesting test of your hypothesis. If people and companies tend to comply, you’re absolutely right - people just want comfort and safety more than freedom and Bitcoin has a good chance of failing simply because people don’t want to use it when could make the authorities angry. If we see a lot of non-compliance, there’s still hope.
In light of the proposed FinCen rules, I wish Joinmarket would get easier to use.
Obtaining your BTC via no-KYC channels is insurance against wealth taxes.
I use Fitbod and have found it pretty good. Not sure how the two compare.
Various objects in the universe on a graph of radius vs. mass
Tanks can be demolished by cheap IEDs and suicide drones made from off-the-shelf components.
California just passed a bill regulating 3D printers, CNC machines and file sharing. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1089
There’s still some final touches but this thing has been reliably crunching numbers for 3 days now. This thing is solid 🔥🔥
Running Prem Ai with Vicuna 3b, Whisper, and Stable Diffusion. All are cruising nicely. So cool having my own Ai to work with. Exploring some coding specific models tomorrow. https://v.nostr.build/azoQ.mov
Nice. What is the card with the two fans on the top level?
Guessing it was not mentioned because of the "at scale" clause. It would be nice to see it used more though, especially during Tor's DDOS times.
Open source high-end VR headset, supposedly still scheduled to release this year. https://mixed-news.com/en/somnium-vr1-september-2023-update/
What's interesting about the wars happening right now is that the US is entirely propping up one side in at least two of them.
Tough question to answer because the *actual* problem is the US federal govt having become much too massive and powerful. It should be up to local communities/govts to determine how outsiders are received into their space. Unfortunately the US govt now largely bans local control.