Will take some balls for secessionists to get past the feds’ threats and retaliatory actions. The Texas border situation is an initial assessment of the level of resolve for it. If Texas blinks first, we’ve still got some time to go before we’re there. Once one state sticks through the challenge though, others will fall (join the resistance) like dominoes.
Centralization on L2+ is not ideal but sometimes can be acceptable. Centralization on the base layer, which larger block size will gradually do, is a no-go.
Improving human output capacity when interfacing with machines is going to be increasingly useful as AI and other tech improves, and devices of this nature may be necessary for that. I will not, however, put any device that is not open source in my body. Imagine having something in your brain that only a company, and maybe governments, have exclusive knowledge about its inner workings. F that.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/business/elon-musk-brain-implant-neuralink-intl-hnk/index.html
True. Censorship on the centralized major platforms is going to step up with the upcoming election season though. Longer term we could see increased censorship over "misinformation" and AI content like deep fakes. Moving to another centralized platform may not work if regulations are forcing the censorship.
The sooner these companies move out of the US, the better.
Have any nations hostile to the US declared their recognition of Texas as an independent nation yet?
Anyone use CLN with CLBOSS for channel management automation? Does it make running a routing node easy?
"If you pay more than 1,000 € in cash, you're on the grey market. If you get caught, you'll get fined or you'll go to jail." https://video.nostr.build/3edd4468c9f91e1700266e3978937b1310a95e97367d4f702db8bf6a9d8e0c07.mp4
Vast majority of Europeans will just comply, sadly.
If AGI is close then where are the household robots? If AI still can’t understand how to do the cleaning and maintenance tasks that we find boring and tedious then we’re a long ways off, for better or worse.
Still depends mostly on the will of its users. For example, not complying when FinCen inevitably says you can't coinjoin and businesses can't accept BTC with coinjoin history. Nice that the tech is here for the time people have the balls to do that though!
It will probably have to happen in a way that is independent from the courts and formal declarations. Once there is enough popular support in Texas it’s possible that non-compliance with Federal laws and demands can happen at a large enough scale that it might as well be secession. Feds will respond with troop deployments, sanctions and aid cut-offs, but as long as Texans remain peaceful (at least at first), it can be made to look like a really bad (for the feds) political knee-jerk that snowballs independence movements nation-wide.
Preferably to a country that’s not essentially a vassal of the US in law enforcement cooperation. El Salvador? Costa Rica?
Time for software businesses to move abroad if they can. nostr:note1wllxawudd04z8luka87ucmje46x64t00ckf3c9kqsv4ca0fqfkaqyx9nye
West also threatening to intervene in Ecuador.
Why? Seems the vast majority of people would opt for the convenience of just buying open source consumer electronics rather than building it. Is the "incompatibility" based on competition stealing the design and outcompeting you with cheaper production?
Is Stable Diffusion or any open source model able to keep up in quality? Or is proprietary pulling away?
Will 2025 be the year of the Linux desktop?
Probably not, because the addiction to convenience will make most people shell out for Windows 11 and possibly a whole new PC. https://www.neowin.net/news/240-million-pcs-could-end-up-in-landfills-when-windows-10-support-ends/