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> It actually makes me sad to see that on person owns the night sky SpaceX has many owners, especially post-IPO. You, too, can buy the sky and sell the sky.

Hot take, but enshittified food is just another expression of inflation.

You're right, we should strive for compliance with copyrights and distribution licenses in our personal lives.

You really think someone would do that?

Can you name a game that is older than NetHack and still in active development? I can't.

It's also not simply a matter of agreeing on what tasks to use. The task has to be computationally difficult to perform, but computationally trivial to verify. It must also be veri…

The disappointing truth is that we simply don't know. Satoshi never explained it. For SHA-2 it can be used as a mitigation against length-extension attacks¹, and this seems like th…

This is true, but large miners also have beneficial electricity contracts and data center capacity, both suitable for AI workloads.

It's a common misunderstanding that mining just gets harder and harder as time goes by and more coins are minted. It's often misreported that way. But in fact, the difficulty is dy…

Backed stablecoins aren't some anarchistic anti-government thing; they are highly regulated and will lose access to their banking if they don't follow the rules – rules which requi…

Back when Raspberry Pi 4 came out in 2019, the 4GB variant cost $55. Fast forward seven years and the same hardware with slightly less memory costs $83.75. There was a time when co…

If an upgrade becomes necessary, it would be a soft fork. (Consensus would still be a challenge)

Just watching it now (and what a house it is). There's a TV in almost every room, and Fox News is on each of them. He says: "Yes, it is the same station on every television, becaus…

Huh. I use KeePassXC on Wayland and I had no idea about that, it works fine. Could be because I've set QT_QPA_PLATFORM user-wide.

What is the most tolerable of these phones, in your experience?

mc user for decades here. I spent a long time teaching myself yazi and configuring it just to my liking, only to realize I don't really use a file manager that much anymore. It's h…

You can block YouTube for yourself on your own, it's not difficult. You don't have to depend on the state to do it for you.

I wish I could buy it, but I'm in the unfortunate situation of being in Norway, instead of almost any other European country. Will you ever ship here? ;-(

And also the same day as it was reported the SEC is investigating Coinbase over claims it overstated user numbers in past filings ( https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/policy/sec-is-i…