my favourite is Amazon’s:

• buy without prime (2$ shipping fees)
• buy with prime (free shipping)

exept you must pay amazon prime 10$ and it’s a monthly recuring subscription.

Bitcoin was not «captured» by anyone. The community agreed on not increasing the block size (actually on a slight one-time optimized increase with segwit). Although their use is marginal, there are several Bitcoin-core alternatives (functional node implementations). Both node admins and miners always had a choice. The Bitcoin brand is what the majority of people consider it to be.

Roger Ver is just upsed and can’t admit being wrong. Bitcoin’s most important feature is decentralization. Without it, it becomes censorable and «permissionfull», just like CBDCs.

Note: I did not (yet?) read the book.

They went as far as producing fake documents to cover up their embezzlement, and got busted…

If the rocket explosion can create a 60 meters wide crater, my guess is it can still at least crack open the fission part and spill the material in the atmosphere.

I use BTRFS for the same. Being able to check for and repair silent corruptions is a must (and this is without needing to read the whole drives, only the actual files). I’ve had a lot of them over the years, including (but not only) because of a cheap USB controller also.

the Android VLC is absolutely different from the desktop version.

Unfortunately we are at a point where Cisco Cloudflare and Google are held liable for filesharing-related domains their DNS relays are resolving IPs for…

Unfortunately, google maps is much more than a map. Shops with ratings and business hours, traffic, public transports, sattelite and street views are typically missing from these alternatives (fair rating is likely impossible).

I like Organic Maps though in case if network issues. Hopes Kartaview succeeds too.

63.3K commits from 1K+ contributors and still pre-alpha, it’s amazing what a nightmare web browsers have become!

A space station with artificial gravity would be a good project, rather than sending a man on Mars just to take a selfie.

It’s so hard to differenciate manipulators from plain idiots 😔

It seems to me that there will be much less relays than there are AP nodes. Users won’t publish/subscribe to hundred of relays (if they did, relays would not scale). Hence more bad content to less moderators, and poor moderation.

Adding client filters would just shift the censorship power to those maintaining them.

Checkout the list of recommendations published by the Free Software Foundation: https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems

Same as CP used against encryption.

Had the same experience with Lydia advertising their new brand name by email yesterday.

They say they do in the article.

Monero getting blacklisted / banned is actually a feature in this sense.

Except that powering the world with nuclear would require thousands of reactors and so much more disasters. This doesn’t even factor the space abandonned to store «normal» toxic materials.