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The hardest part about being a contrarian is knowing when not to be.
The mind virus of conspiratorial thinking has been devastating. It completely paralyzes analysis and reduces everything to entertainment, fodder for clicks, traffic, and attention. It’s like a caricature of the Straussian close reading of texts: the “real” meaning is always hidden from view, and being unable to see it means you don’t have access to esoteric insights and knowledge. In reality, you’re just reading it wrong.
In the case of Russia right now, nobody really knows what’s happening. But that doesn’t matter; all you have to do is come up with the most absurd theory, and the more absurd it is, the truer it must be.
I used this recently in Nashville. I saw a ₿ logo on the payment screen, pressed it, and immediately got a lightning QR code. Which I paid, and a few seconds later the transaction was done.
The cashier had no idea I was paying with Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is now on by default at Square checkouts across the U.S.
Sellers don't have to apply. Square switched it on for every eligible business, whether the owner has ever thought about bitcoin or not.
The customer scans a QR code with any Lightning wallet and the payment settles in seconds. The seller gets dollars by default or can choose to keep the bitcoin, and there are no chargebacks. Sellers can also auto-convert up to 50% of their daily card sales into bitcoin.
The limits: $600 max per payment, $20,000 a day, and sellers in New York are left out.
The fee is 0% through Dec. 31, then a flat 1%. A card tap on Square's free plan costs the merchant 2.6% plus 15 cents.
Stratum V2 even has advantages for private pools like MARA. Among other things, by allowing block templates to be created physically closer to hash power, reducing latency.
Bandwidth reduction is useful too: lots of hash power is near stranded energy sources with slow internet.
Proud to share that @MARA has mined its first Stratum V2 block 💪💪
SV2 improves mining efficiency, reduces bandwidth usage, and strengthens security through encrypted, authenticated connections. It also enables miners to select their own transactions rather than relying on pools, strengthening Bitcoin’s decentralization and censorship resistance.
This was a major lift for the @MARA mining operations team. Congratulations to everyone involved with this milestone and for leading the way in a major industry transition!
Additional thanks to @spiral_xyz @pavlenex and everyone involved in the Stratum V2 Working Group for their support 🙏
Russia intentionally attacked a school that was specifically built underground to protect children. They double-tapped it minutes later to kill rescuers. Then they published footage from their drones to brag.
Now they're attacking the body recovery effort.
They're just evil.
Bryan Jacoutot on using @opentimestamps to prove the authenticity of documents in legal cases.
He and @realSimpleProof recently submitted a really good Rules of Evidence proposal to the US Court system to promote the use of decentralized time-stamping: uscourts.gov/forms-rules/rec… – at Nashville, TN
Russia can't win a military fight. So they're just trying to kill and drive out the entire population of Ukraine.
Exactly why Russia attacked a children's rehabilitation center yesterday. And why they're spending billions to destroy Ukraine's electricity grid.
Russia is losing an insane number of men, without even gaining territory.
Crazy to think about but if Russian casualty numbers continue on the path they are, within like two years it will be approximately the same number of US soldiers KIA in 250 years. 450k killed in recent leak compared to 650k for US excluding disease, pow camps, accidents
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“A timestamp does not make a lie true. But it does make a later change detectable.” - Average Gary
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He killed a bunch of white people in one of the whitest parts of Europe.
No reason to assume he was far right.
'No evidence' Polish killer was far-Right, prosecutors admit as it is revealed he executed parents and sister with two shots to the head each as they slept… and even killed their two cats trib.al/m1mkNm5
> is there any way to know upfront if an address is unsafe?
Send a small amount first and see if it gets stolen.
this is an attack on bitcoin i never thought could exist. first of all you can create unsafe addresses - best example all @COLDCARDwallet addresses are unsafe
it is something i just in this moment realised fully
unsafe means in simple words someone has the private key, or can “guess” it, because it’s not random enough (it was not created random).
if that’s the case, you can just do a RBF attack once it’s sent, meaning you can change the fee to a point it never goes through, like burning the complete action to a miner / op return
now this opens up a lot of attack scenarios because anything from receiver through swap services could potentially run on unsafe addresses.
is there any way to know upfront if an address is unsafe? i guess not, only spending tons of compute checking every single address you spend to.
It's ridiculous that we allow the tech industry to work this way.
If that DS413j is vulnerable, that means it was shipped to the customer in a defective state. We wouldn't tolerate near 100% defect rates in any other product. We shouldn't tolerate it in tech.
If we actually had a shadowy military industrial complex pulling strings behind the scenes they'd find a way to get her out of office for this. But we don't.
SpaceX is an essential part of the US's military dominance.
> **Titanic** is no longer about Rose and Jack's tragic romance, but about the first officer's struggle to save the ship through a series of technical maneuvers, mechanical emergency measures, and daring decisions under extreme conditions.
This is an entire genre of YouTube.
In the name of gender equality, I look forward to the rebooted chick flicks where:
**Sex and the City** is no longer about four women's friendships, dating lives, and self-discovery, but about Mr. Big's struggle to outmaneuver his rivals on Wall Street and build a financial empire. Carrie's love life is a subplot.
**Titanic** is no longer about Rose and Jack's tragic romance, but about the first officer's struggle to save the ship through a series of technical maneuvers, mechanical emergency measures, and daring decisions under extreme conditions.
**Mean Girls** is no longer about teenage girls' social hierarchies and intrigues, but about the school's football team's quest to win the championship. The girls' conflicts are background noise.
More or less what has happened to Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, He-Man, Terminator, Ghostbusters, and now Dune.
Some will naturally complain. "Why not create new stories about men instead of taking over women's established fictional universes?" But they'd be wrong.
Titanic has always been about the structural weaknesses of wrought-iron rivets.
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Very plausible:
I suspect that those 9 bombs that were used by the Russian army to demolish an underground school shelter where dozens of civilians were hiding are, in their sick logic, a “revenge” or “compensation” for those people who were rescued in Oleshky.
“You think you saved them? They didn’t want to go to Russia? We’ll take the others then”.
I could be wrong, but that’s what my intuition says.
If @binance had simply required their employees to use @QubesOS, this $6 billion hack probably would have failed.
...and I know of multiple other non-public instances where this type of hack has happened in October alone.
Use Qubes.
币安刚刚发布了初步调查报告，梳理了他们是如何被朝鲜黑客，盗取了 60 多亿美金。
某位币安软件工程师，在求职网站上挂着简历，结果一位自称项目总监的人，主动联系他，说有个潜在岗位想聊聊。
对方安排了一位 HR 跟他视频面试，真人露脸。为了让他放下戒心，这位 HR 还把自己的社交账号发给了他，上面有他本人的生活照和视频，看着就像真实存在的人。
然后到了第二轮面试，对方换到一个常用的聊天软件上，跟一位自称是这家公司 CEO 的人聊，但其实公司是假的。
等面试快结束时，对方让他下载一份代码题，作为技术测试，结果这位币安员工，在工作电脑上下载运行了它。
这份代码，在安装环节偷偷自动执行，把电脑上一个正常的开发工具 pyenv，换成了带木马的版本，然后跟黑客的服务器连上，还会自己清理痕迹。
就连币安当时的杀毒软件，也没查出来。
从这台电脑开始，朝鲜黑客一步步渗透内部，摸进了交易所的钱包系统，一个多月后币安被盗了 60 多亿美金。
关键是现在领英上，还有一群币安在职员工的信息，这些估计都是朝鲜黑客的潜在欺诈对象。
An example:
Real life: My developer friend was recently compromised by an exercise during a fake job interview. They were asked to download a tarball then run git operations within it as part of the live interview.
Git security models prevent hooks from transferring during a standard git clone (since hooks live in the .git/hooks directory, which is local to a repository and ignored during remote fetches). Receiving a project as a ZIP file, tarball, or untrusted directory however bypasses this protection allowing malicious code to execute during seemingly ordinary git commands.
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“As for harms of oral sex”
Wild language to be using to support banning consenting adults from filming totally legal sex acts, even for their own private consumption.
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I'm really looking forward to this!
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> No sane or rational person would say continuing the war to try and take more of Ukraine's territory is worth the casualties.
No. What Russia is doing right now is trying to keep the land they stole. If they stop Ukraine can easily take it all back. And should.
This chart is insane. This shows Russia's casualties over time compared to Russia's territorial gains in Ukraine over the last five years.
No sane or rational person would say continuing the war to try and take more of Ukraine's territory is worth the casualties.
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Part of the stated reason for prohibiting a 14 year old from working in a kitchen is the presence of knives.
Knives!!
I was allowed to play with knives and chisels unsupervised when I was six (eg wood carving). I never hurt myself.
Ridiculous nanny state.
A Hampshire couple have been fined £600 and ordered to pay a further £6,000 in costs for allowing their 14-year-old son to work on the family's mobile food trailer.
Dexter, their son, enjoys it and has a passion for it.
That’s typical of the laws in this country. Encourage the work shy and penalise the hard working.
As if the stress on this family weren’t enough the family said they were tackling the dispute with the council while supporting eldest son Oskar, 17, while he received treatment for blood cancer.
@darrenpaffey @laboursatvir @carolinenokes
Parents fined for employing teen son in food trailer bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8vg…
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