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Merchant mariner. Tech enthusiast. Privacy nut. Luddite.

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2024-07-16 05:40:11

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The most compelling argument against this having been staged is this: the angry Narcisist (Trump) is a coward.

2024-06-19 10:18:52

Now serving:
- darksapling-7b-v2.0_Q6_K at 32k context
- Poppy_Porpoise-1.4-L3-8B_Q6_K at 8k context
#aihorde #aihordeworker

2024-05-24 11:31:00

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Not so in AK. Up there CAP pilots are known make short field bush-landings with skis, balloon tyres, or floats with SAR passengers or resupplying wilderness firefighters. And not all of them fly fixed wings.

2024-05-23 13:47:13

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That's partly true. What is the estimated amount of "lost" and unrecoverable BTC due to sat-dust on wallet purge, or from lost keys, or even simple abandonment? Let's call this value LOST_BTC.
I think 1BTC = (2.1*10^7 - LOST_BTC). Thus 1BTC is worth more than 1/21,000,000.

2024-05-19 13:11:42

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My question is: why haven't any of the hardware manufactures sued Cellebrite, et al, under DMCA§1201?

2024-05-19 07:32:09

Are there Zap-compatible lightning wallets in the #fdroid app repositories for Android?
#asknostr

2024-05-13 00:49:08

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My first computer used audio cassette tapes as storage devices.

2024-05-13 00:47:51

If the constitutionality of women's sufferage were called to question before the current #SCOTUS, would it survive?
Every decision they make brings us closer to becoming "Gilead" of Atwood's _The Handmaid's Tale_.

2024-05-13 00:41:51

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I've done both. A machete is much easier and doesn't require removal of the fibrous husk before cutting.

2024-05-13 00:34:44

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1820s. The Frankenstein and Dracula novels, both resulting from the Luddite revolts, set the tone for all horror stories since. Are they movies? No, but multiple film adaptations have been made of each. Their influence can be seen and felt in horror stories even now, 200 years after first publication. And the core stories, wealthy elites first preying upon (Dracula) and then abandoning (Frankenstein) the newly impoverished working classes, are also modern contemporary reality; just as it was for the Luddites at the dawn of the industrial revolution.

2024-05-13 00:16:43

Google is a convicted monopoly (Epic Games v. Google.) The judge in that case has not yet handed out the penalty.
How long will it take the internet to recover if he orders complete dissolution of the company?
#antitrust

2024-05-11 10:18:38

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I'm in Alaska and it is overcast and raining. 🙁

2024-05-11 10:16:17

I fear that Margaret Atwood did a disservice to the world when she wrote The Handmaid's Tale. I think she put too many ideas into the heads of monied polical-influencers like the #federalistsociety.
Or
Was it a warning for the rest of us and, therefore, did she do a good deed by writing it?