Yeah, I was a huge fan of FeedDemon at the time. Unfortunately, it was updated to be primarily a local Google Reader client and lost many users to Google Reader itself. Development stopped around the time Reader was canceled. I ended up switching to Newsblur and have been using it ever since through (mostly) the web interface. I've switched to Mac/iOS since then as well and have tried out NetNewsWire and Reeder. Both are excellent and sync with Newsblur, but neither support Newsblur's social features, which are important to me.
I love being able to read others' comments, leave my own, and receive replies from a community of folks who are all committed enough to RSS as a medium to keep at it. I find it provides a significant amount of value. It also aids in discovery of new blogs/sites that I've ended up following directly over the years.
There are, but SV and ABC (now called eCash/XEC) also made departures from Bitcoin that I feel are pretty significant:
BSV: completely removed any concept of a tx spam cap and encouraged use of its blockchain for random data storage. Neither of these are things Satoshi supported. Its spiritual leader is also a charlatan.
XEC: changed both the mining algorithm and added in a "dev tax" on block rewards. The dev tax in particular is something I don't imagine Satoshi would have supported, or he would have added it himself from the start.
That perspective is valid, but it’s not mine. BCH is bigger than Bitcoin circa Satoshi’s days already. I’m honestly not too concerned about it. The Bitcoin that I became interested in still exists. It just isn’t called BTC/“Bitcoin” anymore.
Yeah, there are many, many reasons why Back is not and cannot be Satoshi. These emails also provide more evidence that Satoshi was what would later be called a “Big Blocker” in favor of on-chain scaling and minimal tx fees set by nodes independently (though likely converging). Back is famously a Small Blocker who employed all the major Small Blocker devs with Blockstream, which ended up effectively controlling Bitcoin Core. Thankfully, we still have Bitcoin Cash following Satoshi’s intended path for scaling.
Adam Back is far too jealous of Satoshi inventing Bitcoin. He put, “Bitcoin is HashCash extended with inflation control” in his Twitter profile for years after he got into Bitcoin after initially dismissing it when contacted by Satoshi. Back definitely isn’t Satoshi.
OEM licenses can be kind of funny. They aren’t portable, though I would’ve thought that the motherboard was replaced by a motherboard by the same OEM, etc. and should’ve qualified to use that OEM’s license.
Yeah, I assume that part of rejecting that would include not utilizing a chat service that requires one’s account to be tied to their government ID (phone number).
Computers have keyboard shortcuts for locking. Some even have dedicated/configurable single buttons for locking, so they are just as easy to lock as phones are IMO.
It’s true that governments shouldn’t require ID to be linked to phone numbers, but in much of the world (likely most of the world’s population), they do.
That problem would be mostly solved if they didn’t use the phone number = account model. If you have public usernames that are sufficiently complex, spammers would spend the vast majority of their time shouting into the void. Presumably, seeing an account spamming messages to recipients that don’t exist would be a strong indicator of an account that should be closed.
That’s extremely disappointing. The questions were both entertaining in and of themselves and also extremely helpful as a filtering and sorting mechanism. I don’t know why they’d want to de-emphasize or eliminate the best part of OKC. That’s what OKC used to be about!
My experience is 10 years old now (I met my wife on OKC then), but at the time I was getting plenty of mutual matches and actually had enough women contacting me that I never initiated contact. I wouldn’t say I’m a 10/10, but definitely on the luckier side where it comes to traits attractive to women. I was also in my mid- to late-20s at the time, which I still feel like is the peak dating app age range.
Checking with MS, unless you’re a registered developer or enterprise customer, you can’t purchase it. LTSC keys aren’t supposed to be sold by the single, so any reseller doing that is breaking MS’s terms.
They definitely talked with their lawyers and the EU regulators, but this doesn’t mean that where Apple ended up today was mutually agreed. They very likely ended up in disagreement and basically told their EU regulators to take them to court if they don’t like it. This happens all the time.
I think the only reasonable thing to do in the face of this ambiguity is to assume the worst. Google have lawyers smart enough to write clear explanations of functionality if that would be to their benefit.
That may be an ok analogy, but magic isn’t real. Maybe a better analogy would be to speak or write in a language that you know certain people don’t natively understand, and using lots of slang and idioms that don’t translate easily. Someone could still run it through Google Translate or whatever, but they won’t get a great understanding of what you actually said. They’d have to actually learn the language and the sorts of slang and idioms used.