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urza··on Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
I'll just leave this here

https://nostr.com/

urza··on A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing
We need PC revolution for biology. Put a box on every table we can tinker with.
urza··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
EU will put strong statement out soon.
urza··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
I am pretty sure US gov doesn't have my id.
urza··on How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)
100% !! It's so sad :(
urza··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
This happened to my mom too. She told me she can't do any more photos because her storage is full. So I checked her android phone a and somehow the cloud backup got activated (we explicitly turned that off!!) and our family photos were uploaded to google cloud..

I hate google so much for doing this.

urza··on RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems
On 22.04 apt update && upgrade doesn't help.. yet?
urza··on Call to Action: Fediverse Media Server
I am in your comments telling you that federated server is still just someone else's computer.

But there are systems where user is sovereign, defined by their key, not dependent on any masters. One such system is Nostr:

https://nostr.com/

urza··on Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'
Pantheon is amazing. Especially the ending.
urza··on Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds
Haha this is neat. If you zoom out and rotate the scene, you can position the ISS to watch it transit in front of the Moon.
urza··on Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds
Wow.

The video and map position appears to be a bit out of sync.

Was watching flyby over USA and when the map position exited land and went over ocean, it took about a minute for the video to transition from land to ocean.

Probably bc the nasa feed has delay?

urza··on Meta Horizon OS
FOSS everything or go home. I am not buying into closed VR ecosystem. Not Apple, not Meta, not anything else that is trying to lock me in.
urza··on Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
Well of course it does.
urza··on Sqids – Generate short unique IDs from numbers
I wanted to say that I use similar project called HashIDs, but I see that HashIDs rebranded to Sqids :)
urza··on Ask HN: Why is OpenAI firing Sam Altman such a big deal?
This is the answer.
urza··on Show HN: Booklet – Async forums as an alternative to chat
If I can't self host it and own the data, I am not interested.
urza··on RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator
Why doesn't Nintento release their games to other platforms? I would love to play Zelda, but I am not going to buy a console just because of one game..
urza··on Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It
How does patroni can do some self healing after primary db gets down and then up again? Or is manual intervention required? How does it look?
urza··on Framework Laptop 16
Will third parties be able to create custom keyboards that plug in? I mean something like 36-keebs, e.g. Corne and similar keyboards?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/skf2sx/l...

urza··on Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
Anything like this for Windows?
urza··on Today's 5-year-olds will likely live to 100
I would hope much more than that.
urza··on Show HN: Mapperly – A .NET source generator for object to object mappings
or better yet, directly in GUI layer :)
urza··on Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
Hey we still have it in torrents catalog :)
urza··on “My PGP key is compromised, and at least many of my bitcoins stolen”
I have my doubts that he would keep much in hot wallet. That would be.. weird. But I might be wrong of course, let's wait for some confirmation.
urza··on “My PGP key is compromised, and at least many of my bitcoins stolen”
It looks like it is just twitter hack. The wording in those tweets doesn't fit Luke's writing style.

This is his mastodon, let's see if he posts anything there:

https://bitcoinhackers.org/@lukedashjr

urza··on Ask HN: Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux?
This is what keeps me on Windows. If there would be Linux RDP client with these capabilities I would switch to Fedora or something. But remote desktop performance on Windows with RDP vs. anything on Linux is not even comparable.
urza··on .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
> I think this would be a hard sell - "hey, let us migrate platforms so we can rewrite our entire production infrastructure "

Also "Oh and we need to hire two full time devops engineers to take care of the thing" :)

urza··on The dark side of Shopify
All the solutions I mentioned do exists and are used daily by thousands. And no, atms are indeed not the place to exchange bitcoin for stablecoins.
urza··on The dark side of Shopify
There are some ways how you can solve this. You can convert to and from stablecoins. You can use hedging and use cfd or futures to keep your bitcoin on stable fiat value. Depending on what you need, this can be done on exchange, with some payment gateway or even trustlessly via smart contracts.
urza··on The dark side of Shopify
I agree that this is still a challenge that needs to be solved in better ways. There are some solutions possible. For example OpenBazaar used 2-of-3 multisig escrow. Bisq is using security deposits, limits and reputation. For some large transactions there are legal escrow services. But for small regular transactions with most merchants, there is no good standardized solution so far. You just have to do your research about about the counterparty and trust the merchant as far as transaction goes.
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