I feel fortunate to have the need to interact with the healthcare system on a limited basis. Today was a rare and fortunately routine office visit. Upon check-in, I was asked if I'd like to register by scanning my palm on a scanner run by Amazon. I have already seen these scanners at Whole Foods, which was somewhat disturbing yet not quite surprising. Seeing these scanners appear at the registration desk of a healthcare provider, prompting people experiencing a heightened sense of vulnerability to use them is something else. It struck me as disturbingly predatorial, even by big tech's standards, in an industry that is supposed to be at the forefront of data privacy.

Do people on Nostr attend conferences like this Las Vegas one?

What's an all natural and effective way to reduce/eliminate a #tick population?

Parents are the worst part of youth sports

Why #archlinux over #ubuntu?

I used to rely on keybase to pass around docs among devices. I don't believe keybase has been maintained for some time now and the file transfer seems to have stopped working. In comes #Syncthing, which I've used for various things over the years. I now have multiple devices syncing through an encrypted and self-hosted server and passing docs around works really well. One thing I don't like to rely on are the shared Syncthing discovery servers, so I configured Syncthing to run without using them. Also, the docs weren't quite clear on how to config encryption so all docs are stored encrypted on the central server, while being decrypted by the remote devices. I finally figured it out. While not intuitive it is quite easy to do now that I understand how to do it. Would anyone be interested in me further documenting this use case? #foss #opensource

Who can tell me how to install Aurora Store on a @Daylight Computer Co without logging into the Google Play store?

Received my first zap from @Patches, many thanks!

What are some effective ways to bootstrap liquidity for a #lightning channel? For example, when setting up @ZEUS for the first time, it's recommended to buy a 0-conf channel. Ideally I could do this w/sats generated by a #bitaxe connected to @OCEAN, however it appears one needs some liquidity to receive payouts, which brings us full circle. I can see providing value and receiving zaps via Nostr as one option, so would be curious to hear what someone w/a devops background could do for people in exchange for some zaps.

I've kept one #Bitaxe pointed at Public Pool for the big bang 💥 and reconfigured another to point @OCEAN to unleash a trickle of sats 🌊