What a sad story. An older person wants in on "cryptocurrency" but also wants to give all money to someone else to manage and make profit instead of buying any, fine, let's stick with, "crypto" themselves. Plenty of people lost a lot, but I thought all at least knew what silly coin they were buying. This is just about giving money blindly to a "crypto" company and expecting a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow... And the family says "There was a complete failure to protect my father" - from what, actually having a choice and making sadly a bad decision? PS I am categorically against scams like that. But what is the answer to avoid such tempting scams, especially for vulnerable older people? https://www.npr.org/2023/06/25/1180256165/crypto-scam-senior-victims-spirebit

Do you remember the moment you signed up for Nostr? What brought you to it? For me, it was seeing all those strange long npub codes showing up on twitter. It peeked my curiosity, eventually, as I was looking to get away from twitter. I didn’t want to support that and vote for it by being there, but couldn’t decide on an alternative.

I am having so much fun writing and then adding #nostr notes through #nocomment that associate with a note about an article (thanks @fiatjaf). Recently, I was on a roll to figure out how to get rid of a ghost old system extension on my mac. Those don't go quietly into the night. Once I had it clear in my head the how, I decided to write it down:

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Get rid of any leftover Mac system extensions

I ended up with a left over ghost system extension that cannot be removed by any of the usual methods (sudo rm -rf). Here is a way around that so w...

and now I can add a comment section, yay!

Why are they still covering this every hour of the day? Slow news week? View quoted note →

No BitGo acquisition? That’s not good, I wonder what happens now. View quoted note →

What a day. I learned that a #Nostore Safari extension exists. I learned that I cannot post anything through #primal for some reason ("post" button issue, am I the only one, should I feel special?). I learned some more #Python scripting because I want to keep my #Mac clean of leftover app files. And I posted something personal about my disability to a stranger on #nostr. How bizarre (as the song lyrics go)

Today I take control of keeping my computer clean of ALL leftover files, especially of iOS apps on a mac. I choose what stays and I choose what goes. So I came up with a little bit of shell scripting. Do not believe those silly instructions like "drag the app from /Applications/ to Trash". Tip of the iceberg. https://verityj.github.io/2023/06/21/clean.html Next, I actually do need to clean my (white) keyboard. At least I think it is white... 😂 #apple #macos #iphone #ShellScript