"The highest branch is not the safest roost" - proverb CEO = single point of failure Code like a freaking cat #decentralization #nostr #gm

"The IJOP is a system of systems. It gathers information from, but not limited to, gas stations, checkpoints on the street, and access-controlled areas such as communities and schools. It pulls information from these facilities, as well as CCTV cameras, integrates them, and monitors them for “unusual” activity or behavior that triggers alerts that authorities then investigate. IJOP receives information about gas usage, electricity usage, and package delivery. The app even includes information about whether someone is using the front door or back door of their home. For example, we knew that there are the checkpoints, but now we know that some checkpoints are equipped with “data doors,” which covertly collect information from people, such as IMEI numbers, which are unique identifiers assigned to devices, and log this data for identification and tracking purposes." #AI #surveillance #OutsideTheBox #OffTheBeatenPath #MovementControl #CheckPoint #Panopticon #tech #news #Xinjiang #China Source:

Human Rights Watch

Interview: China’s ‘Big Brother’ App

In early 2018, Human Rights Watch obtained a copy of a mass surveillance app used by police in Xinjiang, in northwest China, where the Chinese has ...

Is there any "Machankura" alternative that works in EU? In case Internet shuts down. #asknostr #Bitcoin #crypto

Technocracy - rule by the selected experts through technological coercion. Source: Anon #technology #Internet #BigTech #AI #money #decentralization #freedom #tech #news #newstr #asknostr #wikifreedia #nostr #edu

Marriage market cards - a form of trade/exchange/dating in China; cards containing info such as gender, birth year, height, educational level, occupation, monthly salary, partner requirements, and phone number at the bottom for contact. Cards are mainly used by parents to find a life partner for their kids and to have an own backup for retirement. #economics #money #PensionFund #retirement #dating #PlayingCards #nostr #love #Bitcoin #crypto #economy #finance Source:

LTL Shanghai

Shanghai Marriage Market - What’s The Actual Truth?

What exactly goes on at a Shanghai marriage market (相亲角, xiāng qīn jiǎo). Find out how our trip to the Market went as we reveal what it&#8...

EcomCare

“Marriage markets” in China

Male-female relationship problems in China

The ultimate proof-of-inflation - banknote street-art "Several artists have set up stalls in the historic area of downtown Bogotá selling a variety of crafts and artwork using the older Venezuelan bolívars (also known as bolívar fuerte). These notes have recently gone out of circulation as the government replaced them with bolívar soberano in an effort to tackle hyperinflation." #economics #money #nostr #newstr #news #hyperinflation #economy #Bitcoin #FIAT #crypto #finance Source: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/venezuela-currency-art-crafts

Aahat (punch-marked coins) - early coinage of India, dating to between about the 6th and 2nd centuries BC. Each coin contained on average 50–54 grains of silver. Most common punches were: the sun and six-armed symbols, and various forms of geometrical patterns, circles, wheels, human figures, various animals, bows and arrows, hills and trees. #economics #history #money #world #nostr #newstr #coinage #economy Source:

Punch-marked coins - Wikipedia

WORD OF THE DAY: "0-DAY" or "zero-day" zero-day - a name for exploits/malware/viruses that rely on unpatched vulnerabilities in software. They abuse monopolistic/centralized nature of internet (as most people use the same software such as iOS, android, windows, macOS). Zero-day attacks can also be used to attack the internet of things (IoT) such as smart fridges, light bulbs, wi-fi routers, smart watches, home cameras, thermostats, intelligent control systems, etc. Famous "pegasus" is a malware reserved only for governments. 0-days are available for companies/groups, rich individuals & governments, too. Prices: "Zero-day exploits that grant access to a chat application, web browser, or email can be valued at up to $500,000. Whereas zero-day vulnerabilities that allow access to someone's phone without any user interaction can command prices all the way up to $2.5 million." #DigitalAge #HackWorld #security #cyber #newstr #nostr #economics #money #GelatoEconomist #IoT #smartphones #tech #news Source:

Security Boulevard

Zero-Day Marketplace Explained: How Zerodium, BugTraq, and Fear contributed to the Rise of the Zero-Day Vulnerability Black Market

Whenever a company is notified about or discovers a critical flaw in their system/application that has the potential to be exploited by malicious e...

Market for zero-day exploits - Wikipedia

WORD OF THE DAY: "HOT POTATO" Hot potato - an asset/money/token/product that is flipped/sold/exchanged/spent/passed on quite quickly/frequently in order to achieve maximum profits in a short period of time & to prevent from depreciation in value over time or a financial loss. People holding a hot potato often have a clear exit strategy. (If) hot potato eaten = (then) rug pull occured. #HotPotato #MashedPotatoes #cooking #foodstr #asknostr #WikiFreedia #nostr #FinancialTime #economics #GelatoEconomy #MonkeyNFTs #tokens #VC #trading #stocks

🖕 TikTok / DouYin "In recent years, Tibetans, especially singers, small traders doing businesses online, debates among people online, meetings, educating through online, and all kinds of live broadcasts on Douying have to speak Chinese, even if they don't want to, they start by apologising to Tibetans while they are speaking Chinese, and if they don't speak Chinese, they can't continue the live broadcast. It is very difficult to openly criticise the Douying Company and the Chinese government, as they risk detention, arrest and imprisonment simply for criticising them." #technocracy #tech #nostr #news #newstr #TikTok #DouYin #DigitalTimes #censorship #BigTech #Internet #SocialMedia #FreeSpeech Source:

Tibetans express anger at banning Tibetan language in Chinese app Douying - Tibet Post International

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Unpopular question: Why are olympic gold medals called gold medals if they are mostly made of silver? 🤔 Gold medals are made of at least 92.5% silver, and about 6 grams of gold. #asknostr Source:

The i Paper

Are Olympic medals real gold? What they're made of and how much they're worth

With thousands of medals up for grabs in this year's Paris Olympics, i finds out everything you need to know about them

🍨SCOOP OF THE DAY: "MATCH GROUP, INC." Match Group, Inc. - an american tech company that operates the largest global portfolio of dating sites, is traded on Nasdaq, had 3.36 billion US$ in revenue in 2023. Headquarter: Dallas, Texas. Dating services owned: Archer, Asian People Meet, Azar, Baby Boomer, People Meet, Black People Meet2, Black Christian, People Meet, Black Professional People Meet, BLK, Catholic People Meet, Chinese People Meet, Chispa, Delightful, Democratic People Meet, Divorced People Meet, GenX People Meet, Hakuna, Hinge, India Match, Interracial People Meet, Italian People Meet, J People Meet, Latino People Meet, LDS Planet, Little People Meet, Loveandseek, Marriage Minded People Meet, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Ourtime, Pairs, Peoplemeet, Petpeoplemeet, Plenty of Fish, Republican People Meet, Senior Black People Meet, Ship, Single People Meet, Stir, The League, Tinder, Upward, Yuzu, Veggie People Meet #dating #tech #BigTech #love #AI #data #money #economics #centralization #Internet #privacy #newstr #nostr #news #economy Source:

Match Group - Wikipedia

Daric - a gold coin / a silver coin; monetary standard of the Persian/Achaemenid Empire, dating back to 4th century BC. First coins were introduced by Cyrus the Great. However, a new thick gold coin was introduced by Darius I. It's standard weight was 8.4 grams & gold's purity 95.83%. #history #money #coins #coinage #money #finance #HomoSapiens #economics #FIAT #Bitcoin #cryptocurrencies #gold #nostr #edu #Internet Source:

Daric - Wikipedia

hikikomori - a socially avoidant behaviour (for more than 6 months) such as refusal to go outside of the home, to work, or to attend school, as well as withdrawing from social communication. Formally recognized and defined in Japan in the 1990s. It has been documented in many other countries with broad cultural differences. "Some psychologists note the importance of considering whether hikikomori is a new condition that stems from current broad sociocultural conditions. Much of this thinking focuses on the impact of social media and the Internet." #SocialMedia #Internet #hikikomori #privacy #DigitalRights #InternetFreedom #FreePress #technocracy #panoptykon #censorship #news #newstr #nostr #psychology #digital #BigTech #data #cyber

neo-Luddism - a movement in modern society; people who free themselves from social networks, or even reject the technology completely. Market's growth of "dumb phones" is a side effect and a clear sign of this evolving social movement. #society #media #newstr #movements #freedom #surveillance #distraction #news #DigitalRights #privacy #offline #DigitalSlavery #FreePress #InternetFreedom #tech #smartphones #cybersecurity #finance #economics #Bitcoin #money #GelatoEconomist

WORD OF THE DAY: "walled garden" walled garden - a closed platform or environment, wherein the service provider controls and approves access to applications, content, and media. Examples: Apple Store, Google Play Store, Huawei AppGallery, Facebook, Weibo, X (Twitter) #slang #Internet #tech #OpenSource #AnotherBrickInTheWall #GeoFencing #newstr #news #nostr Source:

Techslang — Tech Explained in Simple Terms

What is a Walled Garden? — Definition by Techslang

A walled garden is a closed platform or environment wherein the carrier or service provider controls applications, content, and media. Read more here.

🍨SCOOP: Citizen journalist showing concentration camps in China 🎬🔍 #CitizenJournalism #GuanGuan #newstr #news #Xinjiang #China #nostr #FreeSpeech #OpenSource #OpenSourceEverything #tech #privacy #uyghur #ConcentrationCamps #HumanRights

BREAKING: "Italy Highlights Open Source's Key Role in Public Service Digitalisation" BREAKING 2: "Switzerland has enacted the "Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfilment of Governmental Tasks" (EMBAG), establishing a mandatory requirement for open source software within public sector bodies." #StepByStep #OpenSource #Internet #tech #newstr #EU #evolution SOURCE:

Interoperable Europe Portal

Italy's public service digital strategy updated

The Agency for Digital Italy (Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale, AGID) has updated the strategy for public administration digitalisation for 2024-202...

Interoperable Europe Portal

New Open Source law in Switzerland

Switzerland has enacted the "Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfilment of Governmental Tasks" (EMBAG), establishing a mandatory...

Internet & tech are centralized as f*ck 💁🙆🙊 Are you surprised? 👻 #newstr #history #Internet #tech #memes #offline #SinglePointOfFailure #NothingNew #travelling #BoardingPass #memestr #nostr #decentralize Source:

Cointelegraph

Microsoft Windows data blackout downs major financial firms, causes travel chaos

A global Microsoft Windows outage has disrupted critical services, including emergency services, banks, airports and broadcasters.

Disney dollar - a scrip sold by The Walt Disney Company and redeemable for goods or services at many Disneyland facilities. Pegged by US dollars. First used in 1987. Distribution stopped in 2016. Features: microprinting, reflective ink and imprinting on the front and back of the bill to deter scanning and copying, printed with serial numbers and letters which are unique to each bill, had small bits of glitter scattered on them. Issuing authority: Scrooge McDuck #economics #finance #money #disney #GelatoEconomist #scrip #Bitcoin #crypto #history #nostr #tech #edu Source:

Disney Dollars - Wikipedia

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The Ultimate Guide To Disney Dollars — Our Departure Board

The ultimate guide to Disney Dollars. History, serial numbers, grading, dimensions, organisation and storage, 2nd hand buying, the complete list an...

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1990 $5 Disney Dollars Note

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Disney Dollars

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