> Finds a great icon pack to complete my mid/late 2000s rice of KDE Plasma > Enables it, everything looks good > Opens start menu, sees one application has a missing icon For all of Plasma's awesome levels of customization, piecing together bits of different themes is a major pain in the posterior. 😑 #Linux #KDE #KDEPlasma #gui #uiux #opensource

Can someone with a better understanding of Bitcoin economics explain to me what exactly causes the price to rise and fall? I have never been amazing at economics in general, but I'm struggling to figure out why the fiat value of Bitcoin seems to collapse seemingly randomly. #asknostr #bitcoin

A really good read. This is something that you need to look into if you live in Europe. And if you don't live in Europe, keep an eye out for this in your own region. The introduction of a CBDC will be the end of freedom and it can't effectively be fought at that point. View article →

Here's a radical idea! Maybe teens don't need to be on Instagram at all, and parents should start paying attention to what their kids do online. My parents kept a pretty close eye on what I did online as a teenager and I'm grateful for it. I wasn't allowed on social media until I proved myself capable of handling it. View quoted note →

I'm actually not anti-AI at all anymore. I favor it for a lot of purposes and think it can do some really amazing things. But at the same time, I have to agree with the anti-AI crowd on one thing: it's getting incredibly old how these out-of-touch tech CEOs think that we need to have AI in EVERYTHING. Personally, I think a balance of AI with traditional resources is the ideal solution. Putting AI into everything just makes people lazy. View quoted note →

So much for California pretending to care about privacy. View quoted note →

Today, after I got on X for the first time of the day, I liked a single post and my account was suspended for "inauthentic behaviors". I did some more research on this and found out that this is not uncommon. There have been thousands of people that have reported this issue mostly in the last two months and they reported also that their appeals would be rejected and you would have to continually appeal multiple times. Not only this, but I heard some people say that you might have to even verify with X to get your account restored. I didn't really care for the centralized model of that platform to begin with, and I think there are a lot of issues with the platform. The main reason I stay on it is because I have a lot of people on there that I like to talk to that aren't on other alternatives such as Nostr. Quite frankly, X has been on a downward spiral for a while now, and I wish that I could get my friends to hop on over to other platforms, but unfortunately I can't. This is the price of AI-based moderation. I understand having systems that flag accounts for suspicious behavior, but suspensions need to be handed out by actual humans. Where do I go from here? I have already submitted an appeal, and I will continue to submit appeals as long as I can to get that account restored. If the account is restored, I will be contacting all of my close friends and reaching out to them to figure out ways we can have alternative communications just in case this happens again. After this, I certainly no longer plan to use the platform much other than to talk to those people. I will definitely not be submitting any sort of ID verification or anything like that if that's what they try to push me to do. After all, how is X supposedly the home of free speech on the internet if they just ban people for automatic reasons and don't have a human moderation team taking a look at why those bans were happening in the first place? At least here, I don't have to worry about that. My account is fully under MY control and MY ownership. #Nostr #X #AI #ElonMusk #ban #socialmedia

This is alarming. Browsers need to find a way to make this impossible because that's a whole new level of fingerprinting. View quoted note →