Tonight I saw the northern lights for the first time

I bumped into Satoshi today. He's been hiding in Mortal Kombat: Scorpion's Revenge since 2020.

14 hour day, and counting. I'm going to be feeling this tomorrow

Greetings Mortals #GM

Is there any information about the details of how it will work when square starts accepting bitcoin on their retail payment systems? 1. Will everyone be able to pay via lightning by default? 2. Will the merchants just get fiat in their account by default? And if so will they even see how much money is coming in via bitcoin?

What's the freak with not being able to pay money to watch "Unbanked"?

Gathr

Unbanked - Video On Demand - Gathr

Bitcoin has been controversial since its mysterious release by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. Some say Bitcoin is only comprised of a small minority of ...

Apparently it was only available for like a week and now it's gone?

If anyone doesn't understand why I'm so ampped up about building a simple shed: 1. I'm an overweight computer geek, so it's a physically difficult task for me. 2. I'm a software security engineer, so while the plans all looked great in FreeCAD, seeing it actually work out in practice is exciting. It's an experience I'm not used to. 3. I'm going to get my garage back, as it won't have all the things that should be in the shed plus the lumber need to build the shed. 4. I'm going to get my electronics lab back, as there are currently bicycles in there which should be in the aforementioned overflowing garage. 5. I'm going to be able to combine the arts & crafts area into the lab to make it a nice little makerspace at home. This will free up the craft room to become a guest bedroom. So yeah, I think this is going to be a substancial improvement to our household.

Insurance companies have an incentive to get you to spend more money on health care. It's the only legal way they can increase their profits (which are restricted by law AS A PERCENTAGE of payouts, so more payouts = more dollars for them). That makes all the difference. If insurance companies got paid to save money, they would have clamped down on the $50 fee for one aspirin. Because the cost of insurance is basically unaffordable, I tried switching from health insurance to Crowdhealth this year. I was nervous at first but it's worked out great. I get the same care I got before, but pay less money. It's a lot easier to afford healthcare when the monthly bill gets reduced by over $1000! Some prescriptions actually cost me less now than when I had insurance. If you are in a similar situation, I'd highly recommend checking into Crowdhealth. If you go with it and want to save $99/month for the first three months, use my referral code: LOLHAX Feel free to ask me questions here too.

Some of us said it was a mistake for the centralized Signal chat app to rely on secure enclaves to keep information safe.

Ars Technica

New physical attacks are quickly diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel

On-chip TEEs withstand rooted OSes but fall instantly to cheap physical attacks.

Don't build systems that put trust in one manufacturer or company. Don't have a centralized data collection point. Build completely open source, decentralized systems. And if you're a user, choose to use those systems.

Remember when chown used a dot instead of a colon? Ah, the memories.

@Whitepaper Books Is your checkout down because of this Azure outage? When I try to check out, I get an error: "We couldn't find this payment request Please return to your point of origin to re-initiate payment."

With the number of times I've moved these materials, I'll have personally lifted up and set down my entire shed at least 5 times before it is installed. I'm going to try to dig these last two holes and not think about this too much.

Making apple chips and building a shed. How's your day going?

Have you ever wondered what a #solar powered #meshtastic node would look like if way too much time and effort were put into it, but it was made entirely with things lying around the house? #decentralize everything!