2 blocks in the past hour #bitcoin is down! 🤣🫣

If you're looking for some rockin' music, might I suggest an album by KMFDM from 2003 What's old is new again.

I have this outragous theory that a bunch of self-hosters could coordinate to have uptime that rivals companies like Google. And I'm not just talking about #IPFS, #Nostr, #BitTorrent, #Peertube and so on (those are obviously resilient). But I'm also talking about traditional web services, videoconferencing, and things that don't require any special software from the user's perspective. Just a browser. There are challenges, both technical and in terms of trust. But I also think these could be addressed. Perhaps differently by different groups of people. For example, me mirroring someone else's cryptpad doesn't leak your documents, but I could still make them available in the event your main server went offline. The downtime could be automatically detected, and DNS could either failover or be updated. Or perhaps DNS could just hand out the IP addresses for all the mirrors (depending on how clients handle that, testing required). Is anyone else interested in this type of thing?

Malwaretech is giving people the straight dope on privacy first tech providers cooperating with law enforcement while decieving people to believe otherwise.

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Marcus Hutchins :verified: (@malwaretech@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image It feels like Proton are being intentionally misleading in their statements. They know that most of their customers aren't famil...

Proof of work: building a kiwi trellis $500 of materials acquired, now I just have to wait for the GC2 wood to dry out. It's super green right now. Then measure, cut, stain, dig post holes and assemble. Simple enough

You know what really grinds my gears? Hearing people say a supply disruption causes "inflation". No. A drop in supply causes higher prices, but higher prices are not inflation, they are a *symptom* of inflation. Lower supply and constant demand is just market dynamics. Inflation is the expansion of the money supply in excess of the production of goods & services. This isn't my personal definition, nor is it some fringe theory... here's an entire article from the Federal Reserve supporting this definition. https://web.archive.org/web/20080819185226/http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/Commentary/1997/1015.pdf It just grinds my gears to hear people conflate higher prices and inflation, as if expanding the money supply has no effect of this. Don't belittle people for making this mistake. Educate them. If they disagree, citing CPI as the way we measure inflation, that's a fair point. However, if inflation is being defined as strictly higher prices, then measuing it should include things like home prices, life insurance, energy, and everything else that people spend money on. Another thing to consider is whether they believe we would be suffering from inflation if prices and wages grew at the same rate. Prices would be higher, but things would not be any less afordable. Calling that inflation wouldn't really mean anything. The term is really a lot more synonymous with "affordability" than "higher prices".

This is what life is supposed to be like.

@ManiMe I hit you up on here via DM a couple days ago. If you can't find 'em, hit me up on Meshtastic or some other method.