"By the time they reach the eighth grade, 30% of them will be able to hack into your system." The ad in magazine InfoWorld, 12.7.1999. How precise - the 30%! And what crimes they will commit, huh?

"If you're unable to predict a disaster, make a disastrous prediction about the future" - Nicholas Petreley

Friendly reminder: you do not need the fcuking Docker Desktop. It's sluggish, wannabe AI enhanced, idk what else it does, fancy dashboard(?). Basically all that is needed can be handled from the cli, goddamn. Also it does create the infamous ~/.docker/desktop/vms/0/data/Docker.raw and this is (despite a setting in the GUI) often overridden by Docker resulting in insane amounts of storage taken by this volume. And to make this worse, it's a static size regardless of whether there is something inside or not. Any prune won't make it smaller. And if there is encryption in place it will get stuck forever creating this volume black box blob. It's really beyond my understanding why the Desktop is always bundled with many installation guides, war crime this is.

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Look @Grafton, with never ending enshittification of every corner on the internet - there is new opportunity for filling the Vexl marketplace. (OK, the owner of the place hates BTC all the time and even banned the word in the text of the offers, though that could be avoided with some wording.)

#asknostr Today (on a profile I help to run) this error response for a 'like' reaction on post has been given to me. Yet after refresh the reaction is accounted for. I don't understand much what does it mean and why it ended all good after all despite the error. I mean the policy and WoT.

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This is great podcast - good baseline for the current situation with Iran. Hidden Forces: Iran's Counterrevolution & the Future of the Greater Middle East | Kamran Bokhari Episode webpage:

Hidden Forces

Iran's Counterrevolution & the Future of the Greater Middle East

From the 1979 Revolution to today's nationwide protests: Kamran Bokhari explains how Iran's internal crisis could reshape the future of t...

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While surfing the YT for new sounds, stumbled upon this and it's the same artist (seems to me) you have the profile pic from him. Who is it? @Vezire

@Zapstore the web page Download > Verify > Mobile does have link from the "Use AppVerifier" for the GH repo that does not exist / (/nicman23/appverifier) 404. The repo you possibly should link is the: github.com/soupslurpr/AppVerifier

OK, there is some work on it.

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Transcoding of Videos - Solving the issue of large media files · Issue #269 · nostrability/nostrability

Maybe I didn't see it, but the imeta specification (NIP-92) doesn't support multiple bitrates/sizes of the same video, does it? I know it supports ...

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Proton does have now Palestinian Territory (Ramallah) VPN servers. P2P allowed. And even they are, as of now, marked like full HW presence in the area - in contrast to some virtual servers using the Smart routing. 2026 and users can torrent with the ✡Hamas✡, lol.

Today I updated my Matrix server because of a fix to mitigate a signing-key compromise in Element Server Suite (ESS) by ignoring the affected key by default. For my rooms, this means a migration, and after that everyone sees: "This room has been replaced and is no longer active." The only quick, meaningful explanation of why this message is displayed is to be found here: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-project-matrix-room-upgrades-coming-next-week/20536. It's funny; the average user has no idea, everyone just clicking on it. In effect, this also means old messages can't really be deleted anymore. That's only possible in the currently active room. Also, if the room is private, users cannot migrate on their own. An admin must invite them one by one. Manually, there is no script. In general, I realized a few more things: Communities are in the documentation but aren't used anymore; there are Spaces instead. And Spaces don't have any (non-technical, user-facing) documentation on Matrix . org. Rooms can't be migrated between Spaces and standalone rooms easily anyway. (At least in Element, I couldn't figure it out, maybe it's client-dependent for now.) Not to mention: the biggest hurdle is still identity (MXID) in Matrix, which is DNS-dependent. DNS is a scam, a chokepoint of rented addresses. Resilient, DNSSEC provides nice protection against response tampering, but that's it. @username:sub.domain.xyz. That's all. If the server where you create the account isn't hosted well, you're cooked the moment the identity is created. Stolen, seized, or expired domains. Or just the fact that, along the DNS chain of command, there's usually a SPOF, with a single person holding the credentials. This is something Nostr definitely handles better. View quoted note →

What is the matter with Simple Taproot Channels on LND not being used much? Having trouble finding a node to open one. Also, it's impossible for me to filter out nodes by this feature or any info at all basically. But we have some 'AI powered liquidity' here instead. View quoted note →

I'd like to read (in my opinion) high quality and not much biased critique, like this one. And especially from someone who is an expert (unlike me) for this programming stuff. So lets explore some Vervaekeism (had to use Kagi search as it's a novelty to me) about how getting dirty with code can reveal us that the syntax is not mere ceremony; boilerplate is meaningful. *the part about the domestication of us humans (with the example of wood-burning stoves) really reminds me of how it took me almost 3 yrs to learn how to operate the downdraft gasification boiler that replaced the old 'just burn the pile of wood somehow'. Not to mention that one tiny broken part in the mechanism responsible for dealing with the pressure difference between building heating and long-distance hot water pipeline for the heat distribution. Spend 4 days with no heat and hot water in lowest temperatures this winter. Undisclosed and thus not well understood complexity that can't be explained correctly by the AI can be hard to fix. (Despite the manuals, years of the forum posts and entire FAQ knowledge being available basically online for AI to digest.) And that is easier with hardware as it offers quite direct feedback, with the hot stuff, if done wrong. View article →

Signal may not be perfect. But every single time I use anything different, it remind me how clean the UI/UX is. And I hope they won't change anything about it at all. For example, started few months unused Matrix client, the Element: +++ does work with VPN, alias email service, no questions asked, no phone verification - there is left bar menu, opening one submenu, with Home and rest of whatever call it, rooms? - this Home opening sub-menu People/Rooms/System Alers chats - some rooms are only visible under Home, while some in left menu, idk why - there is a division between rooms and space - can't understand difference - Almost 3/4 of rooms have now the message: This room has been replaced and is no longer active. But why, some large upgrade? - if I do not visit every room and migrate myself into new one, I'm basically with no info about it's dead end situation - rooms chat are clumsy, full of info like: changed their profile picture 4 times, changed their name, and left. Umm, cool and what? - more spam and unrelated service info, especially if there is Discord/TG/IRC<>Matrix bridge connection - so messages look like shit: RoomBridge <UserXYZ:Discord> 'Actual message' - hard to react on this - hard to meaningfully search the content - servers suck, if it fck up itself, entire room is corrupted - moderation on this mess is almost impossible - clients suck as well - monoculture now, Element only afaik 'usable' - have no info what is shared where and what rules are applied to such connections - some bridges are one way, some rooms have apparently mixed modes - so many rooms have 'End-to-end encryption isn't enabled' - it even can't be enabled because of: 'Enabling encryption may prevent many bots and bridges from working correctly.' (Ok, this does make sense.) - if I leave old rooms, some remain in notifications, stuck forever and I can't get rid of them Feels like Element won't starting for few more months on my machine yet again. SimpleX still is quite promising.

As my consumption of sugar and caffeine dropped to basically 0 for prolonged periods of time, it is interesting to see how even moderate sugar intake (a few hours before sleep) can change the qualities of my dreams. Sugar-assisted dreams are: - very vivid and colorful, feeling like almost the IPS vs OLED; until this happened to me, I had no idea it could be that different - more unhinged content; I can almost run in the dreams or swiftly switch the place of the story to another No nightmares, it is just different, not worse in general. Before my lifestyle changed to this, mainly no sugar/carbs diet, it did not occur to me. I had no dreams like that despite being 'high on carbs' all the time. Now that there is some, say, more normal baseline, the difference can be seen and compared to the normal state.

This is interesting to watch, the state of bike-sharing in Europe (mainly Nexbike, but patterns will be in general the same for the competition). The interactive map is:

Bike Sharing Flowmap

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