The Bitcoin hard fork went live a couple days early and mining blocks with the hash, originally stated for Sep. 1st. My hard fork node is still downloading the blockchain (less than 100k blocks to go) and Luke Dashjr hadn’t…
Russia has threatened the UK for providing weapons, so is the EU and UK going too far in helping Ukraine? Is this a sign that they’re no longer safe to do so? Are they going to provoke a wider conflict?…
This is a good video on why I was always fond of Trezor while all the Bitcoin influencers were going on about Coldcard devices. Consequently, I bought a Coldcard Q to play with, but having seen the profane Rodolfo Novak…
I run Xlibre and use the repositories for my Manjaro laptop and EndeavorOS desktop (mainline Arch), and other than one problem with my Nvidia driver on the desktop that made me fallback a version until they fixed it, Xlibre has…
Update: My public instance is getting blocked by a bunch of search engines, many using Captchas, and this has been reported and supposedly fixed for the next Docker rollout. Consequently, my backup SearXNG on a home network Docker Pi system…
This isn’t scary at all, and pay attention to how the fed fusion centers could be combining all this data from systems that pay lip service to not sharing data… By Rex Edison From Romania to Finland, an AI…
This shows where they’re heading with AI this dystopian surveillance. And based on AI prompts you could end up like the worker near the border flagged for his work trips, pulled over, sneakily interrogated on camera at the cop’s passenger…
A nice video of where motorcycles are with regards to automatic transmissions or just not needing to use a clutch lever. I’m old school with wanting a manual transmission and clutch, though the E-Clutch is interesting. And modern bikes have…
I do like the grand jury refusing to indict the vandal, as that’s a significant message of discontent and an unusual use of a grand jury. Consequently, I fear this is part of a psyop promoting vandalism to be followed…
There is no denying that the German government is a bad actor, persecuting conservative political parties opposing their mass immigration policies… And they keep donating large sums to opensource projects. They could just be protecting the software stack they use,…
Seems I remember that if you used encryption previously, Amazon didn’t have access to it. So is this a way to have access for a palatable amount of time so they can give it to law enforcement. And really, do…
This sheriff should get voted out of office if you care about your county. And actually, most people against Flock ALPR camera warrantless surveillance actually support law enforcement, so this sheriff is spinning propaganda and disingenuous. And lets call it…
