No. Gary Webb, the reporter from the San Jose Mercury News who first broke the story of CIA involvement in the cocaine trade, was found dead with “two gunshot wounds to the head.” His death, in 2004, was ruled a suicide.
It’s sort of a different concept. Posts and users also have position in addition to age and score. The sorting algorithm gives you complete control over how much to weight each one. It’s like if new and hot existed on a continuous spectrum. It’s sort of like what Aaron Swartz initially wanted to do with Reddit where what...
Sora is going to allow a single person to produce an entire movie by themselves. Surely, we’ll see these new emergent AI-powered films emerge on YouTube and other video platforms, including (my guess) of new platforms that will spring up completely based around “amateur” AI movies.
At the upcoming SXSW Conference… Honda will give attendees a chance to try out a new mobility device… specifically designed for mixed reality entertainment experiences....
Yes. Legacy banking systems use way more than at least Bitcoin.
“Bitcoin’s emission intensity, a measure of emissions per unit of power, is now its lowest ever, dropping 18x faster than the banking sector over 4 years.”
It may require a bit of TradFi history to truly understand Bitcoin and why it was even created in the first place. Much too long to even attempt at concatenating in a lemmy comment. Bitcoin wasn’t a get-rich-quick scam like the majority of shitcoins today. CypherPunk movement had been working on a trustless system without a governing authority pre-Bitcoin (see e-cash).
Government backed currencies require trust. In the US you are trading IOUs issued by the Federal Reserve, which isn’t even a Federal branch, but privatized business. There have been numerous times where the heads of the Fed have outright stated they simply enter numbers into a computer to issue money to Central banks, etc. Since Americans were robbed of a tangible currency, backed by Gold, the money printer has quite literally gone “brrrrr”.
I don’t trust the government or the bankers who have repeatedly financially rape the citizens. Remember the 2008 collapse? No one was held accountable. So, they’ve found new loopholes to continue pillaging the fiscally uneducated. The trust has been long gone as we’re repeatedly lied to.
This is what Bitcoin has sought to solve in that it’s not debased due to over issuance, unlike most fiat currencies. It doesn’t contribute to inflation, causing your purchasing power to be decreased. It quite literally removes the powers from corrupt bankers and gives it to the people.
On the subject of energy consumption, yes it has historically taken quite a lot for Proof of Work miners. However, in year’s past the miners have done a significant job at only using either green power sources or buying overproduced energy from companies. This has seen it drop far below the energy consumption of legacy banking or the Military Industrial Complex.
So, what you’re saying is, if fiat is backed by militarism, it’s really backed by death.
The link isn’t the sources but merely a conduit for the cited information. Also, you don’t have to pay to read it. Clearly you didn’t see the “continue reading” link to get passed the popup.
You have zero power as a citizen over the currency you use. You do not directly vote for the Central bankers, Federal Reserve board, etc. Even the politicians you might vote for who appoint them will almost always side in their own favor than their constituents. I’d hardly believe a word a politician ever utters. Just look at all the lies and false promising during the campaigns of the last 5 presidents and what they actually accomplished. Biden and college debt as a more recent example.
You are also confusing Bitcoin’s Proof of Work with a shitcoin’s Proof of Stake, which is where wealth gives you more votes. As for the hash rate you’re contributing as a miner, there’s no additional power you’re given. Even if you attempted to 51% attack the network, it’d be gaining nothing beyond a double-spend by rewriting the blockchain transaction. Likely causing the currency’s price to crash. Zero financial incentives for any rich people to do that, unless they’re part of a nation-state hoping to try and destroy the currency.
someday ago I saw this website about privacy and anonymity that had links to other websites, it had something to do with the durian fruit, the website was something like “durian network”, I cant find it, literally, I cant remember the developer’s name or anything that could help me find this website, it also had a link to...
Hello, I have seted up my lemmy server couple months back and am loving it. One problem I have with it is that I can’t follow individual users so I have been thinking about selfhosting another fediverse service that will satiate my need to follow specific users....
The simplest solution would be to use a Nostr app to create a keypair (aka account). Then add the Mostr.pub relay. This will let you search for ActivityPub users and follow them as if it were a Twitter-style feed.
Oh nice, yes if it will already show posts from whichever would show in subscribed home feed then that’s perfect. Looking forward to them (っ˘ڡ˘ς)!
Only other request I might have for the app as a whole would be to create an “All” view when viewing a user’s profile, which shows both posts/comments in chronological order. Thanks!
Hey thanks so much for releasing the widgets. Loving them. What are your thoughts on having an option for removing the subheading so the up/downvotes and community can be moved there. This way you might be able to squeeze one more item there. This could be completely optional in case others like the single item view. But here’s a screenshot of a Mastodon app that fits two posts in the widget. Thank you!
Oh hell yea! Looks great. Thank you! My only request here is if it’s possible to allow option for true black background like it had before? Thank you so much 😎
F.A.A. Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues (www.nytimes.com)
Without paywall: archive.ph/2Ir4Q
You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on (matrix.gvid.tv)
It’s sort of a different concept. Posts and users also have position in addition to age and score. The sorting algorithm gives you complete control over how much to weight each one. It’s like if new and hot existed on a continuous spectrum. It’s sort of like what Aaron Swartz initially wanted to do with Reddit where what...
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AI WARFARE IS ALREADY HERE (www.bloomberg.com)
Honda built a powered chair to zoom around theme parks while wearing an AR headset. (www.engadget.com)
At the upcoming SXSW Conference… Honda will give attendees a chance to try out a new mobility device… specifically designed for mixed reality entertainment experiences....
Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use [US] (www.theverge.com)
Piracy Shield Cloudflare Disaster Blocks Countless Sites, Fires Up Opposition (torrentfreak.com)
lost website UPDATE: I FOUND IT
someday ago I saw this website about privacy and anonymity that had links to other websites, it had something to do with the durian fruit, the website was something like “durian network”, I cant find it, literally, I cant remember the developer’s name or anything that could help me find this website, it also had a link to...
Accurate (futurology.today)
OpenAI Wants to Eat Google Search's Lunch (gizmodo.com)
Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media (techcrunch.com)
Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show (gizmodo.com)
Selfhosted twitter alternative, not mastodon if possible
Hello, I have seted up my lemmy server couple months back and am loving it. One problem I have with it is that I can’t follow individual users so I have been thinking about selfhosting another fediverse service that will satiate my need to follow specific users....
Arctic is live on the AppStore (apps.apple.com)
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