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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @chrono 27 Aug 2023 \ on: How many people here believe that man did go to the moon? meta
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I was born healthy, white, and male in the United States. I was raised in a loving, upper-middle class family with a mother and father who are still married.
I went to good schools, earned excellent grades, and kept up a decent social life. I graduated among the top of my university class and found work shortly after. I've excelled in my career but not without hardships.
I am debt free and have a beautiful fiancé of similar background, values, and financial stability; someone who respects my hobbies and interests. There's a level of trust I never thought was possible to obtain from a woman during these times. She's exceeded my expectations tenfold.
Not everything is peachy. Our living situation is not ideal: We're dealing with post-Pandemic crime perpetuated by undesirables and the housing market is terrible. The best thing we can do is keep waiting, saving, and investing. We're confident we'll find a home in a more respectable area in the near future.
Am I lucky? I thank God each day for the life I've been given.
Who wins in a Musk v. Zuckerberg cage fight? The viewers.
We get to watch two idiotic billionaires -- a part-reptile, part-human-sized jar of mayonnaise allegedly "trained" in martial arts; the other, a literal man child whose only form of training is lifting weights at the office -- fight and embarrass each other in front of the world.
I haven't read anything about stakes, but, to make things interesting: Whoever loses must resign.
Going to college is always a good decision. Where most people fail is going to a school they can't afford.
Andy Greenberg's Tracers in the Dark goes in depth into Chainalysis's history and known affiliation with law enforcement and government entities, both of which make up a good chunk of the company's customers.
Would I use an app tied to Chainalysis? Absolutely not.
What Meta isn't telling people is if they link their Threads account to their Instagram account, they can't delete the former without nuking the latter.
Ross Ulbricht, also known as the Dread Pirate Roberts, who founded the Silk Road, a dark-web marketplace that used Bitcoin as its central form of payment and pushed the cryptocurrency further into the mainstream. Unfortunately, he is serving double life sentences. Free Ross.
Spaced repetition on keywords and concepts, practiced daily over a long period of time, will do wonders.
Villeneuve: He is the best science fiction director working right now.
- Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Dune
Scorsese: A crime film legend.
- The Departed, The Irishman, Casino, Goodfellas
Taratino: You know his movies for a reason.
- Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious Basterds, Jackie Brown
Cuaron: One of Mexico's best directors
- Y tu mamá también, Children of Men, Gravity.
Iñárritu: Just as daring as Cuaron (they come from the same Mexican film scene) but has an artistic flare unmatched right now.
- Bardo, The Revenant, Biutiful, Birdman
Nolan: His films are not meant to be watched once. They're made to be revisited, analyzed, and watched again; the joy of his movies is discovering something new each time.
- The Prestige, Momento, Inception, The Dark Knight
Don’t buy anything from Newegg
You didn't specify how you paid for the drive, so I'll assume you used BTC. Do you have documentation that proves you paid for the drive? Did you discuss the missing drive over the phone or email? What, exactly, was their reasoning for not sending another drive?
67 sats \ 1 reply \ @chrono 2 Jun 2023 \ parent \ on: AirBnb sucks with KYC - Any alternative? bitcoin
Tough luck finding a no-ID hospitality business without putting down some serious collateral.
Many motels accept cash. However, there is a trade-off in comfort and cleanliness for anonymity and discretion.
I was a 1Password customer for nearly a decade. The mobile and desktop apps were solid, the extension worked, and the customer service was solid.
In the last few years, though, 1Password has started to decline. The recent move to version 8 -- a horrendous downgrade from 7 -- was the final straw.
I dropped 1Password and jumped to Bitwarden. I don't regret the decision. There are some small pain points that 1P does better -- autofilling, syncing, and saving new entries -- but, for $10 a year, Bitwarden worked out well. Bonus: the entire codebase is open source?
Regardless, using a password manager to create unique passwords for each account is always a smart move.
There's no point for NPR to push cryptocurrency as an option in this story if most of their audience is made up of normies who can't be relied on, nor would care, to use it.
I try to use as much free and open-source software -- or software that doesn't require payment, doesn't track usage, or a combination of both -- as much as possible.
The transition from proprietary software is easier when done over a period of time.
If you're not familiar with Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, his talks are a good introduction. While he is one of the most well-known free software advocates, he's not alone. There are many people in the space who can provide useful information to shed yourself of proprietary garbage.
For the novice, here are a few things you can start doing today:
Discord => IRC, xmpp, matrix, mumbleSkype,Teams => JitsiVisual Code Studio => Emacs, vimiTunes, Spotify => Strawberry, foobar2000Windows, MacOS => Linux, *bsd
There are a number of sites that offer free, privacy-respecting recommendations for software and services:
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cat-v's list of harmful stuff
I thought this post's title, with all its symbols, was a missing track from Bon Iver's 22, A Million.