https://spectator.com/article/why-did-the-police-cuff-henry-nowak/

There is a more worrying possibility, at least hinted at in the reports: that Nowak’s arrest was an immediate reaction to the suggestion that he had racially abused Digwa, and had this simply been a case of a person alleged to have started a fight he would not have been cuffed but simply rushed to hospital. If this is right, then the Hampshire Police have a serious case to answer, and not simply because their arrest of Nowak may have led to his unnecessary death.

I think that "police have a serious case to answer" for anyone that deceases while in their custody. Doesn't matter why a person is in cuffs, where they are from, what they said or did not say. Cuffed = custody. Custody = responsibility. Period.

The only dinners and groups I attend nowadays are weddings and funerals. On the former I'll be that guy that drank all the booze, on the latter I am the shoulder to cry on. Clear roles, keeps me free from rhetoric. haha.

I haven't had a mentee in 2.5 years now because the last one (that I helped to zero-to-hero in 2 years, full time) was captured by scammy shitcoiners. My fault, because I failed to help with financial resilience: there weren't enough opportunities in my network to employ them and today, there still wouldn't be. What use are skills if all you can use them for, without being completely doxxed, is working for a bunch of scammers?

That may be true. But the nice thing when you get to pick your own mentees, is that bottom line if they failed, it is always your fault. Either because you mentored wrong, or because you picked wrong.

Taking responsibility ultimately makes it easier to cope with failure, because it's controllable.

I see that differently. I think that I'm in the ignore the normies phase. I don't want to work with normies, I don't really want to work with people that do not ignore the normies either. I don't seek to convert people into a religion. For exactly the reason you're saying: it's frustrating af.

I don't want to be angry at stupid people because my anger won't change them. They'll still appeal to their overlords and try to manipulate the injustice to be on the other guy instead of them, and profit from it. Fuck that.

Instead, I want to focus my energy on those that truly want or need the alternative. Not to get rich, but to be enabled to do great things. Everything I do should ultimately lead to that: free people from the bonds they were born and taught into, or worse: coerced into. But for that to succeed, we need more than just Bitcoin and I too don't have a complete formula for it. It'd be good to get that though.

I'm not disagreeing with you. But, the fact that tools exist doesn't mean that everyone is ready or skilled enough to use these tools. And Bitcoin is such a tool.

I think that the challenge is not to draw lines and call people names on what we perceive to be the wrong side of that line. I think that instead, the challenge is to help people in a way that is useful to them. Help that will empower them to improve their lives. Step by step, while being careful to not push them into another trap.

I don't have all the answers towards it but I do think that we can meaningfully help people, and it would be good to be able to focus on those that need it most. Side effect of that focus is that those that are thriving in their slavery, will keep doing so for a much longer time.

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Bootlicking is never good, because it strenghtens dependency.

I just think that with 99.999% of humans enslaved, we shouldn't blame the victims.

Generally, Bitcoin dgaf what meatspace does. The only real meatspace issues are miner decisions, but one's filter is the other's profits... meaning that even in miner "regulation", there is enough incentive for someone else to turn their miner with non-permissioned, inclusive block templates. It's just something to keep an eye on; i.e. be on the lookout for politically incentivized reorgs.

Other than that, if someone wants to ask permission for something, that is generally their problem... BUT...

... I've ran into problems with businesses (on both sides of the Atlantic) lately though, because the compliance pressure is nasty to them and many people are fully dependent on keeping their local overlords happy. An additional problem is that since so many in the Bitcoin space are dependent on either the fiat printer going brrrr, or the fiat rails they or their upstream source of sats depend on, that it is hard to do business past barter without the compliance slop. Doors will stay closed without compliance, regardless of potential value delivered - and in many cases, protective solutions make for a thick layer of overhead that would otherwise be completely unnecessary and wasteful.

This is the real problem now. @jasonb noted something similar about this yesterday too: #1494784. We can dismiss it with "pearls before swine", but maybe the real problem is that many people that would otherwise be interested are fully held hostage with no clean way out.

How to be a crook

Mirror of #1259381, bitrate slightly downsized. All credit goes to @DarthCoin

Apparently @optimism has no respect for the sanctity of my private seed

I'm just reiterating what you already said: #605815

lol

Did they request your permission to leech all your behavioral data in Incognito mode? Did they request your permission to profile you in the first place?

This is not the worst thing they did, do, or will do to you in the future.

Doesn't hurt to know things! In terms of time well spent, it may be more useful to just use a framework that bridges from another language, so that you don't have to learn OS-specific languages and frameworks. After all, do you really want to be locked in to Apple?

https://kivy.org/

That's odd for a language that you can literally do anything in lol

Writing a Rust SDK for financial infrastructure is probably not the right place to start. It would be like being thrown off the deep end of the Mariana Trough, chained to a couple of industrial sized mega grindstones, and with a transmitter to your heart that, if it stops beating, makes nukes go off.

Learning code probably still starts with Python nowadays. You know what? Instead of using existing golang tooling, I'll write the code that would help with ~Music performance measuring in Python instead. That functionality has some nice elements, like some data manipulation and aggregation, interfacing with external APIs and reporting that can serve as a support for the learning curve.

This was patched in 13.0.2, reflecting the recommendation from #1486646

After we discussed the liveness endpoints 2 weeks ago here on SN, this got patched. Super awesome!

Appreciate the hard work, @evankaloudis ❤️

Hmm no. Like all the *DK packages that you can include into your app and just integrate high level calls. Justin & co have released an SDK in typescript, which is great for web and React based apps (like Zeus). But for pure Kotlin / Flutter apps, the current common preference is to use Rust libraries.

obviously not a recommendation but it gets worse, there is mention of liquid in their Git

I'm not sure that a liquid<->ln bridge is worse than a spark<->ln bridge, for now. I'd probably rank spark risk higher than liquid.

What I'd like to see in the future is apps like these using CLINK

Dev ecosystem needs to grow for that... an SDK that can be called through ffi (Rust?) from flutter/kotlin would help to get better exposure to app builders. Can be done without burdening Justin & co too.

Haha. I thought that you meant exactly that at first but then I figured "yeah but if it is irrelevant then it is a perfectly marginalized set of victims that can just be abused with impunity." The meme works both ways tho.