Steven Roose @stevenroose@x0f.org
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@nitox@fosstodon.org I've been an environmentalist longer than I've been a Bitcoiner and I firmly believe #Bitcoin can be part of the solution of #ClimateChange. One of the big driving forces for our environmental issues are the consumption economy, an economy of evergrowing corporations and unlimited borrowing, and a political environment of big monopolies protected by politics through lobbying.
Bitcoin solves the former and while doing that, it reduces the power of government, taking a shot at the latter.
RT @denverbitcoin@twitter.com
21% of all U.S dollars printed this year.
This.
Year.
RT @lucyLBM2020@twitter.com
Spoke to a lifer in Belmarsh today. He said they're on total lockdown as there is so many cases in there.
Positive cases are all sent to the block that #JulianAssange is on. https://twitter.com/AferditaSa/status/1329855043516960768
Steven Roose
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So #Microsoft #GitHub is really starting to stink. I can't find some key features anymore. (1) the history of commits, (2) the activity graph/contributors list.
Aren't those really 2 core features?
Contact Diary: an app that helps you keep track of the people you have recently been with.
- daily reminder
- doesn't have the INTERNET permission, so it can't secretly share your data
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.apozas.contactdiary
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apozas.contactdiary
#covid19 #privacy #contacttracing
RT @JohannesStefans@twitter.com
One year since @wikileaks@twitter.com published over 30000 #Fishrot documents! Very big thanks to @khrafnsson@twitter.com and #wikileaks for the very good, professional and brave work on the Fishrot stories!
#Fishrot https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1194361395544018945
RT @BNODesk@twitter.com
A video by the German government about coronavirus is going viral. Here it is with English subtitles.
RT @davidfarrier@twitter.com
in 1990 the window of a plane fell off and one of the pilots got sucked out so they just held onto his legs while the plane landed
Steven Roose
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My PeerTube instance unexpectedly shut down after only 1 month- 2nd time it's happened to me :( Looking for Canadian instances.
> The EU Commission launched a strategy to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, [...] including setting minimum penalties for anti-LGBT hate crimes.
*sigh* so the #EU wants to do good for #queer people so it decides to discriminate them in jurisdiction? What's wrong with just ensuring adequate penalties for all hate crimes? Why do they need to be discriminated here?
I thought all the #LGBT community wanted was to *not* be discriminated and just be treated equal? 🤔
Steven Roose
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I don't care much about the new #googleicons, as I don't use those apps, but this piece by Markus Hofmann about how their #design is bad is fascinating: « Why Google’s new app icons are pretty bad! » https://link.medium.com/bPiGdiWD8ab h/t @goffredodotcom
Steven Roose
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Steven Roose
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A topics page for Simplicity is up on Bitcoin Optech now. Thanks to @harding for the extensive review! https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/simplicity/
Steven Roose
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Native segwit (bech32) (p2wpkh) (BIP84) wallets are the default in Joinmarket, as of just now, i.e. it is in master branch. Release soon.
This means that if you start the software today you will create those wallets and use the joinmarket bot pit for those wallets and create coinjoins with them, by default; you can set `native=false` in the config if you want, however. See docs/ directory for details.
Please publicize this where you can for users' plausible deniability when starting new bots.
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RT @boriquagato@twitter.com
@gummibear737@twitter.com only 9% of marriages (and these included historical) in 2016 were donkey/elephant.
wanna bet the number of marriages occurring is 2020 is more like 2%? 1%?
that's what a divided society looks like.
it's balkanization.
What's this new thing on #Android where you get a pop-up suggesting you download an update for the app you're opening? I don't take OS updates, so I figure that's either something the apps themselves add or something sneakily added through a silent #Google Play Store update?
Any insights? If it's opt-in for developers, I'm gonna start removing those apps, it bothers to get these all the time..
#TIL there is a economic metric called "non-farm employment", seemingly mostly used in the USA.
#Investopedia explains, however:
> In addition to farm workers, nonfarm payrolls data also excludes some government workers, private households, proprietors, and non-profit employees.
I wonder what's the reasoning behind this metric, Investopedia doesn't seem to know.
RT @lopp@twitter.com
Remember, if we get banned from Twitter for wrongthink the current plan is to regroup on Mastodon. Might as well set up your account now so that it's ready if you need it! https://bitcoinhackers.org
