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Reply to comment by winter in jstpst should have one of those github grids but it's red and it measures post votes. "good job posting" for anyone who posts every day of 2024. thoughts? by twovests
gitlab already took blue
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in jstpst should have one of those github grids but it's red and it measures post votes. "good job posting" for anyone who posts every day of 2024. thoughts? by twovests
sounds like blockchain
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Reply to comment by Moonside in babe i love you. but it's just like email. it's easy. just pick an instance please. no no not that one. DEFINITELY not that one. that one's good bu- oh nono not that one. maybe we can host one? it'll be $20/mo plus $30/year? babe? babe don't go by twovests
Good take and I agree, except Ubuntu let you type "sudo apt install" anything which was fantastic. I fucked up my whole laptop constantly in 2010
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Reply to comment by neku in I think Mastodon is better than Bluesky, but everyone seems to be gravitating to bluesky unfortunately. by flabberghaster
can't tell if you're calling me insane or the "blue sky to lightning" thing insane, either way, i agree and also thank you
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Reply to comment by emma in babe i love you. but it's just like email. it's easy. just pick an instance please. no no not that one. DEFINITELY not that one. that one's good bu- oh nono not that one. maybe we can host one? it'll be $20/mo plus $30/year? babe? babe don't go by twovests
unironically yes
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Reply to I think Mastodon is better than Bluesky, but everyone seems to be gravitating to bluesky unfortunately. by flabberghaster
one company that seem to have a pretty unclear business model.
The business model is to profit off of making Bitcoin mainstream. It's literally that.
Every single one of Jack Dorsey's public endeavors have been pointed towards making Bitcoin (Lightning) a thing. The only reason BlueSky isn't loudly pro-Bitcoin is because the people at BlueSky know that most people see cryptoshit as a toxic scam.
The whole Bluesky team are huge cryptocoin bros and they've been excited about Bitcoin Lightning ever since Jack Dorsey was asked to join on kicking the network off.
For the past four years, Jack Dorsey has been the main character of Bitcoin Lightning. He sees himself as a Jesus type person and I am not joking or exaggerating.
Technologically: The Lightning network works basically like Venmo or Paypal: Give your Bitcoins to a big wallet which does formal transfers infrequently. You're basically splitting the time+btc costs of one transaction by combining it with many others, so long as you trust the Lightning node you're using.
The profit plan is this:
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Make BlueSky big and ubiquitous
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Add Bitcoin integration once everyone's there, and make it fast and easy.
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Nobody's going to leave over it lol
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People using Bitcoin = Bitcoin costs more = Jack Dorsey becomes rich
Supporting evidence:
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Jack Dorsey already said he's going to integrate Lightning into BlueSky .
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Renaming Square to Block because blockchain, and then...
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... Adding Bitcoin Lightning to Cash App (Block)
- Do you know anyone who left Cash App (or Venmo) because they introduced Bitcoin? No right?
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Spiral lol, Tbd lol, etc.
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Block owns ~8000 BTC.
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Jack Dorsey owns an undisclosed (but likely huge) amount of Bitcoin.
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His net worth is ~$4B and Bitcoin is worth ~$40K. If just 1% of his networth is BTC, then he owns 1M BTC, which is about 5% of all the Bitcoins.
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Yes, this is stupid
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TLDR: All signs point to Bitcoin for Bluesky. i also agree it looks like people are moving to bluesky but i sure hope it doesn't take off
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Reply to if you truly valued our friendship you would drink from my Frightening Cauldron by Jenheadjen
I wouldn't hesitate
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Reply to comment by winter in microsoft teams counts as anticapitalist by twovests
imagine how much economic output you would miss out on if you relied on teams!
in this manner it also counts as anticommunist
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Reply to comment by cute_spider in congrats to just_post for 100 subscribers! i have unsubscribed in order to allow yet another person to hit that lucky 100 by twovests
well i resubscribed to hit 100 twice so far so i'm feeling pretty great
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in we have a presidential election in a year so get ready to hear your favorite leftists reveal their south park roots by twovests
I can't really blame you for how you feel here. I'm feeling pretty similarly. Choosing between two parties where the common ground is "genocide is good and we have an obligation to perpetuate it" is driving me insane.
At the same time, I can't realistically imagine any path to ending the genocide without the US democrats in control (on top of all the other things that are A Little Bit Better with dems). (Even then, I don't think it's realistic, or even plausible. Just far more likely than it coming from Republicans, and that as far more likely than something like a successful revolution with a better govt.)
I don't say this to convince you otherwise. If anything, I guess I might be convinced otherwise. If we're both in blue states, a vote for Jill Stein (mannn) might scare Dems by that fraction of a bit. Fuck it, let's vote for Jill Stein
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in we have a presidential election in a year so get ready to hear your favorite leftists reveal their south park roots by twovests
The thing is that a ceasefire is a pause in the genocide, not an end. It's not even a return to the status quo as of October 6th. A ceasefire is a compromise that still keeps things on the course toward genocide.
It falls far short from an acceptable way for things to be, it's less than a bare minimum, and yet it's still on the optimistic fringes of what could happen in the next week or month. That sucks!!
I'm still enthusiastically pro-ceasefire as a step off of the course of genocide. Same boat as you-- I'm disgusted my senators and my rep likewise haven't been able to call even for that.
But my personal pride doesn't matter, and the only benefit I could see to not-voting (or voting for Jill Stein) is to punish and pressure the Democratic party toward the left. But I don't see an argument for that being more effective than actually voting in Democrats and continuing to pressure them while they're in office.
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Reply to comment by cute_spider in we have a presidential election in a year so get ready to hear your favorite leftists reveal their south park roots by twovests
im a big srsly/cute_spider fan and this is wonderful to learn
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Reply to comment by neku in we have a presidential election in a year so get ready to hear your favorite leftists reveal their south park roots by twovests
the key thing is that the "both sides are the same" argument is the south park argument.
on some mainstream parts of the internet, "biden is 99% hitler" is a point of discussion we're expected to take seriously and debate with the south park folks
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Reply to comment by devtesla in where do you donate money to aid palestinians? by twovests
I appreciate this! I ended up figuring Charity Navigator is my best bet to avoid solicitations, and I could gamble on some spam if it means I could provide aid.
I ended up going with UNRWA (1) just because you posted it but also (2) a lot of the higher-rated charities with similar >90% scores had different gaps in the rating breakdown.
I also learned Doctor's Without Borders (1) is calling for a ceasefire and (2) does not operate in Israel (since they are focused on filling gaps in medical care, and Israel does not have those gaps.) I think they're generally a safe bet to send money to too.
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submit to the postmasters general of the fempire
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in too many nfts will make you go blind #apefest by twovests
i share this sentiment
i have no qualms against people with spare money shelling it out to scamscams while ignoring the mounting evidence that it's a scam
(i call it a "scamscam" because NFTs are like a scam on top of a scam. fraudulent nfts are a scamscamscam. append an extra scam if u agree capitalism is a scam #scamscamscamscam)
but the space is also filled with a lot of enthusiastic artists, programmers, etc. who aren't just investbros but truly believed optimistically that Blockchain Will Solve Thing. boredape is kind of adjacent to that
on the other hand, a lot of the most vocal people who were blinded seem to be using their fame to promote more coinshit and didn't actually get blinded. so i think actually my sympathies waned over these past few paragraphs #apefest
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Reply to comment by I_got_killed_one_time in jstpost breakdown: 2 GETs, by twovests
i have FOUR BITCHES which is one more GET than a jstpst POST needs
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Reply to no thoughts head empty only post by winter
certified good post
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Reply to I'm thinking about how luck we are by 500poundsofnothing
i think about this often. but for tea
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Reply to comment by neku in too many nfts will make you go blind #apefest by twovests
something i love is that NFTs were supposed to provide a way to make a cryptographically timestamped message with verifiable authorship
but nobody is using that, and bored ape's twitter thread about the blinded attendees ended with this message, because NFT threads are full of scamscams
This is the final tweet in this thread. Anything below this that looks like us is spam/phishing links. Do not click on links unless you have determined they are safe. You can also cross-reference with http://crouton.net and official brand communication channels.
lol. lmao.
(editorial note: i added the crouton)
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Reply to comment by emma in too many nfts will make you go blind #apefest by twovests
every one of my posts is 100% serious and describes something that has happened or is a premonition of something that will happen #apefest
all jokes aside, yeah, the #apefest hashtag on twitter was chock full of people who woke up early in the morning with tweets struggling to make sense of burns on their eyes and skin
now it's full of cryptogrifters saying shit like "When your eyesight returns, come & have a look at our collection. " nft link
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Reply to joking aside, [taking the premise of the joke seriously to humorous results, in effect joking further] by anethum
you are describing something plainly and accurately but it's funny inherently
this is similar
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in I truly believe that Go is the worst popular modern language. by flabberghaster
Same situation! It's a bit more boilerplate on everything I write, but the main problem is not everyone does it.
Thankfully, now nobody writes Go at my work (^:
Unthankfully, we're language-shy because of it, lol
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in I truly believe that Go is the worst popular modern language. by flabberghaster
I much prefer Every Other Language, where you get a stack trace that runs into the library code!
something like
some_call() failed at call another_call(x, y, z)
another_call(x,y,z) failed at internal_library(x[123])
internal_library.c failed on line 1025: index 123 is out of bounds for array x
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Reply to comment by winter in jstpst should have one of those github grids but it's red and it measures post votes. "good job posting" for anyone who posts every day of 2024. thoughts? by twovests
Their progress thing is a blue-cyan!