Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Found the article. Seems like I was off on the cost ($64k, not six-figures), but here's the whole thing if you want to die inside: https://cointelegraph.com/news/mysterious-bitcoiner-spends-64k-inscribe-9mb-of-data-on-bitcoin

@mort As someone very much into actual cryptography, Cryptocurrencies were of huge interest to me when Bitcoin was a new thing.

The "experts" today that are completely divorced from cryptography and only care about market hype have thoroughly convinced me to never touch a blockchain-related product ever again, because I never see anyone who actually knows what they're talking about endorse this stuff.

There is something so incredibly funny to me about watching a journalist that specializes in Cryptocurrency encountering a 9MB blob of encrypted data, and marveling over the fact that a language model couldn't magically break the cypher.

And then to tell the world that this is how he tried to decrypt data, with zero awareness that they're saying something devastatingly stupid to anyone who actually understands the topic.

And cryptography is literally the backbone of the tech he covers...

Cryptocurrency people are so funny. Recently someone with deep pockets spent six-figures embedding 9MB of encrypted data into the BTC blockchain.

I read a write-up about it one some website dedicated to cryptocurrency, and the author was especially impressed with the fact that encrypted data cannot be decrypted without a key. He noted that "not even ChatGPT could decrypt it".

Of course Cryptocurrency people don't understand cryptography... That's why they buy pretend internet money.

@jalefkowit @LilahTovMoon Fox is also responsible. https://youtu.be/g6fu7XB7qbs?si=L5im--vF5baS1jPn

Doing a basic text search of the Epstein docs, and Trump's name appears 112 times, while Clinton's name appears 378 times.

Though, I don't think there's much to compare here, I wouldn't want my name to appear even once imho.

@revjss is there a key for the colors?

@Linza See Article 7: https://www.deezer.com/legal/cgu

Short but effective IMHO.

I found the best medical author on the Kindle store.

The only thing that would make it perfect is a Linux client. The Windows/Mac Clients are just electron Apps, so there are third-party wrappers, but an official release would be excellent.

I switched from Spotify to Deezer a little over a year ago, largely because Spotify wasn't adequately moderating disinformation and hate speech in it's hosted Podcasts, but if anything has made me love Deezer it is that I can upload my own MP3s and stream them everywhere.

I never have any issues with Deezer not having something that Spotify has, it's just nice being able to dump all my obscure tracks into one service so I can play whatever I want and make playlists using all of it.

People have largely forgotten how awesome diagonal scanlines used to look on a CRT monitor. All my Internet friends and I used to put a layer of scanlines on our forum singatures and pfps for that extra high-tech look back in the 2000's.

Looks terrible on a modern monitor. It just worked on a CRT.

@james "Serverless" doesn't really mean "without using servers", it just means being able to create and run applications without managing the backend. Nostr definitely meets that definition. A bunch of different relays running different flavors of relay software connecting a bunch of different applications together.

You are right that there is a scaling issue, since relays aren't especially elastic. Relays can share with each other, so you don't have to subscribe to all of them, but still.

@thehill if we're going to be in the business of using honest language, then yes, we can call Hamas "Terrorists" because of their deliberate "murder of defenseless women and children". It's accurate language; I have no disagreement.

But we're not calling the atrocities Israel is committing against Gazans "regrettable collateral civilian deaths in a conflict". This is just as dishonest as calling Hamas "Fighters". The correct term is "War Crimes".

More on this: Jack Dorsey donates money to White Nationalist groups.

@jeffjarvis I guess I just don't get your defense of Microsoft here. They didn't make the tool, OpenAI did. Microsoft basically run the studio.

And while I'm not against the Generative AI, there are clearly some misuse issues, and I don't see any issue at all in criticizing a hosted corporate platform for operating without sufficient guardrails.