sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

dalio: "I suspect that Bitcoin’s biggest risk is being successful, because if it’s successful, the government will try to kill it and they have a lot of power to succeed."

I've been saying this for many years. He's 100% right.

The US military uses 30 terawatt-hours (TWh) of energy each year, which is more than the entirety of Ireland, and approximately twice that of Iceland.

Estimates put Bitcoin's energy usage at 60TWh per year, about that of Switzerland.

Do you think the US military or Bitcoin is a better use of energy?

i need to send email to 4000 people. how do i do that a) without ending up in spam and b) cheaply?

suggestions to use gnu mailman will result in my muting your account

i liked nextcloud until i started reading the php

ugh, wanted to run nextcloud to self-host some groupware stuff. i thought the whole point of this php turd was that it was self-contained? but here I see the web UI phoning home... why go to all that trouble to shoot yourself in the foot like that?

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale-and-censorship

substack is a trash platform run by trash people, but this article is spot on, despite greenwald’s general failings as a person

it's such a huge fuck you to a volunteer QA contributor who jumps through the hoops of creating an account on your bug tracker, verifying their email, and typing out a detailed bug report to autoclose it for idleness a year later with classic CADT bullshit boilerplate

banking in germany is such a pain in the dick

why is the internet privacy/crypto community so dogmatic and idiotic and dramaseeking

this is tutu sitting on my knee

yo @Vladimir_Vladimirovich@mastodon.social

born late enough for homo sapiens to consider themselves a civilization, too early for them to stop regularly committing genocides under color of law whilst pretending they're civilized.

HP's mac printer configuration tools are only published in the Mac App Store, which means you must provide a phone number and email address to Apple to get an Apple ID to get them.

i'm not even a huge stones fan or anything but this is one of the most amazing videos i've ever seen on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwtyn-L-2gQ

is "wen moon" a legitimate question for elon now that he is pumping doge as well as starship?