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April 14, 2023Shreyan Jainbitcoin, eastereggs, macos 2 Comments Aside

Weird but interesting…

The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS

Pretty neat. Strange easter egg (?) for Apple to include, but I won’t question it.

#bitcoin #macos #eastereggs

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April 4, 2023Shreyan Jain Leave a comment Link
So long, Twitter API, and thanks for all the fish by Ryan BarrettRyan Barrett (snarfed.org)

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Well, it’s come to this. Twitter is burning, a billionaire owes money, an API will soon get lobotomized, so Bridgy‘s Twitter support will die within the month. Granary‘s and twitter-atom too. The …

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March 15, 2023Shreyan Jain Leave a comment Link
https://snarfed.org/2023-03-04_49427 by Ryan BarrettRyan Barrett (snarfed.org)

Human beings are both novelty seeking and change averse. We want everything to be both new and familiar, at the same time. It’s the worst. 😆

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March 15, 2023Shreyan Jain Leave a comment

Banks are broken. Hear me out.

The space needs disrupting. Think:
– a physical form of money
– use it to pay for goods/services
– hard to trace
– anonymous
– you can carry it with you
– fully fungible

who’s building this?

— gaut (@0xgaut) March 14, 2023

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March 15, 2023Shreyan Jain Leave a comment Aside

it seems that @torvalds@social.kernel.org, the creator of Linux, is now on the Fediverse.

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March 14, 2023Shreyan Jain Leave a comment Link
https://www.prologic.blog/2022/12/10/a-distributed-network.html by James MillsJames Mills (prologic.blog)

A “distributed network” does not make your app “decentralised” 🤦‍♂️

Referring to Bitcoin?

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March 13, 2023Shreyan Jain 3 Comments Link
Johannes Ernst (@J12t@social.coop) (social.coop)

@aaronpk How should #mastodon and other #fediverse apps support #oauth? Can we have a better experience than “enter your server URL here to follow”?

what if every mastodon instance let you login with an account from a different instance through the web interface and then interact directly?

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FRO VO (@fro_vo@universeodon.com) (Universeodon Social Media)

ME: i would like to open a checking account
BANKER: would you like a savings account too?
ME: no
BANKER: okay, just checking

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March 13, 2023Shreyan Jain Leave a comment Aside

Are there any ways to POSSE posts from WordPress to yarn.social/twtxt?

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March 12, 2023Shreyan Jain Leave a comment
https://aaronparecki.com/2023/03/09/5/bluesky-and-oauth (aaronparecki.com)
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