Apple to let Parler back on App Store ahead of anti-trust hearing https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/4/19/apple-to-let-parler-back-on-app-store-ahead-of-anti-trust-hearing #News
Finally listened to https://stephanlivera.com/episode/268/ where @pete offers what I think is an excellent analysis and summary of the whole #Signal shitcoin situation from a technical perspective.
The only thing missing is mentioning #XMPP when @stephanlivera asks about federated messaging protocols. But we still have work to do, to make that a viable alternative for a mainstream audience IMO.
At 5:25 sounds like they invented spin coating: "Finally someone tried pouring the paint out of a cup. The disk coated itself."
the minimum bar for live sets is now set: you have to be more entertaining than the acid randomizer:
"Fearing" coronavirus surge, families of Toronto FC players relocate to team's base in Florida, a state that hasn't had lockdown since September.
FTFY
https://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/04/17/is-the-astra-zeneca-vaccine-killing-people/
Great writeup on why it these blood clots were 1) so alarming, 2) definitely caused by Astra Zeneca.
"So four people out of 132,000 who received the Astra-Zeneca vaccine developed the normally exceedingly rare combination of thrombocytopenia with cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. All had received the Astra-Zeneca vaccine seven to ten days earlier."
"It’s so uncommon that only a handful of cases have been reported in the entire medical literature. Up to now, that is."
COVID-19 location tracking app/tracking fob turns out to have zero privacy, while the company behind it lobbies to make using it mandatory.
Supporting covid tracking in any way shape or form was a massive mistake. The idea that we could get privacy preserving versions of it rather than a panopticon was always a pipe dream.
Resistance is the only option.
CCC | Luca App: CCC calls for an immediate moratorium
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2021/luca-app-ccc-fordert-bundesnotbremse
Fuck you.
Ontario extends stay-at-home order, restricts interprovincial travel as province loses battle against COVID-19 | CTV News
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/mobile/ontario-extends-stay-at-home-order-restricts-interprovincial-travel-as-province-loses-battle-against-covid-19-1.5390016
Worth a read; h/t @belcher
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-gold-staying-clean
this is an oft-discussed scenario, I tend to think it will be a less significant effect than portrayed in this article; I am probably influenced by the history of bitcoin; I haven't seen evidence that prices are ever lower outside centralized exchanges (the opposite?), seems mostly surmise, not data.
The author may be under-stating the importance of the perfect verifiability (and doesn't understand intrinsic fungibility).