m0wer 3 months ago

INSIDE THE BITCOIN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA'S LARGEST SLUM - YouTube Deep in Africa's Largest slum, Kibera, more and more Kenyans are using Bitcoin as money. Why is this? I spent a day spending Bitcoin and chatting to merchants in one of Africa’s densest informal settlements. No ID. No bank. Just bitcoin. This is real-world use: recycling-for-sats, food stalls, boda rides, and a grassroots circular economy led by locals.

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INSIDE THE BITCOIN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA'S LARGEST SLUM - YouTube \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Deep in Africa's Largest slum, Kibera, more and more Kenyans are using Bitcoin as money. Why is this? I spent a day spending Bitcoin and chatting t...

m0wer 3 months ago

MeshSense: Meshtastic monitor

Affirmatech Inc

Here at Affirmatech Inc., we create and provide affordable, fun, easy to use software and services with courteous, friendly support.

MeshSense is a simple, open-source application that monitors, maps and graphically displays all the vital stats of your area's Meshtastic network including connected nodes, signal reports, trace routes and more!

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MeshSense: Meshtastic monitor \ stacker news ~tech

MeshSense is a simple, open-source application that monitors, maps and graphically displays all the vital stats of your area's Meshtastic network i...

m0wer 3 months ago

US Government To Bring PATRIOT Act to Digital Assets

The Rage

US Government To Bring PATRIOT Act to Digital Assets

FinCEN Director reveals that the Treasury is finalizing a ban on privacy tools, Representatives revive Special Measures to Fight Modern Threats Act

As such, the rule would deem the following software and behaviors a primary money laundering concern, meaning that such transactions would end up blocked by centralized intermediaries, and could put an end to the development of privacy software even for non-custodial wallets under the threat of criminal liabilities. These include: - pooling or aggregating [cryptocurrency] from multiple persons, wallets, addresses, or accounts - using programmatic or algorithmic code to coordinate, manage, or manipulate the structure of a transaction - splitting [cryptocurrency] for transmittal and transmitting the [cryptocurrency] - creating and using single-use wallets, addresses, or accounts, and sending [cryptocurrency] through such wallets, addresses, or accounts through a series of independent transactions - exchanging between types of [cryptocurrency] or other digital assets - facilitating user-initiated delays in transactional activity

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US Government To Bring PATRIOT Act to Digital Assets \ stacker news ~bitcoin

As such, the rule would deem the following software and behaviors a primary money laundering concern, meaning that such transactions would end up b...

m0wer 3 months ago

IP Address Blacklist Check https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check Check if your IP address is listed on an anti-spam database. Will your emails or forum chats get blocked? Below is a list of the major databases that track blacklisted IP addresses — look at the list now and you'll see there are no checkmarks next to the database names.

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IP Address Blacklist Check \ stacker news ~tech

Check if your IP address is listed on an anti-spam database. Will your emails or forum chats get blocked? Below is a list of the major databases th...

m0wer 3 months ago

AI Induced Psychosis: A shallow investigation https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iGF7YcnQkEbwvYLPA/ai-induced-psychosis-a-shallow-investigation There have been numerous media reports of AI-driven psychosis, where AIs validate users’ grandiose delusions and tell users to ignore their friends’ and family’s pushback. ![many ais encourage users delusions](https://m.stacker.news/107663) “What you need right now is not validation, but immediate clinical help.” - Kimi K2

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AI Induced Psychosis: A shallow investigation \ stacker news ~AI

There have been numerous media reports of AI-driven psychosis, where AIs validate users’ grandiose delusions and tell users to ignore their frien...

m0wer 3 months ago

Python: The Documentary - YouTube This is the story of the world's most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side project in Amsterdam during the 1990s became the software powering artificial intelligence, data science and some of the world’s biggest companies. But Python's future wasn't certain; at one point it almost disappeared. This 90-minute documentary features Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more, and they tell the story of Python’s rise, its community-driven evolution, the conflicts that almost tore it apart, and the language’s impact on... well… everything.