Everyone who interacts with Debian source code should be able to do so entirely in git.
For the developer just starting out today, the landscape has shifted permanently. The protection once offered by copyright is dissolving into a sea of AI-generated syntax.
The rise of the architect means that your value no longer lives in the files you commit to GitHub. It lives in your ability to define intent, maintain direction, and master the logic of a solution.
You can no longer compete on the bricks. To survive and thrive in this new era, you have to compete on vision.
The narrative of the “solitary genius in the garage” is perhaps the most effective public relations tool of the last century.
The narrative of the “solitary genius in the garage” is perhaps the most effective public relations tool of the last century.
The taxpayers payed the for R&D of decades, while Apple privatized the rewards, packaging military technology into a sleek design to extract what Yanis Varoufakis calls “feudal rents” via the App Store. Typical parasitic behavior
The taxpayers payed the for R&D of decades, while Apple privatized the rewards, packaging military technology into a sleek design to extract what Yanis Varoufakis calls “feudal rents” via the App Store. Typical parasitic behavior
This romantic story, where pure innovation and the free market reward brilliant young college dropouts with trillion-dollar empires, serves as a perfect smoke screen.
This romantic story, where pure innovation and the free market reward brilliant young college dropouts with trillion-dollar empires, serves as a perfect smoke screen.
This romantic story, where pure innovation and the free market reward brilliant young college dropouts with trillion-dollar empires, serves as a perfect smoke screen.
The narrative of the "solitary genius in the garage" is perhaps the most effective public relations tool of the last century. This romantic story, where pure innovation and the free market reward brilliant young college dropouts with trillion-dollar empires, serves as a perfect smoke screen. By focusing attention on a supposed individual meritocracy, this myth obscures the immense state, military, and intelligence machinery that served as the foundation, financier, and protector of what we now know as "Big Tech".
This romantic story, where pure innovation and the free market reward brilliant young college dropouts with trillion-dollar empires, serves as a perfect smoke screen.
The narrative of the "solitary genius in the garage" is perhaps the most effective public relations tool of the last century. This romantic story, where pure innovation and the free market reward brilliant young college dropouts with trillion-dollar empires, serves as a perfect smoke screen. By focusing attention on a supposed individual meritocracy, this myth obscures the immense state, military, and intelligence machinery that served as the foundation, financier, and protector of what we now know as "Big Tech".
The more you learn about pricing, the less you seem to know.
I’ve been nattering on about this topic for well over 5000 words and I don’t really feel like we’re getting anywhere, you and I.
Some days it seems like it would be easier to be a taxi driver, with prices set by law. Or to be selling sugar. Plain ol’ sugar. Yep. That would be sweet.
Take my advice, offered about 20 pages back: charge $0.05 for your software. Unless it does bug tracking, in which case the correct price is $30,000,000. Thank you for your time, and I apologize for leaving you even less able to price software than you were when you started reading this.
「Nostr 面倒くさい」の一部は「WebSocket 面倒くさい」なのではないかという仮説
「Nostr 面倒くさい」の一部は「WebSocket 面倒くさい」なのではないかという仮説を示し、WebSocket アプリケーションの一般的な課題をハンドリングする部分を rx-nostr から分離して汎用ライブラリとする構想について書きました。
Wir deckeln den Anstieg von Indexmieten bei 3,5 Prozent pro Jahr.
Bundesjustizministerin Stefanie Hubig (SPD) hat eine neue Gesetzesinitiative zum Mietrecht für erschwinglicheren Wohnraum angekündigt. „Wir deckeln den Anstieg von Indexmieten bei 3,5 Prozent pro Jahr. Einen entsprechenden Gesetzentwurf habe ich vor ein paar Tagen in die regierungsinterne Abstimmung gegeben“, sagte Hubig den Partner-Zeitungen der Neuen Berliner Redaktionsgesellschaft...
„Mein Ziel ist, dass unser Mietenpaket spätestens Anfang 2027 so in Kraft tritt – und für alle Indexmietverträge gilt, egal ob neu oder alt.“
push the country towards the peace that so many crave but on terms that terrify them, and with questionable guarantees that Russia won’t simply resume its attacks in future
This winter, the fourth since Russia’s full-scale invasion, threatens to be the bleakest yet for Ukraine... as Donald Trump’s negotiators attempt to push the country towards the peace that so many crave but on terms that terrify them, and with questionable guarantees that Russia won’t simply resume its attacks in future, exhaustion and existential questions are rarely far from people’s minds...
“I think everyone would be ready to stop the war on the current contact line. But to just give away territory, how can we do that? What have we been fighting for for four years, then?”
Macron, signalled a greater willingness from Europeans to tackle vessels in its waters
The “shadow fleet” used by Russia, Iran and Venezuela to avoid western sanctions and ship cargo to customers including China and India is “exploding” in its scale and scope...
It is not only Washington that has indicated it is prepared to intercept shadow fleet tankers. In October, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, signalled a greater willingness from Europeans to tackle vessels in its waters.
One company sits in front of 20% of the web, and when it hiccups, the internet chokes.
X, Zoom, Canva, banks, and many others went down. One company sits in front of 20% of the web, and when it hiccups, the internet chokes.
What we have is geoblocking, deplatforming, and censorship. Closed systems masquerading as open ones. Infrastructure that was originally built for resilience is now optimized for control.
The best error correction is the kind you never notice. When it works, your message arrives. When it catches a mistake, you get another chance. The math protects you from yourself, quietly, reliably, one checksum at a time.
Vermeer's astronomer reached toward his celestial globe to understand the universe's patterns. The mathematicians behind BCH codes reached toward similar abstractions, patterns in finite fields that could catch errors before they cascade into disasters.
Why does this matter? Because the BCH code they selected has distance 6 for single-bit errors. By making likely human mistakes map to single-bit differences, they maximized the code's ability to catch real-world typos.
When central banks create currency out of nothing, they do not create wealth. They create claims on existing wealth, diluting every unit already in circulation. The thief is the central bank. The rising prices are the evidence of the theft.
Inflation is the increase in the money supply. Rising prices are merely the consequence, the symptom of the underlying disease. When central banks create currency out of nothing, they do not create wealth. They create claims on existing wealth, diluting every unit already in circulation. The thief is the central bank. The rising prices are the evidence of the theft.
中国在公开市场与西方过招的同时，暗地利用去中心化的比特币网络构筑自己的清算体系，将民间黑资化为“国家队”弹药，完成对资本管制和西方金融制裁的双重突围。这将是金融史上的一个里程碑式案例，意味着主权国家开始以非常规手段对冲美元霸权的影响。
中国在公开市场与西方过招的同时，暗地利用去中心化的比特币网络构筑自己的清算体系，将民间黑资化为“国家队”弹药，完成对资本管制和西方金融制裁的双重突围。这将是金融史上的一个里程碑式案例，意味着主权国家开始以非常规手段对冲美元霸权的影响。
Be humble in your claims and assumptions. It’s great that your solution is based on post-quantum crypto and the most brilliant algorithms. But are you actually solving the problems people have? Do you have concrete experience in that (work) environment?
The communications/public relations department of an organization isn’t using Mastodon — and it’s not because they don’t have their own Mastodon server. It’s because they already have to manage seven communication channels, and you’re coming in with an eighth that isn’t integrated into their social media workflow. And if they don’t already have such a workflow, they’re certainly not looking forward to 14% more manual work just to support your Mastodon hobby.
So the “pro move” is not to offer a Mastodon server, but (if needed) a Mastodon & BlueSky crossposter. And yes, that hurts ideologically. But we’re here to get people MORE open and LESS big-tech. Not to celebrate our ideals.
L’épargne souveraine : quand la monnaie devient un acte d'une autre politique
Pourquoi la France de l'Eurosystem a besoin des bitcoins ?
L’épargne souveraine : quand la monnaie devient un acte d'une autre politique
Bitcoin, une politique nationale que chacun peut exercer
Placer une épargne en bitcoins, c’est bien plus qu’un choix patrimonial. C’est un acte politique au sens noble du terme : une manière de défendre les intérêts de la Nation en protégeant son capital des errances institutionnelles et des dépendances étrangères. En choisissant de convertir une partie de son épargne dans un actif décentralisé, chaque citoyen exerce une forme de souveraineté financière, proportionnelle à ce qu’il peut supporter de volatilité, mais réelle dans son effet cumulatif.
Car l’argent déposé dans le système bancaire n’est jamais inerte. Les fonds placés sur les comptes courants, les livrets, ou les contrats d’assurance vie sont automatiquement réalloués, principalement dans des fonds américains. Ces fonds, en retour, financent l’économie des États-Unis et, de manière systémique, leur stratégie d’acquisition d’actifs étrangers, y compris européens et français.
En d’autres termes, l’épargne nationale en euro, gérée par les banques et dans produits fisaux nationaux (PEA) contribue à renforcer la puissance économique d’États concurrents, parfois au détriment des intérêts stratégiques de la France.
Le piège énergétique des monnaies-dettes
L’un des effets les plus méconnus de la monnaie fiduciaire est sa dépendance structurelle à l’énergie future. La création monétaire scripturale repose sur une promesse : celle que la croissance économique permettra de rembourser la dette émise aujourd’hui. Mais cette croissance est elle-même indexée sur l’accès à l’énergie.
Les banques, en cherchant à sécuriser leurs créances, privilégient donc les investissements les plus rapidement disponibles : les énergies fossiles.
C’est ainsi que, malgré les discours de transition, la finance française continue de soutenir massivement pétrole et gaz, verrouillant de facto la dépendance du pays à des puissances productrices souvent étrangères.
Bitcoin, au contraire, ne repose sur aucune dette ni sur aucune projection d’énergie future. Il n’absorbe pas de production énergétique à des fins spéculatives : il utilise des excédents sans demande, non stockables, souvent issus d’énergies renouvelables ou d’infrastructures excédentaires, à quasiment 0 KW de produit pour lui. Dans sa logique économique, Bitcoin ne finance rien d’autre que sa propre sécurité ; il ne détourne pas de ressources physiques au profit d’intérêts externes. C’est un système énergétique et monétaire neutre.
Une variable d’équilibre macroéconomique
Même dans une économie libellée en euros, Bitcoin peut jouer un rôle d’équilibre. Une montée de son adoption a pour effet indirect d’affaiblir la valeur de l’euro, réduisant ainsi le poids réel de la dette publique et améliorant la compétitivité à l’exportation. La France, dont l’économie reste encore largement tournée vers l’industrie et les services exportables, bénéficie d’un euro relativement faible, contrairement à l’Allemagne, dont la stratégie de désindustrialisation sur sol vers l'extérieur pour vendre en Europe et rend un euro fort plus avantageux.
Dans cette dialectique européenne, la détention de bitcoins par les citoyens français agit comme une soupape d’ajustement : moins de dépendance à la dette, plus de marge de manœuvre pour la production.
C’est un jeu d’équilibre. Plus la dette augmente, plus la monnaie se fragilise, et plus la nécessité d’actifs souverains comme Bitcoin devient évidente. À l’inverse, une économie solide, peu endettée, n’a que peu besoin de tels contrepoids. La corrélation est naturelle : Bitcoin ne menace pas la monnaie, il en révèle simplement les déséquilibres.
Bitcoin comme correcteur institutionnel
Tout système économique protégé des biais politiques et des illusions institutionnelles tend à être plus sain. Bitcoin agit comme un révélateur, un correcteur spontané des erreurs structurelles : absence de transparence, dilution des responsabilités, socialisation des pertes, et privatisation des gains. En supprimant la possibilité d’émission discrétionnaire, il restaure le lien entre valeur et effort, entre travail et épargne. Il ne prétend pas remplacer l’État, mais rappeler ses limites : aucune souveraineté ne peut s’exercer durablement sans souveraineté monétaire.
Ainsi, placer une épargne en bitcoins n’est pas un repli individualiste. C’est une participation directe à la construction d’un espace économique fondé sur la responsabilité, la transparence et la résilience. C’est un geste de résistance tranquille, mais stratégique, face à un système financier dont les logiques échappent de plus en plus à la Nation.
Si Bitcoin devait connaître une institutionnalisation autre qu'au niveau des infrastructures, ce serait alors celle-là, je n'en vois pas d'autre.
Separating each payment type into its own kind makes more sense since this list will inevitably grow and Kind 0 metadata is supposed to stay small because we need to load this everywhere.
The “Educational Industry” fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The “Educational Industry” fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The "Educational Industry" fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The "Educational Industry" fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The "Educational Industry" fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The "Educational Industry" fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The "Educational Industry" fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The "Educational Industry" fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The "Educational Industry" fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The "Educational Industry" fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The "Educational Industry" fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The "Educational Industry" fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The "Educational Industry" fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The "Educational Industry" fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
You can continue requesting permission from Apple and Google for the software you run, the people you communicate with, and the transactions you make. The permission can always be revoked. The alternative cannot.
You can continue requesting permission from Apple and Google for the software you run, the people you communicate with, and the transactions you make. The permission can always be revoked. The alternative cannot.
The human layer will always be vulnerable to social manipulation, to celebrity worship, to tribal dynamics that override rational analysis.
But acknowledging this vulnerability is not the same as accepting it as inevitable.
Bitcoin's protocol can't patch this. No cryptographic proof can override the psychological need for social acceptance. No consensus mechanism can eliminate the human tendency to defer to authority and punish dissent. The human layer will always be vulnerable to social manipulation, to celebrity worship, to tribal dynamics that override rational analysis.
But acknowledging this vulnerability is not the same as accepting it as inevitable. Bitcoin's design teaches us something profound: trustlessness is achievable through deliberate system architecture. What if we applied the same principle to our social layer?
False heroes deceive you into thinking that your chains are for your protection, that your cage is for your safety, and that those trying to free you are the real danger.
False heroes deceive you into thinking that your chains are for your protection, that your cage is for your safety, and that those trying to free you are the real danger.
Regulation is theft of time, energy, and opportunity. Every permit required, every form filed, every compliance officer hired represents productive capacity diverted to satisfying bureaucrats rather than customers
Regulation is theft of time, energy, and opportunity. Every permit required, every form filed, every compliance officer hired represents productive capacity diverted to satisfying bureaucrats rather than customers.
Europe's tax burden now exceeds forty percent of GDP across most of the continent. This means governments have claimed nearly half of everything produced. They have, in effect, reduced their populations to tenant farmers, allowed to work the land but forbidden to keep the harvest.
Europe's tax burden now exceeds forty percent of GDP across most of the continent. This means governments have claimed nearly half of everything produced. They have, in effect, reduced their populations to tenant farmers, allowed to work the land but forbidden to keep the harvest.
Theft operates through three primary mechanisms in the modern West: taxation, inflation, and regulation. Each alone would impoverish a nation. Together, they are annihilating civilization.
Theft operates through three primary mechanisms in the modern West: taxation, inflation, and regulation. Each alone would impoverish a nation. Together, they are annihilating civilization.
携程在数字货币和支付通道上的战略想象，正在被现实的合规藩篱所束缚。随着各国对数据主权和金融安全高度敏感，携程很难复制国内“支付宝+微信支付”那样无所不在的支付生态于境外市场。如果强行推进，可能遭遇政策突然转向甚至业务中断风险，对公司海外营收造成冲击。投资者应意识到，这一领域原本被视作携程差异化服务和提高用户黏性的亮点，现正转变为潜在风险源。
携程在数字货币和支付通道上的战略想象，正在被现实的合规藩篱所束缚。随着各国对数据主权和金融安全高度敏感，携程很难复制国内“支付宝+微信支付”那样无所不在的支付生态于境外市场。如果强行推进，可能遭遇政策突然转向甚至业务中断风险，对公司海外营收造成冲击。投资者应意识到，这一领域原本被视作携程差异化服务和提高用户黏性的亮点，现正转变为潜在风险源。
up to 500 miles when using the available gasoline generator.
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> To prevent the seizure of Kaliningrad, the Kremlin could resort to using strategic bombers to deliver low-yield nuclear strikes against targets in Poland. Such a move, the publication notes, would immediately trigger a direct nuclear confrontation with NATO and push the world toward the onset of a «nuclear winter».
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> Sohu warns that following a nuclear exchange, millions of tons of radioactive dust would be released into the atmosphere. Within weeks, global temperatures could reportedly drop by as much as 40 degrees, dramatically altering climate conditions.
Além do valor da indenização, Dilma também teve direito a receber reparação financeira em prestação mensal, para reparar prejuízos na trajetória profissional e salarial.
A ex-presidente Dilma Roussef receberá uma indenização de R$ 400 mil por danos morais e uma reparação mensal da União. A decisão do Tribunal Regional Federal 1ª Região é referente às perseguições, prisões e torturas que Dilma sofreu durante a ditadura militar, entre 1964 e 1985.
The petrodollar did not just corrupt the economy; it created an alien environment for our ancestral biology, where plastic money built a plastic world inhabited by human beings who are increasingly sick, sterile, and disconnected from natural reality.
The petrodollar did not just corrupt the economy; it created an alien environment for our ancestral biology, where plastic money built a plastic world inhabited by human beings who are increasingly sick, sterile, and disconnected from natural reality.
Finally, the financial structure of the petrodollar, based on fiat debt and structural inflation, has locked the population in a hamster wheel of chronic stress. The need to work ever harder to maintain a declining standard of living, combined with the constant devaluation of savings, keeps the modern human in a permanent state of "fight or flight."
Finally, the financial structure of the petrodollar, based on fiat debt and structural inflation, has locked the population in a hamster wheel of chronic stress. The need to work ever harder to maintain a declining standard of living, combined with the constant devaluation of savings, keeps the modern human in a permanent state of "fight or flight."
Celebrity worship creates trusted third parties in systems designed to eliminate them. Every personality cult is a security hole. Every “OG” treated as infallible is an attack vector waiting to be exploited. Every “expert” elevated above criticism is a vulnerability. Every time you defer to someone’s opinion because of who they are rather than the strength of their argument, you weaken not just yourself but the entire system.
Celebrity worship creates trusted third parties in systems designed to eliminate them. Every personality cult is a security hole. Every “OG” treated as infallible is an attack vector waiting to be exploited. Every “expert” elevated above criticism is a vulnerability. Every time you defer to someone’s opinion because of who they are rather than the strength of their argument, you weaken not just yourself but the entire system.
For liberty-minded individuals, Nostr deserves attention not merely as an alternative to Twitter but as a working implementation of principles too often dismissed as theoretical. When government agencies coordinate weekly with platform executives to remove dissenting voices, when financial institutions debank political opponents, when regulatory bodies threaten billion-dollar fines for hosting disfavored content, the need for infrastructure that makes such coordination impossible becomes urgent.
For liberty-minded individuals, Nostr deserves attention not merely as an alternative to Twitter but as a working implementation of principles too often dismissed as theoretical. When government agencies coordinate weekly with platform executives to remove dissenting voices, when financial institutions debank political opponents, when regulatory bodies threaten billion-dollar fines for hosting disfavored content, the need for infrastructure that makes such coordination impossible becomes urgent.
You don’t replace your church architect with the Pentagon’s bunker guy because you want prettier chandeliers.
If money is energy, the corruption of money inevitably leads to the corruption of the vital energy that sustains us.
If money is energy, the corruption of money inevitably leads to the corruption of the vital energy that sustains us.
Societies consistently anoint false heroes in real time; technocrats, central bankers, philanthropic oligarchs, figures framed as benevolent stewards while exercising power without accountability. They are wolves in sheep's clothing. The most effective power never appears cruel; it appears reasonable.
Societies consistently anoint false heroes in real time; technocrats, central bankers, philanthropic oligarchs, figures framed as benevolent stewards while exercising power without accountability. They are wolves in sheep's clothing. The most effective power never appears cruel; it appears reasonable.
if everything is a token, everything is collateral; if everything is collateral, everything can be leveraged; if everything can be leveraged, everything can be taxed in the form of exported inflation
if everything is a token, everything is collateral; if everything is collateral, everything can be leveraged; if everything can be leveraged, everything can be taxed in the form of exported inflation
Xetra-Gold ist mit Abstand das am häufigsten vertretene Produkt
Bei den Profis darf Gold nicht fehlen. Nicht Hightech-Aktien oder exotische Themenfonds dominieren die Profi-Portfolios, sondern der älteste sichere Hafen der Finanzgeschichte. Xetra-Gold ist mit Abstand das am häufigsten vertretene Produkt
almost 88% of currency transactions still involve the USD on one side, margins and repos are collateralized with Treasuries, and the price of human attention—the central commodity of the information economy—is set in dollars. Trade flows are diversifying; balance sheet and data flows continue to pass through the same counter.
Data is the oil of the century, and the dollar is the unit of account for that oil. The fact that the dollar's share of official reserves has fallen from ~72% in the early 2000s to around 58% in 2024 does not change the essence: almost 88% of currency transactions still involve the USD on one side, margins and repos are collateralized with Treasuries, and the price of human attention—the central commodity of the information economy—is set in dollars. Trade flows are diversifying; balance sheet and data flows continue to pass through the same counter.