"A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight."
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Last Notes npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Rush at 50: A Rock Legacy Revisited https://fountain.fm/episode/4A93jv6RrBZfpmaju91X npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen If you ever make a digital version of a presentation like this, I'd be interested in buying a copy. npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Re: Don't use the n-word in mixed company... Influential white folks should probably play it safe and assume Siri and Alexa (NSA) are non-white š¤£ https://fountain.fm/episode/7w9tHPFOFS3kJN7H3bss #nevent1qā¦zjgj npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Some say Nostr reminds them of early Twitter but mornings like these, it reminds me of the first time Dad brought home a VCR: "It's just a blue screen!" "Put the TV on channel 3!" "It's still not working!" "Try channel 4!" š¤£ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Typing 'titcoin' into Fountain's discovery tab actually brings up your podcast š¤£ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen I understand why custodial lightning has to go away but at the same time I feel like I don't really get enough use out of the Lightning network to justify running my own node (other than for financial deplatforming preparedness). If you're someone who: 1) rarely receives sats, 2) has a million sats locked up in an outbound channel, 3) it takes you forever to move even half of that to your channel partner, do you really need to purchase an inbound channel? It feels a little like that dusty, old checkbook that you moved out of your purse and into the fireproof safe. Wow, I just realized that I was already married before I got my first checking account, and the checkbook was always in her purse. How did single guys carry a checkbook back before debit cards existed? npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Still setting up his podcast studio lol https://cdn.satellite.earth/701352a18cc0530402e404be90d644bc47d3b9592483e0a2b6954776f5d8f808.mp4 npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen "...a free speech watchdog dedicated to restoring the promise of a free and open Internet." Actions speak louder than words. What's your npub, FFO? https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/about/ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Test-driving ap15 launcher. Maybe the best description for it is it turns the app drawer into the home screen but replaces each app's icon with its name (which increases in font size the more often you open it). It appears to recognize web apps but not if they were created before ap15 was installed. It doesn't appear to recognize bookmarks saved to the home screen as app icons. Two observations: I have a lot of unused apps, and I've been referring to some of them by the wrong name lol npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Reason 347 to carry a multi-tool: janitorial services get contracted out to the lowest bidder. https://cdn.satellite.earth/e6ac63dfa38fd16a1d0bcac78e6651635addf3fdcc74fc75c9ca9850cd2ce12a.jpg npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen I would put the average social media user in one of two camps: 1) boomers who (thanks mostly to ad-supported models) think their monthly ISP payment entitles them to free access to anything that connects to the internet 2) more enlightened but still technically ignorant users who are accustomed to receiving and paying a subscription renewal for the services they use (ie. Dropbox, Proton, etc) Nostr is still confusing for camp-2 folks like myself. Instead of just paying a subscription to X or Telegram, there are clients, relays and image hosts which all need financial support. I just paid 120k sats to add time to filter.nostr.wine but Coracle's relay list still displays the red dot. Is it because Coracle doesn't support 'NIP-whatever-that-number-was' or did I miss a step somewhere? Paying sats to a client that manages everything for you doesn't seem like it would help keep Nostr decentralized and censorship-resistant but at the same time, if we want people to replace legacy social with Nostr, it needs to be "so easy, a non-coder can use it." npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Larry discusses the importance of one's time. Is he on the verge of being orange-pilled? https://thatlarryshow.com/episode-476-is-being-patient-killing-you/ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Can someone translate this to hillbilly? "Closure reason: ProcessingError: Peer sent update_fee with a feerate (62500) which may over-expose us to dust-in-flight on our counterparty's transactions (totaling 69348000 msat)" npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Is Brazil forcing Apple to pull VPN apps? https://reclaimthenet.org/vpns-vanish-from-brazils-app-store-as-internet-freedom-faces-unprecedented-clampdown npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Every answer seems to create yet another question š Is it recommended to use some kind of UPS with a Start9 or Umbrel? I remember Matt Hill saying they wanted to eventually make it possible to backup your S9 to a second off-site unit but I imagine that's a whole other can of worms. Need to see if anyone has done a tutorial on backing up a Start9 (best practices, etc). #note1nkgā¦l79n npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen After nearly a dozen episodes, Caleb finally gets around to talking about 'talking'. That said, he still remind us about the importance of listening. Preppers talking on radios should be more than just a handheld radio from Amazon passed around the neighborhood and we're preparing to go deep on the topic-stay tuned. https://podverse.fm/episode/896QecVYM npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen If I'm understanding Cox's argument, hypothetically, all it would take to get your internet service yanked would be for a rogue smart appliance to download an unauthorized copy of Sony-copyrighted media? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/isp-to-supreme-court-we-shouldnt-have-to-disconnect-users-accused-of-piracy/ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Operations will not resume until authorities intervene and its head of IT is released, the institution has announced https://www.rt.com/africa/602783-libyan-central-bank-shutdown-kidnapped-employee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen When I first generated my keys, Nostr in a desktop browser was decent but a nightmare on mobile. Somewhere along the way that flipped. https://cdn.satellite.earth/714419fbb11be4fbc1aecb4c3e446033e171eb649e7aca7ba3e927d3adbbcbda.jpg npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Microsoft boosts Windowsā FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades Retired engineer Dave Plummer said in 2021 that he thought his decision would be only a temporary cap. https://www.engadget.com/computing/microsoft-boosts-windows-fat32s-partition-size-limit-after-nearly-three-decades-192022618.html?src=rss npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Carlton was so rich he was rocking iPod earbuds on a show that ended five years before the first iPod. š npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Had to wipe everything and start from scratch. š¤¦āāļø https://m.primal.net/KCfs.png https://m.primal.net/KCfu.png npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Dozens of lawmakers in Ankara brawled during a tempestuous session of the parliament on Friday, after a ruling party MP struck an opposition colleague who called the government āterrorists.ā https://www.rt.com/news/602698-fist-fight-turkish-parliament/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen So long as mainstream media outlets are allowed on Apple's platforms we know Tim Cook is full of crap. Nobody pushes more hate, division and violence than the MSM and their alphabet agency handlers. #note1awuā¦0dqx npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Saakashvili was voted out of office in 2013 and fled to the US. He also has a Ukrainian passport, which he obtained during a brief stint as governor of the countryās Odessa Region in 2015-16. https://www.rt.com/russia/602602-georgia-saakashvili-ossetia-treason/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Finally got it working from a private window. Tried installing the mobile pwa but I think maybe my router/modem may blocked or something. Had to switch to cellular data before the getalby homepage would load. npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen A dump of 2.7 billion records includes names, aliases and known physical addresses. https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/hackers-may-have-leaked-the-social-security-numbers-of-every-american-150834276.html npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Still praying they roll out a casket during a Kamala speech and Joe pops out like the Undertaker š¤£ #note1wupā¦9sxm npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen If I understand the Zeus/Olympus lightning address feature correctly, you need to make sure to open your Zeus wallet at least daily to receive payments or they get returned to sender? npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen If the feds think withholding illegal drugs to force victims to turn tricks is bad, they should see what some people do every day for health insurance. "Murray, prosecutors allege, knew that withholding drugs from the victims would have a coercive effect and incentivize them to obey him." https://augustafreepress.com/news/maryland-man-pleads-guilty-to-forcing-drug-addicts-into-commercial-sex-work/ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Think I broke my Alby Hub. https://m.primal.net/JxpY.mp4 npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen #note1snpā¦fket https://m.primal.net/JxWc.jpg npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Is this one of the pandemic dancing nurses from TikTok? š¤£ #note1y48ā¦7nmj npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Is LDK the best option for a dumbass who forgets to put up the windows before removing the car battery? Asking for a friend š https://blog.getalby.com/the-6-different-lightning-backends-for-alby-hub/ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen After I opened this channel to Olympus and sent a couple of payments, I tried sending 100 sats back to myself using Alby wallet. I had to pay a 10,000 sat fee to send the 100 sats to my Zeus wallet (I assume this fee is how Olympus makes money as an LSP?). It looks like this 100 sat receive caused Olympus to open a second 100,000 sat channel with my Zeus wallet instead of just sending the 100 sats back across the channel I had just created. I could have sworn I read somewhere that you shouldn't open channels smaller than 1 million sats due to on-chain fees? https://m.primal.net/Jwyq.jpg npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen The price of a battery for the wife's car has doubled in the last five years š” npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen So... as you send outbound payments you're building up inbound liquidity to receive payments? You don't need to open a separate inbound channel? š¤ https://m.primal.net/JwPC.jpg npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen "The state notably uses paper ballot counting machines that aren't connected to the internet and are tested before elections." The ballots are indeed paper but if the software on a counting machine is compromised, does it really matter whether the machine is air-gapped? Who tests these machines before the election? Do they have the access or skills to inspect the code? If the inspector is a state or federal employee, does it not present a potential conflict of interest if one of the candidates is running on a platform to reduce the size of government? Are there enough inspectors available to test all machines? What if any practices are used to ensure that machines aren't tampered with between completion of pre-election testing and election day? Are the machines tested after the election? https://www.zerohedge.com/political/virginia-mandates-paper-ballots-tracking-and-proof-resideny-2024-election npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Tempted to choose 'burn' but that would be hypocritical of me. USD is as big a shitcoin as ETH but there's no way I'd burn a free Benji. #note1jyfā¦f454 npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen The easiest is probably gonna be to install Primal 'social wallet' Nostr client. Not sure if a Fountain.fm address would work for zaps or if it only works for tipping podcast episodes. npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen I don't know if I'm just looking for love in all the wrong places or if moving sats from River into something like Alby Hub or Zeus' LSP is too easy for smooth brain like me to screw up, and that's why no one has made a BTCsessions style how-to video. npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen I get that for competitive reasons, a platform like X or YT might not want someone displaying their Nostr npub in their bio, but I don't understand why a self-described bitcoiner wouldn't list their npub on their own website, or why they wouldn't enable boostagrams for their podcast. It appears that they'd rather have followers return value in fiat using a centralized platform's payment system that could rug them at any time. Are there tax reasons for why a bitcoiner would rather receive donations in fiat? Is it cheaper or less hassle for them to convert fiat to cold storage via an exchange than to move donated sats from the Lightning network to cold storage? npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen I've heard it said repeatedly now that Elon Musk and his companies fit the technical definition of a government contractor, perhaps even a defense contractor. With that in mind, maybe we should consider the possibility that some of the hate being directed at electric vehicles is an attempt to distract us from the shady stuff they may be doing to our gas/diesel vehicles. Steer-by-wire, throttle-by-wire, modules that narc us out to our insurance company. After all, it wasn't a Tesla that killed Michael Hastings. npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Samsung won't include a charger with its $2K phone but this dude got a free bottle of lube with his sex toy š¤£ #note103lā¦ks94 npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Buffet buying the dip? "...he hinted that his selling of Apple stock is partly motivated by tax considerations, and also by his plans to build up Berkshireās cash position." https://www.rt.com/business/602108-warren-buffet-sale-apple-shares/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen This dude in the UK is complaining because his phone bill is the US equivalent of $33. I haven't had a phone bill that low since I retired my voice-only flip phone. Unfortunately his comparison sites don't work in the US. I found something similar called whistleout but it's not listing anything special from the majors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AWMNKv32ic npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4L-KFH4ZA8 npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Maybe I'm just an old fart but I really don't understand the fascination with most of the content posted in short-form, vertical video (TikTok, YTshorts) format. If all you're doing is speaking your mind, I don't need to see your face for that. What I wouldn't mind seeing is a comments section full of interesting discussion rather than a bunch of Whatsapp scammers. I don't need an auto-replay of the video. What is this, hypnosis? I don't need the next video auto-selected for me. Maybe I'd like to pause and reflect on what you just told me, rather than be instantly whisked away to the next guy's 'minute of drama'. Unlike some folks, I don't hate the practice of recording videos in vertical orientation, as long as it's what's best for the video and not because the cameraman was too lazy to put down the PBR and spin the phone around horizontal. There's a time and a place for both I think. Seems like we went from being a society whose phones can take photos and videos to a society whose cameras can do voice and SMS. I got like 5 different camera lenses on my phone but I bet it would take me ten minutes to figure out how to record a short, OS and platform-agnostic voice memo. Guess I could just hold my thumb over the camera lens and record the audio that way. š¤£ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Interesting. Edward Van Halen PIANO Track "How Many Say I" from the LP "Van Halen III" (1998) 12 - How Many Say I-C-64bpm-441hz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kYPkYE3fos npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen I guess the way to zapvertise using Primal is to long press the zap button then edit the comment? Does the zapvertisement show up in the recipient's notifications? npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen What is the best P2.0 app for non-nerds who aren't (yet) interested in Bitcoin? Probably Fountain? #note1250ā¦dqqz npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Does absinthe really keep away mosquitos or just make you too drunk to care? š¤ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Cool https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/articles/eddie-van-halen-forgotten-tribute-unearthed-canadian-flag-guitar npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress delegated its taxing power to the Federal Communications Commission. FCC then subdelegated the taxing power to a private corporation. That private corporation, in turn, relied on for-profit telecommunications companies to determine how much American citizens would be forced to pay for the "universal service" tax that appears on cell phone bills across the Nation. We hold this misbegotten tax violates Article I, Ā§ 1 of the Constitution. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/5th-circuit-court-upends-fcc-universal-service-fund-ruling-it-an-illegal-tax/ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Primal on mobile but a little buggy on desktop. npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Do local governments that derive revenue from sales and property taxes benefit from inflation, or is it a wash since their operating costs are also affected? Thinking they may see some benefit if most of their spending is done through multi-year contracts. Local government employees may get 'cost of living' pay raises but it's nowhere near (to borrow a term from the weather channel) the 'real feel' inflation rate. npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Neocon journalists got Americans thinking everyone in Venezuela are dressed in rags, fighting over the last sewer rat but the worst thing I see here is maybe a sidewalk that could use a good edging. Lots of places in the US that look way worse than this. #note18deā¦2sl4 npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Never heard of RedMagic before this week but I really like what I'm seeing from their line of phones aimed at gamers. Biggest con seems to be lackluster cameras. This is fine for me since I mostly only use my camera for scanning QR codes and to avoid having to write down things like part numbers. Apparently I'm an atypical phone user since I care more about things like battery life, recharging time and redundancy offered by things like a headphone jack and IR blaster. The only thing that could make this more appealing is a removable battery and a standalone charger for the spare. Really appreciate that it's still possible to get a new phone for less than the cost of a Lincoln SquareWave without getting screwed out of a charging block and protective case. The absence of those annoying camera lens warts on the back is a nice change. Confirmation it's still physically impossible to build a phone that is both razor-thin and has pro-grade cameras. If the flagship brands can con users into toting extras like watches, smart tags and bluetooth earbuds, why not try to market a dedicated camera to their TikTok celeb demographic instead of ruining the backs of their phones for everyone else with obnoxious camera lenses that leave your $1,500 phone wobbling like a diner table that's missing a foot? š¤£ https://youtu.be/XcLNMb6yZBQ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Noticed the same with Amethyst/Alby today but seems to be working again. npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Me trying to torque anything that has more than six bolts lol #nevent1qā¦e2fg npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen It's both cool and frightening how often I find out about some new event through a meme. #note1en5ā¦9hm3 npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Asking the questions that the rest of us are too embarrassed to ask š¤£ #note13feā¦kx22 https://m.primal.net/JWxX.jpg npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen https://cdn.satellite.earth/528e7cbd7374a13bf29e670410a03131243e666a868b9013d35046276824af0f.jpg npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Having an issue with both Podverse and Fountain (doesn't happen with Podcast Addict). I tap the option to download an episode (and the episode appears to download) but at some point while listening in an area with poor cellular service, playback just stops. Not sure if the apps aren't really downloading episodes or if they're just arbitrarily deciding to stream them instead of playing the local copy. Fountain resumes playback once cell service returns but Podverse throws an error symbol and has to be killed and restarted to resume playback. npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen The guy whom Trump and RFK are running to unseat gets final say over their security detail, and nobody in the MSM seems to want to discuss the potential conflict of interest? š¤” "Trump himself thanked the Secret Service for protecting him and called on the White House to grant a detail to RFK Jr., an independent candidate." https://www.rt.com/news/601122-trump-shooting-mayorkas-failure/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen There are an unlimited number of options for assassinating a politician but only 127.4 trillion sats left to mine. Dude should've read The Bitcoin Standard. npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen In the last eight years, we've seen a lot of calls for violence against Trump, who - despite your opinion of him - fits the technical definition of a politician. It's interesting to see American politicians rush to set aside their differences long enough to condemn violence when it targets a fellow member of their profession. I don't recall similar condemnations from many of them following the recent attempt on the life of Slovakia's Prime Minister, Robert Fico. Going forward with the understanding that they could be next, will we see more politicians call for 'toning down the violent rhetoric'? npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen https://m.primal.net/JPwN.jpg npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Of course they'd invent a cleaning drone after my dumb ass went out and bought a 24-foot squeegee pole š¤£ #note1ggdā¦3f8m npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Coincidentally, Starlink seems to be the only residential ISP in my area willing to disclose the regular monthly cost of service. Everyone else advertises a discounted rate for the first year but refuses to tell you what the price jumps to on month-13. Not even so much as a fine print asterisk at the bottom of their 'Learn More' pages š¤ But without muh gubermint, who would enforce transparent price rules?! š¤¦āāļø #note1ky3ā¦qx5j npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Cities don't have to be violent jungles? It's an interesting thought when considering that a city is ultimately a mass of land with far more people than it can naturally sustain. Seems like violence or voluntary trade would be the only options. The potential issue being that cities are full of fighting age men who can be conned or threatened into carrying out violence to fulfill their city's needs. I wonder what percentage of US military enlistees are rural vs urban? https://podverse.fm/clip/Hh1ewbdyU npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen And don't forget the capex scum who ordered the garbage. https://cdn.satellite.earth/161220e4ec5f69044949dec4a6e9086ca740f2934b9d38070354b8fe16ac4a96.jpg npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen This last month of inexplicably crappy internet service has served as a reminder for me about the importance of redundancy. It's also helped me understand why no-coiners are reluctant to invest in Bitcoin despite its long-term performance. One benefit of the current monetary system is that its powerful middlemen who profit from every transaction have an incentive to use their influence to ensure customers' access to the infrastructure required to facilitate said transactions. We're still so very, very early. npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Bitcoin (and Nostr) fixes this "Telegram Stars displayed in your balance do not constitute your property, Telegram allows you to receive them in exchange for digital goods and services, but you have no license or title to them except as explicitly set out in these terms." https://telegram.org/tos/bot-developers#6-2-digital-goods-and-services npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen So the 'thang' in question isn't a federal reserve note? It's a parking ticket, isn't it? Property tax bill? Mail-in ballot? I give up. https://youtu.be/cvsyndlyobA npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Any Podverse users know why I don't get the 'new episode' indicator for every podcast? Is it something that the user needs to manually enable for each show, or is it some sort of metadata being left out by the podcaster? https://cdn.satellite.earth/e1ef3c7ca0e51615b089443eeed5c791493f4bc60ec15c4683b0bb556586c505.jpg npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen NATO summit in DC today https://wjla.com/news/local/nato-summit-washington-dc-security-fbi-secret-service-traffic-hotels-embassy-walter-washington-convention-center-federal-triangle-mount-vernon-square-dc-police-security-measures-how-when-where-impacts-travel-metro-aware npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Think this shop may be owned by the same guys who worked on Clark Griswold's station wagon š¤£ https://cdn.satellite.earth/57e302aa4f097d613488616c33854499fa76560a069cd7fcfa702ec3f4d743bc.jpg npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Found like a half dozen news articles (both pro and con) mentioning that Maria Lvova-Belova has a Telegram channel but be damned if I can find it. Had to point my VPN at Costa Rica just to be able to access a Kremlin webpage. "Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked." - Johnny Cash, Farmer's Almanac https://telegra.ph/Where-and-how-Ukraine-lost-its-children-04-23 npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Socializing tips from Larry https://podverse.fm/episode/un4yq9PuE npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen "Wikipedia is the ultimate gaslighter." https://podverse.fm/episode/7-lEesXoT npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Keep a Gatorade bottle in your vehicle for when you end up in a part of town where the crackheads have forced every business to close its restrooms. npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Security app Authy hacked, millions of phone numbers stolen https://www.ilounge.com/news/security-app-authy-hacked-millions-of-phone-numbers-stolen npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen DoD disses Georgia for adopting its own version of US foreign agent disclosure law. "Washington has announced plans to restrict visas for Georgian politicians who supported the legislation." https://www.rt.com/news/600551-us-suspends-drills-georgia npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Putin said he remained convinced that US policy regarding Russia will not change meaningfully regardless of who wins the upcoming election. https://www.rt.com/russia/600495-putin-trump-ukraine-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen "Bad actors start with a personalized charm offensive. They reach out to YouTube creators with what appears to be a lucrative collaboration offer. Once the trust is built, they send malware links disguised as necessary software for the collaboration." https://blog.avast.com/youre-telling-me-that-ad-was-fake-malvertising-is-sneakier-than-ever-avast npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen "Most Americans know that when the government and the media start talking about a sweeping societal change they know the citizenry isnāt going to like, they are trying to incrementally acclimate the public to the eventual enforcement." #note14z9ā¦s39x npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Hopefully they don't restrict send/receive compatibility to some kind of proprietary ATRAC hardware wallet š¤£ https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/105-billion-electronics-giant-sony-to-launch-new-bitcoin-exchange?ref=nobsbitcoin.com --- Thu, Aug 30th 2007 01:34pm - Mike Masnick Itās been almost 3 years since Ken Kutaragi, then President of Sony Computer Entertainment, admitted that the company had made a huge strategic error in launching its digital music players and download store (Sony Connect) with its own proprietary ATRAC music format and DRM. Of course, admitting a mistake and actually doing something about it are two different things. A few different readers alerted us today that Sony is finally shutting down Sony Connect and ditching support for ATRAC in its new Walkmen, though they buried the details of it in paragraph 17 of a press release about the new music players. For those who had bought from Sony Connect and are now left with an unsupported DRM that wonāt be playable on any new music playerā¦ wellā¦. you now have another reminder of why buying into DRMād music is a huge risk. Sony is at least kind enough to explain to people how to get around the DRM using the standard cumbersome āburn to CD, rip anewā method, but thatās definitely a pretty big pain for anyone whoās purchased a sizable collection. Of course, that assumes that there was anyone out there who actually bought a sizable collection of music from Sony Connect and somehow that seems unlikely. https://www.techdirt.com/2007/08/30/sony-finally-really-dumps-proprietary-atrac-format-no-one-wanted-for-its-walkmen/ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen This reminds me of WCW's Eric Bischoff telling how Ted Turner offered to take a bunch of wrestlers to North Korea in the '90s on a goodwill visit then Ted backed out at the last minute. Bischoff recounted never seeing a single dog, cat or bird the whole time he was there, presumably because the people were so poor that they ate every one they could find. As with everything that comes out of the mouths of professional wrestling talent, Bischoff's story could be kayfabe. Still, it's interesting that even in some of the most impoverished places in Appalachia, if a home had electricity, it had at minimum, a B&W TV and access to a couple of the national network affiliates. There's probably a lesson in that. #note1anpā¦flnd npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen South Korea should enlist the services of my old high school buddy who once figured out how to temporarily de-scramble the skinemax and Playboy channels. š¤£ https://www.rt.com/news/600274-north-korea-russian-satellite-tv/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen This is interpreted to mean that January 6 was an excuse to change the scope of the activities of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A, a part of the DHS) ā by expanding it. https://reclaimthenet.org/unveiling-the-brennan-clapper-files-how-january-6-shifted-surveillance-powers npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen https://podverse.fm/clip/kMU2X2tVb npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Interesting. I can't fault the guy though. He lasted far longer than I could have. https://m.primal.net/JEQv.png npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen The way some cops shoot, they should make him the department's marksmanship instructor š https://www.whsv.com/2024/06/28/florida-man-arrested-shooting-down-walmart-delivery-drone-with-9mm-pistol-sheriff-says/ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen I'm guessing that if listeners hadn't mostly abandoned the AM band, the interference problem might not have had the opportunity to become a problem. Maybe that's an oversimplification but there is some truth in "use it or lose it." Before all of this new wireless and satellite stuff, the big threat to AM was FM's superior sound quality. https://youtu.be/0OIrx2Za8OY npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Maybe I'm being paranoid but it's crazy how the speeds on my 5G home gateway crapped the bed right around the time T-mo bought the fiber internet provider I was considering switching to. The monthly cost of the fiber service just happens to be 40% higher. https://businessnc.com/high-points-lumos-being-sold-for-2-billion-to-jv-that-includes-t-mobile/ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen "Does this feel like summer, or what?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnS4jX9samo npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Two hours of professional window cleaning tutorials and the second I put the squeegee to the glass it's like all that learning ran out my ear and down my leg. Hate to imagine how many times it would take me in Morpheus' jump simulator. They'd return me to my pod š¤£ npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Some of the craziest business decisions often seem to be the result of trying to protect the company from 'ambulance chasers' using the least amount of effort as possible. Maybe it stems from generations of people processed through a public education system that relies too much on collective punishment? #note1mevā¦v7k0 npub1m6x20f4n7uc5ayvjr4xut6g4ldau90fjz202d9nrythl5jq9p3xq579dnn PaulAllen Any comment from the good senator re: UC Global, Siggi Thordarson? The opposition leader in the Australian Senate, Simon Birmingham, has claimed Julian Assangeās years of confinement in the UK were the result of his own actions, as he evaded lawful extradition requests. https://www.rt.com/news/600079-assange-bad-actor-australia/ Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment https://heimildin.is/grein/13627/key-witness-in-assange-case-admits-to-lies-in-indictment/ The judgment also refused to consider ā given the ongoing investigation in Spain against the security firm UC Global ā that the Central Intelligence Agency had compromised the legal credibility of proceedings by bugging Assangeās privileged conversations in the Ecuadorian embassy. https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/07/thordarsons-fabrications-another-hole-in-the-julian-assange-prosecution/