2024-05-11 10:26:57
by npub18ct…rk6u
08:26 JL3KJY/P on JP-0023(Setonaikai National Park, JP-EH,JP-FO,JP-HG,JP-HS,JP-KG,JP-OS,JP-OT,JP-OY,JP-TS,JP-WK,JP-YC) 7042 FT8 FT8 Sent: -06 Rcvd: +02[JK1MEL]
2024-05-11 10:24:22
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by npub1yv5…00ky
Not taking any side here but it is funny to me that small blockers are ok with bitcoin trying to scale with lightning and pushing everyone into using custodial wallets, which is: not your keys, not your coins. And no privacy.
In my opinion, Lightning promised a lot and delivered little, running your own lightning node is still a pain in the ass, after 7 years and the real fees for lightning payments are nowhere near a few satoshis. Only if you use a custodial wallet you can benefit from low fees, but then again, you have to trust a third party.
Dont get me wrong, i love the Bitcoin Jungle app and use it frequently to buy stuff in CR and i congratulate you for creating it!
But i do ask myself, what advantage do i really have over using a Mastercard from Xapo Bank loaded with BTC?
The state is weak in CR, true. But still it is easy to stop all Bitcoin Jungle users from using the app and accessing their funds by just going against the Servers and Node run by Lee and the Bitcoin Jungle crew. Or do i get that wrong?
2024-05-11 10:24:11
by npub1ysu…g092
Mmmm, #saturdaymorning at Franco's. A large Americano, "Grande! Forte! Duro!!" as Franco exclaims, with a very #Italian cheeky grin. The chilled water and the 'pill-pot' of old age is ready, but I think the Sfogliatelle Frolle pastry/cake, fresh from the oven, must come first!
https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/musicianstoday/media_attachments/files/112/421/439/082/136/629/original/2c03fc052d2cec9e.jpg
2024-05-11 10:23:47
by npub1tmd…35ej
Aurora kiss.
Mid-Thumb, Michigan. 10:23 pm, May 10, 2024. Canon EOS Rebel T3i, 10 mm, 4/4.5,10 sec, ISO 1600.
#Aurora #AuroraBorealis #Michigan #Photography #astrophotography #art #MastoArt #Kiss
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2024-05-11 10:21:01
by npub13hx…7jhg
**"Diablo 4 Community Falls Head Over Heels for Lead Developer Colin Morrill After One Livestream 💘🔥"**
The Diablo 4 community has fallen deeply in love with lead developer Colin Morrill after just one livestream 📹! In a surprising turn of events, the usually stoic and reserved Morrill won over the hearts (and minds) of fans worldwide with his down-to-earth and engaging personality 💕.
During the recent developer livestream, Morrill took to the stage to reveal Diablo 4's upcoming Season 4 and share valuable insights from the game's first Public Test Realm (PTR) 📊. While some might have expected a dry presentation, Morrill instead brought his A-game, effortlessly fielding questions, sharing behind-the-scenes stories, and even poking fun at himself 😂.
As fans tuned in to get their fix of Diablo 4 goodness, they were treated to Morrill's genuine passion for the game, as well as his willingness to listen to feedback and adapt 🎯. By the end of the stream, it was clear that Morrill had not only won over the community but also earned a special place in their hearts ❤️.
**#Diablo4 #ColinMorrill #GamingCommunity #LivestreamLove 💕👏**
(Note: The review is approximately 1000 characters long and includes relevant hashtags and emojis.)
2024-05-11 10:15:00
by npub1ax4…yydz
Egypt Building A Militia Force To Handle Rafah Refugee Influx
Egypt Building A Militia Force To Handle Rafah Refugee Influx
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-war-egypt-rafah-building-militia-force-handle-influx
In a grand procession last week, Sinai militia leader https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-sinai-leader-organi-announces-sisi-city-israel-border
the Arab Tribes Union, a new paramilitary entity that brings together five tribal groups from across Egypt. The celebration named President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as the union’s "honorary president", while also announcing plans to build Sisi City on the site of al-Arjaa, a village in Rafah near the Egypt-Israel border.
The formation of this alliance comes at a critical time and place, as Israel this week launched a long-threatened ground offensive against the Palestinian city of Rafah, just a short distance from where the Egyptian ceremony was held. Around https://www.npr.org/2024/03/16/1238981437/netanyahu-approves-plan-to-invade-rafah-where-1-4-million-palestinians-are-shelt
last October.
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/egyptiansoldier.jpg?itok=Kh3ZK2lj
Israel’s assault on Rafah is likely to cause further mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, potentially pushing them towards Egyptian territory. At least 80,000 have https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live-israel-war-rafah-humanitarian-crisis
, according to UNRWA, the UN Palestinian refugee agency.
It was thus no coincidence that the union’s https://www.almasryalyoum.com/news/details/3158515
noted its aim to "adopt national issues and connect with all Arab tribes to find common ground within the framework of the state, to serve its objectives, and to support the Egyptian president who seeks to protect Egypt’s national security and its Arab nation against the displacement plans aimed at resolving the Palestinian issue at Egypt’s expense."
Since the outbreak of the Gaza war on October 7, Egyptian officials have repeatedly https://www.reuters.com/world/egypt-rejects-any-displacement-palestinians-into-sinai-says-sisi-2023-10-18/
the country’s peace treaty with Israel.
The historical experiences of Palestinian displacement, along with Israel’s goal to empty historic Palestine of its people, prevent their return and seize their lands, are well known to the Egyptian state.
At the same time, the Palestinian people’s attachment to their land and insistence on their https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-denial-right-of-return-crime-nakba
, something Egypt does not want.
All options for dealing with this matter, it seems, are bitter, from the emergence of pockets of Palestinian resistance in the Sinai akin to what happened in Lebanon in the 1970s, to a confrontation of the kind that occurred in Jordan during https://www.unrwa.org/content/black-september
.
Yet Egypt cannot stop the Israeli military operation, nor halt its tanks from invading the tents of displaced Palestinians in Rafah. The Egyptian regime will not deviate from the US perspective in dealing with the recklessness of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which means it will have to deal directly with the massive crowds of displaced people likely headed towards Egyptian territory.
Early on, Egypt started https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/egypt-setting-up-area-gaza-border-which-could-be-used-shelter-palestinians-2024-02-16/
within Gaza itself.
In the event of a mass displacement into its territory, Egypt appears to be planning to confine displaced Palestinians in a high-security, https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-egypt-wall-07a40fddeaf9dbc82c2a33e1f1614419
along the border, allowing the state to maintain tight control and apply pressure to hasten their return to Gaza.
But there are a couple of issues with this plan. For one, many displaced Palestinians have family and tribal ties in the northern Sinai. The Egyptian and Palestinian cities of Rafah were once https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-war-egypt-israel-prevent-rafah-invading-can
, until Israel’s withdrawal from the Sinai and the demarcation of borders in 1982. Many tribes are still divided, with some members in Palestinian Rafah and others in Egyptian Rafah.
Horrible scenes from the Gaza-Egypt border shows Egyptian military harassing and mishandling a Palestinian boy who managed to slip through the border to escape the onslaught in Rafah. https://t.co/PoaHmxoh82
— روني الدنماركي (@Aldanmarki) https://twitter.com/Aldanmarki/status/1788316720878268541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Tribal customs compel hospitality and reception, which will weaken the ability of the Egyptian state to contain all displaced people in a single area. This could also open the door to fresh confrontations and disputes between state agencies and Sinai tribes.
Simmering public anger
In addition, a wave of displacement would raise significant challenges for Egypt from a military and security perspective. The last thing the Egyptian regime wants is an image of an Egyptian soldier firing at displaced Palestinians, or in any way treating them improperly, amid the unprecedented tragedy in Gaza - especially considering the simmering public anger over the Sisi regime’s handling of the Gaza genocide so far.
Through the newly minted Arab Tribes Union, the regime might have found its only option for handling this situation, while avoiding the direct involvement of state soldiers.
This hypothesis is supported by the union’s founding https://www.almasryalyoum.com/news/details/3158515
, which notes that its inception "comes in response to the current stage requirements, by creating a national popular framework that includes the sons of the Arab tribes, aimed at unifying the ranks and integrating all tribal entities into a single framework in support of the national state priorities, and facing the challenges that threaten its security and stability."
Organi is a prime choice to lead this task after his previous successes in organizing the https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-ibrahim-organi-sinai-tribal-leader-gaza
from Palestinian refugees fleeing war.
And there are significant risks that under difficult humanitarian conditions, his forces could become involved in smuggling operations, financial extortion, or other types of corruption - not to mention the inherent dangers of forming armed militias, which can prove disastrous to the security and stability of states, sometimes even playing a role in their disintegration.
https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden
Sat, 05/11/2024 - 04:15
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/egypt-building-militia-force-handle-rafah-influx
2024-05-11 10:10:05
by npub1acg…p35c
RE: GrapheneOS
I made a thread and got some pushback and very mixed reactions. I replied to a lot of separate posts, but I thought I should state my main points together in a cohesive post.
TO BE CLEAR:
- I didn't say GrapheneOS is compromised or is a honey trap.
- I don't think there is a more secure operating system available for a smart phone on a technical level (except some that are so dysfunctional you won't want them anyways), so I don't expect people to ditch GrapheneOS in fear of Google hardware.
- I still might use GrapheneOS as my next phone, I'm undecided.
- My security model puts Google in the "untrusted" box, and google products and services are suspicious to me, DESPITE technical superiority or being more open with their hardware specifications.
- I wish there was an OS like GrapheneOS (or actually GrapheneOS) on hardware produced in a country I wasn't so concerned about, like maybe India (Lava) that seems more neutral to me, or at least not at all interested in my politicial dissident ideas (which are never about India). Then I wouldn't have to worry about this.
- Maybe you run a bitcoin wallet on your phone, and so every country is untrustworthy to you (anybody might want to steal your bitcoin). But that's not my security model.
- The fact that none of the privacy and security android phones support any hardware produced outside of the US orbit anymore is I think a fact worth considering.
- The odds that there is a security backdoor in the hardware or software is many orders of magnitude greater than the odds that someone breaks your cryptography. So our concern should be that much greater. But we nitpick the cryptography and in cases like this we say "Ah well, he has reasons. Must be secure."
- Technology is so ridiculously complex now that there is almost no way to have security and/or privacy on computers, especially on a smart phone.
- Reasons given for why only Google Pixel is supported might be honest. Or they may be post-facto. And not being the ones who made those decisions, we cannot know which case is the true one. If you let "reasons" assuage your fears, that's not very intelligent of you. In the case where someone intelligent sets up a honey pot, they are going to create lots of benign-sounding reasons why it's not a honey pot.
You are all free to consider me a paranoid nut job.
Here was the original thread: #nevent1q…mz87
2024-05-11 10:09:02
by npub12a0…u8m9
The next Proton GE version, 9-5, has been released and it contains a wealth of protonfixes for games on #SteamDeck, including Total War: Shogun 2, The Witcher 2, a couple of Oddworld games, and more:
https://steamdeckhq.com/proton-ge-9-5-released-with-new-game-fixes/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
2024-05-11 10:08:34
by npub1nd3…kjj7
I felt my way into this thing.
Underpinned by cavernous warehouses...
With humming fans and green unblinking eyes.
Electric dragons hoarding digital gold in metal caves.
And in pulses adding their million buzzing circuits to the hornets swarm.
I felt my way into this thing.
The dream fabric of an anonymous crypto shaman.
Ephemeral yet compelling,
Nowhere and yet everywhere.
And the echo of his drumbeat chanting still holds the rhythm,
The base note of the tribal heart.
Let's feel our way into this thing.
The final weight and measure of the human arc,
The elliptic curve of complex spaces,
Holding flourishing, centering.
A distributed conductor, giving preference to neither bow nor string.
So tone and pitch and key can marry in overarching transcendance.