As can be seen at the link below, 8chan also hosted a board supportive of the Hong Kong protesters, and which many Hong Kong people used in their campaign against the Chinese government.
Interesting how Brennan's letter includes this info to leverage China's censorship engine against Watkins. It is as if 8chan's free speech is being used against itself. If so, that's bit fucked up, but i am ambivalent for now.
Money coming from corporations is on “an even sharper decline,” despite interest from companies such as Facebook Inc. in creating their own digital coins, CB Insights said. Maturing startups are drawing less support, while young startups are faring better, it said.
Every VC who approaches 'blockchain' like it's a milkable buzzword for crazy profits do not understand the implication of blockchain. They seem to want to treat a blockchain as if it is some sort of digital ledger (which it is), but then fucking stop there. However, bitcoin's blockchain is distributed, which is something missing from most half-baked cryptocurrency proposals (e.g. Facebook, Goldman sachs, JPM). As long as corporate executives think they can create a corporate-controlled blockchain with centralized control, it will fail in the face of a distributed solution.
Facebook's unspoken principle behind Libra will be Facebook controls the Libra blockchain. This one fact makes the Libra proposal already obsolete because multiple antifragile, globally distributed blockchains have already been in existence, growing, and improving over the past decade. While government regulators dote over Facebook's Libra whitepaper, people today already have those features in many different cryptocurrencies, along with the fact the blockchains are not controlled by fucking Facebook.
We have seen the music industry go through the five stages of grief when mp3s began to be shared peer-to-peer, and banking corps are now experiencing their own extinction event. IMO Facebook and other corps continue to play catchup to Bitcoin, Etherium, Ripple, yet do not seem to, or do not want to understand the implications of a distributed tech that they cannot hope to control or rein in by throwing money at it.
. Gatekeeper is just a nanny program for the plebs - a security hole wont be relevant to power users anyway.
As long as you're in Terminal,
sudo spctl --master-disable
Remember that guy who tossed his hard drive
that was a good story back in 2013, but some things have improved
SOP these days is to secure a wallet stored on the blockchain with a seed phrase, which is converted into a seed integer, to a deterministic wallet that can recreate the wallet's key pairs. with this type of storage, you can lose your phone or hdd, and still recover the 'lost' bitcoins if you have the seed phrase, and the wallet software.
not perfect by any stretch, but is secure enough for the vast majority of cases.
Have you ever seen anything designed from Apple and said, "wow, that's really good design."
The latch mechanism for the G4 Cube
Target Disk mode (currently on TB3, but i've been using this since 6 pin firewire)
This 2008 macbook was a joy to work on, with tool-less access to a replaceable battery.
the layout of the mac pro towers four hotswappable drives on trays, independent horizontal airflows for power supply, processor/ram, PCI slots. compared with the jet airliner of the predecessor powermac G5s, the Mac Pro 2006+ showed the gradual improvements in design over time. these towers were the last macs to offer modular upgrades, until the 2019 mac pro was announced.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.