I literally switched to Racoon because of that post. Is it a community project now, and if so, link?

Yeah, that feels like a really weird choice.

[D. Richard Hipp] designed SQLite in the spring of 2000 while working for General Dynamics on contract with the United States Navy.

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Well today I learned!

There is one “inherent use” (if I’m understanding that term correctly) of bitcoin, and that’s to pay for space in blocks. Again, that only gives bitcoin value if people want to use bitcoin, so take that as you will.

So… That isn’t exactly true. You’re correct that there’s a limit to the total and circulating number of coins, but if the world suddenly decides 1 BTC = US$0, it doesn’t matter if there are less coins tomorrow than today. Both days, each coin is still worth zero.

All that to say, there’s no guarantee that a bitcoin’s value will increase over time.

A penny saved is still a penny saved. I’m not saying it would amount to much, but it is non-zero.

Depends on how much traffic you’re talking about. Encrypting/decrypting isn’t free.

Nothing in the comic says expensive Chinese products won’t also become more expensive 🤣

That’s “Chemical X” which is fine.

Cocaine. Jesus fuck. I’m not particularly angry with you, OP, just at the trend of advertiser friendly self-censoring that’s making its way into the fediverse.

One critical benefit of the rubber duck is that it doesn’t make things up.

You obviously haven’t seen me rubber duck debug.

I don’t believe it does, but I could be wrong!

If you want to be slightly fancier, you can use a btrfs subvolume and not have to worry about sizing partitions correctly.

Avoiding shorts is a feature IMO

Fuck

I’m not claiming that it was “intuitive”, just that the browser did tell the user exactly what the add-on was allowed to do. Sure, Chrome and Firefox deserve some blame for not making the warning more explicit/dire, but they did make an attempt. Overwriting cookies and rewriting affiliate links are subsets of “access your data”.

Also, I’m not claiming that I knew exactly what Honey was doing, just that I suspected it was shady and recommended no one use it.

It wasn’t “uncovered” though. This is their business model. I’ve told every person I know using Honey for years that it’s a shady extension and they should stop using it. Unfortunately I don’t have a huge following to offset Honey’s massive ad spend.

I’m not calling anyone stupid, but stop treating this like it’s new information. Your browser warned you this might happen when you installed the extension:

The fact that it must be collected at all is the problem. I have very little faith that the government will actually choose a privacy preserving solution, and even if they do, I doubt it’ll be implemented perfectly.

I guess it was filibustered last time it came up. I’m hoping it will die as well, but I won’t count on it.

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