PrettyFlyForAFatGuy @ PrettyFlyForAFatGuy @feddit.uk

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bring back split flap departure boards

This one came out of the blue. the API blackout had notice and time to organize. People were talking about reddit alternatives and protesting for weeks before the API blackout happened

Porn on Reddit used to be good but has been awful since the rise of OnlyFans. Now almost every post on porn subreddits is someone shilling their onlyfans using the same 5 second tease clips across dozens of tenuously related subreddits. If the exodus happens to Lemmy, that is what it will be here.

OF killed good amateur porn

Edit: Boobs is banned because it was unmoderated apparently. i haven't checked the others in the OPs list. i've logged into my porn account and there's plenty of large and small porn subreddits still around so i don't think this was a porn purge

the lightning network still uses the blockchain, just less. it's acts like an immutable public bar tab you can't default on. once you have spent enough with another person that it is worth them conducting the transaction on chain then it does it. usually when fees are low too.

That is an extremely simplified explanation of how it works though, it is more complex than that.

Edit: another analogy i have just read is it's like cashing in at a casino. you put some money in the house (the blockchain) and get some chips, you go in and transact with loads of people, then when it's advantageous you can cash out and get your BTC on chain; to the house that is two transactions, cash in and then out, rather than a transaction for everyone you exchanged with on the network. that's probs a better analogy than the bar tab one... but again, oversimplified

bar tab is more accurate, casino is easier to understand.

the actual functionality doesn't really matter to the layperson though. basically, you put some of your bitcoin on the network (minimum amounts apply), and then you can spend that with very fast transactions and low fees. when you're ready you can send what you have back to the chain

i got back into bitcoin recently and decided to move the contents of my old wallet to a new SegWit one and look into using lightning.

To open a lightning channel i have to stake £170 up front though which is crazy, how are people in poorer countries supposed to do that?

or even here. poverty is on the rise, a lot of people are living hand to mouth and just having that kind of money lying around isnt a thing.

i like the idea of bitcoin but i worry it doesn't scale well.

Add to that that virtually nowhere accepts it. The value of bitcoin comes from its use as a currency. if it doesn't have that then it's entirely speculation.

oh well, i have £2k in there and i'm not turning it back into fiat. I'll spend it if i can or ride it all the way to 0 if that's the way it goes

edit: if BTC does hit $1m a coin as the hodlers hope then that would amount to $2000 to open a lightning channel (or more realistically $2400 as electrum wouldnt let me open a channel with the supposed minimum 0.002 BTC, i had to make it 0.0024). I hope that the minimum amount to open a channel will be updated long before that happens though, but i guess we'll see

Yeah i'm london based (although almost exclusively work from home). the company is a huge multinational though, offices all over the world

We get macbooks at my work because we develop for linux servers but IT don't want to have to deal with linux clients on their network.

The corporate surveillance infrastructure is there for MacOS and it's nix enough for the development we need to do.

We had them complaining a few years ago that all these macbooks were too expensive (which they are) and we said to them "We're happy to take good quality Linux laptops..."

IT were like "Nah"

My first laptop with this company was a £3000+ MBP with an I9 which got too hot to touch. TBH since they replaced it with an M3 one i've actually enjoyed using it. i can spend all day in bed on a single charge

i use manjaro, which is an Arch derivative.

Manjaro is pretty popular. and the AUR is the tits

can you not use the mobile web ui? you dont really need a lemmy app

The API is pretty open. you can write a script that sends individual messages to however many people you like

2000 so that would have been under Tony Blair. We don't have constitutionally protected free speech like the US does

I started reading but i'm pretty sure this book is illegal in my country

the first crop was rare candy and evolution stones

“I’m nonbinary because the doctor-donna is binary”

My eyes rolled all the way to the back of my head when i saw this bit

First time i have posted on anything resembling insta in 111 weeks

bought the dip yesterday, i'm currently up 5.25% on Nvidia

Keeps the foreigns confused

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among the not tech inclined? not many i'd reckon

Everyone over the age of 45 and is not tech inclined