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Most bitcoin transactions actually happen off-chain (aka "off the books"), mostly through exchanges but also through decentralized layers like Lightning Network. It's also possible to physically transfer value by exchanging a signing device or seed phrase.


2600 is still being published!

https://www.2600.com/Magazine/DigitalEditions


Oh my goodness, they're still doing the radio shows as well.

I was an avid follower of 2600, phrack, etc from the mid 90's up through the mid 2010s and it seemed to me that the 2600 community always sort of stuck to itself, never really growing or shrinking.


Has the quality declined over the years?

I get the 2600 zine at a local book store and I like it but there's a lot of articles that I don't really care about.

It might be a good thing though.


2600 is locked into a format that was relevant 30-40 years ago and is nearly irrelevant today. In my opinion, 2600 is pantomiming a hacker aesthetic and have long since abandoned any commitment to an underlying hacker ethos.

I'm surprised that they're now offering a digital format as, at one point, they were taking a hard stance to not provide one. I guess they changed their mind within the last 10 years or so.

Notice how Paged Out is libre/free licensed, making sure that they provide a CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA for their articles. 2600 is locked under copyright.


In Virginia too, proposed in HB1124:

> The bill prohibits the use of autonomous vehicles as motor carriers of passengers or property without a human operator who (i) meets any state and federal qualifications for the operation of an autonomous vehicle; (ii) is physically present in such autonomous vehicle; and (iii) has the ability to monitor the performance of such vehicle and intervene in the operation of such vehicle, including operating such vehicle without the use of the automated driving system and stopping and turning off such vehicle if necessary.

https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1124


If they prohibit autonomous vehicles, eventually their constituencies will be screaming for it.

It seems that many people, after trying out the service for themselves first hand, in a locale that has it available today, are very eager to have the service available to them in their home locale.


Maybe, although stupid laws can become heavily entrenched and surprisingly hard to change. Like in New Jersey I think you still can't pump your own gas, and some idiots actually defend that crazy policy for the sake of saving jobs.


But this is a great example: the reality is that pumping your own gas is simply not even a 10x better product than having it pumped for you.

If NJ consumers (and politicians) had a 10x better product dangled in front of them every day, then the regulation side would solve itself.

Waymo is truly just such a vastly superior product that consumers will get exposed enough to it to care, and when they care, they will solve the regulation side.


Are those all Google employees, or does 250 also include long-term on-site contractors? I'm thinking security, maintenance, janitorial, etc


Mining bitcoin with a GPU hasn't been profitable in over a decade.



This used to be handled by selling full-version upgrades and providing patches between versions for free.


Which also makes it easier than ever for more users to run Linux as a desktop OS :)


Absolutely. I still prefer MacOS/Mac hardware in some ways but running a browser on Linux on a Thinkpad or whatever works pretty well for a lot of purposes.


I might be out of the loop, but if anyone else is confused about the version number:

> If you were expecting iOS 19 after iOS 18, you might be a little surprised to see Apple jump to iOS 26, but the new number reflects the 2025-2026 release season for the software update.

https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ios-26/


What's the difference between 1 & 5?

I've personally witnessed every one of these, but those two seem like different ways to say the same thing. I would fully agree if one of them specified a negative impact to productivity, and the other was net neutral but artificially felt like a gain.


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