Recent developments in the HEX ecosystem suggest a deliberate move away from staking, a mechanism that once stood as the project’s primary value proposition beyond its fabled meme-like appeal. This shift raises pressing questions: Why is Richard Heart seemingly discouraging …
A Personal Journey Through Computing’s Golden Age There’s something extraordinary about the way computers used to be—when they were more of an enigma than a household item. I was just 11 when I first encountered a computer, a TRS-80, in …
SOURCE: https://twitter.com/danielvf/status/1847023591117795708?s=46&t=QXQlDuRByp9WRsn3iew3Fw HW Wallets and the ongoing Blind Signing Debacle With a little help from ChatGPT ChatGPT 4o Prompt by @gruvinThere has been an ongoing issue with hardware wallets such as Trezor, where they do not make any attempt to …
– Just a Crypto Sales Pitch? “Buy-and-burn” mechanisms are one of the most commonly touted strategies for increasing the value of tokens in the cryptocurrency world. The narrative is simple: by using a portion of revenues or transaction fees to …
Sit back and enjoy this Kiwi pilot’s take on flying — a cheerful mix of laid-back wisdom and mild paranoia wrapped in a flightless bird’s reality check. “Flying is safe,” they said. “It’s statistically safer than driving,” they claimed. And …
The Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto: A Masterfully Constructed Persona? As cryptocurrency evolves and infiltrates every corner of the global financial system, one of its most captivating mysteries remains unsolved: the true identity of Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Since Bitcoin’s debut …
Opinion: How to Live in a World Where AI Shapes What We See and Believe Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing everything around us, faster than we ever imagined. From the news we read, to the ads we see, and even …
The mystery of consciousness is arguably one of the greatest, if not the greatest, philosophical and scientific challenges we face. It lies at the intersection of many disciplines—neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, and even quantum physics—all offering fragmented insights, but none delivering …
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A conversation with ChatGPT 4o — October 2024 This post was shared with family as a demonstration of ChatGPT’s current ability to contruct meaningful dialogue. PROMPT Considering the illusion of time, it’s intriguing to think about how our perception of …
macOS As of this writing, when one attempts to run a custom Python3 plugin script for KiCad (v6) where the script file is not located at /Applications/KiCad/KiCad.app/Contents/SharedSupport/plugins python complains that it cannot find the KiCad libraries. Apple security boffins have …
