• mountainriver@awful.systems
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    2 days ago

    Regarding OFAC, making payment to any ransomware illegal, I have long pondered if participating in cryptocurrencies that is or has been used for ransomware payments shouldn’t be considered under money laundering laws. That might make most cryptocurrencies illegal, or rather shine the light on the main useages already being illegal.

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    4 days ago

    (Currently writing some book-like text on the AI bubble, with minimal crypto. I also have some book-like text on smart city scams, which has rather more bitcoin in it.)

    fuck yes

    AWS’ suggested upgrade path is Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL — which also does audit logs. So as usual, the answer to which database is: just use Postgres.

    it’s amazing how often Postgres is the sane implementation for a database-shaped problem, including a search engine just waiting for a competent ranking algorithm and a crawler (yes I’ve considered doing this)

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    4 days ago

    Just another bear/bull cycle. It’s not good as a currency, no Gen 1 crypto is.

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      3 days ago

      no Gen 1 crypto

      Just one more gen, bro. I swear it will fulfil all the promises this time.

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        3 days ago

        This pisses me off because you assume I care about the tech. I care about the $60k that appeared out of thin air overnight.

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          2 days ago

          I didn’t need to look to know most of your post history is fucking awful generative AI “art”

          I hope the $60k helps you become less mediocre as a person! now fuck off