The_Walkening [none/use name]

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Cake day: June 8th, 2021

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  • I like the idea of them because I don’t like dealing with dependencies changing and breaking stuff and I don’t really care too much about disk space in the context of non-game desktop apps, as I don’t tend to install lots of them.

    That being said I absolutely hate that permissions are all over the place and flatpak doesn’t ship a GUI to manage them by default, nor do you get any indication as to what permissions a program has until you try some functionality (like filesystem or camera access) only to find out it doesn’t work out of the box.


















  • Microstrategy is an analytics company that buys bitcoin to pump bitcoin - they own something like 1% of the total supply.

    Tether is a cryptocurrency that lets you do tax fraud by being pegged 1:1 to the US dollar, but can be exchanged in-kind for bitcoin so you don’t actually trigger a taxable event. It’s run by iFinex, a company that also runs the Bitfinex exchange. I’m not really sure that they actually have 120 billion in cash

    I have no clue who actually runs these companies tho