Notices by halcy​:icosahedron: (halcy@icosahedron.website), page 9

@dotUser mystery machine

Time to assemble this device that my dad got me for Christmas

and I mean, I'm not a Design Expert, and generally a fan of high contrast but that's like

high contrast between text and background

not high contrast between background and whitespace

tumblr doing the good old "we need to change something. this is something." with their UI, huh

tumblr doing the good old "we need to change something. this is something." with their UI, huh

@codl rofl yeah they're all like that now

if it's reasonable for you you could buy a bitalino https://bitalino.com/en/ , they're pretty fun (but obv not exactly end user devices)

@USBloveDog they are presently in the bargaining stage on the quadrigacx subreddit

@will @er1n the main reason to hold tether is that you can't sell it because nobody wants to buy it

@kaniini it's the old "tell everybody you have two billion dollars and no we can't tell you where they are from or show you any proof we have them, and then everybody goes 'yes this seems plausible' and lets you buy stuff with them" hustle

oldest trick in the book!

@er1n bitfinex is uhhhh very Special

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(cryptocurrency)#Alleged_price_manipulation

the short version is they might be pulling the most hilarious scam via tether wherein they tell everybody that they have two billion dollars and then everybody just believes them

@er1n (after quadriga imploded)

@er1n bonus: https://cryptocapital.co/ took bitfinex off their list sometime this week lmaoo

( compare http://web.archive.org/web/20181003050334/https://cryptocapital.co/#EXCHANGES )

@er1n https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/cryptocapital-co-may-be-cryptos-black-swan/ ignore the fact that the website is dumb and that "black swan" is like, extremely told you so here, but this is so plausible

* also unrelatedly that bitcoin ETF that everybody hyped for months does not, will not exist actually

* a huge canadian exchange QuadrigaCX kind of up and disappeard
* they might be insolvent
* they're owned by a company that also owns 5 exchanged, 4 of which recently imploded. number 5: bitfinex
* bitfinex might be properly insolvent
* this means tether would be also
* money of the future

@bstacey @tomharris come and join us at university of Bremen, which is a very young university, so nearly all buildings are from the 70s and depending on your point of view either Triumphs of Brutalist Architecture or Ugly Sores Upon the Earth

nothing if not consistent, though

so currently at work:

* some of my files disappeared.

* I have no idea why. they are all in a certain folder, but the list of files that are gone follows no discernible pattern wrt age, name/extension, file size, path, in git repo or not...

* our backups only go back 1mo, they disappeared before that.

* fortunately, I have all the files they‘re generated from, so fixing this is maybe 2h of work.

* but still: why and how did these files disappear??

honestly though it just kills me that the official stance of the UK government and parliament on this whole debacle appears to be pretty much "who knew that this was going to be so complicated!!!!"