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Newsletter: No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin.
citationneeded.news/trump-meme…
#crypto #cryptocurrency #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USpol
No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin
Journalists’ flawed math and ignorance of crypto markets turn tokens into fake fortunesMolly White (Citation Needed)
![When Donald Trump launched a memecoin days before his inauguration, newspapers were quick to try to grab headlines with huge numbers.
“The $TRUMP memecoin — a financial asset that didn’t exist on Friday afternoon — now accounts for about 89% of Donald Trump’s net worth,” wrote Axios, which dubbed him a “crypto billionaire”.1 “[T]he so-called fully diluted value of all the tokens as of Saturday at noon was $30 billion, a number achieved less than a day after the token went on the market,” wrote the New York Times.2 Newspapers’ estimates of fully diluted value fluctuated wildly from somewhere around $20 billion to around $70 billion, depending on which paper you read and when they published.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/629023 "When Donald Trump launched a memecoin days before his inauguration, newspapers were quick to try to grab headlines with huge numbers.
“The $TRUMP memecoin — a financial asset that didn’t exist on Friday afternoon — now accounts for about 89% of Donald Trump’s net worth,” wrote Axios, which dubbed him a “crypto billionaire”.1 “[T]he so-called fully diluted value of all the tokens as of Saturday at noon was $30 billion, a number achieved less than a day after the token went on the market,” wrote the New York Times.2 Newspapers’ estimates of fully diluted value fluctuated wildly from somewhere around $20 billion to around $70 billion, depending on which paper you read and when they published.")
This is not to downplay the extent to which Trump is grifting his devotees and crypto traders looking to make a buck on memecoin speculation. But it is important that we accurately report on his cons and don’t contribute to misleading crypto hype for the sake of large numbers.
To understand crypto “valuations”, take the example of MollyCoin. If I conjure a billion MOLLY tokens out of thin air and sell one for $1, I’ve just created a “billion dollar” cryptocurrency.
We Don't Need More Cynics. We Need More Builders.
Cynicism is the cheap seats. It’s the fast food of intellectual positions. Anyone can point at something and say it’s broken, corrupt, or destined to fail. The real challenge? Building something better.Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)
Chvilku mi to trvalo, ale dosel jsem k zaveru, ze s clankem striktne nesouhlasim. Cynismus ma svoje misto a nedaval bych rovnitko mezi cynik = debil, ac mnoho cynickych postoju je v zasade jenom fakticka manifestace debila.
Zadany stav v clanku me prijde mnohem nebezpecnejsi. Defensivni pozitivne-skepticke postoje se rychle zvrhnou v sanewashing. Viz treba media ve vztahu k Trumpovi a jeho kampani (vs cynicke postoje proti-trumpovskych republikanu).
Weird tech mystery of the day.
I am running a Bookwyrm instance, which receives a post request to /inbox about twice a minute, from mastodon.sdf.org. The user it is posted as no longer exists, and every time this happens, SDF returns a 404, which is then logged here. Any idea what is going on? The two IP addresses the requests come from belong to mastodon.sdf.org, so I am assuming they are not forged.
Mastodon @ SDF
"I appreciate SDF but it's a general-purpose server and the name doesn't make it obvious that it's about art." - Eugen RochkoMastodon hosted on mastodon.sdf.org
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Caritas: „Blue Monday“: Mehr als 600.000 Menschen einsam
Einsamkeit trifft Menschen, unabhängig von Alter, sozialem Hintergrund und Einkommen: Der „Blue Monday“, der dritte Montag im Jänner, gilt als traurigster Tag des Jahres.ORF.at
Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung
Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.bbb.metalab.at
Bearnice the stuffed bear wielded a plastic light saber. "If you strike me down," she said, "I shall become stronger than you can imagine!"
"How?" asked Caiman the gator. "You'll be dead."
"I'll be a ghost!" Bearnice paused. "Mind you, I won't be able to hold a light saber, and I'll mostly be busy training my successor...."
"That doesn't sound like 'more powerful than I can imagine'."
"Yeah but saying, 'I'll become a ghost who shows up occasionally' doesn't sound as cool...."
Countries that are smart enough to ban X:
China ✅
Countries that are not smart enough to ban X:
Canada ❌
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Elon Musk complains about China’s ban on X
“Something needs to change,” he posted on X.Financial Times (Ars Technica)
Sharing passwords can be risky - but it doesn’t have to be 🔐
Learn the safest ways to share passwords securely and protect your sensitive information here 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-share-passwo… #PasswordProtection
How to safely share a password | Tuta
It’s important to know how to send a password securely because sharing it via any platform is not safe which can have dire effects on your online safety.Tuta
'Wow #LinkedIn, what amazing UX you have!'
'All the better to fake you with my dear.'
'Ignore an invitation to connect from {0,name,full}'
My friend Graham, #electronics guru, #hamradio enthusiast, #maker, avid fixer of stuff and all round good guy found an old photo of himself as a kid in the #70s and decided to try and recreate the same scene 50 years later.
The result is a delight...
ROFLMAO.
Claude decided to crawl one of the sites on my new server, where known bots are redirected to an #iocaine maze. Claude has been in the maze for 13k requests so far, over the course of 30 minutes.
I will need to fine tune the rate limiting, because it didn't hit any rate limits - it scanned using 902 different client IPs. So simply rate limiting by IP doesn't fly. I'll rate limit by (possibly normalized) agent (they all used the same UA).
Over the course of this 30 minutes, it downloaded about ~300 times less data than if I would've let it scrape the real thing, and each request took about the tenth of the time to serve than the real thing would have. So I saved bandwidth, saved processing time, likely saved RAM too, and served garbage to Claude.
Job well done.
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btw dnes jsem tam chtěl dát další video ale mám na nic net takže to bude muset počkat, snad zítra.
Asi vždy slepím 2 až 3 dny do sebe ať to má cca 5min.
Turn Your Chrome OS Machine Into a Powerful DevOps Machine With This Guide
Do you have a Chrome OS? It may work great for you dev endeavors.João Esperancinha (lxer.com)
Head up, #maker #3DPrinter fans. The just-announced BambuLab lockdown on our printers is on it way - but you can still enroll your printer (with the usual caveats) to run rootable firmware.
Read BambuLab's post here: blog.bambulab.com/firmware-upd…
Buuuuuuut,
You can still go through the opt-out procedure (or just not upgrade your printer)
bambulab.com/en-us/third-party…
Or, y'know, you could get the keys... hackaday.com/2025/01/19/bambu-… ;)
And I'd recommend X1 Plus firmware :) github.com/X1Plus/X1Plus
Firmware Update Introducing New Authorization Control System
Launching first for X Series printers, with P and A Series updates planned for future releaseBambu Kidd (Bambu Lab Blog)
L'investiture de Donald Trump n'est pas qu'une perspective terrifiante pour les Etats-Unis.
Ça l'est aussi pour :
- l'Europe
- la lutte contre le changement climatique
- la paix dans le monde
- les migrants
- les femmes
- les minorités de genre et les personnes LGBTQIA+
From Canada, I hope folks are taking some time this Martin Luther King Jr. Day to reflect on the hope he had for America.
Here’s his lecture from the 1967 Massey Lecture in Canada - Conscience for Change - 1967 Massey
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30…
The Massey Lecture is a real institution here. So many great intellectuals have presented challenging views about challenges to modern civilization.
MLK: Conscience for Change - 1967 Massey Lectures
Conscience for Change features five lectures that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and December 1967 for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ...YouTube
Ok serious question to #Jira users. I find using it throughout the day strains and exhausts my brain due to the numerous links, UI features. And when I switch from one tab to another, especially to a Jira page, I suddenly forget what I am supposed to do on the Jira page. How do you all manage this??
Or is it just me??
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The Ops team have an account at @osm_tech that has useful updates.
What sort of accounts are you interested in?
Some of the software projects themselves have a presence here:
@MapComplete
@OpenDroneMap
@panoramax
@mapswipe
@organicmaps
@josmeditor
@MapRoulette
@vespucci_editor
(I wish I knew how to post this without pinging everyone I mention)
That's my list:
@barefootstache
@bhousel
@bysariipek
@Edward Betts
@FOSSGIS Verein
@Geofabrik
@gislars
@HeiGIT
@MapAm💜re
@MapComplete
@Mapilio
@MapRoulette
@Martin Raifer
@Matija Nalis
@OpenCage 👉🌍
@OpenStreetBrowser
@OpenStreetMap - Relay
@OpenStreetMap Austria
@OpenStreetMap Belgium
@OpenStreetMap community
@openstreetmap group
@OpenStreetMap Ops Team
@OpenStreetMap 🗺️ RestoBot 🍽️🤖
@Organic Maps
@OSM Berlin and Brandenburg
@OSMLondon
@Osmose QA
@OSMScience
@Panoramax
@Paul Norman
@Pietervdvn
@osrr@en.osm.town
@State of the Map Europe
@StreetComplete News & Support
@Strubbl 🐧
@Swiss OpenStreetMap
@vespucci
@weeklyOSM
@weeklyosm@bsky.social
@Wochenaufgabe.OSM
docs: document the behavior of -- in the curl command line by 9cel · Pull Request #16053 · curl/curl
Prompted by a question asked in #curl on libera. This behavior seems to have been present since the very beginning of curl and is explained in a code comment, so I'm assuming it's deliberat...GitHub
Try to post a lot of non-political stuff..
#GoodNight #CYAL8R
Just going to post #DistractingStuff tomorrow.
We can all scroll that hashtag instead of the news
You know it's going to be there, and make everyone angry and tense. Only sensible thing to do, is FLOOD SOCIAL MEDIA with #DistractingStuff #Otters
We don't have SEA OTTERS, and often seals swim by when I'm having morning coffee.
But, #RiverOtters come out in the harbour on low tides regularly. Pretty sure that's an otter head
As some people expressed interest, I used this wretched day for a blog about curl's tracing.
#curl
github.com/icing/blog/blob/mai…
blog/curl-tracing.md at main · icing/blog
Contribute to icing/blog development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
X and Bluesky launch dedicated video feeds, on TikTok uncertainty
Social media apps X and Bluesky are both rolling out dedicated video feeds, in apparent attempts to take advantage of...Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
doesn't mention it is RB build? it shows no RB build i think the reason for this is v1.0.
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"Sag mir mal was schönes, ich brauch das gerade"
"Alle Tests sind grün, die neuen Pipelines sind fertig und funktionieren, die Kernelbugs sind alle gefixt und wir können das Release endlich zum Kunden geben, die HIL-Tests sind repariert und wir haben es geschafft beim Management Atlassian wegzudiskutieren"
"Stimmt irgendwas davon?"
"Na *du* wolltest doch angelogen werden..."
Soooo ne Woche wird das also 😐
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll get a large language model to write me a regular expression."
Now they have a huge electricity bill and an entire regular language full of problems.
Was just pre-prepping to do a videoconf interview...
Good reasons to check your webcam view before a call number 1278: just in case it looks like you're wearing a tiny watering-can as a hat.
So I had a break from Fanfiction for all of 3 weeks. I got sucked into ...
The Accidental Animagus
White_Squirrel
Harry escapes the Dursleys with a unique bout of accidental magic and eventually winds up at the Grangers' house. Now, he has what he always wanted: a loving family—and he'll need their help to take on the magical world and vanquish the dark lord who has pursued him from birth.
archiveofourown.org/works/1407…
cc @FreakyFwoof
The Accidental Animagus - Chapter 1 - White_Squirrel - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Worksarchiveofourown.org
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