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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • The protocol isn’t even the issue, banks already use XRP.

    It’s the fact that USD is propped up by Uncle Sam’s globalized monopoly which is kept in tip top shape by geopolitical power.

    Everyone trades in USD because it’s the de facto currency and it’s stable because the government can abuse its power to keep it that way.

    No one trusts the value of the Ruble, Yuan, Rupee, or even any other currency except for maybe the Euro. They all exist for internal use, which means its just gets compared in value to USD whenever you have to deal with anything external, which is all the time.

    BRICS would only fly if a stable trade medium can rapidly prove its worth with market stress and trade requirement, otherwise everyone will just continue to use USD, hence why the USA doesn’t currently view it as much of a threat. And even if you could get countries on board, the US can hold on to a massive noose around everyone’s neck by refusing to trade in anything but USD, which would effectively shut you off from trading with a massive portion of US based/owned/partner companies.


  • XFCE + Compiz

    The unholy combination of accelerated 3D graphics and performance, all without the stupid drawbacks of wayland.

    Runs much lighter than KDE even with all the 3D cube and windows stuff enabled.

    Extremely customizable as well. XFCE already does a great job of UI/UX, it just lacks a compositor to add flare (xfwm4 has no animations, only some blur effects).


  • I like how Pakistan is striped as if they didn’t just throw away billions of dollars of chinese investments for some IMF loans because the US told them to lol.

    Also Afghanistan being green which actually happened right before Pakistan’s thing

    EDIT: Also India which always gets refused US arm tech sales because they exclusively buy from Russia lol. It’s like enemy of my enemy but also friend of my other enemy.
















  • I don’t know why the guy just assumed every linux and BSD machine runs cups-browsed by default?

    It took me literally 5 seconds to check that it’s disabled on Fedora by default.

    Then he wrote a whole paragraph about how no one should use CUPS for printing because based off of his own analysis, it’s some insanely crappy and insecure system.

    Which is actually stupid because the only alternative is windows??? Which is universally known for printer driver and spooler vulnerabilities.

    Then he got mad the the maintainer for patching before his disclosure…