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Also anyone in the US can easily recieve crypto - swap the USDC to PyUSD, and get them to send the Solana address for their PayPal account.

1234.56 of PyUSD becomes 1234.56 in your PayPal and bank account.


You and I have vastly different definitions of the word “easily”.

Yes, if PayPal had an API to allow people to convert a username to an address, it would be much easier.

> But Huntley and Yegge have also been posting about $RALPH and $GAS, which are cryptocurrency coins built on top of the longstanding Solana cryptocurrency

Solana isn't a cryptocurrency, it's a blockchain network (by some measures, the one with the most user activity). SOL is the native token of that network, used to pay transaction fees. These are two random tokens that happen to also use Solana.


"limp biscuit" is an activity, not a euphemism for a penis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soggy_biscuit


I have do idea about DC but I don't trust crime rate stats - a lot might be unreported.

In NYC last year someone burnt someone else to death while they sat, relaxed and watched, and in a seperate incident a person died died and someone else had sex with them afterwards.

It could that be crime is lower or it could be that insane brutality has become normalized.


Crimes stats famously get massaged. However murders are hard to downgrade.

<Renee Good's family joined the chat>

But do you have reason to believe that crime is reported less often now than in the past?

Just give me a Chromium based browser make it open source and a verifiable build and I’ll pay you twenty dollars.

Free and open-source browsers based on Chromium: Brave, Dooble, Falkon, Otter, qutebrowser, Supermium, ungoogled-chromium

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Free_an...


I don't want all the extras of Brave, Double seems to really care about it's 2017 release https://textbrowser.github.io/dooble/ and seems either unmaintained or fake, and I want to ensure the developer can eat.

You need to try Telegram. Not because it’s better but because it’s more insane. The QR code you use to add people when you meet them is in Settings

No it isn't. Hamburger menu > My Profile > QR button is next to your username.

On iOS it's in Settings (in the context of meeting people, you're not going to pull out a desktop)

We don't want an insane experience, it's an HOA group. That's all I use WhatsApp for.

Also, I despise telegram (just as much as X), because in Germany both are rotten to the core in terms of user base, worse than WhatsApp.

Signal or Threema would be great, and I voted for Signal, but the majority uses WhatsApp.

I used to use Telegram, but ever since Covid and the whackos that found their "truth" over there I say no thank you.


You don't use an IM service, because a subset of its users are "wackos"? I've used Telegram for many years now, and aside from the occasional "hot singles in your area" type spam, I've never been bothered by anyone.

Well, the subset feels like the majority. Which does not mean that they are socially a majority, just on those platforms. Telegram and X has been taken over by them, IN GERMANY. I don't know how it is in other countries, maybe it's more civilized there.

The actual reason why I use an IM is the HOA, as I said. Else I do not have and do not need an IM, except for my ejabberd server + Conversations clients so that devices can send me status updates, like "backup completed successfully".


To get them onto Telegram, where group chat is not encrypted, is a win by whatever three-letter agency pulled that off. ;-)

Same here. Telegram does not suggest contacts, groups or anything else to you. If you see wackos it's because you have them in your contact list.

It's the only IM I have used that works most of the time, is not Google or Meta, is free and is easy enough to get working for normies.

I'd use IRC, XMPP or Matrix but then I cannot contact the non-tech friends I want to chat with from time to time.


Except Telegram requires you to pay to have the option of only allowing your contacts to message you.

And even then, if the spammer buys premium, they can still message you!


There’s about fourteen or so in other threads. I posted a couple:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46632023


Still in beta. It's apparently going to be called 'Encyclopedia Galactica' when released.

Wikipedia could do a lot by reminding people of their own rule: that Wikipedia is not a source to be cited - more often.

I don't think it's particularly wild - Jimmy Wales talked about the pages to do with Gaza before he locked them due to his concerns: https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/business/wikipedia-co-founder-... or https://gizmodo.com/wikipedia-gaza-genocide-locked-200068099....

There are many others though. The 'Solana_(blockchain_platform)' page is mainly a hit piece. When I used to edit Wikipedia, an admin told me that the amount of developers was not a relevant measure for a blockchain platform (!) and that 'proof of history' (using verifiable delay functions to sync clocks then creating an equivalent of Time Division Multiple Access to coordinate a distributed system) was not real (!!). At the time, the introduction to the page was mainly focused on FTX (who invested in Solana Lab's 5th round) and Melania Trump (who launched a token on the platform, amongst many more well known/more liked people and orgs that had done things on Solana, eg Def Jam, Lollapalooza, Instagram, Stripe, Visa, etc) which apparently were not relevant.

Wikipedia's cofounder Larry Sanger has a list of many more.


A nitpick: Jimmy Wales did not lock the page. He is not an administrator on the site, and doed not have the rights necessary to lock any pages.

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