The guy: “Obviously you can’t recover it without the password. So I’ll just hire people to help me search.”

Guy he hired: “I’m just gonna try my own luck with this hard drive. Huh it didn’t work. Well, I don’t want to get in trouble.”

This hurts too much to read

Just being a Bitcoin user 12 years ago was a ticket to generational wealth.

It’s heartbreaking from a psychological perspective. He felt like those coins were in his grasp, and every month he spent on this search was the one he’d find it. So he kept doubling down. 💀

How much does a McDonald’s employee make in a day, anyways? $10?

The difference between eating a few by accident and having them ground up for coloring matters to vegetarians.

Go take a long walk off a short pier. I promise your day will change!

car which is bought once and is mostly outside of vendor control once you have it

Well, cars in the 1940s at least. Don’t buy a Tesla.

Yes? But only if it’s the guy in charge of a network service I’m buying.

It’s a tremendous pain the ass buying vegetarian vitamins because I need to see the ingredients… On the back of the box, behind a locked door.

Sometimes the keywarden just waits there while I read through a bunch of them.

You actually don’t need to show them the receipt if you’ve already purchased the goods. It’s your property now and they can get fucked. I do it all the time.

Huh. I guess somebody did beat the wiz.

Then it’s just package theft

I’m surprised the scale didn’t flag it

Crypto has been leaning right for years and it’s a damn shame IMO. The initial motivation was to create a money supply without automatic annual pay cuts, without corporate bailouts, where we aren’t forced to either invest in a business or work until we die. All humans should share a FOSS money supply. A large percentage of us were leftists or (actual) anarchists.

Then it appreciated really fast and attracted a bunch of get-rich-quick crypto bros who understand nothing and want you to buy their latest shitcoin. And it’s hurt adoption in the long term as a consequence.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they started distancing themselves from the darknet drug markets that got us here.

Making it transparent might encourage pesky users to consider replacing a part.

They’ll do that at the drop of a hat these days. It’s been a slippery slope since WikiLeaks.

https://www.comradeworkwear.com/products/the-playing-cards

Thats the nifty part, for centralized fact-checkers we just use LLMs!