10 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 13h \ parent \ on: Why Do Men Dominate Chess? gaming
Except Arnold Schwarzenegger. :)
No, you still need onchain privacy for opening LN channels. Also, you will not make million dollar deals with LN currently.
I wanted ZX Spectrum clone (they were popular here) when I was even younger, but we didn't have money for computer. When I was 10, in 1994, mother bought used IBM PC/AT clone for her work (AMD Am286 14 MHz CPU, 1 MB RAM, 40 MB ST506 MFM HDD, EGA 16 colour video [max resolution 640x350]). That was my first actual experience with computer at home and I started learning to code some two weeks later.
It's legendary book, still have physical copy of it. https://laacz.lv/f/txt/ka-pecis-beiskans-maiju-sapratinu-programmet-macija/
That's how I started learning to code 30 years ago. MS-DOS had QBasic interpreter built-in. And I had a book in Latvian about different dialect of BASIC from old Soviet mainframe computers.
No, I'm realist, not living in illusions.
Russians ar jamming GPS in area likely to protect oil infrastructure from Ukrainian drone strikes.
In WW2 night raids I think they had some tech to follow location, but there were mistakes too, wrong cities got bombed. You cannot use map during the night when you can't see anything.
You cannot land in Tartu airport in nighttime without GPS, that's why Finnair have now suspended that route. If there would not be that tech, regulations would not allow to land passenger planes at nighttime there at all.
Ah, yes, FT does it somehow randomly. It opened for me normally, could read it all.
Here it is:
Russian GPS jamming threatens air disaster, warn Baltic ministers
Interference with navigation signals blamed on Moscow has forced two Finnish flights to turn around mid-journey
Baltic ministers have warned that GPS jamming blamed on Russia risks causing an air disaster after the interference with navigation signals forced two Finnish flights to turn around mid-journey.
The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania all warned separately at the weekend of the dangers of GPS jamming across the Baltic Sea region, which has increased in recent weeks.
On Thursday and Friday, two Finnair flights from Helsinki to the Estonian city of Tartu were forced by the GPS jamming to turn around and return to Finland as they were unable to navigate safely to their planned destination.
“If someone turns off your headlights while you’re driving at night, it gets dangerous. Things in the Baltic region near Russian borders are now getting too dangerous to ignore,” Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuania’s foreign minister, told the Financial Times.
Margus Tsahkna, Estonia’s foreign minister, added: “We consider what is happening with GPS as part of Russia’s hostile activities, and we will definitely discuss it with our allies.
“Such actions are a hybrid attack and are a threat to our people and security, and we will not tolerate them.”
Tens of thousands of civilian flights have been affected by the GPS jamming in recent months, according to experts. The jamming, which affects all GPS users in the area when it is in operation, has also impeded signals used by boats in the Baltic Sea, leading to warnings from the Swedish navy about the safety of shipping.
GPS jamming is easy to conduct with relatively cheap equipment, according to experts.
No country has acknowledged being behind the interference with signals in the Baltics, but officials in the region said there was little doubt that Russia was behind the jamming both from its mainland and its exclave of Kaliningrad, nestled between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
A senior official said one theory was that Russia was trying to protect Kaliningrad from potential attacks by Ukrainian drones.
The Kremlin did not respond to a request for comment.
The UK confirmed in March that a government plane carrying defence secretary Grant Shapps had its GPS signal jammed near Kaliningrad while flying home from Poland.
Dana Goward, a GPS expert, said: “The chance of an accident is rising.” Goward, who is president of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation, an advocacy group for GPS users, added that while back-up systems were available, crews have had less training on these than on GPS: “When you take away GPS, aviation becomes less efficient and less safe.”
However, Juho Sinkkonen, head of flight operations at Finnair, who has 22 years’ experience as a pilot, said that GPS interference had been increasing since 2022 and was “a nuisance with no imminent safety impact”.
Most airports had equipment to allow planes to land without GPS, Sinkkonen added, but Tartu “is one of the few airports where the approach procedures require a GPS signal”.
Baiba Braže, Latvia’s foreign minister, said: “We take these incidents seriously. Our relevant institutions are in touch with colleagues in other countries.”
Experts say there are several different sources for the GPS jamming, with one seemingly based in Kaliningrad, another responsible for the disturbances in Estonia and Finland, and a separate source affecting the far north of Norway and Finland.
Baltic officials are discussing the GPS jamming with allies, and are urging Russia to stop putting civilian aircraft at risk.
Marko Mihkelson, head of the foreign affairs committee of Estonia’s parliament, said: “Allies should not look indifferently at Russia’s jamming of the GPS signal and thereby endangering international air traffic.”
Macron said two years ago that France will build 14 new nuclear reactors by 2050. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/10/france-to-build-up-to-14-new-nuclear-reactors-by-2050-says-macron
5 sats \ 3 replies \ @kristapsk 1 May \ parent \ on: EU: Growth gap with the USA widens further econ
Isn't current cause for a lot of nuclear plants being down in France purely technical, not political?
Still remember where I was when I got the news from sports news in TV (there was no live broadcast from the race here back then), was crying in the pillow afterwards.
You can if you do KYC, ask other person to show passport. You are not allowed to trade with anon. At least I remember some criminal cases around this years ago.
Of course, I'm pretty sure people are doing non-KYC trades anyway.
USA already have more legal restrictions on plebs on Bitcoin use than any EU country or Canada. AFAIK, non-KYC BTC vs cash trades are forbidden, etc.
42 sats \ 6 replies \ @kristapsk 1 May \ parent \ on: EU: Growth gap with the USA widens further econ
Germany sabotaged itself by closing nuclear power plants.
it's relatively liquid like BTC
Disagree, I can always find someone in a few hours in my city to exchange BTC for cash or vice versa, not so with XMR. Only thing that has similar liquidity in these markets besides BTC is USDT on Tron.
Exchanges that will not allow deposits from coinjoins will ban Monero first.