macOS 27 (Golden Gate) is the first release in years I was eager enough to install at .0. @RogueAmoeba picked out just a tiny fraction of the improvements, definitely a read if you're into audio: weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/…

From 25 Oct 2026 Revolut Ltd blocks external wallet transfers for Swiss crypto customers. UK customers keep them. Whatever the reason, it fits a pattern: no travel rule threshold, unhosted wallet proof, stablecoin holder KYC. Switzerland asks more than the EU. It shows.

«Besser kann es für die ausländischen UBS-Aktionäre und -Investoren nicht laufen. Die Schweizer Politik hat mit dem Entscheid am Mittwoch deutlich gemacht, dass sie die UBS nicht mehr will, obwohl ihr mehrmals die Konsequenzen eines solchen Handelns aufgezeigt worden sind.» finews.ch/news/banken/73730-…

By the way: Apple is totally ok if you let them know about their outrageous pricing by buying an iPhone 18 Pro and an iPad instead of an iPhone Duo

I guess nobody saw that coming Hunter Biden’s ‘$LAPTOP’ crypto coin crashes minutes after launch wapo.st/4gJ1L2e

Ok after a bit of banging my openclaw's head against its mac mini wall, (needed to revert to uncensored local ai for this one), got Columbo working, maybe a series where Columbo investigates suspected satoshis?

A reassuring little discovery about Swiss media pluralism. Last Saturday, the FT put Geneva’s increasingly violent “homejackings” on its front page: wealthy residents attacked in their homes, organised gangs linked to southern France, and questions about how easily perpetrators can disappear across the border. I was surprised. I follow Swiss news reasonably closely, yet I had barely heard about this. My first suspicion was political. Perhaps a story about cross-border crime and tighter border controls was more attractive to some Swiss media than others, depending on their views on Europe and Schengen. So I checked. And that suspicion was mostly wrong. Le Temps, despite its clearly pro-European outlook, has covered the homejackings extensively. So have RTS and Tribune de Genève. And they haven’t been coy about the French connection. Conversely, some media one might expect to find the story irresistible haven’t made particularly much of it. The real dividing line seems simpler: the Röstigraben. The homejackings have been a story in Romandie for months. In German-speaking Switzerland, much less so. Blick eventually picked up the FT story and made almost exactly that point: “Home-Jackings” were “in der Deutschschweiz kaum bekannt.” So the FT hadn’t uncovered something Swiss journalists were avoiding. It had taken a regional Geneva crime story and recognised the bigger one: Geneva + super-rich + private bankers + commodity traders + violent gangs from France + porous border. That’s a pretty good FT story. And the exercise was reassuring. Swiss media certainly have their political leanings and blind spots. But they are different leanings and different blind spots. Taken together, we still have a rather healthy media ecosystem in which uncomfortable stories tend to get reported somewhere. Sometimes it just takes the Financial Times to carry them across the Röstigraben.

Keller-Sutter treibt Schweiz den Unternehmergeist aus insideparadeplatz.ch/2026/08…

As I'm not the first one to point out, whether they want to admit it or not, many women have always been attracted to bad boys and risk-takers. I can’t think of any archetype of man that fits that description more today than crossborder M&A attorneys that put it all on the line every day in law.

An overdue and frankly welcome development. Now, does anyone have Ariana’s phone number? Asking for a friend. wsj.com/lifestyle/olivia-rod…

Cuando mientes en el CV y te contratan:

Internationalisierung ist schwierig - auch für Scammer! (罚单号 heisst soviel wie "Bussennummer")

Grosszügige Subventionen für Erneuerbare: Laut Nuklearexpertin Prof. Dr. Annalisa Manera von der ETH Zürich könnte man mit den Subventionen, die heute in Windräder fliessen, ein Kernkraftwerk fast gratis bauen.

Neuer Vorschlag ans IFAB: Wer gegen den amtierenden Weltmeister einen 0:1-Rückstand aufholt und danach fast 60 Minuten zu zehnt gegen Messi & Co. das Remis verteidigt, wird automatisch Weltmeister. Klar, Argentinien hat in der Verlängerung getroffen – aber diese Schweizer Mannschaft hat mit Herz, Charakter und einem unglaublichen Kollektiv gezeigt, wozu unser Land fähig ist. Stolz auf dieses Team! 🇨🇭 #SUI #ARG #WM2026

"In den Nachtstunden vom 23. bis 25. Juni erzeugte Deutschland Strom mit rund 640 Gramm CO2 je Kilowattstunde. Frankreich spielte mit im Schnitt 60 Gramm in einer anderen Liga." nzz.ch/der-andere-blick/die-…

On the filter fork topic. I don't usually have time, but this morning listened to one of the twitter spaces from earlier in the week, with some well meaning relative bitcoin newcomers, that humanized them, and their concerns and thoughts for why they thought that made it logical to support 110. My feeling after listening, is if these are the people with #110 in their handles, I'm sad to see them about to fork off and get disillusioned without understanding why bitcoin rejected 110 robustly. So here's a more empathetic, constructive higher level version of explaining why not. I hope it's high-level and first-principles enough that everyone can follow. They seem to want to understand what makes people tick, and are suspicious of intent. So, if someone asked me why is Bitcoin important and what is it, I'd say my (personal) mission and hope for bitcoin is to build the cypherpunk future, that "Snow Crash" was a blueprint, and work backwards from there. Bitcoin I hope leads to fully free markets via bearer unseizable, hard mathematically dependable money. Not everyone is comfortable with that level of freedom, but that's my view. And at this point, I believe that surprisingly, even now many governments have come to understand and value bitcoin's gold-like mathematical assurance, a positive development. Others may have milder views than myself, but still like hard censorship resistant money. Because of motive suspicion, if it's not obvious: I hate spam with a passion, that's how I came to design hashcash while researching decentralized bearer money with others, and running nodes in privacy related cypherpunk p2p networks nearly three decades ago. People seem upset about the default op return policy change in bitcoin. I will just assert, there are extremely robust and simple reasons for bitcoin changing default relay policy, and most just didn't do their research, so don't know what those are, or maybe not technical enough to fully understand though there have been 1000s of posts trying to explain in various simplified ways. So that lack of understanding lends itself to shared build-up of false narratives. So here's my back-to-basics higher level explanation. The decentralization needed to create cypherpunk money has implications a: side effect of decentralization is that you can't impose your views on others. The very decentralization mechanism that helps that, is working against what BIP 110 wants, which at it's most basic is a quest to police other people. I understand supporters don't see their intent like that, but introspect deeper. You can modify your software, but not anyone else's. Another critical and incredibly robust technical bitcoin immune system is bitcoin can't have people who don't understand technology basics insist on eroding security, decentralization robustness and core properties. That would end badly, fast, and so people will fight you on that. So the message is Bitcoin respectfully says "no" to what you want. Sorry, and bitcoiners do genuinely understand and empathize that you mean well, have high level thoughts that make emotional sense, and articulate sensible bitcoin-defensive high level ideas, but they are not grounded and without you seeing it, the way you propose to achieve your ideas, hard-conflict with free cypherpunk permissionless money. My advice is to listen to more experienced people who understand the system and why it works the way it does, to whatever detail you want to understand the grounded reasons for why this is the implication of decentralization and cypherpunk money. I guarantee you the developer and protocol ecosystem shares and exceeds your views on bearer hard money (and dislike of spam). You may not agree with individual developers choices, views, way of expressing themselves etc, BUT you also need to understand the IETF-like decentralized technical consensus process creates a protective change resistance, that is highly effective at protecting bitcoin mission. The implication of which is no developer can change anything without technical consensus from hundreds of other developers and protocol observers who are pedantic and extremely knowledgeable clever people who won't let any unaddressed technical question past. The protective change resistance is robust and decentralized in an amplifying way because of this technical consensus. And the many highly technical mainline developers' cypherpunk mission mindsets are probably far more determined than you can even handle on clarity of understanding and views about freedoms on permissionless networks, as many of you are probably still subconsciously inured by the matrix, where they have transcended that, and grew up immersed in it decades ago. They think natively in this space, while you are just grappling with the surface. Many wont have internalized or have the experience to know how this internet physics works, where there is no policeman, no policy authority, just mathematics, free market and hard money. That has implications for your views also, unfortunately. Now the tough pill, which is unfortunately true: If you won't listen to reason, educate yourself, learn, the same radical freedom applies to you: your permissionless recourse is to club together and create a fork. But bitcoin won't be joining it. (With respect and no sleight intended.) Please rejoin bitcoin now, or later if you're not convinced and need to experience 110 forking off and fizzling for yourself to start that journey of introspecting and learning. It would be sad if bitcoin lost people disillusioned due to simple lack of understanding of what's going on there, we're all trying to defend bitcoin and keep it on mission. Including btw the 110 technical promoters, just they wandered off plot somehow. Join the cypherpunks on bitcoin, come cypherpunk summer🌞 in a few weeks.

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This man has a way with words: "Finding out that one guy — who is a senior Electron maintainer — has led the teams for the desktop clients for Slack, Notion, and now Claude is like discovering that it was one guy — whose family business was a distillery — who helmed the Titanic, piloted the Hindenburg, and then served as air traffic controller for Amelia Earhart." - @gruber on @daringfireball

Starting Windows 3.1 like it's 1994 [📹 pc_user_486]

Caring for others as the basis for a lot of efficiency gains piped.video/watch?v=WtbF-0dL…