Just now I tried opening an account at a few random Canadian banks, and they all say I need to be living in Canada. How is an average joe supposed to work around those requirements?

I'm not saying it should be easier either. When you're dealing with state-issued currencies there are reasons for those restrictions. But the draw of bitcoin is that it's politically neutral and you don't need to jump through the hoops of any particular country, or hire a lawyer to navigate foreign laws. Just download an open source app and you're ready to go.

Even `ls` on an fresh Fedora install has bad color defaults. In the dark theme, normal dirs are dark-blue-on-black. In the light theme, sticky-bit dirs are black-on-dark-green. Neither is easy to read.

Tweaking the terminal's color theme isn't a solution, because different apps use colors in different combinations, and colors that make one app look better will make another app look worse. Some "modern" terminal apps use 24-bit colors which aren't theme-able at all.

I think a better place to solve this is at the terminal emulator layer. I'd love to use a terminal that checks the contrast between the foreground/background colors for every character, and adjusts colors on the fly if the contrast is too low.

A couple kind commenters here pointed me to iTerm2 and Windows Terminal, but neither are available on Linux. Are there any Linux terminals that have this feature?

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I don't think there's a danger Apple will discontinue the App Store in any region as a result of these rulings.

Nothing will change for you if you don't want it to change. This is only an option for people who want additional functionality. Nobody is forcing freedom or change on you by adding one more hard-to-find option buried in a menu somewhere for people who really want it.

How could you ever choose?

Very few of the victims are criminals.

https://www.nemannlawoffices.com/blog/law-enforcement-seized...

> One more data point supports this contention: At the federal level, at least, "the vast majority of forfeiture victims are never convicted or charged with a crime," according to Carpenter. Using data obtained via FOIA requests, Carpenter found that 87 percent of federal forfeiture proceedings were civil cases, not criminal ones. "It's troubling that 87% of the time the conviction appears to be irrelevant," co-author Lisa Knepper said.

Yes, he'll have to report the donation and pay his taxes. Yes, someone may "take a close look". No, there is no chance he'll be legally prevented from accepting the donation, unless he lives in an authoritarian country like China/North Korea where owning crypto at all is illegal.

Crypto has been used for anonymous donations as long as it's existed and afaik nobody has ever faced any legal problems from accepting an anonymous donation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Fund

There's an open proposal to do this in Zig as well, with the ability to opt out at the individual parameter level (and with safety checks in debug builds).

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1108

Either way we can definitely thank Rust for blazing the trail. noalias in LLVM had never been stress-tested to that degree, and they were finding and fixing noalias-related optimizer bugs for years

There's a fun attack vector. Apparently any delivery driver can disable someone's Amazon account with a single report, with no checks and balances

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...

> Finland, Home of the $103,000 Speeding Ticket

> Most of Scandinavia determines fines based on income. Could such a system work in the U.S.?