choffman

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by choffman 11mo ago
There's about to be a lot of skinny people in Canada bordering states. :)
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by choffman 3y ago
Article says Postgres launched in 1986. Wikipedia says 1996.
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by choffman 4y ago
Devilmouse! AC is one of my favorite games of all time (neck and neck with Ultima II (I'm old)). I still play on the emulators from time to time - endlessly searching for more Hoary Mattekars. I played on Thistledown and ran a little
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by choffman 5y ago
I sometimes peruse the Daily/Weekly/Monthly trending report on Github: https://github.com/trending?since=daily
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by choffman 5y ago
I'm not sure if the ghost of Netscape Composer is laughing or crying.
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by choffman 5y ago
I really appreciate you writing this guide. As a long time Linux user, I've always wanted to learn AWK, but it seemed too daunting. Three minutes into your guide and I immediately saw how I could use it in my day-to-day usage.
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by choffman 6y ago
Word up.
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by choffman 8y ago
It could be someone that likes to use specific numbers as a "calling card" of sorts.
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by choffman 9y ago
A noble attempt, but without supporting Monero you're not supporting fungibility and privacy. I hope this is an oversight that you'll correct.
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by choffman 9y ago
It is much safer for me to buy things on the Internet with cryptocurrencies than credit cards. It seems like every few months there's a huge leak of customers and credit card information.
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by choffman 10y ago
I think Keybase is making a mistake in choosing Zcash over Monero - especially so soon after Zcash's launch. But that's okay - they'll come around soon enough. Zcash has been fantastic advertising for Monero.
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by choffman 10y ago
ZCash requires a trusted setup, takes a 20% fee from miners, and active mixing requires 8GB of RAM. https://blog.okturtles.com/2016/03/the-zcash-catch/ http://weuse.cash/2016/06/09&#
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by choffman 10y ago
True, but Fastmail has addressed this. I'm not sure that their argument completely holds up, but here's what they have to say about it: https://blog.fastmail.com/2013/10/07/fastmails-servers-are-i..
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by choffman 10y ago
From the Medium blog: > The cypherpunk, anarchist future wasn’t supposed to be about stronger banking guarantees and wealth redistribution among Reddit users. I think your interests may fall more closely in line with what the Monero folk
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by choffman 10y ago
There are plenty of early adopters who purchased Monero for several dollars each. And it languished at 30-50 cents for well over a year. And is now only ~$1. So there's been plenty of time for anyone to be an early adopter....conti
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by choffman 10y ago
So how do you advocate for a cryptocurrency that you truly believe in without being called a shill...or a pumper? Monero/CryptoNote based coins offer better privacy than any other competitor. And we live in an age where that's be
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by choffman 11y ago
I'm not sure that anyone can speak to what happens to crypto in a post quantum world. Mixing does not happen on a server - that would be an atrocious violation of privacy. Monero (and other cryptonote coins ) use ring signatures - h
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by choffman 11y ago
This technology already exists today in the form of the Cryptonote based coins - of which Monero is the leading example. Cryptonote, by default, is an opaque blockchain - your transactions are not visible to the world. But, let's say
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by choffman 11y ago
Jello will always be a hero to me for what he did during all the PMRC stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKRGX1a-JBE
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by choffman 11y ago
Again, existing technologies already provide this. And they further empower the user to expressly define how much anonymity they want...down to the transactional level. Empowering governments with additional taxation tools is about the onl
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by choffman 11y ago
No thank you. With regards to my government, I would like to see more privacy rather than less. This seems to give me less. I do like the idea of complete transactional privacy between end users and/or merchants. But we already have
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by choffman 12y ago
Agreed. Which is why some of the newer cryptocurrencies like Monero are gaining some attention.
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by choffman 12y ago
Graphite compliments the ELK stack and does not replace it. Logstash is great at extracting metrics/numbers/data out of your logs. You can then use the graphite/statsd output plugin to graph that data.
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by choffman 12y ago
My daughter also took to Barbie's and princesses. We weren't happy with it at first, but we decided to accept it and encourage diversity in playtime. So we introduced Lego's, nerf swords, my old Capsela kit, and tons more
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by choffman 12y ago
|What is on debian today that you can't get on or don't like about OSX? Freedom.
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by choffman 12y ago
Competition certainly sounds nice on paper, but think of the problems that the various sound servers/api's have caused. OSS(+ 4Front's version), ALSA, PulseAudio, Jack.