everfree

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by everfree 5d ago
Ironic, given the title of the post.
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by everfree 2mo ago
Under US law, you have a nearly absolute right to not answer police questions.
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by everfree 4mo ago
What am I looking at? It's a link to a Windows update from 2016?
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by everfree 9mo ago
I believe an open source ranking algorithm is antithetical to good search, sadly. It hands spammers a recipe for how to push past legitimate sites to dominate the search results.
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by everfree 10mo ago
This is a strange concept to me. When companies add additional features to a product I use, I generally want to be notified about them so that I can make an informed decision about whether I want them enabled or disabled.
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by everfree 10mo ago
What do you mean by "locked to Mozilla's AI"? Mozilla doesn't host an AI chat bot to my knowledge.
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by everfree 10mo ago
Torbrowser is a fork of Firefox, not a user. I'm not going to bother looking this up because pigs aren't flying yet, so I'll just state it as fact: the torbrowser fork does not include any of Firefox's AI code or functio
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by everfree 10mo ago
Firefox development is funded almost entirely out of Google's massive donations to Mozilla. For Google, it's no more than a regulatory hedge - something they can point at and say that Chromium and Webkit are not a duopoly. But the
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by everfree 10mo ago
I can't imagine a quality random sample could come from 52 users who self-selected to participate in a browser beta, then self-selected to post about it in a thread on the Mozilla Connect forum. The reactions to Firefox's AI featu
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by everfree 10mo ago
I use AI in Firefox all the time. Obviously it seems like I'm in a minority. * I summarize articles. * When I need more context to understand an article, I ask AI what I'm missing. * When I'm writing up something important, I
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by everfree 1y ago
Chrome = Google.com Edge = Microsoft.com Safari = Apple.com Seems like Firefox is now the outlier, not the other way around. Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain the same as its common name. (Note: I’m not saying that I t
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by everfree 1y ago
Git itself is a safeguard against "expunging all traces". It preserves history permanently.
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by everfree 1y ago
> A degraded fleet is worse than no fleet here, there is no 2 are down, 8 are up here. Ethereum runs at 100% throughput with 100% of its security guarantees, all the way up to a 33% outage of its validator set. So it stays running at 100
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by everfree 1y ago
Society is a scam. Everyone else already owns all the good stuff by the time you're born. Wake me up when you can manufacture a Bitcoin mining ASIC by yourself starting with sticks and rocks.
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by everfree 1y ago
> We don’t know exactly what happened between 0 and 1, but it’s not really that important, other than it’s “externally verifiable hash”, eg PoW. Whether or not someone ran a particular piece of software on their computer for ten minutes
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by everfree 1y ago
> it was a split (not downtime) There were several significant double-spends. People were able to create fake transactions and scam each other. Preventing people from sending fake transactions is Bitcoin's one reason for existence.
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by everfree 1y ago
> I recall genesis block took 6 days of hashing at difficulty 1. The genesis block (0) was hard-coded. Block 1 was mined 6 days later, but Satoshi wasn't hashing that whole time, he was just waiting. Every block after the genesis bl
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by everfree 1y ago
> Ugh. Satoshi wrote about this. I don't believe he did, and I'm familiar with a lot of his writings. Do you have a source? > Single Client = Good. multiple client = menace. Two major bugs took 100% of the Bitcoin network do
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by everfree 1y ago
This subthread is about mining pools and I made my argument about bitaxe. You didn't address it at all.
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by everfree 1y ago
ETH price has been performing poorly lately, therefore PoS is "failing"? That seems like quite the leap in logic to me. I'd like to mention by the way that Bitcoin has had two egregious bugs that caused network downtime - onc
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by everfree 1y ago
One bitaxe costs $145 and runs at about 400GH/s. That's $0.02 per day in gross revenue, before electricity expenditure. It breaks even at $0.05 per kWh, which is an electricity rate so cheap it's impossible to get most plac
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by everfree 1y ago
I am a random nobody, I was there at the time the Ethereum presale happened, and they were accepting purchases from people just like me. In fact the presale was so open that it was drawing substantial criticism at the time. People were worr
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by everfree 1y ago
See my other reply. The coins were not sold to insiders, and your percentage is wrong on top of that.
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by everfree 1y ago
Bitcoin is not currently mined by "people", it is mined by large specialized companies with razor-thin margins in warehouses with access to bulk ASIC purchase agreements and incredibly cheap electricity. The last time a "pers
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by everfree 1y ago
The largest single staking entity, Coinbase, currently holds 7.6% of the ETH stake.
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by everfree 1y ago
Of course if you want to buy something useful you have to pay someone who created it or someone who is reselling it. It sounds like you're basically describing the software market, and more broadly, intellectual property in general. Wh
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by everfree 1y ago
Sui didn't halt because of PoS, it halted because of poor coding practices. Solana isn't rigged because it's PoS, it's rigged because its token is distributed mostly to insiders. > What you are repeating is the same P
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by everfree 1y ago
Proof of stake isn't a government, it's a network time protocol.
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by everfree 1y ago
> Stake just removes the physical scarcity so it fundamentally can't work. Why is scarcity required to be physical? And if it fundamentally can't work, why does it seem to be working by the metrics?
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by everfree 1y ago
I think it would be much easier for e.g. state actors to take control of a few of the world's PoW mining locations than to compromise a bunch of people's private keys.

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