sunshine-o

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by sunshine-o 9d ago
> Am I wrong that this feels at a totally different scale and audacity? I believe the difference is that now it is really "in your face" because the internet is dominant. The world of money/finance/banking always had
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by sunshine-o 9d ago
Here is the problem: Yes Tether is shady and shouldn't be trusted, we've known for about 10 years (see articles and comments here on HN) But guess what, look into most banks it is probably worst and connected to Epstein. The rabbi
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by sunshine-o 9d ago
It seems Alex Jones was right again
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by sunshine-o 22d ago
I believe that we established all those government systems are fairly easy to hack. I remember some French military naval construction network got owned about a year ago, much worst in a sense. My guess is since a global conflict is ramping
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by sunshine-o 23d ago
I was talking about running a public IPFS gateway. This is what the deny list is for.
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by sunshine-o 23d ago
The question is why IPFS did not get the traction something like Tor had for decades? I believe the fundamental problem of those protocols is everyone fear ending up serving child porn just by running a "node" and taking a chance
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by sunshine-o 23d ago
A few years ago they got into the AI bandwagon and stoped funding the P2P/Web3 stuff from what I remember.
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by sunshine-o 27d ago
> I wonder if it could happen at some point that an alternative Android becomes so big that OEMs start supporting it. I think this is the huge battle GrapheneOS won with Motorola. There are probably a few manufacturers of phones unhappy
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by sunshine-o 28d ago
The era of big tech cooperation around free software is obviously over. Those kind of moves are petty but there are worst tricks they can pull unfortunately. It seems Grapheneos is the rare actor willing to put up a fight nowadays, and thei
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by sunshine-o 1mo ago
Beautiful !
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by sunshine-o 1mo ago
Big government, big surface attack.
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by sunshine-o 1mo ago
Spyware and bloat ain't cheap these days. Linux users don't rejoice too much, the Fedoras and Ubuntus were eating so much of my RAM I had to take refuge in Alpine.
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by sunshine-o 1mo ago
> The grass is always greener on the other side ... until you actually dare to find out. Yes this is the core problem. The grass used to be very green in the "first world" (North America and Western Europe) but it is now getti
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
This is very interesting !
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
Yes and it is very unclear to me what are actually the risks... I am unfamiliar with "coldcard" but can hackers find out which wallet is used for which account? or maybe it can be inferred by analysing the transaction (if any)? If
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
Yes this has been a known problem of crypto/self custody since its inception. The 1 private key -> public key -> address is elegant but an horrible single point of failure. When people create a wallet, the quality of the entropy
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
I can explain what is my (maybe irrational) fear: I am working on my desktop or laptop, I get a power cut or the laptop battery run out, when I reboot the filesystem is unrecoverable and I loose 4 hours rebuilding the system and recovering
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
There must be a fascinated industry dedicated to cracking old, orphan, lost and forgotten accounts with bad seeds and entropy.
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
I am tempted, how do you deal with the non journalized filesystem? This is the one "modern" comfort that makes me hesitant to try.
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
About "cybercrime" in general my feeling is there is a status quo between the criminals and countries. Something like we do not take down your economy and you do not go after us. I know for a fact that even the most powerful organ
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
My guess is this really show how all our "advanced economies" and sophisticated "democracies" react to various threats and risks. We spend a lot of money on those threats and there is probably a ton of surveillance invol
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
> but I can not help but feel that this has been externally coordinated. All those things are (externally) coordinated. We've been forced to believe by romanticized narratives that things like revolutions or invasions begins with on
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
> We are not in the business of mass massacres. Those are unarmed but aggressive foreigners. There are way to stop them entering your country in mass in a few hours without committing a massacre. Western Europe has no problem using crowd
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
I used to be very fond of Scala 10-15 years ago. I also had to move on for professional reasons and haven't kept up for a long time. I am very surprised that there is not much traction anymore for Scala. I see about 10x more Clojure ne
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
They should go negative because the gigantic amount of CO2 being released right now because of the obvious incompetence of the authorites is criminal.
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
Also I can understand fires in gigantic forests in Canada or mountainous area are almost impossible to prevent but just looking at the Gironde/Bordeaux area on Google Maps it just looks like an absolute failure by the state. And this i
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
I am always puzzled by those fires in those type of area (just looking on Google Map). I have lived in risky area and fires are unavoidable at some point. But at least we had mandatory 30 or 50m wide breaks to really slow the spread.
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
There are about 8k validators [0]. Validators are low requirements, in the RPI ballpark and and a lot if them are combined on a single host. Then you also need some full nodes to access the data or submit transactions. So you can consider t
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
Yes if you compare a proof of stake blockchains (most of them) and the banking industry, crypto has a far smaller environmental footprint. Ethereum (since PoS) was designed to allow anybody to run a validator or even a full node out of mode
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by sunshine-o 2mo ago
RIP Their podcast is one of the last bastion of independence: no ads, all funded, produced, developed, self hosted by a group of volunteers.

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