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by ahnick 5y ago
What's the cons of the ZFS approach?
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Trezor Suite Launches(blog.trezor.io)
3 points by ahnick 5y ago|0 comments
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by ahnick 5y ago
I would assemble your own using FreeNAS/TrueNAS or buy a TrueNAS system that is already built for you. Having a full FreeBSD based system with modern ZFS is much more robust and does not come with any restrictions.
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by ahnick 5y ago
> I found a hole in the fifty year tornado map What was your source for this information?
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by ahnick 5y ago
The difficulties mentioned in the article with passing secrets on the command line is one of the reasons why we wrote encpass.sh ( https://github.com/plyint/encpass.sh ). We had a similar need for a lightweight solution
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by ahnick 5y ago
Not having integrations is a deal breaker for me. All of my financial information lives in other systems that I need to be able to import it into a single view that I can manage. There is no way I'm going back and manually entering a
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by ahnick 5y ago
We made an extension for encpass.sh (similar in some ways to pass) that stores secrets in Keybase ( https://github.com/plyint/encpass.sh/blob/master/extensions/... ) if that sort of thing is of intere
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by ahnick 6y ago
It's the HN hug of death now. :)
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by ahnick 6y ago
For the same reason that people don't just leave all their money tied up in ETFs or indexed mutual funds. If you really want or really need something, then you are willing to give up on the opportunity cost of your asset appreciating.
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by ahnick 6y ago
The interest rate on the loan was 3.5%. Long term capital gains in the US are typically 15% (short term 30%), so using a CDP can save a lot of money depending on the tax laws that apply to you.
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by ahnick 6y ago
He avoids capital gains in the article by using a MakerDAO CDP. This is a loan that is collateralized by his Ethereum holdings. (IIRC 1.5 ETH to the amount of DAI you want)
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by ahnick 6y ago
It's only avoided b/c in traditional economies there is no way to subdivide units of a denomination. (e.g. There is no way to split a penny into thousandths) Cryptocurrencies are purely digital and do not have this limitation. Th
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by ahnick 6y ago
If BTC is the only currency and everyone is transacting in BTC, then people are incentivized to hold BTC. Now that everyone is holding BTC, the value of their holdings are increasing alongside everyone else holding BTC. If you go into the
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by ahnick 6y ago
I think it's probably not that clear cut. What happens in a cascading blackout scenario? If you are part of a larger pool are you more exposed to have a service disruption now when there is a problem in another part of the grid of th
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by ahnick 6y ago
> The LiveView function almost doesn't work but a third party app allows me to display the tablet on the desktop for Zoom meetings. What's the third party app?
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by ahnick 6y ago
Yes, exactly. If you lose it or it's stolen, then you'd want to rotate to a new key quickly. Some of these devices have a pin too, so the attacker needs to crack the pin before they can actually use the device. This should hope
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by ahnick 6y ago
Some devices derive their keys from a recovery seed that you can store offline in paper form. The benefit of this approach is that you can recreate the key on a backup device using the recovery seed, should you lose your primary.
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by ahnick 6y ago
Most people can't put >$20,000 on their credit card and large money transfers over traditional financial institutions (wires/ACH) at best take many hours or days.
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Chia Business Whitepaper [pdf](chia.net)
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by ahnick 6y ago
I think it's easier to understand in the analogy of signed vs unsigned baseball cards. The images on the baseball cards are identical, but the only difference is the baseball player's signature is on one and not the other. This
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by ahnick 6y ago
The Apache projects page literally lists "Apache" in front of each of the projects you just mentioned. If I go to the apache streams github page it's url is https://github.com/apache/streams not https:
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by ahnick 6y ago
I suppose as long as everyone knows the etymology of this "distribution" and remembers to use the word docker before it, then it should be fine. Probably a conversation best had 10 years from now. :)
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by ahnick 6y ago
it's not about "catchiness", it's about being able to have a unique moniker, so whoever is searching for it can find it. "Distribution" immediately is going to clash with the multitude of linux distributions.
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by ahnick 6y ago
Based on your experience then, do you feel something like Fedora Silverblue will ultimately be more successful than a NixOS approach?
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by ahnick 6y ago
If you are against traditional package management, what is the argument for this approach over something like NixOS? This doesn't seem to do anything for trying to roll back to a previous known working state, which is probably my bigg
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by ahnick 6y ago
Your current approach sounds fine from the perspective of bitrot. The hole in your approach right now is protecting from incorrect updates made either by yourself or by an application to your data that you don't notice immediately. For
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by ahnick 6y ago
Fim is interesting, but I think most people (including myself here) don't worry about this because we rely on snapshots of backups. If a file was updated incorrectly then you just go back to the last known snapshot that worked. Of cour
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by ahnick 6y ago
When you say you "copy all my files to a 3rd disk as a cold backup", do you mean you are overwriting any existing files on the 3rd disk? If so, I would recommend considering using something like Duplicacy ( https://gith
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by ahnick 6y ago
What happens if the checksum file created by ccheck experiences bitrot?
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by ahnick 6y ago
Yes, that's why it is important to make sure you have scrubbing set up on a regular recurring interval.

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