beeflet

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571.
by beeflet 1y ago
What is the point of setting up your own email server if all of your sent messages go to spam for the majority of gmail/o365 users?
572.
by beeflet 1y ago
What's your opinion on being tortured by a machine for eternity?
573.
by beeflet 1y ago
>There are lots of ways they could make a sustainable income without disrupting Bluesky's current status quo and be comfortably rich for the rest of their lives... but that's completely out of character for them and will never
574.
by beeflet 1y ago
except for humans
575.
by beeflet 1y ago
You should look into cryptography. It actually is possible to design open systems provably without bugs or single sources of failure. It's possible to build mechanisms of plausible deniability that are largely immune to rubber-hose att
576.
by beeflet 1y ago
How effective is it?
577.
by beeflet 1y ago
Okay then make them do that instead of giving your data away for free
578.
by beeflet 1y ago
Then design the system so that there is not a single source of administrative failure.
579.
by beeflet 1y ago
Yeah, defund the government spying apparatus if it isn't useful
580.
by beeflet 1y ago
So what is funding the government going to do then? At some point you have to make people responsible for their own computer systems.
581.
by beeflet 1y ago
Then let them spend it instead of giving your data away for free
582.
by beeflet 1y ago
>Computers can never be 100% secure. This is ridiculous defeatism. You are going to need more 0's than exist in the global economy to crack many cryptosystems.
583.
by beeflet 1y ago
200MB blocks every 10 mins would compete with paypal's throughput, and wouldn't significantly reduce decentralization. A couple cryptocurrencies of this size, perhaps merge-mined, with atomic swaps between them could cover most of
584.
by beeflet 1y ago
Okay, let them
585.
by beeflet 1y ago
Clearly you don't want the whole community to enjoy it then. Openness is incompatible with keeping the riff raff out
586.
by beeflet 1y ago
A lot of models seem to be biased based on (political, etc.) reinforcement from their trainers.
587.
by beeflet 1y ago
Most of it is in modules that don't have to be compiled at all (and usually aren't)
588.
by beeflet 1y ago
Why bother making a new OS when you can make a new user interface for an existing OS? The drivers are the hard part. It takes a lot of inter-industry collaboration to get driver compatibility
589.
by beeflet 1y ago
You are requiring users to submit their ID to the government whenever they want to modify a program
590.
by beeflet 1y ago
There is no need to regulate anonymous speech if you uphold the principle of free speech. The only reason why you want to de-anonymize speech is to apply consequences for some forms of speech.
591.
by beeflet 1y ago
That is a totally inappropriate comparison. Knowing the chemical formula for cocaine does not give me access to cocaine. Whereas access to the source code of a program nessisarially gives you access to the program. In one case, it is effica
592.
by beeflet 1y ago
some people will move heaven and earth to stop the inevitable process of natural selection
593.
by beeflet 1y ago
Not all software is sold as part of a business. Free software is one such example. So this comparison is inappropriate. >I think this is something governments should have enforced long ago. Even linux distros with > N number of users
594.
by beeflet 1y ago
postmarketOS is already there. You need hardware support to make it happen
595.
by beeflet 1y ago
You could just run links or some text-based browser on the other side. Perhaps you could also write a script that would mimic typing over the link.
596.
by beeflet 1y ago
It's not that long. You could probably these servers with an automated process.
597.
by beeflet 1y ago
I see this as one possible one good ending to bitcoin. The nerds of the world sold the financial institutions magic beans and dipped out.
598.
by beeflet 1y ago
Satoshi did not anticipate that the block size would be restricted to 1MB by the development team forever, making the base layer impractical for payments.
599.
by beeflet 1y ago
Miners have to cover rapid depreciation costs in their equipment due to moore's law. They can't just "turn it off". Every second the ASIC miner is off, it's burning a hole in their pocket.
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by beeflet 1y ago
Investing is work. You have to spend time researching different opportunities, and even then there is still a risk involved. If you made money by buying bitcoin a long time ago, you didn't get something for nothing. And if you sell it

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