cowtools

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by cowtools 4y ago
>Which gives them superpowers in understanding tech/algorithms... does it?
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by cowtools 4y ago
If that's the case, then what can we do to preemptively frustrate facebook's control?
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's deceitful for discord to use that language because it implies some level of independence. A VPS service like AWS goes out of their way to specify that it is a "virtual server". the product they provide is analagous to re
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by cowtools 4y ago
He recieves a few snowdogs at the end of the week.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I also will need to buy a guitar to use this app, so if anything you should be paying me to use it
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by cowtools 4y ago
>You can’t possibly hand approve everything so I’m sure the vast majority of node runners auto approve stuff and perhaps share some (non decentralized) black lists. This obviously hasn't been the case for bittorrent, so I don't
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by cowtools 4y ago
>So you would say I have 16TB, feel free to use it as you see fit swarm. I can "mine" crypto by helping the swarm. The problem is that cryptocurrency mining is about producing verifiable proofs. I don't know how you would
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by cowtools 4y ago
The majority of seeding/downloading will be done with the (minority) most popular files, while only a minority of seeding/downloading is done for the majority of files. For example, go to TPB and look at the distribution of seeder
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by cowtools 4y ago
Well then maybe it might be worthwhile to start bittorent-like private trackers for IPFS?
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by cowtools 4y ago
I like the IPNS idea. That would be useful even if it was just back-ported to bittorrent
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by cowtools 4y ago
Well, valve released portal on the new nintendo, so they have some buisness connections
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by cowtools 4y ago
It would certainly make it easier to disguise the space platform
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by cowtools 4y ago
well, each thread basically has a time limit before it gets archived and removed, so the users know to keep making threads if they want to keep their topic alive. So if someone comes and makes a DMCA claim on a thread, the moderators can ju
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by cowtools 4y ago
>My understanding is that many of the people who own crypto do so through a third party, so there is a layer of indirection. It's the difference between me having cash in hand (money in my pocket I can directly use) and me having ca
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's just another proprietary network with its own gatekeepers. I don't see what the fundamental change is here over something like SWIFT. It may only be temporarily competitive as it tries to penetrate the market. Once it reaches
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by cowtools 4y ago
You can just have a voluntary system wherein people decide beforehand how funds are distributed in the case of fraud. That doesn't necessarily require a third party like a bank to surveil and supervise every transaction.
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by cowtools 4y ago
>But it isn't. It might be more secure because the average crypto holder is more savvy, but in terms of security properties, I wouldn't let my mom have a crypto wallet, and without a direct wallet, I don't see how crypto h
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by cowtools 4y ago
>I'd rather live in a world where banks are solely responsible for fraudulent withdrawals than one where banks can shirk responsibility to their patrons. That is only possible through regulation. I'd rather live in a world in w
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by cowtools 4y ago
Beyond 2FA, some type of chaumian cash like https://taler.net/en/ might help too. But the problem is really downgrade attacks. There are multiple payment systems (bank wire, check, credit card ) and if there is one ins
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I think strong general AI is coming soon(lesswrong.com)
7 points by cowtools 4y ago|3 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
That used to be the case a decade ago, but I find that most wifi hardware supports linux these days.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Is this worst-case scenario for linux users any worse than the average-case of windows users downloading an .exe from a vendor's website and running it? If you do not already have a pubkey for which the code can be signed, then there i
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by cowtools 4y ago
Web3 is basicially about federated social networks. Maybe cryptocurrency plays a role, but the idea that it takes center-stage is one peddled by people who clearly have money to make.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I use cryptocurrency, however I don't remember ever working on, particiapting in, or endorsing Celcius. Celcius is not decentralized, it is not a community led-project, it is not free/open source software. So who is "they&quo
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by cowtools 4y ago
custodially held cryptocurrency is not on the ledger. When you own cryptocurrency custodially with someone, what that usually means that they hold all the cryptocurrency and they have their own database of IOUs. This is why it is unsafe to
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by cowtools 4y ago
> Kids and the Internet. About half the 10 year olds I know (which is more than a few) have phones with no filters on them. Kids running wild And whose responsibility is that? People start treating the internet like TV and radio, so we h
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by cowtools 4y ago
great solutions is maybe an overstatement. If you build a bridge that puts everyone else out of business, and later discriminate on what traffic is allowed on the bridge, and after that you put an expensive toll booth on that bridge, that&#
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Gas leaks in Russian pipelines to Europe stoke sabotage fears(reuters.com)
5 points by cowtools 4y ago|0 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
What if you just had a balloon or something that was tethered to some ground station. Might be cheaper than a radio tower.
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by cowtools 4y ago
As someone who has admittedly worked on approximately 0 user-facing programs, it seems like there are not many revolutionary ideas when it comes UI. I have some dream of a sort of user-interface system that exposes controls and data more di

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