cowtools

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by cowtools 4y ago
I think there is an important difference between having stress and having a traumatic stress disorder.
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by cowtools 4y ago
The alternative to centralized moderation is voluntary peer-to-peer communication, not a firehose. Something like secushare would take the place of forums I assume: https://secushare.org/society
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by cowtools 4y ago
I didn't read this whole thing but I agree it would be pretty funny if social media was legally forced to host spam
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by cowtools 4y ago
If you don't like it, just build your own state. smh.
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by cowtools 4y ago
The problem is that there are only a handful companies to do business with in the first place. I think what you would expect in a sane market is that they are forced to negotiate a more expensive deal with the remaining service providers du
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Something requiring decent scale is totally different than being a natural monopoly. There were plenty of DDoS protection options on the market. Is it? There were a few DDoS protection services on the market, but they seemingly all drop
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by cowtools 4y ago
I couldn't disagree more. Without the silk road, bitcoin would have never taken off. monero has seemingly displaced bitcoin here. The transparency of the ledger is key to the censorship, control, and abuse of the network. >open sour
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by cowtools 4y ago
I suppose the monero userbase has similar attitudes as the early bitcoin userbase, but monero/cryptonote is not a bitcoin fork in the same sense that zcash/zerocoin is. >we could just iterate on existing ones, and have our user
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by cowtools 4y ago
No, it wasn't.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Let's not speculate: https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/quotes/privacy/ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=770 It seems like satoshi thought pseudo-anonyminity was sufficient. The int
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by cowtools 4y ago
It is possible but unlikely. It is likely that clearnet use of monero is monitored, for example. But in terms of security, monero users are very cautious. The code has been independently audited, and has generally succeeded where other cryp
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by cowtools 4y ago
He may be referring to opsec more generally (onramps, offramps), or he may be specificially referring to poisoned output attacks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iABIcsDJKyM TL;DR Ring signatures, like all sender-obfuscatio
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by cowtools 4y ago
The privacy characteristics of the lightning network are probably worse than that of the traditional banking system, but this depends on implementations.
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by cowtools 4y ago
It is quite difficult to compare the obfuscation features of lightning network with that of "conventional" systems like cryptonote-style ring signatures. Consider two different situations: A) A user picks the economically best pee
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by cowtools 4y ago
They are not subject to chain analysis, but they are still subject to analysis.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Almost any use of bitcoin will de-anonymize you through some heuristic.
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by cowtools 4y ago
As much as I appreciate the sentiment, ring signatures are not a perfect solution for sender privacy at the moment given current ringsizes. Almost every cryptocurrency with sender-obfuscation features bumps up against "poisoned output&
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by cowtools 4y ago
How is tether considered a cryptocurrency here? It's centrally minted and controlled.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Not my house. I use kraken so I think I will remain less affected than users of other, less credible, exchanges. Cryptocurrency has been working just fine before tether, and it's going to work just fine without it. We've seen ups
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by cowtools 4y ago
> Tether plugs on through things like the Terra collapse with zero issues Being more stable than Terra is not a very high bar.
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by cowtools 4y ago
>This is why I'm strongly against spam filtering for email. Spam filters are fundamentally security-through-obscurity. I mean, they don't protect your email from targeted bombing attacks or phishing. If you need spam filters to
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by cowtools 4y ago
There was article here the other day on a project by herb stutter to improve c++ syntax, I can link it to you if you want. But I get the impression that the syntax is a fixable problem. Usually critics point so something like the template s
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think the solution would be to just make the down-vote do nothing but increment the visible counter, and also make it so that users that can't comment if they already voted. This allows people to simply signal their disapproval witho
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by cowtools 4y ago
The answer depends on the type of service you host. I don't know what you need to do, but I do know that filtering IP space is merely security-by-obscurity, it is a cheap and broken solution to the hard problems of sybil resistance. If
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by cowtools 4y ago
modeless: it's impossible to install native code on the device you ostensibly own without Apple's ongoing permission. fingerlocks: here, just run these two easy commands to ask apple for their ongoing permission!
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by cowtools 4y ago
> In the current model, the barrier to entry is pretty low. $99 gets you xcode, plus you need done hardware. Hundreds of dollars in apple hardware and software compared to zero dollars for MSVC community, zero dollars for android develop
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Code signing identity >Please refer to the Apple documentation on how to get a code signing identity and certificates. You can check that you have a code signing identity correctly installed by running the following command. It has a
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Political debates are the same way, right? I think a debate is something you can only have between parties that have similar goals (axioms) but different methods. Like a scientific debate, everyone shares the same information and same t
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Revolut hack exposes data of 50k users, fuels new phishing wave(bleepingcomputer.com)
3 points by cowtools 4y ago|0 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
I mean, if anyone can get ahold of fake passports...

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