cowtools

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by cowtools 4y ago
>now my SMS 2FA is a lot more secure than before doubtful. insecurity of sms has always been on carrier side. this does not solve fundamental problem.
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by cowtools 4y ago
removal of 230 would be disastrous for the internet as we know it, outside of some accelerationist worldview where the destruction of every major internet forum is good in the sense that it forces people into tougher peer-to-peer systems.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think HN looks fine already. The only real problem with this site's design is that the text is too small.
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by cowtools 4y ago
>The American system of relying on centuries of tenuous interpretation of a fairly short document just isn't as much of an improvement as you think. Having an unelected, unaccountable individual who leeches off the tax system: this
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by cowtools 4y ago
zram isn't default because it adds additonal CPU overhead and can't always compress data efficiently. Sometimes it is better for a program to just run out of memory and crash than go to swap I suppose it's similar to "do
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by cowtools 4y ago
>In general, the desire is to put the system image into /usr. A single partition, that holds literally everything you need to launch an os Hasn't this use case been replaced by initramfs?
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by cowtools 4y ago
I suppose, as long as you use locked down software and hardware. But you will be usually be able to reverse-engineer whatever heuristic they use. >Other tech is meant to leave a trail leading back to forgers, a bit like a DVD ripping sof
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by cowtools 4y ago
It is not possible due to bureaucracy inherent in the design of the internet. It is like starting your own email provider- you need people to peer with you in order to make your infrastructure useful. If you set up your own email provider a
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by cowtools 4y ago
Okay, but in this case there is no where else for KF to turn to. The situation here would be analogous if every single property management company in the world dropped you (of which there are only a handful) and you were forced to set up yo
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by cowtools 4y ago
This infrastructure should not be dependent on the whims of private companies. In the case of KF, they ought to switch to Tor. In the case of OF, they ought to switch to cryptocurrency.
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by cowtools 4y ago
>What you are describing is against androids terms of service and can find your entire google identity banned. Distributing an APK? There is nothing google can do about this. I never accept google's terms of service because I use an
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by cowtools 4y ago
>As a result, BTC and ETH are not so common for daily use in Argentina. Stablecoins such as USD-T, USD-C, and TRON are a more popular solution because they are pegged to a more stable currency (usually, USD). Interesting. So in this case
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by cowtools 4y ago
Is this supposed to link to a specific comment on the page, or the article itself?
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by cowtools 4y ago
Ungoogled Chromium? I've heard that the cryptocurrency features are disabled by default in Brave, but I've never used it.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Firefox market share is dying because of this mentality that is killing it. Self-fuffiling prophecy. The standardization is in the standard, not the implementation. You do not need everyone to use the same implementation in order to have st
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by cowtools 4y ago
Completely backwards reasoning here. The protocols (standards) and implementations are to be considered separate.
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by cowtools 4y ago
It does not matter because any new node joining would only need to connect to a single node that doesn't do the USAF in order to be converted against the USAF. The default behavior is to resist the USAF unless otherwise programmed. Add
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's a pretty funny idea, but I have a pretty good idea of how it would end up: "Yes, I would like to purchase a thousand stone bricks. Do you accept BrickCoin?"
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think to some extent, the Tor network coordinators are needed to prevent correlation attacks, are they not? I'll keep an eye on Nym, but I am pretty skeptical of any network that relies on a cryptocurrency scheme to operate, especial
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by cowtools 4y ago
I suppose there's a kernel of truth there, but it's easy to say that when your goal is to make a system that is basically too simple for any practical purpose. A lot of the complexity of modern software is reflective of the comple
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by cowtools 4y ago
Interesting, thank you for clearing this up. However, I think you could have multiple competing cryptocurrencies in the ASIC class, because the ASICs are not as generic as GPUs or CPUs, so they cannot be easily repurposed for attack unless
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by cowtools 4y ago
I can use my phone to CPU mine with https://github.com/XMRig-for-Android/xmrig-for-android albeit at a very low hashrate. IDK about GPU mining though, seems like that could be more useful. But if you root your android
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by cowtools 4y ago
I agree. It's sort of analogous to a Multi-Level-Marketing scheme wherein the most profit comes from selling the business (by offloading inventory onto the franchisees), not by selling the actual "product".
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by cowtools 4y ago
Even if the nodes are independent, I don't think it really matters as much as the distribution of the hash-power. The non-mining nodes will not be able to resist a re-org by antagonistic miners.
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by cowtools 4y ago
If I recall, the problem was that they were using the same PoW function as etherium was, so people could just use their old ETH hardware to attack ETC. Pretty sure the fix was to switch to a slightly different PoW that entails re-designing
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by cowtools 4y ago
I mean maybe if you try to double-spend on purchases that you make with cryptocurrency, but small reorgs happen all the time and they would have to prove you intentionally caused the reorg in order to double spend.
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by cowtools 4y ago
The number of nodes doesn't really matter as long as it's sufficiently high. The network security is mostly based on how decentralized the hash-power is (or staking-power) is. You're right that better measures are number of t
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by cowtools 4y ago
You could conceivably regard almost any comment as "threatening and intimidating". On a larger, more serious scale, almost every world power uses the internet to distribute propaganda with the effect of "threatening and intim
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by cowtools 4y ago
The difference is that murder is not prone to sybil attacks. You could literally mass-automate doxxing and swatting if you wanted to. Like imagine that you just had a bot that just scraped PII from a website, purchased phone numbers off the
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by cowtools 4y ago
Sure, but the internet's centralized nature breaks this dynamic because the "public square" is being privatized. Imagine if you couldn't print political flyers without active participation from the paper company, or if y

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