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by cykros 4mo ago
Does this mean my 15 year old Phenom is too old? But it has 16 gb of DDR3 RAM! Admittedly web browsers and it don't get along that well. Literally the only thing that drags though on my Slackware 15 system, and even then usually only w
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by cykros 4mo ago
Good stuff to know, just in case the life extension tech explodes and we're all alive by the time cryptographically relevant quantum computers actually hit the scene.
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by cykros 5mo ago
I doubt this from Start9, but it does usually at least mean that figuring out how to do so manually means not just reading docs for the upstream packages, but also figuring out what changes they made to smooth over it all. This has always b
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by cykros 5mo ago
Netanyahu is a figurehead for many too. Though if I found out my bank DIDN'T hang up on him I'd be looking for another bank. As far as Popes go, Leo's probably upset more catholics than any in recent history. Which is saying
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by cykros 6mo ago
The larger it is, the less likely your mining set up is actually all that solid. The best miners are doing so with near free electricity, either with things like subsidized solar, or energy acquired from things like nat gas that'd othe
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by cykros 6mo ago
https://eternal-september.org/ last I checked there was still some activity on comp.misc after Slashdot pissed everyone off with their Beta a decade or so ago (same time Soylent News spun off as well). Definitely a few oth
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by cykros 6mo ago
https://eternal-september.org/ Not the one you were replying to, but this is free for anyone for text based Usenet (no binaries).
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by cykros 7mo ago
I think sentient autonomous cybernetic organisms. Still haven't encountered any yet.
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by cykros 7mo ago
Idk what's worse, how basic this is, or how many hardware signers think they do it better with a usb cable (or dear god -- without a screen). Coldcard, Passport, DIY, or GTFO.
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by cykros 7mo ago
That sounds bleak, unless they also bring back Tradewars and LORD.
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by cykros 7mo ago
Last I checked it was still quite alive with quite a few BBS systems, though admittedly that was a few years ago. Looks like you can still hook up to it using a Synchronet BBS anyway using the steps available here: https://wiki.s
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by cykros 7mo ago
If you got to choose your own censorship it'd be nice. As it stands, other instances can decide to defederate with what you're on. Sometimes, even knocking off servers you had connectivity with that were indirect. The Fediverse is
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by cykros 7mo ago
"Market demand." If I've got a profile on let's say, mastodon.social, and I have a following, and people I follow across other servers, and then mastodon.social decides that due to a few people over on outrageousposts.so
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by cykros 7mo ago
Everyone else, as long as they don't defederate your server as petty tyrants. Which has always been the drawback of the Fediverse. Nostr has delivered what I had hoped to get from the Fediverse: actually decentralized, censorship proof
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by cykros 7mo ago
Medicare for all doesn't seem to be a winning strategy, judging by the way it gets turned into euthanasia for all by our neighbors to the north. Lowering the cost of necessary education is important, though in many cases the methods at
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by cykros 7mo ago
Yea...forgive me for doubting that Genocide Joe's MK-Ultra'd lieutenant would not have us similarly murderous.
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by cykros 7mo ago
Armageddon is the old name for what is now called Megiddo. It's a Kibbutz in northern Israel. But hey, if the goal is to bring war to the doorstep of the occupiers,there are probably worse goals to have.
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by cykros 7mo ago
I've talked to random people. Most of them are unbearably boring, and they need to resort to alcohol and professional sports just to have anything to talk about in the first place. Bring up ECDSA and suddenly you may as well have just
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by cykros 8mo ago
What a hyperbolic nonsensical title from a bastion of Keynesian slop.
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by cykros 8mo ago
Sounds like most packages in the Debian ecosystem in my experience. Just do yourself a favor and run Slackware.
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by cykros 8mo ago
Keep an eye on Whitenoise. It's basically taken the technology behind Signal and placed it atop Nostr, so rather than signing up with a phone number, you do it with an npub (pubkey). Still in very early days so the features aren't
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by cykros 8mo ago
It doesn't make sense for Americans, or anyone with access to a dollar denominated bank account. For the other 80% of the planet though, it's a game changer. Rough estimate, but feels fair, as outside the US most people can't
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by cykros 8mo ago
Gonna need to find a way to circulate this FUD further -- I'm annoyed the price is already jumping back up while I'm awaiting the glacial speed of the bank transfer of my paycheck this week to buy more. The fact this is happening
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by cykros 9mo ago
Debian without systemd is a good start. Now, do Debian without dpkg, and you may finally be getting somewhere. The reason Debian fell to the systemd behemoth is because its sysvinit scripts were already a complete disaster. Slackware and Ge
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by cykros 9mo ago
Bitchat does work with Meshtastic as of the most recent release. It also lets you self host a relay, because it uses Nostr relays. I'm not so sure about white/black listing so yours DOES get used, but you can absolutely host one.
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by cykros 9mo ago
I still see the occasional netsplit. But with modern nickname and channel services (Nickserv and Chanserv, mostly), and the very small IRC userbase, they certainly aren't as impactful as they once were.
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by cykros 9mo ago
There are people on IRC who I've maintained contact with for longer than anyone I can think of off the top of my head aside from family members. Many now through other channels (thanks to the Discord wrecking ball), though some still o
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by cykros 9mo ago
I think around that time was when Ubuntu switched from Gnome to Unity as well. What a mess that was. Seemed like all the UI teams had lost their minds at once.
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by cykros 9mo ago
It IS labeled "Opinion" in their defense... But yea, El Reg is never where you go for objectivity.
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by cykros 10mo ago
Made it that much less likely that anyone would withdraw their gold from banks due to the disparity in utility between deposits and cash. Paved the way for the downfall of physical money, and over a century of warfare in the absence of any

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