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by fidelramos 2y ago
I use Digikam on a 3 TiB collection and it works great.
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by fidelramos 2y ago
Blockchain scalability while keeping decentralization is now a solved problem, you can research how sharding is implemented in cryptocurrencies such as XTZ or EGLD, or read this rationale [0] for terabyte blocks in Bitcoin Cash. Why do bloc
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by fidelramos 2y ago
I agree with part of what you say but not with the implication. Yes, Bitcoin Cash [0] is the Bitcoin that chose to scale on-chain. The split happened in 2017 and since then it has decreased in price both compared to BTC and USD. What I stro
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by fidelramos 2y ago
You are right in the general case. But the public key is included in a transaction when it gets signed, and in this particular case the attackers already had part of the private key, that's what allowed a different attacker to combine
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by fidelramos 2y ago
The energy expense of Bitcoin is dominated by its Proof-of-Work algorithm, the cost of processing transactions is negligible compared to that. And the PoW operates over the root of the last block's Merkle tree, which is a hash of all t
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by fidelramos 2y ago
Ok there is one good explanation for this case that I found in another comment here [0]: the person who found the private key made a transaction moving only part of the full reward, but in doing so exposed the full public key. A was monitor
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by fidelramos 2y ago
How could a bot/human steal the funds without knowing the private key? Edit: typo
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by fidelramos 2y ago
My take on this [0] is that Bitcoin price was growing exponentially with demand, or more exactly with the expected future demand. Cryptocurrency always have had a lot of speculation behind them, not unlike any startup, and that is OK. As sh
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by fidelramos 2y ago
By proof-of-work consensus. This makes attacks costly, basically they have to spend more resources than half the network, hence the name "51% attack". The Bitcoin whitepaper [0] is a very accesible read, but the revolutionary idea
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by fidelramos 2y ago
"Just" a slow database that allows coordinated writes in a decentralized way, effectively solving the Byzantine Generals problem. That's what made Bitcoin a novel idea.
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by fidelramos 3y ago
Same here. I haven't compared it in depth with Aegis, but besides some UI quirks I'm happy with FreeOTP. Am I missing anything important?
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by fidelramos 3y ago
Because unlike Telegram they strive to do things in a privacy-respecting way, and that's hard to get right.
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by fidelramos 3y ago
And when it finally became easy to round corners, designers moved to square corners...
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by fidelramos 3y ago
That is why Bitcoin was first announced in a cypherpunk mailing list [0]. [0] https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09...
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by fidelramos 3y ago
I agree with that point, most people don't seem to care about the advantages until they themselves get bitten by the status quo.
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by fidelramos 3y ago
I'm not concerned about quantum computers becoming a threat to cryptocurrencies for several reasons: - No timeline for working quantum computers of the necessary size yet. - Blockchains can and will upgrade to newer quantum-resistant c
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by fidelramos 3y ago
> Wealth can't really use to purchase anything with is not real wealth. If you can't convert bitcoin to $/€ it becomes effectively worthless I agree, that is why Bitcoin was supposed to be electronic cash, you were suppose
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by fidelramos 3y ago
But they are not theoretical, users who have their own crypto wallets have been unaffected by all the failed exchanges (MtGox, FTX, etc.) There are other actual advantages that some people today benefit from, like avoiding confiscation and
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by fidelramos 3y ago
You are right, but some kids might compare their parents with Bluey's, and it's of course an unfair comparison, they being fictional characters, but children don't care about that. Edit: typo.
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by fidelramos 3y ago
I also got in GNU/Linux in 1998. Dipped my toes with Mandrake, then Debian, and around 2012 switched to Kubuntu. Now I'm in the process of moving my desktop computers to Archlinux, to enjoy better control and up-to-date software.
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by fidelramos 3y ago
I'm in the process of creating a web gallery for my Digikam [0] photo collection. The workflow is: 1. I organize all my photos in my computer, with albums, tags, faces, geolocation, etc. 2. The photos and the Digikam DB (SQLite) get re
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by fidelramos 3y ago
I'll take the bait. The increasing number of Rust jobs ask you for previous Rust experience, if only on open-source or hobby projects.
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by fidelramos 3y ago
Free-market capitalism is based on competition and low barriers of entry. A government-granted monopoly such as patents is antithetical to capitalism.
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by fidelramos 3y ago
What crimes?
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by fidelramos 3y ago
When talking about survival I would rather apply the Lindy Effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Effect
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by fidelramos 3y ago
+1 on shynet! I use it for my personal website and my blog, and it's been working great. I got it up and running with Podman, so no need to install and run the Docker daemon. I also fixed SQLite support [1], so no need for an additiona
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Automating Python Code Quality(blog.fidelramos.net)
5 points by fidelramos 3y ago|0 comments
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“AI-Tiquette”(blog.tripu.info)
1 points by fidelramos 3y ago|0 comments
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by fidelramos 4y ago
I like how this graph describes why nuclear fusion technology always seems to be "just around the corner": https://imgur.com/a/59NO34a
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by fidelramos 4y ago
It is surprising and discouraging that a forum that is meant to be about start-ups, disruption, innovation and new ideas is so blind to one so revolutionary as cryptocurrencies. Yes there are scams, but that is not exclusive to the cryptocu

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