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by flotzam 4y ago
> 2b. If > 67% of the network refuses, transactions can be successfully censored. Similar with PoW. For both PoW and PoS, the proper response is to socially coordinate forking out the censoring block producer majority (like with the B
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by flotzam 4y ago
Electrum: View > Show Coins (adds a new Coins tab) Bitcoin Core: Settings > Options... > Wallet > Enable coin control features (adds it on the Send tab)
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by flotzam 4y ago
It's exposed in Electrum and the Bitcoin Core GUI wallet. Perfect for donations, you can spend one UTXO without change.
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by flotzam 4y ago
"(slang) A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure the hopelessness or despair of existence." - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cope#Noun
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by flotzam 4y ago
Hope so too. Maybe one day IMEI addresses can be randomized as casually as MAC addresses.
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by flotzam 4y ago
Right now it's staying on .onion again (and blocking anon signups), but at the time of wangler1949's comment it redirected to proton.me when I checked.
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by flotzam 4y ago
Proton also supports cash for renewals/upgrades, but they went out of their way to remove the cryptocurrency option and the cash option during signup...
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by flotzam 4y ago
Did you use Tor Browser though? They've been blocking that during signup for a long time now
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by flotzam 4y ago
Robust privacy (you choose what to disclose to whom) often presents as anonymity to third parties And Proton is marketing themselves as anonymity friendly: https://proton.me/news/climate-activist-arrest
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by flotzam 4y ago
And it would be easy for Proton, because they already accept cryptocurrency for subsequent payments after account creation, but not for the first payment during account creation (catch 22) In the end it's their choice to continue c
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by flotzam 4y ago
Which .onion? The signup link on https://protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7... redirects to their clearnet site. Maybe it redirected you too and you landed on that one mythical Tor exit node not yet blocked by
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by flotzam 4y ago
And still no way to anonymously create an account (free or paid): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28435153 Make of that what you will, after so many years and the nth redesign
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by flotzam 4y ago
Those character traits are well represented in both the pro- and the anti-cryptocurrency crowds, no doubt. But it was more of a meta comment on GGP saying "there's a deep divide" and GP responding "what are you talking a
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by flotzam 4y ago
> Crypto is 99% full of hucksters, and the remaining 1% are the sorry saps. > The intelligent people I know want nothing to do with it. "political tribes self-segregate to an impressive extent – a 1/10^45 extent, I will neve
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by flotzam 5y ago
TWITCHAIN engineers and users scraping Twitter could be anonymous
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by flotzam 5y ago
> how do you ensure that they are indeed scraping and not just making up spam? For TLS 1.1 (and supposedly "TLS 1.2+" since https://github.com/tlsnotary/PageSigner/commit/4e12573 ): https:/&
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by flotzam 5y ago
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21088576/march-2019-f... (PDF page 57)
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by flotzam 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220416175850/https://www.insid... > I'm sure the 'secret GPS pings' are just plain-old stealth SMS Worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by flotzam 5y ago
You'd be surprised. Many orgs have a service provider like https://www.careasy.org/ on hand to accept junk cars or even boats. Not to mention stocks and other financial instruments. If taking Slap Chops brings in nonze
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by flotzam 5y ago
Seems more like preemptive overcompliance. Plenty of reputable charities accept anonymous donations just fine, whether it's cryptocurrency or cash by mail.
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by flotzam 5y ago
>> I think crypto currencies are for the most part a scam > enough of a reason to not accept it. Not if that's simply another instance of Sturgeon's law ("90% of everything is crap"): https://nitter.n
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by flotzam 5y ago
Wikipedia used BitPay, the most widely loathed of all cryptocurrency payment processors - https://debitpay.directory/anti-bitcoin/ - and required prospective donors to provide an obscene amount of personal data: htt
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by flotzam 5y ago
Photosensitive migraine made me appreciate comprehensive dark-mode UIs. Even just a browser loading some web page and flashing an all-white document body for a moment (before applying the dark-mode stylesheet?) can feel like assault sometim
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by flotzam 5y ago
(angels singing) An Important Update To Our Terms And Conditions
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by flotzam 5y ago
There's the idea that God (being omniscient and omnipotent) knew about any loopholes and had/has the power to close them...
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by flotzam 5y ago
Maybe JIT-less V8: https://v8.dev/blog/jitless
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by flotzam 5y ago
Yeah they're "BPA free" in roughly the same sense that 1P-LSD is "LSD free" Those blue receipt papers seem okay though: https://www.koehlerpaper.com/en/products/Thermal-paper/Blue4...
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by flotzam 5y ago
Does HN not allow URL fragments? I submitted https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play but #sandboxed-google-play was chopped off. Now the link is not very useful.
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Sandboxed Google Play [mangled URL](grapheneos.org)
1 points by flotzam 5y ago|1 comments
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by flotzam 5y ago
The obfuscation in step 2 seems very superficial. Like, is the IRS not going to ask where you got your stacks of Steam codes from?

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