p2p_astroturf

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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
tell us something we didnt already know. you can solve the speed problem by using solana or literally any of the other 100 coins that claim to be fast, or eth2 in six months i am not even a person who is a fan of blockchains (since they are
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
How does some random webshit showing stuff possibly relevant to a user constitute being a radicalization engine? Is this something they could have known at design time? I'm not being rude, I want to know the reasoning.
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
> All of these projects have hundreds of million to billions in tvl and have been running fine for years. Oh if only you knew.
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
Because I'm not a prick who needs clout for every single unit of hobbies I carry out.
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
Wikipedia is the one website that still has any value and actually serves the purpose of the web. Your website blocks me because I haven't enabled JS or disabled Tor or whatever, to prove I'm not a bot to fetch your front page whi
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
imagine you make a website imagine it blows up in popularity do you get the problem now?
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
Uh no, this is (one reason) why you want to use a (well written) decentralized exchange. >is like giving people ACH access I use ACH, I know nothing about it, and I'm sure I can lose all my money from using it wrong, as banks love s
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
well the article is certainly bullshit. but someone there wrote a useful and accurate comment: > people who claim to be working on web3 and crypto desperately try to fit their technology to user problems. none of them seems to be working
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
The video game industry is literally 10x more scummy than the cryptocoin industry. edit: keep downvoting me morons. what is microtransactions? literally the same bullshit you bitch about like NFTs and IPOs. and the video game industry is no
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
Ironically, the worst part of web3 is that everything that calls itself that, such as web3.js and metamask, are web based. > The web is decentralized I know you just want to throw in the invalid "look at me I'm an old school ha
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
A BTC wallet is infinitely more user friendly than a banking website that only works in chrome xor firefox and constantly locks you out for reasons they don't want you to know about and severely limits your transfer sizes. If you do EF
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
No, you're asking me to not communicate to other security resarchers about the problems with security systems (for example, publishing a PoC): > 2. People who create and distribute these stickers knowing their purpose should go t
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
Your analysis does not break out of the well known box that is the classical ways of analyzing the security of a computer system (it actually creeps into DRM/TPM territory which is known insecure despite governments with guns). Thus th
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
Ever since I had the misfortune of learning about hacker kids wanting self-driving cars, I've been saying you can literally put a poster on the side of the road and every car that comes by it will crash. Seems like I'm on the righ
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
There's nothing you can do. All language library distribution systems ever made are insecure, and backed by willful ignorance.
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
Your insane perspective and the fact that it is common, is why the internet sucks. 1. Youtube is just a generic video hoster, of which many came before, during, and will come after. As for the whole "pretend Youtube is a thing" th
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
This article is terrible and does not explain how proof of stake works let alone how it's broken, but links to another (probably better article on etheruem.org). back to studying it for myself, then. I literally have a headache after r
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
hashcash was not obscure even before bitcoin came out
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
As a hacker you probably know that decimal is an arbitrary radix and even if there was a canonical radix, it would not make sense to start worrying about your job when the number ends in a "0".
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
What is the point of arxiv other than a file host but where people forcibly constrain themselves to the bureacratic process of creating a UN*X braindamaged tex / PDF with whatever academic publishing conventions? Someone in here even h
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
I use it for buying groceries.
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
Did you link to this SE post so we could laugh at it? Never smells: You are using a language with discriminated unions (before or after 90s) Smells: You are using a dynamically typed language, and you used a hack to implement them Sometimes
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
damn i need more sockpuppet accounts so i can list all my snarky comments: - no shit, use public keys - your 2FA can also be hacked - your company forcing 2FA is insufferable like all modern web - your KYC is literally pointless since i alr
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
This has to be the stupidest sentiment I've seen other than the dopamine meme itself where laypeople online use the word to back up reactionary politics.
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
> It had Active Desktop. It had Channels. I remember playing with Active Dekstop as a kid, but what were channels?
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
And now today CloudFlare serves you a captcha if they don't like your user-agent and IP address combo.
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
AKA the web was always a bunch of cargo cult, NIH about the most basic computer programming tasks, etc.
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
Oh you think Google is cool? Bro CloudFlare hackers can debug a kernel panic through just a single register. I'm going to install CloudFlare on my website because everyone's doing it!
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
>You have probably used one [credit card] no >mostly [aware] how it is a complicated bundle of services with a pricing structure strictly more complicated than a venture capital fund’s. yes
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by p2p_astroturf 5y ago
Content free article. I literally could not remember what (if any) point was made by the time I reached the end.

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