rabite

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by rabite 5y ago
If everyone ran their own SMTP server, SMTP would still not be decentralized. There are additional points of failure on simple federation that are outside of the owner-operator's control. Their domain name can be frozen or stolen by th
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by rabite 5y ago
Mastodon is not "decentralized". Federation is not decentralization. If that were the case, SMTP would be a decentralized protocol. Something that has a point of centralization is not decentralized. The Mastodon node is the point
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by rabite 5y ago
great jinx remix of this for the art connoisseurs https://nitter.net/crackconnoisser/status/150731453127768064...
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by rabite 5y ago
What I want is irrelevant. The point is a good half of the population in the United States believes that the social and material landscape they grew up with is in profound decay. What I specifically perceive to be the issue is much less imp
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by rabite 5y ago
You haven't seen any of this stuff? There's been multiple frontpage articles on HN alone about financial institution based censorship. The Canadian government is gloating in public about banning people from the banking system and
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by rabite 5y ago
The problem is that the physical world crumbling around us is something that we can all see with our present eyes. That now those of us who live outside of East Asia are in the middle of a plunge into the abyss is plain as day. Simple thing
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by rabite 5y ago
There's simply no forensic evidence of their claims here -- just a CPU-draining powerpoint show of nothingburgers. This reminds me of a slightly more modern version of Condoleeza Rice presenting fake evidence of Saddam Hussein's W
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by rabite 5y ago
The majority of SSL implementations do not support perfect forward secrecy in any form. The bare SSL standard itself has no room for it. You need at least TLS 1.3 to get any shot at PFS -- and then again most SSL standards allow for negotia
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by rabite 5y ago
you can if you use Monero
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by rabite 5y ago
Blockfi was the easiest case to make in the room, but Gemini and Celsius are now being investigated by the SEC as of last month. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-26/crypto-le...
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by rabite 5y ago
By the username I assumed he was French, whose military frequently helps oppress and murder people across the MENA region. Bitcoin is a currency, so no, any holder of any US or NATO allied regime's currency should be equally culpable a
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by rabite 5y ago
Western militaries have bombed schools, hospitals, and weddings across the world, and by your stated logic in this post you are personally morally responsible for this. Maybe getting a late paycheck and W-2 can be called tit for tat!
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by rabite 5y ago
Nobody is going to take this seriously until it very clearly distances itself from Ripple. Chris needs to be kicked off the board and you need a very public press release denouncing the XRP's scheme of fraud.
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by rabite 5y ago
This is not censorship resistant. Relays are external points of centralization. For all intents and purposes, they are federated service providers -- central services that can deplatform users by simply choosing not to syndicate their messa
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by rabite 5y ago
the US effectively doubled the supply of normal currency in the past year, other currencies have followed suit. the only thing that has ever doubled in a year about bitcoin is the difficulty of finding new bitcoin.
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by rabite 5y ago
I just asked around, I immediately had someone who I've sold exploits to tell me I could field 45k for a bug like this. There's a lot of conditions to selling exploits -- the biggest being that you don't get to blog about wha
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by rabite 5y ago
the US media is controlled by people eligible for Israeli citizenship. With it, the minds of all Americans.
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by rabite 5y ago
Okay but that doesn't change the fact that Trump tried with withdraw the troops from Syria and the Pentagon officials lied to his face and told him they took the troops out, and later bragged in public about misleading the duly elected
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by rabite 5y ago
I'm a Republican and I'm absolutely outraged about this guy's situation and support his 1a rights unconditionally.
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by rabite 5y ago
People did vote for people who didn't want to start wars. For example, Donald Trump was elected on an anti-interventionist platform and attempted to pursue it as Commander-in-Chief of the United States armed forces. The wars didn'
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by rabite 5y ago
X.400 was actually pretty great and was definitely better designed than the disaster of SMTP (I spent my youth in the email deliverability industry and know all the ingredients of that sausage), but it wasn't a network transport protoc
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by rabite 5y ago
>It's not like there's an intrinsic reason TCP packets are the way they are now, it's largely an arbitrary choice that we standardized on. This is incredibly off-base. There was a huge effort to force an OSI-designed netwo
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by rabite 5y ago
Bitcoin's power consumption is not absurd -- proof of work is a method of converting power to security. It uses far less energy than the legacy banking system, which is enforced by trillions of dollars of military expenditures and bank
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by rabite 5y ago
> If you win money at a casino and deposit it at a bank, the bank doesn't know where you got the cash from. You're off base here. There's serial numbers on money and many databases maintained both public and private meant
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by rabite 6y ago
Throughout all of history Palestine was a part of Syria. From the "Syria Palaestina" of Roman times all through the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid Caliphates, the Ayyubid dynasty, and the Mamluk Sultanate, the borders of
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by rabite 6y ago
The Arab nations absolutely consider themselves kin with Palestinians. Pan-Arabism, Baathism (the ruling philosophy of Syria, which Palestine is a part of), and the Greater Syria of the SSNP are all extremely popular Arab world ideologies w
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by rabite 6y ago
Imagine being almost any other religion in the Middle East and learning that Israelis on a day to day basis are lobbying to carve your countries apart by imperialist wars via their American proxies, bulldozing the homes of your coethnics in
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by rabite 6y ago
>/r/Bitcoin is one of the most censored subreddits This is the core attitude of every Bcasher -- they want complicated technical arguments requiring decades of distributed systems experience to be hashed out by clueless people
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by rabite 6y ago
Google has a lot of employees and contractors and the ones trying to unionize are neither the smartest nor the highest paid. That you describe the most profitable monopoly in America as "highly benevolent" from a 48 minute old acc
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by rabite 6y ago
This is not the case. The vast majority of interracial violence is African on European. People will also say "what about slavery" being completely ignorant of history, which includes millions of White Europeans being kidnapped and

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