realdense

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by realdense 6y ago
I live in Brisbane, Australia, the third most populous city. I can confirm that there are areas in Brisbane (not even "Greater Brisbane") that barely have mobile phone reception, such as Burbank on the eastern side.
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by realdense 6y ago
DAI isn't so much a derivative of Ethereum, rather it is a dApp (decentralised app) that runs on the Ethereum smart contract technology. ERC-20 tokens are the magic that enable second-layer "currencies" such as DAI and others
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by realdense 6y ago
Depends on your use case. XML and JSON are great for applications with simple data stores, having done this myself. But if you foresee a need for complex queries or locking and threads then SQLite might be a good choice.
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by realdense 6y ago
Elasticsearch is now being released under a proprietary license. The last FOSS version got forked by Amazon. This is a good thing if you care about software freedom. Sure, under Amazon it may be a "throw over the wall" model but a
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by realdense 6y ago
> Firefox does provide privacy. Really? Most people who use Firefox are still exposed to tracking. Google is still the default search engine and promoted via Firefox Home, and continues to track the large majority of users who don't
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by realdense 6y ago
Some of us believe that the client-server model has led us to the current situation, ruled by internet giants. A future where people are less reliant on giants is within our reach, the biggest hurdle is making it available to the masses. Ho
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by realdense 6y ago
Debian Buster LTS is supported until 2024 and then probably ELTS until 2026. Also how many of these 32-bit Atom CPUs are actually in use anymore? It's a pretty edge case.
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by realdense 6y ago
Some of the highlights (from my point of view) that have been frozen, according to the packaging website: Linux kernel 5.10 gcc 10.2 libc 2.31 Perl 5.32 And some non-essential packages that look to being included in the upcoming release (I&
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by realdense 6y ago
Are there any example Hypercore websites? I had a look around but couldn't actually find many to test out in Beaker.