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by sgeisler 8y ago
> But artisanal hardware is an intellectual dead end. I agree that this model of iterative improvement won't yield the next big technological breakthrough. But the big consumer electronics manufacturers aren't really innovating
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by sgeisler 8y ago
This model is definitely better at serving niche markets. For example there are phone manufacturers in China that don't follow the silly trend of making phones slimmer, more fragile and with smaller batteries. Another example are mini
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by sgeisler 8y ago
> If you put 20 BTC into an exchange (in promise for 550 ETH or whatever), but the exchange goes bankrupt... you lose both your BTC and your ETH. You have to go through the courts to try to get your money back. That's actually solva
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by sgeisler 8y ago
@root_axis (since I can't reply directly): > PoW systems are the only ones where "higher value transactions" need security proportional to their size. Every other currency is either backed by men with guns and transactions
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by sgeisler 8y ago
> sufficiently trustworthy Trustworthiness always depends on your use case. If you are transacting small amounts of money (less than is spent on mining a block) then waiting for 3 confirmations is probably sufficient to consider the tran
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by sgeisler 8y ago
At least bitcoin will be mostly unaffected since you can receive blocks via satellite [1] and if even one satellite connected node is inside Runet then you can at least keep up with the blockchain. Sending transactions can be done via sms [
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by sgeisler 8y ago
> not every closed source stuff is evil, really But how do you know that this closed source software isn't evil? You can't distinguish without an audit by a competent person you trust. Most closed source software isn't a
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by sgeisler 8y ago
If "tools" meant some sort of screw driver I'd welcome that. If there are any parts that have to bend to open the case these will break in the long run and are less reliable in my experience (e.g. the phone's back would
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by sgeisler 8y ago
> But then such schools that predominantly work on ISAs, will pre-select for good students, who are most likely to succeed and also for industries where the compensation is higher. That actually sounds like a good incentive structure to
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by sgeisler 8y ago
* Trustless time stamping to proof that you had certain information at a certain point in time without revealing it https://opentimestamps.org/ * (depending on your stance on personal liberty) censorship resistant, pseudony
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by sgeisler 8y ago
I guess you will trust coworkers, people you know irl, well known developers, companies you pay for review subscriptions. You don't have to trust all of them 100%if you require multiple reviews per dependency.
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by sgeisler 8y ago
It doesn't, but now both the original author and some number of independent reviewers have to do stupid things in order to cause harm. That's an improvement to the current situation where you mainly trust the author in most cases.
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by sgeisler 8y ago
Imo this is the missing puzzle piece (and the more important one for me personally) for software supply chain security, the other ones being deterministic builds and signed binaries. And the real problem aren't even people trying to st
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by sgeisler 8y ago
I imagine this to be a little bit over the top in most cases. A standard flag like --complete-rahyeiB1 (with a sufficiently long random string to avoid collisions with existing flags) which takes the already written argument list as an argu
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by sgeisler 8y ago
> Another fork of bitcoin. That's factually wrong. Lightning is a protocol on top of Bitcoin (like HTTP is built on TCP) and not a fork. It has a different set of trade offs: transactions on it are instant, but one should only store
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by sgeisler 8y ago
The original article [1] referenced is interesting, but I'm not sure if the proposed algorithm is useful in a completely unauthenticated and decentralized network, since it makes assumptions about identity of nodes and the latency betw
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by sgeisler 8y ago
> but I don't see how this case would have gone differently If you have to make a conscious decision to transfer money first before they ship anything I guess you would notice that $1000 for some plates is a bit much. A good example
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by sgeisler 8y ago
This also highlights one of the most ridiculous properties of many payment methods/how we handle money in general. Both credit cards and bank accounts allow others to just "pull" money from them [0]. To me this is such a sill
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by sgeisler 8y ago
For example "irrevocability of transactions" is fixable by introducing arbitrators. This has the huge benefit of making the trade off explicit and still allowing for irrevocable transactions. With 2-of-3 multi-sig escrow services
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by sgeisler 9y ago
I'd be interested if you could ask your users if they are _not_ a EU resident. Only if they click yes go ahead, otherwise show that you will not serve them. Probably 90% would learn to click the "Not from EU" button. Who shou
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by sgeisler 9y ago
Thank you very much for clearing this up. Since I'm not familiar with networkmanager in combination with other config: what happens if I configure some network interface using Cockpit that is already defined in /etc/network&#
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by sgeisler 9y ago
I've just watched a presentation [0] linked by someone else in this thread and am quite impressed by the architecture and UX shown. But it seems to me that Cockpit is more about monitoring and doing ad-hoc changes and not permanent con