sharperguy

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by sharperguy 8mo ago
Not all stablecoins are intended as investments. For many it's just a way to send money internationally without dealing with the SWIFT system, waiting periods, banks losing payments etc.
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by sharperguy 8mo ago
I still wonder about that. I don't have a contract with the advertiser to provide genuine data back about what ads I've clicked and what I haven't. The website operator does have such a contract and so cannot hire a bot farm
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by sharperguy 8mo ago
Surely making use of a new tool that makes you more productive would increase your value rather than decreasing it? Especially when, knowing the kinds of mistakes AI could make that would affect your codebase negatively in terms of maintain
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by sharperguy 8mo ago
They know that you likely read some email from HSBC and if you happen to read the same one again they will know it was the same one.
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by sharperguy 9mo ago
Mesh networks like meshtastic have shown that they can be run on very low power meaning they can continue to route messages with the power from small solar panels. This makes them more useful in disaster or wide scale power outage scenarios
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by sharperguy 9mo ago
I'm not sure why we're debating this as if the people had a say in this at all. This was clearly an operation led by Trump and the military, planned for months in secret, and carried out in a single day. There were no debates in c
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by sharperguy 9mo ago
i remember in the early 2000s browers would refuse to store cookies unless you clicked accept on a dialog for every single one. Until they started making it auto accept by default.
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by sharperguy 10mo ago
It would be easy enough to add this as a "secret" feature: * user submits password * gets hashed client side * server compares it against stored hashes * server also re-hashes the stored hash, and compares it against the hash rece
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by sharperguy 10mo ago
Yes as with many things these days it just makes it easier to integrate with existing systems, like web browsers. So you can have an entire client built into a web page without needing special server software to translate between NOSTRs nat
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by sharperguy 10mo ago
The key thing is that all messages are signed and have a few standard fields, making them easy to replicate across many relays while maintaining the ability to verify their origin. And the second thing being that it is based on websockets,
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by sharperguy 10mo ago
It's a little different to federated networks like GNU Social/Mastadon since the data and the relay are separate. You can post the same data to multiple relays and read from many relays simultaneously. Meaning you aren't tied
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by sharperguy 10mo ago
it's commonly used for checking how sites look when not logged in, without logging out, or logging in as another user temporarily.
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by sharperguy 10mo ago
Or just repeal the laws that are being used to make them non-free.
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by sharperguy 10mo ago
The existence of fraud, toxicity and misinformation around bitcoin doesn't necessarily mean that bitcoin itself is broken. It's a very poorly understood technology, centering around money that once spent cannot be reversed. It&#x2
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by sharperguy 10mo ago
I'm thinking of this as I read this thread. How do you solve the problem of social media firehoses while still allowing kids to have access to the vast wealth of information and advice that the internet provides? It hasn't been so
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by sharperguy 10mo ago
I see how you could've got that from my comment, but I wasn't trying to imply pure intentions. Governments have to juggle a lot of different factors in order to maintain order and stay in office. It's natural that they would
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by sharperguy 10mo ago
Abolishing copyright and patent law would pretty much solve this.
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by sharperguy 10mo ago
I completely agree with the sentiment. I think from their perspective, it's just a case of what CAN be done vs what is morally acceptable. If knives were technologically sophisticated enough that they could be programmed to refuse to p
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by sharperguy 10mo ago
Surely selling off office space and turning it back into family appartments would make it feel more "lived in"?
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by sharperguy 10mo ago
It's likely that without laws such as the DMCA, there would already be easier, legally legitimate ways to circumvent Apples technology preventing interoperability. So as usual the new regulations try to cancel out the problems caused b
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by sharperguy 11mo ago
I don't use emacs or org mode, so I'm probably way off the mark, but I imagine I'd use git if I were to do something like that?
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by sharperguy 11mo ago
Considering phone scammers often convince their victims to: - install remote desktop software - run commands in the windows terminal - withdraw cash from the bank - lie to the bank teller about their purpose - insert their cash into a bitco
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by sharperguy 11mo ago
What incentive is there for OEMs to not add this option though? Does Google refuse to veriy their firmware if they offer this feature?
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by sharperguy 11mo ago
APKs are already signed. Now Google requries that they be signed by a key which is verified by their own signatures. Which means they can selectively refused to verify whichever keys are inconvenient to them.
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by sharperguy 11mo ago
This kind of thing is what drives advanced users from debian based distros to things like Arch and Nixos. With niche tools like this that don't have official packages, having a easy way for users to share build scripts, and have them m
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by sharperguy 11mo ago
Well yes you force them to find other workarounds because their current workaround are no longer relevant. Because no system will ever fit everyones usecase.
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by sharperguy 11mo ago
A "normal person" is just someone whose time and mental energy are focused on something other than the niche task your app is aiming to solve. With enough time and focus, anyone can figure out any interface. But for many, somethin
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by sharperguy 11mo ago
While I recognize the dangers of splintering sources of truth into various fragmented opinion spaces, if you were to fork wikipedia it would make sense to simply clone all the information there and only change the parts that you consider fa
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by sharperguy 1y ago
The community around NOSTR are basically building a kind of semantic web, where users identities are verified via their public key, data is routed through content agnostic relays, and trustworthiness is verified by peer recommendation. They
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by sharperguy 1y ago
Two things are true: * It's not as simple as sending the transaction back to the previous holder * With some basic detective work the paper trails exist to find many of the victims and verify the amount that was lost.

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