deafboy

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Valve, as they aren't actively trying to scam their potential user base

I love Valve, but let's face the reality here. They're operating an unregulated bank and casino.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Honestly, all the time. Even some types of cancer can be more or less severe based on age. Obviously not in this case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

True, but I was just getting over how ugly it is... Now they want us to go through the agony again.

I feel like it's some kind of a conspiracy to tire out the community developers so they don't have a time to bring the quality of life upgrades in custom android distributions anymore. Or I just became too old to to adapt to the pace of life itself. idk...

edit: on the second look it's not actually that much of a change. I think the wallpaper choice has made it more ugly then necessary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Still peanuts compared to Parlor 6 - 2450€ for a diy kit, 3690 € for the assembled thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I see the price as $21.91 in the search result page. After clicking on it, it returns error 403.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I was just about to shit on the article without reading it (as is tradition), but it's an absolute blast. You really can't unsee it. The Electrolux especially will never be the same to me.

Skip the gradient - flat design still works

Except for this. No. The flat design was an awkward phase we silently suffered through. Don't confuse the lack of rebelion or some kind of catharsis for the acceptance. We just wanted the suffering to stop without reliving the trauma.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

land is still within the borders of a country unless they are on some unclaimed island somewhere

There will always be a bigger bully laying claim on any interesting piece of land. See the conflicts in Ukraine, Myanmar, Sudan, Taiwan, Palestine... It doesn't mean their claim has any moral basis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

only if they totally forfeit the right to any services, privileges, etc.

Fully agree. Right after the governments gives up their monopoly on certain services, and stop cheating the market by nationalizing the land for certain kinds of projects. It's hard to compete with an entity that can just steal the land and negotiate the price later.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Be careful. Having ownership of your resources allows you to take your stuff, or sell it, and try something else somwhere else. If all the resources are communal, it is harder to escape if the things go south. One of the reasons why is it difficult to leave certain kind of cults.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, this is exactly the kind of question one asks if one wants to get lectured about multiple ways they're wrong by the graphene developers.

In other words, no. It isn't :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was this launch special in any way? I had no idea these effects are observable from this side of the planet.

 

A comprehensive guide on how to set up a highly available LND cluster with floating IP address, including benchmarks for various combinations of storage backends, and scripts to automatically set up most of the environment.

 

The most notable changes:

  • bitcoind used to listen on 127.0.0.1:8334 by default. If you use Tor for incoming connections, you have to manually specify bind=127.0.0.1:8334=onion in config
  • unix sockets can now be used to communicate with Tor or other proxy, and MQ traffic.
  • New mempool policies has been implemented to patch some attack vectors for chains of unconfirmed transactions, especially in relation to lightning network channels and similar contracts.
  • TRUC (Topologically Restricted Until Confirmation, BIP 431) can now be used with transaction version 3 (now considered standard) instead of RBF.
  • Full RBF (Replace By Fee) is now enabled by default
  • RHEL 8 and Ubuntu 18.04 are now unsupported due to minimum required glibc version bump.
 

Researchers predict that by the year 2050, about half of the world's population will have myopia.

Considering the target demographic, a significant number of potential VR users suffer from myopia already. Why are there no more VR headsets with adjustable focus?

Several vendors offer replaceable lenses, or various addons to fit the glasses in, but the obvious solution used by the early cheap headsets like GearVR - adjustable distance between lenses and the display, is not being utilized for some reason.

Is it a technical problem, economical problem? Are the modern lenses somehow tuned for a specific distance?

 

zkSNACKs, the developer of Wasabi wallet, has shut down its coinjoin coordinator since June. The news is not surprising, considering that it has already been unavailable for the US customers since May.

Since the wallet itself is non-custodial (you hold the keys), and it's using block filters to update your balance directly from the bitcoin network, the wallet functionality is intact. However, if you want to coinjoin, you have to find another public coordinator.

A list of currently active coordinators is available on wabisator.com, or wasabist.io

Coordinators do not require any privileged access to private information, so it should be safe to use any 3rd party coordinator with enough real active users. At no point are your funds at risk of being stolen.

However, a dedicated attacker running a public coordinator could still pull a de-anonymization attack by mixing your coins solely with their own outputs.

 

Ever since the interview with Lukas Seyfrid (CZ), the chief of the hardware team, it was clear that Braiins is pivoting from the development of mining software, to building their own hardware.

This, I believe, is the first iteration of their effort in form of a consumer product, and while it is unlikely to make you a financial return on the investment, it's small form factor and nice anodized aluminum case can allow pretty much anyone to become familiar with the process of bitcoin mining. Or terrorize the testnet. The choice is yours.

I think I might buy one, just to try the viability of a pure solar setup.

HW specifications:

Price (pre-order) $199.00
Hashrate ~1Th/s
Power Consumption 40W - 55W
Number of hashboards 1
Number of ASIC chips 4
Cooling Type Active
Noise 40 dB
Air outlet temperature 40-50 °C

But really, how much would it make in a year?

If we assume the current price and difficulty stays the same, the block subsidy is 3.125 BTC, median fees around 0.2212 BTC, free electricity, you'd get 0.001 BTC per 12 months, which is roughly 65 USD. A little more than 3 years to break even.

It's not going to break any records, but I'm still excited for what's to come next.

 

It's a successor to the model T, with the new design inspired by the Safe 3, announced earlier this year.

They promise nice, easy to use UI, color display, haptic feedback, gorilla glass. Several color variations are available, including the bitcoin-only orange option.

 

"Prosecutors are alleging Samourai Wallet laundered over $100 million in criminal proceeds."

 

"Recent regulatory action against Consensys and Samourai has instilled fear among other crypto service providers operating in the United States."

  • Wasabi is the main competitor to Samourai's whirpool mixing service. The only one flying under the radar currently is Joinmarket.
  • Phoenix is the Lightning network wallet where users keep custody of their funds, but the channel management is outsourced to the company. The only remaining self custodial lightning wallet that remains is Breez.

While this news is deeply troubling, it might push further development to more sustainable trustless self-custodial solutions in the long term.

 

A story about Sarah Meiklejohn, and how she started to analyze the blockchain back in 2013.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/8623167

Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable.

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