Elephant in the root

Poisonous anti-plantist, anti-fungist, anti-shitcoinist, anti-governmentalist, anti-wokist, anti-bullshitist.

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2025-03-31 07:53:04

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Great, let them break the trust completely so people will finally see the governments for what they are: a bunch of thieves.

2025-02-17 04:44:15

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You're off by one magnitude.

2025-02-12 17:47:11

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My fiat bank has an upper limit on password length and bans special characters. It's not enough to get 128 bits of entropy.

2025-01-07 12:16:07

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There are carnivores who tried introducing various plants only to get negative reactions. No vegetable is worth the toxins it carries.

2025-01-06 07:38:10

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https://youtu.be/Xv6SSroFBz4 🙂

2025-01-06 07:36:14

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You can change tax residency to something more sensible. Paraguay is a great option for instance.
Some people just make sure to never KYC themselves using p2p trading like vexl.it and then there's no record that the government could use to track them. It's obviously illegal, but the government has no way to find out.

2025-01-05 10:46:36

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You can edit the post but IIUC not all clients support it. Amethyst does for instance.
Also if you edit the old version will not disappear, so you can't use it to remove private information etc.

2025-01-05 08:40:43

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What Blue Zones have in common is the lack of birth certificate.

2025-01-05 08:39:00

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Here's one for you: https://youtu.be/xqUO4P9ADI0?si=FF9lArfRxZTOz2s_

2025-01-05 08:36:54

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This is 100% caused by lack of fat. You may need as much as 300g per day.

2025-01-05 08:35:07

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How much lead in moderation? How much heroin or cocaine?
And why pay hundreds for DNA tests if elimination diet is for free?

2025-01-05 08:30:49

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Have you actually tried being completely off carbs for 3 months?

2025-01-05 08:14:46

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HTC and other shits overheat but pixels don't.

2025-01-04 20:31:04

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Walled garden. Ditch dictatorship of Apple, embrace the freedom of Graphene!

2025-01-04 12:46:38

How does the translation in Amethyst work? Is it using an internal LLM or is it connecting to a remote server? @nprofile…pyug?

2025-01-04 12:33:44

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LND supports them.

2025-01-03 08:09:04

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I think you'd have more success with automatic tagging. No need to install a separate app and less motivation to circumvent it. People who want to post/see both kinds can do that with a click.

2025-01-03 07:37:28

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There's no way to prevent someone from modifying it to send spoofed images.

2025-01-03 07:23:11

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Are those studies comparing people who undereat meat or not though?

2025-01-03 07:20:39

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Cooking doesn't help with fibre nor does it put non-existing nutrients in.

2025-01-03 07:19:37

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Doesn't matter, cooking doesn't break down fiber unless you light it on fire. But then you're eating char.

2025-01-01 20:41:31

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He might have set anonymous mode which I think should be the default.

2025-01-01 20:25:40

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That's a great anti-sybil protection.

2024-12-31 11:08:12

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Unpopular opinion: Rust would be great, maybe even the best first language if it had a really really good tutorial/course/... for complete beginners. The reason is the compiler is your free mentor. Without a great compiler newbies are left alone to solve confusing bugs.
Anyway, I know of no such good resource. Still, some people tried anyway and succeeded.

2024-12-31 11:04:15

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I taught someone JavaScript. It was absolutely crappy experience because there's no compiler and dynamic typing makes the error messages confusing at best and non-existent at worst. As an example, if you accidentally subtract a number from a text instead of getting an error pointing at that exact errorneous line the error silently propagates and messes up code down line. You'll get super confusing bugs that will take a lot of effort to debug which for begginer might be close to impossible.
Strongly statically typed languages don't have this issue. You have a compiler that checks if your code makes sense and tells you the exact line where a problem is. In great languages like Rust it even suggests a solution that is often correct.

2024-12-31 10:51:05

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She's woke. That already makes her -6.

2024-12-31 10:46:17

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Android is already FOSS. I recommend installing Graphene if you want a more pure version.

2024-12-31 10:44:47

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I've seen a few with very good tattoos. Most is garbage, especialy lately.
FTR tattoos are associated with some kind of childhood trauma and a lot of baggage. They are effectively a red flag.

2024-12-31 10:39:55

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IIUC turbo props are more efficient in denser air. Jet engines need to fly really high for maximum efficiency.

2024-12-26 11:54:30

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Funny how someone who didn't catch reference to fat calls others retard. But maybe I am for not considering humans as animals. 🤷‍♂️

2024-12-25 20:21:55

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Defensless animals don't have enough fat for me. I prefer animals with horns. They taste better too and filter out plant toxins better.

2024-12-25 20:05:51

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I'm actually trying to eat even more. They can go fuck themselves. I will relocate if forced to - if they are lucky. My pre-carnivore mental state is very dangerous to anyone who would cause it again.

2024-12-23 11:03:15

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It's not that much about block capacity (which is determined by Internet capacity, btw) but more about a computation. In Monero it'd roughly quadratic, in bitcoin it's linear. (I'm simplifying, it's not about precise numbers.)
If you want privacy on LN you need to use appropriately private solution. Complaining about shitty LN wallets is dishonest because shitty wallets exist for Monero too (sending the view key to a server). Side note: trampoline routing was specifically invented to protect sender's privacy. You're confusing it with something else.
Another Monero issue: if you repeatedly (at least twice) get your xmr from the same source that knows your identity (e.g. KYC exchange) and then use it to buy something from the same entity (e.g. dark market) and the data of the receivers leak (feds close the market) then it's possible for your money source (or whoever coerces it to hand over the data, e.g. feds) to track you down with extremely high probability. This vulnerability doesn't exist in LN. (I'm assuming in both cases you withdraw coins to your wallet first.)
The key difference between LN and Monero is if LN leaks only some entities get the information. Monero is stored onchain forever (e.g. the edge case above) which is quite ironic since Monero fans were criticizing Bitcoin for precisely this reason.
The incentive to steal on LN is pure fantasy. The thief is risking loss with quite high probability. And funnily enough, there exists incentive to trick thieves into attempting to steal because that results in reward. Thus it's safer to not steal.
I also don't get the obsession with hot wallet issue. Whether you lose money on LN with some low probability or to Monero inflation with certainty doesn't really matter much.
I don't understand why you replied to me replying to you saying that LN has bugs by pointing out that Monero has bugs too with mentioning Bitcoin has bugs too. You said it already. Everything has bugs, let's focus on design instead.
The irony in LN is that "public" channels are actually private and "private" are actually public. And whoever claims that 99% of channels are public is pulling it out of their ass because nobody sees how many private channels exist. And "public" also means "involved in routing", so you're contradicting yourself.
Monitoring LN is much more costly and complicated than people imagine. The attacker must provide many high-quality nodes that actually provide good service.
Also it seems you've fallen prey to another myth about onchain opening/closing transactions leaking stuff. It effectively doesn't. The information is super scrambled by the time you close channel, nobody can tell shit from it.
Finally, I don't understand your rhetoric. You mention that you want privacy for yourself but at the same time you're mentioning "most people". Which is it? "Most people" will never use Monero anyway, so why bother with them? Better onboard them on LN even with shitty wallets because they at least increase the anonset. 🙂

2024-12-23 10:08:27

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Yes, the way I understand it is that it applies to "normies" since for them lowering fat implies lowering seed oils and it may force mitochondria to recycle (autophagy).
I think if you want great health not just a quick hack then simply cutting seed oils entirely together with carbs is better. Reintroducing carbs may be acceptable in some cases but that depends on many factors like the amount, your activity level and your desire to eat them.
Anyway, these all are hypotheses and doing a proper experiment is nightmarishly difficult.

2024-12-23 09:45:07

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You should also put a table of how much the cost of running Monero rises with the number of users. In bitcoin the relationship is linear* with number of users. In Monero it's linear* with number of TRANSACTIONS. Huge difference, the number of transactions depends on number of users over time but also amount of economic activity. I estimate it's quadratic or worse with respect to number of users which is a huge difference compared to btc.
*linear - I'm aware of "The myth of RAM" and I know it's actually n*sqrt(n), I used it for simplicity of comparison. With the myth of RAM accounted, it's even worse for Monero as it's something like n^3 for Monero vs n*sqrt(n) for Bitcoin.

2024-12-23 09:34:40

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What's your privacy good for if you lose the money you're protecting anyway?
It's quite strange how many Monero fans don't know history of it while simultaneously mocking bitcoiners for very similar events. I have the inflation bug in mind. I remember reading about it at some point between years 2016 and 2018, not sure more precisely.
Anyway, good that L2 is finally on the table. Dandelion was considered for bitcoin but IIRC it introduces DoS vulnerabilities. Not sure if Monero solves them or YOLO implements it anyway.

2024-12-22 20:55:11

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The issue with Monero tradeoff is it will grind to halt once too many people use it. But sure, enjoy while you can!
Some problems you mentioned are applicable to Monero as well (e.g. IP address - just use Tor in both cases ffs) or are hugely inflated.
The biggest one is the ridiculous idea that merely being offline for too long makes you vulnerable. It doesn't. To steal an attacker must predict with very high probability whether you will be online the following x days, where x is configurable being 14 in many wallets IIRC. The attacker must literally predict the future. But I don't blame you, this idea is spread by even the otherwise smart bitcoiners.
Also don't forget that Monero has a bunch of problems. There are serious edge cases that can break privacy and it also historically had a catastrophic cryptographic bug that was luckily caught soon enough.
It's correct that there are only tradeoffs, however most people are not properly informed about all of them.

2024-12-22 20:36:23

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Dr Berry and Saladino have almost identical viewpoints on everything except one huge idea: whether long term ketosis is beneficial for humans or not.
I personally didn't find the arguments against ketosis convincing, especially because there's something known as "keto calm".
But that doesn't really matter much. What matters is if you've tried 90 days of sustained ketosis that's interrupted only once or twice a day by eating a big portion of food rich in protein. If you tried and you found the benefits worth continuing, then continue. If you didn't then don't.

2024-12-22 20:16:05

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It's a question if people working on Monero motivate people to work on Bitcoin so much it produces more value than if people working on Monero were working on Bitcoin instead. I doubt so. Bitcoin imposes creative restrictions but ultimately, they produce higher quality outcomes. E.g. LN is in principle much better than Monero.
A problem with many hardcore Monero fans is they fail to see the inherent scaling problems of Monero. (Not saying you're one of them.)

2024-12-22 11:36:07

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I don't think race and gender is important. All combinations are possible. Surely it can be either defense or offense and we don't know.

2024-12-22 11:32:19

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Ah, I missed that. Weird that they put worse crime at the bottom. Still the description doesn't inform a) that it certainly wasn't in defense b) how do they even know he really did that.
He should be prosecuted for scamming, not for tax evasion then.

2024-12-22 09:18:34

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LOL, soyboy "bitcoiner" 😂

2024-12-22 09:09:30

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I hate scammers as much as anyone else but these kinds of posts are antithetical to civilization. The assault is neither mentioned on the linked website nor is there any proof of it. Today people get destroyed by just mentioning such things.
Also tax evasion... I thought you were an anarchist.

2024-12-22 08:54:16

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First, the table claims thay hashed keys are not vulnerable to QC, which is incorrect. Whether they are is purely depend on whether the QC in question can crack keys faster than the worst case block time.
It says: "It's possible Taproot keys are harder for a Shor's implementation to decrypt." which is obviously nonsensical since you can trivially compute the Y coordinate.
"a convention is proposed in spending the full 65-byte P2PK key used by the coinbase output in Block 1 back to itself"
This is horseshit. It gives Satoshi special power to activate soft fork which, with right timing, could lead to catastrophic chain split destroying a lot of value. Just because he haven't spent yet doesn't mean he can't.
And even if it was safe it relies on a developer of first QC to publicly dislcose it and not use QC in secret to steal btc.
Skipping a version number in a limited space just to make addresses start with bc1r is silly. Wallets should just show the information in UI which is a better UX anyway.
Naming it QRH instead of SQI is horrible as well because any future QR algo will need a different name and it'll be crazy confusing.

2024-12-21 08:20:48

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Nah, the quantum scare is vastly overblown and the proposal has several serious deficiencies.

2024-12-19 12:20:41

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Now this sounds like a lot of fun!

2024-12-04 20:41:03

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We need to get him on nostr.

2024-11-17 07:31:08

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Qubes but for phones.

2024-10-07 09:20:28

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LN doesn't permanently store a public record that might possibly become compromised one day.

2024-10-07 06:33:57

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That means undermining liberalism itself by removing state's power.

2024-10-06 01:30:30

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Love?

2024-10-03 05:50:47

WIL made a video arguing we, as a species, were eating a lot of fish and perhaps we should eat more. Thoughts? @nprofile…wwax @nprofile…zhgl
https://youtu.be/Kb-VNW_WaVU?si=YQ230Qpg9cIIuiDL

2024-09-29 09:01:21

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Tracing doesn't work if it's illegal in the first place.

2024-09-15 08:51:24

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First of all, have them on your own hard drive just in case of coordinated attack.
I was also thinking of backing up a bunch of controversial videos, including carnivore videos.

2024-09-15 08:45:40

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"They'll be weird" - just like all people before homeschooling was invented? It's the same narrative as with eating meat.

2024-09-15 08:40:49

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Does it still require Knots or is Core supported?

2024-09-13 06:11:43

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#carnivore
#bitcoin
#programming

2024-08-13 17:26:14

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Exactly. You cannot unpublish information for the same reason you can't unleak a key.

2024-08-13 17:20:08

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I want Open Source smart appliances that just work.

2024-08-08 09:03:16

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We should really help him backup his content using Nostr, though I don't think nostr is great at handling large files.

2024-08-07 20:09:03

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Yes, that too. You can use Rpis pin to transmit FM radio for instance. Which gives me crazy idea: if you transmitted a fake ad "call <number> and say <seed> to win 1M dollars" how many people could hear it and would call?

2024-08-06 18:32:15

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They have cheap BLE tags. If those cannot be reverse-engineered maybe you can record their beacons without the reach of any other device and then just replay them. Buying 256 tags may be worth it if the victim stores tens of millions satoshis.
I'd be really surprised if there isn't any way to sneak out 256 bits of data. Or less if the attacker wants to do some brute forcing.

2024-08-06 18:08:00

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Even without it, there are other similar networks which relay information.

2024-08-06 18:03:13

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The attacker could pretend it's 256 devices and transmit the seed by simply sending or not sending a message. It's not that high number.

2024-08-06 18:01:18

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I don't know how small GSM is today but I know that ten years ago the smallest widely available wifi module was around 100 times larger and 10 times costlier than today. So it migh become feasible in the future. There are other radio communication protocols as well.

2024-08-06 15:57:16

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Ever heard of GSM?

2024-08-06 03:36:47

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If that happens you're screwed anyway. A compromised HWW might as well contain a radio transmitter.
We need better tamper-proof seals.

2024-08-05 21:33:54

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You're exaggerating. Every competent hww checks firmware signature. Something an average joe can't do kn their laptop.

2024-08-02 14:53:23

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Don't trust, verify! Did you do the tests yourself? But good to know what to look for if I decide to check.
Anyway, I've been thinking unless it allows you to get a significant personal benefit, just like carnivore or bitcoin, it may be best to not associate ourselves with any conspiracy theories regardless of their truthfulness and focus on spreading the idea that the government itself is illegitimate. Without the government there are no large scale conspiracies.
Things that provide benefits can already improve the lives of voluntaryists and can help others see the government as untrustworthy since there's an incentive to get personal gain.

2024-08-02 05:37:54

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Can't rule out some natural phenomenon or video manipulation.
But chemtrails should be easy to prove if true: which chemical is it? If we find it in atmosphere in sufficient concentration then it's true.
Anyway, what's the direct impact on my life and how can I use this information for personal gain?

2024-08-02 04:12:27

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It's just water vapor. Just because the incentives align governments to abuse money and food doesn't mean they align them to spray chemicals on Earth.

2024-07-23 19:10:17

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Me neither, on Linux. Except Rpi but that's just two simple config files.

2024-07-20 20:36:53

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The state is inherently based on power over people. If Bitcoin continues regardless of what the state does it challenges the primary distinguishing feature of the state and thus it's inherently anti-state.

2024-07-18 15:53:13

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LOL. It is not. It was designed as anti-state tool and the design still holds.

2024-07-09 16:30:40

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If you've found a diamond on a hike there's not really much energy.

2024-07-07 17:10:18

@nprofile…zvwd the food pyramid

2024-07-07 17:07:13

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🤣

2024-07-07 13:33:17

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Where did you get that number? Most people eating carnivore today need around 1kg of food per day. That's 250-440g of fat.

2024-07-07 13:14:43

@nprofile…pwcy set theory

2024-07-07 13:12:06

@nprofile…pwcy Pythagoras theorem

2024-07-07 13:07:38

@nprofile…pwcy carnivore diet

2024-06-28 15:24:47

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Bitcoin is absolutely pro-free-market/anti-socialism. It's inherently political and you can't do nothing about it. Better just accept the truth.

2024-06-22 10:32:03

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People saying this while secretly wanting to kidnap Milei and make him a king of their country...

2024-06-22 10:18:53

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That too. I kinda enjoyed the comfort of being able to get digital content even if paid. (Why not support the authors anyway?) But if I can still lose it after purchase why not just pirate it? Amazon will have a lot of convoncing to do here.
I fell off of regular reading lately, so I'm not too pissed but I'll be more careful if/when I return.

2024-06-22 08:52:30

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Fuck this. Piracy is justified.

2024-06-17 11:46:19

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Not being Open Source disqualifies Threema immediately. No more digging needed.

2024-06-10 07:07:40

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If I'm going to close the channel anyway why wouldn't I use whichever state is the most favorable for me? Sure with watchtowers the probability of success is low but I don't see any downside trying. If failure meant losing $5 worth of btc it'd be at least some reason not to.

2024-06-09 07:16:06

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The problem with penalty-less channels is they destroy the strong disincentive to cheat. There needs to be a penalty for LN to stay secure. It doesn't need to be 100% of the channel capacity, just an amount high enough to deter abuse.

2024-06-06 19:24:29

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You can send her an email: klong@insider.com

2024-06-05 09:01:25

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Mine too. And he's not an ancap, which I find very funny.

2024-06-01 02:38:11

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They have multisig but not ring sig.

2024-05-29 08:17:01

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What's the future of zkSNACKs now?

2024-05-24 19:00:05

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LLMs are only as good as mainstream humans are. No Bitcoin/carnivore/keto/ancap/... for you

2024-05-23 20:10:47

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Yes. Check this talk: https://youtu.be/j1cqNDDG4aA?si=z-naXu4kpw1Z8P3K

2024-05-23 20:07:07

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The only cells proven to require glucose are the red blood cells.

2024-05-22 14:21:24

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How can we verify it's a legit project?

2024-05-18 10:35:00

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I've been thinking about this a lot. How do we improve things? Maybe instead of notifications add a reminder to calendar to check stuff at certain time?

2024-05-17 19:03:58

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For a while I was thinking it'd be great to have an Open Source carnivore coaching app. You enter details about yourself (ideal weight, health status, food preferences, whether you want to go slow or not...) and it tells you what steps to take each day. Could be local in browser JS/wasm, so no data is sent to the server.

2024-05-16 18:10:51

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Could be simply Bitcoin being uninteresting at creation and by the time it became interesting the trail vanished.

2024-05-16 10:16:32

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Could work if he never showed up at conferences and used Tor only, ideally Whonix/Qubes. But I think he left enough trail for the thugs to get him. 🙁