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What's the criteria for being considered "a maintainer of a popular open source project"? They never actually publish the criteria anywhere from what I can tell. They just say visit the subscription page and if you are eligible it should be available to you and if you see a charge then you are not eligible. I think though they should still be transparent about what their metric is for determining popular projects on GitHub; otherwise, the code that determines eligibility might be broken and no one would be able to tell. Or worse they could just be lying about it entirely.

The inability to find any available domain names was one of the primary reasons for us to create Mashword. (https://mashword.com) You can enter the name you are looking for and it will quickly suggest similarly spelled or sounding names to the one you entered.

Something similar that we created a while back is Mashword (https://mashword.com). It enables you to create word mashups of two words or find unique spellings of one word quickly. It will also do its best to determine domain name availability. We are currently in the process of improving the speed of the algorithm, so apologies if it takes a while to return.

The Tether MC has been leveling off. (See the 1M view of MC on CoinMarketcap -> https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/)

While Tether may be technically insolvent there looks like there would need to be another $40 Billion in redemptions to really test the peg based on the latest attestation. (They had $82B MC & now have a $72B MC. Cash Equiv. - Comm. Paper & COD = $50B back in March).

My guess is they may have weathered the storm for now. Probably need a few more weeks to fully confirm, but high price today was .9995. If redemptions fully stop or MC goes back up slightly then peg probably returns.

I think the best concise definition I've run across is what I heard Yann LeCun say in his recent interview with Lex Fridman.

“The essence of intelligence is the ability to predict.” -Yann LeCun

heck, just giving approximate long/lat coordinates would be a huge improvement.

what on earth is the explanation for that?

Edit: Okay from the summary it says...

"Russia accounts for about 10% of the global nickel supply, mainly for use in stainless steel and electric vehicle batteries. Nickel was already rallying before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as robust demand from the stainless steel and battery industry drained inventories, which now stand at 76,830 tonnes in LME-registered warehouses, their lowest since 2019."

Still surprises me that the increase is so much higher than other metals.

So in theory if someone was to ever accidentally or intentionally reset the location info for where all gmail accounts have logged in from, then effectively everyone would be unable to access their gmail account?

I believe there is a plugin for tiddlywiki. https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/PvoDxAWgziE

After radioshack.com I think the chances went up substantially.

Autonomous drones with weapon systems coupled with sufficiently advanced obstacle avoidance, facial recognition, and other AI/ML identification based systems, could swarm cities and eliminate entire battalions or local populations with little to no environmental or infrastructural damage. Imagine Russia preparing to invade the Donbas region of Ukraine and ahead of that invasion deploying a couple of drone swarms to "clear out" a bulk of the Ukranian army presence. Drones could idle, lie in wait and silently hunt opposing forces. It could significantly lower the cost (number of casualties) of invasion for the attacking force.

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For those interested in pass for use in shell script based contexts, you may also find encpass.sh (https://github.com/plyint/encpass.sh) useful. This is a simple tool I wrote (a while ago now) to encrypt/decrypt secrets and store them in a manner very similar to pass, except it uses OpenSSL instead of GPG. Since it is also just a shell script and it's only real dependency is OpenSSL, then it can be used in a wide array of environments where installing additional software may not be an option. It also has hooks in the code to write your own extensions, which can be used to add features or utilize an entirely different backend instead of OpenSSL. Check out the Keybase extension as an example. (https://github.com/plyint/encpass.sh/blob/master/extensions/...)

In this scenario, if USDT drops low enough, might you not have trouble actually procuring enough USDT to payback and unlock your BTC? It would seem like a sudden collapse of USDT might cause a complete stop in all trading of USDT pairs, no? I suppose you could counteract that a bit by continuing to hold a certain amount of USDT, but would the loan instrument still accept USDT as repayment if USDT becomes worthless?

So basically urbit without all the weirdness?

The Chia community is much much larger than the number of employees working at Chia Network and the community is all on Keybase. At times Keybase has strained under the load from all the users. The #general channel has something close to 20,000 members last time I checked.

Hard disagree. A global identity network that has end-to-end encrypted chat that can be used for secure authentication in a variety of scenarios and allows users to exchange data is a much bigger market than video conferencing. If anything Zoom should be working on integrating Zoom video conferencing into the Keybase product.

I still use it regularly as well. There is definitely a thriving ecosystem of users on it, which tells me that it is providing real value to some people. Either someone is going to breathe new life into Keybase or someone is going to come along and build something similar to Keybase with better execution and be wildly successful.

I encourage everyone who liked Keybase to add a comment to this issue to support opensourcing the server portion of Keybase.

https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/24105

Hopefully if enough people make their voices heard Zoom will either opensource it or maybe revive development of it.

It is being maintained and still actively used. The largest user, afaik, is Chia Network (https://www.chia.net) and they rely on that for the bulk of their internal and external community comms. If Zoom decides not to host the servers anymore I predict they will likely try to acquire it from Zoom or re-implement the server portion.

There is probably a profitable business to be built to implement an opensource version of the Keybase server that is backwards compatible with the client and then start charging enterprises a reasonable price for data storage and communications to host it in the cloud. Zoom is sitting on a potential gold mine and they are just letting it languish.

What's special is the ability to publish cryptographic proofs on public social media profiles to link back to a central identity. You could say this person on Twitter, Facebook (discontinued), Github, HN, etc. is 100% the same person. Key provisioning and recovery becomes easy then when you setup multiple devices and your messages are available across mobile, laptop, desktop and across various operating systems. And it was all end-to-end encrypted.

Flexa is basically Stripe for crypto and it supports ETH and XLM. https://flexa.network/currencies

I think your best bet will be to go with Flexa. It is already well integrated into many PoS systems and can handle many of the popular cryptocurrencies. Also, customers who have exchange accounts with Gemini will already be able to checkout with the Gemini mobile app without having to download anything. https://flexa.network/integrations

This is cool. Never seen the local application take before. I'd be interested to know how people respond to having a dedicated app and if they enjoy that UX more than a website.

In a similar vein, but more focused around finding similar sounding names or creating a mashup of two words is Mashword (https://mashword.com). We're working on improving performance and reducing noise in the result set, but if you are patient, then even in its current incarnation, it produces some novel results.

> To expand on this a little bit, non-default privacy means that use of privacy features becomes de facto suspicious activity, thus rendering them useless.

That's not a true statement as far as I understand how Zcash works. Right now there are >742K ZEC in the shielded Sapling pool, so there are quite a few people using it and you can not tell their shielded transactions apart.

https://electriccoin.co/zcash-metrics/

> Another issue with Zcash is that it had a trusted setup, which is not an issue Monero has.

Yes, but they took a number of steps to make sure that the ceremony for creating the trusted setup discarded the keys used and there was no one listening in. (they were geographically distributed and destroyed the hardware)

Yes, I understand. That's why I'm specifically asking about the advantage of Monero vs when shielded transactions are used on Zcash.

I'd be curious to hear from Monero fans why one might select it over Zcash? Zcash seems to have stronger security guarantees when shielded transactions are used.

Chia's nodes are not all running in the same data centers and owned by a single company like Amazon's. To imply that is disingenuous at best. They are operating all over the globe in independently owned data centers and people's private residences. Geo-location by IP will give a fairly good indication of that, but even just a simple survey of farmers from forums, chat, reddit, etc will give you a feel for the heavy presence throughout Asia, Australia, Europe and the US. Also, you can look at the number of unique pool public keys to get a feel for the ownership decentralization. (https://www.chiaexplorer.com/charts/networkDecentralisation) While not perfect, people do not tend to create lots and lots of pool public keys. Therefore, one can be relatively confident that the network has a high degree of decentralization.

It sort of depends on your process right? If you just want to download the client software and point it at your existing drive and start plotting in the background while doing something else, then I tend to think why not? Worse case scenario you continue to get nothing for the space you currently get nothing for. Also, if you want frequent payouts you can join a pool and then you don't have to worry about going 5 years without getting a reward.

> First, when the network space is growing exponentially, the value of preexisting work is decaying exponentially. I do grant you that completed work is nonzero in value, but during a growth phase its value might as well be zero. Whenever speculators believe the currency will actually have any long term value above its current exchange rate minus the resource costs, then it will be in a growth phase. The total resource consumption during this growth phase, including the supply chains to produce space, need to be studied. Measured in transactions per unit of CO2 emissions, I expect its efficiency to be better only during a phase of stable network space, i.e. when its value is not speculated to be higher than its current value.

To be fair you'd also have to measure and compare Chia's growth phase to Bitcoin's (or other PoW chains) growth phase as well. This would mean taking into account the manufacturing of the equipment, distribution and deployment costs of ASIC miners, electrical power generation costs, etc. Also, Chia runs on general computing hardware whereas ASICs have to be specifically designed and manufactured and ASICs use a whole lot more electricity than servers with hard drives running Chia. I think a single Ant miner uses something like 32 kWh a day IIRC. Chia has done a lot of power consumption analysis already and you can dive deep on that information yourself over at https://chiapower.org/ if you're curious. There's a dramatic difference between Bitcoin's PoW network and Chia's PoST network.