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In many places, there are no safety deposit boxes (vaults) available to regular people anymore. In my country, there are zero options and the only recommendation is to put your valuables in a safe in your home (which has a completely different security model than a bank vault).

Since this may be a legal gray area, they should host it on a Tor onion site.

I can't even read this blog post because Cloudflare's "security verification" fails over and over again. The internet sucks now.

I would sincerely hope .gov addresses use SPF/DKIM/DMARC. That makes spoofing impossible. In Revolut's case, the sender's email system had been compromised.

> It actually makes me sad to see that on person owns the night sky

SpaceX has many owners, especially post-IPO. You, too, can buy the sky and sell the sky.

Hot take, but enshittified food is just another expression of inflation.

You're right, we should strive for compliance with copyrights and distribution licenses in our personal lives.

You really think someone would do that?

Can you name a game that is older than NetHack and still in active development? I can't.

It's also not simply a matter of agreeing on what tasks to use. The task has to be computationally difficult to perform, but computationally trivial to verify. It must also be verifiable with only the context of the blockchain (no "oracle" that can make claims about real-world events).

Primecoin exist(ed?) and used the search for Mersenne prime numbers as its proof-of-work. That was 13 years ago and is still the only example I know of "proof-of-useful-work", and it would not be difficult to find sour voices challenging its usefulness.

The disappointing truth is that we simply don't know. Satoshi never explained it. For SHA-2 it can be used as a mitigation against length-extension attacks¹, and this seems like the most likely explanation, but it's just speculation.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack

This is true, but large miners also have beneficial electricity contracts and data center capacity, both suitable for AI workloads.

It's a common misunderstanding that mining just gets harder and harder as time goes by and more coins are minted. It's often misreported that way. But in fact, the difficulty is dynamic and adjusts itself to keep minting at the predetermined rate regardless of the number of participants. Mining has gotten harder on long timelines, but only because more computing power has been added.

Backed stablecoins aren't some anarchistic anti-government thing; they are highly regulated and will lose access to their banking if they don't follow the rules – rules which require them to freeze coins in cases of crime.

If you want to show a middle finger to government there are cryptocurrencies for that, but USD stablecoins with centralized backing is not it.

Back when Raspberry Pi 4 came out in 2019, the 4GB variant cost $55. Fast forward seven years and the same hardware with slightly less memory costs $83.75.

There was a time when computers just got faster and better so fast that you could barely get one set up at home before it was obsolete.

If an upgrade becomes necessary, it would be a soft fork. (Consensus would still be a challenge)

Just watching it now (and what a house it is). There's a TV in almost every room, and Fox News is on each of them. He says: "Yes, it is the same station on every television, because that's how the system is designed. It's designed so it'll play the same station all over the house. It happens to be Fox News, but I do flip around. It's not nailed on Fox News, in case you're wondering."

Huh. I use KeePassXC on Wayland and I had no idea about that, it works fine. Could be because I've set QT_QPA_PLATFORM user-wide.

What is the most tolerable of these phones, in your experience?

mc user for decades here. I spent a long time teaching myself yazi and configuring it just to my liking, only to realize I don't really use a file manager that much anymore. It's hard to compete with shells for efficiency in most scenarios.

You can block YouTube for yourself on your own, it's not difficult. You don't have to depend on the state to do it for you.

I wish I could buy it, but I'm in the unfortunate situation of being in Norway, instead of almost any other European country. Will you ever ship here? ;-(

And also the same day as it was reported the SEC is investigating Coinbase over claims it overstated user numbers in past filings (https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/policy/sec-is-investigating...).

It's been a bad day.

All bank apps I've tried works.

Gleam seems like such a nice language. The language server integrated in its single-binary toolchain looks nice.

The only unexpected thing I've found is the lack of structs/objects. Instead you only have "enums", which they call custom types, and a "struct" is implemented as an enum with one variant, seen in the article:

    pub type Pokemon {
      Pokemon(pokedex_number: Int, name: String)
    }

I mean sure, why not, except you have to repeat the name ("Pokemon").

Your understanding is correct. It happened to me; someone made a Workspace for a domain name I own, and made a user on that workspace to match an email address I have on that domain, and then used "Sign in with Google" on Dropbox. Luckily I don't use Dropbox, so instead of gaining access to my files there, it just resulted in a new Dropbox account being created.

I noticed all this, of course, because I got email notifications for all of it.

More on that here: https://proton.me/blog/climate-activist-arrest

They swiftly went on to win a court ruling that would prevent this specific situation from repeating. https://proton.me/blog/court-strengthens-email-privacy

They were legally compelled to add IP logging for that specific user. After this incidence, they went on to obtain a court ruling in Switzerland, where they operate, so that this specific attack cannot happen again. In their blog post about it [1], they instruct concerned users to access their account over Tor.

Of course when Proton say they don't log, we just have to take their word for it. People who don't want that element of trust can use Tor. Personally I believe their story in this case.

[1] https://proton.me/blog/climate-activist-arrest

I still do it, and have been for over a decade, and I'm rarely bothered by it. I think I get a few more captchas because of it, and I can't load https://www.investopedia.com, which I would frequently like to, but that's it.

Lolita is covered by an exception for art. I doubt such a book could be written in Norway today, but you can't really ban historical literature.