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As soon as I started reading one of the first things that came to mind was the termination period in the smtp server spec. If you’ve ever had to troubleshoot an SMTP transport issue typing SMTP con Ds by hand is a familiar thing. Cool read.

I’m a hobbyist mechanic and own way too many cars and I agree with your assessment all around. Newer cars are easier and cheaper all-around to fix in terms of parts (maybe labor is higher but it’s doubtful). So if a newer car is cheaper to maintain, why the rising insurance/registration costs for newer vehicles.

I own a mix of old sports cars to new SUVs and even a Tesla Model 3.

The old cars are cheaper to register so taxed the least yet pollute the most and are the most expensive to maintain in terms of parts.

Insurance premiums skew cheaper for older cars too unless it’s an agreed value policy.

Huge OpenWRT fan I’d almost even be tempted to deploy an OpenWRT device somehow as a NAS over any prebuilt consumer device.

It’s build it yourself (and get what you pay for) or buy junk and similarly roll the dice.

It’s not a terrible difficult value proposition to explain but there’s always the person in the room that knows just enough to not know this is something you do not introduce on your corporate network; you leave it home tucked away behind a firewall

When my bosses want to know why a quote for a device like a NAS is thousands and thousands of dollars instead of hundreds of dollars I use examples like this.

Running consumer gear, especially public facing internet consumer gear is just asking for trouble.

TrueNAS/FreeNAS whatever it’s called these days - a real OS with real vendor and community support keeping the project alive and up to date is just necessary.

Buying these consumer devices that are set and forget with limited or zero firmware updates is BAD. Not to mention the code quality and unknown closed source backdoors

The maintainer account (the identity) could have been sold to a third party. There are secondary markets [1] for this.

[1] https://ogusers.gg/ is the largest clear net marketplace for buying and selling usernames on popular sites

I read it a few times but for me to pretend I understand why this person made three separate transactions to pay an $86 hosting bill speaks more to me of a lack of consistent revenue or source of funds.

Ocamm’s Razor doesn’t point me to malice. It’s just as easily a kid trading gift cards $20/time until he has the funds. This looks like an idea that starts small, and frankly when it was invented it wasn’t illegal at the moment of creation.

It’s the story laid out in the court case and the changing of regulations and laws that created the crime. Inception of an idea alone doesn’t lead me to believe the intent was malice; privacy, obfuscation, the lack of funds maybe.

Obfuscation can be as simple as protecting privacy.

As an example I can say the first day I stepped foot in a cryptocurrency community was on IRC about 13 years ago. I didn’t realize Freenode showed your hostmask by default and random people had IPwhois’d my netmask, asking about where I work, pulling up the address on street view…

I’ve exclusively used rented servers bouncers cloaks etc ever since. That’s the community I realized I was dealing with.

To me that process highlighted looks more to do with how to convert fake e-bucks back into real dollars via liberty reserve and less to do with any type of criminal structuring but I'm not IRS agent trying to hang a case on someone.

I think the most damning evidence would be when the government sent the site operator a message that says "hey this money is illegal and we've obtained it illegally" and the lack of response from the site operator is really what allows them to go after the operator for anti-money laundering evasion. The lack of action or response, but let's be realistic what good legal response could you give. Anyways if you're not doing AML you are basically a terrorist says the government of America.

KYC on the other hand wasn't set in stone until recently whether it was $10,000 or $600 and the Bank Secrecy Act is a bit of joke at this point if they really want us to KYC/AML every person we transact with in excess of $600 AND report that. Report it to who?

We're all criminals it would seem, but that email where they told him all the money was illegal will basically be the nail in the coffin.

Satoshi and others spoke about this on the mailing list but one of the original ideas or use cases behind Adam Back's hashcash and other Proof-of-work methods involved or was centered around research to stop the proliferation of automated spam.

> Can you explain how blockchain is saving us from AI shitting over the internet?

One of the original use cases was the defense against Sybil Attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack To make it prohibitively expensive to attack the network.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud#Ballot_stuffin... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack#Identity_validati...

Yeah the only problems I've had so far are the stock videos not having much if anything at all to do with my script.

Also had to edit gpt.py to sanitize the ":" if the AI script response contained a colon

OP I have this up and running but it seems like most of the video samples it fetches in response to my prompt have nothing to do with the prompt I've typed. Maybe 1 out of 5 videos is actually relative to my prompt. Any Ideas?

I've also noticed that any generated Subtitle language will fail if the AI responds with a semi-colon anywhere in it's response.

"Sure, here's the thing you asked for: A long text description about <subject>"

Actually short subs "Sure, here's the thing you asked for - end video.

pretty neat though

DataHoarder is a very active reddit community devoted to this “hobby”

This guy Jaspers

Absolutely. One season of no maintenance in Alabama is enough for any property to be overgrown. Everything grows like weeds here, even pine trees

Nah Jasper is that kind of place in Alabama where even a stolen 200’ tower can be fenced

This is totally Walker county. It was an AM station so it probably took the owner the weekend to look into it. We’ve got local stations near me that relay to the top of a nearby mountain and weather or road conditions can delay repairing that local station. I have family in Jasper, this really happened it’s wild that’s it’s national news.

The dude modified a forensic hard drive image with like PowerISO or something [1] and tried to pass it off; he deserves to rot under a jail.

https://mylegacykit.medium.com/faketoshi-files-ii-the-madden...

I see many vmdk images being converted to other image formats like qcow and raw - if the new hypervisor even requires it

A guy scammed some people a long time ago and tried this “Bitcoin isn’t money” argument and it didn’t work[1].

[1] SEC vs. Shavers followed by FBI vs. Shavers

DOJ victim emails are neat!

This whole ETF thing has been a long time coming in terms of precedent at the legal level. Court cases are how things happen in America unfortunately.

I miss the Zhou tong memes.

Nope that’s “bath salts” and lots of analogs or designer variations - none of which are in any way similar to mu receptor opioids like methadone. Sounds kinda dangerous to me.

Actually purchased Wolf3d after doing an all night Prodigy dialup download of the shareware version on my friends dad's 386

I’m 42 now but I started when I was 6 on model cars.

DJI makes drones that crash, or they did and I became an expert at repairing phantoms. I have still yet to crash my Skydio2

Was it expensive as crap? Absolutely! Can I hand my kids my phone and let them fly the drone and it not end up in a lake? Yep, that too.

Peace of mind has its costs

Curious how widespread the outage is. Downdetector is just starting to recognize it.

Yeah I have the same (symbiotic) lack of symbiosis relationship with HR so I run scripts and other automated tasks every so often to verify all the employees are actually using the accounts. Sometimes new people get hired and have to wait because HR cannot follow the simple instructions I ask for. Like a person's name typed out and emailed to me.

Lending money to strangers on the internet without recourse is profitable until it isn't. I assume the only currency trust is a web-of-trust and some type of "+/-" ratings system; which totally works until it doesn't.

These are gifts to some people, not loans. Loans are enforceable contracts.

Technically correct but Atari attempted to compete later and failed with the Atari Jaguar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar

I say attempted because as a teenager you could either afford the SNES or the Genesis but rarely both. The Jaguar came out after both the SNES and Genesis and IIRC had superior hardware, but no game support due to things like licensing agreements. It was never a real contender - not from my teenage 12 year old perspective.

I’ve been using Bitcoin for a solid decade and I never made an FTX or a Binance account- too many red flags: leverage, derivatives, lending, etc.

I still do but most of our interests shifted to finance