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I think emissions are a different issue.

Which is more _wasteful_? I would argue Bitcoin, and dangerously so, because its upper bound of potential energy usage is infinite.

Coal, on the other hand, is not wasted (burning coal without using the heat would be stupidity).

Even when coal is phased out, Bitcoin may still be there, causing unnecessary strain on the infrastructure. Bitcoin will find the cheapest energy and set it on fire, if the price is right. And the heat produced by the equipment also wasted as byproduct due to convenience/commercial factors. I can imagine it already contributes to energy poverty, alongside other issues, in developing nations.

I don't believe it does. The same phenomenon can occur with a renewable energy source. Remote renewable energy source (solar, hydro etc), not grid connected, could attract the same sort of Bitcoin mining system and even claim to be 'green' - when in fact they are reducing the commercial attractiveness of building the infrastructure to move the energy to the grid, so it might be a net-negative environmental benefit (or at best, negligible, assuming that the mining equipment was originally connected to a dirty grid, rather than new equipment) (and would not be subject to carbon tax).

This is a tool (like ngrok, or inlets, or sish etc) for easily opening a port on your local computer to the public internet.

So, for example, if you are hosting a web server locally on port 8080, you could ssh to a service like this, and then it would give you back a link such as h59dke4.example.com.

All traffic that goes to h59dke4.example.com:80 will actually be routed to your 127.0.0.1:8080

This sounds great, but in reality, this concept is also a curse. Moving Bitcoin miners is much easier than building transmission lines - potentially discouraging funding for the infrastructure needed to move the energy where it is more useful. I remember reading of BTC mining companies moving their infrastructure right next door to remote coal fired power plants, getting extremely cheap rates, which otherwise might have been completely decommissioned due to transmission costs.

I used to use a similar tool called inlets but they removed the open licensing. I now self host a sish server (https://github.com/antoniomika/sish) which also uses ssh (and public key auth) for the reverse tunnel client. So much simpler!

Complainants assert that Gmail displaying ads constitutes 'sending of advertising emails'. Not so sure they should win this one.

I use porkbun.com myself, the process and prices are lovely.

At my own workplace (a SaaS service), we cannot change passwords, we can only send reset links (and the reset email goes to the end user).

I can't see any place in the screenshots where they are setting a user's password, only sending reset links (which would do nothing if the support user does not have access to system email or end users email).

Also at my workplace, 2FA is not enforced by an IdP (like Okta), but by our own application (and therefore could not be disabled at the IdP level).

> They can't lend money without deposits. The deposits are the money they lend.

I am fairly certain this isn't true, at least not in the US/UK.

This is great - thanks very much for mentioning it. Creating an account now! ARM might be tricky but for zero dollars might be some fun.

unfortunately the 2gb RAM is the one thing I feel constrained by - I mostly use it with code-server and even the default TypeScript language server is a bit too much sometimes.

Hah, my example is exactly the example you listed. A single cpu, 2gb ram, fixed ip VPS for $30USD per year.

As a software guy married to a lawyer, be careful what you wish for. The legal industry seems hell bent on inefficiency and fuzzy regulations.

I live in an offshore jurisdiction. They have reputations - but 'tax efficiency' is just one factor of many. Others would be how stable the legal system is / how often do laws change / what regulations are optimised for your particular company finances / how reliable the government is etc. You wouldn't want to move your very wealthy multinational company structure somewhere that could collapse or be somewhere where your company could not get financing etc.

Quoting your own true passport number is not fraud. Fraud would be supplying a fake passport number / fake passport / doctored photocopy.

I did today - I was hanging out with two friends in Australia. We used the free game Rec Room and all had Oculus headsets.

What I find great about VR is the directional source of the voice - you can talk over each other in a group setting and not miss anything, unlike video chat.

It is still uncomfortable for longer periods though. And you still have to find a time when everyone is free

GitHub > commaai/panda > Search > 'GET_BUS' >

panda/board/drivers/llcan.h

Having grown up religious, I used to think this way.

In my family, I now see people coming up against real hardship, and because their purpose in life is so deeply rooted in religion, they don't know how to cope with things emotionally (instead, trying to defer the emotional toll of those things, believing that their god will handle it)... and they make strange decisions, things go horribly, they are left struggling to comprehend. They live as if they are on a rollercoaster of hope, anticipation, crisis, disappointment, recovery, hope.

In my own experience, having your self worth and sense of identity attached to religion is a fragile existence, especially if you are logically inclined.

Why did they include Edinburgh in the British non-capital cities list? There are four British capital cities - Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London.

Hologram.io is a $1.50 a month fee, but it is suited much more to IoT global roaming

An excellent application for trip planning already exists called 'Furkot' - I've been using it for years - I assume this works slightly differently though and actually suggests interesting places? (didn't try it yet because it asked me to log in before I know what it does)

Sorry to hear about your project. I met someone just recently who works for an Israeli company called OrCam - they have a pretty swish glasses-mounted camera solution for assisting vision impaired users