Open source firmware doesn’t mean anything as long as tivoization is happening.

Which I don’t know whether it’s the case, but legislature might make this a requirement.

You hit one of my weak spots.

Person puts text on an image “look everyone, I made a meme!”

I’ve accepted that this fight is lost

Lemmys memes are alright if a bit too much pro-linus/bash-windows

Your chance to go against the flow!

Regardless of quality of each system, it’s understandable that Lemmy’s userbase would lean more towards Linux as the reasons for using both instead of the dominant alternative are similar. Also Linux works really well for most stuff you’d do on Windows compared to 20 years ago.

But yeah it becomes somewhat annoying when people base a part of their identity on it. Then again, this is always true, regardless of topic at hand.

Sacre bleu

it might be better than the […] Scarab

Surely you jest

the cyber truck probably looks better than some of the other cars

It’s actually quite close to the real version.

So no.

By how the protocol is structured, it’s impossible for the address a downloader sees to know what the packet they forward actually contains, so they’re just taking the role of an ISP. Also, they don’t know the original source IP.

(Translator’s note: keikaku means plan)

I, for one, would feel incredibly owned. More owned than any liberal has felt before.

Chicken Game!

Rules: don’t look at the chicken.

🐔

Game Over

(I stole this from a shirt that did this better due to the layout)

Those fascists got some ‘splainin’ to do.

One can only hope so.

First off: am European, not American. So this is an outside view and I’m not directly impacted, however US policy both national and international historically has a lot of influence on us.

It’s kind of refreshing to see Biden take the gloves off against Republicans. They’re fascist clowns that don’t feel bound by any rules and conventions. Their hypocritic calls for unity went out the window as soon as Harris announced her bid for president and they felt like they can’t use the momentum of the assassination attempt anymore.

The political climate that has been building to the last 10 years - even longer behind the scenes - is unfortunately only possible because the US moderate doesn’t push back against the intolerant. The tolerance paradox in action - but you have to understand that these people lie in your face and argue in bad faith.

I don’t know Harris and Waltz’ political history well enough to predict how their term will look. However, there needs to be a move to the left. The current issues in the US stem from inequality, both in wealth and in social standing. It needs to be made clear that if you are against a peaceful and just society for all (referring to ethnicity, abilities and identity, but not ideology), you have no place in society. And that’s a long way to go. And don’t stop just because some racists are cops.

Even though stated as facts, all of these are just my opinion. I hope it makes sense, English is not my mother tongue

The goal of a banking system is to move money (possibly a lot) quickly, without physical exchange, for the maximum number of goods and services. States also want to control a currency for their fiscal policy, and they want to be able to go into debt.

Established crypto fails the maximum number, fiscal policy and debt criteria. As soon as you introduce mandatory physical exchange via previous metals, what remains?

And yes; Monero theoretically has an infinite amount of coins. However, it has reached tail emission since about two years, meaning the block reward is 0.6XMR every two minutes, which currently equates to about $65.000 per day. However, mining requires CPUs, which would need to be acquired first.

All in all, the current numbers don’t make it a feasible solution.

The amount of crypto you can theoretically mine is independent of your hashrate and only dependent on the block reward plus transaction fees… and these are minuscule compared to what a state needs.

In practice, if an actor held even slightly more than 50% hashrate, trading with him would be a major risk. Which means that’s about the upper limit of what you can actually mine.

Because for those states and companies, crypto is a toy and not real money. Also not having a bank means your transactions are always final (nobody is putting up with multisig).

Crypto has been great for buying drugs via darknet and taking money from investors for partnerships that don’t exist or make sense. Been using it myself actually. Also facilitates gambling, either via crypto casinos or directly against its price. Outside of that, traditional banking wins.

It’s also questionable whether a state could acquire so much crypto quietly at this point. Most big holders are either very publicly about it, like Argentina, or confiscated it from illegitimate sources (like when Germany raided a darknet market operator).

The value of cryptocurrency is usually tied to the price. The price is determined at exchanges. Russia however can’t use foreign exchanges as the accounts there normally require identification (some offer pseudonymous crypto to crypto swaps) as the exchanges don’t accept Russians, and if you want to convert crypto to a currency, you need a bank account calling in that currency, which is not happening. If the exchanges even transferred money to those as they’d lose their license.

The value of cryptocurrency is much less than what you see on CMC etc. if you can’t actually convert it to those currencies. Which is the main issue.

Add to this that most crypto currencies can be traced and having transacted with known Russian problematic accounts - even via proxies - taints your wallet, making it hard to impossible to buy and sell on exchanges later down the line.

This would also be fairly unintrusive, but could add a few false positives.

If this was the case, we’d have a whole bigger problem on our hands.

Even considering the birthday problem, the chance for such collisions is astronomically small. Especially if you combine it with the file size that you always have anyways.

In fact I’d guess that sites like these already do exactly that in order to avoid hosting duplicates (if not handled at the file system level).

He shows more signs of dementia than signs of being a mentally healthy person

Which means you can sell support in addition to the service itself. Mission accomplished!

What a weird thing to do.

But very fitting, because he’s weird.

I actually have an account on there with almost nothing, just my nix configuration, plus a repo I cloned to commit a bug fix on software I used. But it seemed like the most responsible solution as in the price is reasonable, plus I actually like the interface. Codeberg also looks good and claims to be better in some regards, but these are the only choices nowadays.

Anyhow, I’m still waiting for Pijul to have a final 1.0 release and independent hosting solutions to appear.