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[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Europe had socialist leaders. It set half of it at least 50 years back in terms of social and economic progress, put up barbed wires around the borders, banned and imprissoned the oposition. Never more!

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

government funded, yet independent

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[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Slovakia and hungary. Not sure how poland is doing these days, but there was an infamous news segment a few years ago that got international attention, because it was basically 5 minutes of simping for Andrzej Duda. Right before the elections.

I recognize the quality of work people in these institutions achieve. Not everything they put out is a political order, they still do decent journalism. It's just that every now and then, you need to be aware of who controlls them. About what they say, or most importantly, what they don't say when it comes to reporting on certain topics.

It might seem nice to have a funcioning "public" media, but all I see is a ticking time bomb, waiting for one bad election...

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There doesn't seem to be technical vision behind the proposal yet.

Jesus Christ, you've just savagely described the europe in a nutshell πŸ˜•

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Could Europe build a public-service social media model, inspired by public broadcasting

Sure. The government owned broadcasting is working great... not being abused at all. #JustEasternEuropeThings

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Only a small percentage of schizophrenia patients carry mutations in grin2a. However, the researchers believe this circuit may represent a shared pathway that contributes to cognitive impairment across different forms of the disorder.

And yet, the title still mentions schizophrenia. I guess the author is stuck with the incorrect prediction...

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Behold, the wonders of modern medicine... https://www.foregen.org/

This may still turn out to be a grift, as with other synthetic body part startups, but at least they did some animal studies first. The human trials are apparently awaiting the approval.

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

You know who had a cool name? Lucius Cincius Alimentus!

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

If the FSFE were to use gnu taller, the taler bank would've probably requested the same information through some other nonstandard channel sooner or later. The traditional electronic money has become like show breed dogs. They are no good without the papers. Especially in europe.

We need to eliminate the banks and the payment gateways from the paymemt process.

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I know nothing about the game, but came here to see who's offended by it, and by how much. Was not disapointed.

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The idea of a national ID would never pass in the US. Both parties are against it for various reasons.

 

A comprehensive guide on how to set up a highly available LND cluster with floating IP address, including benchmarks for various combinations of storage backends, and scripts to automatically set up most of the environment.

 

The most notable changes:

  • bitcoind used to listen on 127.0.0.1:8334 by default. If you use Tor for incoming connections, you have to manually specify bind=127.0.0.1:8334=onion in config
  • unix sockets can now be used to communicate with Tor or other proxy, and MQ traffic.
  • New mempool policies has been implemented to patch some attack vectors for chains of unconfirmed transactions, especially in relation to lightning network channels and similar contracts.
  • TRUC (Topologically Restricted Until Confirmation, BIP 431) can now be used with transaction version 3 (now considered standard) instead of RBF.
  • Full RBF (Replace By Fee) is now enabled by default
  • RHEL 8 and Ubuntu 18.04 are now unsupported due to minimum required glibc version bump.
 

zkSNACKs, the developer of Wasabi wallet, has shut down its coinjoin coordinator since June. The news is not surprising, considering that it has already been unavailable for the US customers since May.

Since the wallet itself is non-custodial (you hold the keys), and it's using block filters to update your balance directly from the bitcoin network, the wallet functionality is intact. However, if you want to coinjoin, you have to find another public coordinator.

A list of currently active coordinators is available on wabisator.com, or wasabist.io

Coordinators do not require any privileged access to private information, so it should be safe to use any 3rd party coordinator with enough real active users. At no point are your funds at risk of being stolen.

However, a dedicated attacker running a public coordinator could still pull a de-anonymization attack by mixing your coins solely with their own outputs.

 

Ever since the interview with Lukas Seyfrid (CZ), the chief of the hardware team, it was clear that Braiins is pivoting from the development of mining software, to building their own hardware.

This, I believe, is the first iteration of their effort in form of a consumer product, and while it is unlikely to make you a financial return on the investment, it's small form factor and nice anodized aluminum case can allow pretty much anyone to become familiar with the process of bitcoin mining. Or terrorize the testnet. The choice is yours.

I think I might buy one, just to try the viability of a pure solar setup.

HW specifications:

Price (pre-order) $199.00
Hashrate ~1Th/s
Power Consumption 40W - 55W
Number of hashboards 1
Number of ASIC chips 4
Cooling Type Active
Noise 40 dB
Air outlet temperature 40-50 Β°C

But really, how much would it make in a year?

If we assume the current price and difficulty stays the same, the block subsidy is 3.125 BTC, median fees around 0.2212 BTC, free electricity, you'd get 0.001 BTC per 12 months, which is roughly 65 USD. A little more than 3 years to break even.

It's not going to break any records, but I'm still excited for what's to come next.

 

It's a successor to the model T, with the new design inspired by the Safe 3, announced earlier this year.

They promise nice, easy to use UI, color display, haptic feedback, gorilla glass. Several color variations are available, including the bitcoin-only orange option.

 

"Prosecutors are alleging Samourai Wallet laundered over $100 million in criminal proceeds."

 

"Recent regulatory action against Consensys and Samourai has instilled fear among other crypto service providers operating in the United States."

  • Wasabi is the main competitor to Samourai's whirpool mixing service. The only one flying under the radar currently is Joinmarket.
  • Phoenix is the Lightning network wallet where users keep custody of their funds, but the channel management is outsourced to the company. The only remaining self custodial lightning wallet that remains is Breez.

While this news is deeply troubling, it might push further development to more sustainable trustless self-custodial solutions in the long term.

 
 

A story about Sarah Meiklejohn, and how she started to analyze the blockchain back in 2013.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/8623167

Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable.

 

The Solomon's temple in Jerusalem was a mistake... according to samaritan israelites, who follows 5 books of the old testament, and pray on Mt. Gerizim, 48km north of Jerusalem. THE place to worship God.

Most of the european christians probably know the term only from the story about the good samaritan. Today I've learned not only they are still a thing, practicing their barebones version of judaism, but in addition to israel and the west bank, some of them even live and practice their religion in brazil.

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Zoroastrianism Explained (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by deafboy@lemmy.world to c/religion@lemmy.world
 

The so called new religious movements are a guilty pleasure of mine. Some of their followers often claim to be inspired specifically by Zoroastrianism.

But what is zoroastrianism? Apparently, it all started ~3000 years ago in the area currently known as iran, by the guy called Zarathustra. And although the number of active practitioners is rapidly declining, the ideas behind it affect us all to this day, as the christianity and islam seem to be highly inspired by the ideas behind zoroastrianism.

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