Voting is consenting to be governed. Withdraw your consent.
#October is #CyberSecurity awareness month, so I decided to put the #OpenSource smart thermostats of #sale. Pick up a #thermostat that won't be hacked because some corporate #cloud was breached, won't be discontinued and unsupported in a few years, and won't collect data about you and sell it to the highest bidders.
https://www.tindie.com/products/eternalsunshine/hestiapi-one-clicky/
https://www.tindie.com/products/eternalsunshine/hestiapi-one-silent/
#IoT #cyber #security #infosec
Aside from sound, what is the difference in the silent vs clicky? Is one more durable?
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## The Constitution Is Not What You Think ##
And neither are several of the American Founding Fathers
https://christophercook.substack.com/p/constitution-not-what-you-think
Check out Hologram of Liberty by Kenneth Royce.
Agreed, Chemex maximalist here.
Jiu Jitsu changes you.
As an American I can confirm.
It covers this in the film. Its worth watching.
I enjoyed it less the mockery that was the Jones Gabbi fight.
Thought that was an asphalt cart path at first look. Strange.
Marty said this Thursday is the last RHR?
Seriously? nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx
Yeah, they are screwing around.
It seems the argument is that every upcoming presidential election is the most important of our time. I would argue the opposite. Any candidate that has a chance of winning will continue to perpetuate the status quo.
Elections are becoming less and less important.
All roads lead back to bitcoin. Don't fret, you will get their eventually.
Hmm, I think it is more nuanced than that. Not even the big hardware players mfg all their own components.
Why the crusade? Also, weren't they completely open source at the time of those vulnerabilities? I don't have a dog in the fight, I prefer free software but I do think they make the best hardware in the industry.
OPNsese is good stuff, but this was an April Fool's prank. It was still live so I reposted it. Check out the comments :)
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/187100/serious/4?_=1712143039222
Dang, got me good on that one...
I dont see the advantages to this. Im glad I moved to OPNsense last year.
Utxo set analysis time!
I have found a "toolchain" to extract taproot utxo pubkeys that's at least *reasonably* efficient - more on that, at the end, for the engineers.
But here's an analysis of a snapshot of the whole 167M utxo set as of 16th March 2024.
Of the 167M utxos, a full 39M are taproot (in other words, about 1 in 4 of all the individual "bits of bitcoin" that exist in our global consensus, are taproot - but not 1 in 4 *bitcoins*, i.e. not by value)!
Of that 39M, 33M are *sub 1000 sats*, i.e. basically dust or near dust. Pretty obviously, these will be "data carrying" type (probably ordinals stuff? sorry I don't know the details). Here's a rough breakdown of the taproot outputs in the utxo set by value:
Amount in sats Number of utxos(taproot only)
> 5 million 51674
> 2.5 million 81512
> 1 million 154130
> 500k 238060
> 250k 352235
> 100k 800843
> 50k 1043038
> 25k 1333547
> 10k 2853756
> 1000 sat 6084116
> 100 (i.e. ~all) 39034007
This will not be news to most. IMO taproot *economic* usage only picks up when Lightning implementations start using it; there is only fairly limited other incentive, for now.
For my taproot based 'anonymous usage project' (see recent posts), a filter of about 500k sats makes sense to me - anon sets of 250k are pretty decent, though as we've seen, we can definitely support much larger sets.
About the "toolchain".
Step 1 is to run the dumptxoutset RPC call against Core. As noted, this currently returns an 11GB data set of 167 million coins, so be aware if your setup is size constrained.
Step 2 is to parse the custom format of this data set. I believe it's Level DB. I found the easiest way was to run this useful tool: https://github.com/theStack/utxo_dump_tools/ against the file created by Step 1. This creates a sqlite database with intelligible columns in the 'utxo' database (like 'value', 'scriptpubkey').
Then I wrote a primitive Python script to do a SELECT from utxos WHERE value >=? AND scriptpubkey LIKE '5120%' .. something along those lines.
I can directly take the output of Step 3 as input to the aut-ct tool I've been talking about recently to create tokens.
Good analysis, can't zap you.
Mornin'
Hey nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm, is there some way of disabling the nostr features of your plugin? I use Alby as an LN wallet only and occasionally your nip07 functionality clashes with nos2x.
Great question, I also run into this issue from time to time.
Not looking for a fight, just providing an alterate point of view.
Have a great day!






