Everyone was hanging out, having a good time, and then some of y'all had to go and get weird on everybody.
Reminds me of lawnmower man, another cyberpunk adjacent movie
What are yours?
It makes me sad how few cyberpunk movies exist.
Johnny mnemonic
Existenz
The Final Cut
Max headroom
Strange Days
bonus: Dark City (it just is, okay?)
Is there an optimal number of relays to use? How do I find more unpaid relays?
Arch was one of my first attempts to use linux, it did not go well...
I've actually been meaning to give it another go now that I have at least some clue what I'm doing. I like the idea of a custom built, rolling release operating system.
To oversimplify, there are 3 types of linux distros that are different enough to not be fully compatable. Debian based (ubuntu) use .deb packages and tend to be for the average user. Fedora/redhat distros use rpm and tend to be for enterprise users. Then there's Arch, for masochists. Each use a few different terminal commands as well, so sticking to one flavor can be simpler.
Gotcha. Thanks for the detailed answer. Hope you get it all worked out.
Why fedora? Is this for work?
Whats wrong with Ubuntu, too noob friendly?
Boosting this cause I was a fool to think anyone would see it at midnight.
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Paper wallets and seed backups are two different things, in case you didn't know.
Paper wallets are generally considered deprecated at this point, and ahould be avoided. A seed backup, on metal preferably, is highly recommended to secure your wallet no matter what.
Of course. Paper wallets are kinda terrible. IIRC the trezor (first hardware wallet) was made after a plumbing leak destroyed paper wallets that were stored in a fireproof safe.
Trezor is the best for ease of use and features.
Jade is solid and cheap.
Coldcard is more expensive, but has more features.
Ledger spends all their money on hiring advertisers.
Digging through some old files and found this one. I should make a nostr version one day.
Is it worth the tradeoff of a service having access to every transaction you'll ever make from that wallet?
Interesting experiment into privacy, mired by a scammy beginning. The emission curve is terrible, early miners who knew to uncripple the code own most monero that will ever exist, and the tail emission is a handwavy attempt to dismiss this. Most transactions prior to 2017 werent private, but try getting a monero fan to admit that, and hope that no such flaw exists today.
Subject: law vs technology
From: Wei Dai
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 13:32:02 -0800
Recently there's been a great deal of discussion on this list
about upcoming legislations (HR666 S314 etc.). Maybe it's time
to step back a little and look at the bigger picture. I've
been assuming (perhaps incorrectly) for some time that most
cypherpunks hold a belief somewhat like the following:
There has never been a government that didn't sooner or later
try to reduce the freedom of its subjects and gain more control
over them, and there probably never will be one. Therefore,
instead of trying to convince our current government not to
try, we'll develop the technology (e.g., remailers and ecash)
that will make it impossible for the government to succeed.
Efforts to influence the government (e.g., lobbying and
propaganda) are important only in so far as to delay its
attempted crackdown long enough for the technology to mature
and come into wide use.
But even if you do not believe the above is true, think about
it this way: If you have a certain amount of time to spend on
advancing the cause of greater personal privacy (or freedom, or
cryptoanarchy, or whatever), can you do it better by using the
time to learn about cryptography and develop the tools to
protect privacy, or by convincing your government not to invade
your privacy? I argue that since there are many more people
doing the former (EFF, CPSR, etc) than latter, that you'd be
more effective if you spent the time on the former.
Wei Dai
