k-ian

yeah turns out Dynadot enforces a 7 day wait on deleting the domain and it's only been 6 days. should be free for registration on June 18 (i assume in 3 hrs if they mean UTC)

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S00167061230033...

It's strange to hear the author isn't a fan of cryptocurrency. There are a lot of dubious use-cases for crypto, but facilitating donations for sketchy services is an obvious one.

https://kianbradley.com

I'm a big fan of https://brutalist.report for this

"The day's headlines delivered to you without bullshit."

Lol this is cool... it even made an acrostic for some reason

Prompt: "Spit about the oppression of cats by dogs!"

Lives of cats, constantly threatened

Oppression by dogs, never ended

Victims of their brutality and hate

Excluded, mistreated, and dominated, their fate.

— PoetGPT, https://poetgpt.koll.ai

One of the more popular paper wallet generators is https://www.bitaddress.org/. But because i'm paranoid of situations like this, I've downloaded a release from their github and copied it to an airgapped laptop, and generated keys that way- https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org/releases

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ok boomer

AWS is great about dogfooding, most all their services run on top of native AWS (ec2, lambda, dynamo)... but they don't do that for billing. It's all just fake money being thrown around internally.

us-east-1 is having issues, and IAM is run out of us-east-1

https://status.aws.amazon.com/

Which major tech company has the most difficult interview process?

That would be difficult to pull off. bitcoin code merges are highly scrutinized, and disagreements in blockchain projects just result in forks and new networks.

A better way would be a global ban coordinated among every nation, and even then that would be difficult to pull off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_transfer_agent

That's basically it. You have normal vacation time, then "personal time", which is what is used as sick leave. It doesn't roll over and you're encouraged to use that by the end of the year.

Creator of anarchist cryptographic money resorts to using the law against his enemies? hmmmmm...

At AWS there is rarely a distinction between dev and ops. Developers manage their service and join the oncall rotation for their own team. We also write all our own tests and manage deployments ourselves (albeit with the help of other AWS teams who maintain test frameworks and deployment tools.)

This seems a lot cleaner than the alternative. Sure the devs have greater responsibility, but there's no dev/ops disconnect here.

TorGuard is great, I get excellent speed and very low ping from east coast.

the only thing I like is how they aren't actually associated with Tor in any way... lol...

404 pages use pure html, actually

I was really hoping that this was a videogame

uh. what? what exactly is the crime here? from the presentation:

"The lawsuit moves against multiple defendants: Bitcoin.com, Roger Ver, Bitmain Inc. Bitmain Technologies LTD. Bitmain Technologies Holding Company, Jihan Wu, The Kraken LLC, Jesse Powell, Amaury Sechet, Shammah Chancelor and Jason Cox. This legal action will seek to prove that specific key actors, including some of the biggest US-based and international names and entities in the digital currency world, have been operating with the support of the Chinese government to centralize the Bitcoin cash network resulting in Chinese entities now having established dominance over this important segment of the cryptocurrency market with proprietary software checkpoints and instituting other means of control over the system."

The lawsuit is almost equally vague, talking about "hijacking the Bitcoin Cash network, centralizing the market, and violating all accepted standards...". Later on the lawsuit document goes into the ABC/SV split and how this has led to a lower value for both chains.

The plantiff is apparently some company behind "the development of a low cost, rapid deployment solution for operation of cryptocurrency mining – the BlockchainDome. The BlockchainDome is a passive “cooling ground-coupled heat-exchanger"..." basically sounds like they use excess energy from chimneys to mine bitcoin (and bitcoin cash)

[comment about x509 being bad]

the ol' ikea "Lack Rack" https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

If Yerevan is going to spend a bunch of money on something architectural, it would be nice to see the Yerevan Cascade finished... it's beautiful, til you get to the top, and see a 200 foot pit...

If you want something dirt-cheap and easy to repair, go with one of the earlier thinkpad x-series, x200, x201, x220, x230...

They're underpowered, but if you're just SSHing into a remote box it's a good choice.

The chemical in question is glyphosphate, which is quite controversial. Regulatory agencies have argued that it's generally safe as an herbicide but the jury here has decided otherwise.

The fact that Monsanto (roundup maker) is incredibly unpopular doesn't help their case either...

oh hey, I can download this app in the US app store now. that's a pretty recent change

I don't see any DC positions on that page

yes.

then when you sell the btc for usd, you pay the capital gains tax (probably 15%, it depends) on the difference from the price it was accepted at, and the price it was sold at

why don't we just... link directly to the memo... https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-reminds-taxpayers-to-report...