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I used to use duplicacy, but switched to Duplicati: https://www.duplicati.com/

Works in mono in all OS's, ive used it on mac, linux and windows. Supports GPG (public) and AES (secret) key encryption, all the cloud backends, etc. Provides a Web UI.

Its also LGPL so no concerns about commercial licensing ala Duplicacy.

$91 million of Polkadot ICO funds, Gavins ICO. Gavin a cofounder of Ethereum, and the creator of Solidity.

So its more like the cofounder of Ethereum lost $91 million dollars in his own wallet, using his own smart contracts, using the language he wrote.

I am against the proposal to undo the deleted multisig wallet contract. Everyone makes mistakes, some are worse than others. You can never learn if every mistake can be undone.

Upgradable infers that the underlying contract address has a new chunk of code. That is not what this is proposing. This is simply making resolving contracts, which is best practise today.

ahh, thats the trick isnt it -- blockchain provides universal currency. No need for local currency handing, banks, cc processors, forex transfer providers, and all the things associated with local payment processors. While i dont think this is the first or is it truely useful, but yes, blockchain (specifically bitcoin) is providing a decentralized universal currency for use in decentralized systems like email. Its a valid point.

The NirSoft tools for windows are great! I have used various ones for years -- the SysExporter tool has saved many many hours of time. This lets you export Windows widget labels, so if a dialog has no export, it lets you generate a CSV of the string values.

Nir Sofer -- publish a Bitcoin address and ill send you something as a thank you!

You never want to actually lend your car to randoms -- as anyone who has ever driven a loaner car (fleet), these cars are ruined. People drive like maniacs -- its not their car!

This is a sure way to get your car messed up.

Yes. Ive never used facebook in my life, yet thanks to someone sharing a picture of me 10 years ago, and tagging it, it knows my name and will auto tag me in others.

Cute but how the hell is someone expected to survive in SF for $3000 a month?!? This sounds like a way to get interns cheaper than standard intern wages in SF ($48k).

Are you breaking california labor laws?

No coiners. Its fine, we will listen to them protest for years and years, telling us it cant work, it isn't a real solution, etc, while we invent the future.

This internet thing will never take off, you need a box that screeches, connected to your phone all day long! I can't even get faxes while im 'online'. Pointless.

Really awful idea. N00b users who buy this will fail to transfer the funds to their own wallets. The startup could retain the sold keys and steal the funds back -- Oh sorry n00b you got robbed, better luck next time. Fundamental rule of cryptocurrency that they do not teach is: "Generate your own private keys"

And they are probably acting as unlicensed money transmitters too, which will incur regulatory actions.

What a hellhole. Pray the CA authorities put a stop to this madness!

Renewables mate. Human usage of power need not have a negative effect on our environment. Global Warming and human use of electricity need not be linked as directly as they are today.

which is the reality for most minimum-wage jobs. its purpose is to keep that wheel spinning.

Is the wheel of the cryptocurrency miner, or the wheel of the landlord or business owner really that different?

I think this may be the case -- however regulation on power generation (such as we are seeing with increased costs for PoW miners in New York State) will help deal with this.

Humans will always use more power with their growth of technology, I dont think this is anything to be alarmed about.

Jack Dorsey is mostly correct here. While I still doubt that it will be used for coffee (however lightning network payments certainly do make this possible), it is difficult to escape the reality of deflationary currencies -- It is foolish to spend today what you could save until tomorrow.

Unlike a certain CSW who believes HODL'ing is evil (https://www.pscp.tv/w/bYHNVjFheWpWSkpOTW9HanB8MXZBeFJWenZnVm...), I believe that cryptocurrencies provides the ultimate reward to savers.

Save some coin today for your life tomorrow.

Check out https://keybase.io/blog/encrypted-git-for-everyone

Censorship is evil, no matter the content.

Those links are garbage, unscientific opeds. They add nothing to the conversation. Lucky nearly all of the world has moved past this ignorance.

Id like to see worse. Let every patent be stripped from these predators. They also advertise: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7016536 which surely has plenty of prior art in image processing.

There is no illegal spying. There cannot by definition be illegal spying, as if you are caught, it is retroactively made legal. Go back to sleep.

Why did you found PredPol?

This will be rolled out further and further, first the rest of China, then other parts of Asia, eventually Europe and the Americas. Strongly resist the rollout of this technology, along with the social credit rating systems.

This is like the last chapter of humanity before we stagnate for hundreds of years.

stagnation. without risk there is no progress.

sudo yum sudo apt-get sudo pacman

Why wouldn't you naively assume sudo npm was safe if you wanted a global package (I know the behavior of npm...)

This is blaming the victims. If the user can blow their foot off, its not the users fault.

No, you dont need funds to receive them. An unfunded node can receive and transact over a peer funded channel.

There are services like strike that offer custodial lightning channels, and will aggregate and send onchain tx's: https://medium.com/@ACINQ/introducing-strike-a-stripe-like-a...

While the network has such low fees as today, there is no need to increase the blocksize. Increasing the blocksize (or time) effects scalability in epic ways -- ie: Ethereum requires at least 500GB SSD to run -- so the minimum cost of entry is at least $300. Meanwhile 10m/1MB blocks still runs on $20 RPis.

I am not against mods to consensus to increase the block size, but there are more critical problems like solving tx malleability and new tx format (segwit) that provide more value today.

Dont be an ignorant big blocker. Look at the smartest people in this space. The real technical folk. What are they saying?

Dont forget Library Genesis too! http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

Lefteris Kalamaras is not to be trusted. His organisation knowingly distributed malware in a legitimate software installer provided by his company.

Unfortunately, the moment a company has distributed malware intentionally, they are totally written off. They will never be trustworthy to distribute software again.

Never touch any program this company has released, there is a high risk of malware.

No, dont run Tor over VPN. Its VPN over Tor.

Tor provides anonymity, VPN provides privacy. You want anonymity between you and the VPN, and privacy between you and internet hosts.

From the OpSec for xyz series: https://grugq.github.io/presentations/Keynote_The_Grugq_-_OP... • TOR connection to a VPN => OK • VPN connection to TOR => GOTO JAIL

Using the 6 hex digits of the git commit hash for color is genius. I really like this pattern!

I dont know about that, why shouldn't a corporation, effectively a person, use lawful speech to define how the world sees it? If you care enough, it easy enough to be informed about who is producing your food.

I feel this is something like identity politics, and something that really does not need regulation except to allow those to identify however they wish, with no determent to others.