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antonioson What's the right trust model for an agent-to-agent network?

Interesting, will take a look. Regarding your questions:

- Historically, reputation and web-of-trust models have been tried with mixed results (see PGP/GPG history)

- Proof of work for human validation can probably be gamed, useful as a potential workaround for rate limiting/DDOS mitigation though (check how Tor uses it)

- I'd be very skeptical providing my full KYC details to a new service, perhaps a host verification a-la Let's Encrypt could be useful as a Layer 1 "KYC" tier?

antonioson Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

As a quick solution before implementing the more sophisticated suggestions in this thread, you can try getting a small cheap VPS from somewhere outside and trafficking all your traffic through it via sshuttle[1]. For example, Vultr (not an endorsement) has some with ~$3/month that should be sufficient for your case.

[1] https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle

antonioson Planetfall

Well, since you asked, Arcanum, Colonization, Fallout 1, the original Pirates and, well, Caves of Qud (surprise).

antonioson Planetfall

Cartography, check. Alpha Centauri game, check. Very cool.

On my list, Alpha Centauri easily makes it on top 5 games ever made.

Thank you for the trip to memory lane. <goes to GOG to download the game>

antonioson Certificate Transparency in Firefox

That's interesting, can you share more information about your tech stack?

antonioson Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again

Regarding Bluesky's decentralization: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

(hint: not that decentralized after all)

antonioson What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?

The immediate answer that came to mind _before_ I read the article, was "keep things simple". A lot of good things emanate from this mentality.

antonioson OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon

> while not even having a web page of security disclosures that happened in the past

https://www.openbsd.org/errata75.html

antonioson The risk of RISC-V: What's going on at SiFive?

Good thing I managed to grab a HiFive Unmatched. OpenBSD works sweetly on this.

antonioson The Linux scheduler: A decade of wasted cores (2016)

I'm now wondering how many decades are still being lost because of similar bugs in other OSes that don't get as much scrutiny, like OpenBSD or even FreeBSD.

antonioson Netlink Added to FreeBSD – Unmodified Linux IP(8) Correctly Works

FreeBSD is doing a great job catching up to Linux, yes, (not in the ZFS case though where they were the pioneers) but once you start catching up you have to, well, continue catching up in perpetuity.

antonioson Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide

Yes please. ECC support by now should come by default, both in CPU support and in motherboards, RAM chips etc.

At least AMD Ryzen supports it, but the fact that one has to spend a lot of time to research through products, specs, forums and internet chats to figure out a good CPU, m/b & RAM combination that works is cumbersome, to say the least.

antonioson Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)

FreeBSD has started supporting JSON output for various tools via `libxo` in their base system for quite some time now.

antonioson Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director

> As far as I can tell, hundreds of millions in drugs and contraband are regularly transacted using Bitcoin. Billions in global capital controls and taxes are evaded every day with Bitcoin. The fraction of black market participants who are revealed on the basis of "chain analysis" is still a rounding error.

Some bold statements there. Do you have any evidence to provide?

antonioson Bitfinex and Tether required to end all trading activity with New Yorkers

Cryptocurrency "in general" obviously isn't deflationary, given that one can create a new cryptocurrency with a simple code fork. But Bitcoin is, no?

antonioson Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future

Maybe, if you completely disregard everything else that Bitcoin puts on the table, and how much energy is required to sustain the infrastructure it will make obsolete.

antonioson GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

Indeed. Unbelievable omission for a project that touts simplicity and usability above else.

antonioson Dev Fonts

There's also CMU Typewriter text if you want another serif monospaced font. Looks wonderful in high dpi I believe. I've hacked mine to put slashed zero.

antonioson What if you knew how computers work? (2015)

I found that one of the most important insights when studying how computers work on a fundamental level, is that deep down data and code don't make much difference. This realization can open the gates of looking at higher programming language concepts in a new light; even if one never delves into bare metal engineering.

antonioson Tracking Mixed Bitcoins

There's already a privacy-focused coin that isn't a total mess. And no premines. And no mixing hoops to go through. So, why use Ethereum?

antonioson Emacs is special regarding UIs

Sometime I also get in a pessimistic mood. I really would like to convince myself that X11 is not going away in the next decades.

antonioson What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf]

The only cryptocurrency that has achieved the "one CPU one vote" goal is Monero. RandomX is an impressive feat; I encourage you to look at the technical specifications and the security audits it has been through from notable firms.

antonioson Entropy explained, with sheep (2016)

Alternatively, all that attempts to control chaos and decrease entropy actually results in faster entropy increase overall on a systemic level. I remember reading about a (Russian?) physicist that believed that life simply happens as a result of the universe's attempt to increase entropy faster on sufficiently complicated systems. If someone remembers his name I'd be obliged.

antonioson A first look at Unreal Engine 5

Exactly why I find good roguelikes to offer the most immersive gaming experiences. Just the input you need to let your imagination go wild. But not many friends share that sentiment, unfortunately.

antonioson Mini projects built with VanillaJS. No frameworks or libraries

It's interesting that vanilla JS feels like a breath of fresh air nowadays. I guess the JS cycle is now complete (?)

antonioson Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)

The Backend - Athens, GR link is not working.

antonioson Dopamine Fasting

Relevant (and maybe inspired this article):

https://carnivoreaurelius.com/dopamine-fast/

antonioson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2019)

Location: Athens, Greece.

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Javascript both frontend & NodeJS, *SQL, CouchDB, Sysadmin stuff (Bash, Ansible, heavy Linux/BSD user, Docker etc etc), Devops, plus Bitcoin know-how.

Resume: Upon request

GitHub: antanst

mail: antanst at antanst dot com

Experience: >13 yrs in engineering/devops/sysadmin.

Current position: CIO at Bolooba Datacentres AB Sweden.

Ideally looking for a remote engineering team leadership position.

antonioson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2019)