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greyface-··on Bitcoin and quantum computing
18 U.S.C. § 2311 defines "money" in the context of stolen property as:

> the legal tender of the United States or of any foreign country, or any counterfeit thereof

Bitcoin has, at times, met this standard by being the legal tender of a foreign country.

greyface-··on After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)
HN regularly runs ads for YC companies. https://news.ycombinator.com/jobguide.html
greyface-··on After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)
There's no contradiction; ad blocker usage is common within the industry.
greyface-··on Is BGP safe yet?
Registries have always had the ability to revoke number assignments; RPKI just makes this revocation slightly more forceful. You're going to have a bad time announcing prefixes that don't belong to you, even in the absence of RPKI.

We're all internetworking at the pleasure of IANA. Getting them out of the picture, and removing their ability to deplatform Internet participants, is a much larger task than just moving away from RPKI. We'd need to completely rethink how ASN and IP assignments are done.

greyface-··on Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store
If we had to live with this rule during the "classic" Mac era, it would have disallowed HyperCard.
greyface-··on Is BGP safe yet?
It has a long way to go, in the same sense that ROA had a long way to go when Cloudflare first launched this site in 2020. ASPA records are fully supported by both RIPE and ARIN these days.
greyface-··on Is BGP safe yet?
RPKI isn't just ROAs anymore, and BGP hijacks can happen at other places than just the first/last hop. Why hasn't this site been updated to test ASPA-invalid prefixes in addition to ROA-invalid ones?
greyface-··on Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD
ReactOS did this without any need for an LLM.
greyface-··on Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
1 house is built. Alice wants to own it to live in it. Bob wants to own it to rent it to Alice. 2 people want to own the house.
greyface-··on FAQs About the Public Debt
> All money is debt.

This is true for currently popular monies, but is not inherently true. Is a gold coin a debt instrument?

greyface-··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
The CSS :target pseudo-class is useful in situations like this. HN could do something like:

  p:target { border: 1px dashed; }
greyface-··on SSH Secret Menu
Usually, it is. IIRC, this was when I was just setting up my environment on a new host, after I had populated ~/bin but before I restarted my shell to pick up PATH modifications.
greyface-··on SSH Secret Menu
I have noticed it while running ~/bin/some_command. The ~ doesn't echo until I also type the /. It doesn't cause any misbehavior because there is no binding for ~/ but can be slightly surprising.
greyface-··on Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
The alleged author, when bringing a copyright infringement suit, will submit testimony claiming they wrote it. Parties to the suit will have a chance to present arguments and evidence. Then, the claim will be adjudicated by a judge and/or jury.
greyface-··on PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug
I will review a board a dozen times, find no issues, submit it for production, then 5 minutes later discover an obvious bug. Characterize it how you will, the cancellation window has saved my bacon more than once.
greyface-··on PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug
Or one of these: https://github.com/AnasMalas/pcb-edge-usb-c
greyface-··on AI and the Ship of Theseus
Copyright is positive law created by humans, not natural law that we happen to recognize. The idea that adopted legislation or established caselaw can be wrong about what copyright fundamentally is makes no sense.
greyface-··on AI and the Ship of Theseus
Compulsory licensing for software is going to be fun.
greyface-··on Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
Additional context:

https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14555

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(techni...

https://old.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1rllcdg/megathre...

Apparent JS worm payload: https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B...

greyface-··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
This is a laudable position, and I don't say this to discourage you or others from taking this action, but taxation does not effectively constrain US military spending, as long as the USD remains globally desirable and the US retains the ability to print more of them.
greyface-··on Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit
https://osxdaily.com/2006/12/06/macsaber-turn-your-mac-into-...
greyface-··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
That funding was recently cut: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070658
greyface-··on Gentoo on Codeberg
`git send-email` and `git am` are built into Git, not additional tools.
greyface-··on The Day the Telnet Died
https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/fa3245ac8c28...
greyface-··on Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing
When I bought my initial /24 on such a site, it was not a competitive auction. I was the only bidder, and I paid the opening bid price, which was set by the seller. It's true that it was a real price, in that I paid it, but the 'auction' aspect felt like a farce.
greyface-··on Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks
> at the end of the day, you still hold something by owning real estate

Unless you fail to keep up on rent^Wproperty taxes, in which case you will find that someone comes to take it away from you.

greyface-··on Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog
> the only individuals that see the CAPCHA page mentioned, are users of Cloudflare's DNS services

I don't think this is true. I run my own recursive DNS resolver, and get a CAPTCHA when visiting archive.today.

greyface-··on We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency
How feasible would it be for the host under measurement to introduce additional artificial latency to ping responses, varying based on source IP, in order to spoof its measured location?
greyface-··on If you tax them, will they leave?
This would push inflation above the Fed's target rate.
greyface-··on When Every Network is 192.168.1.x
CGNATs should be using 100.64/10 instead of 10/8 to avoid this problem, but I don't doubt that there are significant deployments on 10/8 anyway.
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