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mithrilskeleton··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
Satoshi supported big blocks in his writings and empowered the pro-big block Gavin when he disappeared. Adam is a well known supporter of small blocks, ultimately the "winning" side of the debate. They are not the same person.
mithrilskeleton··on Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)
Excellent power efficiency in apple silicon - good battery life and good performance at the same time. The aluminum body is also very rigid and premium feeling, unlike so many creaky bendy pc laptops. Good screen, good speakers.
mithrilskeleton··on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
Mozilla should restructure its governance such that leadership is elected by their employees - preferably their software developers.
mithrilskeleton··on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop
the whole pc laptop industry really is an embarrassment right now. It has been 5 years since the M1 Macbook release, and there is no real equivalent. I'm on a thinkpad x9, which might be the closest I've seen, but the cpu performance just isn't as good.
mithrilskeleton··on Bear is now source-available
Companies in situations like these keep making this blunder when the solution is so right in front of them: use the AGPLv3.
mithrilskeleton··on BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX
I think this comment is emblematic of a broader western trend underestimating recent Chinese technological development. It is understandable, given how backward they were for so long. The last five years though, things have really gotten crazy over there in terms of investment and progress.
mithrilskeleton··on Bitcoin's Security Budget Issue: Problems, Solutions and Myths Debunked
The whole point of restricting the block size was to ensure space in the blockchain was scarce to drive the price of fees up, better securing the network. Well, that and keeping the blockchain total size small enough to be processed on an regular user's PC for decentralization sake. While a loss of some decentralization is non-ideal, increasing the block size dynamically, similarly to how difficulty is handled, would be a reasonable compromise to ensure the security of the network long term.
mithrilskeleton··on Getting forked by Microsoft
Consider the AGPL, it is a criminally underutilized license ideal for the current zeitgeist.
mithrilskeleton··on Elasticsearch is open source, again
I'm glad the AGPL is getting some attention; it is the ideal open source license in the age of big tech
mithrilskeleton··on LPCAMM2 is a modular, repairable, upgradeable memory standard for laptops
Cant wait to see this in a framework laptop
mithrilskeleton··on Women Who Code Closing
Who were their funders and why did they stop?
mithrilskeleton··on Mixtral 8x22B
How much vram is need to run this?
mithrilskeleton··on Press Reviews of the AMD Ryzen 7040 Framework Laptop 13
interesting to see that the i7-1370P model had the same battery life as the Ryzen 7 7840U - I would have expected a larger delta
mithrilskeleton··on The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X
I guess this shows that deficit spending works to increase GDP, but we already knew that.
mithrilskeleton··on Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy
I used ubuntu for years and decided to give Arch a try on my media pc. Was way easier than I expected as it now has an installer, archinstall. Honestly the whole arch elitism thing no longer makes sense.
mithrilskeleton··on HDMI Alt Mode for USB Type-C Connector
How is this relevant considering DisplayPort alt mode has been a thing for a while?
mithrilskeleton··on Andrew Tate's "The Real World" is stealing my software (2022)
I suppose it is a testament to the quality of your software if people break the law just to use it
mithrilskeleton··on Pynecone – Performant, customizable web apps in pure Python
but... how does it work?
mithrilskeleton··on Mojo might be the biggest thing to happen in programming for decades
How does Mojo deal with memory management? Does it have the same memory safety issues as C and C++?
mithrilskeleton··on AMD Working on ROCm Support on Windows and Support for Consumer-Tier Radeon GPUs
The market desperately needs an alternative to CUDA, but I just don't see AMD doing it
mithrilskeleton··on Webcams aren't good enough
Unfortunately there aren't any FOSS solutions for using an android phone as a webcam.
mithrilskeleton··on Cracking of encrypted messaging service dealt major blow to organised crime
why would anyone use this over something like signal?
mithrilskeleton··on ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network
how does this compare to ipfs.io?
mithrilskeleton··on Apple OS X El Capitan
Apple refuses to fix a critical security vulnerability[0] in non-Yosemite versions of OS X

[0]https://truesecdev.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/hidden-backdoor-...

mithrilskeleton··on “Swift will be open source later this year”
He's not disputing that. Objective C has been able to run on Linux for years. Essentially, nobody actually uses Objective C on Linux even though they technically could. The same will probably be true for Swift.
mithrilskeleton··on Announcing Rust 1.0
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c6075d2f-8864...
mithrilskeleton··on Hacking BIOS chips isn't just the NSA's domain anymore
is that from the unabomber manifesto?
mithrilskeleton··on Firefox to get a “walled garden” for extensions, Mozilla to be sole arbiter
the thing is, you won't be able to side-load extensions. There will be no about:config option. You will be forced to use the Development or Nightly versions to get that freedom.
mithrilskeleton··on “I got an email from Chase saying that all our assets are frozen”
that's what bitcoin is for. A cold wallet, encrypted and backed up in multiple places would solve that problem.
mithrilskeleton··on Virgin births in animals are no longer rare
Regardless, eyewitness testimony is not reliable[0]. Many people have claimed to seen UFO's, Aliens, and crimes that people did not commit.

0. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-i...

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