russnes

Also the RockPi 4 is pretty cool, with a full fledged m.2 socket and stronger GPU. It has mainline support although I had to chroot install void linux since there was no official image

PyO3 works great. I've written an example repository for a hello world app for this if anyone's interested: https://github.com/russnes/rust_python_package_example

For PDFs you should try this bad boy https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf

Even better!

Maybe someone should make a Linux distro with a DE preconfigured to work "the Mac way", kind of like Linux Mint is preconfigured to be "the Windows way".

The blockchain is the solution to a specific problem Bitcoin has, so when people and businesses were saying "we like blockchain but not Bitcoin", it just didn't make any sense.

The problem is how to be able to synchronize an ever-growing database across an unlimited number of peers, and the answer is "through chunks we call blocks".

server machines or machines offering an installed product like an ATM or a bus schedule display

I'm Norwegian and I just realized why its called "Viking" (not 100% sure it's true). The word vik describes a geographical phenomenom, much like the word fjord does. Google translate says it is in English: "inlet", i.e. it's where the ocean penetrates into the land and creates a small body of water, smaller than a bay.

Adding ing to any word, is similar to in English as adding ling to any word. So if it were English, it would be vikling, someone who is of the vik.

Norwegian definition: Vik er et vannområde som danner innskjæring i kysten eller i en innsjø, oftest trangere enn bukt og kortere enn kil.

They talk about trying for a "soft landing", so although there is a downturn in stocks and it will likely go down a little more, the path of less resistance would probably be to try to get inflation and stocks to average at around stopping right now, with a few parabolic moves.

This would consolidate the wealth transfer in favor of asset holders, but would at least not make it worse, and non-asset holders generally don't really understand what's happening anyways so that's why it's the path of less resistance.

Very interesting, thank you!

From your second link (digital currency fed boston):

The researchers also note that the faster system, the one processing 1.7 million transactions per second, the transaction quantity “appears to scale linearly with the addition of more servers,” which would sustain an even larger volume of activity.

To my understanding, the lightning network scales exponentially with the number of participants (servers) because of its edge-contracting capabilities, so I wonder if it is something they took into consideration. Granted, the lightning network transaction protocol is not the same as Taro/RGB, but I imagine it would scale similarly.

> A CBDC does not need decentralization, and can be implemented using a side-chain similar to Liquid (without the federation). Of course, you probably don't want to leave control of the sidechain in the hands of one person or party, else they could rob an entire nation and disappear, so a multi-sig like Liquid should be used, with each elected official having a key to sign.

I agree that they don't need decentralization, but I'm wondering if the proposed protocols are the superior choice regardless, because of their effectiveness and ready for production-ness. The control over the smart contracts themselves may still be centralized while the platform they operate on are not.

> The CBDC idea is terrible anyway. The only people who want this are authoritarians who want to control how people spend, control the money supply and enrich themselves. There is no benefit to regular citizens in having a CBDC over what they can do with either bitcoin already, or can do with cash.

In my experience many citizens like using their nation's currency, and don't mind that the government has some control.

> A nation should just stick with part cash, part electronic money, but should back its currency with bitcoin and gold, and stop pissing away its value with constant credit expansion. If there's any purpose in a CBDC, it should be that the citizens of a nation can audit the central bank. I can guarantee this is not what politicians have in mind when they talk about CBDCs.

Is there a reason why the electronic money in this case couldn't be CBDCs?

I love K-9 Mail!

I would guess the best approach is to try to have as small an attack surface as possible, meaning as few applications etc, and the simplest possible operating system.

Like for example a minimalist build of the PinePhone with software that literally never updates unless there is a security issue. Maybe something like a stripped down Slackware, or I was gonna say OpenBSD where even the proprietary hardware drivers are re-written to be open source (and free), but I guess for the PinePhone, the hardware is already open anyways.

edit: A stripped down Slackware I should say

I think you're onto something

I tried it a few times, but like the title says I honestly got scared of how much it felt like I got sucked into it, and time just flew by. That eerie feeling kind of like realizing I've befriended a sociopath.

It's not only that, it's also reducing our dependence on an untrustworthy counter party

OK, good. But yeah the high likelihood of returning to the stone age repeatedly makes it even more important for the magnetic field to sustain for as long as possible.

My concern is fundamentally whether or not we are siphoning energy out of the core faster than it would otherwise escape.

Since the layers are directly connected, it doesn't sound like to me that you'd have to dig into the very core for that to happen.

Of course at the current state of affairs the effects are miniscule, but it doesn't sound like a very good investment as something to potentially scale up in the future to where it will actually matter.

If it turns out to be a problem, how hard would it be to insert fuel back into the earth's core to sustain the magnetic field?

I see. 42 million megawatts is 42,000 gigawatts. A quick google search tells me that typical power output of a nuclear power plant is around 1 gigawatt.

So a single nuclear power plant would be roughly equivalent to 0.002% of earths geothermal energy radiation. It doesn't sound like much, but for something as crucial as the earth's magnetic field, I wouldn't want to reduce it one bit.

I guess if the heat is radiated into space anyways and we simply capture that it doesn't speed up the core's energy loss, but if we start digging into the core and allowing energy to escape faster, we would effectively speed it up, right?

they could mine bitcoin during low demand

probably a stupid question, but is it a possibility that geothermal energy (if adopted to a great extent) could take away from the earths core energy and reduce the magnetic field?

I'm using pipewire and pipewire-pulse in void linux, and everything works perfectly.

And don't forget Void Linux!

Technically you should be able to run your own back-end, but I ended up giving up on this endeavor when I tried a few months ago. It should be doable if you give it a few good days, but it wasn't very well documented at least when I tried, and there's a lot of different parts you have to get working.

After you get it to work, I'm not sure if your server would have a worse data set for speech recognition etc, maybe, maybe not. I'm guessing it should be all right because they are using a Mozilla free data set (which you contribute to by default I think, if you use their server).