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Bitcoiners who like to take their self custody seriously often use tools like fire resistant metal plates to write their recovery seed words through a center punch tool. Products like the coinkite seed plates backup exist but it is also possible to roll your own using washers and bolts. For BIP39 only the first 4 letters of each word are necessary. You can also setup multisig or seed x0r to make sure a thief doesn’t breach into your seeds with just one plate, often stored on multiple geographic locations.

I wonder if some similar strategy exists for normal master passwords. Could be a nice idea for a low-tech-product-for-high-tech-solutions product. Perhaps a metal card where the user can manually punch a QR code.

I don't have two keys. I do keep a fallback method like restore keys written on a safe place.

I did find out however that my old Ledger X can do U2F and GPG so I'm trying to learn how to use it. This Ledger was my first first hardware wallet but I got a coldcard which in my opinion is a better bitcoin wallet. I had no idea what to do with the ledger - second hand market for these things are a big nope. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out there are apps that allow the Ledger to perform some of the Yubikey functions.

While in Brazil a person very close to me suffered a very destructive paranoid psychotic crisis. We've tried help from the public healthcare but their earliest waiting time was 1 month. I've slept for days at the door because she was convinced there were Russian cameras and radioactive emitters planted at our house and wanted to run away. That person stopped to eat and bath and wasn't thinking rationally. We couldn't wait a month.

It was the worst time of my life. I had to pay a private psychiatrist to treat her. A very good one - we plotted together a plan to partake on her fantasy and administer a risperidone injection which was super effective. She is fine now and visits said doctor once in a year only.

Sure you can go to a general clinic but the doctor will forward you to the proper specialist queue which might take months or even years.

I mean am I wrong? I'm assuming you are from the US, Canada or Europe when you say central banks have a net positive impact on society so I can presume you are clearly speaking form a point of privilege. You've never suffered through strict capital controls and hyperinflation. You can participate in any investment scheme without the need to supply spurious amounts of impossible documentation. You are not sanctioned. You may even have born in the right place. Am I wrong? Doesn't that sound like privilege to you?

The "legacy banking system" you are referring to is probably something similar to the ECB or the FED. Only 13% of the world population live under a stable financial system or democracy. So please check your financial privilege.

Gravity in both situations may not be comparable but victim blaming is always reprehensible.

Are we blaming victims now? What’s next? It was her fault for wearing those clothes?

The problem here is not a bet on crypto but a company that basically went "oh hey sorry too bad the USD displayed on your account is actually UST. K thx bye".

That's not the link under the Latest news section on https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stablegains

Tether truthing the eminent doom of tether is all well and good but why aren't we talking more about YCombinator promoting startups that burned their customer's money by sending it to anchor protocol UST ponzinomics while lying that those investments were held in USDC and USD?

https://twitter.com/fatmanterra/status/1527153694218797058

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stablegains

Or is it bad to talk about such things around here?

I’ve tried using á RockPro64 with FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT and although it runs just fine without hacks I’ve noticed the performance is not that good. FreeBSD is not big.little aware so it doesn’t distinct between the A53 and A72 cores. Cryptographic hardware acceleration is not very good. On the other hand most Linux distros work quite well.

Then there is the piece of flaming crap that is the ASMedia PCI-E SATA card that they sell along with the board on their store. That thing cannot handle 2 SSDs and its not a problem with power delivery. Replacing it with some marvel based cards.

> Inflation encourages spending > Incentive to spend.

So less crap being produced and bought in a whim and more decision making process on purchasing long lasting quality products (like it used to be). Less cheap plastic trinkets, less planed obsolescence.

Please sign me up for that wonderful deflationary world!

This. I'm pretty sure I've read COVID contract tracing data being used for other purposes somewhere out there.

You are moving the target. I've asked how stable coins pegged to the dollar are considered speculative assets.

Try passing through border control on such countries while packing gold or expensive gold accessories.

Nothing you wrote makes any sense. We are talking about stable coins. Where does speculations fits here? Also could you make an argument without making accusations?

That's a rare situation. The first thing a government does when their economy starts to colapse is to force the population to use and save in their dying currency while restricting access to foreign currency to prevent capital flight. Just look at Russia and Argentina.

> Remember, with a stablecoin, there is no upside to holding.

As always people around here tend to see the world from their point of privilege. If you are in Turkey, Sudan or Venezuela right now there is a huge upside in holding a stable coin pegged to the dollar. Only 13% of the world population is lucky enough to live on a stable democracy with a stable economic system.

Maybe the real store of value was the memes we did along the way. https://youtu.be/e5nyQmaq4k4

> If i need privacy, Cryptomator (https://cryptomator.org/) handles end-to-end encryption.

I don't think that's enough to qualify as a privacy measure. Those encrypted files will still be on your account paid through your credit card and authenticated by phone. They know when you connect and how much data you have, download and send.

As for the rest of your comment, I pretty much like having my own stuff and I dislike giving money to hostile corporations like Microsoft and Google.

This is basically saying “We are going to allow you to participate on society just a little as long as you follow the rules and is associated with these institutions we approve”.

How is this not considered a violation of human rights and dignity? Oh I forgot… gotta keep those unwashed 87% of the world population out of our pretty financial system.

I don't want to sound negative but "I code since I was a toddler" articles are one of the main reasons I've took a long time to work on proper coding skills.

Being from a poor family we didn't had access to any kind of computer while growing up. For some miraculous reason I still managed to secure a good career around system administration but my coding necessities never went beyond simple bash routines. Living on the field you read lots of these stories about how marvelous it was when the author as a child got his first computer and started coding basic. And I thought... "I'm in my 30s so I'll never be able to have the fraction of skill of that guys so why bother".

I was in my mid 30s when I needed something and just started doing it. It was good and it felt good. It wasn't that bad. Why did it took me so long to start? Because everyone who writes stories about coding has started since they were like 10 years old!

Sorry to rain my ramblings on your story. In the end I have no-one to blame but myself. The article was good and interesting.

> I use the Caddy webserver

I used to love Caddy. Not so after the move to 2.0 when they got the json formatted config thing going on. Of course there is still Caddyfile but most of the time I'm bashing my head on their json focused documentation page to find out how can I do that same thing from a config file. I'm pretty sure there might be somewhere but I don't want to read a book I just need a nice quick web server that runs from a single binary like v1 did.

I use Mullvad mainly for privacy but also to dodge EU cookie bullshit. The internet becomes so much better just by using a Swiss IP addres.

That's correct. Smart contracts are absolutely bleeding edge features that work on top of an Ethereum-like chain which by itself doesn't mind advancing the roadmap even if something breaks. People should be advised about that before participating in smart contracts, which unfortunately doesn't always happen due to greed and hype.

It doesn't mean however that we should just throw everything blockchain cryptocurrency related into the same sack and say its nonsense.

> The idea to get rid of having to trust centralized organizations might sound tempting, but it doesn’t work: Blockchains don’t get rid of “trust”, they just change, who has to be trusted.

> More precisely: The trust in institutions controlled by humans and bound by established laws and rules is instead replaced — by unconditional trust in the infallibility of code (“in code we trust” is a popular phrase in the scene). As code is written by humans, it’s seldom actually infallible.

> But even if all code was without mistakes, blockchains can’t do anything against threats like scams, fraud, hacking of devices with keys for the blochain or just plain old typos in a coin transfer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy

"The perfect solution fallacy is a related informal fallacy that occurs when an argument assumes that a perfect solution exists or that a solution should be rejected because some part of the problem would still exist after it were implemented"

Setting SPF, Dmark, DKIm and having a proper PTR record significantly increases your server acceptance.

> Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has some of the most accessible documentation on creating custom policies.

Red Hat is the Pinterest of Google searches for Linux problems. You’ll often find a page where someone is describing you problem but the resolution is locked behind a subscription login.

I think Brutalism had some futuristic views behind it. At least people who built those monstrous concrete structures were envisioning a future world and rejecting the past specially for architecture found in the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia.

I personally dislike it, but it had substance.

On the other hand what the post suggest is just souless corporate memphis - which personally I think it should go away. There is nothing Brutalist there and they should stop trying to force this comparison.

Nothing against EFI but secure boot as it is is a pain in the ass. Want to install some kernel module to enjoy your Xbox controller? Too bad you need to follow this convoluted guide about generating and installing certificates to sign your driver... or just disable the whole secure boot thingie.

Its like selinux hardware edition.