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That's why I say bitcoin and not crypto.

Those are valid concerns, the "hodl only" mentality, the volatility.. but you do you see discussion about this on HN? No, just downvotes. I kind of doubnt that what you say is the motivation for the downvotes. I think if you are being honest, for some reason the HN users just hate bitcoin.

urzaon The dark side of Shopify

Bitcoin literally fixes this. Bitcoin is the first public infrastructure for sending money online without intermediaries and trusted third parties. This is the problem it solves, yet any mention of this on HN gets downvoted.

You can use something like https://btcpayserver.org/ and be your own payment processor with very little work.

Kind of frustrating that HN hates bitcoin so much, that even under link/article about small merchant getting harassed by shopify/stripe, they would rather downvote any mention of real solution..

urzaon The dark side of Shopify

First of all, nowadays you should be using Lightning Network, where fees are negligible and the payment is finalized and settled in order of seconds. BtcPay server has first class integration of Lightning Network.

And second, even if you want to accept onchain payments, current onchain fees are something $0.2 for confirmation within an hour. Which seems reasonable for having final settlement without any intermediary of your funds this fast. Compare this with traditional payment options like credit cards where you are waiting often times 30 days or even more for settlement and as the OP illustrates, you are at mercy of intermediaries.

urzaon The dark side of Shopify

aaand get downvoted by HN crowd in 3, 2, 1.. :)

urzaon The dark side of Shopify

Bitcoin fixes this. Ditch the intermediaries and 3rd parties.

https://btcpayserver.org

EDIT: aand get downvoted by HN crowd, how unexpected :)

urzaon The “Ultimate” ThinkPad (2020)

The fn on left bottom instead of ctrl is super annoying. I would avoid this keyboard as much as possible. Or at least remap it.

urzaon The “Ultimate” ThinkPad (2020)

Indeed, I have CTRL on left thumb as the innermost of my 3 thumb cluster keys.

urzaon Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6

Nancy and Sinatra anyone? :)

urzaon Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue

Kudos to Uber.

urzaon Crypto miners are killing free CI

If only there was a way how to anonymously charge something like $0.1 for each action/api call.... I don't know... I heard maybe something like cryptocurrencies can do it?

urzaon Coinbase from YC to DPO

Unpopular opinion - Bitcoin would be better without Coinbase.

urzaon Total Cookie Protection

This should have always been the only way it worked. Plus it should be easier to create white lists of allowed websites and all other cookies delete with every broswer restart. I know it is possible with Firefox but you need to add websites to whitelist manually in deep settings. At least there are some extensions that make it easier, like CookieAutoDelete https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

urzaon Total Cookie Protection

urzaon FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open source and uses Rust

The advantage of seed backup + hierarchical deterministic keys is greatly underapreciated.

urzaon Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust

What would be Tokios equivalent in .net/C# ?

urzaon Facebook: Free as in Bullshit

I sometimes forget there are ads on the internet.. occasionally when I am on new devices without blockers set up and I see the ad layer net, it feels so dystopian.. almost unreal..

urzaon Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks

Here is a litle bit something:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-59...

"For the code compilation speed tests were compiking Apache, PHP, the Linux kernel, ImageMagick, GDB, LLVM, FFmpeg, and MPlayer."

urzaon Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

How it started: Lets create a small cheap computer that poor kids can use for education.

How its going: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

urzaon Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone

This. So much this. But there is hope. It seems that people are starting to realize the "price" of free content and are more and more willing to pay for it.

urzaon Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus

I know I am two days late but anyway, if anyone is not familiar with what is going on in Belarus, this reporter is doing superb job on twitter: https://twitter.com/franakviacorka

urzaon Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus

Curious why dont you use Signal? Is Telegram more convinient? If so, in what aspects? Signal has group chats that are fully end to end encrypted so that noone can demand to take something down because noone is able to see inside the chat (except participants).

https://signal.org

urzaon Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition

>I would call the "proper authorities"

You must be a really nice person.

urzaon Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?

Hi, unfortunately I am not much wiser from the specs. It describes higher level network/app protocols, no mention on the underlying mechanism of communication. Can you give me example of the hardware on which it is supposed to run and how it would work in Belarus?

urzaon Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?

https://disaster.radio/

disaster.radio is an off-grid, solar-powered, long-range mesh network built on free, open source software and affordable, open hardware.

Designed to be open, distributed, and decentralized, disaster.radio is currently in the prototype/development phase.

urzaon Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?

I read the whole page and didn't find any information how it is supposed to actually work. The page compares Relaynet with Starlink and Ballons, but then it doesn't say how Relaynet work.

urzaon Postbank to replace 12M bank cards after employees steal 'master key'

*main key

urzaon Bitcoin Halving Just Occured

Yes.

urzaon Show HN: Yubikey-agent – an easy to use Go ssh-agent for YubiKeys

You can also look into Trezor - it has much better backup system, among other advatages compared to yobikey

https://blog.trezor.io/openssh-with-fido2-and-trezor-e565c22...

urzaon Show HN: Yubikey-agent – an easy to use Go ssh-agent for YubiKeys

You can also use Trezor.io instead of Yubikey for ssh login. https://blog.trezor.io/openssh-with-fido2-and-trezor-e565c22...

Advantage of Trezor is that it has better backup system and can be used for more things in general.