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He replied to a tweet of mine and I still have it bookmarked and screenshotted to this day. My GF didn't understand why I was so excited

For a while, before TCP/IP really became "the" network protocol, IPX/SPX was also around and a lot of games used it. Red Alert 2, Descent 1 & 2, etc all used IPX/SPX.

What the hell are you talking about

"the harm the knives do"

Ah yes, those famous knives that jump up and attack people, when they're not too tired from autonomously cutting steaks and chopping vegetables.

I wintered over at Palmer Station. Drinking increased heavily during the dark months.

I did the same thing, pulled up my pfSense config in a VM side-by-side with the fresh OPNSense install and manually ported everything over.

Kind of a pain, sure, but I felt better knowing it was a fresh build and everything was where it should be.

I switched to OPNSense (fork of pfSense) years ago and have been very happy with it. Consistent, reliable updates, and easy to understand interface.

One could argue they "earned" the wealth by taking an enormous risk and holding through crazy swings when no one else would. And ended up be rewarded for taking the risk, as they should.

Along comes the people salty they didn't take the risk, and want to steal the money from the people who did take the risk. It's a tale as old as time.

I wintered over in Antarctica in 2016. Drinking definitely increased during the dark months.

MobileCoin foundation website:

"At MobileCoin, we believe governments have a legitimate interest in regulating the economic lives of their citizens."

https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/1379795248252080130

If you actually cared about privacy, you'd have just used Monero, and saved yourself 4 years effort building YAS (Yet Another Shitcoin).

And no, speed is not the most important. As long as the user can see the payment incoming, it's trivial UX to say "Payment received. Will be confirmed and available for use in 3 minutes."

edit: it appears MobileCoin is (allegedly) built on a combination of XMR + the Stellar consensus protocol? If true that's a slightly better scenario than I previously thought

+1 for Palemoon, they do a good job of maintaining what to me feels like Firefox, before Mozilla started making all these bizarre and unwanted changes.

Correct. If anything, tech workers like we find on HN tend to be more openly against Bitcoin (specifically) and cryptocurrency in general. The people I see buying it on /r/cryptocurrency are the ones posting "finally managed to get 0.01 BTC!"

Zcash is not anonymous; cloaked transactions are optional and hardly anyone uses them (so they stick out like a sore thumb). It also requires trust that the founders aren't printing hidden coins (due to its flawed "trusted initialization" procedure used at the coins inception).

Monero/XMR is the only 100% private, fungible cryptocurrency. All transactions enforced private by default, with no option to send an un-private transaction.

I'll try to use my elevator pitch:

With cryptocurrency, you're right they're not an "investment" in the traditional sense. Right now more of a long-term gamble.

In my opinion the value is in the network and the ability to move money instantly (or at very least faster than traditional methods), securely, to anywhere in the world for a fraction of a cent. That ability alone is valuable and hasn't existed until now.

There are other arguments along the lines of deflationary vs. inflationary, anonymous vs. private, irreversibility of transactions (no charge-backs) that are good or bad depending on your views, but in general crypto represents a brand-new "investment" (or gamble if you like) for this generation.

The different cryptocurrencies that various teams are building follow different philosophies, but I think the space in general is pretty interesting.

Reddit Is Fun app gang represent!

Not necessarily, many sites are hosted on the same VPS, or the IP could just be one of 5000 CloudFlare servers serving up the page you requested.

I ran a Tor exit relay from home for a few years, eventually had to stop because I kept getting blocked from sites due to having my IP address listed on the Tor exit node list.

Tron's stage 2 debloat script will remove all the bloat apps.

https://github.com/bmrf/tron/tree/master/resources/stage_2_d...

I run the Tron project, it's open-source and these scripts are updated frequently based on community input.

> The Antarctic environment is far less harsh than Mars and no-one maintains a permanent base there.

That's completely incorrect. While a lot of the workers in the Antarctic program (I wintered over in 2016 as a station Network Engineer) go on to work at NASA, because of environmental similarities to space/Mars/etc, many countries maintain permanent research stations in Antarctica. The personnel switch out every season, but the bases are permanent.

Reduce it by a tenth?

Same with OPNSense.

Keybase is awesome, it's really improved over the years.

I know you said you don't want to purchase equipment and keep it up to date, but the progression of CPU's and GPU's has slowed drastically in the last decade. I easily get 5-6 years out of my gaming rigs now, and build them fairly well specced for $800-1000. Keeping current is significantly less hassle or cost than it was ~10 years ago.

Unfortunately there's still the cold hard reality of latency (NOT bandwidth; not the same thing) and barring some sort of quantum breakthrough, latency is unavoidable and that's what renders the streaming gaming experience unpleasant.

Not to mention heavy-handed data caps in many places, unpredictable latency, etc.

Bandwidth has nothing to do with latency. A low-Earth orbit satellite connection could have 20 Mb/s bandwidth, but the latency on the round-trip for the packets could be 800ms, technically still under a second...but completely unplayable.

> Streaming games is the future, deal with it.

So, so wrong.

1. Much of the world has heavy-handed data caps. Those aren't going away any time soon. Streaming two ways eats into that quickly.

2. Input latency is real, and super annoying. And it's not just that there's latency; that you can get used to. It's that there's highly unpredictable latency which is super frustrating when playing anything but turn-based games. And at that point, why not just run it browser-based and be done with it?

3. Packet loss. Packet loss doesn't matter on streaming video because you can just wait for the server to re-send it, or just buffer till you get far enough ahead. On games, real-time response is critical, and there's no tolerance for waiting to "catch up on the stream."

The Internet will never be a good streaming platform for real-time gaming, not without some serious protocol upgrades. Everyone focuses on Netflix like it's remotely the same; it's not. Netflix is one-way, loss-is-okay, and latency (round-trip time for the packets, NOT the same as bandwidth) doesn't matter. Gaming is exactly opposite.

Without proper end-to-end QoS or dedicated circuits ($$$) Google Stadia will fail just like every other games streaming platform before it.

I'm consistently shocked how many people haven't installed uBlock Origin (a plugin for Firefox and Chrome). It takes about 3 seconds and you never hear or see an ad again.

Install uBlock Origin, a plugin for Chrome and Firefox, and enjoy never seeing an ad on YouTube again. Takes like 3 seconds to install.

No, you're correct. I stopped trusting WhatsApp after the Facebook acquisition.