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Re:PEP 760: No more bare excepts on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @11:51AM (#41789265)
lol!
>As far as I can tell, hundreds of millions in drugs and contraband are regularly transacted using Bitcoin

What a hilarious claim. Everything else you've said just confirms you've fallen for the "BTC bad" narrative. I wonder how you feel about you-know-who printing unlimited toilet paper money for their own benefits.

This whole public lynching of Stallman out of absolutely nowhere is suspicious. Hell, even corporations that barely even donated to FSF is virtue signaling. They're all saying the exact same thing about Richard.

Stallman was always right and what's happening now really makes it look like he's on a hitlist.

>There was no immediate explanation provided for the blaze, which erupted just two days after the French cloud computing firm kicked off plans for an initial public offering.

That pretty much sums up why the fire started

Re:I want a computer that I own on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:35PM (#26395141)
Purism/Librem sell coreboot'd devices. It's worth checking out
Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% on Sunday February 28, 2021 @04:38PM (#26297323)
Does anyone have a link to a copy of re3? Iirc, there was a gitrepo that kept a copy of all DMCA'd repos
Re:Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @02:49AM (#26234811)
Yep RenVM is a big deal. Iirc they had something called Cafe which demonstrated turning your bitcoins into a privacy coin, ZEC. I remember when REN was only 5 cents. Amazing how much it costs to run a darknode now! Truly a successful project.

Also another cool dApp is DyDx, margin trading platform

Re:Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @02:34AM (#26234736)
This train has no brakes
Re:GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3 on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:45AM (#26141409)
This is so cool, I can't wait to see a multiplayer adaption now that it's open-source! Oh please reverse engineer GTA:IV and bring it back to life as well
Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:01AM (#26090013)
You're looking at it from a totally wrong perspective. The U.S. government can print as much dollars as they want, whereas BTC cannot. The government does not care about green energy unless they can profit from it. To say that you did not buy BTC because of "wasting energy" is a very odd way to cope.

You guys are so hung up on energy consumption, a meme, that you're forgetting the real intrinsic value of Bitcoin.

Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:52AM (#26089866)
It's hilarious to see the naysayers about Bitcoin say that BTC is not usable. Now it's worth almost 50 grand and all they can come up with is expensive transaction fees which in hindsight, are really not that expensive, and the energy consumption of maintaining the Bitcoin network.

It sure is a lot better than using human lives, usually & most likely forced labor, to mine real Gold. Right? After all, energy is free when you're using solar power to mine your Bitcoins or any other coins. Does the energy really goes to waste when it provides heating? Etc?

It just seems like people are running out of excuses at this point. I wonder what they'll be saying when BTC hits $100,000.

Re:Coinbase Pro Disables Margin Trading on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:47PM (#25204376)
Yes. Just look at the 3Daily chart of BTC/USD. It's absolutely bonkers
QubesOS has an implementation of this called seamless mode and doesn't require an RDP server nor having to manually add software: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows-tools/#using-windows-ap... Here's a screenshot of using Powerpoint: https://www.qubes-os.org/attachment/wiki/WindowsAppVms/windo...

It's been awhile but I recall some VM managers having this feature (seamless mode) though. I'm not sure if it was VirtualBox or paid VMWare.

Re:How journalists use youtube-dl on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:59PM (#24901999)
That's freaking awesome
Re:Why I stopped reading HN (2010) on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:13PM (#24726388)
Personally, I've just come to terms HN is good for tech news. There's always some good people calling out any bullcrap in the comment sections which is wonderful, but when it comes to sharing opinions, it just feels like a karma battle. A similar reason why I ditched Reddit years ago.

I've often shared genuine questions and thoughts before on HN with other accounts and always found myself getting absolutely karma destroyed. It was very discouraging, so now I just really don't bother engaging anymore. This was my same issue on Reddit. I (shamefully) admit I find myself even reading discussions on 4chan where there is no point system, but I see the problems with that: mass trolling

Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @10:20AM (#24481459)
Same here in central Oregon, it's very bad and literally no viz. I almost can't see past my neighbor's house...
My journey to programming all began with RuneScape private servers in mid school. It was my perfect creative outlet because I always wanted to get into programming, I loved MMOs, and it just so happened that RuneScape had a legit full-on underground private server reverse-engineering community. What better way to program than learning how to create your favorite MMO from complete scratch? (With all the documents provided & the active help of fellow others).

The RSPS scene was really big, active, and very competitive. What was so fun about this is that the private server communities always encouraged users to share data resources, programmijg tutorials/snippets, and reverse engineering documentation of the game so that way it helps everyone that's trying to program their own server. Everyone wanted that "Java Developer" icon next to their forum name, and to do that was to contribute back. There's only one community standing left and it's an absolute gold mine of programming & game-development information [1]

It's a very niche community, but back then anyone could spin up a server and quickly have 50+ players actively playing within a week, and because of that, i've learned the concepts of client to server network designs, mysql databases, asynchronous communications, non or threaded model designs, and the whole Java basics spectrum.

Another good venture is the MineCraft server development communities such as Bukkit,Technic, Sponge, and Spigot-MC [2]. They've got some interesting frameworks as well for the Mobile-Portable edition that's pretty interesting to look at.

Last I can think of is Garry's Mod. GMod solely revolves around Lua. [3] Roblox is Lua as well and they pay a good chunk of money to developers if you can create a trending server.

But you've got to have some sort of real interest to get into these, otherwise it feels like a waste of time imo. I was young and havent graduated yet so I had all the time to mess with these source-codes & actually host them, but now, I just don't see the point unless i'm going to attempt making money from it. It's a rewarding and fun experience though.

I wish I knew more underground communities espcially akin to RSPS, it was the best learning experience and it is not often you find something genuine like that.

1. rune-server.org

2. spigot-mc.org bukkit.org

3. gmod.facepunch.com roblox.com

Re:Moving from YouTube to PeerTube on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:01PM (#24227241)
If you want an ad-free mobile experience, I recommend 'YouTube Vanced'. I used it for years now, it's basically the YouTube app minus the ads, so you can still use the discovery feature if you'd like.

I'm not sure if the original YT app allows this, but i'm able to minimize videos while it's playing or shut off my phone while listening to a video, which I recall you had to pay premium for

Re:I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer on Saturday August 15, 2020 @07:09PM (#24173221)
I don't mind, but i'd love to see more people create blogs on their own webspace. I enjoy looking at others' portfolio/ self-made blogs, it makes me more willing to tip
Re:Store and Sync Passwords with Dropbox Passwords on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @10:49PM (#24139491)
Privacy tools' has some great info on alternatives: https://www.privacytools.io/software/passwords/

Bitwarden is your best shot, it's the only open-source one that allows remote syncing across all devices. You can build everything yourself as well: https://github.com/bitwarden

Re:Store and Sync Passwords with Dropbox Passwords on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:50PM (#24137409)
I don't feel too strongly for this, something about paying monthly to a 3rd-party just to store your passwords seems like a ticking timebomb. I especially wouldn't rely on Dropbox to handle my credentials for $.

You could essentially just stick with using a free Dropbox account, use your favorite Password Manager, ex. KeepPass, and save your password protected encrypted database backup to your Dropbox account, & load the file from another device, etc, Right?

I'm just too used to using password managers on VM's that i've never found use-case in syncing them between other machines cause that already sounds rediculously dangerous enough, next to storing them on your Untrusted web-browser. It sounds extra, but i'm that paranoid after personally experiencing getting 'hacked'.

Re:Golang Desktop App with Webview/Lorca, WASM and Bazel on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:38PM (#24128387)
Thanks for mentioning, absolute game changer for me. I'm now using qtcreator with Go bindings: https://github.com/therecipe/qt

The multi-arch & especially Android deployment feature is exactly what I needed, I can skip using Android-Studio/HTML as UI now

Re:Golang Desktop App with Webview/Lorca, WASM and Bazel on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @04:05AM (#24118215)
Well done, I too am building a desktop app in Go, I couldn't find a decent GUI library and just resorted to packing a webserver & static files into my program instead. For the time being anyway, still looking for Gui options. Figured I could make a creative html/css UI instead of figuring out how to create a GUI. I'd like to mess with Qt but the GUI builder is with their paid licensing iirc i think, but it seems to be the only cross-platform solution afaik
I'm surprised the author and no one has mentioned Telegram Messenger, they are very huge. The simple appearance of it makes it perfect for personal & professional use, it looks more inviting than Discord and Slack, imo.
I've played this a lot back when Roblox was still brand spanking new. It's absolutely a lucrative area if you can manage to make multiple game-modes with people buying your in-game items for RBux (RBux is the premium currency roblox, which can be used to extend your developer membership or be redeemed to cash). Those big game modes out there with a lot of traffic are actually making real decent money. The game is played by millions of kids willing to spend money on cosmetics/advantage on game-modes. If I recall, I think it was 2017, Roblox rewarded $200k to a young developer for his work on a DayZ Roblox clone.
I never played 3000 but was going to make a comment a lot like yours about Sim City 4