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byShaitan
2026 @05:52PM
(#65963128)
Attached to: Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief
"Not scalable. Very slow low bandwidth. Expensive to use."
These problems were solved a very long time ago.
"Not actually encrypted nor anonymous; actually a privacy nightmare mich worse than credit cards."
This is a feature for bitcoin, not a bug. Do you know how many undisclosed monero cracks there have been? Nobody does. But everyone who wants to hold bitcoin long knows there have been ZERO because not only could we all see it on the blockchain but we'd know where the money went. Bitcoin isn't ultimately for the likes of you and me. It's like high denomination bills never released to the general public; for nations to settle debts with nations.
The only reason there is still a crash is because of day trading dude bro speculators trying to make a quick buck. People who are serious don't care what the price does today, they care about the trend over decades. Do you think the US cares about the speculator price of gold? They haven't even bothered to update gold's value on their balance sheet since something like $3/oz. The US could erase it's national debt buying bitcoin with gold. Unlike the gold there is no risk of a giant bitcoin loaded asteroid crashing into Texas tomorrow and ACTUALLY impacting the scarcity and value of bitcoin. As long as bitcoin remains liquid they can use it to buy Greenland, regardless of any mistrust in the US and how it's managing its currency and Denmark or Norway can see into the blockchain 'bitcoin's fort knox' themselves and know the US is a qualified buyer for the negotiation and due to liquidity they know they can cash out in Euros or buy other goods. That is an innate value that transcends market rates.
180710356
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byShaitan
2026 @03:18PM
(#65961378)
Attached to: The Bill Gates-Epstein Bombshell - and What Most People Get Wrong
It has nothing to do with R pedo vs D pedo... there isn't anything in these files that could convict the likes of Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, or any of these people in a court of law... not with the kind of lawyers they can afford. There's more evidence against Bill Clinton than anybody, they were obviously lovers and did everything together for years. That's just volume of material btw, I don't think anyone on the left is going to be damaged by Clinton being a horndog. You might as well have revealed JFK.
But there is no hard evidence of Clinton knowing or doing anything in the files. It was ever there, it certainly isn't there now. All that's there is the mountain of paper they've collected over the past decade and some of that mountain probably exists because Epstein's lawyers buried them in a mountain. Trying to pin something on Trump has always been about distraction or just continuing to imply bad stuff where evidence just doesn't exist.
180710296
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byShaitan
2026 @03:07PM
(#65961354)
Attached to: The Bill Gates-Epstein Bombshell - and What Most People Get Wrong
It's literally a withdrawn claim from a discredited witness. Most of the contents of the documents are bullshit that isn't credible any random person with TDS who sent in a fake claim will be in the files. There is a reason they don't normally release this garbage.
180710240
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byShaitan
2026 @03:02PM
(#65961340)
Attached to: The Bill Gates-Epstein Bombshell - and What Most People Get Wrong
"Tell us, is there any situation you can imagine where Trump... "
Not in relation to Epstein, the evidence overwhelmingly indicates Trump tried to be a witness and take him down. There were literally Dems in congress taking directions from Epstein to try to take Trump down because he was afraid Trump was the informant.
"Epstein was given a sweetheart deal by Alex Acosta who was Labor Secretary in Trump's first term."
Amazing, someone who has nothing to do with deals gave him a sweetheart deal.
"Clinton's the one who will take the fall. "
Clinton will take the fall if they find conclusive evidence but despite mountains of files there doesn't appear to be any evidence sufficient to support prosecution in the files, not on Clinton or anyone else.
"But yeah, "Clinton"
He is literally the lady Epstein hung over the toilet in his office and at the door... wearing the dress we used to think belonged to Monica and with stains we now know were likely from Epstein and friends.
"After all, as the documents show, he was there on multiple occasions"
You must be getting your news from bluesky. The evidence shows he never went to the Island, the girls literally testified that he was never inappropriate and wouldn't allow the underage girls into mar-a-lago [and Trump kicked him out before he was ever charged]. The only flights he was on with Epstein included his own wife and Epstein's. Epstein's own writings indicate he was paranoid about Trump because he refused to indulge and knew things.
180710150
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byShaitan
2026 @02:50PM
(#65961320)
Attached to: Author of Systemd Quits Microsoft To Prove Linux Can Be Trusted
"And it's "Her", by the way, not "Him"."
Get over yourself. In an anonymous context an author's own gender is acceptable as a genderless substitute and using male pronouns as anonymous pronouns is the oldest universal convention. Nobody cares about your jiggly bits and if you are one of those who wants people to respect your lack of respect for your own jiggly bits I care even less.
180710136
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byShaitan
2026 @02:44PM
(#65961316)
Attached to: Author of Systemd Quits Microsoft To Prove Linux Can Be Trusted
"I never began as a "proprietary UNIX guy" for two reasons; one is that I'm not a guy"
Everyone is a "guy" dude. You aren't special man.
"The problem with appealing to "the UNIX way" is that nobody really knows what that is, beyond a few vague generalities."
It's a general concept.
"It consists of 38 small purpose-built executables"
All of which are part of ONE monolithic solution to many unrelated problems. Exchange/Outlook/Office consists of many executables and yet is literally the most famous Microsoft monolithic solution there is.
"Anyway, I'd rather use a system that accepts changes than one that's doctrinaire and rigid and becomes ossified."
Change just for the sake of change isn't a good thing. Like you said, the Unix philosophy is very general, there is absolutely room to change the tools which fall under it. There was certainly room for an init replacement, if systemd had limited itself to scratching that itch then it might have been accepted and loved by the community.
180709294
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byShaitan
2026 @11:11AM
(#65960930)
Attached to: Author of Systemd Quits Microsoft To Prove Linux Can Be Trusted
You: "you often wind up using a script anyway. In that case you have really not made things any simpler than the usual case. Meanwhile you've added a whole lot of complexity which is largely unnecessary"
Him: "Systemd, at least in my experience, just works and writing systemd unit files is easier... I would say: very rarely, not often."
If this isn't a constant repeat of Unix philosophy clashes with Microsoft monolithic one-size-fits-all solution then I don't know what is. Yes it is easier to walk up and configure the monolith if you fit the use cases it addresses, often MUCH easier, yes it addresses the majority of use cases. The learning curve is much lower.
But once you overcome the learning curve the flexible combination of single purpose tools is MUCH more powerful and lets you handle cases the one-size-fits-all solution can't solve at all. Also there are ways to script/template or otherwise automate out those common use cases.
180709274
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byShaitan
2026 @11:01AM
(#65960922)
Attached to: Author of Systemd Quits Microsoft To Prove Linux Can Be Trusted
"Appealing to "the UNIX way" is just silly"
No, it's the Unix philosophy of small purpose built tools combined rather than large monolithic integrated solutions and that never changes. But you tipped your hand, you began as a proprietary unix guy and they use monolithic systemd-like chunks all over the place.
"it evolves as people figure out better ways"
The philosophy doesn't, the tools do, but systemd doesn't bring better ways to do things just one built with Microsoft's big monolithic one size fits all philosophy.
180709250
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byShaitan
2026 @10:54AM
(#65960908)
Attached to: The Bill Gates-Epstein Bombshell - and What Most People Get Wrong
The feds had all this under both Trump and Biden and have determined there are no other prosecutions they could make three times over [except for whatever they got from Maxwell].
I suspect they thought of 'follow the money.'
There is nothing in these documents they can build a case out of and lots of circumstantial/unsubstantiated stuff connecting Epstein to just about everybody famous because he traveled and partied in those circles. That's why they didn't want to release it. That and the volume of materials they've release substantiates just what they've indicated, hundreds of attorney's combing through it 24/7 for redactions.
It's all a giant nothing burger. If anyone is getting convicted from all this it'll be Clinton due to additional investigation and lets be honest, that isn't news to anybody.
180708936
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byShaitan
2026 @09:13AM
(#65960780)
Attached to: Author of Systemd Quits Microsoft To Prove Linux Can Be Trusted
Yes but its been around awhile now. Will all the baby admins who grew up sipping from systemd's teet give it up?
180708924
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byShaitan
2026 @09:11AM
(#65960776)
Attached to: Author of Systemd Quits Microsoft To Prove Linux Can Be Trusted
Overrated. Prior to systemd Linux administrators famously admin'd thousands of systems vs tens in the windows world. That text/file/directory-based system combined with all the text-mangling power tools in linux, the shell, and perl... nothing compares.
It actually becomes much easier to work with configuration management tools when they are managing the state of text files as the Linux gods intended.
180706044
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byburtosis
2026 @11:06PM
(#65960400)
Attached to: White House Scraps 'Burdensome' Software Security Rules
Did you hear we are funding insurgents in canada? That is a real sentence that I wrote that has real meaning and isn't just a shitpost.
Someone must have told him Alberta has half as much oil as Venezuela, and it’s a whole lot closer.
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byburtosis
2026 @12:41PM
(#65952636)
Attached to: Doomsday Clock Ticks To 85 Seconds Before Midnight, Its Closest Ever
Look, the problem with the boy who called wolf is clearly because that is a happens or not scenario. He could have kept this up indefinitely if he simply used an algorithm to learn the optimum true/false ratio and kept stringing the most people possible along forever.
180638408
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byburtosis
2026 @10:52AM
(#65942012)
Attached to: Nvidia Allegedly Sought 'High-Speed Access' To Pirated Book Library for AI Training
Nobody does. They train the llm on the books, so they don't have to.
The plot twist here is a bit different - it is an "intellectual property" only if it is yours, otherwise it is fair game.
I asked Grok if this was possible permanently stunting brain growth and capacity harming humans long term and allowing for easy manipulation and was told not to worry about it and to trust it implicitly because its answers are always correct.
180615780
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byburtosis
2026 @01:44PM
(#65935170)
Attached to: China Builds 'Hypergravity' Machine 2,000X Stronger Than Earth
The problem is across the rotation, so a bridge might be 50-100cm wide max, but then as long as the chamber is along the axis of rotation. Height is less a concern not because of much of a change in gravity direction so much as magnitude. Loading the bottom of your model with 1000g and the top with 500g isn’t really earth like where the difference in gravity is like 0.03% per kilometer or 0.05% per mile.
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