How so?

Anyway, it’s not our call what people in 100+ years will think the exchange rate of Bitcoin should be.

As Bitcoin has grown, transactions have become slow

Except for Bitcoin Lightning Network:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network

Bitcoin is always being diluted

It’s also constantly getting un-diluted by people losing their keys.

Current estimates put the “lost coins” at around 25% of the total. That is twice as many as there are left to mine.

it is possible that transaction fees will need to be raised to compensate miners.

That’s been the plan from the beginning.

Mining halving has been defined with a rough estimate of adoption, volume, and technological advances. It’s why Lightning Network was developed, and why Ethereum has switched to a Proof-of-ownership mining scheme.

The estimate is rough and quite inflexible, which has lead to cyclic fluctuations around the period of halvings… but from a long term perspective, it has been working reasonably well for the first 10% of Bitcoin’s starting period.

This is a fancy way to say that it is slower unless you pay higher fees.

My bank takes:

• 24-48 hours for 0€, only in the EU, up to 15k€
• 5 minutes for 0.50% (min 1.25€), only in the EU, up to 900€
• 48-120 hours for 0.70% (min 35€), international, up to 20k€

So my bank is also “slower unless you pay higher fees”… or “slower even with higher fees”… and on top of that, it has an amount cap.

Meanwhile, on Bitcoin Lightning (https://1ml.com/statistics):

• Median Base Fee: $0.000617

fork the network and update it if they had 50%+1

No. There are 3 components to Bitcoin: Miners, P2P nodes. and coin owners.

• Getting 1 miner and 1 P2P node, allows forking… and getting kicked off the network.
• Getting >50% of mining power, allows a chance at double-spending some own coins.
• Getting 100% of miners AND/OR 100% of P2P nodes, allows taking over the network.
• Getting an owner’s key, allows full access to the coins tied to that key.

Neither of those are impossible, some are just easier and have a higher ROI than others.

The tax and identity layers have to be added on top. They are not built-in.

Same as with cash.

Yes, this is one of the selling points of Bitcoin vs. Banks, in an age where cash is getting phased out.

The opposite, is also a selling point of “OpenSource Money with Taxes built-in” vs. Bitcoin.

Pick whichever side you prefer.

Why not call it by its full name: Decentralized Peer-to-peer Open-source Cryptographically-secured Self-custodial Money

“Everyone” doesn’t have a clue about “crypto” other than “there are scams”.

I need an issue tracker that syncs with git, essentially.

Gitea + Redmine

If you need CI/CD, then Gitlab CE is an option… but it’s on the heavier side, not worth it if you don’t need it.

OpenProject is an eye-candy fork of Redmine. Unfortunately it has lost plugin and 3rd party app compatibility, and Redmine’s simple interface is still less buggy.

document any research […] diagrams […] general note-taking

Joplin + Syncthing, Zim Wiki + git, draw.io

Other nice tools: FreePlane, Jupiter notebooks, any markdown editor

From the first 15 min of the edited video: that FUTO boss is an embarrassment, good on Rossman to get him to change things.

I don’t really want to watch the remaining hour, after someone says things like:

• He didn’t follow the discussions back in the 2000s
• OSI didn’t hijack the “open source” definition
• Less than 1000 people would care
• Asked his programmers, and they didn’t care

I call BS. Weak excuses.

There is a reason people say “FLOSS” instead of “Open Source”. There is a reason Stallman says what he says. There is a reason you can tell apart who understands what’s going on, by whether they understand the differences or not.

A quick reminder:

• Free - as in beer, not as in freedom
• Libre - as in freedom
• Open Source - you can see the source code

Stallman created the GPL to allow people to see (open) and change (libre) the code (source)… then “pay forward” that freedom, in echange for being able to charge money (non-free) for their contributions.

He often referred to it as simply “Open Source”… which turned out to be a mistake. Very soon (as in pre-1990), it became clear that there were two more competing camps for the “Open Source” definition:

• Academia - people who got paid anyway, whether they saw a penny from their software or not
• Business - who wanted to get as much money as possible, for as cheap as possible

Both those camps aligned with licenses where developers gave up all their rights, but anyone could very easily take them back and claim as their own (“closing” the software). Famous examples are Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.

The “Open Source Initiative” was created to gatekeep the “Open Source” definition, by keeping a list of licenses that were “OSI compliant”. A side effect of that gatekeeping, was erasing the understanding of the terms “Free” and “Libre” from the public’s minds.

Plenty more than “1000 people” understood what was going on, and were against OSI, seeing it as an EEE move from the Business camp.

People new to it, started using the term “open source” (as per OSI) without a care, only to later realize the Business camp was taking advantage of them… [surprised Pikachu face]

This FUTO boss is not young or inexperienced, he’s a Business-man who, not surprisingly, decided to use a license with a closing clause, that he used the chance to call “Open Source” by exploiting people’s lack of understanding.

Their objectivity is preempted by a subjective evaluation, just like it would be by someone’s appearance or any other perception other than the code itself.

We ass-u-me too much based on people’s genders/photographs/ideas/etc., which taints our objectivity when assessing the quality of their code.

For a close example on Lemmy: people refusing to collaborate with “tankie” devs, with no further insight on whether the code is good or not.

There also used to be code licensed “not to be used for right wing purposes”, and similar.

Through gender stereotypes. The observer’s perception is all that counts in this case anyways.

Devs focus more on the code of anon devs, instead of wasting time on their gender, race, or whatever.

Could mean FOSS but they keep the trademark.

Was that on the Insider Dev channel, a Preview channel, or did it stop asking after the first time?

I haven’t seen a single “ad” of those since I booted Windows 11 Pro for the first time.

Hm, from a privacy point of view, what’s the difference between this, vs. a private/incognito tab with a pi-hole?

I mean:

• pi-hole eats the ads
• private/incognito eats the cookies
• the sites can still do basic tracking via the video feed itself

As for functional differences… right now, the player seems to be missing the skip ±10sec feature, and the full-screen with rotate.

On the other hand… multi-site private bookmarking, would be interesting.

Rule of thumb:

• Linux: you set a system from bottoms up, adding/enabling layers and features.
• Windows: you set a system from top down, locking/disabling features that shouldn’t be available.

Windows has tools to control and restrict updates/installs, with a full centralized logging system. You will rarely find log files, it all goes into the centralized log (think systemd log). Some failed installs may leave behind log files in temp, so be quick at getting them or they’ll be gone.

If you have non-Windows programs and tools installed, you can use either the msstore, winget, or 3rd party choco and scoop, or all of them via WinGetUI.

Many admin tools are only available on the CLI via PowerShell. Some may or may not conflict with how their GUI counterparts work.

Additional built-in tools… are “secret”. You may get a glimpse at some of them by checking the “install fix” tool or similar, but it may use non-backwards-compatible calls, which is why they’re not made official.

How to survive Windows in 2024:

• Windows 10/11 “Pro” is codeword for “not a joke”. Always use Pro or better for anything serious.
• DO NOT ever install any “Preview” updates, unless you want to become a betatester (comes with config reset and telemetry).
• DO NOT join the “Windows Insider Program”, same reason as above.
• WSL2 is your friend, so are Cygwin and WinGetUI/UniGetUI.
• ONLY install official software, and FOSS software.
• DO NOT install anything cracked, or run any cracks, serial generators, or anything that promises you a free gain, ever.
• Windows Sandbox, is also your friend.

Sandbox is particularly nice, since it may run a “Preview” version of Windows, but sandboxed, without polluting your main install.

If you have an Intel 12th gen or higher, you may be able to run it with TME-MK for extra isolation between the systems.

Process-level filtering is to avoid exfiltration from environments where “all processes run as the same user, with full access to all other processes”… which, unfortunately, are still most of them.

DPI is nice to stop incoming attacks, and to detect suspicious outgoing traffic, but it’s kind of late when the data is already on the wire, and you won’t be able to stop all possible kinds of traffic that way.

Seems like federation filtered it out, it shows on your instance but not on this one 🤷

I didn’t know that Slashdot added something like this… just googled for WYSIWYG FOSS editors to make sure, saw that BlueGriffon’s site had a farewell message, and checked the GitHub.

FF Dev and Seamonkey, I have installed along VS Code 🤷

BlueGriffon has been discontinued in 2019, not sure whether there is a fork.

Chromium, Firefox… if you open the dev tools, you can edit everything, with it showing in the browser in real-time (WYSIWYG).

Firefox Developer Edition has some extra tools and debugging modes, but some are redundant if you’re using VS Code.

If you’re looking for a Dreamweaver-like thing, where you could drop elements with minimum HTML writing… you may want to check Seamonkey Composer.

For a simple personal website though, I’d recommend using a markdown editor, then either export it through a template, or have a template interpreter on the site, like GitHub Pages.