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I am a big fan & advocate for Bitcoin and don't know anyone in the space who claims Bitcoin is anonymous. In fact everyone talks about how it's not and ways to fix that.

This is fun. I'm gonna show it to my 8 year old, who I suspect will like it, but the problems will be too difficult after just a few levels. Would be cool to have some way to limit…

I have been very happy using fastmail as my email provider and 1password as my password manager. They have an integration which allows you to generate masked emails, which makes wh…

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All of the arguments seem to assume you have today's current tools and knowledge at your disposal, just with timezones abolished. This is clearly not what would happen. The real an…

From the bit I know, I think there are at least some options available. For example, in nginx I believe you can use the "map" module to mix and match different components of the re…

I have been working on this recently, using nginx as the reverse proxy. Nginx makes it pretty trivial to limit requests based on various factors, like request rate, number of conne…

I'm curious what your thoughts are on implementing this via a reverse proxy in front of your services. In terms of implementation it appears to me much simpler. But it obviously co…

I've been using Firefox for several months and have no regrets. On Ubuntu Chrome was doing all sorts of weird things, plus being slow. Firefox's tab groups is also a great feature.…

Thanks for this. I switched my input mode to VI and was greatly missing using Ctrl-L to clear the screen when in input mode. I hadn't known about the inputrc before. Adding this li…

Good point. I misread tomjen3's original comment.

You seem to be implying that because North Korea is less free than us, we are completely free with nothing to lose. That's pretty faulty logic. Better to be aware of the freedoms w…

This has always bugged me. As a result, I decided to try my hand at a Chrome extension to fix it. If it's any interest to you, get it here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail…