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Spyware and bloat ain't cheap these days. Linux users don't rejoice too much, the Fedoras and Ubuntus were eating so much of my RAM I had to take refuge in Alpine.

> The grass is always greener on the other side ... until you actually dare to find out. Yes this is the core problem. The grass used to be very green in the "first world" (North A…

This is very interesting !

Yes and it is very unclear to me what are actually the risks... I am unfamiliar with "coldcard" but can hackers find out which wallet is used for which account? or maybe it can be …

Yes this has been a known problem of crypto/self custody since its inception. The 1 private key -> public key -> address is elegant but an horrible single point of failure. When pe…

I can explain what is my (maybe irrational) fear: I am working on my desktop or laptop, I get a power cut or the laptop battery run out, when I reboot the filesystem is unrecoverab…

There must be a fascinated industry dedicated to cracking old, orphan, lost and forgotten accounts with bad seeds and entropy.

I am tempted, how do you deal with the non journalized filesystem? This is the one "modern" comfort that makes me hesitant to try.

About "cybercrime" in general my feeling is there is a status quo between the criminals and countries. Something like we do not take down your economy and you do not go after us. I…

My guess is this really show how all our "advanced economies" and sophisticated "democracies" react to various threats and risks. We spend a lot of money on those threats and there…

> but I can not help but feel that this has been externally coordinated. All those things are (externally) coordinated. We've been forced to believe by romanticized narratives that…

> We are not in the business of mass massacres. Those are unarmed but aggressive foreigners. There are way to stop them entering your country in mass in a few hours without committ…

I used to be very fond of Scala 10-15 years ago. I also had to move on for professional reasons and haven't kept up for a long time. I am very surprised that there is not much trac…

They should go negative because the gigantic amount of CO2 being released right now because of the obvious incompetence of the authorites is criminal.

Also I can understand fires in gigantic forests in Canada or mountainous area are almost impossible to prevent but just looking at the Gironde/Bordeaux area on Google Maps it just …

I am always puzzled by those fires in those type of area (just looking on Google Map). I have lived in risky area and fires are unavoidable at some point. But at least we had manda…

There are about 8k validators [0]. Validators are low requirements, in the RPI ballpark and and a lot if them are combined on a single host. Then you also need some full nodes to a…

Yes if you compare a proof of stake blockchains (most of them) and the banking industry, crypto has a far smaller environmental footprint. Ethereum (since PoS) was designed to allo…

RIP Their podcast is one of the last bastion of independence: no ads, all funded, produced, developed, self hosted by a group of volunteers.

Interesting project. In many ways it is valuable to have experimental versions of FreeBSD where developers and users can explore radical evolutions of the OS (future init, service …

So France got their stupid assisted-dying law too, how cool is that? I am sure an App is being developed as we speak. The digital ID login will be buggy but it will be open source …

I remember they were pushing the AI narrative all along the 2010s on their front page. 10 years ahead of everybody. We looked into it at the time there was nothing interesting. Out…

Outside of the mainframe business which is a world on its own, IBM has the worst software and culture. Apart from Oracle of course. I remember 15 years ago IBM was already all in A…

Yeah I agree. Now that would be interesting because it should actually impact the algorithms used by platforms such as Amazon...

Sure but we still face the same problem: define "social media" or "addictive design of the algorithms" HN has almost all of the features of a "social media" and a good algorithm. I…