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I work in the hosting industry (euro) and most people I know never heard or care about this project. Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek well summarized it: “I don't think Gaia-X has a…

It seems the domain fritz.box has been suspended. March 5 was the first time this message got captured on archive.org[1]: The Domain Name you have entered is not available. It has …

Quoting[1] from Homebrew on Github: >> Looks like that Homebrew users (both macOS and Linux, both Intel and ARM) are unlikely affected? > Correct. Though we do not appear to be aff…

> reusing private keys is an enormous vulnerability. As long as the private key is stored/handled safely and RSA/ECC is not broken, it is not vulnerable. I do agree that key rotati…

> That's why countries changed it, because they realized their economies were more valuable that their gold stash Then it is interesting that, with gold being less valuable nowdays…

Same here in the Netherlands, somewhere between 1998-1999 using KPN Telecom. I was in high school and convinced my parents to upgrade from single-line PSTN to dual-line ISDN, so we…

Coinbase Custody Trust Company, LLC (the “Bitcoin Custodian”) is the custodian for the Trust’s bitcoin holdings. Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1980994/00014377492…

Isn't that almost always the logical consequence once you understand how Bitcoin works and you believe it can actually work as a safe haven investment? Those who believe it can not…

I stumbled upon this site a while ago which also includes ranking filters: https://companiesmarketcap.com/

This is exactly what makes Bitcoin a fantastic store of value. Bitcoin supersedes gold because compared to gold, it has no other use. If Bitcoin would be used as a store of value i…

> See, it's already over. If you have to explain that to a layperson, it's not going to get adopted. Does every layperson have to adopt stocks or commodities? Are these also dead i…

It is not recommended to split up your seed words[1]. Do not try to build your own scheme. If you want to store your keys geographically it is recommended to use multisig. You can …

Where I work we've recently upgraded many PostgreSQL servers from 9.x/10.x/11.x to 14.x. A very cool PostgreSQL feature is that, if you install a second instance on the same server…

> Bitcoin (now called Bitcoin Cash) Wrong. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a fork of Bitcoin (BTC). Bitcoin Cash is a spin-off or altcoin that was created in 2017.

Indeed! HATop is great to show the status, traffic, HTTP codes, errors or number of connections. It is also very simple to enable/disable HAProxy backends, for example: hatop -s /v…

I did the same, visted Berlin a few weeks ago. It was indeed nice that I could take any S-Bahn or U-Bahn without checking the times or zones. I hope they’ll continue with this type…

> Homes aren't heated with nuclear power, they're heated with gas. Industrial processes don't run on nuclear power either, they run on gas. I'm glad that there are still people who…

Gas prices were already rising since 2020 but yes, the Ukraine/Russia conflict made it worse. Below a graph from the Dutch TTF Gas Futures from the past 2 years. The contract price…

Not sure if it's relevant, but I also see DNSSEC issues: https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/outlook.com

> It has a good pace, amazing visuals, asks tough questions, has some really good action sequences, etc. If I may add: the score produced by Vangelis.