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MTK

@ MTK @lemmy.world

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  • Life frustrations

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  • Just be born rich, not that hard, actually those who are born rich report that they didn't have to do anything for it!

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    never lost

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  • Second only to rest your eyes when you drive!

  • What external services do you use for your selfhosting setup?

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  • Only tailscale fpr vpn and backblaze for backup

  • Apart, low in cholesterine

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  • Just why?? Nature has made H₂O perfect the way it is! I don't want an HxO! How would that even work?? Would it be ionized? I will literally commit murder if I see one of those.

  • is there any legitimate use of blockchains?

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  • Nothing is perfect, but once a blockchain network is big enough it becomes near impossible to overtake.

    Maybe currently, if the US government really wants to, they could dedicate a few trillion dollars to take over the bitcoin network. But it would make no sense to put that much effort into what would be mostly pointless. And if bitcoin ever reaches a point where it is a full on threat to the dollar then it's network would probably be too big for any nation to overtake alone.

    So you are not wrong in theory, but in practice it is near impossible.

  • is there any legitimate use of blockchains?

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  • Like most of the tech bro industry, they take something with real value, completely misunderstand it, creates fake value, pumps.

    LLMs are awesome, but the current AI industry is terrible and completely misses the actual value of LLMs.

    NFTs are actually a great way to digitally prove ownership, basically the future of digital ownership certificates.

    Crypto is a way to make money for the people by the people, and not for the rich, by the rich, through the people.

    Blockchain is the core idea that makes crypto and NFTs possible. You can think of it as a decentralized DB, it's useful because it means that the majority controls the data and not a centralized authority.

    Imagine that the government decided to print a million dollars and give it to some politician, it's small enough to not be noticed by the market, but it still devalues the money. They could only do it because they own the money management system. In Blockchain each transaction is confirmed by external parties (often multiple ones) and it has to align with the already existing db (which everyone has a copy of) so in that scenario if the government tries to "print" money it will be conflicting with the existing db and it will not be accepted, so they will have to either continue with an incompatible db (making it as worthless as monopoly money) or cancel the transactions by realigning with the common db.

    Blockchain is not meant to be a database like the ones in web servers, it is meant to be a database for a consensus of users.

  • New repos, high hopes, every time

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  • This implies that my code lives outside of modern tech. I write pure assembly

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  • I would need like a decade of prep to have any meaningful discussion with any of them 😅

  • White House says slavery is being taught wrong, should not be so negative

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  • Like crackers!

  • Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars

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  • That is easier...

  • White House says slavery is being taught wrong, should not be so negative

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  • Do you feel sad for people born today?

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  • Politics, economics and war are all hard to predict for long term, but just on the count of climate change kids born today are screwed.

  • Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars

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  • Securtiy by dysfunction!

  • Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars

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  • Oh, you sound so optimistic, my bank has a mandatory 4 digit code as login with 2fa sms for new devices. I sometimes consider going to shoot the cto there but I don't own a gun.

  • Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface

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  • Can't wait for Windows min requirements to be an RTX 5090

  • Five-star-ratings everywhere

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  • A few times in my life I encountered a system where 1 is labled "Satisfactory" or something similar and 5 is "Perfect" or similar.

    In those cases I either refuse to rate or rate a 1 no matter how it went.

    I think the system should always be so that 1 is absolute dog shit, 3 is no complaints, 5 is exceptional

    I hate that 5 is anywhere from "just okay" to "amazingly exceptional" and you just can't know which it is

  • Why is open source software assumed to be secure?

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  • What is more secure, a secret knock or an actual lock?

    The lock is something that everyone can lookup, research and learn about. Sure, it means that people can learn to lockpick, but a well designed lock can stumble even the best lockpicks.

    A secret knock is not secure at all, it sounds secure but in reality it is just obscure, and if anyone learns it or it's simple enough to guess, it becomes meaningless. Even a bad lock will show signs that it was picked.

    So that's an analogy, here is the actual explanation:

    Let's assume we have a closed source product named C and an open source product named O and that the security and quality of the code is the same. Both products are compiled and have been in active development for years. Both products have a total of 2 different people going over the code change of each new version, one person writes it, another reviews the code and approves it. After years of development you probably have about 10 people in total who have actually seen the code, anything that they missed will go unnoticed, any corners that they decided to cut will be approved, any bad decisions that they made will not be criticized. Here is where C and O differ: C will forever stay in this situation, only getting feedback rarely from researchers who found vulnerabilities and decided to report them. O will get small parts of it reviewed by hundreds of developers, and maybe even fully reviewed by a few people. Any corners that O cuts will be criticized, any backdoor that O tries to implemented will be clear to see. C on the other hand has one small advantage, bad actors will have a harder time finding vulnerabilities in it because it is compiled and they would have to reverse engineer it, while O is clear for the bad actors to read. But, bad actors are a very small minority, any vulnerability in O is far more likely to be caught by good actors, while C is very unlikely to be reversed by any good actors at all and so if it has any vulnerabilities, they are far more likely to be found by bad actors first.

    And it is important to note the conflict of interests that often exists in closed source software. A company that sells a product for profit and believes that its code is hidden, has very little interest in security and almost no interest in end user security, but if the code is not hidden, the company has an interest to produce reasonably secure code to maintain a reputation.

    So almost always, open source leads to safer code for all parties involved.

  • Vintage

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  • 8 billion people vs. 3000 billionaires: Who would win?

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  • I mean... Look around? Maybe billionaire is a new thing, but it is just modern royalty. We still have kings, they just got better PR.