Comments by "k98killer" (@k98killer) on "Mental Outlaw" channel.

  1. I remember installing Arch on an old laptop when I was a kid. I had used Slackware, Knoppix, Puppy Linux, and Ubuntu, so I figured it wouldn't be that big a deal. Learned quite a lot during that 6 hour process, then erased it and installed Backtrack to experiment with wifi cracking. Those were simpler days.
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  2. I remember when the entire purpose of having an Apple laptop was for normies to avoid getting haxed by common viruses. Those were simpler times.
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  3. Since Rust was named after a parasitic fungal disease, the term shouldn't be "oxidize" but rather "infect" or just "sicken".
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  4. "Not your keys, not your coins." - Max Keiser "It isn't clear to me the benefit of betting on a losing horse when the experience of history has shown us that there are only two real cryptocurrencies. So, listen to shitcoiners at your own peril." - Peter B. Jordanson
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  5. I've been using vim since I was a kid. Always been sufficient for my purposes. As far as I'm concerned, it's a black box with lightly colored text and a unique input method. If I ever have to do a significant amount of code editing via a non-graphical interface, I'll give neovim a try. Sounds cool. Hopefully it's compatible with my screen rc file. Pixel pushing in an rc file is a real pain in the ass.
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  6. This is why I examine the code of every python package I use and write my own utils whenever I can.
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  7.  @mgord9518  Centralization is a measure of network structure. The Bitcoin network is more decentralized than the Ethereum or Monero network because there are many times more nodes and they are distributed geographically.
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  8. Monero has been a pain in the ass to use in my experience. I shitposted in the github issues because I've had to waste hours updating a whole chain of interlocking software to just check my wallet balance multiple times this year. Nobody is taking the whole "minor patches shouldn't introduce breaking changes" thing seriously, and it has been the standard for decades.
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  9. They really should have called it "Crablang" instead of "Rust": it would make more sense why the syntax is so fucky; the borrow checker could be called the "claw watcher" that makes sure that anything that grabs memory holds onto it or explicitly releases it; the Box type could be called a Bucket, so that anything dropped into the bucket can be grabbed by multiple crabs; etc.
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  10. I like Manjaro, but I haven't used it in a few months because I couldn't get graphics drivers for my GPU that supported opencl and wanted to try W10 as a dev environment on my new laptop. Can't say I've been happy with W10.
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  11. I suspect that the Shell Shock bug was similarly introduced surreptitiously. I think it wasn't noticed because it was just revert of an obscure patch, and the original, insecure code was faster.
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  12.  @LuciferArc1  the last time Satoshi said anything was 2014 just before Hal Finney died/was cryogenically frozen. He doesn't "say something from time to time" -- he is gone.
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  13. Like most technology, this exists in a superposition between bug and feature.
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  14. Missed the opportunity to call it "Pretendows"
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  15. It's actually trilateration, not triangulation. Triangulation requires measuring the angles between towers/satellites. Trilateration instead uses the locations of the towers/satellites and measurements of latency. Iirc GPS trilateration also uses estimated angles of satellites above the horizon (from the perspective of the estimated location on Earth) to make the algorithm converge on a viable solution faster.
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  16. It's cool that Arti is an upgrade, but I am mostly ambivalent toward Rust with a slight bias against it. Zig is a much less disgusting language syntactically imo, and it doesn't have such a toxic cultmunity.
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  17.  @angeldude101  I like zero-rust abstractions 😉
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  18. By "invent physics" do you mean "create the universe"?
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  19. Fuck YouTube. Censorious communists are deleting all of my comments.
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  20.  @rars0n  Not trying to leave links. Just trying to explain parts of the Bitcoin tech stack, such as on-chain privacy measures and the layer 2 system adopted by El Salvador as their new monetary system.
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  21. I would like this comment, but it is sitting at exactly 666 likes, so I will refrain.
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  22. One of the issues with Monero is the lack of programmability. For example, to my knowledge, you can't make a 2-of-3 multisig wallet. Please correct me if I am wrong about that and some kind of compatible threshold signature scheme exists and for which user-friendly software is available.
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  23. Fun story: when I was in high school, I worked in the school as a volunteer tech aid. The year I started was after two consecutive years of previous tech aids hacking the school network and causing huge incidents for which they had to document and present their findings to the school district opsec people -- a lot of the security measures in place back then were there because of these hacks, and I and the other new tech aid were tasked with finding and reporting more holes in the security. We found and reported a lot of exploits and vulnerabilities, but one of my favorite red-team escapades was writing my own proxy service that used rot13 to bypass network filters, which hilariously worked. (I eventually made my own shitty little stream cipher as an upgrade.)
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  24. Don't call him "Penguin". Call him Oswald.
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  25. On Tor, nobody can tell you're a blue haired furry.
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  26. Stupid Valley Bank did not even have a chief risk officer for most of 2022. The C-suite should be brought up on charges and their profits seized to reimburse the FDIC imo.
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  27. This is the same company that created a game about bullying and beating up kids in a boarding school.
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  28.  @brissance  I graduated highschool as salutatorian with an associate of arts degree. Some kids are that smart.
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  29. Mozilla doesn't even care about Firefox anymore. They fired a third of their employees so they could continue sponsoring woke word salad events.
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  30. My buddy, Swim, who definitely is not me, says he agrees with this obamaphone guy.
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  31.  @joey199412  not if you use a hardware wallet.
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  32. Cool, but it is a real life detriment that it does not work adequately well on the main communication devices that real people use, i.e. their phones. Cypherpunk paradise is not exclusive to GNUtards.
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  33. Is this the failure of the Pinky Promise Privacy Protocol?
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  34. Mozilla has been compromised. Mozilla has been spying on Firefox users and selling the data. We are in a mostly unavoidable cyberdystopia.
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  35. I highly recommend the AI generated artwork of Caleb Gannon. He got a Ph.D. making his own algorithm, and the results are really impressive and unique.
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  36. That compression ratio graph shows xz being outperformed by both gzip and bzip2. Idk if I'd call that evidence of excellence.
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  37. Killing Floor is like Nazi Zombies but without the Nazi part.
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  38. Let Europe collapse. In the words of the great George Carlin, fuck 'em.
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  39.  @hamborger8546  I don't want them to collapse, but they seem set on it, and there's nothing I can do to stop them from destroying themselves. So you see, they are the ones who need professional help; I am completely at peace with the situation.
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  40. ​ @trone3630  but does it support OAuth 2.0?
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  41. Feds together bright.
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  42. Doesn't Lemmy use the same federated protocols as Mastodon?
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  43. Click my link to get started with my brand new scam for free, Jack. I'm Joe Trump, and I uhhh...this message...well, anyways, fuck China.
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  44. FedNow is not "an app". FedNow is not a service that you or I can just use. FedNow is like FedWire but faster, cheaper, and with smaller account limits and a mechanism for net settlement to help it scale with increased utilization. The Fed's customers are all financial institutions, so the app you use to transact over FedNow will be the one provided by whatever financial institution you bank with, whether that is a credit union or Elon's new X-wallet. FedNow will literaply empower Elon's plans, not interfere with it in any way.
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  45.  @atpray  appreciate it
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  46. The BIS and IMF have outlined their plans for central bank digital currencies. The plan includes introducing a temporary bonus percentage for depositing as the system rolls out and a negative interest rate on bills at the exchange window thereafter. The goal is to incentivize early adoption and then punish anyone who does not go along. The banks will be forced to adopt similar policies. However, there are significant problems with that model, so it will likely be tried in a few countries and fail miserably, paving the way for more permissive and laid-back systems for countries like the US. As stewards of the global reserve currency, the Fed and Treasury plan to move slowly on this. The Fed in particular just released a 35 page report on CBDCs and is seeking public comment for another ~100 days, so I recommend telling them to just let banks monetize federal debt/obligations as cryptodollars and not worry about making their own system.
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  47. Ah yes, cloud "security". Almost an oxymoron.
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  48. Wait. I thought I read in the Telegram documentation that they used the Signal protocol for E2E encryption. Slimy basterds.
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  49. My theory is that McAfee faked his own death and will reemerge at some point after he gets bored of being a ghost.
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  50. This platform is garbage. Every factual statement gets censored. Fuck ThemTube.
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