Posts by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
(DIR) Post #AGVM7qHVViUU4dTwy8 by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-02-15T10:19:11Z
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@waxwing @jeffcliff of course such a law would also need its own checks and balances, because new "strong" leaders have a habit of trying to throw their predecessors in prison for frivolous reasons.
(DIR) Post #AGk0WXsLOXPcFdFhTs by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-02-22T16:28:25Z
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Glad to see DHH slightly pulling his head out of his ass: https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-was-wrong-we-need-crypto-587ccb03
(DIR) Post #AGk0WYIvnggBa5gvvE by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-02-22T16:33:19Z
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Let's see if Taleb lives long enough to do the same. So far is his head is still way past the third sphincter.(what he fails to notice here: the price action did not kill Bitcoin)
(DIR) Post #AGk0WcXy1j5Ejskzui by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-02-22T16:40:47Z
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Exhibit 2 in the context of some(!) trucker funds being in custodial wallets and/or hard to liquidate.What he's not noticing: the other funds, the option to just HODL through it (assuming the situation in Canada isn't permanent, the fact that a supply of Bitcoin that can't be sold on a KYC exchange will eventually meet demand.
(DIR) Post #AGk0WeVCky3untTosy by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-02-22T16:50:37Z
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Exhibit 3:First Taleb writes a paper demonstrating that Bitcoin is extremely volatile and that this volatility has not gone down over the years.Then he calls a little bear market "Imploding" (without demonstrating that this somehow exceeds the volatility we've seen before).Perhaps he's referring more to the fact that Bitcoin is not very uncorrelated to other assets, as some hoped for. But past results don't guarantee future performance. And again: Bitcoin hasn't been killed yet.
(DIR) Post #AGk0WgDCOsqc6d4T68 by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-02-22T16:58:42Z
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And then he retweets this asinine thread, in which an AWS engineer claims that "Computationally cheap cryptographic currencies with privacy are actually a solved problem."He then points to Chaumian E-cash (which did not solve the double-spend problem for fucks sake) and digs even deeper by referring to zero knowledge systems, without pointing out that every current efficient design is either a trusted setup or too experimental cryptography for money.https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1486025976819552263
(DIR) Post #AGlWXw1SUfKZ7fBKdc by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-02-23T10:23:20Z
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@waxwing sanctions hurt both sides. I already lowered the thermostat by a few degrees celsius this winter, should end up with a lower gas bill :-)
(DIR) Post #AGo9NCu7flRup6XuNM by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-02-24T16:19:57Z
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It's always a good idea to stay on top of security updates for all your devices and servers. These days it's probably an extra good idea.On the bright side: if Russia uses up their entire stockpile of zero days, we'll all be safer in the long run.
(DIR) Post #AGuIrub7F5bNwvE0n2 by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-02-27T16:11:37Z
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@orthzar @waxwing sanctions almost always make an exception for food and medicine. Russia still makes plenty of money from gas exports to keep everyone well fed. Of course Putin might decide to do a Sadam, who deliberately starved his people and pretended it was because of the sanctions.That said, we should indeed keep the internet alive in Russia so dissidents can organize.
(DIR) Post #AHAazWuitxJYD92k1g by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-02-26T19:49:20Z
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TIL Putin ended the Russian - Netherlands tax treaty per 1-1-2022. In retrospect that was a more obvious red flag for a sanctions-worthy move coming soon. It removed much of the incentive of oligarchs to park their stolen money in our little tax paradise.Or maybe it was unrelated, who knows...https://www.pwc.nl/en/insights-and-publications/tax-news/enterprises/russia-to-terminate-double-tax-treaty-with-the-netherlands.html
(DIR) Post #AHFD1cDW2V5FvRJTcW by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-03-09T14:04:07Z
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@waxwing I'm familiar with the general pattern in former Soviet republics: government "privatizes" industry, selling huge companies for pennies to cronies, then buying the companies back a few years later at inflated prices, only to privatize again. If you feel any particular olicharch is wrongly accused of that and doesn't deserve sanctions, let me know 🙂
(DIR) Post #AJ5Sqhyp2SZ8z4QW4u by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-05-03T19:23:22Z
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@raucao @orionwl I'm seeing an admin setting called "Allow hashtags to trend without prior review", which sounds similar to what you found, but phrased as the reverse. Under Administration -> Site Settings.But I only have one user on my instance, so don't have experience 🙂
(DIR) Post #AJJWZ05Lhg0Ze6bsDA by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-05-10T15:57:00Z
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@dergigi @adam @dave with a little bit of redirect magic (one line in nginx) you can also use a nicer domain: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver-doc/blob/master/docs/FAQ/LightningNetwork.md#how-to-redirect-a-lightning-address
(DIR) Post #AJtJG8S60AfPMZJQvo by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-05-27T22:03:04Z
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I wrote a blog post explaining my current Bitcoin Core + c-lightning + BTCPay + WooCommerce (+ Tor) setup.Plus a little rant. And of course some shameless book promotion.https://sprovoost.nl/2022/05/27/how-to-sell-a-pdfâš¡/
(DIR) Post #AJvGZ2lmuStlwjY64m by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-05-28T20:56:48Z
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@FreePietje I assume you've read Merchants of Doubt? https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/f/merchants-of-doubt/36583210/
(DIR) Post #AMZzgD7zuGz8dTZMsy by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-08-11T19:02:01Z
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@waxwing any updates on this?
(DIR) Post #AMuxHMQnkxl3JRBRgm by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-08-26T10:56:57Z
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@stevenroose @waxwing @raucao > this is only needed for issues/PRs, not for code, rightIdeally you want a backup of every version of the pull request, at the time the comments were coming in. In Bitcoin Core those disappear because the commits in pull requests are kept clean using force pushes.
(DIR) Post #AMz3uXyQ9YS8lFoimm by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-08-28T10:30:07Z
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@stevenroose @raucao @waxwing the three downsides of squash commits are:1. You lose the PGP sig of the original author2. Git blame provides less clear historical documentation, because the realchange is burried onder "fixup" instead of actual3. I tend to review PR per commit. Reasoning through bugs that are fixed in later commits is more difficult and error prone.Some devs keep unsquashed history in a seperate branch, but that involves more skill, i.e. barrier to contributing.
(DIR) Post #APKnlgsPEPU29YIYIi by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-11-06T17:57:06Z
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@mastodonusercount impressive! Can you do a 1 year chart?
(DIR) Post #APUh6T12iRpWQJhEye by sjors@m.sprovoost.nl
2022-11-11T12:29:34Z
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@aantonop welcome back!