> Instant is like Firebase; it is not a completely local solution. If you are worried about exposing some data over the internet, I would store the same kind of stuff you were thinking about with Firebase.
What does this mean exactly? If you host your own it is still not local?
The criticisms in the videos do not appropriately counter the solution in the linked article. Scott's superficial discussion of blockchain at the end misses the entire ethos of blockchain. We agree that servers, devices, software and networks cannot be trusted, and possibly never will be. So we ignore them and instead rely solely on the output. Every stakeholder audits the final official "blockchain" (for lack of a better term) using their own tools, engineers, and techniques to verify its credibility. I'm not claiming that this has been solved, although Belenios seems damn close. But it definitely seems conceivable that we can one day come up with a functional scheme that distrusts the machines as a first principle. What specific problems do you see with the Belenios attempt?
Blockchains are only verifiable and reliable in so far as everything that exists exits in the blockchain. As soon as it interfaces with the real world you start hitting the Oracle problem [1]. That you are not aware of this and still push for even considering it as an alternative to paper ballots is part of the problem. We need constitutional amendments that ban all forms of electronic voting in every democracy.
The main issue is that centralized electronic systems can be hacked at scale. That's what the paper solves, it slows everything down making it difficult compromise results en-masse. Verification is much simpler and cheaper than voting itself, and can be distributed. A distrusting community, for example, can build their own easily auditable tools, running on their own random machines, to verify the integrity of their community's votes. Thousands of communities around the country can do the same - again each using completely independent hardware, software and networks, all of which would have to be hacked. You may also be overlooking that we have the benefit of a reliable root of trust in the form of manually provided government documents and IDs that are carefully provisioned. You think in 10,000 years it will still be impossible to run a vote electronically?
> You may also be overlooking that we have the benefit of a reliable root of trust in the form of manually provided government documents and IDs that are carefully provisioned.
I'm not overlooking it, self-interested political parties are, but you are conflating the authentication problem with the voting problem. Moving to electronic voting does not solve the authentication problem, it just adds one more problem.
> You think in 10,000 years it will still be impossible to run a vote electronically?
I'm not sure about some of them since they are private only (you can't see anything without an account), but my go-to tool is JDownloader, that I run as a Docker container on a server
This is a fundamental exploit at the blockchain level, I wonder why there isn't more chaos:
The brothers created 16 Ethereum validators and targeted three specific traders who operated MEV bots, the indictment said. They used bait transactions to figure out how those bots traded, lured the bots to one of their validators which was validating a new block and basically tricked these bots into proposing certain transactions. The brothers allegedly frontran the bots on certain trades and also used their validator to "tamper with" the new block by sending a false digital signature that gave them access to the block's full contents and replaced "lure transactions" with "tampered transactions." In those tampered transactions, the brothers allegedly sold illiquid cryptocurrencies they had tricked the victims' trading bots into placing buy orders for.
Syncthing - the android app can share your camera roll folder.
So that syncs to my server, and my desktop/laptop. I drag files around on there when I want them deleted off my phone and archived somewhere. Me and my wife share a syncthing folder between us when we want to send files to each other.
All of this produces a fair number of duplicate files, particularly if you have backups turned on in case of deletes.
Offline dedupe basically makes all of that free though - duplicate files on the server or in backup dirs are no longer a problem.
I never realized how bad Phillips was until I started renovating a home this year. They are truly the worst of all the options. They need to be phased out completely. Square is better in every way. A core problem with Phillips is not only that the cross is simply not the best shape to hold torque, which it's not, but that there is no consistency between the crosses themselves. With square, you only have to worry about size. With Phillips, you have to pay attention to the angles and character of the cross, in addition to size. One Phillips might be deeper or skinnier than another that looks the same. Matching the perfect driver to a screw is difficult in general, and near impossible by eye.
Phillips is great when you’re screwing in an area you can’t see. The bit slips in nicely and you don’t have to think about size. But yeah Robertsons are nice in many other instances.
As someone with very little recent experience with these types, could you elaborate on what you mean by this, at least compared to the Robertson screw?
Can do that with any head really. But imagine the screw is there already. And you don’t know the size. Phillips is probably better here. Not a common use case for most people.
> Some secrets don’t belong in your password manager. Things like backup private keys, 2FS recovery keys, wallet keys, safe combinations, treasure maps, etc.
Why don't wallet keys, safe combinations and treasure maps belong in a password manager?
I use a password manager for online credentials I regularly need to login across devices.
There's other secrets I'd rather never upload to the cloud, with all the risks that entails.
I have various other methods to store and backup those secrets. This tool is part of that toolkit.
In an era where that's possible, the expectation will be for humans to be working hand-in-hand with computers, whether to make superior code or answer better interview questions. The bar will simply be elevated, and you will have to judge candidates on their computer/human synergy. The only time that what you say could be a problem is if the technology to answer interview questions is far superior than that of doing actual work. But then there is the next round of interviews (in-person, etc.). This also kind'of exists today in the form of googling answers while on interview, which for some reason lots of companies don't like, even tho no coder isn't constantly googling on the job.
Companies release products 6-12 months in advance. On the day of their release they are at their most valuable. Every day that goes by they slowly lose a little bit of desirability. For practicality, and human marketing reasons, companies do not adjust their prices every day to reflect the reduction in demand. Instead they gather all the erosion into one big clump and release it in a frenzy on Black Friday.
So are there "deals" on Black Friday? Not really, in the sense that you are buying a product that is of truly lower value. At the same time, many people don't care about the newness of various products, so are happy to trade that time for money in their pocket. In short, Black Friday is about segmentation than it is "deals". It's a way to charge the most eager top dollar at the beginning of the curve, while also cashing in later with the rest at the end of the product lifecycle.
Certainly true for larger retailers, but there's plenty of small and independent businesses that offer true discounts today. For example, many artists that sell enamel pins keep them at the same price forever. So a discount today is a true discount.
Beyond that, you can also look for any retailer selling gift cards at a discount. Given that gift cards spend at their face value, you know for certain the discount is a real discount.
:D That question is not really answerable, it only depends on what mid-cycle products you're interested in and how much oldness you are willing to tolerate.
Not only that, but at least some companies just increase the prices slowly before Black Friday, such that what is shown as a discount on Black Friday is not really one. You might end up paying less 3 months after.
Not always. In order to attract business amid all of the other sales, plenty of companies do offer genuine black friday discounts. Particularly when you’re not selling a physical product (think gym memberships or spa days, for example) these sorts of things don’t decline in value each day.
What does this mean exactly? If you host your own it is still not local?