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Magnetic_dud

@ Magnetic_dud @discuss.tchncs.de

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  • Over 3.1 million fake "stars" on GitHub projects used to boost rankings

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  • Why a real person would star a project? When I star a project then my GitHub home is littered with activity from that project. I hate that, so I never star anything

  • Please use .config 😭

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  • I also did the same as you but because they discontinued the official syncthing app on Android I skipped the "sync to PC first step. Now I directly go to Borg from phone night time only when charging, the automate app is able to invoke termux and run the backup script

    Many times it happened the syncthing app crashed in background and I didn't notice before after several days, now if the Borg repository server (borgwarehouse, it's a must have) doesn't see activity after some user specified time sends me a warning email

  • Please use .config 😭

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  • It's also incredibly useful to backup /sdcard via rsync or Borg every night automatically

    Or access the contents of your phone via SFTP

  • Operating sysrule

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  • Most keyboard shortcuts are illogical (=differ too much from Linux/Windows) and too often require 3+ keys

    Of course if you're used to "Ctrl+shift+command+3" to do a screenshot instead of just pressing the dedicated button on the keyboard and feel it natural, this doesn't apply to you

  • YSK "honey", the discount coupon finding browser extensions (owned by PayPal), is a scam stealing commissions from people who actually should get it.

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  • It's owned by PayPal, couldn't expect otherwise

  • Operating sysrule

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  • When Microsoft forced the grouped windows in windows 11 I was crazy. Luckily some hobbyists in their spare time fixed what the multibillion corporation with hundreds of thousands of engineers was unable to do in over two years (explorerpatcher)

  • Operating sysrule

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  • Well for me it's the opposite. I set once my settings with the domain group policy a decade ago and in every single windows PC that I own I have the perfect settings from the out of the box experience as soon as the first login

    And no need to set 30 key remaps with karabiner

  • Operating sysrule

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  • For me an os needs to do basic stuff by default, not by adding a billion 3rd party apps that inevitably break the next os update because they were using undocumented apis

    Clipboard history, window snapping, showing a separate icon for every instance of a window (same app in 3 windows makes 3 icons on the taskbar), preview what that window is by hovering that.

    Sure, you can do that with (mostly paid) third party apps, but I don't like wasting 3 days on setting an operating system in an usable state

  • Operating sysrule

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  • Same for me. I can't stand the weird keyboard combinations and I totally hate that I need to watch a 1 second eyecandy animation when I put a window in full screen.

  • Operating sysrule

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  • Copium needs to justify spending $800 for 2tb of SSD or $400 for 8 GB of ram like if we still were in the early 2010s

  • Best friends enjoying their time rule

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  • The guy sitting between Putin and mbs is the president of FIFA

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Magnetic_dud @discuss.tchncs.de

    Best friends enjoying their time rule

  • This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace

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  • Can you do a transfer without mining a block?

    No, it needs to be included in any freshly mined block.

    Can you include an unlimited amount of transactions in a block to minimize the wasted energy?

    No, it's hardcoded to around 1 mb and since the average is 300 bytes, that translates to ~3000

    Can you mine a Bitcoin without wasting an immense amount of energy?

    No.

    So, by math, you take that immense amount of energy and divide by ~3000 transactions.

    You can't just take in consideration the 3 watts used by your computer in the 300 milliseconds used to submit the transfer, need to consider the whole network

    I would be happy to learn if it's possible to transfer them without including the transaction in a block, that would be groundbreaking and then the electricity used would be 10000x less

  • This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace

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  • please explain how to transfer bitcoin without mining a block, since the transactions are contained there.

    You need to take the energy required to mine a block and validate it (a lot, could power a small town), then divide for the few transactions that could be included in just 1 mb.

    They impose a size limit on the transactions that can be included, so even if tomorrow the transactions increase 10x, each block could contain the same limited number. Of course, if you only count the electricity used by your machine to send the transaction, it's just a few milliwatts. The problem is all the garbage calculations that need to be done to actually validate it.

  • This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace

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  • For a generic non personalized spam, IMHO it would be too expensive to generate and track millions of wallets. They could have placed a tracking pixel for much less (they didn't, the email is just plain text)

    If then it's some targeted campaign, then yes, a dedicated BTC address makes sense as you said

  • This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace

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  • It's a conservative estimate, it's even higher than that

    Crypto-biased source: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/08/18/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-use/ (you would expect they downplay the number)

    You can just take a calculator and do by yourself the math from publicly available stats https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/

    In the past 24 hours a block contains in average only 3500 transactions. Then that block needs to be validated by many other nodes in following calculations.

    This is why it's the most inefficient payment method, very slow (only 3500 transactions in ten minutes instead of few seconds), expensive for the user (transfer fees are high) and power hungry

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    Magnetic_dud @discuss.tchncs.de

    This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace

  • What about clicking a checkbox means I'm human? How does Cloudflare determine I'm human from that?

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  • There's a default setting that allows unencrypted communication between the server and cloudflare. So they receive unencrypted data, sign with their certificate. Or send with self signed certificate, they decrypt and reencrypt. Or for some reason can download and import on the server their own internal use certificate.

  • What about clicking a checkbox means I'm human? How does Cloudflare determine I'm human from that?

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  • Cloudflare knows almost everything done from your IP address because they're used by the majority of websites. And some websites are using a cloudflare signed TLS certificate so if cloudflare wants, can see the content of the communication instead of an encrypted package

    So they know if you have a human behavior (visiting many different websites at human speed and having rests during sleeping time) or if you have a bot behavior (sending millions of requests to the same endpoint at superhuman speeds)

  • Does anyone have experience using pirated versions of premium trading EAs?

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  • A program that is supposed to make money when you're sleeping by automatically trade currency pairs. Usually they aren't as miraculous as their devs are stating.

    It stands as "expert advisor"

  • Does anyone have experience using pirated versions of premium trading EAs?

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  • I did, because I wanted to run multiple copies of it.

    The cracked version was running much more smoothly (10x less memory usage) due to missing DRM encryption

    My thoughts on it from a decade ago: https://www.forexperiments.com/2012/10/the-price-of-protection.html

    This said, most expert advisors programs aren't really functional, need a human supervision. IMHO the devs make more money from the sales/subscriptions of their software than running their "money making machines". After all, if your "completely automated money machine" actually works, why would you bother in paying marketing, DRM schemes to have other people using it?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    Magnetic_dud @discuss.tchncs.de

    This scam is approved and doesn't go against Google's policies

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    Magnetic_dud @discuss.tchncs.de

    Bots ruined an once useful website with fake credentials that lead to nothing