Lawrence Nahum

@giacomozucco @Laserman_21 April 2014 afair

@Laserman_21 Please do. To my knowledge, unless you mean work on Bitcoin layers (Liquid, RGB, etc.), I didn't fall for any token scam at all past my third or fourth meeting with @LarryBitcoin in spring 2024.

Thinking out loud. I'm supportive of the "toxic maximalism" meme since 2014 (before that I was actually a shitcoiner). And I think any criticism of "toxic maximalism" is a huge red flag (most of the time "post-maximalists" and "ANTIMAs" are even more dishonest than naïve shitcoiners). That said, I think it's rational to claim we should improve on the "Prodigal Son" aspect of it. There should be a social cost for shitcoining, sure, but maybe also some kind of positive social reinforcement for quitting the crypto scam cesspool? Otherwise the game theory is a bit weaker. Dare I say I am thinking to become slightly more "welcoming" to reformed, former shitcoiners (like myself, after all)? Does the Bitcoin Cult need some version of Sacrament of Penance?

@HSVSphere @Javsent @iamnotnyssa I guess it depends on what you need it for, I don't think anything matches qubesos when it comes to security

@Javsent @iamnotnyssa Bazzite. Or NixOS

👇 obviously using a bad distro. linux gets bad rep because of meme distros like arch & debian and derivatives

@giacomozucco @0xvzf_ @reardencode anything low entropy could be encrypted (even with a fixed key) and or compressed and bypass a low entropy filter, cat and mouse game

@0xvzf_ @reardencode Interesting. Never thought of it.

I absolutely agree that arbitrary data on a chain is bad, but simply limiting the amount of data is infeasible. Thought: Is it possible to limit low-entropy data?

@brian_trollz bad takes since he learned about Bitcoin. quite reliably too.

This dude is still living in 2017 in his mind.

@MartyBent I see only shitcoiners replies, is it just me?

It’s not going to be that twisted though. Zcash is an affinity scam. The dev tax alone is disqualifying. Completely corrupted supply distribution.

@HSVSphere generally arch is not ideal for that, it breaks every so often. I never had that problem with Debian or QubesOS. or fedora for that matter. I like the idea of omarchy but security imho is a non starter there. and maintenance is definitely unproven.

Truth nuke

@filpizlo nice!

Memory safe Tor, everyone

@stephanlivera @callebtc keeping the restrictions would be the equivalent of a new soft fork, assuming the original soft fork is indeed coded to stop enforcing the restrictions

@callebtc It also has crazy potential for chaos on the unwind, no? Cos what if people disagree at that point, some might want to keep the added restrictions, others won't want it etc.

there are no “temporary soft forks”. don’t believe the sloppy mind tricks. here is how it works: - a soft fork is when the rules of bitcoin are tightened. - a hard fork is when the rules are relaxed. both can lead to a chain split. bip444: first tighten the rules (soft fork) and then loosen them again (hard fork). what the knots peddlers want you to believe is that that this is not a soft-fork-hard-fork combo but a “temporary soft fork” – a newly invented concept to deceive you. this soft fork is as temporary as the patriot act. remember when they promised to repeal that? trust me bro! i swear bro! we’re going to turn it off again bro! it’s 100% going to happen because it’s in the code bro! i swear if everyone does what i say there won’t even be a chain split bro! ok, now fork. 👍

@ingram3000 @_winter_wonders @debian I learned recently (on debian 13) that if you go through the advanced installation and skip a root user it will add sudo and set the installation user as a super, IIRC

@_winter_wonders I run @debian . OG. The su vs sudo thing is annoying but whatever. I'm obviously not an expert. It's just annoying that I have to try to add my user account to super admin otherwise I have to remember a separate su root account password.

Linux Mint sucks, use Arch btw

@re9601 @Beautyon_ yeah it's more like 14 billions now, assuming he didn't spend it

@Beautyon_ So I assumed the post was older because of this one line: "126,315 BTC making him worth around $500 million today...". That works out to about $3958 per coin, which is why I assumed 2017ish timing.

Those of you “in Bitcoin” long enough, will remember the SegWit war, where Erik Voorhees and others were advocating for an increase in the block size known as SegWit2X as part of a “Community Healing” exercise. One side of the argument, the SegWit side, wanted SegWit alone and no increase in block size, to add a function to Bitcoin whilst maintaining the ability for smaller users to run a full node, and Voorhees and his side wanted bigger blocks and SegWit. The SegWit2X side lost. @beautyon_/the-dcg-is-not-bitcoin-you-are-bitcoin-c57e2d2ce846" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@beautyon_/the… But who was “Erik Voorhees”? Erik Voorhees is not a fool, and was one of the OG victims of the SEC for running “SatoshiDice”. SatoshiDice, was one of the earliest and most popular Bitcoin-based gambling platforms. He acquired the code for SatoshiDice in 2012 (originally created by a developer named “fireduck”) and launched it as an online dice-rolling game where users bet Bitcoin. Bets were processed directly on the block chain, making it verifiable for fairness via cryptographic proofs. In 2012–2013, SatoshiDice accounted for up to 50% of all Bitcoin transaction volume on the network, processing millions of dollars in bets and generating commissions for the house (around $500,000 by early 2013). To play you simply sent a transaction to specific addresses tied to bet amounts. Fireduck was…a genius. Erik clearly was a hard core Bitcoiner back then; he listed shares of SatoshiDice on the late great Mircea Popescu’s MPEx exchange as a dividend-paying stock. He knew Popescu. And listing on MPEx was not straightforward and required knowledge of GPG. He’s not stupid. The then very evil SEC filed charges against Voorhees in 2014 for “offering unregistered securities”; a clearly retarded and bogus, “we’ve got to stop Bitcoin” unconstitutional trumped up charge. He settled by paying a $50,000 fine and buying back investor shares, which ended up profiting the shareholders due to Bitcoin’s price surge! In 2013 Voorhees sold his stake in SatoshiDice for 126,315 BTC making him worth around $500 million today if he hasn’t blown it on Lamborghinis. He has at least one, in yellow, apparently…or was it orange? SatoshiDice was a vivid, working and profitable proof of concept that you could do several things only bitcoin could facilitate… The elimination of conventional user accounts and identity Provable irreversible spending online without a payment processor Stock trading using bitcoin as the backbone The chain of blocks as a multi purpose guarantor for business Bitcoin being fun This is before Nostr and all the newer fun things. Voorhees was one of the earliest and most bold pioneers. So…what happened? Voorhees had fantastically deep powers of insight personal courage as a risk taking entrepreneur but when SegWit2X came along, he failed to grasp the technical reasons why increasing the block size would have been, as is now proven, a grave error. His arguments were poor and ultimately dismissed. Many people who lost these early Bitcoin battles took the losses poorly; another is Olivier Janssens, who allegedly had “a lot” of Bitcoin. Now we see “enemies of Bitcoin” investing in Citrea. Is this a coincidence? Imagine this for a moment… These people may or may not have a great deal of pent up bitterness over how Bitcoin developed, not only without their input, but through the vigorous dismissing of their ideas as crackpot. This will have hurt them deeply. They were super risk taking and not stupid pioneers who made vast sums of money on Bitcoin, ran successful and extremely innovative services on it, and so, should have been taken more seriously (perhaps in their own minds) when it came to the future of the technical part of Bitcoin. In hindsight, you can see the sideline motivations for resisting their ideas that the now exposed Socialists would have been bitterly bopposed to. 

@giacomozucco @sesi_the_man agree. or anything else really.

@sesi_the_man Meh, don't overestimate him technically.

On a technical level, Lopp is smarter than me. But I'd still rather be part of social signaling that discourages non-monetary use of the bitcoin chain.

@TheSilentOG @Not1Rob @GrapheneOS agreed, happy owner of pixel 9 with graphene , I'm just saying it's not a middle finger to google

@LarryBitcoin @Not1Rob @GrapheneOS A) they have not publicly disclosed who they are working with. B) if you want a phone with graphene and you need it now you need to buy a pixel.

Looking to pick up a Pixel 10 Pro. @GrapheneOS team, any update on this release? Also when Graphene is working for Pixel 10, will that also mean T-Satellite works with it? Thanks for the hard work, making a donation now!

@TheSilentOG @Not1Rob @GrapheneOS buying something from Google is not exactly a middle finger to Google is it? better to support the manufacturer @GrapheneOS is working with when they come out with a device

@Not1Rob @GrapheneOS Just get a 9 pro... It's more than good enough,cheaper, it's supported by graphene and it's a middle finger to Google for their policy changes. Win win win.

@backslashvarphi @Mandral91 I don't know now but a few months ago grok was the only one that solved some iptables issue I had, at first attempt, while I tried for hours with chatgpt/Claude/Gemini/rtfm

@Mandral91 i've never found grok to be better than one of the best version of chatgpt or claude that's available at a given time. tbh. it's not unimpressive it just isn't the best imo and it's kinda slow

ChatGPT is so advanced now. I needed to find the differential nonlinear error of this DAC board i designed and was using a nanovoltmeter. stepping though DAC codes up to 10V lowers the # of digits you can see on the voltmeter so i was stumped on how i could see a reading << 1 DAC LSB. Chat was just like "bro, just make the input differential, check 2 channels against each other, (code n vs code n+1, then flip), and then extract the independent DNLs from each channel..." crazy crazy stuff man. chat used to REALLY suck at this stuff.

@PiereChangstein @nvk @GrapheneOS @DaSophisticati1 @fracshun @bl4ckh4ck5 @weare_unplugged @linkitrealgood I'd say if you can use any major distro you can use qubes, afaik there isn't much alternative with that level of integration for desktop

@LarryBitcoin @nvk @GrapheneOS @DaSophisticati1 @fracshun @bl4ckh4ck5 @weare_unplugged @linkitrealgood I am looking for a linux distro for my same use case as grapheneos... mostly that it basically works out of the box with little technical knowledge needed... is there a recommendation for people who aren't particularly technical but value security and privacy ?

@nvk @GrapheneOS @DaSophisticati1 @PiereChangstein @fracshun @bl4ckh4ck5 @weare_unplugged @linkitrealgood I would have agreed when I first tried it a few years ago, but I gave it another go a year ago or so and honestly I felt at home immediately. easy to separate gpg, ssh, VPNs, use VPNs in series, run windows, run *BSD, backups, restores, etc

@LarryBitcoin @GrapheneOS @DaSophisticati1 @PiereChangstein @fracshun @bl4ckh4ck5 @weare_unplugged @linkitrealgood Qubes is not practical or usable for daily work

@GrapheneOS @DaSophisticati1 @PiereChangstein @fracshun @bl4ckh4ck5 @weare_unplugged @linkitrealgood better than Qubes? i'd say no last I checked the apps I install on a Mac have access to all my user files (unlike android or iOS) better than debian/fedora/arch/etc? maybe better than windows? not surprising

@DaSophisticati1 @PiereChangstein @fracshun @bl4ckh4ck5 @weare_unplugged @linkitrealgood Yes, modern macOS on their recent hardware is far more secure and has gone a long way towards moving desktop OS security closer to mobile security. It's still quite a lot less secure than iOS but far more progress has been made than desktop Linux or Windows. It's not even close.

@GameDevMadeEasy @HSVSphere and don't get me wrong, I like arch, I used to run it as my daily for years, with joy and pain, but I don't think it is a robust production ready tank. it's a great learning tool, amazing for the bleeding edge but I'd prefer debian stable (qubes now)

@GameDevMadeEasy @HSVSphere Omarchy looks very nice but I for one will remain on QubesOS. I would also be very wary of the AUR, if you care about security. also, using a patched chrome could delay security updates which seems unnecessary, upstream the patches if possible or live without them.

Lmao, DHH blocked me for criticizing how badly made Omarchy was. We'll see the fallout when Arch (inevitably) does something stupid and causes the pile of cards that is Omarchy to fail catastrophically

@dhh @ChilliDoor remmina?

@ChilliDoor Docker + RDP

Omarchy 3.1 is going to ship with a Windows VM installer in the box. Fantastic way to run those few apps you can't get on Linux in their own workspace.