evilspammer's comments

I think it's a fear of _sending_ emails. You could accidentally trigger a cronjob that sends a bunch of emails and gets you put on spam filters. Error reporting for cron is, of course, important; but the builtin email reporting is best used for the local machine/network. A more flexible and robust solution calls out to an API that handles transactional emails/push notifications with debouncing, escalation policies, etc.

I haven't used journalctl in a while - do you mind explaining how it works with a binary path? Does it report all system logging that came from that executable, as if it were a service file?

That was intentional

I spoke too strongly to say they keep them online intentionally. The services do per se violate their AUP but because CF protects their identity, CF becomes the arbiter of taking them offline, and doesn't always agree to do so.

> seize millions of USD worth of assets you don't own, but that's the gist of it yes

Technically true, but he's looking for $4 b-b-billion.

Some thoughts about this that interest me:

- Things like the Bitcoin Cash fork & DAO fork arguably set the precedent that the developers control the funds. They never should have done that because now anybody can argue "you did it for them, why not me?" And this time it's being argued in the legal domain instead of just on heated GitHub comments. Judges aren't known for understanding the details of blockchains and can probably swing either way on this, especially if you jurisdiction shop.

- The "assets you don't own" part. He can't prove he had the keys, or lost the keys. But he just needs to present a compelling argument, not have an argument beyond a shadow of a doubt. The fact that the real Satoshi is unlikely to appear to defend themself makes it easier for Wright to argue Wright had the keys at some point, even if he wasn't the first or last owner.

- Combining these points: If you have established you will change the blockchain through a compelling argument; and if _nobody_ presents the keys; but if you have the best compelling argument _without_ the keys, then the coins probably belong to you.

- The big problems that lead to this situation were opening the Pandora's box of blockchain forks; & the tying of physical identities to wallets through KYC (which was the death of BTC.)

At most 95% of the world population listens to music (the rest are hard of hearing)

So if people grew up with digital media, they would never have "lost" that ritual. No wonder they don't care about it. Its only purpose is nostalgia.

When mass produced media first became possible, people probably said you could only listen to live music and the experience of not being in a venue was lost. Then everybody who grew up with a gramophone, modern turntables, Sony Walkman, etc, think the version they grew up with is the best because of nostalgia.

> People keep talking about quality to praise digital media. But most people saying this listen to music through crappy bluetooth speakers nowadays. There is a very small amount of users still using decent hi-fi equipment.

Lossless digital recordings are the _closest_ way to listening to the originally produced audio authentically. (It still will have artifacts from the equipment itself - the media is the message after all) You can use crappy equipment to listen to any audio, but digital is closest to ideal.

Cloudflare and AWS?

> All of this comes from there being no universal way to prove you are a human on the Internet. If somebody were to invent a physical device (think YubiKey) that atttested that your activity is human without it being usable to identify/track you, we might have a shot at solving this without CAPTCHAs.

Which is good. That's a desirable property. The distinction isn't available without also allowing fingerprinting. Further, the line between bot and user-agent is not perfectly clear. Something like cost-based attestation where humans and bots are treated equally is ideal.

> And before somebody makes the argument of "but that's centralised, big brother, blah blah whatever bullshit", let me remind you that every payment you make goes through either Mastercard or Visa.

That's an even bigger problem!

This in fact happened all along and we warned you and got downvoted for it until now.

Worth mentioning that Cloudflare also hosts those DDOS services and prevents them from being shut down.