opinologo | 1 month ago | on: Child prodigies rarely become elite performers
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opinologo | 1 month ago | on: Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
Iremember doing exactly this kind of hack for a small telco in Bueno Aires. Extel. Around the year 2000.
In most cases it was not much more difficult than what OP described.
opinologo | 3 years ago | on: Yerba Mate – A Long but Current History (2021)
70C / 158F would be enough.
According to the paper, it is not different than coffee or tea when it comes to the risk effects drinking it hot
opinologo | 3 years ago | on: New Zealand's plan to prepare for inevitable climate change impacts
if you read the article, it talks about the sea level rising and having to relocate a lot of people that live around the coast.
opinologo | 3 years ago | on: Flight Simulator 2022: Ultra Realism on RTX 3090 with $100 Graphics Mods [video]
isn't AMD Raizen the fastest nowadays?
opinologo | 4 years ago | on: Open Source Farming Robot
If that's the case then plastics from your irrigation system would also ruin your environment.
Metals (although in tiny portions) are part of ourselves but plastics are not.
opinologo | 4 years ago | on: Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
Take a look at this great story from Richard Stallman:
opinologo | 4 years ago | on: Towards the Science of Essential Decentralised Infrastructures (2020)
Transaction fees keep mining running.
Exchanges or other actors might add hashing power as well.
There are so many incentives to keep transactions going..
opinologo | 5 years ago | on: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
"I cried into my keyboard forking out yet more money for a llama emoji that I probably didn't need."
Kudos to the author for such a fun project
opinologo | 5 years ago | on: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
You know what else consumes heaps of electricty?
Your computer, your data centre, your AWS account the bank services you consume, your appliances and a large etcetera.
Bitcoin is the first financial break-through in a long, long time. Is designed to move control away from the few back into the hands of the people. In Argentina people love investing in Bitcoin because their currency is awful. It loses value because the government can print more. Just like in the US. No government can print more Bitcoin so the value keeps growing.
Bitcoin alternatives like Bitcoin cash (or regular Bitcoin but with a bigger block size) can be used across the border without censorship. Remember MasterCard banning donations to Wikileaks? Bitcoin cannot be banned.
Back to your comment. Now we have solar, we have wind power. All clean sources of energy. They are cheaper than coal and can power everything. Including Bitcoin.
opinologo | 5 years ago | on: The Environmental Cost of Bitcoin
that's ridiculous.
You are forgetting (among many) about the impacts of a decentralised currency for the billions of people without access to bank accounts or a stable currency.
opinologo | 5 years ago | on: Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google
I'm curious about this.
I used Nextcloud for a few years already and never, ever I had a corrupted DB in any of the upgrades.
opinologo | 5 years ago | on: A new skimmer uses WebSockets and a fake credit card form
Any idea how the attacker manages to inject their JavaScript code?
opinologo | 5 years ago | on: Google: Open Letter to Australians
sure, we also have a couple of atomic bombs only. Not much difference there either.
opinologo | 5 years ago | on: Google: Open Letter to Australians
Indeed she did make a difference in 1975 when her representative fired no other than the Prime Minister.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitution...
opinologo | 5 years ago | on: Woman stalked by sandwich server via her Covid-19 contact tracing info
There are also many reports about Google or Facebook employees abusing private data.
In Permanent Record, Snowden explains how the NSA employees watch nudes stolen from regular citizens on a regular basis.
opinologo | 5 years ago | on: Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
in a broad sense internet is for sharing information. Hence facilitating copyright abuse..
opinologo | 5 years ago | on: Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
Using the same argument you could forbid internet or computers (or even both) because they facilitate copyright abuse.
opinologo | 6 years ago | on: Toxic sofas are a secret scandal
opinologo | 6 years ago | on: Toxic sofas are a secret scandal
Any information about the usage of these chemicals in Australia?
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