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I should blog about this one day but...

I have a server at OVH (not affiliated to them) which, at this point, I keep only for fun. It has 3162 days of uptime as I type this.

3 162 days. That's 8 years+ of uptime.

Does it have the traffic of Amazon? No.

Is it secure? Very likely not: it's running an old Debian version (Debian 7, which came out in, well, 2013).

It only has one port opened though, SSH. And with quite a hardened SSH setup at that.

I installed all the security patches I could install without rebooting it (so, yes, I know, this means I didn't install all the security patches for some required rebooting).

This server is, by now, a statement. It's about how stable Linux can be. It's about how amazingly stable Debian is. It's also about OVH: at times they had part of their datacenter burn (yup), at times they had full racks that had to be moved/disconnected. But somehow my server never got affected. It may have happened that at one point OVH had connectivity issues but my server went down.

I "gave back" many of my servers I didn't need anymore. But this one I keep just because...

I still use it, but only as an additional online/off-site backup where I send encrypted backups. It's not as if it gets zero use: I typically push backups to it daily.

They're only backups, they're encrypted. Even if my server is "owned" by some bad guys, the damage he could do is limited. Never seen anything suspicious on it though.

I like to do "silly" stuff like that. Like that one time I solve LCS35 by computing for about four years on commodity hardware at home.

I think it's about time I start to do some archeology on that server, to see what I can find. Apparently I installed Debian 7 on it in mid-october 2013.

I've created a temporary user account on it, which at times I've handle the password (before resetting it) to people just so they could SSH in and type: "uptime".

It is a thing of beauty.

Eight. Years. Of. Uptime.
Care to explain the reason behind currently skyrocketing inflation and PLN devaluation then?
Apologies for not sharing earlier these details. I use a separate account for my google dev console, which I do not check frequently. I was traveling internationally from Nov 5 to Dev 6. So, so did not check emails in that a/c at all during that time. So, all of this happened in my absence. I did not get a chance to do anything. Imagine, coming back and find your home all destroyed, so yeah, that happened. Someone might say - it's my personal situation, but still. Hopefully, someone else might learn from my experience. In retrospect when I look back, I could have setup an email fwding in my dev account.

About 5-6 months ago, they raised an compliance issue about an image on my game's page. It was sudden and out of nowhere. The image was about a fighting image. I was not sure what's wrong, but I still removed it. Shortly, they again raised a concern about some keywords. I removed those also. But, this time I was not around, so did not get an opportunity.

I shared all of that in an appear to Google, but no effect :-(
So the issuer just pays interest forever until it happens to be paid off?

Similar to how a credit card is paid off? Or line of credit? That’s kind of interesting, crowd invested credit lines. Doable now, only by investing in a lending corporation, but not on the open market.

CREAM Finance’s Ironbank in the defi/open finance space is attempting something like that, where protocols get a credit limit and can borrow to finance their operations. Interest payments shared with investors.
* Bitcoin is and has been available in countries where there are currency problems and it has yet to solve any of them. This canard has been trotted out for over a decade, there have been plenty of chances to demonstrate this notion, and none of them have panned out. When do we stop flogging this obviously-false excuse?

* Transaction fees and exchange rates into and out of the crypto economy make transferring money in bitcoin incredibly expensive. Also, slow.

* What part of bitcoin is anonymous exactly?
A person can hide the fact that they have a wallet. Confiscating information, that can be stored as a secret passphrase in your brain, is extremely difficult.
* It is a store of nothing, in fact it is drain of enormous amounts of electricity and computational power.

* I wish it were cheaper or simpler, it was true in its early days but not anymore once there is speculation & "store of value"

* I agree that some countries like Venezuela can benefit. In a pure capitalist society one still has to risk their money to buy shares at the minimum. In the case of Bitcoin one only has to sit on it and wait for Venezuelan assets to come and back it up. Poor Venezuelans are are going to part with their assets to make some speculator rich, let us not forget the other unsavoury type who most need anonymity.

* There is a very high chance that major countries are going to bar private crypto being backed by regulated institutions like banks.
Bitcoin isn't, but there are alternatives that are. Like Monero. It just doesn't get as much hype.
The most direct analogue (ahem) would be a music-box dial or perhaps a Jacquard loom.

The washer cycle(s) were driven by a clock which rotated a drum or cylinder with pegs that would start and stop specific actions. So, fill, agitate, drain, spin, rinse (fill, agitate, drain, spin), and spin-dry. The mechanisms were bog simple.

Whether you consider these analogue gear logic, or digital pin memory is somewhat arbitrary and a semantic distinction. Either way, the "programme" is fixed, and there is no interactive logic, only a pre-defined behaviour which is followed. Fill and drain were controlled via float switches, I believe.

Users could modify the routine somewhat by selecting different sections of the dial (which programmed different wash cycles) and by where within each the wash started (longer or shorter pre-soak), by selecting fill levels, and by selecting water temperature.
I am glad the ft audience think BTC is a bad idea. They are mostly well-off elite in developed countries. Bitcoin is meant to erode their power.
Mathematical proof? This is code we're talking about.

I don't have to show mathematical proof, but in fact, the code is open source, so you can go and see for yourself what I said is true and immutable.
This type of issue of OneMesh discovery could be a wifi chip firmware functionality that isn't programmable via host OS. In such a scenario, even if you could run your own host OS, it wouldn't be of much help.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing. Can you share more on the bug you mentioned?
If this is turning into a Microsoft bashing thread I'll join in as well. I don't understand how text handling (highlighting, moving around etc.) works/feels different between Teams, Excel, Outlook, Word, the OS. They're all developed by the same company. Why do they integrate so messily?
This is actually an area of research, "releasing" the locks of the epigenetic code and getting differentiated somatic cells to behave like pluripotent stem cells again, in order to use them to recreate damaged tissue.

However, while that would be fine in a test.tube, it would be very bad if it happened inside the bodys existing differentiated tissue.
A bit crass, but in Punjabi (India), we used to say “Bund ni maardey”, literally translated to “we don’t do it in the ass”. Not sure why it became synonymous with “we don’t give a fuck”.
> At this stage I think it would have been faster, cheaper and lower risk to have either developed a launcher that could have fit it inside a fairing with a more conventional and less compact shield...

They are, for a generous value of "they". For the cost of making this observatory fit on an Ariane 5, SpaceX is developing a 9-meter reusable launch system that can be run in a carbon-neutral fashion. It would still require folding, but nothing beyond conventional folding techniques that have been used since the 1970s.
How can an idiom be universal?

I teach ESL as a volunteer, and I do have deep sympathy for students--mostly native speakers of Spanish--who have to deal with irregular verbs and English pronunciation/spelling.
Any place I've worked at that managed their own servers (to be fair, the last time I worked at a place like that was 2010) definitely had more protracted downtimes than AWS - it just felt not as bad because we were in control of the situation, but at the end of the day that didn't get us up any faster.

Another side benefit of being with AWS is when you do have an outage, a lot of other people have outages, and so you sort of blend in with the noise. It's not great to be down, but if you're down and also "big service X" who's also an AWS customer is down, it makes your downtime look less like a lack of competence and more like an unavoidable force of nature.
like not being able to delete a chat?

I had a chat with an outside org, and now it is forever in my Teams history, and I cannot get rid of it.

which has the potential to be pretty embarrassing (if the chat was not work-related) or a violation (if the chat was under i.e. an NDA and the relationship ended thus "you have to delete all notes etc").

I'm sure the creative can think of additional ways this could be awkward.
Pretty miniscule. Putting things into perspective, it's still fully possible to hit 120 FPS on my GTX 1050ti in Overwatch. A more direct comparison can better elucidate the tradeoffs though: https://youtu.be/voXc1nCD4IA
Teams is sometimes comically bad... For instance, 4 people in a video chat, not an uncommon use case. The simples and most logical screen layout would be 1/4 of the screen each. No: one person gets 1/2 the screen, with a tall vertical slice. Two people get 1/4 of the screen, normal aspect ratio. And you get a tiny window in the top corner.
Sadly both sides dismiss evidence on all sorts of grounds and I already regret posting here because yes, REALLY, I take no side no matter what various posters started claiming. I am just not happy with how one-sided the reporting on this whole thing has been. And it still is. There is nuance and it's immediately screamed out of existence.

Anecdotal evidences also shouldn't be swept under the rug either. It's not good science in the objective sense because "statistical significance" is a rather random construct (and several months ago there was even a good article about it posted here on HN with a pretty interesting discussion with mathematicians and statisticians).

I am out though. Seems even if somebody tries to argue in a less extremist way they are immediately labeled as loonies because they don't belong to the currently strongly believed state of things. Enjoy your echo chamber where posters saying "hey but this doesn't seem as clear and cut as you make it out to be" are labeled as conspiracy theorists or monsters.

What a sad, sad age has this become. :|

We'll see in another 5 or 10 years though. I am keeping my mind open. Do you?
Indeed my first assessment way back when it was <$1 was that it was a Ponzi scheme. However, the market has been saying something I ignored for years... so I took another look at things and this time really took the time to study it. By study it I mean:

1) Read the Whitepaper

2) Read the Bitcoin Standard Book (and subsequently the Fiat Standard book)

3) Listened to The Saylor Series on YouTube, and

4) Did the MIT Blockchain and Money course.

I then re-considered criticism from:

1) Various Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger interviews

2) The Blackpaper by Nassim Taleb, and

3) Various interviews with Peter Schiff.

My conclusion is that most arguments raised by the above respectable figures in criticism of Bitcoin are ignorant of evidence contrary to their arguements and display a surprising lack of knowledge or understanding that careful study would have overcome. I say that as I was that ignorant person. There are some valid criticisms, however they are in the same category as any new emerging technology.

I then decided to venture into crypto with money I could completely lose and not worry about, and it really helped my understanding further.

I'm now convinced this is like the pre-dotcom bust whereupon Amazon, Google, Facebook etc emerged to generate enormous value. There is enormous Alpha here to be made but I'm not arrogant to believe I know what will emerge as the market winners, but I have a stake in it now, and I'm further educating myself. I encourage dedicated study and an open, but critical mind, before making any aspersions on crypto.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/441490/black-hol...
How come they dont have power backups?
Cloud Security Breaches and Vulnerabilities: 2021 in Review
Didn’t Google fork WebKit to make Chrome? If I remember correctly, the first few versions of Chrome were actually fully WebKit.
This is not black and white as it might seem.

Please check who is Mr. Giertych - and he is not a hero attorney fighting for the good of the people, he was involved in a rather unclear businesses, which are now investigated by the prosecution. Giertych got a lot of publicity when he managed to skillfully avoid interrogation - when Police arrived to transport him he was faking sickness.

To make things funnier, Giertych was a member of the far right wing of the currently ruling party (Law and Order), he was even a ministry of education at some point.

Right now he pretends to be persecuted by the government just in case he will be sentenced.

Ewa Wrzosek, on the other hand, is known from exactly one case: she started investigation to check if presidential election was "safe for the society" (because of covid, obviously). The crux here is that due to the deficiencies that Polish constitution has it didn't anticipated situation in which the election cannot happen, so there were no possible legal solution to avoid the election without destabilizing political system.

So, from the beginning, it was clear that Ms. Wrzosek action was a purely political demonstration (she was a well known critic of the government). Later she admitted that "probably everything was ok" , and "eventually investigation would have been cancelled, but why not double check" [1]...

Regardless if someone likes or not current Polish authorities (I am definitely not) the attempt to undermine the election and destabilize country by some prosecutor does not sound well.

[1] https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polityka/ewa-wrzosek-kim-jest...
Second only to Azure dev oops. Next in line is Jira... why do corporations love this kind of software?
TIL. thanx for -a.
All institutions should constantly be forced to justify their necessity.

One thing to keep in mind about having different currencies out in the wild and usable within the same system, we've already had something like this. Before nation states had central banks you could find regional currencies all over the place. It was a mess. One of the main issues is that most of them weren't guaranteed in any way, similar to what we see with crypto today. Its only a matter of time before this bites people in the butt again. And the nation states and their central banks will still be there cashing in on the calamity.
There is the X11 security extension but as far as I understand this only isolates X clients into two domains. Untrusted apps cannot keylog / screenshot your trusted applications, but every untrusted client can keylog / screenshot any other untrusted client. If every client is untrusted this is pretty much useless. If there is a method other than running a dummy xorg server for each application I am very interested.
He probably speaks from personal experience with Twitter. Just read his body language over the last few years.

I still don't trust anyone who willingly agrees to work for a company that has committed to anti-USA, anti-liberty, anti-freedom and other tyrannical rules and procedures.

I still won't hire anyone with "Twitter" on their resume because if they couldn't make the moral and ethical judgement to leave; they are fundamentally compromised and should never be trusted again. Black listed!!
Edge = Chrome
There was a period of time where bitcoin was almost exclusively used for illegal substances / activity - predominately for drugs (the only time I ever used bitcoin was to buy adderall on silkroad), but also for things like hiring hitmen, weapons, and child pornography.

To see cryptocurrency grow to what it is today, especially given the context of what it originally was used for is a bit demoralizing.
That depends on them being up the rest of the time. If they have an equal number of outages as AWS, it has the risk to make them look worse (since all attention is on them when they're out).
These two outages have been incredibly anomalous, I doubt you'd get much revenue betting that they'll be a common occurrence.
The exchanges scenario you propose is an interesting one, and could happen.

Hopefully lightning makes more exchanges pop up and diffuse this.
"F*ck your mother's onion" - My favourite one
You can work in projective space or with any representative in the full space, or keeping track of global phases, it really doesn't make any difference. But all physicists are aware of this afaik. As you say, it is well known, so no need to mention it.
That depends on what you mean by AWS. I had production workloads in us-east-1 which haven’t been affected by any of these, and others which had only modest degradation. We had control plane issues but the running services were fine.

Put another way: even if your home ISP has had 100% uptime, are you comfortable saying that was true for all of their customers?
Very good on summarizing the problem. No, it's not sales, it's because some people are outright horrible and will do anything in their power to get those imaginary trophies. If someone has a decent solution on this that doesn't rely on client-side DRM, I'll (and many, many others) would gladly hear your solution, as long as it's actually workable and not "ban them" (everyone tried that but it's easy to evade) or "actually, give your personal info" (I think everyone will agree this is worse than most DRM solutions).
> Confiscating information, that can be stored as a secret passphrase in your brain, is extremely difficult.

>> If they can be recreated, the person can be monitored to determine how to recreate the wallet and then be drained.

Being unable to use the Bitcoin is the same as confiscating it.
89.9999 % has a lot of 9s, dare I say military-grade.
https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/inflation-rate. Also, while it's kind of hard to say for sure how Poland is doing, and while there definitely are some things that the current government is horrible at, it would be quite a stretch to say it's the "500+" program's fault. Especially given that "podatek liniowy" still exists.
may be they ran out of dynos
I don't. My father seemed to do this a fair bit, and I can remember my brother showing up with strep.
Works in software development as well. I've seen magicians make piles of money disappear by switching to k8s. We never figured out how they did it.
By they I meant NASA, 20 years ago when the project was started. Yes Starship might be able to do that but by the time it was even conceived JWST was so far along there was no turning back.
You have to distinguish between absolute benefits, and benefits in our current society. I also think absolute or real benefits are very slim, but there are certain motivations for it today:

In our current society, one "benefit" is that you can use it to buy drugs anonymously. I would argue for some soft drugs like cannabis, that is a good thing. But even better to just legalize it - then you can get the benefits of regulation (harder for people to slide into heavier drugs, you have a bit more control over consumption, you can tax it...).

Another benefit is that you could take your money that you earn in your day job and funnel it into activism. In many countries, there are a lot of scary political developments, combined with a growing surveillance state. Crypto can help that you are not cut off critical resources if you are a dissident.

Finally, I wouldn't dismiss the aspect that it promises you to "get rich quickly". We have a very stratified society, where most people are individual laborers, and only a few are successful entrepreneurs and employers. Yes, in silicon valley you can earn a lot even as an IC, and there are many stories of successful founders. But to be honest, the way to the financial elite, the "ruling class", is barred for 99% of people, even for the most talented. A lot of people in tech probably find this unjust, and I can really relate to this feeling. But most would never question the system as a whole. Instead of trying to completely change society, we look for a literal hack or cheat, and crypto is this hack. It is the nerds' revenge, and we phantasize it will allow us to get what is our due.
Does anyone have a recommendation on what to do with their cash while they're waiting to buy shares using dollar cost averaging?

Like, let's say I have $120, and I plan on buying $10 of stock per month. Is there a good way thing that you can do with the money while it just sits?
It's not. As if it was beyond the Israelean government itself to resort to such tactics ... In fact, I know only very few governments where I would be willing to swear on my life that they would never use such tactics.
I have found some skilled people for PhotoShop tasks on fiver, but it took a few tries to find the right people.
I love unfounded FUD articles like this. I hope it dips the price so I can get bitcoin at a discount
Seems interesting. I'm gonna share this with my teammates.
How do I opt out of the massive amounts of electronic waste and carbon emissions from Bitcoin?
As a user, I have yet to find an electron app I have tested and kept using.

There are many tools available as electron apps that I have to use for my daily job that I prefer running in a browser window instead of the buggy electron app such as teams or slack. And I don't see any downside in using the website instead of the electron app, quite the contrary in fact. Even on mobile there are some tools that I prefer to run on the browser, mostly for better control of my privacy.

If you develop on the web, develop on the web. If you want to build desktop app, develop your apps like desktop apps. Users will thank you.
the CIA figured out how to extract passphrases from people's brains decades ago.
Anything can fail, even your backup, and especially if it's mechanical.
Invision image uploads are down too because of this : https://status.invisionapp.com/
This is why I made an app to auto switch browsers. There were others but none worked inside browsers wothout extra clicks.

Otherwise it can be a pain to switch often.
Warning, loud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzJhdkIZ8yc
> (I'm also not giving up my nice Mitutoyo vernier caliper, but that's more of an aesthetic thing).

My digital Mitutoyo was only $250 USD or so, the solar version (has its drawbacks in dark corners but a flashlight works or go dial.) I then have a Starret dial and verniers in 6, 10 and 16 inch lengths. The Mitu does most of the measuring though.
WebKit is also fully usable on other platforms too, but I seldom ever reach for it unless I'm forced to by the OS.
Yeah, and I can't publish a crate.
Did you see those bodies? Did they look deformed or not? Compressed, leathery?

Would you say you can deform an egg without destroying it?
I don't get why this is being downvoted. Living in an unstable third world country I know these points are true.

There's less and less jobs, the few there are offer miserable wages(less than 3000k/year), and crypto is pretty much the only way to get paid working remotely for other countries as freelancer or contractor.

If you go the official route(only around 5% of workers do it even locally anyways) then more than half of your money is confiscated by the state and forced to convert to a local currency that's worth nothing two months down the road due to high inflation rates.

It doesn't seem like people in stable countries understand what it's like to live in places like this so I guess it's no wonder all they see is a bunch of "crypto bros" making money.