I’ve been into decentralized networks from a young age. I’ve already been running a tor node around 2009/2010. First time I’ve stumbled onto bitcoin was on the “banking” section of the hidden wiki, and of course I’ve dismissed it as just another scam.

Then around a year later somebody published a relatively detailed blogpost about the inner workings of bitcoin on a local linux enthusiast news site, and it all just clicked. I was instantly hooked.

Of course security comes with layers, and if you’re not comfortable hosting services publically, use a VPN.

However, 3 simple rules go a long way:

1. Treat any machine or service on a local network as if they were publically accesible. That will prevent you from accidentally leaving the auth off, or leaving the weak/default passwords in place.

2. Install services in a way that they are easy to patch. For example, prefer phpmyadmin from debian repo instead of just copy pasting the latest official release in the www folder. If you absolutely need the latest release, try a container maintained by a reasonable adult. (No offense to the handful of kids I’ve known providing a solid code, knowledge and bugreports for the general public!)

3. Use unattended-upgrades, or an alternative auto update mechanism on rhel based distros, if you don’t want to become a fulltime sysadmin. The increased security is absolutely worth the very occasional breakage.

4. You and your hardware are your worst enemies. There are tons of giudes on what a proper backup should look like, but don’t let that discourage you. Some backup is always better than NO backup. Even if it’s just a copy of critical files on an external usb drive. You can always go crazy later, and use snapshotting abilities of your filesystem (btrfs, zfs), build a separate backupserver, move it to a different physical location… sky really is the limit here.

Being mainstream is exactly what I liked about reddit. It was the reincarnation of usenet. It has attracted all kinds of people doing all kinds of thing. Are you interested in swastika knitting? Piano jumping? Bathsponge sculpting? You can sure as hell find at least 2 other guys already doing it there.

It has to go with the brain…

When we take decisions without knowing, ignorant decisions, we not only hurt ourselves, but those close to us. It’s simple statistics.

I wouldn’t betray a love of my family or friends by willingly endangering them for my religious believes. See, the love argument goes both ways. :P

Even if we accept that religion is not fundamentally based in “untrue”, it certainly glorifies the blind faith. At least the christianity does.

One of the verses that made me doubt the whole thing was john 20:29:

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

I’ve been listening to that verse sunday after sunday after sunday… and it felt more wrong every week.

common religious form is not specially intolerant

There are several aspects in which religion can harm the society.

The most pressing issue, currently, is that the moderate believers, who are in it mainly for the traditions and cultural identity tend to support the fundamentalists seeking power, because at the end of the day, they do believe in the same set of rules and laws. The moderates are just not making a big deal out of breaking them.

The other, rarely discussed topic, is the normalization of disinformation. Every new generation is being indoctrinated to believe fantastical statements, by the power of authority, yet when they grow up and replicate the behavior in form of alternative medicine, political propaganda, tendency to believe in fictitious conspiracies, we’re surprised. Because every religion shares the one fundamental property. It’s based on a believe in what is not true.

• edited because I went slightly offtopic at the end.

A Lemmy instance for religious people to discuss religion

What could possibly go wrong :D

simply used AI tools

Therefor, made with AI.

To appease the artists worried about “fake” art somehow replacing the "real"art, while the big social somehow profits. They just didn’t think leopards would eat THEIR faces…

I feed defeated. The damn parrot made me watch the entire ad section.

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I have not. But now after I’ve not seen any kind of explanation, I still don’t.

Distraction free? Look at all those number buttons looking like little faces. They WILL judge you, as you type. I’m pretty sure about that.

Gee, I wonder why? Why would they be afraid of a country preparing to conquer new teritory by force?

If you come from IT, you never really quit. A little parser bug here, a small race condition there, or a fucking baking oven refusing to bake until you tell it what time it is. No hope, no escape.

Turns out, there are alternatives on the way as well - https://shop.canaan.io/products/avalon-nano-3-sept-furture-with-eu-psu?VariantsId=10379

It’s not only cheaper, but also more powerful.

consumer space heater

Love the idea, but I somehow doubt it will happen.

In the past, the useful lifetime of the asics themselves was the main problem. Each generation made using smaller and smaller manufacturing process. Now that we’re pushing the limits of what’s even possible with EUV, the chips might last longer. However, the supporting infrastructure is still not fit to be operated by just anybody.

Making the whole system consumer friendly and reliable increases the cost, which puts any user in disadvantage compared to an industrial operation.

The economy of scale would normally take care of that, but mass adoption of mining heaters would probably make the difficulty shoot through the roof, negating any possible saving on heating, at least compared to other alternatives like heat pumps.

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say I didn’t want 700 watts, I only wanted 400

Brains OS can already fine tune individual chips according to your preferences on some bitmain machines.

I don’t know who Steve is, but I hope he ends up in russia.

I’m surprised as well. We put our posts up for anyone to replicate and republish, yet we still get mad when somebody replicates and republishes it. It does not make sense. Activitypub is an open network with zero privacy expectations.