nathanael

@nathanael@dalliard.ch

swiss minimalist

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[?]nathanael » 🌐
@nathanael@dalliard.ch

few understand tcp/ip — yet most use the internet. i have that feeling the same will happen with

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    [?]nathanael » 🌐
    @nathanael@dalliard.ch

    you don't seem to know about lightning or liquid. when i pay a pizza with lightning no one knows how much bitcoin i have. also i've never provided my name when i bought a pizza. the bank on the other hand knows how much money you have and for what you spend it. how is that private?

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      [?]Vinicius (PY2VMH) » 🌐
      @vinicius_py2vmh@mastodon.social

      @nathanael You need to provide an address to physically get the pizza, or you need to go in person to the restaurant. Also, the bank knows how much money you have, and what you bought, but it is private enough for most people (as the bank would be held liable if they shared your information without your consent or a judicial order).
      I do not know anything about lightning or liquid, as I do not use cryptocurrencies and have no interest on using them.

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        [?]Vinicius (PY2VMH) » 🌐
        @vinicius_py2vmh@mastodon.social

        @nathanael Though, I do have a question about your claim of nobody knowing your bitcoin balance:
        If only you know your balance, how can it be verified that you are not lying about your balance when you buy something? How can you be prevented from printing money (bitcoin)?

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          [?]nathanael » 🌐
          @nathanael@dalliard.ch

          there is no "bitcoin balance" in the way you're thinking. on the base layer, paying for pizza would only leak that one utxo — which is not all the bitcoin i own. on lightning, the payment simply fails if i don't have enough on my side of the channel — it's enforced by cryptography, not trust

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            [?]nathanael » 🌐
            @nathanael@dalliard.ch

            sure. if you prefer money that can be created out of nothing, fiat is the clear winner

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              [?]nathanael » 🌐
              @nathanael@dalliard.ch

              that is a category error. visa is a messaging layer on top of money. bitcoin is money. a fair comparison would be visa vs. the lightning network

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                [?]nathanael » 🌐
                @nathanael@dalliard.ch

                bitcoin uses energy, so does any other money. if you don't see value in bitcoin it seems like waste

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                [?]nathanael » 🌐
                @nathanael@dalliard.ch

                why doesn't it make sense without sarcasm?

                i am not a crypto fan. bitcoin is a genuinely novel discovery. everything else? shitcoins

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                  [?]nathanael » 🌐
                  @nathanael@dalliard.ch

                  why?

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                    [?]Saltmyhash » 🌐
                    @saltmyhash@infosec.exchange

                    A humorous illustration featuring two figures in a snowy landscape. One figure is crouched and asking how another knows a Mac user has been there, while the other points out a ".DS_Store" file, referencing a common MacOS hidden file.

                    Alt...A humorous illustration featuring two figures in a snowy landscape. One figure is crouched and asking how another knows a Mac user has been there, while the other points out a ".DS_Store" file, referencing a common MacOS hidden file.

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                    [?]nathanael » 🌐
                    @nathanael@dalliard.ch

                    acceptance may be one of the hardest things in life

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                    [?]nathanael » 🌐
                    @nathanael@dalliard.ch

                    if you put something out there — is it really yours?

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                    [?]nathanael » 🌐
                    @nathanael@dalliard.ch

                    it is secure. you probably mean it is not private — which is correct, though only partially. bitcoin is pseudonymous, not anonymous. for stronger privacy there are 2nd layer solutions like lightning or liquid, though these have their own limitations

                    which payment network would you consider "secure" according to your definition?

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                      [?]Vinicius (PY2VMH) » 🌐
                      @vinicius_py2vmh@mastodon.social

                      @nathanael Pretty much any big bank will be way better than bitcoin in this regard.
                      edit: Also, if you buy a pizza (or almost anything else), it is possible to link your bitcoin pseudonym with your real life name, so it is not even that much private.
                      edit2: fixed some spelling mistakes.

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                        [?]nathanael » 🌐
                        @nathanael@dalliard.ch

                        or just use bitcoin, the most sovereign, secure and independent payment network ever

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                          [?]Vinicius (PY2VMH) » 🌐
                          @vinicius_py2vmh@mastodon.social

                          @nathanael @nixCraft bitcoin is not "secure" since all your transactions are public.

                            [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: [he/him/my good fellow] » 🌐
                            @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                            Hey #FediFam,

                            Need to create a new email address for professional things, and I don't want to use "Evil, Inc.," nor non-IMAP-supporting (otherwise good) services like Proton and Tuta. (I know they have bridge software available, but still)

                            What do you guys recommend?

                            I'm currently using Mailbox.org for my personal email, but I find their web interface has become kind of slow and unwieldy as of late. I don't want full groupware (or some attempt at an emulation of the above), but just a solid IMAP email provider, and a usable web interface when I need to do things beyond what can be done from Thunderbird.

                            Any #recommendations?

                            #askFedi #HiveMind

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                              [?]nathanael » 🌐
                              @nathanael@dalliard.ch

                              i ❤️ how seamless this always goes with openbsd

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                                [?]OpenBSD Amsterdam » 🌐
                                @OpenBSDAms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                The 60th OpenBSD release is here... 7.9!

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                                Start your sysupgrade engines!
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                                [?]roman » 🌐
                                @hi@romanzolotarev.com

                                7.9 released

                                yay!

                                https://www.openbsd.org/79.html

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                                  [?]nathanael » 🌐
                                  @nathanael@dalliard.ch

                                  early bird :)

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                                    [?]nathanael » 🌐
                                    @nathanael@dalliard.ch

                                    doas sysupgrade 7.8 -> 7.9

                                      [?]Naty » 🌐
                                      @eclecticpassions@fosstodon.org

                                      027 (can't believe I wrote almost 30 of these!)

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                                        [?]roman » 🌐
                                        @hi@romanzolotarev.com

                                        7.9 is almost here ❤️

                                        https://www.openbsd.org/plus79.html
                                        https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.9/

                                          [?]ratfactor [he/him] » 🌐
                                          @ratfactor@mastodon.art

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                                          [?]Sebastian » 🌐
                                          @sherold@mastodon.online

                                          This. All of this. Every word.

                                            [?]Derek Sivers » 🌐
                                            @d@sive.rs

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                                            [?]nathanael » 🌐
                                            @nathanael@dalliard.ch

                                            this too shall pass https://ratfactor.com/cards/this-too-shall-pass

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                                              [?]nathanael » 🌐
                                              @nathanael@dalliard.ch

                                              you seem to ignore my emails in which i mentioned some typos

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