Is Manjaro Done? Stick a Fork in It
I ran Manjaro for a while as one of my first Arch based distributions, and it was very good. They hold back Arch updates a bit with the intention to prevent breakage, but sometimes packages get out of sync with…
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Bitcoin Is So Resilient It Could Survive As Much as 90% of the World’s Undersea Cables Failing Simultaneously
There are a lot of personal nodes distributed around the world, so I doubt the secondary conclusion about a directed attack at hosting providers. And really, anyone interested in using Bitcoin should have their own node to verify the transactions…
How Wallet Fingerprints Damage PayJoin Privacy
A technical write up on how Payjoin transaction wallets can leak information to identify who paid and who received, breaking the purpose of Payjoin transactions meant to conceal that information in Bitcoin transactions. Though in fairness to both Bull Bitcoin…
Apple Can Delist Apps “With or Without Cause,” Judge Says in Loss for Musi App
The crackdown on what apps you can run just got a legal victory in the states. I believe internationally Apple allows some side loading in certain countries due to a legal settlement. Consequently, Android is trying to lockdown users being…
Privacy Search Proxy SearXNG
I’ve previously wrote articles on SearXNG with how to run them with Docker, and I’ve setup a Docker server with a SearXNG instance with SSL certificate via NgingxProxyManager using Let’s Encrypt (same server as this blog). Feel free to use…
From Shipcoiner To Bitcoin Core Maintainer In Just 2.5 Years
Holdonaut put together a good amount of information on how we got these young silly women added as Bitcoin devs, and it kind of seems like this Newbury guy might have groomed (seduced?) and manipulated them as people he could…
Fernando Alonso: Aston Martin Losing Out in F1’s ‘Battery World Championship’
They’ve really trashed Formula 1 on the march to Formula E and phasing out ICE use. I might have given them a pass if they made the front wheels electric drive, computer controlled with the rear which would have justified…
Gamblers Trying To Win a Bet on Polymarket Are Vowing To Kill Me if I Don’t Rewrite an Iran Missile Story
Here in the states online gambling has gotten out of hand after a court struck down a law. It’s infiltrated sports heavily, where odds and betting expert segments now litter the coverage. Lately on Discovery+ we keep seeing this gambling…
Time to Pay the “Component Protection” Fee
VWs and Audis are trash products anyway, but you shouldn’t deal with a company that does this. I think Jeep, Ram… made it so you had to use their diagnostic systems as well, so you couldn’t use a cheap OBDII…
Ring Divorced Flock… Now they Spy with Axon
This is hilarious. So the backlash caused Amazon and Ring to drop the Flock team up, but still have a deal with Axon which does the same thing. The other interesting part is stolen police logins making it to the…
Tennessee Grandmother Jailed After AI Facial Recognition Error Links Her to Fraud
That’s the problem with all these surveillance systems, as cops just get lazier and all kinds of injustices occur. Factor in the expenses of time held in jail, using Marshalls to extradite her, and the huge payout that will happen…
Bitcoin Silent Payments, Explained
This is a very promising addition to Bitcoin which provides an easy reusable address for incoming payments, tips, and donations without making it easier to track your wallet activity, but the downside is it’s not widely supported quite yet. Also,…