Here is a true story from my life. A good few years ago I bought a derelict farm from a property development consortium. It had an agricultural tie on the land, and they couldn't get planning consent for development. It was next to a large unused field, and the place was overrun with rabbits. There was one large black one that I suspect was an escaped domestic pet. He didn't seem to be a part of any of the rabbit communities there, and I decided to write a story around him. I used the farm as a collection point for my antiques business, and the place was full of things I had acquired from house clearers. One of the items was a sporty remote control battery car toy. My idea was that this black rabbit learnt to drive the car, and he used it to tour the area looking for does with whom he could form relationships. I was going to create a website as a pseudo blog that described his adventures and activities. I even registered a domain name - Bang Bunny . This is parked at the moment, and I really ought to decide what I should do with it. ok so this is a pretty late reply to this post but a story like that does have possibilities. not sure if youre aware of this but some remote control battery powered 1/10 scale cars have stupid amounts of power and very sophisticated adjustable suspension systems and adjustable clutches for differentials and motor coupling . they can reach over 70 MPH easily and some have 4wd. ive seen them do mud racing, hill climbs and flat out "1/4 mile" racing (actual 1/10 of a real 1/4 mile ~130 feet, and hit 70+ mph though the traps, thats what my r/c car did, and i saw cars that made mine look lame). iow your rabbit now has a vehicle that allows access to many locations that can have interesting backstories to them. plots abound in such a situation. |
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A single CLE-215+ acorn can do 50MH 'at best' mining Tribus/Denarius and that's really at best meaning if add VRM heatsinks to the device as they are poorly thermal cooled.
to bad a shit coin garbage miner offered. oh well yup 50 mh at 200 mhz clock on the 215+, and it needs cooling on the vrm chip to hit those clocks. sqrl will be sending heatsinks for it to all 215 owners who request it, free of charge. i had already added heatsinks to mine. i mine at an autoconvert pool and get paid in litecoin. i mentioned progress is being made based in the fact they said they have onboarded new devs, and we know at least one is working on stuff for the 215, as OhGodaBird seems to have had a large part of the tribus miner. the UI on the miner is much improved and more usable. looks like the groundwork for standalone stuff is being laid out. so there is still hope. the acorns main advantage is low power, 15-20 watts max when overclocked to within an inch of its life, and lower with more sane clocks. |
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also, we would need a very good weed simulator that can be uploaded as well.
And the weed simulator at such a stage of development would make weed seem like catnip. i would not want anything but the weed program, simply because most other recreation drugs alter thing too much for my taste and usually have crashes when they wear off. weed Just Works for my purposes, and i have a LOT of experience with it. its my ultimate drug of choice, no need for anything else. You could have weed that always feels like that glorious first time where you just couldn't stop laughing. Or be as high as you want without feeling sluggish. It could be more intense while simultaneously leaving you with clarity of mind that a normal human can't even have right now. Also, psychedelics have no crash whatsoever and neither does MDMA in sensible doses. I'm not into stimulants or excessive use of alcohol, but yeah I guess those have crashes. very true. never had any crashes with acid or mesc. never did mdma. but the stuff that hooked me back in the day, which i will not mention for reasons, had nasty crashes. btw ever read larry nivens known space series of books? in them he came up with the ultimate drug.. a wire is implanted directly to the pleasure center of the brain and delivers a trickle current to it. its so powerful and addictive that people can starve to death as nothing is more important than that wire. they were called wireheads, and a main character in the ringword series was a wirehead for a period of time. And no, I haven't read that book. Sounds like heroin or that rat experiment with the pleasure button that they preferred over food though. pretty much that, yes. if you read one book by niven, i suggest ringworld, the 1st of the ringworld series. multiple award winner. one of those books you cant put down. even if youre not into science fiction its worth a read, its simply that good. |
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I'm actually a bit of a collector (or want to be when I have the space) of the vintage 80s micros. My only decent one at the moment is the Epson HX-20 (first laptop), it has a built-in dot matrix and micro cassette, I use it for printing out wallet seeds and passwords private keys etc. Very cool. Also, my son enjoys learning to type on it, because of the printer.  heh i have a bit of a collection of early (early to me, i envy you guys with the serious old iron stuff) computers too. * timex sinclair ts 1000 (zx-81 clone) with 16k ram expansion and sparky printer - my 1st computer * commodore 64 with tape drive and 2x1541 floppy drives * trs-80 model 100, looks very similar to your Epson HX-20 but minus the printer (very early portable laptop type computer) with 2400 (or maybe 1200 baud) modem * trs-80 model one with expansion interface, 48k ram, tape drive, 4x5.25 floppy drives * lnw-80 (trs-80 clone, uses trs-80 5.25 drives plus two shugart 8 inch drives) * trs-80 model 4P (two) with 128k ram, bank switched, runs cp/m as well as native trsdos - a portable computer the size and weight of a sewing machine, but it has a handle and is fully self contained. find an outlet and youre up and running, has two 5.25 drives and a green screen plus a built in 2400 baud modem * apple mac classic and mac plus (plus an external apple hard drive) * apple lisa (two) - the later lisas, not the 1st model * one of the 1st ibm clones (cant remember the name), 8088 (8086?), 8 bit expansion slots.. love that HUGE red power lever. took the hard drive like 5 minutes to spin down on power off. everything boots. all work but the floppies are getting to be hit or miss now. there are various software/hardware adapters to use another computer to simulate floppies/hard drives.. gotta seriously look into them. i cut my teeth on those things. all have a fond place in my heart, many many hours of fun and learning. |
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i will never own an alexa/google/amazon voice activated device, unless there is an actual physical switch to cut the mics out of circuit.
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btw many modern tvs have mics and web cams built in now. and IoT stuff like security cameras, some of which have mics so you can use then for intercoms, are notoriously bad at security and most will never get updates.
so much the attach surfaces are pretty big.
now i dont assume my phone and watch and compromised, but with the amount of money i have in btc it would be foolish to at least consider these scenarios,
like any smartphone or laptop with a built in mic is powered off and put in another room when setting up wallet seed words. paranoia? sure but it is based on failings of the current tech used.
- Don't think only potentially "spy" devices could be an attack vector. You said you were discussing key recovery with your wife... good thing you didn't say the passphrase but not because of your smartphone an/or smart watch.... more traditional eavesdropping methods like a laser beam mic could be employed against you. Always try to consider all potential attack vectors, and pay special attention to traditional ones as thats where the easiest exploit usually comes. good point. laser mics have been around since what.. 80 or 90s? im not sure how common they are or if civilians can legally use them but thats pretty much irreverent. just the fact they exist is enough to take precautions. i wonder if music or pink/white noise played in the high 90s or 100 db level would help. but modern signal processing can probably do a lot to isolate stuff like that from conversation. but an isolated room with several soundproofed walls between it and the exterior of the house may help.. anyway at this point its been proven that alexa etc are easily false triggered and thats not even considering the possible transmit mode happening outside of the wakeup phrase. as for the phone/smartwatch at this point im just operating on worse case scenarios. overkill perhaps but i DO NOT trust google, amazon etc to actually have real security and auditing in their software. or to even tell the truth about what their devices actually do. and they can always push updates that change the device behavior anytime they want. |
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If you didnt spend 5 minutes waiting for an audio tape to load a game, you didnt live the golden age. I miss my ZX Spectrum..All the squeaks and sounds only to end with an "R Tape Loading error" 10 Rem This is my private key Save "wallet" ...good luck retrieving it  yeah. i had the timex-sinclair version of the zx-81. my 1st computer. 16k ram upgrade, and the sparky printer. i used to save each program on at least 2 cassettes. my c-64 and trs-80 model one were originally tape based too, till i added floppy drives to each. still have a shugart 8 inch floppy drive for the trs-80. thing must weigh 20 pounds. |
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i will never own an alexa/google/amazon voice activated device, unless there is an actual physical switch to cut the mics out of circuit.
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btw many modern tvs have mics and web cams built in now. and IoT stuff like security cameras, some of which have mics so you can use then for intercoms, are notoriously bad at security and most will never get updates.
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like any smartphone or laptop with a built in mic is powered off and put in another room when setting up wallet seed words. paranoia? sure but it is based on failings of the current tech used.
The only sure way is to unplug everything and remove the batteries. some devices dont have removable batteries anymore (think latest gen smartphones) and they may have super capacitor backup.. again, not removable. and most all devices nowadays are still minimally "on" even when theyre "off" via the power button. something is always running, if only to monitor the power button status. and if it can do that when "off" it can do most anything else when programmed right. camera, mics, access files ect. therefor they can be compromised even when off. they have to be far enough away that they simply cant spy on you. |
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also, we would need a very good weed simulator that can be uploaded as well.
And the weed simulator at such a stage of development would make weed seem like catnip. i would not want anything but the weed program, simply because most other recreation drugs alter thing too much for my taste and usually have crashes when they wear off. weed Just Works for my purposes, and i have a LOT of experience with it. its my ultimate drug of choice, no need for anything else. btw ever read larry nivens known space series of books? in them he came up with the ultimate drug.. a wire is implanted directly to the pleasure center of the brain and delivers a trickle current to it. its so powerful and addictive that people can starve to death as nothing is more important than that wire. they were called wireheads, and a main character in the ringword series was a wirehead for a period of time. as long as you (or the copy, whatever) can elect and is able to end its existence at some point. who wants an eternity of boredom?[/qoute] Although I personally wouldn't pull the plug on "uploading consciousness" until there is a way for me to simultaneously and willingly experience both the real and virtual me as well as turning one or the other off at will.
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There is no limit to novelty. So if you ever get bored you can always just hibernate or erase memory before coming back for more. Existence could then be like the ups and downs of the corn. I doubt that death is anything other than that, just in a more saddle way.
simply erasing learned experiences just means you will likely reach the same result (more or less) as the 1st run that led you to being bored to the point of wanting to cease existence. and i dont want some person to be able to modify my thinking or change the way i run such as restart/modify the way i run (like a "safe mode"... my consciousness doesnt do "safe mode") and no one should be able to override my choice if i chose to erase meself rather than enter hibernate or whatever. if i so chose to end it, i want the copy, and all backups gone. if i hibernate i will always be ale to be restarted. thats a negative. another thing about uploading some ones conscious that others me is the fact that others would now have access to the "source code" of you so to speak. its possible someone can change your thought to want to, say, run machinery, ships, anything that needs AI with a touch of human ingenuity and problem solving no thanks. |
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so here i am in my own house, wondering if anything i say might go out to servers that humans can access (humans review random snips of voice data).
wtf, my own home, which i have spent considerable time and money hardening both physical and electronic networks, is useless if the closed source algo that trigger sending data for no fully understood by the end user.
btw many modern tvs have mics and web cams built in now. and IoT stuff like security cameras, some of which have mics so you can use then for intercoms, are notoriously bad at security and most will never get updates.
so much the attach surfaces are pretty big.
now i dont assume my phone and watch and compromised, but with the amount of money i have in btc it would be foolish to at least consider these scenarios,
like any smartphone or laptop with a built in mic is powered off and put in another room when setting up wallet seed words. paranoia? sure but it is based on failings of the current tech used.
Faraday cage room and Cryptosteel.  sure i understand Faraday cages, even built a couple as projects back in the day. even if you put the phones/tablets etc in there, that doesnt mean they cant record things (some have batteries so will still be "on", store in local storage on the device, and send that out once its connected back to the network. i would have to move them to the Faraday cage or another room in either case, so another room is fine for my purpose. so, being the lazy sod i am, i fall back to the easier route, and adhere to KISS principal.turn off, power down, put em couple rooms away. i have long realized how stupid and forgetful i am, and now make allowances accordingly. and sometimes the old tricks are the best tricks. |
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Madame Alexa knows how many Bitcoin you have  i will never own an alexa/google/amazon voice activated device, unless there is an actual physical switch to cut the mics out of circuit. i didnt really understand fully the ramification till the other day when i was going over with my wife how to recover my btc stack in case of my death. i was going to tell her the passphrase to my trezor (it would be written down also, this was just for discussion). but when i was going to tell the the passphrase i stopped. because while i dont own an alexa/google/amazon device, i do have a smartphone and smart watch, which have mics of course. so here i am in my own house, wondering if anything i say might go out to servers that humans can access (humans review random snips of voice data). wtf, my own home, which i have spent considerable time and money hardening both physical and electronic networks, is useless if the closed source algo that trigger sending data for no fully understood reason by the end user. btw many modern tvs have mics and web cams built in now. and IoT stuff like security cameras, some of which have mics so you can use then for intercoms, are notoriously bad at security and most will never get updates. so much the attach surfaces are pretty big. now i dont assume my phone and watch and compromised, but with the amount of money i have in btc it would be foolish to at least consider these scenarios, like any smartphone or laptop with a built in mic is powered off and put in another room when setting up wallet seed words. paranoia? sure but it is based on failings of the current tech used. |
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This project turned out to be one big joke, i feel ashamed that i supported it, GPUHoarder has become a crying child, no shit people are mad after waiting almost a year, live with it, you cant start crying about it when you havent given people what they paied for. Im happy i got rid of my cle 215's, but i guess ill always have my 2 cle101 on the desk reminding me not to buy shit from new starters.
Just my 2 satoshis.
as an owner of 3 acorns and a couple nests, i cant say im pleased with whats happened. however progress is being made. another stand alone miner for acorns has been released, tribus. this one is a lot more polished. and more stand alone miners are planned. as for gpu assist, seems ip rights are a part of the delay for the gpu assist miner. it has been mentioned that stand alone miners will be much more prominent than originally anticipated. partly because of lost opportunity, and partly due to the overall price of crypto. the gpu assist miner is still on for release once the ip rights are figured out. again i cant say im happy, but i knew the risks when i ordered. as in, i put in an amount i was fine with losing and kissed that money goodbye. if it works out, great. if not, my fault for backing the wrong horse.. however the market seems to be recovering, so there is a slight chance they may actually roi. which would e nice. anyone considering ordering acorns i of course suggest waiting. |
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I'm holding out for uploading my consciousness within the next 40 years - should I last that long.
if that could be done, and aside from some interesting philosophical questions (is it "you" or just a very good copy), that might be interesting.. for a few thousand years i suppose. as long as you (or the copy, whatever) can elect and is able to end its existence at some point. who wants an eternity of boredom? also, we would need a very good weed simulator that can be uploaded as well. |
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Also, today marks two weeks of being officially dry. I'm genuinely beginning to enjoy the clarity. feelsgoodman.
congrats man! i dont drink (maybe one or two on special occasions, so maybe 5 drinks a year). simply because i dont like the buzz drinking gives or id be an alky for sure. but been addicted to other stuff. one substance to the point of almost losing everything. nasty time but a good life lesson on humility and what lack of willpower can do if you let it. |
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Survival skills may be quite different than what you think they are.
Here are a couple examples.
A) ability to build a wood-gas engine for a vehicle
B) ability to make a battery
C) create a manual control for a device which had an electronic control
D) device means of communication, short and long distances
Survival seems heavy on electrical and computer engineering, doesn't it?
to rebuild civilization, yes. someone able to reverse engineer a useful complex machine to the point of being able to create (with existing tools and materials) something, or more likely several somethings, to take its place will be in high demand. as well as those with medical and agricultural knowledge. anyone can make fire with some sticks. utilizing that fire beyond its obvious heat value for cooking/warmth? less are able to do that, and thats the 1st step to rebuilding. |
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if you could just hand me your boarding pass sir I can take care of you over here. Thank you...there you go..have a seat there on the right..you have a window seat I see. Please keep your seatback in the upright position until after zero gee..
...I just noticed your name sir...your the actual jojo69 from the Wall? gulp uhh..sir..I hate to tell you but there might have been a slight luggage malfunction that may have affected you....and several other guests I might add..
*actual veracity of the above quoted conversation is purely speculative in nature due to the fact of no reliable witnesses coming forward to submit testimony.
i like where this is going. guess the cargo hatch on my private mars surface to orbit shuttle had a malfunction. drag. |
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 Before turning it on, put your fingers in the plug to verify that there is electricity. im not sure that wire gauge is thick enough to be safe. to me it like a possible fire hazard. |
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I am not saying i want to lower the blocksize now, i meant if i had to choose between the two, i would pick lower the blocksize, as i see more benefits from that, than raising the block size.
I told you my thinking behind why larger blocks will not solve the unconfirmed transaction issue with Bitcoin. It is a bandaid fix, that will need to be re-address time and time again!
We need a solution that is outside normal way of thinking, forcing transaction off chain and to layer 2 and yes the only way to do that is too keep the blocksize where it is or smaller and with the benefits that come with that, although most people will see it as a negative....
lowering the current blockchain size to either increase fees or maybe to force people to l2, as some have suggested, seems foolish. at this size and tx load we doing fine. right now we just need plans in place in case there is an onslaught of new people trying to get on board for the next fomo train. the future though? i do believe some core devs (or some lightning devs) have admitted that for lighting to work with btc well into the futures forecast of far heavier loads, the base layer needs more room just for lightning channels to open and close in a timely manner alone. bigger blocks at some point seems to be a given. but slow growth, as needed and well tested is what i would like to see. as long as the btc base layer can run on consumer/prosumer level hardware, im good. something thats needs enterprise level stuff? no thanks. full node running at home = trust |
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Important WO Announcement: increase your BTC stash
FTFY FTFY |
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Just watch, we'll be stuck at 6502 soon enough.....
0x02; HCF the Z80 was nowhere near as cool as to have such a desirable command. DI HALT its just not the same sigh |
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Thinking of consuming 7mg of dried mushrooms and talking to Jah and The Flying Spaghetti Monster tonight.
What could possibly go wrong ?
bring pen and paper for your trip to meet Jah and co. ask them. write down the answers and list those answers here when you get back. asking for a friend. |
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