That was an extremally disappointing outing for United.  They tend to be the most popular club in my neck of the woods, so I have a couple of friends who are MU fans.  I feel bad for them, and hope the new management can turn things around.

The LFC/Tottenham match is turning out to be quite exciting.  I'm rooting for LFC, because I'm afraid for the Gunners when they face Tottenham next week.  

Correct, when using CLI commands you are prompted for a password, but you can leave it blank and press the enter key.


Partially correct: You won't be able to certify (sign) another persons key without your own, but you can indeed verify signed messages without your own key pair.  Technically you don't even need to download the public signing key.  The results will indicate that the message was signed by xyz key, but also mention that they key is unknown or unavailable.  As long as you're willing to confirm that key xyz is they key you expected to have signed the message you don't actually need any keys in your keyring.

You can't post photos here because you're a newbie.  Use a hosting service like imgbb.com of imgur.com and post the links here.

I can't believe all the people who are calling this "a bit harsh."  If Twentyonepaylots' story is accurate (i.e. he merely applied for the campaign and never wore the signature) this is absolutely draconian.  I have been concerned about JollyGood's vindictive attitude before, and this is another example of why.

I understand JollyGoods' concern, and I'm convinced his heart is the right place; attempting to reduce spam and prevent scams.  However, it's my opinion that his methods are over the top, and it seems he's incapable of reversing his decisions once his mind has been made up.  It comes off as irrational and unreasonable, and only hurt the value of DT reviews.

When a similar situation occurred with the Yobit campaign, as a community we determined that tagging the participants was counterproductive.  Largely because we foresaw that situations like this would come up.  So far that concern has been realized with the 1xbit campaign; Meta and Reputation boards being filled with complaints about undeserved negative review.  As a community we came to that conclusion, but as a community we've allowed JollyGood to single handedly reverse that decision.

The interesting thing about politicians in general, and quite specifically those who are Democrats, and quite precisely those Democrats from California; when they say "freedom" they intend exact opposite.


The US Constitution is intended to keep each state as a separate entity.  It's essentially a contract that limits the power any level of government over a specific set of individual rights, but also sets limits on the Federal Government over the states.  Since it's inception, of course there have been attempts to thwart those limits by power hungry federal representatives (Senate Congress,) judiciaries (Supreme Court,) and executives (Presidents.)  But when the three branches collude, what can you do?  Picture the EU after 246 years of "globalist" interference.

As it is, the states still have a significant amount of power over their citizens, and that's by design.  Since it's a smaller government the idea is that it has more accurate representation of it's citizenry.

Of course Bitcoin is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but what is mentioned is that anything that is not within the scope of the fed is within the realm of the states.  So, it's well within the state's rights to regulate anything that is not specifically limited as an "individual right."

I was at Candlestick Park for a Rams game, it must have been y2k because Warner was filling in for Trent Green.  That was back when they really were the lambs.  They got slaughtered and Warner looked like a backup to a backup.  I wasn't following his career back in those days, but I had no choice latter on since his most productive years were as a division rival.  First with the Rams, then the Cardinals.

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Peyton Manning is probably the smartest man to have ever played the position.  There have been others, such as Steve Young who also had amazing athletic abilities.  But I think what sets the GOATS apart from the mere grates is the ability to process information rapidly, and have the ability to execute the solution accurately.  Tom Brady, obviously, Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw are among those that I would say have been bestowed with superprocessors.  I think Patrick Mahomes and Russell Wilson both have the tangible and intangible abilities, but one is just getting started, and the other has been running for his life his entire career.

I'm no fan of California's governor, Grave Nuisance Gavin Newsome, and now he's done something which I believe is a mixed blessing.  Yesterday he signed an executive order requiring regulatory agencies to create a regulatory framework for companies dealing in crypto.  I think this was inevitable, and certainly seems to be a harbinger of mass adoption, but exactly how do these bureaucrats expect to regulate crypto?  

Let's be honest, Newsome isn't a fan of crypto but he's also not dumb.  He sees the tide is coming in, and he wants to make sure he's getting a piece of the pie.  Reading the article it becomes apparent that the headlines are rather misleading, and possibly intentionally so.  The purpose isn't to encourage crypto, it's to regulate it.  

I've seen this kind of thing before.  In the aughts and teens California changed the way the internet does business.  In the early days mail order and internet purchases were not subject to California's sales tax, and through law-suits and regulation the state changed all that.  If there's a state in this country that has the sway and clout to change the way the world deals in crypto, California is the narcissistic state that thinks it has that swagger.  They may be right.

https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-biden-technology-business-california-0586164898c33eeaefa0afa835fd7b50

Yes, I must have misunderstood, sorry for that.  You are correct; when you create a GPG keypair the software does prompt you to create a password or a secret phrase.  I'll take a look at the tutorial and make sure it's more clearly mentioned.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Electrum does indeed generate a 12-word secret seed phrase, that's the back up for your wallet.  The seed phrase creation part of the process is beyond the scope of my tutorial, which focuses on verifying the PGP signatures.  If you need help using Electrum there is plenty of information in this sub-forum, or feel free to create another thread to ask your specific questions.

The version of Electrum isn't important, the method I described works for v4.2.1 and should work for future releases as well.  You don't need to uninstall Electrum to verify the .dmg file.  You just need to download the .asc signature file associated with the .dmg file, save it into the same directory as the .dmg file, and then run the verification.  If it passes then you know the software you've already installed is authentic.  If it doesn't pass verification, then you should definitely purge the installation.  Personally, if the verification fails I would purge the entire system, but I'm paranoid.



Yes, those are trusted sources for ThomasV's key.  The easiest way to save the key is by copying the text from that first link, and pasting it into your favorite text editor.  You can then save it on your system with the name that you choose.  The name of the file isn't important, but remember where you saved it so that you can browse back to that location while importing into your GPG app.

Electrum is for bitcoin only, it will not be able to access your Bitcoin Cash wallets.  Some people have been mislead to believe that they are buying bitcoin but are actually buying Bitcoin Cash which is a different cryptocurrency than the real Bitcoin.  If you want to access your Bitcoin Cash wallets there is an Electrum fork that is meant specifically for that currency, it's called Electron Cash.

The other option is using the Trezor Suite.  I'm almost certain it's compatible with Bitcoin Cash.

^ This!  I used to direct people to both bitcoincore.org and bitcoin.org, since bitcoin.org has some good tutorials and easy to follow instructions on setting up core.  If I'm not mistaken Bitcoin.org is (still?) owned by Cøbra, but he's got some legal trouble with it since a scammer is trying to claim he owns the domain name.

Until things get ironed out, I'm not too trusting of the bitcoin.org site.

Out of all the local reporters who cover the Niners, there's one in particular, Matt Maiocco who seems to have a bit more "insight" than most, especially when it suits the team.  Lately he's been saying (without saying) that Deebo will be traded, and very likely it'll be tonight.

He's also been peddling the idea that Deebo is having a personal issue, presumably with one of the staff or possibly ownership.  I was under the impression that he and Shanahan got along great, so I'm doubting it's with the coach.  Not sure what to make of it, but it could be a ploy to make it look like it's not all about the money.  The Niners aren't known for giving large contracts, and maybe he's not trusting that the team will pay him what he wants to earn.  Supposedly the parties never even got the point of making an offer.

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In other news; The first four draft picks are defensive players.  What are the odds it'll be a fifth?

I haven't been paying close attention, and only just learned about this.  My heart dropped when I heard the news.  Deebo was the brightest spark on our offense last year, he'll be hella missed if he goes.  No one seems to know why he wants to leave, maybe to get more money, have a better chance at a ring, or just to be closer to family.  Who knows.

If it's to get a better chance at a ring, that wouldn't really make much sense in my opinion.  No team is guaranteed a ring, and the Niners held their own up to the conference championship game last season.  Admittedly I was surprised by their success in the playoffs, but hey that's why they play the games.  The speculation about Green Bay seems to contradict the "Ring" reason, also.  Sure, he'd be playing with (arguably) the best QB in the league, but that's no slam dunk.  Exactly how many times has Green Bay won their division and failed to reach the NFC championship?

Although I will say that my hopes for the Niners reaching the super bowl are actually diminished from last year, but largely because I fear the unknown.  Trey Lance is unknown, and Garoppolo won lots of games.  Maybe Deebo sees it this way too, but he's too young to be worried about a ring this season.  Unless, of course, there's an unknown reason that contributes to his urgency.

The camera schemes seem might be fun, and the microchipped football is bound to make the game go faster.  Something the NFL is overdue on implementing.  One of the things that (I think) gave the 2020 XFL a chance was they tried to quicken the pace of the game, and take fewer commercial breaks.  There were some funny rule modifications that added a bit of drama also.


There is an answer; turkey season is open until May 1^st.

I made some significant updates to the OP to include and address the recent changes made by the development team to the way they sign the releases.  I also thought it was appropriate to provide a signature of my own for the tutorial, just in case.

This isn't a bad idea.  It would be neat to have an overview of DT1 activity.  I think a monthly update would suffice.  It can be done right after the monthly lottery, so the stats would cover all DT1 activity for the whole previous month.


Be carful what you wish for.  I've been on DT1 for the last few months even though I'm rarely active these days.  Not that I care about my position on DT1, but it's obvious that many do.  If those who wanted to get to and remain on DT1 were incentivized to leave feedback, I imagine we'd see a lot more frivolous reviews.  Considering the cliques that develop within the DT1 voting pool, it could become difficult to rein in.

At least the trivia questions are cool, like about history and animals and shit like that.  If they about popular culture and hollywood or some stupidity like that I would be in the negative range by now.

Meaningless edit to pad my score:  this was about Dracula, AKA Vlad the Impaler, AKA Vladimir Putin.

Another edit: Oooh, biology this time.  The answer was The Theymos Gland.

Of course it's necessary, I even have it on my calendar: