demesisx

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[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 5 points 2 months ago

Get this fucking Google ad out of here.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is really cool.

It reminds me of the Edinburgh Decentralisation Index: an academically rigorous decentralization index that the university of Glasgow school of informatics devised to quanitfy the decentralization of cryptocurrencies:

The Edinburgh Decentralisation Index (EDI) studies blockchain decentralisation from first principles, archives relevant datasets, develops metrics, and offers a dashboard to track decentralisation trends over time and across systems.

https://informatics.ed.ac.uk/blockchain/edi

You should give it a serious look. IMO, it would offer some insight into academically peer-reviewed ways of quantifying this kind of thing.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 25 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I think you need a lesson on recognizing cynical sarcasm.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Geerling is a YouTuber

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you can use another method, disabling SSH entirely would do it. ;)

This is how Talos Linux achieves best-in-class security properties.

https://www.siderolabs.com/blog/how-to-ssh-into-talos-linux/

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 59 points 3 months ago (24 children)

You need to disable JavaScript to read my blogspam.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 57 points 3 months ago (28 children)

I read four words then was hit with this.

You’ve just hit the article limit with your free Sifted account.

Ok, ok. If you insist. I won’t read your article.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago

I’d argue that FPTP is the real barrier. It makes it a FACT that we can only have two parties.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Your history is glorious. Thanks for routinely being the only person making actual sense in the comment section. ✊🏽

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 11 points 4 months ago

I used to keep a list of repos to pull onto my NAS in case they someday went closed source. I use “mr” for it. It worked great. I had it on a systemd timer.

https://myrepos.branchable.com/

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Are there obvious, inherent pitfalls to deregulation of anything at all? Yes.

Is it absolutely necessary for it to exist? Also yes. Self sovereignty is both dangerous and absolutely necessary…unless you WANT Uncle Sam to be able to put a short time-limit on spending your tax return once they adopt a Central Bank Digital Currency (and they will). With a CBDC controlled by the Fed, we will be subject to money that expires and other features that feel like bugs that go hand in hand with a central power controlling a currency.

Agree to disagree then. You don’t seem to grasp my points and I don’t grasp yours. Peace.

As my rant above detailed, I’d be happy to give up my belongings if I lived in a truly communist society. But I don’t. So, I hold onto my possessions tightly since it is literally the way I survive.

 

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