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Comment · 3 years ago
I should have clarified - I meant the mechanism of action for the new treatment.
Comment · 3 years ago
Same. I have mine set to sit at ~50% while plugged in & still have 100% of my battery health.

It’s an M1 Pro MacBook that I’ve had since launch.

Comment · 3 years ago
Do we know what the mechanism of action is?
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm not defending blockchain, just pointing out that part of the example wasn't really a good one. Property ownership being something that's already completely public.

I have a public map overlay on my phone that gives me deed information for (AFAIK) every parcel I can see in the USA.

Comment · 3 years ago
Some of it is, but things like property ownership are completely open in some countries. I have a map overlay that lets me see ownership for parcels.

Granted you can have an LLC own property, but that's a different obfuscation mechanism.

Comment · 3 years ago
> So everyone you interact with knows where you work, how much you earn, what you own, where's your house, what you buy, what groups you belong to... and they can keep tracking you forever if you tell them who you are just once.

Granted public blockchain is a lot more discoverable, but a lot of this already is public. Property ownership is public (at least in the US), credit cards sell your data, facebook knows which groups you belong to, etc.

Comment · 3 years ago
I won’t go over their history, but they’ve saved me in the past.

Here’s to hoping we get a modern FS soon!

Comment · 3 years ago
It looks like some mirrors have packages going way back (http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/), but depending on your use-case, it may be more beneficial to focus on the base system upgrades (documented in the upgrade guide) and worry about the packages later.

That many years of package changes could be troublesome to deal with, and it may be better to fast-forward to whatever the modern tooling would be.

Comment · 3 years ago
What are you using them for? I feel a lot more comfortable using OpenBSD in production than Linux for the long-term (my personal opinion). I've been using it since ~3.5, and the 6 months releases have been ticking along nearly flawlessly for a long, long time.
Comment · 3 years ago
Did you have softupdates turned on?
Comment · 3 years ago
Counter-point: it can also be extremely cheap.

I’m in a seemingly small subset of people that is very happy with AWS for side projects. Granted I’m not doing anything that requires many resources.

Comment · 3 years ago
Playing devil’s advocate - this was thought to be a real possibility during the Cold War, and it seems like we came pretty close a few times during that period.
Comment · 3 years ago
I’m not making predictions about anything, but part of their job is to prepare for worst-case scenarios.
Comment · 3 years ago
How does this statistic compare to experts?

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