shortwavesurfer
@shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Sabotaging Bitcoin 1 day ago:
Lol
- Comment on Sabotaging Bitcoin 1 day ago:
A similar attack actually took place on Monero in August of 2025. A mining pool called qubic decided to create their own cryptocurrency and mine Monero and then sell that Monero for Tether and buy their own coin back. This incentivized Monero miners to mine with them because they could get more in rewards than the Monero network itself was giving them. The attacking pool was able to gain between 33 and 35% of the network hashrate, but the other 66% would not join because it was against the Monero network’s interest. That 66% believe in Monero enough that they did not want to see Monero fail.
The Monero network has two-minute blocks, and the attacking pool managed to do an 18-block reorganization, or 36 minutes worth of blocks. This did cause the Monero price to drop somewhat, but the network handled it by just people organically asking for longer confirmations while the network was under attack. Most people on the Monero network consider a transaction to be finalized after 10 blocks or 20 minutes, and since the attacker was able to cause an 18 block reorganization, people started asking for around 30 blocks worth of confirmations.
In the end, the attack failed because the attacking pool realized that people still wanted to use the network even if it was under a denial of service attack and just asked for longer confirmations that they could not sustain the hashrate to undo.
- Comment on Gold and silver head for biggest annual price gains in over 40 years 1 day ago:
Wow, somebody who actually understands this. That’s amazing.
This is exactly why I no longer denominate my net worth in fiat currencies.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 day ago:
In another comment, I specifically acknowledged that you could not track a device that is powered off, but as soon as it is powered back on, it would be trackable again.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 days ago:
Sorry, dictation. T-Mobile supports TOTP authentication, which you might know better as Google Authenticator, but the actual name of it is TOTP, or time-based One-Time Pads.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 days ago:
Team Mobile Connect offers five gigabytes of data, unlimited talk and text for $15 per month. That’s what I’ve been using for years now.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 days ago:
My carrier supports TOTP for this.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 days ago:
Somebody can’t steal your phone and pull the SIM card out so that it can’t be tracked.
As long as you don’t have the ability to enable airplane mode or disable cellular data from your notifications shade, you can’t stop it from being tracked if it’s stolen unless it’s physically powered off. And as soon as it’s physically powered on again, it’s immediately trackable.
- Comment on Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense 1 week ago:
Yeah, a couple of years ago, a flagship device such as an iPhone would have cost something like 6.6 Monero, and now it’s down to around 3. Some mid-range devices can be head for under one Monero, where they use the cost around three.
- Comment on Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense 1 week ago:
i am running a OnePlus Nord N200 5G (2021 release) that i bought brand new in 2023. It works well enough, and I run lineage OS on it with no Google Play services of any kind.
Thankfully, phones cost less and less Monero every year, so I can upgrade when I feel like it, though I don’t want to if I don’t have to.
- Comment on Most Americans see higher prices for groceries and electricity, poll finds 2 weeks ago:
My grocery bill has dropped a lot. It used to be over 1 monero, now its like 0.3
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 3 weeks ago:
That just shows how much of an idiot these people are. These teenagers are just going to learn to use platforms such as Mastodon, Lemmy, and Nostr.
- Comment on Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era 4 weeks ago:
If it’s not decentralized, it can be taken over. Don’t use anything that isn’t decentralized.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 4 weeks ago:
Any site that makes me do this immediately loses my traffic and I go to tor or a service that doesnt give a shit about us law.
- Comment on Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry 4 weeks ago:
Produce more units and bring down the price.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 5 weeks ago:
They really are.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 5 weeks ago:
The law of diminishing returns has entered the chat.
My internet service provider, for example, offered 500 MBPS and recently came out with a plan that was $20 per month cheaper and only offered 100 MBPS and I jumped on it as fast as I possibly could because I don’t need 500 MBPS ever.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
Welcome to the dark side. I’ve been here since about 2011, but I’m absolutely glad to see you’re coming over.
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 1 month ago:
Laughs in tor, nostr, and monero. What outage?
- Comment on Starlink rival ‘Project Kuiper’ rebrands to Amazon Leo 1 month ago:
Probably a good decision. At least that’s pronounceable.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 month ago:
The second I hear about a Linux mobile operating system that has even decent screen reader support, I will be switching.
Magnification in Linux desktops in particular has not been that difficult, but screen readers are a whole different can of worms.
I figure Linux Mobile will be able to do magnification properly as they do it fine on desktop and they can just copy the gestures from Android if nothing else.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 month ago:
Not for long. They’re going to start working with their own OEM.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 month ago:
Not hardly. I’ve been looking for a reason to support Linux phones, and that would just have been the thing to do it.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 1 month ago:
You can just go fuck a duck. Archive is super useful. Leave it alone.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 1 month ago:
1 dogpoeer obviously. /s
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 1 month ago:
I believe this is only for the European market though. Aldi has stores in the United States, but I don’t believe it’s available here.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 2 months ago:
I’m going to call bullshit in that there are several networks that might be capable of doing this such as several blockchain networks or IPFS.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 2 months ago:
The next headline will read, OpenStreetMaps gains users as Apple adds ads to maps.
- Comment on Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together 2 months ago:
CMEs cause very long-length disturbances so you need a conductor of quite a length to cause problems. The power grid is one example. Anything that’s on a solar panel and not connected to the grid would not be a problem because the wires are much shorter and don’t have enough space with which to build up a charge.
- Comment on U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic 2 months ago:
I now no longer hold anything over an emergency stash of U.S. currency, because I no longer believe in the value of the U.S. currency. I do not want it. I use Monero.