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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DannyM 25 Oct \ on: What I *still* cannot understand is the tone-deafness and absolute fantasy... bitcoin
We're cypherpunks, our movement does not care about them.
We don't care what's legal tender in the us, we don't care if Europe passes chat control, we don't care if we get called terrorists or any other names.
We are Goldstein, Goldstein will always be persecuted, Goldstein has and will be killed multiple times, but will never die.
Cypherpunks write code. Math is law. You cannot ban merkle trees, you cannot stop us.
We are many, we are pseudonymous, we are an army, we do not forgive transgressions against math, we do not forget our ways, expect us to grow stronger the more heads you cut. We are Cypherpunks, we are Hydra, we are Goldstein
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DannyM OP 25 Oct \ parent \ on: Normies need Linux for their daily use OS tech
If you tell a normie to run Linux, and something goes wrong, no matter how minor "it's your fault", and "Linux sucks". Their computer was "perfect" until you did that weird thing. You have now caused thermonuclear war.
That's why I think it only makes sense to recommend atomic distros (like bootc based ones), and why for the purpose built distro for my CCN tool I base on a bootc distro
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DannyM OP 25 Oct \ parent \ on: Normies need Linux for their daily use OS tech
If you're on modern apple hardware try asahi Linux. It's not the best experience, it has annoying bugs, and missing features, most of which could be solved in weeks if apple just released docs for their chips.
But it's better than macOS till you switch for good!
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DannyM OP 25 Oct \ parent \ on: Normies need Linux for their daily use OS tech
Of course! Just figure out how to get into the bios, then from there boot from an aurora or bazzite flash drive.
Make backups. Especially if your PC isn't the most powerful, you will notice that it runs much better than windows
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DannyM OP 25 Oct \ parent \ on: Normies need Linux for their daily use OS tech
I'm a serial distro hopper on desktop. I've run tons of distros, my main laptop runs arch at the moment, used to be nix 2 years ago.
I get the benefits of gentoo, i do, the hardware specific optimizations are great if you wanna squeeze every last drop out of your CPU, and use flags are great, why use packages with features you don't need, it makes so much sense to me to just remove it.
Also openrc > systemd even if systemd is more widely used.
But I can't deal with the compile times, that's why I don't use Gentoo. Waiting HOURS for an update, while your CPU spikes at 100% is so utterly defeating to me.
I know you can use bins, but that defeats the point lol
I like nix, especially for servers, but this post was specifically about desktop, for normies.
I don't recommend a normie to run nix, Ubuntu, or really any distro where stuff can go wrong.
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Cypherpunks write code, normies complain, state flails, math wins, we all make it or we don't, but at least we tried to build something that can't be stopped.
If you think the state is permanent, you should study history, all empires fall, difference is this time there's opt-out mechanism.
Thank you for trying with me, fellow criminals. Thank you for opting out, fellow criminals
Bitcoin comes from the cypherpunk movement, which was basically a group of autists who actually understood cryptography, and understood that privacy is the most important human right. PERIOD.
They also understood that for the first time in history they didn't have to ask for permission to build anything. Code spreads faster than any speech in history, and is harder to censor than any speech in history.
Code = speech but with actual teeth because once its deployed on enough nodes good fucking luck stopping it.
Governments can ban it, governments can put certain individuals in jail, or murder them, but they can't stop the movement.
Cypherpunks understood something normies still dont get: cryptography fundamentally shifts power balance, because math doesnt care about your monopoly on violence.
You can't legislate away elliptic curves, you can't subpoena SHA-256 preimages you can't arrest prime numbers (though NSA tried with export controls on "munitions" lmao)
The "digital gold" narrative is midwit cope Bitcoin isn't trying to be gold its trying to be an uncensorable final settlement layer for value transfer.
Gold has $10T market cap because its hard to confiscate; Bitcoin has potential for way more because its impossible to confiscate if you do it right.
Normies complain that "toxic" bitcoiners are against the state... Yeah no shit we're against the state! The state is fundamentally incompatible with freedom.
Monarchies were more free than modern states.
The state needs money to fund wars, welfare, surveillance apparatus and an entire parasitic bureaucracy that produces negative value (every government employee is net drain on productive economy, prove me wrong protip: you can't)
Fiat is just state violence with extra steps
Cypherpunks understood: trusted third party = security hole = attack vector = single point of failure
Every system with trusted intermediary eventually gets captured by state or becomes state itself.
If you do your research, can you truly tell where the line between silicon valley Big Tech companies and the state ends?
No line exists, they're same entity, different departments.
Google/Facebook/Amazon = surveillance apparatus with better UX than NSA (Snowden docs proved NSA literally plugs into their data centers via PRISM, but normies memory-holed it in like 6 months because goldfish attention span, did you see what the Kardashians did omg)
Cypherpunks saw this coming in the 90s (read the manifestos they're all public, Hal Finney Tim May, Eric Hughes, these guys were 30+ years ahead)
"Bitcoin is for criminals" <- yes it is! because "criminal" = "person state doesnt like" and state is not moral authority
Every major human rights advance was "criminal" at the time: hiding Jews in Nazi Germany, running underground railroad, Tiananmen Square protestor, Snowden leaking NSA docs, Ross Ulbricht creating Silk Road.
Ross Ulbricht got double life + 40 years no parole for running a website (literally just code on server) while actual murderers get 15-25 and serve 8 with good behavior.
SBF was in the club (parents Stanford law professors, donated to Biden, testified to Congress, on cover of Forbes) → slap on wrist (Sailer's law: state refuses to enforce rules against actual criminals but harshly punishes technical violations by dissidents)
Ross was outside the club (created actual free market with a reputation system, no KYC, no permission) → example made
Yes bitcoin is used by criminals. Criminals whose biggest crime is non-compliance with a demon
Why do you care? Do you need even more spyware?
If you're a windows user you already have a few companies, and several government agencies down your throat... Then you use a chromium based browser, so Google is monitoring you, do you need Microsoft to watch your back even more?
I had a similar discussion with supertestnet at tabconf, except he argued significantly better than Chris Guida did.
essentially the idea is that they want those transactions off of their system until they HAVE to pull them in (as blocks), because they want to avoid propagating those transactions, regardless of whether they'll end up in blocks or not. the idea is that if enough people run the filters, MAYBE some non-monetary transactions can be prevented.
he obviously acknowledged that you can always go to a miner anyway and include whatever you want, so long as it doesn't break consensus if you really care about it
decided to write it as a greentext because it's hilarious... obviously not a real story
be me 25yo NEET living in mom's basement decide to finally touch grass after 3 years
walked outside for my daily
{\color{red}session} of pretending to be normal humansee qt3.14 at coffee shop she does that thing where she{\color{orange}smile}s at me ohshit.jpg
somehow don't fuck it up completely
6 months later we're talking{\color{yellow}marriage}her dad is boomer who only communicates in dad jokes and{\color{green}lyrics}from 80s songs mfw I have to pretend I know who Journey is
meet her extended family
her{\color{cyan}cousin}shows up literal gigachad 6'4" jawline could cut diamonds meanwhile I look like if Gollum and a Discord mod had a{\color{blue}couple}baby
wedding day arrives
priest starts ceremony has to{\color{purple}announce}that if anyone objects speak now or forever hold your peace schizo uncle stands up starts ranting about how the{\color{magenta}antenna}on the church is receiving CIA mind control signals based
reception is pure chaos
trying to{\color{brown}orient}myself to find the bathroom get lost in venue it's literally designed like a{\color{pink}maze}take 45 minutes to find exit everyone thinks I ditched my own wedding
honeymoon night
wife wants to "consummate" tell her I need to{\color{gray}cover}myself, so i put on my robe and wizard hat she asks why explain it's for "optimal performance" she leaves sleep{\color{teal}outside}on hotel balcony best night of my life
mfw I'm now divorced mfw I have to move back with mom ngmi but at least I have my sats
Seed:
{\color{red}session} {\color{orange}smile} {\color{yellow}marriage} {\color{green}lyrics} {\color{cyan}cousin} {\color{blue}couple} {\color{purple}announce} {\color{magenta}antenna} {\color{brown}orient} {\color{pink}maze} {\color{gray}cover} {\color{teal}outside}nobody will ever suspect it's actually a wallet because who the fuck would hide financial instruments in a story about a NEET's failed marriage caused by autism
Amber is fantastic, seriously @Bitcoiner1 if you don't use Amber you're missing out
The Same Thing We Do Every Night, Pinky. Try to take over the world. Build tools for closed community networks
Here's my prediction for 2030: a lot of articles saying how by 2035 all labor will be replaced by AI and robots unless we give the government more control over our lives. And that's it.
The mass hysteria you are seeing by corpo journos and the hype from companies that are just following the latest silicon valley trend is nothing more than novelty bias playing out.