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Yeah, OpenBSD is POSIX compliant.
OpenBSD is secure by default, so it comes with nothing extra. Actually the default is to not even start the window manager at startup (there's no desktop environment installed by default). It's fantastic for firewall setups and secure network applications.
But you can also use it on laptops for example, and run fully featured desktop environments such as Plasma, which is the one from KDE, Kubuntu, etc. And there are other DEs as well.
It's not the same as Linux, which is the kernel, which is then combined with distros, etc. OpenBSD comes with the entire OS, including the kernel.
There are many similarities, but the philosophy is different, as OpenBSD focuses on security, and they keep removing unused or unsafe code.
OpenSSH for example was developed in the OpenBSD project, and then ported to many others.
OpenBSD is not a distro of Linux for example, it is a completely different OS. Other BSDs like FreeBSD provided the foundation to create macOS for example.
I met another bitcoiner who runs a cafe that offers discounts for purchases in Bitcoin, but he suggested that he had difficulty in convincing people to choose BTC even when he offered large (50%) discounts.
Where is that cafe?
I think it makes sense to do this.
New code written in Rust will probably be much less susceptible to issues.
I guess new people would gravitate more to Rust than C in the future while older devs die out, which eventually will be a problem for many systems.
You might want to post it at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5460574.0 or similar
Richard Stallman will be in Europe for his talk: "Free software, Crucial for Freedom in a Digital World"
- Helsinki, Finland, on Oct 09, 2025
- Göteborg, Sweden, on Oct 10, 2025
Not really.
A computer cannot look into your eyes, hug you, etc.
Maybe in the far future, but the best we have is still firmly in the uncanny valley.
This is a bit nonsensical really...
I mean, you could as well say that all Bitcoin transactions are text, if you consider each 7 bits of data as an ASCII character, or more if you use UTF-8 or other encoding... you would end up with random sequences of letters, forming a unique "text" per transaction.
The "art" that is being generated here in OP is simply interpreting the original data in a different way, as a color, which usually just give you random data. As an image, it's just randomly colored dots.
I thought they had found some interesting visual pattern or something, but there's no structure, it's just random noise, as expected.
Also, mentioning JPEGs when referring to an image in this context is just wrong as JPEG is a lossy image format, which means that the original information is lost when generating the JPEG file. At least mention a lossless format like PNG which preserves the original data.
A world without IP laws would be interesting because there's a balance of:
- More innovation as they can "stand in the shoulders of giants"
- Less "giants" because there's no financial incentive to create the IP in the first place.
So, in some cases, people will still create IP and share it, like Tesla did, to basically push everyone up.
But it's a tough balance. I see it similar to the Open Source (Free Software) movement.
No, but it's simple to consider it:
- 5.6M in Finland
- About 340M in USA
So, USA has about 60 times more people, but it had 586 times more mass shootings in 2024, which is roughly 600x instead of the "expected" 60x. One order of magnitude of difference.
Let's first look at the ratio of guns per person around the world:
OK, USA is number one, but there are many other countries with a lot of guns, so nothing extremely crazy about it.
This is the top 10:
- United States: 120.5
- Falkland Islands: 62.1
- Yemen: 52.8
- New Caledonia: 42.5
- Serbia: 39.1
- Montenegro: 39.1
- Canada: 34.7
- Uruguay: 34.7
- Cyprus: 34.0
- Finland: 32.4
So, based on only this data, you might expect to see about four times as many mass shootings in the US compared to, say, Finland. Let's see those numbers:
Number of mass shootings in 2025 in Finland: 0 vs USA: 268
Number of mass shootings in 2024 in Finland: 1 vs USA: 586
So, it's clear that the availability of guns to the public is not the only factor in this. It might affect something, but clearly the data shows that there are other factors at play.
My hypothesis is that there's a huge lack of support for people in the USA. It's a very independent society, "every man for himself" kind of thing. When people get desperate, then bad things start to happen. I've seen documentaries showing people that are full time workers, and they are homeless in the US. That's just incredible, really.
I think that even though reality might be "continuous", to use it as an information system then we would need to measure it, and that would collapse the wave-function, effectively making it "discrete".
This made me think of oral languages.
These languages don't have a written form, so they might pose a challenge to AI. In theory a system could be trained to pick up the audio cues, but maybe it would miss the subtleties of the speaker.
ThinkPads are such nice laptops
I used to like the XPS line of Dell as well, but for some reason they're gone now.
I guess it depends on the country, but any "official" translator still gets paid. Things you need for government, etc, for example translating your drivers license to the local language, etc, they usually need to be done with a registered translator.
Of course that's a small pool, but there's still need for human translators.
They say:
Point of Sale (POS)
Receive physical payments and from exchanges quickly.
So I would assume that the customers can also send sats from a node without the card. They have support for Lightning Addresses.
Quite interesting.
Had a look into the Argentinean company from the video, lacrypta, and they make some cool open source projects, like a discord bot that takes Bitcoin as payments, and here's the project from the video: https://github.com/lawalletio/mobile-pos
They sell "rechargeable cards" with the logo of your company or whatever you want, which is quite cool:
Provide a payment solution with customized rechargeable NFC cards. Take your branding to the next level with our international cards.
I saw that in their web site they claim to have mined block 755100
Mined block #755.100
A quick check reveals it was mined by Foundry USA Pool, which means that they were probably mining in that pool and just happen to have mined the actual block for the pool. I guess they would have preferred to solo mine :)
Also worth thinking: "What Got You Here Won't Get You There", which is a book from Marshall Goldsmith that talks about the next step.
Yeah, OpenBSD is supported in M1/M2. You're even one step forward in that direction already:
https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html