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New comment by earnesti in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

earnesti — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:04:07 +0000

Why is that? I've seen couple of small firms using hetzner very successfully and saving a lot of money compared to whatever cloud offering.

New comment by earnesti in "How Monero's proof of work works"

earnesti — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:32:41 +0000

I have used LN quite a lot for the last 3-4 years or so. Seems to work good enough for quite many use cases.

New comment by earnesti in "How Monero’s proof of work works"

earnesti — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:30:35 +0000

> This of course cannot be done with normal cash.

Normal cash is just printed out from thin air by those who have the power. In that sense (some) cryptocurrencies are better because at least the process is open.

New comment by earnesti in "Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch"

earnesti — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:14:50 +0000

What about bitcoin

New comment by earnesti in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

earnesti — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:09:48 +0000

I'm OpenClaw user and I never would do that. You can do with OpenClaw that, but it is definitely not the only use case, and I would argue that not even the one that makes sense overall. Most people want to be careful which decisions you want to outsource and which not, and you can direct the AI to work however you prefer. Personally I have developed some projects with OpenClaw, and it does have very limited permissions.

New comment by earnesti in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

earnesti — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:49:42 +0000

There are like 10 openclaw clones out there. If you prefer security over features, just pick up another one.

New comment by earnesti in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

earnesti — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:39:24 +0000

I use it for a side project. I just put it on VPS, and then it edits the code and tests it. The nice thing is that I can use it on the go whenever I have spare moment. It is addictive, but way better addiction than social media IMO.

The thing where you give it access to all your personal data and whatever I haven't done and wouldn't do.

New comment by earnesti in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

earnesti — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:57:57 +0000

Does it really? Digging up the data from example the 135k instances in the open reeks like bullshit, I would suspect several other claims are exaggerated as well.

New comment by earnesti in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

earnesti — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:35:33 +0000

The 135k instances is likely not true at all.

New comment by earnesti in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

earnesti — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:30:05 +0000

I have used openclaw pretty long but at no point it has proposed doing anything like that.

New comment by earnesti in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

earnesti — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:19:33 +0000

I don't think enabling admin on open internet is a default behaviour by any means?

New comment by earnesti in "The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era"

earnesti — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:56:08 +0000

This would be awesome with the QR code pointing to a torrent for example from Anna's archive with the albums filepath. The problem with streaming services is that you need an account, and additionally they might remove the music at some point.

New comment by earnesti in "Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system"

earnesti — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:11:49 +0000

Sucks compared to what? I find anki super. It is amazing what other have built for me to use, for free. It is insane value.

New comment by earnesti in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

earnesti — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:06:56 +0000

I've never understood crypto, however I'm long term Bitcoin fan and user, and don't consider it "crypto". I think Bitcoin is pretty much opposite what the typical crypto project is.

New comment by earnesti in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

earnesti — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:38:36 +0000

> The block chain is, and always was, an extremely inconvenient database.

Care to elaborate? I have been using Bitcoin now 10+ to store my wealth and make payments, and it has been very convenient - not much time needed to use it, and I think I've gotten plenty of value for my time-investment.

What kind of database would you recommend to make it more convenient? Maybe you can write a guide how to implement decentralized value transfer and storage system on top of PostgreSQL, so that the amount of tokens is limited to 21 Million, with similar security guarantees?

New comment by earnesti in "The gaslit asset class"

earnesti — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:17:16 +0000

I'm pretty sure these peeps who hang out at /r/buttcoin are going to work like regular people to get some fiat currency to their beloved government blessed bank accounts. So I guess they don't feel like they have enough.

New comment by earnesti in "The gaslit asset class"

earnesti — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:21:48 +0000

Governments do care, they have developed heavy regulatory frameworks for cryptocurrencies, such as MiCa in EU. I think central banks have been giving (negative) comments about Bitcoin since 2011 or so when it first gained modest publicity.

Governments are huge and consists of many different institutions. I guess many would like to see Bitcoin stopped, but how to do that without fondling with the basic human rights, such as the right to free communication? So far the governments have been regulating it, trying to reduce the illicit use, which doesn't really stop it but actually makes it more legitimate.

New comment by earnesti in "The gaslit asset class"

earnesti — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:07:16 +0000

Many people who have risked their money by placing it on Bitcoin likely had enough, and they risked the extra money that they had lying around. Why not place bets on something you think might be probable? Is there something morally wrong in making some extra buck? Is it morally superior just to keep your money lying on bank account or what?

New comment by earnesti in "The gaslit asset class"

earnesti — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:03:05 +0000

Also it is very likely that the advent of Quantum computing would be gradual. There exists bounty addresses, with ascending difficulty to crack. We would see the progress in steps, not suddenly. These quantum tinfoil scenarios just don't make sense.

New comment by earnesti in "The gaslit asset class"

earnesti — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:44:57 +0000

But he keeps writing and talking about people who have more than enough, and how they are wrong.