No slang?!?

I love the idea that the black hole has been compressing the galaxy.

It was until they removed the dating bits

Nice write up on the weird economic factors at play

You could ask the admins to delete your content.

I’m not the OP, but you can get 8TiB SSDs, they are spendy, but doable, no spinning disks required, the benefit of using a nas based solution is you can put a bunch of cheap SSDs in

Not directly an answer, but the CRT guy has a series of industrial computers for different environments, which could provide inspiration.

Some of them have direct DC inputs, some have anti-vibration designs, some have massive passive cooling!

The little guys series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP3aKEG79DM&list=PLec1d3OBbZ8LGjvbb0GQwlQxWXmI2PA88

I think a Synology box would work for you, or a TrueNas design - you could just build out one of their motherboards in your own itx case. These are good, robust, anti-vibration, mobile low power cpus, hardware selected for robustness and minimum heat. Stick it in a cupboard and forget about it, they run containers, and vms.

oh wow, that thing is still kicking around?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroshare

Retroshare is a free and open-source peer-to-peer communication and file sharing app based on a friend-to-friend network built by GNU Privacy Guard (GPG).[4] Optionally peers may exchange certificates and IP addresses to their friends and vice versa.[5][6]

What is RS?

If people are aware they’re running a miner to support the site that’s great.

Most web miners are clandestine, and not observable, so most people’s interaction with them is a slow computer, or a virus alert, or even crashing the browser. Do I guess the most common one is hey my laptop battery only lasted 20% of its usual length I was just watching movies on this website…

Fundamentally, a miner to pay for access, is the same as getting a micro payment to view. I realize getting micro payments to work has been in long-standing problem.

Having most people’s first and only exposure to your ecosystem be malware level browser miners that really diminish their browsing experience is really really bad pr.

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To be fair, this post has nothing to do with crypto. It’s just a fundraising post appealing to people who believe in crypto. But nothing here has any basis on crypto

Ipv6

Depending on your gateway, you may be able to override the DNS settings for a few domains that you use internally

Saying ‘specifically monero’ in your writeup multiple times doesn’t give me confidence that monero is actually needed or used.

These things tell me XMR isn’t involved:

• NFTs
• COINS
• Wallet mockup lists other cryptos and not XMR

What’s the core problem that Monero solves for your use case? If your app is already going to be a central authority and arbitrator, why do you need crypto at all? Why not they normal banking system?

For your users what are the on-ramps and off-ramps to acquiring and spending crypto locally?

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If they’re going to do this, then customers can get support via text messaging right? They’re not going to have to call in to talk to a computer to have their voice turned into text for an agent right?

This isn’t about asymmetrically wasting the time of the customer so they don’t call support at all, right?

I see what you’re saying, but I don’t think there’s any universe where an advertiser will pay for traffic without any way to identify that that traffic came from an advertisement campaign

Let me use an illustrative example,

An advertiser selects middle class, obese, yet healthy minded people to receive an ad for their Fatboy Summer fitness campaign

The landing page of this campaign, is not the main site for a gym, but a Fatboy Summer specific landing page with a special offer etc etc etc all very reasonable. If you click on the link you want to find more information about their special campaign offer.

The fact that that landing page will be specific to the advertisement campaign is a given, it’s just a necessity of the transaction. Knowing these two pieces of information, you know anybody who ended up at that landing page is middle class, obese, but hopeful about getting healthy.

This is why targeted advertisements and privacy are diametrically opposed

That’s a really good point.

However the company that Mozilla just purchased was about targeted advertisement campaigns… “data-driven advertisements”

I’m not sure that’s true.

Advertisement campaign a, takes people to landing site b.

Anybody who shows up at site b, you know was targeted and campaign a.

And if you’re saying b is some generalized large domain, I promise you no advertiser would ever do that. They would set up subdomains, or campaign specific domains, any landing page where they know where you’re coming from. And there’s no way to stop them from doing that

At its core, most online advertising is just about a campaign to send people to a location. And if you can specify the campaign, and you can specify the location, you know which people came from that campaign and what they’re advertisement factors are