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Re: Brighteon

Roman2K — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:42:12 -0000

And they will.

Re: Not Disclosing One’s Bitcoin May Become a Crime in the US

Roman2K — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 11:51:18 -0000

Bitcoin transactions are easily traceable back to a physical person, regardless of their state's privacy laws because the transaction history is public and clear-text. Even cross-blockchains transactions are traceable via the exchange that keep records of which addresses funds come from and go to. For more anonymity, there's Dash with its optional PrivateSend.

For actual, full anonymity, there's only Monero as far as I know. It's got all the advantages of Bitcoin plus better scalability and end-to-end untraceability. Even more so soon with the upcoming Tor-like Kovri to hide IPs when connecting to the blockchain's P2P network.

Re: Blow Bitcoin, Don’t Destabilize Government: AD Newspaper

Roman2K — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 10:50:31 -0000

These all sound to me like reasons to buy and HODL, definitely not sell. Decentralization is the whole point. Fear from governments is further confirmation that current cryptocurrencies are successful at it.

Re: What’s a Feature From Your Device That You Wish Every Phone Had?

Roman2K — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:01:19 -0000

Second that! Even the iPhone has it. I don't understand how other manufacturers (save for OnePlus) don't copy that instead of half-baked gimmicks (dual camera, force touch, facial recognition, etc.).

Re: Every Android owner should check out the OnePlus Bullets V2 in-ear headphones

Roman2K — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 04:07:04 -0000

Thanks for the recommendation. OnePlus is definitely one company to follow closely for their quality products (love the OP3). As for fully-Android compatible earphones, a good, cheap pair is Samsung EG920BW. Decent sound quality, working microphone, volume and play/pause controls,flat cable, seem water resistant, no fraying so far. For less than 10€.

Re: Weekly update: 2016 week #52

Roman2K — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:35:35 -0000

Love what you're doing, changelog included 😉 I'm using Dynalist daily, appreciating the numerous features, polish and robustness. Super happy customer! Keep up the good work! 👌

Re: Galaxy S7 Bootloader Lock Explained: You Might Not Get AOSP After All

Roman2K — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 15:13:12 -0000

Nice summary of the state of S7 rooting. I appreciate the separation of objectivity from opinions left for last.

Re: Project Maelstrom: The Internet We Build Next

Roman2K — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:41:56 -0000

No offense but I'm not sure you understand Atwas911's point: it's all about transparency. Of course there's a chance the company's closed source app is free of exploits, and maybe they communicate openly about flaws and fix them quickly with honesty and humility. Maybe not. Very unlikely, in fact. That's the point: closed source means we don't have a clue if we can trust them. If you're fine with letting your personal info flow through a black box on the off chance the company that made it is straight, go ahead. People who have learned from past events know better and expect the source for code review and installs from unadulterated source.

Re: Project Maelstrom: The Internet We Build Next

Roman2K — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:46:04 -0000

I see what you mean. I didn't know they forked Chromium at the time of this article. I thouht they would just re-use a rendering engine and build a new UI around it. Of course people wouldn't want to install a proxy separate from the browser. I was thinking of a browser extension that would include the proxy, hide away all the technical details, and be OS-agnostic by definition.

Re: Project Maelstrom: The Internet We Build Next

Roman2K — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:06:34 -0000

Haha! You actually made me laugh :-) Not that I disagree. It's just that I tend to lean more toward a UNIX philosophy where each component should do one thing and do it well. So my point is to decouple the UI from this new decentralized transport. If today's browsers could be improved / overhauled, why not (good luck though), but prefer modularity over building one big monolithic mammoth to enable flexibility whenever possible, which is the case here.

Re: Project Maelstrom: The Internet We Build Next

Roman2K — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:13:40 -0000

I like the concept, very interesting and noble initiative. However, if I understand correctly, you're building yet another browser, a.k.a. reinventing the wheel. Including page rendering and whatever surrounds the network layer; which is not warranted by your cause. I'd rather you architected Maelstrom as a local HTTP proxy which any browser (including Linux compatible ones, in this case) can connect to and take advantage of both the P2P nature and the hard work from dedicated browser developers.

Re: crontab: temp file must be edited in place

Roman2K — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:20:58 -0000

A more elegant solution, IMO: http://calebthompson.io/cro...

Re: Windows Phone sales up year on year and the unchallenged third ecosystem

Roman2K — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:49:46 -0000

You got fooled by the charts. Actually, if you do the math, you'll see the exact opposite: WP is the fastest growing of the three. YoY: Android = +2.73%, iOS = +10.11%, WP = +15.19%

Re: Roccat Pyra Wireless Mouse Review

Roman2K — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:37:57 -0000

Stellar review. Definitely helped me make a choice (in favor of the Pyra). Thanks!

Re: BlackBerry Z10 Review | TechnoBuffalo

Roman2K — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:44:40 -0000

"no it isn't" ... "the only [review] that said the battery life was good".

Re: Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ): Will 2013 Be Any Better?

Roman2K — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:12:57 -0000

Thanks for the obvious but you conveniently forgot about servers.

Re: yield-gotcha every Ruby developer should be aware of

Roman2K — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 08:54:50 -0000

I didn't say it's not valid Ruby, obviously it is, that's not my point.

If you read my gist code, the implicit "begin" block (via "def") is too wide. "f" should be initialised outside, otherwise "f" may be nil in the ensure block. That's why "ensure" is misplaced.

Re: yield-gotcha every Ruby developer should be aware of

Roman2K — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:06:24 -0000

Misplaced "ensure" statement in your #ensured_with_file. Correct version:
https://gist.github.com/413...

Re: uTorrent 3.22 released, officially supports Windows 8 and now displays ads in-client

Roman2K — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:42:53 -0000

I wouldn't use (let alone trust) a BitTorrent client with ads and toolbar crapware. I recommend rtorrent (+ ruTorrent) or Transmission. Both open-source, clean, safe, headless w/ optional GUI.

Re: CyanogenMod 10 :: M2

Roman2K — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:15:11 -0000

Thanks for your work. Are you planning on making CM compatible with the Galaxy Note II? I already love this device as-is, but your CM on it would be fantastic.

Re: Between a rock and a hard place - our decision to abandon the Mac App Store

Roman2K — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:04:26 -0000

FWIW, I would be more likely to use your app knowing it's running safely within the constraint of a tight container, implying that I configure it manually, than if I had to trust it with my $HOME.

Besides, regardless of filesystem access restrictions, I also much prefer manual configuration (failsafe, no surprises) vs. automatic (trying to be clever, clunky, endless hours of debug). The very reason I use rbenv rather than rvm.

That's just me, though surely I can't be alone.

Re: AMD Counter-Attacks GeForce GTX 670, Questions NVIDIA's Kepler Availability - Bright Side Of News*

Roman2K — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:46:35 -0000

Says you with your narrow use of your GPU (games only?). Do you even know what GCN is?

Re: Putting people first

Roman2K — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:49:36 -0000

I wasn't planning on buying a Nokia phone any time soon, but seeing such a prompt acknowledgement of an issue, a fix and even compensation, has made me reconsider.

This is remarkable handling of the situation. Congratulations!

Re: Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to it's servers

Roman2K — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:12:38 -0000

Good job calling them out on this. But that's what careless users / consumers get for trusting closed-source apps.

Re: Mike Pack Development

Roman2K — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:46:41 -0000

To me, AddToCartContext.execute should be kept more generic by taking user and book instances as arguments, rather than IDs. It's up to the caller (in this case, a controller) to deal with IDs to find the corresponding instances.