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> Of course the catch is that our users need to be able to run SSH commands

If we ever crack how to make that normie-accessible, the the game is flipped upside down.

Look at how much energy has been put into Passkeys - a massive orchestration and cooperation from google, microsoft, apple... And it’s still slow AF, often requires that you find your second Passkey device, bluetooth, QR code scanning etc.


> Look at how much energy has been put into Passkeys

Yep, this is a huge reason why we are so excited about web tunnels because we are already loving the DX/UX around it. The end-user doesn't need to install anything new and they have access to private sites using just SSH keypairs and a tunnel.

For example, when using any code forge (gitea, github, gitlab, sourcehut, etc.) they require two completely separate authentication mechanisms: one for SSH and one for web.

Now imagine the simplicity of a git code forge that leverages web tunnels to serve its web ui: no separate login and as long as the tunnel is open, you have authenticated access to the web viewer.

So combine web tunnels with autossh and you are forever authenticated to your authenticated sites.


Wow that's a great point. Git repository hosts are perfect use case for this.

One of the challenges of having the ssh key be the identity connecting multiple devices, another challenge is if you lose access to your ssh key, I'm not sure what the "forgot password" flow would be. Especially since you wouldn't even have a signup email address.


if you assume typical stock market returns, ~$2M is enough to retire on and live on $100k a year of interest gained alone.


Assuming you are using recent interest rates. If you mix in recent inflation rates too it doesn't work out in inflation-adjusted dollars like that, though hopefully a lot of that is transitory from covid (or maybe we have something worse than covid in the future).


Six months??? What does "comply" mean? Ship a version of the OS that supports all these new features? Or begin implementation of them?

Six months is barely enough time for companies to digest and understand the new requirements, and certainly not enough time to develop and ship such dramatic changes.


Yet Samsung manages to release a new phone every 6 months.


all those websites take their cut. and visa takes their cut. and still the podcaster can't "cash out" immediately, depending on settlement times and policies of the corporations. Essentially, the middlemen have the creators by the balls, lightning solves that.


is there an app that can send bulk gdpr data deletion requests for no-longer-used services?

seems like it'd be possible write an app that scans email history to detect services that have your data, scrape their websites to determine support email address(es), and send a GDPR data deletion request template to each of the selected ones.


it's already hell, who cares.


The site and search eventually work, but the torrents themselves do not download and do not appear to have all necessary magnet information in the links. So the downloads just hang there in the torrent client.


Yeah, eth is bad enough, but BSC and Solana are where the truly depraved and desperate get-rich-quick victims are. Absolutely brutal.


My parents reached out asking me to help them figure out how to buy this Amazon crypto. They've recently become interested in crypto and so I've been teaching them how it works and how to use it.

Luckily I hadn't taught them anything about eth except how to buy it and how to self-custody it yet.

After seeing how easily they were scammed into believing this was real, I am recommending they steer clear of eth entirely and just stick to learning about bitcoin. Too many (believable) scams on smart contract chains.

The only btc scams I've seen are along the lines of "Send me your btc and I'll double it back for you!" which is obvious even for them.


> steer clear of eth entirely and just stick to learning about bitcoin

Although even that isn't so clear cut - you have to educate/warn about Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, and so on.


True. I only told them how to use CashApp which only sells bitcoin.


That’s a good call. Any app that has a curated list of tokens really.


You know, other than the Bitcoin itself.


I get that it's statistically impossible to actually rob bitcoin using this site (by finding a "green" private key).

But can anyone explain why I am able to find so many "yellow" ones (empty wallets that have previously made transactions)?

I expected going in to _only_ find "red" (never used) wallets and was surprised to find that was very much not the case.


As far as I have found, the yellow ones appear on the first pages and last pages. The first key listed is this: 5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreAnchuDf

That key might look large, but I believe it is actually the number 1 in WIF format. See here: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/wif


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