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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • The core focus of early crypto was decentralization, not anonymity. Bitcoin is totally decentralized, but the entire premise is the blockchain contains a permanent irrefutable ledger of transactions. Basically everyone knows if Wallet A paid Wallet B. If you refill your wallet with anything remotely traceable, that means everyone knows YOU paid Wallet B, and similarly if wallet B has any ties to the real world, the lines are easy to connect.

    That’s not to say you can’t use it anonymously, but that was not the intent and thus it does anonymity poorly.







  • Saw this question posted elsewhere, so I’m paraphrasing somebody else, but the privacy benefits of Graphene OS are ESPECIALLY impactful if you’re using invasive apps. The whole point of setting up all of the extra sandboxing, storage limits, network restrictions, yadda yadda yadda, is specifically for people who might need or want to still leverage some apps from bigger, less trusted providers.

    I’ll flip the question, if you’re only using trusted, vetted, open source applications, do you even need GrapheneOS? Why not LineageOS, which also comes free of gapps?

    And this also fully neglects the inherent distinction between privacy and security. Maybe you trust google knowing you called your mom last night, but you don’t want your oppressive conservative government accessing your phone to view your Signal messages to your Grinder date. There’s more to privacy than just the number of times your phone pings Google Telemetry servers.



  • Hawaii:

    Early voting: Cast your ballot at any voter service center in your county from Monday, July 29, through Saturday, Aug. 10.

    Voting at the polls: Hawai‘i votes mostly by mail, but some voter service centers are open on Election Day for walk-in voting and same-day registration.

    Washington:

    In person: You can vote in person starting 18 days before an election and up until 8 p.m. on Election Day. Find your voting center by logging into VoteWA.gov or by contacting your county elections office. If you’re already registered, you don’t need to provide an ID.

    On Election Day: You can register to vote in person at your county’s election office up until 8 p.m. on Election Day.

    Oregon (this one was trickier to find, but actually quite helpful):

    Homeless U.S. Citizens Have a Right to Vote

    Voters must provide a residence address on the voter registration form, but this address may be any definable location in the county that describes their physical location. This could be a shelter, park, motor home, or other identifiable location. The mailing address of a person who is homeless or who resides where mail service is unavailable can be the office of the county clerk. Voters can pick up their ballot at the county elections office.​

    Utah:

    Early in-person voting: Available in all counties for the primary. Check with your county clerk’s office for dates and times.

    Voting at the polls: Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Bring an acceptable ID.

    Colorado:

    Early in-person voting: If you prefer to vote in person, you can visit a voter service and polling center in your county to cast your ballot from Monday, Oct. 21 through Election Day.

    Voting at the polls: Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Bring an acceptable ID, such as a valid Colorado driver’s license or Colorado ID.


  • Honestly I don’t know, but it seems to me like extracting every single frame of a video as a lossless PNG is only really something that’s necessary if you’re trying to archive something or do frame by frame restoration. Either way, it is something that you hopefully aren’t doing every day, so why not just let it run overnight & move on?

    Otherwise ask yourself if you can settle with just extracting a single clip/section, or what’s actually wrong with lossy jpeg with a low -qscale:v (high quality) - start around 5 and work down until you visually can’t see any difference




  • Investments, trust funds, paying off debt and my mortgage. Set up enough in investments that I’ll always have a million or so in post-tax interest income.

    Conservatively, well call this 5% locked up

    Trust funds and investments for my family so they have money coming in.

    Not sure how big your family is, or how much you want to have them coming in, but well call this +5%

    10% spent

    Remodel my house. +0.1%

    Rent a condo in Wrigleyville during the Cubs season. Rent a condo in Mesa during spring training. +0.01%

    Open a bar or two. +0.1%

    Hire a dietician/personal cook. +0.01%

    Buy a handful of cars, the most extravagant would probably be a Catterham. +0.01%

    Open an automotive shop to restore cars. I know that’ll be a loss but it will be a good hobby for something I like to do. +0.1%

    Travel a bunch. Follow the Cubs for a season and go to every game. +0.01%

    Buy dual citizenship somewhere. +0.01%

    Donate to AOCs campaign. +0.1%

    Club 33 membership. +0.01%

    Occasionally take private jets when I fly, but pick up families that are flying coach when I go and bring them along for free. It’s no fun being alone. +0.01%

    Do a bunch of the traditional billionaire things like go fishing on a private yacht. +0.1%

    Finally not stress about going out to dinner. +0.001%

    Now were to a whopping 10.571% “spent” with most of it invested in ways that will pay back entirely in your lifetime. What do you do with the other 4.5B?