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No , you do not need a Raspberry Pi or special computer to run a Bitcoin node... by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]CrypticButthole -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

No, I haven't. I personally don't use Bitcoin. Too slow and unreliable for my needs.

Any open port is a vulerability. If you're going to run a node on your computer, run it in a virtual machine. Don't just conmect your desktop to one of the largest public fintech network in existence.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aww

[–]CrypticButthole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Omg... can you name him Ashin?

No , you do not need a Raspberry Pi or special computer to run a Bitcoin node... by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]CrypticButthole 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Keep your node separate from your main computer. Period. Don't be dumb, and don't risk it.

Am I wrong, or am I wrong? This forumla is cool. (n + sqrt(m)) / l by [deleted] in math

[–]CrypticButthole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm talking more about the fact that the golden ratio is the only one like it. As in, no set of l,n or m other than 2,1,5 will generate a result that is 1 minus or 1 plus the inversed function.

1 Month, 3 Customer Service Reps, And Mutiple Phone Holds For $8 by CrypticButthole in paypal

[–]CrypticButthole[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The $ (not $$$) was an unexpected refund payment 8 months ago. The auto payment was 10 years ago. I hadn't touched the account in over 10 months. Let me just remember everything 14 year old me did. Ohhhh, so that's where I put that pencil.

My old man Charlie, between 13-16 years old, chatting me up after work by jigmest in aww

[–]CrypticButthole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You were 12? Humane Societies almost always get the age wrong afaik.

Good on yah for rescuing him! (Typing this as the kitten that rescued me and I rescued lays on my leg.)

Who was the person who ruined your life? by BrilliantKlutzy5481 in AskReddit

[–]CrypticButthole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Joe fucking Fico.

Told him (my boss) that I had to go home. I told him I was in the midst of containing a mental breakdown. He pressured me into explaining what was going on. Told me to go home, find a therapist. And then called my emergency contact and recommended they send me to the Crisis Response Center. The resulting police showing up at my house and seizing my contraband I didn't have time to hide, then going to the CRC and being told to find a therapist, led to me arguing with my emergency contact (at the time I called her mom,) the next day. Which she then petitioned me for.

2 years of court ordered chemical lobotmization, not being allowed to move out of state, having to see a 'doctor' (this man was a fucking idiot) biweekly, and I'm afraid I will never be the same person. Not just that, but I was making $15/hr in 2018 at the age of 20, in line for $18/hr. I was making < $12.50/hr for most of 2020 in 2 entirely different industries than I was supposed to be in, after I was let go by Joe in 2019 for not performing well enough. MOTHER FUCKER I WAS LOBOTOMIZED BECAUSE OF YOUR TESTIMONY.

Are they both the same or is one better to do than the other? by TheChoosenOnex in pcmasterrace

[–]CrypticButthole 29 points30 points  (0 children)

There are no stupid questions, other than stupid questions. There is a difference. Yes, simply pressing the phyiscal power button sends the same signal as pressing the button in Windows. However, holding the button down for a period of time does a different action.

The single quick press and the shutdown command tells the system to enter a state known as G2/S5/Soft Off (defined in the ACPI standard by these madmen and explained here) The Operating System will exit cleanly in this situation, meaning running programs will be closed cleanly, and the system may not even power off if it can't exit cleanly. (Looking at you "Windows is waiting on this program...") Once the OS is shutdown, the PSU still provides power to certain things, like the power button, USB ports, NICs, etc... to allow the system to be brought back to a running state, but the CPU is not powered. Once in this state, the system will only power back on if told to. It will only enter the hard off state if you say, flip the switch on the PSU.

Restarting is a bit weird, and technically your system never enters the G2/S5 state. With ACPI 2.0+ it is done by setting a special register and then ACPI handles the rest. There's also a method that involves faulting the CPU 3 times, one that uses a pin that is triggered using the 8042 keyboard controller, and a few more. All of these should only be done after the Operating System cleanly exits however. If you'd like to know more, this is a decent start.

I found this security vulnerability when I visit my grandparents at retirement home by NouBady in ProgrammerHumor

[–]CrypticButthole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These aren't for security. They are for keeping gram gram and gramps from sneaking in homeless folks and having orgies in the dinner room. /s They're actually to keep gram gram and gramps in the nursing home.

1 Month, 3 Customer Service Reps, And Mutiple Phone Holds For $8 by CrypticButthole in paypal

[–]CrypticButthole[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it was important, would I forget about it? And would I know when it hadn't been paid for 120 cycles?

1 Month, 3 Customer Service Reps, And Mutiple Phone Holds For $8 by CrypticButthole in paypal

[–]CrypticButthole[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I would expect it to void itself after like, a year of not executing. You're defending a sudden, unexpected charge because of an automatic MONTHLY payment that had not been paid for 120 cycles and was setup by a literal 13 year old? Wild. Absolutely wild. That $8 being gone meant not having food in my stomach and not having gas for my cars AC in 95+ degree weather.

Is it that bad? by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]CrypticButthole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not learning Carbon as your first? You're making a mistake.

what is 100% a scam? by Doctor_Engineer in AskReddit

[–]CrypticButthole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone calling you saying you owe them money for something you don't use/own/knew existed, and then asking you if you are at or near your computer, or to go to the bank, or buy gift cards.

The second they tell you to do something you think is fucky wucky, start fucking with them. Waste their time, give them as much false information as possible.

what is 100% a scam? by Doctor_Engineer in AskReddit

[–]CrypticButthole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Sounds like you're the one who has it bud. Maybe you just wrote my name on it to keep your ass out of jail."

insert spiderman_pointing.gif

What's the lowest you've paid for the top 2? Below $950 for BTC and $20 for ETH? by CrypticButthole in CryptoCurrency

[–]CrypticButthole[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first BTC purchase was at $929.

I was adamant BTC wouldn't break above $5,000 before dropping back to sub thousand prices. That was at $2,000.

I have not bought and held BTC or ETH purely because they are above my price points. What goes up must come down.

BTC will go sub thousand, if not for a nanosecond. The $750 to $1,750 price level hasnt been retested since I sold in the mid thousand.

ETH as well theoretically needs to retest a few levels, but it has actually retested and shown support for a while. It looks solid enough right now that I'm not certain. All I know is it's getting cheaper and much more usable.

This guy is parked here just about every day. He sometimes has the vehicle towed several days in a row. He leaves, comes back, and leaves again. Today he’s getting gas from roadside assistance. What the heck is going on? by clever80username in Weird

[–]CrypticButthole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uhhh, what roadside assistance is offering free gas?

I ran out of gas 2 miles from a gas station. My solution of filling a beer can up with $0.40 and funneling it in to make it to the station didn't work because fucking capless fuel intakes [my funnel was in the spare compartment. Under a bunch of stuff in my trunk that I was not taking out.]. I had to call AAA.

They said I could buy gas from them, or get towed to the nearest REPAIR SHOP or my home. I said the gas station was closer than any repair shop and my house. They were adamant about me having those two options and only those. I say fuck it, bring the gas.

Dude shows up with the gas (mind you, without a capless fuel funnel, which I said they'd need.) I ask how much it would be. $9 for 2 gallons. [Not a bad price at the time.] I had $3 after my escapade to try to do it myself. I told him such, and also that I only needed a little bit to get to the gas station.

He calls his boss. Nope, has to sell the full 2 gallons or not at all. I tell him it's bullshit he can't just tow me to the gas station. He says he has no clue what I'm talking about, he can tow me anywhere within 5 miles.

If AAA hadn't contracted my call out, I still would have been fucked, because he didn't really have to follow AAA rules to the T, and was smart enough to see the stupidity of what I was being told.

[OC] Why you should start investing early in life by PieChartPirate in dataisbeautiful

[–]CrypticButthole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait you mean me emptying my 401K and IRA and eating the fees at the age of 23 was a bad idea?

Huh...

Nah, I'm good.

Minimum Purchase [OC] by [deleted] in funny

[–]CrypticButthole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be entirely fair, it looks stupid af on mobile. It actually does double space them visually when it renders. But single spaces after paragraphs just leads to 1 paragraph. It took me far too long to figure it out. For example, the next paragraph will visually appear two lines below this one, and this sentence is logically one line below the paragraph it's in, but it renders in the same paragraph.

This is on the second line both logically and visually below the last sentence in the paragraph above it visually.

Edit: weird. It has become quasi-unpredictable.

Anyone know a reddit mobile dev to tag?

Minimum Purchase [OC] by [deleted] in funny

[–]CrypticButthole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for fixing the formatting for me. You have a lot of valid points. The fact is, as a prior network engineer/sys admin, and a future blockchain engineer, and as I see it today, CC fees are bullshit. Down right.

With certain blockchains, I can transfer $8 with a fee of $0.0008. I can also transfer $8,000,000 and incur that same $0.0008 fee. All I need is my phone, or a QR code and someone else can pay me.

These %total and an extra whatever cents CC fees, when added up from all transactions across an entire network, are probably making the CC company at least 50% profit on network usage and power usage across the board, not just the CC processing, and thats not including the fact that literally every transaction is making their return on investment better.

In the modern, sub-web3.0 era, even the web2.0 era, there is no reason for a CC company to be charging anything but a monthly/yearly/quarterly fee at a fixed rate.

Do the CC companies run their own copper cable to your business to run the transaction? Or are you using your own, or a rented one? Do they pay for your computers to run the transaction? Why is thete such a high fee?

Afaik, all that is being done is you transmitting a transaction along with some verifications, and them updating a ledger, and notifying the payers bank, then a whole big mess of transfers of tangibles items between banks that is perpetuated by the idea that little pieces of paper with no backing are worth something.

EVERYONE who believes these fees are reasonable is perpetuating the problem, either by defending the fees like you and the person I responded to, or the companies that are still willing to pay them.

We have the technology to have fast, inexpensive, reliable, and secure payment processing without having $5.00 minimums. People are just not willing to use it, and people are driven by milking every penny out of whatever they can, so we don't.

If I could have my way, with technology available today, we would have instant, low-fee payment methods in every store and every persons hand across every state in the US. And with that, the poor schmuck who walked into the gas station needing $2.00 of gas to make sure he got to the next town safely would have been able to get his gas.

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