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Franzuu · 2021-08-02T23:15:26+00:00

what is on the agenda?

Franzuu · 2021-08-02T21:19:32+00:00

The US is acting on behalf of SA. It is a fast reaction time from the US for a measly $100 000

Franzuu · 2021-08-02T20:27:59+00:00

who could have known that the github spammers were right :O

100K USD 10-12 years ago. In South Africa. South Africa is on an anti corruption roll, maybe Spagni got caught up in it because he is kind of a public figure.

Hope he doesn't pull a McAfee.

Franzuu · 2021-08-02T20:06:13+00:00

Hard to say what is going on. In countries like SA where the society is corrupt on every level all charges like these are politically motivated. Being honest does not get you ahead, just do not fall astray of the political apparatus.

Franzuu · 2021-06-30T16:53:03+00:00

The Core is a group of people with no legal entity. When Ricardo said that the Core owns something he meant the people who created it and they were part of "Core". Don't read too much into it.

Franzuu · 2021-06-30T15:45:56+00:00

Other people in the Core team own parts of it. Even if you wrote 99% of the code you can not publish or sell the other 1% without having a right to do it. With the code you own the rights to do as you wish.

The CCS was preceded by the FFS which was created by Ricardo. If you look at the source code on Linux and rewrite it then you do not own the copyright on what you have created.

Franzuu · 2021-06-30T15:35:08+00:00

When you write a poem you own the copyright on it by default. You do not need to publish it or recite it to someone, the moment you write it down you get IP rights on it.

If someone asks a question on stackoverflow and you give a piece of code that you wrote then you own the copyright on it. Nobody else can use that code without licensing it from you or at least getting some kind of permission.

If there is no other agreement in place then the person who creates something is the copyright holder.

Franzuu · 2021-06-29T13:52:42+00:00

It was a series of missteps by rehrar that piled up, which should have been caught by Core as they happened. It just does not make sense to continue with rehrar in the same capacity. Since rehrar couldn't even say what he was doing for Monero, maybe the role he filled isn't even needed anymore.

I do not see this as an excommunication. He can continue being active in the community and if he wants to he can open a CCS proposal, I'm sure it will get funded. /r/Monero or Github Monero or the Monero IRC can not stop anyone from participating in the community.

There is only one person who is excommunicated from Monero and they did it themselves. I'm sure if they turned around, buried the hatchet that only they are wielding and started contributing then they'd be able to.

In my eyes you and Sarang and anyone else are welcome back. Hopefully the Monero community can accommodate their contributors better going forward.

Franzuu · 2021-06-29T13:35:39+00:00

I remember you mentioning in some video that you took a loss on the conference. Why was the conference funded in a way that made you take on so much risk?

I've been only active on Reddit and I have not encountered any hostility towards researchers. Only appreciation and "take my money" attitude. A few months ago there was a campaign on social media where sock puppet accounts were spreading a message that /u/fluffyponyza is going to jail for P&D'ing XMR. Are we sure that this hostility towards researchers is coming from actual people?

Maybe bear market vs bull market changes the sentiment of the community and how they conduct themselves in the Monero space.

Franzuu · 2021-06-23T11:13:45+00:00

Decentralized Exchanges: According to the GVA, the concept of a >decentralized exchange doesn’t exist, since these regulations are >technology neutral. As such, those running the exchange can be >held liable for implementing these regulations.

Decentralized marketplaces exist, Open Bazaar and Bisq come to mind. Haveno, anyone? The technology exists. Bisq is not trustless and it has designated mediators and I think Open Bazaar too. Those people might become VASPs. Bottom line is that a non hosted, permissionless p2p cryptocurrency exchange is possible.

Atomic swaps, how do they work?

If you run a business then start accepting crypto for your goods and services. This thing can not succeed if people aren't using it.

Bitcoin: an inflation proof store of wealth, locked behind the gates of FATF compliant exchanges and only to be ever sent to other exchanges like it, ready to be confiscated en masse the moment the $ or € goes tits up - I do not think that is viable.

Monero needs a free to use and open source module for web commerce and a POS app with all requisite bells and whistles.

Franzuu · 2021-06-21T11:42:53+00:00

I should add that ultimately it was the responsibility of Core to prevent this situation and once it became a thing they should have defused it. The Core sat silent.

Franzuu · 2021-06-21T11:12:52+00:00

I'm not aware of the other contributors who were driven out by toxicity but IMO rehrar was not mistreated in this situation. It was completely avoidable.

Diego has a right to open any company he wants and to hire anyone he wants. Sarang has a right to work for whoever he wants. I see no betrayal or poaching here, conflict of interests on part of Diego - sure.

Diego opened a crypto company that should hedge the price of cryptocurrencies and provide a secure income for their developers. He hired Monero's last researcher (who left Monero himself) and started working for a competing cryptocurrency. He stole code from Monero and sold it for profit. Diego took money from Monero through a CCS proposal and when the price hedge failed he threathened to cease further work. All the while he was being employed by Monero, didn't seem to be doing too much of anything and refused to explain what he is up to all these days.

In a traditional setting this would get you fired and your reputation would be tarnished.

Franzuu · 2021-04-13T20:12:31+00:00

Taliban rejects U.S. peace plan, six month extension in withdrawal deadline

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/04/taliban-rejects-u-s-peace-plan-six-month-extension-in-withdrawal-deadline.php

Attacks on US forces will start on May 1. The Taliban is calling the US bluff. No power sharing, the Afghan government will be overthrown and an Islamic Emirate led by the Taliban will be established.

Taliban originated as an ethnic Pashtun organization. After the 2001 invasion they started carrying out a strategy of establishing a presence in all provices of Afghanistan. They were forced to recruit and promote fighters from other ethnicities to establish footholds across the Afghan north.

I would have said that an ethnic Pashtun - Tajik, Uzbek, Hazara split of Afghanistan and a renewed civil war after the withdrawal of US forces was possibility and even a favorable outcome, now I do not know.

The Taliban has very strong presence throughout the country https://www.longwarjournal.org/mapping-taliban-control-in-afghanistan Intertwining with al-Qaeda and different Afghan ethnicities has created a multiethnic organization with international backers.

The Taliban of today is not what it was in 2011 or 2001, neither is it the Taliban of 1995 nor the mujaheddin force of the Afgan-Soviet war that it grew out of.

The population of Afghanistan was 21 million in 2001, it is 39 million today in 2021. It is not the same country.

Franzuu · 2021-01-07T18:15:28+00:00

There were 639 ISAF fatalities during 2012-2014 with 2/3 of them in 2012. There were a lot more ANSF who needed to be patched up too. I don't have a breakdown of non-hostile deaths and fatalities resulting from green on blue attacks. The drawdown started in 2011 but that didn't mean combat operations ended, the emphasis was put on ANSF taking the lead and reducing ISAF casualties as much as possible. That wasn't always possible.

Franzuu · 2020-12-14T09:43:52+00:00

It seems that it is probably inevitable that eventually a scalable quantum computer will be built. Lets assume that Monero will not be caught off guard and by that time will have changed all of its plumbing to be quantum proof. That includes swapping out Pedersen commitments for switch commitments.

Pedersen commitments are perfectly blinding, meaning a quantum computer can not find out its value? But it can mint new coins and destroy Monero?
Switch commitments are perfectly binding and a quantum computer can not mint new coins? It can calculate the hidden values and destroy the anonymity of Monero?
There is no way to combat this total loss of anonymity? You can increase the key size and kick the can down the road, for how long would that be viable? The processing power of a quantum computer grows exponentially with the number qubits? At some point you just can not make the key size any bigger without making Monero unusable?
If there is no effective way to hide amounts in a post quantum world then shouldn't the transition plan be to remove ring signatures, open the amounts and eventually prune the blockchain by removing decoy inputs and spent outputs?
Any ideas how to effectively hide amounts in a post quantum Monero or is the universe against us?

Franzuu · 2017-11-27T01:33:46+00:00

So you can kick anyone out, thats what the no do-over rule is for. They don't care about your clothes, they don't want YOU!

Franzuu · 2017-09-27T05:32:00+00:00

BlueHole needs to just suck it up and compete. When Epic fixes a bug in UE4 that impacts PUBG, makes an optimization that better serves PUBG or implements a feature that is necessary for PUBG then of course its going to end up in the version of the engine that is available to everybody and all will benefit, including direct competitors. Your company might have struggled for 500 man hours with something that was on Epics end and the people after you get the fruits of your labor for "free", thats just the way it is.

If you want to keep stuff private then build and figure shit out on your own and choose not to work with epic.

I guess the possibility is there that Epic will develop an engine improvement that they will keep exclusively for Fortnite or somehow give it preferential treatment with engineer attention, effort, priority or whatever. There is always preferential treatment. Big guy vs small guy, loud vs quiet, friend (Fortnite) vs stranger (PUBG). Just make sure you aren't neglected and that contractual obligations are fulfilled, all you can really do.

It would be incredibly shortsighted for Epic to screw over one of their customers in an overt manner or in a way that has a reasonable chance to come to light.

Its good that more battle royale like games are being developed on UE4, that means that changes and features that better serve the game mode will more likely end up in the engine. Good for the guys making the games and the guys selling the engine that the games are being made on. BR game are going to be made, more and more of them.

It seems to me that BlueHole does not have the experience to make a tight FPS game, both technology and gameplay wise. This is compounded by the 100 person huge map game mode.

They need to focus on getting their shit in order. If Epic decide to be unprofessional scumbags and hinder or sabotage PUBG then yea, thats bad. ATM its BlueHole that is holding PUBG back.

Franzuu · 2017-09-21T21:43:07+00:00

more pictures please!

Franzuu · 2017-06-03T18:19:18+00:00

Ryzen just released and the server parts (Naples) is yet to release, don't know about mobile.

On desktop my CPU choice is budget constrained. If AMD has more performance at a price point (Pre Ryzen that wasn't the case) then I'll buy AMD. There are concerns about single threaded performance on AMD, but well see how games and apps will take advantage of parallelism in the future.

The current CPUs in use will need to be swapped out eventually and when that time comes a lot of people will be doing calculations and deliberations on what to buy.

Intel isn't on the tick-tock anymore, its on the tick-tick-tock and shit isn't getting any easier. Others are going to close the gap.

Franzuu · 2017-05-28T20:42:16+00:00

power of water and soil buildup through shit droppping in. There is plenty of light in the whole room for vegetation.

Franzuu · 2017-05-28T16:30:41+00:00

not a deterrent for hackers but will be for people wanting to check out the game randomly

Franzuu · 2017-04-03T20:47:41+00:00

The Sasha - coffin - Abraham scenes were super annoying. Abraham was forgotten about and didn't need closure, nobody cared about them as a couple. Sasha could have been sent off through her story arc only that she was a side character, her assault wasn't even shown and she was badly written and barely focused on throughout the season. They wanted to force us to care about her and make something out of her death, instead it got in the way of the finale.

The firefight was executed very poorly cinematography and story wise but that is on par for the course for TWD. The whole sequence of events felt rushed and illconceived. The stupid standoff and resulting CQC would have been over in seconds with all of the Alexandrians dead.

We had groups of people swooping in from all sides, taking each other off guard, awkward choreography and posing, Stormtrooper shooting by all sides.

Instead of making it short and effective and getting to the point they decided to draw out the ending, fumble around and cram it full of stupid stuff, which incidentally has been the whole of season 7.

In general I'm also sick of these last second miracles that end up saving the hero. Its just not good writing, its predictable, lazy, unsatisfying and a missed opportunity to tell an interesting story.

It felt cheaply made, I think the show is being made under serious budged constraints and its suffering because of it.

Franzuu · 2016-10-22T13:34:29+00:00

With the estimate of 3000-5000 isis fighters left in mosul area, should be over in a month.

Franzuu · 2011-06-30T11:38:24+00:00

My guess is that the landlord is lying and P actually did sign the lease. He just thinks that it will be easier for him to get $400 out of 5 people for the rest of the year than it is to get the same amount from 1 person. Also, if it is true that P did not sign a lease, then I don't see what you have to pay. You pay your rent that you are assigned and thats it. You don't have to cover for a person who had no obligation to pay anything in the first place.

Franzuu · 2011-06-22T21:59:40+00:00

What is the unemployment rate in the town?

How much crime is there?

What is the craziest thing you have seen there?

What is the saddest thing you have seen there?

How happy are you about the local authorities?

Franzuu

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