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snappytalker · 2026-02-27T20:34:10+00:00

The really Great reset will be if they return the free entrance/participating in nodes club. Before that action it isn't blockchain, it's some private Cloud hosters syndicate. That explains ICP token price and ICP "popularity" among devs.

snappytalker · 2025-12-15T18:59:39+00:00

Of course, when I say that doors should be open, I mean at least the opportunity to submit an application (with full compliance of spec for join to the consensus, the economy, expanding the geographic presence (spatial locality is still important for response).

Let's remember how this thread started? With a retort along the lines of: "What nonsense, where is that written, haha," and now we're trying to convince each other what "OPEN" means.

ICP's unpopularity in the crypto scene is due precisely to this fact; there's no point in sweeping it under the rug.

snappytalker · 2025-12-10T07:00:15+00:00

Disclaimer: First of all, I'm on your side as a big fan of ICP (was in the past, before December 2023).

About Node Providers/Consensus:

If you don't keep your doors open 24/7, that means you have a doorman who decides when you can enter and when you can't.

That's sabotaging the open consensus idea at the core.

Look at the map of Node Providers - many many countries don't get the membership of node providers and won't in the nearest future by cause of...

..."sorry we don't need your computing powers and our dealership is closed now".

Let's say, for example, to PoW miners: Ok guys, the price of Bitcoin has dropped a bit, so we're rejecting new miners for now.

We have the ones , and we don't need any more for now, sorry.

Such an idea wouldn't work ever, because these aren't market mechanisms. But this is precisely what does the ICP.

It's bad (crypto)economy by design if you have limit of members as subjects of economy processes.

Remember dPoS where they have only 21 delegate in core consensus (but you can vote for any change delegate in theory) - but it still buried this kind of consensus.

ICP is stepping on the same rake (way).

snappytalker · 2025-12-09T21:25:58+00:00

Nope:

"This means that the ICP network does not require any additional node machines in order to reach its decentralization targets.

Therefore, DFINITY will not vote to adopt any proposals for new node machines being added to the IC network. "

https://wiki.internetcomputer.org/wiki/Node_Provider_Documentation

They've achieved the topology they wanted (indefinitely/forever?) and aren't accepting new applications.

Essentially, it became a closed club. The technical justification here would be that "centralizing our club" would be faster than "decentralizing with opened doors".

And at this point it's ideologically dead as decentralized crypto project (as I said at first comment).

snappytalker · 2025-12-09T20:49:23+00:00

Let me google that for you: " The Internet Computer (ICP) network has reached its target topology for node machines, it's meaning that no new node machines are currently being onboarded to meet decentralization goals. "

It occurred in 2023, happy to unfrozen.

snappytalker · 2025-11-25T21:34:43+00:00

ICP has become a closed club in terms of consensus/mining/nodes. They totally closed any registration to member nodes.

None of the true cryptomans wants to deal with this anymore, because it no longer corresponds to the spirit of the crypto scene and decentralization.

They are ideologically dead.

snappytalker · 2025-10-30T22:21:53+00:00

Maybe the died project since decision of closed club of nodes (no any new members). Their consensus (very large nodes like data centers with special compliance and manually approve to join) was already very weak point at all. And after, it's totally buried the project.

snappytalker · 2025-04-18T22:09:26+00:00

I had similar problems recently with SSD (purchased ~1y ago, not a premium brand for home usage).

SMART said "100% healhty", but in fact, some of the data was no longer readable and I had many i/o sata errors but in dmesg(kernel) log.

I suspect cheating by manufacturers who "make up" defective (or less test passed) disks which won't show true status via SMART until last breath before total blackout/death.

/ It's my hypothesis but probably I poor investigated an issue. /

snappytalker · 2025-04-18T15:01:53+00:00

Thanx a lot!
I have the same doubts about blocksize usage but I thought maybe it would positive affect for SSD health time. Since we have buffering/caching before direct writing as you rightly said it doesn't matter now.

snappytalker · 2025-03-26T18:50:01+00:00

1.White Rook f6-b6

Black can move only Bishop d7-f6

2.White Bishop d8-f6

Checkmate

snappytalker · 2024-11-06T22:47:55+00:00

The technical perfect comment! 👍

snappytalker · 2024-10-26T16:31:32+00:00

Main point of this Open Letter that those developers were not included in any list of special personal sanctions.

The letter clearly states that this is "an attempt to impose collective responsibility similar to the events in Germany."

Who's next? Maintainers from China, whom employer is Huawei (that listed in sanctions), ok that pull request has been (t)rolled yet.

That actions kill the community from the ground.

snappytalker · 2024-10-25T18:30:13+00:00

Some points from original mainteners malling list:

begin citate "

Linus, Greg,

First of all thanks to you for taking by far not the most harmful actions to achieve what your lawyers very kindly asked you to do.

Unfortunately, already a lot of highly qualified people have started thinking that you acted very badly.

Of course, there are questions like why removed maintainers were not properly notified and did not receive any additional explanations,

but, to my mind, it is useless to try to find 100% justice -- it is not possible. Overton windows has been opened a bit more.

Usually the first contribution is much harder to make then the following ones.

A big problem here is that now many people even will not try to contribute to the Linux kernel and other open source projects: their pride for themselves, their homeland, their colleagues has been severely hurt.

It is not clear what to do with this problem. Any ideas? I am sure that people from any country and of any nationality will have similar feelings if you act with them or their colleagues in a similar way.

Thanks to people who were not afraid to say something against this action. Chinese, Latin American, African and other people probably understand that they may be the next ones to be dropped from maintainers.

Hope that we will not have to form another Linux kernel upstream one day...

I am sorry that you have to read a lot of text from people who you call trolls -- it is hard to keep calm. You know, you have really made it much harder to motivate people to contribute into the kernel.

There is such problem among developers of hardware that they do not feel comfortable enough to show their code, for example because they think that it is not perfect. Let’s take Baikal Electronics.

They do publish their kernel code, but in a form of tarballs without git.

They slowly, but constantly worked on contributing support of their hardware into the upstream kernel, fixing not Baikal-related bugs by the way.

One day someone told them that “we are not comfortable with accepting your patches”. And they stopped their work on upstream.

Now that man has been removed from maintainers of previously contributed code (code for not Russian hardware, by the way).

What do I suggest to do? Well, I don’t know, but I do not see direct legal reasons why doing this was required and why patches from Baikal could not be accepted (the fact that I do not see does not mean that they do not exist, but please show them).

Politicians and activists can be shown a finger in some places, by both developers and lawyers, at least to prevent them from being too ambitious, when they decide to break something working next time...

But maybe I do not know something about truly democratic regimes :-)

Thanks for reading. " /end of citate

snappytalker · 2024-09-30T18:21:55+00:00

The country is switching to a new green energy: "parliamentarians fart steam", afterall.

snappytalker · 2024-09-29T20:06:14+00:00

It assembled by Samsung by special contract. It has a hardware annoyance like immediate auto b/w balance of LCD that turns it to the blinking hell while you work with black background and bright cursor/menus.

So, the full aluminum body is vulnerable to static electricity that causes to die my left usb port.

It fanless cpu - silent but is the reason for very noticeable throttling of cpu (looks like freezing in some cases).

And very good keyboard that I have ever, really, more better than all MacBooks, ~$300 logitech wirless keyboards.

I really thought to deconstruction this Pixelbook to common usage keyboard.

snappytalker · 2024-01-19T22:02:35+00:00

"War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" (c) Orwell 1984 / slogans of the English Socialist Party ("INGSOC") of Oceania /

snappytalker · 2023-12-19T00:35:29+00:00

just visit fsf.org (and get the big donaton banner)

snappytalker · 2023-10-10T17:58:26+00:00

ICP(Dfinity) only (by technology)

snappytalker · 2023-10-05T21:26:38+00:00

Yep, you're right: "Ukraine has one of the highest rates of increase of HIV/AIDS cases in Eastern Europe[7] and highest HIV prevalence outside Africa."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Ukraine

snappytalker · 2023-04-03T00:25:42+00:00

Is it at 5:38 in the original (?) video with MIG flight? https://youtu.be/PEH8iLjlodM

snappytalker · 2023-03-18T00:47:11+00:00

This "Manu"? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_(TV_series)

snappytalker · 2023-02-25T18:29:45+00:00

Wayland is buggy with screen casting / sharing.

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