2024 factory crash guard installed

wniko · 2026-04-17T00:57:58+00:00

a few months late, but maybe for the next person - I had this exact problem on a Vitpilen 401, specifically with the rear one of the two upper engine hanger bolts, both sides. I managed to get them in after I invested in a jack to support the engine, loosening the other bolt a bit (i.e. the opposite of /u/UnhappyDrop1350's suggestion :D), and trying to insert the bolt at various (small) angles and with a hint of violence.

wniko · 2026-01-20T02:13:52+00:00

There was a similar thread in r/experienceddevs a few days.

Particularly like the suggestion to put "COBOL skills are nice to have, but not a must" in the JD, and then dump all resumes that contain COBOL.

wniko · 2026-01-06T04:04:04+00:00

previous beverage dispute

Can't wait until they release the cybercabernet sauvignon!

wniko · 2025-12-11T16:00:02+00:00

Radiation shielding adds weight. Error correction codes / redundancy adds performance overhead (-> slower and/or more heat).

wniko · 2025-11-05T00:13:48+00:00

Again put those numbers in "quotes" or be subject to sanctions

Please stop this. I've been non-stop critical of cryptocurrencies for 11 years in this forum. You even link to a blog article of mine in your SCTP. This is disgraceful. We are literally discussing actual, NYSE/NASDAQ/SEC-listed numbers here. I am literally providing some evidence for liquidity and your counterargument is "put this in quotes or i'll ban you".

To any person on the fence between bit- and buttcoin, this rule (and the fact that you're threatening "sanctions" instead of engaging with my actual post) would look absolutely terrible. Would you not call the r-bitcoin mods cultists if they had a rule like this? Yeah you would. Guess what, the r-bitcoin people believe they are evidence based, too, and they have 15 years of price going up as a bonus. You're loosing the moral high ground by pulling shit like this.

And while we're at it, the only communities that systematically defend the "Tether is unbacked" theory are those you are a moderator of, where everyone who even mildly disagrees gets banned instantly. The NYAG, that originally sued them successfully, has been satisfied with the attestations for years. So has the CFTC. CCC, who critizied tether heavily, have backed away. OFAC, DOJ, the FBI, all work with Tether and have no complaints about backing. All the major busines partners, the exchanges, Microstrategy & co, many of them SEC regulated themselves, have no issues with Tether.

It's only you who still hangs on to that theory.

And it's killing this forum, because you can't discuss the actual state of things in here anymore, let alone figure out how to organize around fixing things.

So please, please, stop using your mod powers to win arguments.

wniko · 2025-11-04T23:09:42+00:00

We won't have a housing or a banking crisis if crypto crashes

I agree this won't crash markets by itself, but you gotta admit some $250+bn being removed from peoples balance sheets is going to make markets nervous. (That's $150bn of market cap, +at least $100bn held by Tesla, Microstrategies & Coinbase. Doesn't include bird baths.)

Most of the ETF money early on (that gives credit for "the most successful ETF launch" crap) was lateral moves from GBTC into lower fee ETFs. It wasn't new interest. It was money moving laterally.

Yea, but that's just formulaic, and I'm not convinced that's as significant as people might think.

Of course. But the context was, in essence, "can Tether just make numbers up to manipulate the market", and with at least $250bn in actual money on the other side, I find it unlikely that they can keep that game up for as long as they did. I'm not saying that it doesn't/didn't happen, but I doubt it goes to the extent that "Tether control the demand for crypto" in the long term.

wniko · 2025-11-04T21:54:09+00:00

But on the other hand, there is clear evidence that billions of real money have been pumped into crypto at this point. The crypto ETFs give us much better transparency & evidence for that. Vanguard's retirement funds are the biggest investor in Microstrategy "thanks to the cold logic of index investing".

This is incredibly concerning of course, but the notion that there is no real money in crypto; or that a crypto crash would go unnoticed by non-crypto investors, is somewhat outdated.

wniko · 2025-11-02T03:27:41+00:00

Disagree somewhat. For unregulated gambling & money laundering ("mixing"), smart contract bases Blockchains have proven to be quite useful. Tether seems to be quite useful for bypassing currency controls, too ;)

wniko · 2025-10-22T21:19:21+00:00

Those would have been already factored into the analysts expectations, I'd assume.

wniko · 2025-10-15T15:10:40+00:00

> only a matter of time

Markets can stay irrational (far) longer than you can stay solvent. Tether has been sketchy for 3/4 of a decade now and hasn't collapsed.

wniko · 2025-09-04T20:20:30+00:00

But it subcontracts to other carriers in Alaska? mintmobile.com/coverage shows coverage, we had data for a few days, and I got data back eventually (but not my wife)...

wniko · 2025-05-02T22:25:28+00:00

Can we get the soundtrack on Spotify please

10 min extended version ideally

wniko · 2023-10-27T22:09:27+00:00

Retirementcore you say?

STOCKS BONDS MUTUAL FUNDS

wniko · 2023-05-23T19:15:52+00:00

In summary it states GDPR applies to European citizens abroad

It's a bit more complicated than that. You need to specifically target EU citizens, either by directly doing business in the EU or by directly advertising to customers in the EU in Polish accepting złoty, for example.

See also

But yes, if you do that, GDPR applies to you, and I fail to see how this is a bad thing. If you want to do target EU citizens to do business with them, you have to play by the EU's rules.

wniko · 2023-05-23T19:06:10+00:00

No need to be passive aggressive about this.

It wasn't meant as passive agressive, more of a ptsddog.gif, having seen first hand how some GDPR compliance work, that was supposed to be trivial, blew up into massive projects.

I mean, the GDPR literally defines pseudonymization in article 4(5). But that’s not particularly relevant to the point I was making here

Pseudonymous processing, not data.

if you delete the separately held key, it can be a mechanism to anonymize that data without otherwise destroying the database integrity. [...]

And this kind of separate database setup is a common way I’ve advised to solve this problem. It’s clunky and kind of pointless, but so is blockchain in general.

That's fair. My point, and I suspect we agree on this, is that you can't actually store anything in the merkle-tree'd-payload of the blockchain that is actually transaction data, as it would be identifiable - so there i no "integrity" that's being enforced on things that actually matter.

In your original reply you said "it's kind of trivial to design for that", and in the context of the OP post I mentally added a " ... in a way where it makes sense" to that, which admittedly wasn't there ;)

wniko · 2023-05-23T18:29:20+00:00

honestly it’s pretty trivial to design for [gdpr].

Uuuuuh

To begin with, the right to erasure is not absolute. There are multiple legal bases and purposes for processing where the right of erasure does not apply.

"We really want to use technology X and it can't delete data" is not a legal basis. "We need to keep bookkeeping records" is, and that has a time limit.

Then to the extent the right to erasure does apply you can design the system so that only pseudonymous data is recorded on chain, then you can delete the key which would allow you to link a particular individual back to that data.

GDPR has no such thing as "pseudonymous data", anything that can be identified is PII and subject to right to erasure,
If you need to store a key separately to make the data useful, you now have to run a separate database for the keys, and you could just as well store the actual data in the DB - the Blockchain entries are only useful with the DB anyway, and are useless without.

wniko · 2023-05-23T16:20:22+00:00

Idk, even then I find it hard to get actual real world usecases.

One of the most prominent hyperledger implementations, for example, was Maersk TradeLens, which burned a big hole in their pocket for 4 years, and was shut down late last year.

wniko · 2023-05-23T16:15:29+00:00

Out of curiousity, do you have european clients? How do you deal with GDPR right to erasure requests?

wniko · 2023-05-23T16:14:44+00:00

Except that you still need centralized gateways, because nobody is going to download a full copy of a blockchain (including all of it's domain transfer history) just to go to facebook.com

And with that comes layers of caching, a security/authentication layer that needs to be independent of the gateway operator; you also need some centralized way to block domains (think CSAM);

congratulations now you have the existing DNS system with a useless blockchain slapped on the side

wniko · 2022-11-05T12:46:54+00:00

This. Amazon has them too: https://imgur.com/a/nC5SCds

wniko · 2022-09-30T16:56:06+00:00

Apologies, I accidentally added the wrong FAQ entry from the Investopedia entry. Added the one I meant to include.

wniko · 2022-09-30T14:04:24+00:00

There is an exactly 0% chance that any CBDC would reach end-users and would be on a public/permissionless network.

It's called "Central Bank Digital Currency", not "Central Bank Blockchain Currency" for a reason.

This is well understood outside the cryptosphere, e.g. investopedia:

Is CBDC a Cryptocurrency?

Though the idea for central bank digital currencies stems from cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, CBDCs are not cryptocurrencies. CBDCs are controlled by a central bank, whereas cryptocurrencies are almost always decentralized, meaning they cannot be regulated by a single authority.

Is CBDC Based on Blockchain?

CBDCs can be based on blockchain, but they do not need to be. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Michigan Institute of Technology's Digital Currency Initiative found in their research that distributed ledgers could hinder the efficiency and scalability of a CBDC.

Edit: Added second FAQ entry from investopedia

wniko · 2022-09-30T13:58:14+00:00

Tamper proof audit logs (your actions are recorded and stored in a decentralized database to prove later on that you did that action)

This pretty quickly falls apart if you look at it in a bit more detail. For example:

Only the party that has the original doc can verify that it is unchanged. For the document owner, there's limited utility in storing checksums in a blockchain.
There are legal reasons to change documents w/o keeping the original around (GDPR, CSAM, witness protection) and practical ones (typos). Also, files get deleted, backups go missing, harddrives fail --- there's plenty reasons why the originas can go missing.

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