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Stablecoins aren't cryptocurrencies in any sense of the word. It's just electronic FIAT.

They are cryptocurrencies. But they are not fiat. They are IOUs of fiat. Token represents promise of some other party to possibly redeem(if you collect enough tokens) to convert it to more commonly accepted fiat they promise they somehow hold.

Your money is safe with us. We promise. With lot less oversight than most other solutions for holding money...


I mean they use Blockchain, right? Isn't that like the only real requirement for the name crypto?

As long as you burn as much electricity as Andorra does in a week just to make a transaction, you're probably a cryptocurrency. And that's their sole benefit it seems.


Most blockchains nowadays are not proof of work anymore.

>I mean they use Blockchain, right? Isn't that like the only real requirement for the name crypto?

Absolutely not. Cryptocurrently exclusively refers to permissionless, decentralized, cryptographically secured, irreversible, fungible monetary system with a disinflationary or non-inflationary supply, following a voluntary, collectivized governance model.

A vast majority of tokens colloquially referred to as "cryptocurrency" couldn't be further from these principles. There are no stablecoins that are cryptocurrency. Ethereum is not cryptocurrency. Any coin issued by a corporation (e.g. Ripple) is not a cryptocurrency.


If your definition excludes Ethereum your understanding of the term so differs from everyone else's that we aren't talking about the same thing

Ethereum is a great utility token. Smart contracts absolutely have utility in the digital economy. It's just not a cryptocurrency, is all. It had a massive premine, there's no supply cap, it's subject to OFAC censorship, and has effectively demonstrated that just ~4.8% of the total ETH supply can vote to cause rollout and widespread adoption of a fork that reverses transactions.

We need different words for these fundamentally different things, because conflating them causes real confusion, as this very hack demonstrates. People are surprised that an admin can lock transactions precisely because the word "cryptocurrency" led them to assume properties that don't exist in stablecoins.


Where did the 4.8% number come from? Is it based on the validator stake? How does that compare to the number required to fork Bitcoin as a function of it's supply?

There was a vote after the DAO incident to roll back. 87% of those that voted voted yes (for the rollback), but only 5.5% of the total supply voted at all.

Those are all arguments for why Ethereum is a bad cryptocurrency, not for why Ethereum isn’t a cryptocurrency at all.

Is there even any currency that meets that definition? Iirc even bitcoin had some kind of reversal back in the day, or am I misremembering? I seem to recall bitcoin splitting in 2 for a while as there was some disagreement on whether the reversal should be made or not.

Idk, it's been a while and my memory is fuzzy.


What the fuck?! I did not sign up to live in some third world shithole where I can't get first-world networking equipment. I do not want some piece of shit closed-source proprietary netgear ameritrash. FUCK! Give me back my god damn chinese routers!

Chinese citizens have more computing freedom than American citizens at this point. What the fuck happened to the land of the free?


I doubt anything will be pulled from the market. This is instead notice to the companies that now is the time for a donation to the administration’s ballroom.

Right now, the way this is currently worded, every single foreign-made consumer router has already been pulled from the market, and has to request permission to be reintroduced. The only consumer routers not currently affected are those that are either already purchased (some good, but won't last forever) or are American-made (overpriced, underpowered dogshit)

From the news release "What does this mean?" section: "This update to the Covered List does not prohibit the import, sale, or use of any existing device models the FCC previously authorized."

So no, this does not pull all existing routers off the market. Anything that already got FCC approval remains approved and new stock may be imported and sold.


> I do not want some piece of shit closed-source proprietary netgear ameritrash.

So much different than the piece of shit closed-source proprietary netgear chinesium.

Consumer routers are shit full stop.


Plenty of Chinese routers offer better performance at lower prices with factory support for OpenWRT, unlike Ameritrash.

Only Glinet. With all the rest is hit and miss and some are with locked bootloaders.

The computing freedom = a plausibly deniable backdoor.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1389


Another favorite, https://www.synacktiv.com/publications/cool-vulns-dont-live-...

the router sniffed plaintext http to grab HTTP User agents to put them into a curl bash command line string. Nice RCE from the browser.


I understand the anger but I wouldn't go as far as that last part... the GFW is the ultimate censorship tool. For the record I run tp-link aps

Lmao you're an IT guy, right? Get yourself a Raspberry Pi 5, PCIe adapter and a second hand gigabit Intel NIC. Slap a case on that, put OpenWRT on it and bam! High performance, high quality router built from trustworthy parts running open source operating system. Not the prettiest and simplest solution but at least that way you don't have to depend on Realtek chips and Chinese firmware.

Pi 5 can't come close to handling gigabit wireguard tunnels. I can do an x86 build that will, but still, incredibly aggravating.

You'll probably see better performance with a non-wireguard VPN with the RP5 since it has hardware accelerated AES instructions.

There is an entire WORLD that lives in your computer below the operating system (eg, OpenWRT). For example, in your Raspberry Pi 5, there is a chip called the VideoCore GPU and it contains a big blob of code known only to Raspberry Pi Foundation and, perhaps, Five Eyes. The Chinese processors are like that too!

Even if you have the source and build system to recreate the exact binary blob and can reload it with Jedec or whatever, there is another world below the firmware...called microcode. Some of the microcode comes from the FAB preloaded! Even if you can get the source code for the microcode and somehow read it out and verify it is the same, you guessed it...there is another world below that [1 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380555600_Trustwort... ] [2 https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3579856.3582837 ] [3 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7546493 also https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A2%3A-Analog-Malicious... ]


Why wasn't anyone notified about this being in the works? What bulletins did I fail to notice. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE

Not owned by companies that help the US Federal Government illegally spy on their own citizens and murder children overseas:

Gitlab

Bitbucket

Sourceforge

Forgejo

Codeberg

Radicle

Launchpad

Owned by companies that help the US Federal Government illegally spy on their own citizens and murder children overseas:

Github


Neither Forgejo nor Codeberg are owned by _any_ company. Very important distinction.

Codeberg is nice.

I am very sorry for your loss and the harm it is causing you.

Unfortunately, this is one of the risks of handing control over your future to the tyrants who run walled gardens.

While you can't undo the past, the silver lining of this experience is that it has clarified to you that Apple is an abusive, unfair, and unreasonable corporation that you should avoid doing business with.

As an immediate action, I'm sure it's not what you want to hear, but HTML5 and WASM have come a long way, and mobile web applications are increasingly converging on the capabilities of native mobile applications. While a rewrite will not be cheap or easy, ensuring you can offer service to your users without having to ask an abusive tyrant for permission ensures you are at less risk of this kind of tyranny and the disruption and harm it inflicts upon you and your users in the future.

I am sympathetic to the victims of Apple's tyranny (as well as Google's, Microsoft's, and others), and I know I can't solve the problem by myself, but I would like to help in a more material way - do you have a Bitcoin address I can send a donation to?


we just need a human to read our appeal

I, for one, completely trust Cloudflare on this one. The guys running a MiTM attack on a substantial chunk of all global internet traffic, and working tirelessly to ensure billions of people behind CGNAT in the global south can't access the free and open web are the premiere experts on malicious, predatory, harmful internet-scale network behavior, after all.

Since when had Ford, GM, and Chrysler escaped irrelevance? With the exception of parking lot princess pickup trucks, they've been outsold on their own turf by reliable Japanese economy vehicles for decades now.

Volkswagen is on a faster pace to become irrelevance due to dependency on diminishing exports, high energy input costs in Europe, and labor union which wont't let them right size the company. Good luck VW

I believe the politically correct phrasing would be Jooishnote.

There are boards starting in the $1500-$2000 range, and complete systems in the $2500-$2700 range. I actually don't know of any Strix Halo mini PCs that cost $3000, do you?

EDIT: The system I bought last summer for $1980 and just took delivery of in October, Beelink GTR 9 Pro, is now $2999.... wow...


RAM has gone up a lot since last summer.

the boards now are pricier, at least the framework one. I got it for 1700, and now its ~$2400.

not mini PCs, no, but there are laptops that do

I bought mine, a mini PC, for $1400 just six months ago. This bubble will pass.

>or perhaps to route certain requests to Haiku or Sonnet instead of using Opus for everything, to cut down on the compute

You can point Claude Code at a local inference server (e.g. llama.cpp, vLLM) and see which model names it sends each request to. It's not hard to do a MITM against it either. Claude Code does send some requests to Haiku, but not the ones you're making with whatever model you have it set to - these are tool result processing requests, conversation summary / title generation requests, etc - low complexity background stuff.

Now, Anthropic could simply take requests to their Opus model and internally route them to Sonnet on the server side, but then it wouldn't really matter which harness was used or what the client requests anyway, as this would be happening server-side.


Sounds pretty sane, the same way how OpenWebUI and probably other software out there also has a concept of “tool models”, something you use for all the lower priority stuff.

Actually curious to hear what others think about why Anthropic is so set on disallowing 3rd party tools on subscriptions.


The sota models are largely undifferentiated from each other in performance right now. And it’s possible open weight models will get “good enough” relatively soonish. This creates a classic case where inference becomes a commodity. Commodities have very low margins. Training puts them in an economic hole where low margins will kill them.

So they have to move up the stack to higher margin business solutions. Which is why they offer subsidized subscription plans in the first place. It’s a marketing cost. But they want those marketing dollars to drive up the stack not commodity inference use cases.


Just remember, OpenCode is sending telemetry to their own servers, even when you're using your own locally hosted models. There are no environment variables, flags, or other configuration options to disable this behavior.¹

At least you can easily turn off telemetry in Claude Code - just set CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC to 1.

You can use Claude Code with llama.cpp and vLLM, too right out of the box with no additional software necessary, just point ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL at your inference server of choice, with any value in ANTHROPIC_API_KEY.

Some people think that Anthropic could disable this at any time, but that's not really true - you can disable automatic updates and back up and reuse native Claude Code binaries, ensuring Anthropic cannot change your existing local Claude Code binary's behavior.

With that said, I like the idea of an open source TUI agent that won't spy on me without my consent and no way to disable it much better than a closed source TUI agent that I can effectively neuter telemetry on, but sadly, OpenCode is not the former. It's just another piece of VC-funded spyware that's destined for enshittification.

¹https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/blob/4d7cbdcbef92bb696...


Are you sure that endpoint is sending all traffic to opencode? I'm not familiar with Hono but it looks like a catch all route if none of the above match and is used to serve the front-end web interface?

You are correct, it is indeed a route for the web interface

updated post accordingly

That linked code is not used by the opencode agent instance though right? Looks related to their web server?

They don't. That is just the route for their WebUI, which is completely optional.

I've point thought about making things that just send garbage to any data collecting service.

You'd be surprised how useless datasets become with like 10% garbage data when you don't know which data is garbage


Does opencode still work if you blackhole the telemetry?

this is a big red flag

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