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Peter Todd boosted

I’ve been thinking about stopping using Gmail/Google tools for years but we must admit the G Suite is amazing and difficult to replace!

What self-hosted open source alternative do you know?

@k3tan @stephanlivera I used this: marketplace.digitalocean.com/a

Basically log in to digital ocean and just click the "Create Mastodon Droplet" button on that page. Setup dns records, and then SSH in as root.

Peter Todd boosted

I would like to draw you attention to a really cool, instant, distributed, secure file sharing technology. For situations where you quickly just want to sent a file to somebody without using Dropbox, Drive, ...

Magic Wormhole
magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/

If you just want to quickly try it out, there's a GUI app here:
github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui

@pete @giacomozucco @stephanlivera

@harding @kalle re: btrfs, look at the btrfs send/receive functionality. It can duplicate snapshots, even on a remote machine.

@mir_btc ...like some delicious fermenting sauerkraut?

(I have no idea if it's gonna work)

@RonaldCrb @stephanlivera Well, what can I say, local bitcoins needs to add lightning support. :)

I actually get kinda annoyed every time I have to pay for something with BTC and I can't use lightning. Like, it works! Make it happen!

(Ok, so admittedly my own OpenTimestamps calendar doesn't have it...)

@RonaldCrb @stephanlivera Right. But point being, the role of the escrow is to release the BTC after the bank transfer has happened right? And if it doesn't, arbitrate that?

See, if this were a in person cash transaction, Lightning would certainly work: I send you the lightning tx direct to your phone, it confirms pretty much instantly, you give me the cash. (Obviously that has other risks)

@RonaldCrb @stephanlivera So to be clear people are mainly using bank transfers to send the fiat?

@RonaldCrb @stephanlivera Pity. Transferring Lightning from person to person is really quick and easy though. I don't know much about how local bitcoins works these days. But Lightning's speed may have made the escrow functionality of it a lot less important anyway.

@zenmaster555@noagendasocial.com I wonder how many examples there are of colocation places kicking out clients?

It's gotta happen sometimes...

@waxwing Everclear might do it. Or a good blow to the head.

@dsmatthews@mastodon.online 😱😱😱😱📎

@dsmatthews@mastodon.online What if the entire universe is actually a giant paperclip, made by a paperclip maximizer?

@orionwl @stephanlivera @raucao Note how I made it impossible to reply to this tweet: twitter.com/peterktodd/status/

I get that it's hard to switch. But it definitely is best if a significant number of people stick to it. Network effects matter a lot.

@dsmatthews@mastodon.online What if the AI can't catch email fraud, because the email fraud is being sent by the AI?

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