I'm no expert, but I don't know if I agree with the premise that Linux desktop is secure via obscurity. Linux is probably the largest effort to create a secure OS, and the Linux desktop benefits greatly from that effort.

OpenBSD has an excellent security track record and is regularly updated, I'm not sure if I believe that its security is "outdated."

It's a shame p2pool doesn't have more adoption (ideally closer to 50%), but it should be a bright future. Thanks for everything you do to support p2pool!

Happy anniversary!

Cake Wallet has made Monero accessible to so many more people and is my mobile wallet of choice. Your passion for Monero shows, hopefully Cake Wallet and Monero will keep improving and bring cheap, trust-less, private payments to even more people.

Honestly yes. Restricting centralizing pools is similar to restricting centralizing ASICs.

I watched the vigilantfox video, but I don't understand the refutation to correlation/causation. Maybe you understand his point more to elaborate? Looked for some other information on the topic and found a Reuters article which seems to be very unbiased from my short research on reddit and other platforms.

Trying to understand all of this from the perspective of someone who thinks that the elites and governments are out to get them but I just personally don't believe that to be true.

Watched as much of the video as I could, but this part kind of stood out to me. When talking about the effectiveness of vaccines, he claims that the mortality was on a downwards trend and vaccines had a low impact. I think that comparing mortality from people who are vaccinated vs unvaccinated (covid ex wikipedia ourworldindata), and looking at a higher resolution graph (imo) disproves this (measles ex wikipedia ourworldindata). Using mortality graphs instead of case graphs ignores the large number of cases that vaccines prevent in the first place, and pinpointing the vaccine introduction points on a graph that doesn't have the resolution to reflect the change is a little disingenuous.

Spotify is horrible quality for 2023

To my surprise, even Spotify's standard (not high or very high) is extremely difficult, if not practically impossible for the average consumer to differentiate from lossless (on better than consumer grade hardware). Upon hearing this, me and several friends decided to test it for ourselves by taking lossless files for several songs and resampling them to the same codec and bitrates that Spotify's standard quality uses, then ABX testing the before and after with Foobar's ABX and exclusive mode plugins (also tried the popular comparison website, but that's apparently less accurate). One of my friends had access to a college studio, I have a dac and sennheiser, and the third had sony wxm4s. To our surprise, none of us could consistently differentiate the two. Its not perfect considering we didn't grab the outputs directly from the streaming platforms, but that would've added extra variables like volume normalizing (louder sounds better).

Our conclusion is that the quality "difference" is likely placebo and probably a waste of bandwidth.

Not sure why you would trust this site. According to the wayback machine their 2020 population forecast just kept lowering and lowering despite the U.S. population only increasing. And since 2020 has passed, we know they were very wrong.

I don't think anything is "needed." Monero is a currency, ideally it will be used for everything a currency is used for.

they are silenced and shut down

Silenced and shut down is quite an extreme claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_truth_movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polls_about_9/11_conspiracy_theories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks_advance-knowledge_conspiracy_theories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories

I knew 2 people that died from car accidents during covid but zero that died from covid

30 years of road deaths roughly equates to the total deaths of covid, pretty likely for that to occur

So we should be much more concerned with road safety than covid

road precautions are pretty mature after decades of developments (road deaths are on the decline), covid deaths at their peak were way higher than road deaths and we didn't have precautions like vaccines and social distancing figured out.

how could I have known it was not dangerous but all the world’s media did not know?

I mean its possible that you're wrong

the consensus said it was a deadly new virus, this was 100% wrong

Anecdotally, I personally knew two people that have died while having covid, and got pretty sick from it twice myself. Falls pretty well in line with what everyone else is saying about covid.

they would be instantly ridiculed by the media and most likely lose their jobs

The majority of the planet does not live under the media and institutions of the united states. Differing theories are pretty much the backbone of science, I find it hard to believe that a theory would get someone fired.

I don't think either of us are qualified to argue about the engineering, physics, etc. but I propose a different argument that is the broader issue of almost all conspiracies.

I haven't seen this (or other conspiracies) gain any traction amongst accredited individuals or institutions. If practically every engineer, physicist, or whatever on the planet has been exposed to this event, and there is almost no resistance to the mainstream narrative of how things went down, then I am extremely doubtful that you, me, or whoever made the video are able to understand why the mainstream narrative might be wrong.

The US government can commit war crimes without having to make a hoax that probably didn't justify what they did in "retaliation" anyways.