gaspard234 (u/gaspard234)

gaspard234 commented on GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos twitter.com/bantg/status/... · Posted by u/ETH_start

TruthIsHeresy · 4 years ago

It’s amazing how well the media is able to reprogram the minds of the masses into mindlessly regurgitating its talking points. “Crypto bad” seems to be a big one for 2022.

gaspard234 · 4 years ago

In what way has 'the media' pushed crypto is bad?

Seems like every celebrity and talk show host was pushing NFT's, be it Kardasians, Kimmel, Fallon, even Bill Murray released a collection 1 month ago. Ultra stars like Tom Brady to Mark Cuban were investing and (still) talking about crypto companies they are heavily invested in. Half the superbowl ads this year were advocating for people to waste money on crypto.

gaspard234 commented on The endless search for a crypto use case networked.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/jaypinho

whitepaint · 4 years ago

Ens domains, PoolTogether, Aave and more: https://ethereum.org/en/dapps/

Have these people writing these kind of articles ever downloaded a browser wallet and played around with Defi? The amount of ignorance here is staggering. How is it on HN? HN is supposed to be a place for people who are tech savvy and are able to think about the future and imagine it different from yesterday.

gaspard234 · 4 years ago

Trololol PoolTogether is literally a lottery scheme. How is that in anyway innovative and new?

Looks like another polished scam to take advantage of ignorant users, or 'degens' in crypto vernacular.

gaspard234 commented on The endless search for a crypto use case networked.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/jaypinho

tremarley · 4 years ago

The same thing confuses me. This is meant to be a feed for tech savvy people.

It seems as though, the majority of HN users haven't invested any time into understanding it. So they just label it bad.

gaspard234 · 4 years ago

I hate when crypto bros assume 'we don't get it'.

I wasted a year of my life working for a crypto company, I've actually committed code to Ethereum through the Geth project. I learned it's all a casino of completely useless money moving schemes.

What makes even ENS cool tech? The sole purpose of those .eth domains is to receive crypto, ohh and make the founders extremely wealthy. Why did they need to launch an ENS coin, other than to dump on the public when it was 5x the current price.

gaspard234 commented on Crypto Winter, or Crypto Ice Age? technollama.co.uk/crypto-... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker

axg11 · 4 years ago

Do you live in North America? I would challenge anyone in Canada/US that claims it's easier to initiate a wire transfer (with zero ability to track progress) vs. send USDC to an ETH address.

gaspard234 · 4 years ago

I'll take you up on that challenge. I can open open up my Wells Fargo app and initiate a wire transfer within 5 minutes. In fact, I sent $1000 to a home contractors bank account earlier this week for no fee. And yes, WF sent me email updates of the status. I will concede it took 1 business day though.

How do I send USDC within 5 mins? I would have to 1) Open an account on a crypto exchange app

2) Go through the KYC process and hookup the same wells fargo account to buy USDC.

3) Purchase USDC, usually while paying a fee. And then still wait the day for the funds to be sent from WF to the exchange.

4) Send USDC to address, while also paying a fee.

There is a reason international remittances haven't worked as a use case, for ex Coinbase just closed down that entire project. How would immigrants who get paid in Cash buy USDC and how would their family in Mexico or El Salvador be able to convert that USDC into local spendable currency. I hate western union but it works better than any crypto money sending service.

gaspard234 commented on Dreaded commute to the city is keeping offices mostly empty wsj.com/articles/dreaded-... · Posted by u/uptown

gaspard234 · 4 years ago

My remote org had an onsite this past week. I forgot how much I hate 'socializing' and how useless water cooler talk is.

They tried their best to make it enjoyable but I am so much happier in my home office with no background noise, no need to get dressed up, and being able to define my own schedule (I eat lunch at 3-4pm and bay tech orgs serve lunch at noon with all the smells disturbing me).

gaspard234 commented on Ask HN: What projects are you working on this weekend? · Posted by u/WhiteOwlEd

gaspard234 · 4 years ago

Washing my truck and mowing the lawn.

gaspard234 commented on Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content · Posted by u/pirate-Loo6uoDu

NikolaNovak · 4 years ago

I've quit pirating content a decade ago - combination of time, safety, priorities, and availability of legit content.

I've considered getting back into it occasionally.

Why: Convenience and access. From having everything on Netflix a decade ago, to now having almost as many subscriptions as I used to have cable channels, it's a pain (let alone a cost) to install dozen apps on my phone tablet TV roku etc. Their quality varies WILDLY. The user experience ranges from pretty decent to seemingly user hostile. I've recently watched a set of seasons of a show pirated a decade ago, then last two seasons on actual subscription service, and it sucked: app would not let me download to SD card, had to take precious phone storage. Subtitles were 2 seconds behind with NO way to adjust. Fast forwarding was wonky and basically unusable. And best of all, it auto deleted itself 48hrs after downloading so I had to keep redownloading same stuff over and over. Brutal!

Why Not: As explained above - It's pricey and time consuming, there's a fair amount of risk in pirating, and technology seems to keep changing. I made a post about that a while ago, but I'm no longer at a point in my life where every 6 months I can spare the time to fully rebuild and reconfigure and troubleshoot a stack from sabnzbd and nsbmatrix to udirwioay and fewiap and fdsjei, and then 6 months later again to fdwjieo and wearp routed through wefheio and zxcnzxcv. I have a friend who keeps urging me to set it up because it's so easy - oblivious that whenever I try to use his helpful "how to", a) It's 3 pages long b) it is missing about 10 pages of details and c) It's already out of date so it's "do that, but none of that actually because these days now the cool thing is ____" :D

gaspard234 · 4 years ago

My NAS has a torrent downloading software and an app for my Samsung TV. I just visit my local network web address, add the torrent in the NAS dashboard, and am able to play it from the TV within a few minutes. Most content is great, occasionally there are audio issues or missing subtitles.

gaspard234 commented on SEC charges Nvidia with inadequate disclosures about impact of cryptomining sec.gov/news/press-releas... · Posted by u/taubek

rytill · 4 years ago

What software do you use for GPU password cracking? Custom? And for what purpose?

gaspard234 · 4 years ago

I worked at a security consulting firm that had an 8 GPU password cracking rig. Teams would be able to send it hashes obtained during assessments/red teams and try to discover passwords.

I was not doing that type of work so I'm not sure what type of software was used but I think it had multiple open source programs available.

gaspard234 commented on Leaving California? A 2022 guide to what state is best to move to ocregister.com/2022/04/06... · Posted by u/ohjeez

pokstad · 4 years ago

High cost of living, constant fires, high taxes without good government services, homelessness everywhere, highly politicized COVID policies like lockdowns, lopsided political landscape with democrats controlling the entire state with no competition from another party to drive change.

gaspard234 · 4 years ago

Wow you just listed every reason of why I dislike living in Texas.

gaspard234 commented on Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an eyeball scan buzzfeednews.com/article/... · Posted by u/donohoe

TrapLord_Rhodo · 4 years ago

I like playing around in the crypto space. I always have. Using ZK-Snarks with biodata allows you to verify, profit and protect your data. Instead of handing it to some entity to do god knows with. I give it to apple and their database isn't just a hash, it's full and open catalouging with all my other data taken from the the many sensors in the phone and products.

Worldcoin's vision is a positive contribution to my life and many people i know who also enjoy playing around in the crypto space. People are adults, let them be adults and make their own decisions. & stop bashing the crypto-autists like me who enjoy playing in the cryptoverse, for the only reason that it's wierd and different.

gaspard234 · 4 years ago

>I know biometric data is intrisically secure.

I work in security (at a crypto/web3 company!) and the opposite line of thought prevails in the field, most security experts argue that biometric data is fundamentally insecure especially for auth. A quick google search shows a lot of research backing that, from universities to major tech companies.

>Using ZK-Snarks with biodata allows you to verify, profit and protect your data. Instead of handing it to some entity to do god knows with.

How is this going to happen exactly? The requesting entity, like a doctor, asks for medical history. I use my retina to verify, and thanks to ZK-Snarks they have no knowledge of my retina data. How are they going to get the blood pressure readings? They need the data to analyze and understand. And what stops them from saving it in their own DB?

Similar with many of these web3 products. Think, uniswap or defisaver. Ok you can use ZK to auth, they have no idea what wallet address is connected. But as soon as you use it they know exactly who and what you transferred and traded, all stored in a DB.