...and someone says "just memorize the TOTP secret..."

sure, you are kinda required to use TOTP on every single site that supports it, so start memorizing a hundred TOTP secrets... good luck with that!

@ThoriumBR To quote Poe...

"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MONTRESOR!"

also, the smart jerk way would be to build an FOSS TOTP generator and release it into the wild.

you have lots of free password managers, you have countless libraries for generating OTP, gnupg, openssl, and countless libraries for encryption, hardware tokens... and the solution he comes with is "just memorize the secret"...

I really thought he was going to say "... and memorize the algorithm too. It's not too complicated so you should be able to derive the six digit codes on paper."

I saw a guy mining bitcoin with pencil and paper, it really can be done...

righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html

0.67 hashes per day

That's assuming you work at a consistent rate. I'll wager that after the first few rounds you'll get so bored that your speed drops significantly

imagine hashing by hand for a week in random intervals, submitting the hash to the network and you mined a block

:D

Imagine actually cracking a block this way

Sorry, that's going to crash my imagination

or you can use an arduino for that... github.com/joric/arduino-bitcoin-miner

150 h/s...

Ƀ 1e-15 per day... not a lot...

The thing with Bitcoin is that it makes the rich richer

If you're rich, you can afford a huge cracking rig, which makes it more likely you get money

I was under the impression we had nearly the same problem with real money

It's almost as if rich people inherently possessed more means of acquiring more money than non-rich people

Weird how that is

it's not just bitcoin... money, land, sheep, employees...

the more you have, the easier to make more

money, for example... if you have just enough to survive, you cannot risk doing something different and making 20% less while trying to make 20% more. but if you have spare money, you can invest on different things and end up making more

Yes, indeed

Our entire economy is based on positive feedback loops

When someone says "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" I'm like how on earth is that surprizing to you?

the media, which is funnily enough owned by rich people, try to sell people the idea "if you start a business, you too can get rich" and then show some kid who made tons of money as stay-at-home astronaut or some bullshit

I was reading about the VOC (aka Dutch East India Company) the other day... it started very small, iterated a few ideas, snowballed for being the largest company ever

Completely ignoring the fact that most companies crash and burn

But this really isn't there to help you get rich. It's there so rich people can justify their enormous wealth to you, suggesting that the reason they earn more in a second than you earn in a year is because you're just lazy

It has nothing to do with things like having connections to other rich people, being a complete psychopath, etc...

you can get rich if you start a business, or you can bankrupt yourself... most of the rich guys owns businesses, more than those who don't.

like you can get rich by betting the lottery, but probably won't

Yeah, and if a rich guy owns a couple of businesses, then investing in some startup can pay off

@ThoriumBR Even if you do, you will most likely lose it again

The lottery is a self-destructive circle

Most people, who play the lottery, are... of below average intellect

for them, putting a million dollars on a promising startup won't hurt even if they lose money 9 out of 10 times, because that one successful one will pay back 100:1...

Because more intelligent people realize that the lottery is a net-loss for them

@MechMK1 someone once said "lottery is a tax on people bad at Math"

Yes, indeed. I know some people who play lottery regularly and they're all not the brightest minds

And they have lots of bad habits: Alcohol abuse, drug abuse, etc....

The thing is: These people generally live paycheck-to-paycheck

How much money is available is directly limiting how much money they spend

So if you give them just 10 million USD, guess what will happen?

They will spend it all as soon as they can

I once saw a Math teacher for a PhD program at some nice Uni, I don't remember which one... he bet at horse races. he said "I know I am throwing my money away, it's not an investment, it's a pastime... You go see a movie and spend $50, I go to horse races, see beautiful women, have some fun, and spend $50... You can never ever recover those $50, and probably me neither"

there was a study on lottery winners, and in 10 years almost every one of them were poorer than before

nice watching

I was talking to my wife one of those days about restaurant ratings on google maps... the nice ones, where rich people dine, is full of one-star ratings because of insignificant details, and those where poor people dine isn't that bad

Because as someone normal, you really don't give a shit if the waitress' apron had a tiny wine stain on it

But as a rich piece of shit, that ruins your evening

there's a restaurant here that a pizza costs $80 on average (the minimum wage worker here makes $50/day), and people gave 1 star because "the border wasn't crusty enough"

Imagine paying 80 USD on a pizza

and there's another one close to me were a large pizza costs $10, and it's full of 5-stars... and you have to eat standing (there are no tables), and there's only one kind of pizza, the mozzarella tomato sauce one

I am laughing at these people

That sounds pretty good

I will take a picture of it one of those days

It honestly sounds good

I think when you're a normal person, you're used to things not always going your way

So you stop being bothered by tiny things

Have you ever played Rimworld?

It does look good

this one have 4.8

let me get the other

:D

this one have 4.5

Is that the 80 USD one?

Valentina Pizzaria... this is one of the best pizzas I ever had, they earned some prizes, and some years ago they got the "Best Pizza in Brazil" prize... and got 4.5

yup!

their cooks got training in Italy

and "restaurant do povão" got 4.8

Sounds actually good

But 80 USD for a pizza...

restaurante do povão is "the people's restaurant"

it would be 80 BRL, so not that much

it's like 15 euros

Ah, I see

It's hard to really compare that

15€ for a pizza is what I consider the upper limit of "normal"

using the big mac index, it costs 4 big macs

or 12 hours of a minimum wage job

I love the BMI :D

converting $/h between here and Austria, that pizza would be around 160 euros

That's...

More than I'd spend for a pizza

Unless it was made by Mr. Guiseppe Pizzaria himself and made me orgasm when I eat it

hahaha

when you can slap a "Best of the Country" prize on the wall, you can charge more

not "Best of the City", or "Best of the region"...

I got there once, wedding aniversary

There's a similar restaurent here in the city

Called "Ängus", selling steak

my wife still talks about that pizza, and asks about getting the kids there too... I was like "no way, we would spend the entire rent money on pizza, let us eat there, and let the kids eat pizza hut, they won't know the difference"

Very close to another place, called "Steak House", to which I've been to often

Ängus is so much more expensive, and...I never see anyone sit there

Like, I walk past a couple of times and look inside

Never seen more than one table full

I got to a restaurant even pricier, the manager paid... it's called "Fogo de Chão", and it costed $350 per person...

and it's always full

there's valet parking, so you don't even have to park

people get there in Porsches, BMWs, Audis and I driving the cheapest rented car available...

Valet parking always freaks me out. How the hell do I just hand my car over to this random person?

this car...

the guys looking at the queue, counting the cars, and thinking "please let me park the Maseratti, not that cheap-ass Chevrolet Celta..."

@nobody when I have to, I say "the car have an immobilizer and can't drive more than 500m"

one of my friends got a traffic ticket for driving 80 on a 45 avenue during the time he was dining with his wife 20 km away...

So they don't give tickets to the driver, they give it the car's owner?

Or was it a speeding camera?

speeding camera

there are thousands of those here

:D

it should have more...I don't get bothered by speed cameras

if only they used the money they got from tickets to fix the potholes, it would be nice

but the law in Brazil is Brazilian... the law specifies that "money from traffic tickets must be used entirely on education campaigns"...

in 2019 people in Brasilia paid BRL 282M in traffic fines...

I recently found and reported an 0day RCE in a piece of GNU common software. How should I prepare for disclosure? Should I register for a CVE?

talk to the devs first

search for the maintainer, and mail him whatever you have...

@MechMK1 a nice follow up from Veritasium

you guys may recognize something at it