You don't have to do that? I touched upon it in the first section of the post. All you need is a valid phone number, which you can use throwaway trial SIM cards for.
Maybe you're getting lucky and not tickling their risk-based nonsense, but now that this article has been posted they'll certainly crank that knob up to 11.
You probably don't use Hinge. The verification is not necessary at all. It's merely used to "verify" your identity to other users. It has no bearing on what I cover in the post.
Interesting! Well, I'm definitely not in whatever those regions are. Presumably if a threat actor was motivated enough this would be fairly easily circumvented :]
Edit: e.g. via residential proxy IPs and a bunch of cheap Android phones
Regarding your first point, extraction of the headers could be trivially automated. Also, using Hinge's CDN (which I think is CloudFlare and/or AWS) is more viable imo, as you don't need to provide headers to GET the files. If that also applies to user-uploaded videos then I do think there's some meat on this bone. But as the other user who replied to you pointed out, this was mostly for nerdy delight.
Also thanks for bringing up the blockchain C2 use, that's cool and news to me.
I want to thank you and the other user (hobofan) for pointing out the use of crypto currencies as C2s. I do bioinformatics for a living, not infosec, so that's another fun little rabbit hole for me to go on...
Hey I actually created something like this when I was once curious. Its called nanotimestamps
I found it when I realized that nano had 0 fees and I realized that by using a nano vanity address generator, I can embed data into a series of transactions and then basically embed data into the chain (for free) since there is 0 gas fees
Now I created it as a way of getting timestamps of any data onto the chain but you can embed any information and create c2c's on top of that
There is also a way that I vibe coded once to embed data directly into the vanity address and so you can lose 10^-32 nano or basically negligble which is more efficient as well
If you have any questions, I'd love to answer (also even if I like the tech, I think that crypto's fundamentally really really volatile and I prefer things like index funds being honest)
Cool! I wasn't aware of nano; your point about the gas fees is really compelling, as there's a lot of stuff I've wanted to try building on Ethereum et al that I just haven't done because I can't get over the hurdle of paying transaction costs lol.
> also even if I like the tech, I think that crypto's fundamentally really really volatile and I prefer things like index funds being honest
At the risk of derailing the thread, I agree. However, I think "tokenization" is probably crypto's killer app if the messy problem of legal finality rectifying assets on the blockchain with their real-world counterparts can be solved. I touched upon this in a separate post on my blog.
Oh yeah another point, see my other comment as well but if you need to start with nano, all you need is a faucet which you can get for literally free and that's all you need for you to experiment with my project.
You really don't need to spend any money at all and that's actually how I built it. I recommend you to contact me if you wish to run it locally for experiments purposes as it requires bao and nano-vanity-generator, you can take the look at the code
Also I would like to disclose that the code is AI generated. I have no expertise in this field but I found this idea fascinating and saw nobody doing it so did it. But still, I am just proud of my idea and I get good reception whenever I mention this idea (which is quite a lot, tbh I am proud of it a little) so yeah, I love talking about this project's idea fascinating as well and I have expanded upon this work privately to even build ways of creating ones own tokens on top of nano etc. but creating wallet etc. and more abstractions felt wrong and I just wanted to prove it was possible
To be honest, you creating a c2 server on hinge was similar to this feeling of "proving" as well.
To me, its just that if I can prove something, then I can figure out the practical uses of it later (like discussing it right now) etc.
I guess we both are similar in the "proving" way reading your article which is nice to hear, Let me know if you have any questions as I would love to answer!
So let me know how you like this project, Y'know making this project had to make me build some abstractions which you might be interested to look at as well and could be used for multiple purposes.
Create an issue in my github repo if you want to talk to me if you have any questions as well and I would love to answer there and here as well if you wish! Glad my project could be of interest to ya! If you have any use cases for my project, then let me know as well
Have a look at L2BEAT - any L2 EVM in the top 10 is fine (disclosure: I work for an L2). Check their native token price to understand gas price and onboarding complexity. Some L2s use ETH bridged from Ethereum rather than a native token.
Annual lupin (L. angustifolius and L. albus) have been bred for better yields and low alkaloids. There are some existing commercial varieties. Australia is a large producer.
From an economic perspective, the yields on perennial lupin are just too low. Something that plant breeding could hopefully address long term.
Apparently the Land Institute already investigated it (https://landinstitute.org/our-work/perennial-crops/legumes/) and decided on sainfoin instead of lupin. I reached out some time back to ask why, because I was curious if their research found yield or alkaloid content too difficult to control for. Never got a reply.
In terms of commercial farming, it's probably desirable to have the better varieties. Maybe get some of those seeds from Australia then for Iceland. Have variety.
Mostly just a suggestion for the issue of "lots of a plants, that we don't especially want." At least it's edible. According to a quick search, it cost apparently $30 to $40 dollars per acre to harvest an existing field (Purdue custom rates survey for combines, obviously no input costs considered, Iceland's maybe different).[1] Maybe add a bit further for cutting, raking, windrowing, and threshing parts.
Either way, with an existing field you just want to get rid of, hiring a combine and running it over the field is not that expensive (based on the available prices). Throw it all in a pond, pool, or barrel and let it soak until they're safe to eat. Not horribly expensive.
On the sainfoin thing, probably just easier and less work for their objectives. WP says sainfoin's already "highly nutritious plants" used for a long time for forage and nectar production.
Frankly, they seem like a trade-off personally, since Lupin varieties grow rapidly in horrible climates and terrain. Sainfoin is apparently finicky. "difficult to establish as pasture, not persistent in grassland, do not recover well from overgrazing." Lupin is probably a better choice for anything in the artic, sub-arctic, tundra, and taiga biomes (which is most of Iceland).
That's true, the existing power infra (substation, etc) is big and would cost a pretty penny to build greenfield.
But the water is also right there and more than plentiful. In this case it pays to step back and look at the wider strategic value.
If anything, I want to inspire in people's minds a more thoughtful approach to locating techno-industrial infrastructure. To take a page from permaculture, we can work with the landscape instead of against it.
All that being said, I wish this was something other than a data center. Nuclear power, a second Micron plant, please anything but this!
"Big data" has been and continues to be transformative. It's part of why we are in this current AI cycle. After each fad passes, what remains forms the foundation for the future. This sums it up:
> The economy functions in cycles just like any other ecosystem - we didn't stop building Internet companies after the dotcom bubble popped. If anything, it eliminated uncompetitive species (companies) while opening up ecological niches (markets) for those with the fitness capable of exploiting them.
> I gave it up because I found it wasn't very fault tolerant. If I missed a bedtime even by just a few hours, or ate before trying to sleep, I was in a bad state for a day or two until I could get back on track.
That's what terrifies me about polyphasic sleep at sea. I had a few "cheat" days while attempting this, but of course the safety of myself and others didn't depend on if I hit snooze 5 times in an hour. Claude just got lonely for a bit.
It's really an interesting technique and I hope to find and talk with sailors who've done it. Thanks for sharing your experience.
On the bright side, those others would have good reason not to give you reasons to deviate from the plan.
It was usually social pressure that did me in. People want to meet for coffee or drinks or food at a time when it wasn't well aligned with my nap schedule, and I started making compromises...
I suppose something that engages you for hours could appear unscheduled while sailing, but it seems like most sources of such things could be mitigated with adequate planning, and they're unlikely to involve coffee or beer or birthday cake.
>I suppose something that engages you for hours could appear unscheduled while sailing
I would say, generally speaking, that comprises the bulk of the time. Most likely you will spend more time in unscheduled multi-hour long tasks than anything else over the course of an extended trip.
Well I guess that shows how much I know about sailing (I've done it once or twice, but never in a hurry or with a lot of distance between ports). Which of these cannot be delayed 45 minutes in order to accommodate a nap?
Wind shifts, something breaks, something blows overboard, random water where it shouldn't be. Something is making a funny noise. Some alert on the radio that you didnt catch all of it. Odd smell. People speaking excitedly in a foreign language about something. Something breaks again, hooked a fish, approaching vessel with no signal, coast guard inspection, unexpected military craft telling you to change course. Sure there is downtime, but it's lucky to have it remotely scheduled.
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