01:57:02 <bigslim[m]> building... plz no hack computer
02:37:06 <]BFG[> time to buy some dash guys before it goes to 0 :>
02:43:55 <louipc> u mean sell?
10:16:20 <kaled> hello
13:25:57 <yalis> QUESTION: using monerod on debian, can I use system variables (bash)like $USER in the monerod.conf ?
13:28:20 <yalis> whow ...
13:28:30 <yalis> QUESTION: using monerod on debian, can I use system variables (bash)like $USER in the monerod.conf ?
13:29:28 <asymptotically> yalis: no :( - you can pass the arguments on the command line instead though
13:32:45 <yalis> Ah ok, good to know,  thnks.
15:39:01 <yalis> I can't stand all the chatter here, too noisy, leavin' ... ;p
15:40:39 <louipc> lol
15:41:17 <nonie> ?
16:06:54 <nonie> Net Hashrate is almost at 1 GH/s.
16:15:58 <Heebnoid> hello monero, could my reddit account be unbanned.  im not sure if it is still, but was told to come back in a week and ask.
16:16:39 <Inge-> on irc?
16:16:50 <Heebnoid> i dont need to make any posts on reddit Monero, just would like to get my ban lifted for the mistake i made with that reddit link
16:17:07 <Heebnoid> yeah the guy that banned me was on irc
16:19:50 <Heebnoid> nm i just checked my reddit account and the ban was removed 5 days.  ty
16:20:59 <louipc> kool
19:50:56 <f8e3> hey
19:51:12 <f8e3> in the age of quantum, will it retrospectively be possible to decode the db?
19:53:31 <hyc> the DB isn't encoded
20:04:04 <asymptotically> can quantum computers tell me why my girlfriend doesn't love me anymore?
20:05:06 <hyc> yes and no
20:05:58 <f8e3> asymptotically you just converge.. forever. so silence
20:13:08 <f8e3> how xmr sclae?
20:14:43 <f8e3> can i mine it on an i3 mobile computer? whats the porbabilty of finding block?
20:30:23 <moneromooo> NHS patient data sold to the US. Fuck this shit world. Do *everything* you can to further privacy anytime you can, because even that won't be enough to protect you and others from the cunts in power.
20:30:35 <Inge-> o_Ô
20:30:38 <Inge-> Link moo?
20:32:05 <Inge-> https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/07/nhs-medical-data-sales-american-pharma-lack-transparency
20:32:58 <as2333> some people need killing - that's the only solution
20:33:06 <moneromooo> That relentless assault on privacy is not to protect people from terrorists, it's to strip you naked and helpless before corporate parasites.
20:33:15 <as2333> and the state
20:41:43 <f8e3> moneromooo research needs data, ai feeds on it, hope the get some good case studies out of it. idgaf
20:43:05 <f8e3> (of course i would love to monetize it, and i hope the dont do weaponized marketing of their shitopids)
20:43:14 <moneromooo> Are you implying they only sold the data from those people who were ok with it ?
20:43:42 <f8e3> moneromooo yes, you sign it at the doc, cattle has no will
20:44:11 <f8e3> \me hopes anyone sees my Q above
20:45:00 <moneromooo> I'm pretty sure you're wrong. Except if you consider "asked not to, told ok but kinda fobbed off" to mean "ok".
20:46:36 <f8e3> youre part of the system, if want or not, and you get heatlhcare (i guess) in conteast to the goblins of our ancestors hopping around in the factories and mines of the dark age/indust. age
20:47:02 <moneromooo> What am I even reading.
20:47:07 <moneromooo> Another in the list.
20:47:33 <f8e3> everythings changing, just slowesly and democ. is the best shot we got to cut out the cancer preying on the weak: eat more, buy more, consume more..
20:48:14 <as2333> f8e3, LMAO
20:48:22 <f8e3> moneromooo ?Another in the list.
20:49:20 <as2333> f8e3, you believe in 'democracy' - you sound pretty shitopid yourself.
20:49:20 <f8e3> * what do you mean by that
20:49:32 <f8e3> moneromooo ?
20:55:11 <f8e3> i am sorry, i dont know what im talking about
20:57:30 * moneromooo come back less angry and /unignore's
21:04:50 <xmrmatterbridge> <learninandlurkin> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/06/deepmind_founder_shifts_to_google/
21:04:59 <xmrmatterbridge> <learninandlurkin> Get more angry
23:53:55 <kiwi_13> Hi guys. I'm having some hard times trying to answer a question that I think people here may have knowledge to help. The question is rather simple: any resource/blogpost/tutorial/article/etc that explains main idea of using VDFs for Consensus?. I imagine the story should be something similar to: use VDF to generate randomness, then use the random
23:53:55 <kiwi_13> result as a seed for a leader election. The thing that I'm not that sure is how you can have a leader-election algorithm that guarantees that SOME leader will be elected on a permisionless system