I'm not defending blockchain, just pointing out that part of the example wasn't really a good one. Property ownership being something that's already completely public.
I have a public map overlay on my phone that gives me deed information for (AFAIK) every parcel I can see in the USA.
> So everyone you interact with knows where you work, how much you earn, what you own, where's your house, what you buy, what groups you belong to... and they can keep tracking you forever if you tell them who you are just once.
Granted public blockchain is a lot more discoverable, but a lot of this already is public. Property ownership is public (at least in the US), credit cards sell your data, facebook knows which groups you belong to, etc.
It looks like some mirrors have packages going way back (http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/), but depending on your use-case, it may be more beneficial to focus on the base system upgrades (documented in the upgrade guide) and worry about the packages later.
That many years of package changes could be troublesome to deal with, and it may be better to fast-forward to whatever the modern tooling would be.
What are you using them for? I feel a lot more comfortable using OpenBSD in production than Linux for the long-term (my personal opinion). I've been using it since ~3.5, and the 6 months releases have been ticking along nearly flawlessly for a long, long time.
Playing devil’s advocate - this was thought to be a real possibility during the Cold War, and it seems like we came pretty close a few times during that period.
It’s similar to how when I travel overseas, I have local currency in my account & that gets converted to local currency through an intermediary as I pay.
The intermediary usually charges a small fee. I only see local currency exit my account, and the seller only sees their local currency enter theirs.
Ah, that’s too bad. I think (please correct if I’m wrong) those have some trouble in canyons at higher latitudes. The nice thing about Iridium is if you wait a few minutes, a bird will usually show up overhead. It’s nice for SAR missions we help with in the mountains.
Exactly where Tesla’s marketing failed. It irritates me as a pilot that they have given it a new definition.
Autopilots have been around a long time, and have a very specific meaning. They require training, knowing what their limitations are, constant monitoring, and frequent manual input.
I’m not sure what Tesla thought they were doing by billing it as a “hands off” term.