"6 reasons why Mastodon won't survive" from April 2017: http://mashable.com/2017/04/05/mastodon-wont-survive/#kPr8akjqpaqV -- featuring 6 reasons that make absolutely no sense whatsoever. Meanwhile, the fediverse has been growing slowly but steadily, day by day, with people deleting more and more birdsite accounts.

Notes for new followers:

1. I post to https://updates.kip.pe first and syndicate to other sites from there. Be aware that your likes, replies, etc. are synced to that site and accessible on the open Web.
2. You can follow me on the fediverse too/instead: https://kosmos.social/@raucao

SXF ✈ TFN 🎆🎇 ✈ DSS 🏖🎒 #hackerbeach

Personal recommendation for an interesting #34C3 talk today: @cbeams will introduce you to the decentralized exchange platform Bisq. 6pm on the Chaos West stage in the assembly hall: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Session:Bisq_-_A_decentralized_bitcoin_exchange#_...

I guess getting a new Hetzner box provisioned might take a bit longer during #34C3...

They could've just renamed this ICE to "Wau Holland" for today.

While fake Satoshi and his band of charlatans are doing basically nothing but publicly insulting people, real cypherpunks keep writing code. https://coinjournal.net/bitcoins-lightning-network-version-1-rc-mainnet-beta-implementations-way/

Thoughts on a Linux distro for my mom (60 yo)? Elementary OS maybe?

Planning to tackle Pico de las Nieves tomorrow morning, and I'm both looking forward to it and slightly scared. It's going to be windy, and headwinds can batter you incredibly hard in the middle of the Atlantic. Anyway, wish me luck!

TIL: "Smart contracts for RSK are written using Solidity [...] and are fully compatible with Ethereum Smart Contracts, so you can migrate your existing Ethereum Smart Contract to RSK Smart without doing any changes." https://github.com/rsksmart/rskj/wiki/Starting-with-RSK-Smart #bitcoin #smartcontracts

Glad to see Thunderbird (my email client of choice) is alive and well: https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/12/new-thunderbird-releases-and-new-thunderbird-staff/

I needed a #remotestorage file browser app, so I created one: https://community.remotestorage.io/t/rs-inspektor-a-simple-remotestorage-file-browser/428

Interesting perspective on the "but bitcoin was supposed to be p2p cash" argument: cash is actually a bearer instrument with direct p2p settlement (not going through any validators like banks etc.). Kind of like handing around a signed transaction, e.g. in Lightning Network.

If you personally run, work at, or know people at a registered non-profit organization, please direct them here to apply for some free magic Internet money: https://pineapplefund.org

You know what's NOT good for teaching people the joys of net neutrality and proper Internet flat rates? Writing a whole blog post on Twitter, instead of your own website. https://twitter.com/jtm_/status/941357716823597056

When I'm in the Canaries, I always go into full-on Canarian cooking mode. Today's homemade dinner: gambas al ajillo with papas arrugadas & mojo.

"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it." ― Alan Kay

Astronomers think that there's a real chance, albeit small, that we just had a derelict interstellar spacecraft whizz by our planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abr4VcT3Dmw

The first successful transaction across 3 different Lightning Network implementations with real BTC just happened, and the first protocol release candidate is up for review: https://medium.com/@lightning_network/lightning-protocol-1-0-compatibility-achieved-f9d22b7b19c4

Anyone knows the reason for Ember.js tests having switched to Google Chrome instead of the open-source Chromium?