While fake Satoshi and his band of charlatans are doing basically nothing but publicly insulting people, real cypherpunks keep writing code. https://
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://
Glad to see Thunderbird (my email client of choice) is alive and well: https://
I needed a #remotestorage file browser app, so I created one: https://
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://
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://
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://
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://
Anyone knows the reason for Ember.js tests having switched to Google Chrome instead of the open-source Chromium?
Current Gran Canaria cycling status: doing a group ride up to the mountains early in the morning tomorrow, but I'm the sucker who has to add 17km with 250m elevation both before and after the actual ride to even get to the meeting point and home. I call it extra homework.
Isaac Arthur on machine rebellion: "If your goal is personal survival, pissing off the reigning champions of destruction should probably be your last resort." https://
The inevitable happened: Intel confirms critical security issues with Intel ME: https://
"This includes scenarios where a successful attacker could: ... Load and execute arbitrary code outside the visibility of the user and operating system."
And of course it affects "6th, 7th & 8th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Family", meaning pretty much all our desktop/laptop CPUs.
PSA: The last batch of 34C3 tickets goes on sale at 11:00 CET today (in ~30 minutes)! https://
Our little Mastodon instance is now federating with more than 1000 other instances/servers. It is literally a thousand different Twitters all talking to each other. Long live the fediverse! https://