On my way to #HCPP17, looking foward to what I thought was the best conference I had attended in years last time.

Having a suprisingly clear and deep understanding of cryptocurrency and its potential, Christine Lagarde's usage of the term "effective" in regards to monetary policy certainly seems a bit strange. https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2017/09/28/sp092917-central-banking-and-fintech-a-brave-new-wor...

34C3 or not? I'd have to buy winter clothes, because I don't even own such things anymore. Then again, I haven't attended since 28C3.

The people celebrating right now do realize that Saudi Arabia are still flogging and beheading people for sodomy, witchcraft, and posting the wrong things online, right?

Why would you submit to one corporation's limits, when you actually want to have more room for expressing your ideas? #jointhefediverse

People sharing a hack for being able to post 280 chars to their social media account looks so absurd to people on the Fediverse right now.

"[...] every great idea is really just a spectacular disagreement with some other great idea." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/opinion/dying-art-of-disagreement.html

Peter Sagan just defended the rainbow jersey for the 2nd time, making him the first person ever to keep it for 3 years in a row. Congrats!

So Morgan Freeman is doing US war machine psyops now? https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/150508-2048-dafuq.gif

According to Reuters, Barcelona had about 1M Catalans on the streets yesterday, demonstrating for independence: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-politics-catalonia/around-one-million-rally-for-catalan-ind...

Meanwhile in Barcelona: https://www.rt.com/on-air/402917-barcelona-catalan-independence-rally/

WTF, Estonia?! https://edri.org/leaked-document-eu-presidency-calls-for-massive-internet-filtering/

In 6 days, I'll be sitting on my bicycle, going from Munich to Venice in 4 days, with ~400 other idiots. They call it Tour de Friends.

Apparently it's possible to kill tumors with alcohol injections: https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/09/02/ethanol-lethal-injection-tumors-11779

Stumbled upon this nice overview of the current state of quantum computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYESkqXVWa0

Just in case you missed it last week: the Bitcoin blockchain is now being sent to Earth from satellites, so you can build local payment infrastructure without having to pay for the many gigs of data per month, that are required to be downloaded these days for running a fully validating node: https://blockstream.com/2017/08/15/announcing-blockstream-satellite.html

Simply amazing.

Just got a serious bike fit. Feels like a tailor-made new bike now. Best #cycling upgrade ever.

So Google assembled a Core Hip Hop Team in order to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the birth of hip hop: https://www.google.com/doodles/44th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-hip-hop

Shoutout to The Workstation in Arnhem for their great coworking space and café, and accepting BTC for payment. http://www.theworkstation.nl

Any other admins or users of Mastodon, GNU Social, postActiv or other Fediverse software at #sha2017 interested in meeting up during camp?