> Volgens het RIVM heeft het gebouw een open uitstraling. "Het pand heeft een zichtbare, gastvrije en open uitstraling door het gebruik van veel glas." Als je er langs fietst, ziet het er misschien anders uit, zegt woordvoerder Coen Berends. "Maar van een afstandje stralen we een open karakter uit." > Met dit gebouw laten we zien dat we midden in de maatschappij staan.

Streng beveiligd RIVM-gebouw lijkt wel een gevangenis, maar moet een 'open uitstraling' hebben

De verhuizing van het RIVM van Bilthoven naar het Science park in Utrecht had al heel wat voeten in de aarde. Door de vertraging van de oplevering ...

I'm seeing this new meme bubble up that Bitcoin, not even "crypto", is responsible for the demise of US democracy. This is nonsense. First of all, everything that's happening in the last two months is a continuation of multi decade trends. It was obvious long before the whitepaper was published. Particularly an out of control growth of, and complete lack of checks on, executive branch power. Trump isn't even using a fraction of it. I find Dan Carlin's take on this stuff in his Common Sense podcast useful. But that aside, crypto just isn't that important (yet). It's nice (or bad, depending on your views) that some people in power have at least heard of it, and own some, but that doesn't make it a crypto coup. The highest estimate of crypto industry donations to this campaign I've seen is $400 million. That's a lot, but total spending was many billions. Apparently even Musk, who has very little to do with crypto despite his Doge pumps, donated hundreds of millions. Crypto was also barely a voting issue. Molly White went to great lengths to prove that. Finally, a friendly reminder that Bitcoin is a global phenomenon and not everything is about the US. Find another scape goat.

Friendly reminder that at some sudden point Github is not going to work anymore. Especially if by "US law" you mean any Executive Order, e.g. because one contributor is too woke for POTUS? Until such time though, it's a great platform. View quoted note →

Starbucks in most of the EU already serves your drink in glass or porcelain (but not for takeaway - imagine sitting down for ten minutes!). For LED hypochondria there's probably easier technological fixes than going back to incandescent (though I have nothing against those if you don't mind the extra power bill and having to replace them all the time). You can already cook steak yourself, no need to wait for McDonalds. I don't understand what the wait for 2035 adds. Lower coinbase subsidy, that's for sure. View quoted note →

@jb55 broken? Verification using the app also didn't open Safari, so I had to use the DM.

Unfortunately Dutch ISP #Freedom lost their court case against EU censorship (by decree with no due process). But it's good they tried. (the censorship itself is DNS based and trivial to circumvent, if for whatever reason you want to read RT, but that's not the point) View quoted note →

Picture I took today vs. what it looked like some decades ago. #Utrecht

Utrecht door de jaren heen; De veranderende singel in beeld

Utrecht is constant in beweging. Er wordt gebouwd en gesloopt. Hierdoor ziet de stad er op sommige plekken heel anders uit dan vroeger. In deze rub...

> Hij zegt dat hij vanwege alle juridische procedures [...] geen bankrekening kan openen. In de afgelopen jaren heeft zijn stichting daardoor circa een miljoen euro aan donaties misgelopen, laat hij deze site weten. Hij had ook gewoon Bitcoin kunnen accepteren. Altijd moeilijk om te zeggen hoeveel je echt bent misgelopen, want wat mensen zeggen dat ze zouden doneren is niet perse wat ze daadwerkelijk zouden doneren.

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Bolt12 now has so much adoption that I'm having a hard time debugging my LNURL setup (as part of figuring out why zaps are broken). Which wallets still support sending to LNURL that don't *also* support bolt12?

Less actual code, more comments and test coverage. #few View quoted note →

Well at least they used Signal. If they'd used Telegram instead, as Tucker Carson recommends, the Russians could have given the Houthis a headsup via Iran.

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Certainly no need to give him a pass. Even if he's an absolute genius in some areas, and even if he was a major factor in the success of some of his companies, it gives him zero credibility on unrelated topics. He's a narcissist who does not understand or care where his expertise ends. That said, even though Tesla isn't doing great as a business, I think it's only fair to call it a success. Ditto for Starlink which provides orders of magnitude more bandwidth than e.g. Eutelsat, with much cheaper and easier to use tooling. I think that's true even if you account for the fact that these enterprises are heavily subsidised by stupid investors and government subsidies. The question then is: is it just a coincidence that Musk bought himself into these two companies, or did he actually have a material effect on their success? The presence of perhaps a dozen failures doesn't really matter I think. There are plenty of rich people, and even more corporations, that spend billions and billions on hundreds or even thousands of ambitious projects that go nowhere. Which makes me think that two is statistically significant. But you'll have to ask Taleb :-) View quoted note →

Ok, I need a local LLM that can fix my grammar before posting... preferably as a browser plugin.

Certainly no need to give him a pass. Even if we is an absolute genius in some areas, and even if he was major factor in the success of some of his companies, it gives him zero credibility on unrelated topics. He's a narcissist who does not understand or care where his expertise ends. That said, even though Tesla isn't doing great as a business, I think it's only fair to call it a success. Ditto for Starlink which provides orders of magnitude more bandwidth than e.g. Eutelsat, which much cheaper and easier to use tooling. I think that's true even if you account for the fact that these enterprises are heavily subsidised by stupid investors and government subsidies. The question then is: is it just a coincidence that Musk bought himself into these two companies, or did he actually have a material effect on their success? The presence of perhaps a dozen failures doesn't really matter I think. There are plenty of rich people, and even more corporations, that spend billions and billions on hundred or even thousands of ambitious projects that go nowhere. Which makes me think that two is statistically significant. But you'll have to ask Taleb :-) View quoted note →

If you've always wanted to import a bip39 mnemonic into Bitcoin Core, I wrote a little Rust script that can do it. You give it the 32 words and it gives you the magical incantation to import it into a descriptor wallet. Then just do a rescan to find historical transactions (which is super fast if you use -blockfilterindex). I'm not sure if the pull request will make it, but I can always publish it as a standalone utility. Disclaimers: 1. Very poorly tested, try with testnet 2. My Rust skills are ... non-existent 3. NEVER ENTER A HARDWARE WALLET MNEMONIC ON YOUR INTERNET CONNECTED MALWARE INFESTED COMPUTER (unless you want to)

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Rust tool to import bip39 mnemonic by Sjors · Pull Request #32115 · bitcoin/bitcoin

Since we're probably not going to support bip39 mnemonics in the wallet itself, but it's an often requested feature, this PR provides a sim...