Seriously considering putting two RTX 6000 in my upcoming build machine. Puts the price up an order of magnitude, but truly private AI might be a worthwhile investment. Never played with GPUs before, so informed thoughts welcome?

@npub17u5d...t4tp recently posted on X about the danger of "store and forget" for Bitcoin over decades. Unfortunately he's right. Originally I stored my raw private keys and UTXOs (on paper, care taken) figuring that was standard. Then bitcoin core stopped supporting them! Other wallets tend only to support them for sweeping, and I wonder how long. If I were storing funds today I would use BIP39. BIP93 is cool and more general, but not widely supported, and I don't know what support will look like in a decade.

I think finding a bug where printf("%*.s") was used instead of printf(".*s") was the point at which I realized that some C issues cannot be mitigated with better tooling...

I hate price talk, but if you're going to do it, please understand that "market cap" is a very rough *ceiling* on current value. It's neither the amount of money which has gone in, nor the amount of money which can come out. So the order of magnitude is useful to compare against other assets. But abusing it in terms of profits and losses is a category error, and I assume done mainly because it's so easy to measure. Grump over.

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In two days' time Julian and I will be doing an open Jitsi meeting to discuss the work on Script Restoration. Come and ask questions! 1pm Berlin time: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2025&month=10&day=15&hour=11&min=0&sec=0&p1=5&p2=37

Should I run open hours for the script BIPs? Like, one a week for four weeks, you can show up and ask questions and I'll try to answer? That might help me get a feel for what is unclear or confusing. If so, what platform do I use? Never done anything like this before 😬

It's been two years since the twenty-weeks-of-friends-coming-over that was Pandemic Legacy. Now the second edition of Gloomhaven has arrived, and we are planning another epic: If you haven't played this kind of thing before: the game is a progressive cooperative affair, designed to be played in two(?) hour long sessions. Obviously there are weeks you miss, but the overall experience is a season or two of regular game play. There are highs and lows as things twist and turn, and I always feel the discomfort of doing something complex and unfamiliar, but overall it's about shared experience. Must get the script BIP drafts published *before* we start this!

Don't suggest a developer resign unless you're the one who will shoulder the load. And if any bitcoin developer is thinking of stepping down over the current drama, *please * reach out to me: I've been a FOSS dev full time for over 25 years and I've been there! I'm not going to judge, but I may have a useful perspective. ❤️