Don't trust, verify.

An amusing aspect of the latest twist in the filters drama is that these folks have been complaining for years about jpegs in the blockchain and apparently only just realized that jpegs could contain horrific content like child porn. Filteroos are already a decade behind on this debate and I doubt they'll ever catch up at this rate.

Agents of the State (public officials) should not have the benefit of privacy while executing the directives of the State upon citizens. The State and its agents should fear retribution by the public when power is abused.

Here we goooooooo!

TechCrunch

Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to...

Contrariness can come in quite handy when traveling. For example, I learned that Easter is a great time to visit Key West. Everything is open, but it's a ghost town.

Uhhhh nostriches not affected because no one knows what we're doing here? 😅

The proof of work contact form on my web site has a difficulty adjustment. I can it the annoyance adjustment. Any time I start getting annoyed by the volume of messages I receive, I bump up the difficulty. I started off 5 years ago at about 30 seconds worth of hashes on a desktop CPU and now am up to 10 minutes.

In completely unsurprising news, the guy who stole a signed hat out of the hands of a child has confirmed he's a massive asshole.

Vires in numeris! Individually we are each a fragile twig. Together we form an antifragile faggot.

Debugging an issue with my web site's proof of work contact form randomly breaking and finally realized that unlucky hashers were overflowing the JavaScript max integer value for the nonce, so I needed to implement an extraNonce. 🤓

Buttcoiners finally found an investment strategy they hate even more than BTC.

Overhead: the Kelce-Swift engagement is like 9/11 for every guy in a long term relationship who hasn't proposed.

Does anybody sell flags that are specifically designed to burn well? Preferably easy to light, produces a big flame, but also burns slowly enough that the flag isn't ash in 10 seconds.

I don't see much point keeping 6+ months worth of emergency fund expenses in a bank account when any decent exchange allows you to convert BTC to fiat and get it to a bank account in a day or less.

There is no amount of anger, crying, or virtue signaling that will defeat information theory. Accept it and move on.

BitMEX Blog

Bitcoin OP_RETURN & Image Storage: Spam Debate

Abstract: We look again at the OP_Return policy limit issue and the related topic of storing images in the blockchain. The argument is not going a...

Someone should create a nostr client that focuses on advanced spam filtering. You could call it Knotstr.