pull down to refresh
142 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 10 Sep \ on: Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. AI
They don't actually explain how payment would happen; clearly lightning would be a good solution.
This isn't an insane move. It's a calculated, rational, plan to keep on escalating to split NATO apart. If successful, Russia will demonstrate that Russia can attack NATO countries without actually triggering a real response, paving the way to actual ground invasions.
Russia wants Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, etc. Unless we respond with force to attacks like this, Russia will eventually win.
Secondly, all these drone attacks are collecting intelligence. These drones are not one-way deals. They all have satellite and/or cellphone communications (e.g. with SIM cards) back to Russia, allowing Russia to collect intelligence with each flight.
It's disappointing that Signal is not going to allow you to use your own backup server. Better than nothing. But I'd rather use my own.
Better to wait until this is actually announced officially you know. The tag is a last step. But mistakes can happen and it's nice to give devs one last chance to check things over. It also gives time for deterministic builds to be done.
211 sats \ 1 reply \ @petertodd 31 Aug \ parent \ on: You wouldn't give your mom a UTXO - Niftynei privacy
Awesome!
Though a critical detail: when you close the channel, what do you do with the 1% or so remaining? I personally like to donate it to charities.
Also, do you make a new node each time? Your node identity should ideally be new each time.
If India wanted to stay out of this they'd stop sending money to Russia and calling Putin a "friend".
Russia’s crude volumes for exports have jumped in recent weeks, as Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries have crippled Russia’s processing capacity.
This is the key thing to understand: Ukraine has knocked out about 20% of Russia's oil refining capacity. So they're exporting crude oil instead at low prices. Prices so low it's still worth it for India to buy.
The situation is bad for Russia, good for Ukraine, and for now, good for India too.
In the long run its likely that Ukraine will cut off this supply to as they run out of refineries to blow up and move to other targets. That will be bad for India. But the onus is on them to stop supporting Russia.
Taproot didn't change anything meaningful from the point of view of someone who wants to publish data. The limits on P2SH are already plenty big. You just need to add more inputs if you exceed those per-txin limits, which doesn't significantly increase the cost.
In 2021, an unintentional bug shipped with Taproot (but not connected with Taproot itself) defused one such filter (datacarriersize) for some txs.
This is fundamentally wrong.
I posted a separate article explaining why: #1196553
tl;dr: -datacarriersize was never intended to stop all types of data containing transactions. It was obviously impossible to do that. And in the same release — years prior to taproot even existing — we added that option, we made it possible to embed data in scriptSig: essentially the exact same way inscriptions embedded data.
Leave Taproot out of this.
My response on Twitter:
Google claims this is a mistake. More likely a trial balloon to gauge response.
Notice how this policy will still prohibit Cashu wallets like minibits, Zeus (cashu support), Wallet of Satoshi, and future wallets using cashu to build up funds to open a channel.
Not good at all.
Notice how on iOS, the Apple app store is the only reasonable way. Even developers can't put their own apps on their own phones without permission. And when they do, the apps time out after two weeks.
Ridiculous.
Most likely this was a trial balloon to test public response. If we hadn't raised hell immediately good chance it would go through.
As it is, this is extremely bad anyway: it'll still ban lots of useful wallets, including cashu wallets, LN wallets that use tech like cash to build up enough of a balance to open a channel, etc. etc. Even Zeus won't be allowed: they recently added cashu support.