Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@alex Gonna be a lot more wood piles and propane tanks in the future...

While the Texas blackouts aren't solely to blame on wind power - natural gas production has been affected too - I don't think people realize how much *worse* the situation would be if we had a grid run on renewables only.

There's no way to reliably generate power from wind and solar alone in regions that can get snow. And as we're finding out, pretty much anywhere can get cold. Backup batteries are far too expensive.

A carbonized civilization needs nuclear and hydro.

@vladcostea Hmm.... whatever everyone else isn't. :D

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Well, I think these excellent parents are playing some soothing music to calm down their baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re2HnTMd2lw

...so maybe I should leave it up to you. :D

Anyone know what these alleged code-of-conduct violations by Isis Lovecruft's former boyfriend, and current Zcash employee, Henry de Valence actually were?

Valence is one of the people who knows first hand that Lovecruft fabricated assault allegations against me...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210213021728/https://github.com/dalek-cryptography/curve25519-dalek/pull/338

@jb55 I've literally never built a crud interface in my entire life. The closest would be the OpenTimestamps REST API.

OTOH, I only play a programmer on TV.

@eiaine You make a good point.

Counter-argument: if journalism *in general* had more money, NYT's incentives would change as other journalists would have the resources to both criticize them, and present alternative stories.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale-and-censorship

Great writeup on how fraudulent modern journalism has become.

tl;dr: there's not enough money to pay for real reporting, so we get fabricated SJW grievances and cancel culture. It's cheaper to falsely claim someone used the word "retard" to get them cancelled than take on the NSA (actual example in the article!).

IMO simplest way to fix this is via defamation laws. But that won't fix the funding problem: either way there's going to be a lot less mainstream journalism.

TIL computers have become so complex that NVME interface SSDs now have drive-level namespaces: https://nvmexpress.org/resources/nvm-express-technology-features/nvme-namespaces/

brb, putting some data in a namespace in a namespace in a namespace in a namespace in a namespace...

@Majes @georgevaccaro @rusty haha, I meant bitcoin.conf :)

@jb55 More tools should use email frankly.

Git itself actually has machinery for handling patches via mailing list. It's a bit antiquated unfortunately; would be nice to update it for more modern workflows, and to support PGP.

@lukedashjr @georgevaccaro @rusty Sorry, but I'm really not sure what you mean by "the choice was already made"

@lukedashjr @georgevaccaro @rusty To be clear, by required option, I mean requiring users to make a choice.