Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@kristapsk Did you need to verify your ID to do that as well?

@excellion@bitcoinhackers.org What's that inflation adjusted? 😂

What's the current state-of-the-art in Lightning donation addresses? As in, something I could put in a tweet?

IIUC keypay can pay to a node id. But there isn't a QR code standard for it yet.

My OTS calendar servers are running low on funds, so I actually have a practical use-case for this in the very near future. :)

@alex Anything starting with 127 is localhost, AKA, your own computer. 127.0.0.53 on your laptop, is your laptop. Which must be running its own DNS resolver (is it a Mac?).

There is no generic mechanism to find DNS servers. There's a bunch of per-protocol mechanisms, eg DHCP has one, PPPoE has one, etc. But nothing generic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost

@joeyh The rest of us writing .git/configs version control is a fair trade for git-annex 😂

Lol, BitPay is so hilariously useless.

For research purposes I actually went through that nonsense. They wanted a photo of my passport (NOT a scan!), a selfie which had to be taken on my phone (uploading a photo was NOT good enough), and of course my address and date of birth.

...and after all that nonsense, the invoice timed out, so I couldn't pay anyway. So I don't know if they still do the payment protocol nonsense - BitPay is such a joke that they probably do. 😂

How accurate is this translation?

https://web.archive.org/web/20210316045923/https://www.tv2.no/a/13886747/

https://mooseyanon.medium.com/github-f-ck-your-name-change-de599033bbbe

"Anyways at least one good thing as come from all this, I now know how to rename my master branch `fuck-github`."

Reminder: Sweden hasn't done any worse than the EU average.

Overall mortality figures confirm this: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

Lockdown achieve nothing.

https://www.blogto.com/arts/2021/03/toronto-photographer-captured-all-vacant-stores-queen-west/

Endless destruction.

https://blog.yossarian.net/2021/03/16/totally_safe_transmute-line-by-line

Totally Safe™ transmute()

tl;dr: /proc/self/mem 😂

I've been saying for literally months that manufacturing was a potential problem, because what was tested may not be what was actually produced due to the challenges in scaling up manufacturing. Sure enough, turns out the regulators shared my concerns.

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n627

"EMA scientists worried about “truncated and modified mRNA species present in the finished product.”" "Commercial manufacturing was not producing vaccines to the specifications expected, and regulators were unsure of the implications."

So not only do we have a problem with failure to report side effects, as AstraZeneca admitted(1). But the type of side effects could vary on a batch-to-batch basis, making statistics difficult to collect.

1) https://mastodon.petertodd.org/@pete/105890505769548109

You know, you could have just used some numbers...

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboards/server-boards

@midnightmagic @michaelfolkson Because people were hoping for 95% protection, very quickly, even in the vulnerable population, and that obviously isn't the case. It will of course go away relatively soon - pandemics just can't continue if you open up. But the fact is progress has been a lot slower than they hoped.