Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

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.

CC: @mir_btc

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

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...

"BREAKING: Judge rules that Emmy award-winning Governor Cuomo violated the law by lying about nursing home deaths caused by his failed policies." @amuse

Emmy award winning! 😂

"[Cuomo broke the law] by only releasing the numbers of those who died in nursing homes, not those who later died in hospitals."

https://nypost.com/2021/02/03/cuomos-doh-illegally-withheld-covid-nursing-home-death-toll-judge/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1938-nazi-law-forced-jews-register-their-wealthmaking-it-easier-steal-180968894/

"A 1938 Nazi Law Forced Jews to Register Their Wealth—Making It Easier to Steal"

Remember this, next time someone pushes AML/KYC. Or the literal mandatory wealth reporting laws that some lobby groups are pushing - literal Nazi policy, for everyone.

blogTO: Dozens of Toronto businesses plan to reopen next week in defiance of lockdown orders.
https://www.blogto.com/city/2021/02/toronto-businesses-opening-defiance-lockdown-orders/

Good. And better to do it sooner rather than later, before the zero covid crowd use these new variants as their excuse to lock down even further.

http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewall-of-china/

tl;dr: Someone tests ExpressVPN and other methods to get past the Great Firewall. Turns out ExpresVPN uses weak 1024bit RSA keys, which can probably be cracked by about $10 million worth of specialized hardware... and ExpressVPN actually fixes the problem.