Daniel Benskin

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@dismad8 @zooko @niftynei Don't forget about SteamOS. Giving the next generation of PC gamers an alternative to Windows is significant. It also seems likely that Microsoft and Apple would be even more oppressive if Linux wasn't on their radar.

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@DamirWallener @ltgiv Switching to CO2 as the refrigerant would help with some aspects of that (and hopefully end the regulatory cat and mouse game), but dealing with dramatically higher pressure isn't free.

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@DamirWallener @ltgiv Compressors would also have to trigger based on pressure rather than directly by thermostat with multiple devices, of course.

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@DamirWallener @ltgiv I'd love some more criticism on this. For high and low temperature on one compressor, each device's thermostat would need a valve to release refrigerant into its evap coil. Would that and higher thermal mass evap coils for higher temperature devices be insufficient?

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@ltgiv @wwwLiveFarm Could start by adding heat exchangers to prefab septic tanks for ground loop geothermal.

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@FenixAmmoHR Do you use the Brave browser?

https://t.co/RCqbBePrqD

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

Recent algorithm changes on X may be unfairly hammering Brave users. And there's a larger issue here about bad interactions between robots and privacy measures.

@nikitabier @brave

My friend Jay Maynard, who some of you may know as Tron Guy, just got permabanned off X for "inauthentic behavior". His appeal was swiftly denied.

Jay is not a spammer, scammer or engagement farmer; he is, in fact, exactly the kind of good citizen X says it wants. Jay asked Gemini for analysis, and now thinks he knows what happened.

Brave, as a privacy measure, randomly changes the identity presented to sites in order to avoid tracking by the ad vampires. Gemini suggested that some code at X interpreted this as spammy behavior using multiple browsers. If so - and this does seem plausible - everybody trying to protect their privacy with Brave is at risk.

This is a general problem, not just an X glitch or a Brave issue. Social media sites are increasingly relying for security on forms of heuristic AI that are prone to unacceptably high false-positive rates.

More specifically, platforms are increasingly treating a user's refusal to be tracked, fingerprinted, and categorized as a hostile act. When a site makes it impossible to connect via a privacy-focused user agent without getting flagged as a malicious bot, it stops being "security" and effectively becomes a retaliatory lockout for protecting oneself.

Worse yet, such system architecture provides no circuit breaker - humans are only rarely and exceptionally asked review for errors. Jay's appeal denial came back so fast that it was obvious no meat-brain ever saw it. He has filed complaints within the Minnesota Attorney General and the Better Business Bureau, because what else can he do? The robots have locked him out.

Badly designed robots and zeal to squeeze human oversight out of the system forces regular citizens to rely on state law enforcement or consumer protection bureaus.

Allow me to gently suggest to the people running X that unless you want politicians poking their noses into your business and imposing constraints on you that you are not going to like, you need to fix your security and appeal processes so running to the law isn't necessary.

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@HoffmanTactical Things can seem more difficult with observers because the simulation doesn't render full resolution with only NPCs present. At low resolution things can appear to work that wouldn't actually work.

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@EveKeneinan Do they mean like a parable?

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@dannycantalk @oqayowoqwq Is this really just an echo-chamber test indicating how accustomed you are to most people agreeing with you? The real button test is how many people support inflationary fiat currencies that make everyone poor for constant war versus how many promote sound money.

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@SicK_ffs @cipherpay_app Here it is: https://t.co/4esaGf64MH

(Tiny link in the bottom-right corner of https://t.co/G5QflHdU2a)

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@LucasBotkin Be like Nehemiah. Pray and build, while keeping armed and alert.

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@Stubbs_GunGuy If the two magwells were symmetrical at 135° and 225° then it could be ambidextrous and eject out whichever magwell was empty.

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

Merry Christmas!

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@TheAliceSmith More importantly representation in capitalism is finely granular since each person transacts frequently and every transaction incrementally changes outcomes.

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@zksquirrel @nuttycom If you're going to have stablecoins, collateralized and decentralized assets are the way. Centralized stable coins that reintroduce counterparty risk should be rejected for use as money.

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@BiblicalAnarchy @ComicDaveSmith @liquid2ulu Seems like Colossians 2 covers something very like this conflict. Within a healthy body there is room for healthy accountability and criticism when it is brought in love. That's very different from taking on the role of judge.

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

@TheAliceSmith Yes. So is "taxation with representation".

Taxation moves the discretion to spend from those taxed to others who represent different interests and will therefore spend differently.

It serves no purpose otherwise.

[Daniel Benskin @DanielBenskin]

Protocols need maximum network effect and should therefore maximize flexibility and diverse uses (in the absence of conflict between uses). Wallets need to maximize clarity and UX for their specific target market's purposes.

[light 📜 @lightcoin]

@c477bfef6df4311 @colludingnode this is a wallet design issue, not a protocol issue e.g. we can imagine a zcash wallet that only supports sending/receiving via shielded addresses, and we can imagine a monero wallet that tweets out its view keys with every transaction.

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@zooko @CryptyMike @vladcostea Any idea what happened on 2025-09-09 where sprout was recorded at 0?

No jumps in the other shielded or transparent pools that day, so probably just a failed call on whatever node was recording this data for some reason?