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[Antonis @antanst]

@brian_armstrong In broad terms: The only sufficiently decentralized grassroots coins with priv txs by default are Monero and Grin. The former is highly unscalable but improvements are being constantly made. The latter is much more scalable but somewhat less private than XMR. And that’s it.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

We are watching Barbie the movie…

And let’s put something straight:

Whoever thinks there are no meaningful differences between men and women clearly didn’t have a boy or a girl – a son or a daughter – two completely different species.

Give a boy a doll and he turns it into a weapon or an engine.

Give a girl a truck and she gives it a name and a family.

Nobody taught them this. You were in the room the whole time.

And it goes far beyond toys.

The boy tests the limit – of the furniture, the rules, and you. He needs to know where the wall is, and he finds it by walking into it.

The girl reads the room. She knows who is upset before anyone has said a word, and she is already doing something about it.

One looks for the edge of the world.

The other looks after the people in it.

Both are necessary.

That is the part the theory most often misses.

A civilization needs the one who goes out and the one who holds it together. It gets into trouble when it decides that only one of them counts as a real person.

One afternoon of actually being a parent dismantles an entire library of theories.

And then notice who wrote the library.

[💝δροσερή πατάτα💝🇬🇷 @efi_lats]

Αύξηση στα επιδόματα γέννας και τέκνων σημαινει περισσότεροι γύφτοι. Κανείς φυσιολογικός άνθρωπος δε γεννάει για να παρει χρήματα εκτός απο γύφτους και τεμπέληδες. Η βοήθεια πρέπει να δίνεται μέσω μειωσεων φόρων σε εργαζόμενους γονείς και οχι μονο σε 3τεκνους.
#ΔΕΘ

[Chris Veleris @chrisveleris]

You can now try tududi in the browser. No docker, no signup, just a live demo with sample data.

Also gave the homepage a full rework while I was at it.

[JuanSanchez @JuanSanchez0x0]

Here are racist tips to make your Italy or France trip kidnapping & crime free.

#1: A stranger says to you "Hey, where are you from?". This person is a giant piece of shit, all over the world. At best: they want to sell you something. At worst: they're distracting you to rob or kidnap you.

#2: Treat anyone with a clipboard as an enemy. These pieces of garbage hang out at the tourist spots, especially around the Eiffel Tower and Tower of Pisa. They're running variety of scams. They get close and touchy. The clipboard is to direct your attention away from both you and them so you can't see them reach into your purse.

#3: Purse & wallets in the front. My family was robbed within hours for not following this rule.

#4: No that stranger did not accidentally drop something on the ground. That was on purpose. At best: they want to guilt you into buying the thing they dropped. At worst: they rob you when you bend over to pick it up.

#5: Learn to spot gypsies and avoid them. Gypsies voluntarily live outside of the law. Your morals mean nothing to them, you're not 'helping disadvantaged people', you're aiding lifelong criminals.

#6: Stay in the tourist areas of big cities even though it costs more. My sister & her friend stayed in Marseille. The Airbnb host took one look at them and said: you girls can't stay here. The host was nice enough to help them book a safer place.

#7: Watch for people who don't fit in. We were walking home in Venice, followed by a Slavic looking man with a buzz cut (rare hairstyle for Italy). He followed us all the way to a dead end at 11pm in a sleepy district. We stared him down until he turned around and left. He was either planning on robbing, or wanting to check the locks on the door that evening or next day.

#8: The kids will rob you, too. French & Italian teens will ride the subway or walk popular promenades/sites for people to pickpocket. These are who robbed my family.

#9: All taxi drivers all around the world are subhuman garbage who want you dead. Do an Uber (or equivalent), or charter something with your Airbnb host or hotel. Or walk.

#10: No they don't want to help you with the subway fares. A popular scam in France is to "help" people confused at the ticket machine.

Libtards are especially vulnerable to the above because they think it's like the US. It's not. The third world of France & Italy need special treatment. My family laughed at me when I told them the above before our trip. Then they lost all their possessions.

So I've basically told you to avoid everyone in France and Italy. How do you meet people? Go somewhere where you have to pay: bar, restaurant, tours, coffee shop, anything. The cost of entrance to these places keeps out the trash humans. This lowers the chances of you getting robbed, but doesn't negate it completely.

Keep your back to the wall. Valuables in front of you. And monitor your credit card after you leave, because there will be fraud payments from Nigeria 2 months after you get home because they sold your CC info. That's just Europe.

Remember frens, racism is SAFE-ism.

[Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost @ghostofchristo1]

A “ban” on under-16s using social media means (in practical terms) that all other social media users will now have to 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 that they are 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 16. As other forms of censorship have been throughout history, in other words, it’s really a registration system.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

-While walking home from a soccer match with his friends a white British young man is accosted by a Sikh immigrant. British young man starts recording with his phone.

-Sikh immigrant then stabs him four times with an 8 inch knife. He seeks no medical help for the British young man, but instead steals his phone and puts it in his pocket (the phone that contains the evidence of what happened).

-Sikh immigrant’s mother (also an immigrant) arrives on the scene and hides the murder weapon.

-Police arrive and the Sikh immigrant lies and says he was called a racist name and his turban was knocked off (video from the phone proves both of these claims were lies, though neither justifies stabbing someone).

-Police proceed to handcuff the white British boy as he bleeds out.

So the summary is because the Sikh immigrant lied and said he was called a racist name, the British police handcuffed and detained the dying victim.

What can you conclude from this but that the UK is not a safe place for white people?

This is the same UK that protested over the death of George Floyd. Yet do you see anyone in the streets over what the police did to this young man?

[Mees Wynants @MeesWynants]

Starting July 2027 cash payments above €10,000 are illegal across all 27 EU member states.

Every transaction above €3,000 requires ID. Splitting payments to avoid the cap is also illegal. Crypto is government verified. The digital euro pilot starts the same year. Fully traceable. Issued and monitored by the central bank.

They say it is about money laundering. It is always about control.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

The EU is building an age verification app tied to passports and ID cards and pushing every member state to adopt it.

Now they're looking at how to stop people using VPNs to get around it.

Privacy tools are becoming a target...

https://t.co/QDxXF0r3qc

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

wise words from the best systems engineer I've worked with:

"two things that make code actually maintainable:

1. reduce the layers a reader has to trace
2. reduce the state a reader has to hold in their head"

applies to every codebase. always.

[Chris Veleris @chrisveleris]

tududi v1.0.0 is finally out!
https://t.co/D5FLlWm2hS #tududi #productivity

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

Here's some fun early Monero history - in 2014 / 2015 there weren't a lot of donations to cover Monero costs, so core contributors would pay for them out of pocket. We tracked all of this on a spreadsheet (that we still have) because we figured one day we'd be able to get it back from the dev fund - although we never ended up doing that😅

In total I spent well over $100k on Monero development until the FFS and donations made it more self-sufficient towards the end of 2015.

What did this pay for?

It included things like making Monero work on Windows (via msys2 / mingw), building out the entire FFS (which eventually became the CCS), all the work on the first GUI, lots of early cryptography work, all the initial embedded DB work (Monero loaded the entire blockchain into RAM until the beginning of 2015!), the work on MRL-0001 / MRL-0004 / MRL-0005, and Monero's 0MQ integration.

Monero is only where it is today because of the sacrifices and early financial contributions of people like othe, NoodleDoodle, as well as the tireless (and unpaid!) efforts of people like smooth, David Latapie, moneromooo, WarpTangent, luigi1111, binaryFate, and countless others I've failed to mention.

[nvk @nvk]

Quantum fun.

[IDI @idicenter]

Thousands of Greek Christian Monks were massacred in 1822 on the hands of the Ottomans, burned alive, enslaved, and wiped from their homes on the island of Chios.

Their skulls still remain in a monastery today.

This is a story most people have never heard.

Read Forgotten Skulls by @bulutuzay_

https://t.co/2b2MvSzdpW

[Save Gaza @Alee93ale]

🚨HOLY SHIT !!!!!

Israeli politician Yitzik Kroizer says killing Palestinian children is normal if it supports the IDF mission.

He adds there are no innocent children in the West Bank.

Repost this. Please I beg you

[Piyush @piyush784066]

No disrespect to Linus Torvalds, but this guy is the greatest geek alive 🫡

Created UNIX in 1971 when he was 28 years old.

Created Go in 2009 when he was 66 years old😲

He also developed the B programming language (which led to C), created UTF-8 encoding (making international text possible online), and designed essential tools like grep that developers still rely on daily.

He also helped with the development of Multics (that led to UNIX), Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems.

That's 4 operating systems in total... Most people don't even use these many OS.

Pretty impressive resume, right? 🔥

And it's a shame that many people, even the ones in the IT and tech industry, don't know him.

Ken Thompson.... Remember the name 🙏

[Chris Veleris @chrisveleris]

https://t.co/AefmjeAkCz

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

It took me less than two minutes to find the roll call for Germany’s reckless and idiotic decision to shut down all nuclear power plants. Of course, Ursula von der Leyen voted for it. She is absolutely shameless, parading a false air of credibility over total hypocrisy.

[Antonis @antanst]

@func25 Best intro on how pointers work in Go I've ever seen, kudos.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

It is crazy that massive book piracy was so critical to the early days of both OpenAI and Anthropic.

In 2025, Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann testified that he himself had downloaded the massive pirate library LibGen at Anthropic. He did so only a few months after the company was founded in 2021.

He also downloaded another pirate library, Books3, the very month Anthropic was founded. It was used to train Claude 1 & Claude 2.

He *also* said he had previously downloaded LibGen when he was at OpenAI. OpenAI used books from LibGen to train GPT-3 and GPT-3.5.

And he went further - he said he understood that LibGen had also been downloaded by Alec Radford at OpenAI. Radford led the development of GPT-1 and GPT-2.

Whatever today’s models were trained on, billions of dollars were raised off the back of models trained on pirated books, and those books were downloaded by some of the most important researchers at the companies in question.

The AI industry is built on piracy.

[The Uncivilised One @Sea2Sea1Way]

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
turkey sold thousands of underage children mainly survivors of the earthquake in 1999 to Jeffery Epstein's island for $200 million, smuggling them out by private planes.

turkey as a country has no right to exist