Jonathan LEI

starknet-rs 🦀 | starkli 🦀 | starknet-graph | Helix shill | Open Source Advocate | Matrix: @jonathanlei:

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

I’m finally out, safe and free. There was a small moment were things looked very bad but thanks to help from many I got released. Sorry if I didn’t answer every message. I was in calls non stop the last 24 hours with too many people and I only slept two hours.

Yesterday I landed in Izmir, Turkey to meet with builders, friends, and local businessmen. We are working on a DeFi project here and I also wanted to meet wine industry people to export our wine here and potentially invest in the country in the near future. I want to emphasize that I love Turkey and the Turkish people. I’m proud to say that some of my closest friends are turkish nowadays.

At passport control, the police detained me and said I couldn’t enter the country. They told me I needed to appear before a judge over a case that was opened there. I wasn’t allowed to use my phone, so my assistant reached out to local friends, who then contacted a Turkish attorney. The police warned me they would take my phone and that I would not be able to speak with anyone.

After a few hours, the attorney reached me and explained that the Minister of Internal Affairs had filed a case accusing me of helping others misuse @ethereum, allegedly in connection with a privacy protocol.

A few years ago, on the day Alexey was detained, we received a call, that gladly didn’t escalate any further, regarding an academic paper and code we had published about Tornado Cash, called Tutela. Our work showed that it was possible to deanonymize users. We never helped anyone engage in illegal activity, it was purely research on mixers and their properties.

To be clear:
a) We didn’t develop privacy features, only code and a paper showing heuristics to deanonymize users. We did want to work in more areas of Tornado but we couldn’t.
b) Even if we had worked on privacy and ZK for a protocol, targeting a software company for makes no sense to me.
c) Writing code to make transactions private doesn’t make you a criminal. Criminals are those who break the law. Would anyone jail Linus Torvalds because someone built a missile that uses the Linux kernel?

At one point, I was told my belongings would be taken and I would be moved elsewhere until charges were brought. Important friends from the UAE, UK, US, all around European Union, Argentina and the Catholic Church immediately stepped in to help, some contacting senior figures in Turkey to assist, they asked for explanations and supported me. There was a moment where I believe if a few of them didn’t intervene things might have gone sour. Thanks to their intervention I could stay with my phone at all time and now I’m back to Europe.

Our local Turkish attorney is already working on our defense. We still don’t have the full picture of what happened or why it happened, but we will bring in the best team we can and resolve this. If needed, one things are sorted out, I will come back to clear my name and defend ourselves. We have great local connections and lawyers. I’m not sure I will be able to tweet about this until we sort things out.

In recent months, my team and I experienced several smaller incidents I can’t discuss publicly. The world feels more fractured than just a few years ago, and resources are contested everywhere. Ou companies work at the frontier of cryptography, cybersecurity and AI. With time we will get better and better at we do. Most of what I did was with very little money. Now that we have more resources we can accelerate. I don’t plan on stop any of what we do.

[Uri Kolodny @ukolodny]

Personal Update (🧵)

1/ I’m starting up again. All in.

I am a co-founder of @GnomicaBio.
We will develop novel drugs for treating cancer by targeting bacterial functions in our body.
We believe we’re going to change the world. 

My co-founders are Prof. Ravid Straussman from the Weizmann Institute (@WeizmannScience) and Dr. Yuval Raviv.
We will commercialize world-class research from Ravid’s lab (@StraussmanR), which has been at the vanguard of tumor microbiome research.

How did I get involved in this?

[Jonathan LEI @xJonathanLEI]

@kobigurk Termux + Helix + tmux

[EXO Labs @exolabs]

First look at SPARTA, a distributed AI training algorithm that avoids synchronization by randomly exchanging sparse sets of parameters (<0.1%) asynchronously between GPUs.

Preliminary results and details of our mac mini training run are available now (link below).

SPARTA achieves >1,000x reduction in inter-GPU communication, enabling training of large models over slow bandwidths without specialized infrastructure.

SPARTA works on its own but can also be combined with sync-based low communication training algorithms like DiLoCo for even better performance.

[Haider. @haider1]

🚨 NVIDIA Introduces Jetson Nano Super

> compact AI computer capable of 70-T operations per second

> designed for robotics, it supports advanced models, including LLMs, and costs $249

[Jonathan LEI @xJonathanLEI]

Headless remote flashing + onboard VLAN support. Sounds perfect for building ephemeral CI runners.

[Turing Pi @turingpi]

Be the cloud. Own the sky.

[Glauber Costa @glcst]

Today we have decided to make @penberg 's experimental project, an official Turso project, following its great success.

What if instead of just forking SQLite, we were to completely rewrite it - in Rust?

That's our moonshot - codename Limbo

https://t.co/KjKyvUbbpN

[Jonathan LEI @xJonathanLEI]

@sylvechv fuck mpt

[Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi]

Introducing Raspberry Pi 500 and the Raspberry Pi Monitor —
your complete Raspberry Pi desktop setup.

Raspberry Pi 500 puts the power of Raspberry Pi 5 into a high-quality keyboard for the ultimate fast, powerful, compact PC experience. Available from $90.

The Raspberry Pi Monitor is designed to coordinate perfectly with your Raspberry Pi 500. It incorporates a 15.6" full HD display, and a pair of 1.2W speakers, in a slender enclosure. All yours for $100.

https://t.co/2mKalSWcXK

[Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io @EliBenSasson]

$100K Bitcoin gets you thinking what comes next?

Covenants.

My thoughts on the brilliant work of @avihu28, Andrew Poelstra, @Ethan_Heilman and @VIKolobov

https://t.co/1h61cDbXdO

[trash @trashh_dev]

i’ll never learn

[Georgios Konstantopoulos @gakonst]

Introducing Solar ☀️

Solar is an implementation of the Solidity compiler, in Rust; licensed Apache/MIT.

Solar is built for the future of smart contracts, in a world where developers seek customization, and assume great performance, safety, and developer experience.

[Avihu Levy ✨🐺 @avihu28]

"ColliderScript: Covenants in Bitcoin via 160-bit hash collisions"

https://t.co/GXsSouRCw2

[Jonathan LEI @xJonathanLEI]

@sylvechv Helix is the way

[Jonathan LEI @xJonathanLEI]

@milancermak What was not known is that it's a better solution than ipv6 apparently

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

writing code is so much easier than reviewing code

[Jonathan LEI @xJonathanLEI]

@dcbuilder @odin_free @OnyxBoox Except it doesn't have cellular.

[Mark Ermolov @_markel___]

Intel HW is too complex to be absolutely secure! After years of research we finally extracted Intel SGX Fuse Key0, AKA Root Provisioning Key. Together with FK1 or Root Sealing Key (also compromised), it represents Root of Trust for SGX. Here's the key from a genuine Intel CPU😀

[Jonathan LEI @xJonathanLEI]

@DevenMat just say you're a SWE which is not even lying.

but wait so no one cares about decentralization?? how surprising