I don't leave tabs open in my browser any more. Control-W, Control-W, Control-W. Ah, it's gone. Time to get back to work.

Number one clue that we are going to see a massive electromagnetic event in the near future is that everything needs to be rewritten. The software is such a mess. Web browsers were not meant to be user interfaces, but rather, libraries. When things go this wrong, they always have to crash.

I remember the days before the internet. They were a lot more peaceful. I am not saying that the connection isn't a good thing, rather, that we should still store all our data locally, and not depend on the wires to give us everything, or when they inevitably fail, we will have nothing.

I've hit a stumbling block with the phone abolition project, namely, banking. I am going to attempt to run my bank app inside anbox, fingers crossed I can do it. If I can, I'm gonna be so happy. If not, I'm still gonna be happy, because that device is going to be only ever used for this, and otherwise in a metal box. Another project that is evolving out of all this relates to my abhorrence of the web browser. Namely, a dictionary. I'm not going for the hard copy solution, because why should I clutter my space up when I have a storage and encoding/decoding device with a massively higher word/gram ratio than any book????!!!! That doesn't make sense.

MUO

The 5 Best Dictionary Apps for Linux

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I'm trying out Artha. It is summoned by default with the keys Ctrl-Alt-W. Word, I guess. This is very nice. As a programmer, one of the most frequent problems one encounters is coming up with good names. It's my firm opinion that after humans finally have a Carrington Event after the age of electronic computers reaches its peak, everyone is going to stop thinking about the internet as something to count on. Good. It also will mean the value of optical transmission and faraday cages will become interesting to people who have got used to living in a fog of electromagnetic noise. I can't wait, actually! Bring on the Carrington Event. There's a lot of cool things to look forward to when most of the world's electronics are fried, and I for one, am not gonna be suffering. I'm going to have my computer work space already prepared. Full Faraday cage, with earthing. Everything inside it earthed, no radio inside the faraday cage ,that's just stupid. All devices with added shielding to ensure they leak as little EMF as possible. I will have offline dictionaries, massive amounts of archival data storage, books, libraries, media, all sitting there like a little Noah's Ark of teh Information Age. If you aren't already starting to think in this direction, that's ok, someone is. When your gear turns into inert matter, don't worry, you can come to me to query my database.

I am so glad to be in a place where the buildings frequently whistle. Can't wait until I've got a place with whistling buildings and the sound of rain on corrugated steel as well.

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GitHub

GitHub - btcsuite/btcd: An alternative full node bitcoin implementation written in Go (golang)

An alternative full node bitcoin implementation written in Go (golang) - btcsuite/btcd

imports from Decred:

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btcd/btcec/schnorr/signature_test.go at master · btcsuite/btcd

An alternative full node bitcoin implementation written in Go (golang) - btcsuite/btcd

I am in the process of refactoring the Decred secp256k1 to use SHA256 hashes for the signature and adding BIP340 tests for the Schnorr signatures. The SHA256 library will be one that uses AVX2 SIMD - which is substantially faster than the SHA256 code used in btcd/lnd. This will be a clean, dependency free package for Golang bitcoin/lightning/nostr developers that will save everyone from the go modules hell of btcd.