Some hard numbers from an investigative journalist, comparing audience funding, sponsorship and just working for a mainstream publication. And as he points out, only the latter can provide you legal protection from those you investigate.
Sjors Provoost
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This is one of those woke nonsense things that are perfectly fine, if woke people could simply resist being so obnoxious about it. Classrooms could also just buy a globe. RIP Mercator.
Client Challenge
Silly take of the week: „we shouldn't have autonomous killer drones because terrorists might use them“
/dangerously-skip-permissions
Fortunately this was just a silly headline writer. The actual person being interviewed pointed out it's worrying, but inevitable.
Some of these consumer use cases sound really contrived. But we'll see if it can still write code.
If you're a wallet developer and you like backups, in particular descriptor backups, consider reviewing #bip138: 
GitHub
BIP138: Compact Encryption Scheme for Non-seed Wallet Data by pythcoiner · Pull Request #1951 · bitcoin/bips
This is a bip for encrypted backup, an encryption scheme for bitcoin wallet related metadata.
Mailing list post: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoi...
Unrealized capital gains might not happen after all, according to "leaked" coalition documents.
(this is the magical time of year when they always leak the good news, the free money, not the bad news, who gets to pay for it)
Onduidelijkheid over box 3 blijft, coalitie wil wetsvoorstel vooruitschuiven
Er wordt al jaren gediscussieerd over hoe er belasting wordt geheven over vermogen. Tot nu toe komt de politiek er niet uit.
We are renaming the Mempool to America Pool.
How long can you keep a lightning long offline, if there's no HTLC in flight, before someone can screw you over? Asking for a friend who doesn't like binaries.
I know the US has a debt problem, but Congress mining crypto in my browser for several minutes to „verify I'm not a bot“ seems a bit desperate?
Oh by the way, how's the Sztorc-fork going?
Happy K-Day!
Bitcoin Fork Monitor
With permission, hopefully :-)
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If you're one of the cool kids who use wkd to fetch PGP keys, I just bumped the expiration date for mine:
gpg --auto-key-locate clear,wkd,nodefault --locate-keys sjors@sprovoost.nl
You can also ask your agent to fetch the branch for each open pull request, as a backup for work in progress.
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