I created a @Geyser fundraiser goal for Libre Relay v30.0:

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I've already finished Libre Relay v30.0rc1, based on Bitcoin Core v30.0rc1:

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The goal should be enough to pay for my hours of work so far, and a few more hours for the rest of the rc's and the final release.

HRF board member Yulia Navalnaya campaigning to get Russians allowed in the EU on tourist visas. Seriously, WTF. It's insane to allow Russians into the EU except in exceptional cases. It's an obvious security risk given the western world is effectively at war with Russia, and we know Russia is conducting sabotage and surveillance operations in western countries. Russia is also actively attacking western countries, e.g. the drone attack on Poland. And obviously, Russians don't deserve it: all Russians wealthy enough to travel are meaningfully supporting the invasion. About half of all Russian tax dollars are going to the invasion. If you are in Russia and working, you are meaningfully supporting genocide. Yulia's Twitter feed is very telling: she pays near zero attention to Ukraine. She's not actually anti-war. She's focused on helping Russians. She even goes as far as to advocate for Russia to keep occupied territory: directly advocating that war criminals keep the loot they stole through genocide. That HRF continues to work with her and rehabilitate her image is evil.

Easy to see why they didn't release the full Iryna Zarutska video immediately:

Update: tonight's attack by Russia set a new record, 800 drones, along with some missiles (I got woken up again by cruise missiles getting intercepted in the morning – hard to explain how awesome that sound is). In Kyiv, two deaths: a woman and her young child murdered by a Russian attack on an apartment building. They also hit some government buildings in Kyiv for the first time, and even killed a bunch of horses with multiple shahed drones on a horse stables just outside of Kyiv. Never underestimate Russian pettiness and evil. But, due to the amazing work of the Ukrainian military, it's still safer to be here than in Charlotte, North Carolina... Something like 90% of Russian drones get shot down. View quoted note →

Iryna Zarutska was from Kyiv. Pre-war, Ukraine's murder rate was ~4/100k/year. Charlotte is ~12/100k/year. _Including_ murders by Russian air strikes, Kyiv's murder rate is “only” 8.5/100k/year (~130 killed in the past year). She was safer in ~100% white Kyiv than in black NC. ...and yes, the reason why I'm even writing this is I'm in Kyiv and anti-aircraft fire woke me up at 5am. Hopefully no-one died tonight and made my stats out of date... But even then, if she had stayed in Kyiv and went to the shelters during air raids, she'd have been fine. The problem is the black population. If not for them the US would actually be fairly low crime. Getting US (and western) politics to the point where we accept imprisoning, for life, a significant % of the black population is what it'll take to fix this. Instead, that psychopath was arrested over and over again for violent crimes.

Better WoT implementation than PGP.... View quoted note →