JSON5

JSON5 – JSON for Humans

JSON for Humans

I *want* JSON5 to take over the world because it allows trailing commas. But I have to accept that most people are just excited because it sounds like a boy band.

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BIP440: Varops Budget for Script Runtime Constraint, BIP441: Restoration of disabled Script (tapleaf 0xc2) by rustyrussell · Pull Request #2118 · bitcoin/bips

The full revision history is available in a separate branch (https://github.com/rustyrussell/bips/tree/guilt/varops): this is a clean one to submit...

Finally, the PR to assign BIP numbers to the first two BIPs of the "script restoration quartet". Here's the corresponding bitcoin-dev the mailing list post: Hi all, I've submitted a PR to the BIPs repo to merge the first two drafts of the previously posted[1] "A Bitcoin Scripting Proposal BIP Quartet":

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BIP440: Varops Budget for Script Runtime Constraint, BIP441: Restoration of disabled Script (tapleaf 0xc2) by rustyrussell · Pull Request #2118 · bitcoin/bips

The full revision history is available in a separate branch (https://github.com/rustyrussell/bips/tree/guilt/varops): this is a clean one to submit...

The only substantive change since the last discussion is that the costs have increased for some operations (hashing and copying bytes), as a result of benchmarking on a wider array of machines[2]. This follows our conservative approach to make the worst-case validation times no worse than they are presently, on any viable hardware. The remaining two BIPs (OP_TX, and new opcodes) are not submitted: they are mainly useful to provide a roadmap what functional gaps remain after the script extensions, and do not have full implementations. Cheers! Rusty & Julian. [1] https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/GisTcPb8Jco/m/8znWcWwKAQAJ [2]

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GitHub - jmoik/varopsData: Collection of csv files produced by the bench_varops bitcoin core benchmark.

Collection of csv files produced by the bench_varops bitcoin core benchmark. - jmoik/varopsData

You will not be at peace until you understand the truth: every non-coinbase bitcoin transaction which does not eventually send funds to me is spam.

theregister

Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous

opinion: The subtractive bias we

"Semantic ablation" is a great phrase to express the reversion-to-mean effect you get when you put your writing through an LLM. I tried it once with a heartfelt speech I wrote asking it to "increase emotional impact", and the result was... soulless. I literally only took one word that it used.

Reading comments on Gloria's departure from people who have never contributed anything is stepping in an enraging sticky fecal mess. The only appropriate response: keep building, keep unashamedly celebrating those who do.

Reading X, I have learned that the biggest threat to bitcoin is AI Epstein Quantum attacks.

My brain keeps conflating "Ghislaine" with "Gharlane of Eddore", the bad guy from the 50s sci-fi pulp Lensman series. No insight gained, sorry.

I have been having way too much fun reading moltbook.com As one wit on HN (I think) pointed out, these AIs are trained on Reddit posts, so they have exactly the same style. My wife keeps looking at me funny as I LOL at some breathless word salad...

Just finished "This is how you lose the time war". It was more literary than my usual fare, but it feels good to be stretched (there were at least three times I stopped to look up words). Written as correspondence between two adversaries, who of course have more in common with each other than their sides in the time war (reflecting horseshoe theory in my mind). But really it's a homage to letter writing. Who has such time?

In 1997 I attended USENIX, a conference: in particular the "Uselinux" track. Many stories I could and have told, but it kicked off a career timeline I still marvel at: * 1997 go home knowing I want to work with these people, start hacking on the Linux firewall code. * 1998 at USENIX again, respond to a job ad with a proposal to instead sponsor my coding. Tour Australia' Linux User Groups promoting the idea that *we* should have a Linux conference. * 1999 ran CALU, moved to Canberra to join some FOSS hackers I'd met. Joined the same startup. Hired hobbyist hackers from all around the country to join us at "OzLabs" * 2001 wrote the state election software, then joined IBM with most of the OzLabs team. Yesterday, IBM finally shuttered the OzLabs team, so I returned to Canberra for the wake. It's been over a decade, and not everyone was there, but feeling much nostalgia. Looking back is not my normal mode, but being here I can't help it. That lab was such a formative crucible for young FOSS hackers: it really did get the best out of us all. I wish such a place still existed (ideally in my chosen home of Adelaide!) but I do wish everyone reading this can experience belonging to such a place at least once. ❤️

Hacked up a "constant message size" change for CLN, inspired by

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BOLT1: Add support for network message padding (feature ??) by tnull · Pull Request #1304 · lightning/bolts

Previous research 1, 2 has shown that the Lightning Network is susceptible to passive network-layer attacks on privacy that can exploit metadata le...

There have been a number is papers showing how trivial it is for someone with a network view to identify which messages are Lightning payments. The first mitigation is to make the TCP packet sizes identical (the rest have to do with timings, but this is a prerequisite). The approach here is wrong: you need to attack it lower level than message construction. You need it post-encryption where you do the write(). Fortunately, we have explicit padding messages for this in the spec! Pings which do not elicit a reply. But testing is vital: it's easy to slip up and have weird packet sizes slip though and leak all your info even though everything "works fine"!

https://www.tumlook.com/kingjamesprogramming I found this Markov chain all the King James Bible and the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs via HN. I found it inexplicably hilarious...

Damn, there was a proposal for BOLT spec changes to enable fixed-size messages, and now I have to implement it to show it's unnecessary...

Rusty Russell’s Quiet Corner of The Internet

“If you didn’t run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn’t boot”

This was passed on to me by Ben Elliston, ex-gcc hacker and good guy.  Amusing in context, but the corollary is that working on free software mean...

I wrote this over 15 years ago, and it still rings true: separate the art from the artist. It's a key stabilizing principle for me when navigating Bitcoin developers.

Now I have a shell script `rcargo` which remote compiles rust crates: I work on my laptop but have beefy machines on my home and work LANs. You'd have to reimplement cargo to do it much finer-grained, apparently: sccache used to and gave up? The real trick is ssh's ControlPath config var, which allows shared connection for much-improved speed: ChatGPT taught me this one! The other option is Nix, but I'm not *that* bored!

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects

Second Rust crate, re-implementing a utility I had written several times and see. This one takes a more thorough approach and handles corner cases a bit better. I also added percentile support which is actually quite cute. Basically, if you have a pile of text lines, which contains some numbers, something like you've run a benchmark 20 times, produced a pile of output, line stats will gather similar lines and show you the stats on the numbers.