Had to lift my fancy sports car off the ground because I'll be globetrotting for many months and the manual warns of tire deformation. Naturally, the floor jack I've owned for 20 decided to stop working. Turns out you're supposed to do regular fluid changes on jacks 😅

What it's like being Chief Security Officer

In an amusing twist there are now multiple Puritan forks of my Bitcoin educational resources web site because the original group has split from being pro Knotzi to being mostly anti Knotzi, so there's now a fork of my site for each stance. 🤣

Holy shit, the latest OpenSSL release patches 12 zero-day vulnerabilities, all of which were discovered by AI agents. The really crazy thing is that 3 of the bugs had been present since 2000, for over a quarter century having been missed by intense machine and human effort alike. One predated OpenSSL itself, inherited from Eric Young’s original SSLeay implementation in the 1990s. All of this in a codebase that has been fuzzed for millions of CPU-hours and audited extensively for over two decades by teams including Google's. It's pretty scary to realize that fundamental aspects of everyday internet security have been vulnerable for decades. I can only imagine that AI is going to unearth many more vulnerabilities in the coming years.

Bitcoin's so boring right now that many of my group chats are devolving into geopolitics and bullshit conspiracy theory discussion.

Accelerating your coding productivity with AI is great, but if you're paying for a frontier model consider that they are heavily subsidized by venture capital. Don't get so addicted that you're going to get paralyzed if these companies increase their pricing by an order of magnitude.

As of block 940,073 there are 20,000,000 bitcoin in existence!

You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like on X.

IYKYK

Of course they are.

Just published: first study of Bitcoin's resilience to submarine cable failures, using 11 years of P2P network data & 68 cable fault events. Random cable failures are mostly harmless, but targeted attacks on 5 hosting providers could take out 95% of clearnet nodes. Authors recommend using tor to increase network robustness.

arXiv.org

Bitcoin Under Stress: Measuring Infrastructure Resilience 2014-2025

Bitcoin's design promises resilience through decentralization, yet the physical infrastructure supporting the network creates hidden dependencies. ...

Just upgraded the firmware on my toothbrush. What a time to be alive!

When I'm evaluating odd responses from anons: