Pretty sure the recent Coldcard exploit couldn’t happen in Rust. The Rust compiler would have certainly caught the uncalled function. And the #ifdef directive — that entire category of bug-prone textual preprocessor-based handling — just doesn’t exist in the same guise in Rust.

Tradition: Peer pressure from dead people.

According to this, we could infer there is nonzero probability that Peter Todd is one of the victims of the Coldcard RNG exploit. https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/media/3784305/coinkite-profile.pdf

There is nonzero probability that one or more Coinkite principals are among those drained by the ColdCard RNG exploit.

At first, I thought, roll 100 dice, and reinitialize the Coldcard. After reading this ⬇️ I’m not thinking that now. Follow the link in the article, and read the Coldcard software developers' commit history, including the most recent commits related to the firmware update. Amateur hour! And there is certainly no senior engineering oversight. It's really bad. This is borderline unethical.

When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work

What a commit message tells us about the recent COLDCARD bug

I feel we don't talk enough about the Coldcard CLI

GitHub

GitHub - Coldcard/ckcc-protocol: Python library and command line tool for communicating with your Coldcard over USB

Python library and command line tool for communicating with your Coldcard over USB - Coldcard/ckcc-protocol

"Happy Father's Day" normalizes patriarchal traditions and goads mental state adjustment without consent, thereby creating an unsafe space.

Sonos is garbage.

NOSTR "trending" feeds on Primal is mostly retarded nonsense. I say this after MONTHS of muting accounts who post AI slop, Bitcoin-logo coffee mugs, religious raving bobos, and food & homestead posters. Thousands of accounts muted for that. And still the avalanche of garbage posts continues. If these Primal "trending" feeds come from NOSTR engagement metrics, then NOSTR is mostly retarded. If these Primal "trending" feeds come from Primal, then Primal is retarded. Which is it?

Does anyone know how Primal’s “Trending“ algorithm works? Is that documented anywhere? @primal

I feel we don't appreciate enough how little drone cameras following luges down narrow tracks is badass.

Here's a Nostr tip that's working very well for me. ➡️ Mute the users who post garbage and nonsense ⬅️ Whenever I come across garbage and nonsense, I immediately mute the source. I won't say what I consider "garbage and nonsense", but you know what I mean. Observe: after a few days, your Nostr feed has much higher quality. After a few weeks you're gonna love the difference active curation makes. Turns out, Dumbf*kStupid is a finite set. Since Stupid tends to echo Stupid, that entire echo chamber exposes itself surprisingly quickly. "Trending" on Nostr" is a source of insight and joy now that cringe is mostly gone.

Among my favorite chess puzzles. You want options? Here you go.

lichess.org

Chess tactic #CP7rj - Black to play

Lichess tactic trainer: Find the best move for black.. Played by 1287 players.