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People don't necessarily crave attention. We are starved for *real* connection, not attention.

Gimme! (Natural remedies or anecdotal hacks for headaches)

-already took ibuprofen 600mg (sue me, it hurts)

-already ate and drank an absurd amount of water

#help

What would be a good name for something that has 100% uptime? #asknostr

People really don't realize how utterly dependent modern surveillance is on the idea that everybody is carrying a phone — which is always tracked. Their car has a cellular modem in it — which is always tracked. 99% of investigation is one guy and a search box. If you're not low-hanging fruit, you aren't gonna merit the Eye of Sauron of manual, well-resourced, focused team attention—and if you did, you probably planned ahead for it, right? Because it's not a mystery what would get you on Santa's Naughty List.

Anyway, the point is that even in a big city, the phoneless guy in a "covid" mask is going to be invisible to anything less than that exhaustive manual investigation — at least for a few more years. That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets moving from camera to camera, butthat capability is hard to hide, so it'll be in the news. And it won't work that well in places with less camera density and, perhaps, for people who wear the most-common outfits (the visual equivalent of a "shared fingerprint").

Remember: Phones are useful, but dangerous. And the people who will still wear covid masks to the beach are helping to normalize facial obscurity—regardless of their intention. Don't be mean to them. Encourage them to wear them everywhere. For passport photos. In police booking photos. At the customs desk. Family portraits! The sky is the limit—let them push the boundaries so that you don't have to.

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I've personally funded more open source Bitcoin development than Saylor 😏

The advent of Microsoft Recall so drastically changes the security model for Windows users that I can already forsee a shit storm of adversarial uses.

You just know that a new generation of malware is going to leverage Recall to wreck victims worse than ever before.

Since returning from Bitcoin++ in Austin, I've been trying to alternate between working on Lightning one week, and Bitcoin hacking on the other.

Mainly, I've been finishing my Script interpreter cpp modification so I can make more comprehensive benchmarks. I've also given in and ordered a raspberry pi 3, 4 and 5 to benchmark.

I hope to answer the key questions on what a realistic budget for large stack objects should be. In particular, there are four reasonable limits on their size (I'm not considering changing the 1000 stack element limit, since that seems roomy!)

1. 520 bytes. We are here now, but as Script gets better that will be very limiting.

2. 520,000 bytes: simply limit the total stack size, not individual entries.

3. 4,000,000 bytes. This allows you to put the largest possible transaction on the stack. But you need a total limit of at least twice this, so you can make a copy: you can't do much in script without doing this!

4. 400,000 bytes. If number 3 is too much of a reach, this means you can put any standard tx on the stack. Again, you want a total limit of at least twice this.

My laptop, with something stupid like 26MB of level 3 cache, and my build machine with 32MB, can handle this fine. But what about the Pi?

I'll find out next week...

GM

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BITCOIN CONSENSUS IS NOT DICTATED BY TWITTER.

WILL NOT UPDATE ANY OF MY NODES TO SUPPORT OP_CAT.

WILL TREAT ANY ATTEMPT TO PUSH THROUGH ACTIVATION AS HOSTILE.

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