Peter Todd

Kanyuk followup: we got him new gear, and thanks to $LADA and your Bitcoin donations he's back in the fight:

https://mempool.space/address/bc1qdds28nk2n69kc2zh0y62flnxarsp2lv80tn8t5

https://youtube.com/shorts/-uq3QL3_YlA

Not AI.

“BUT SPACE IS A VACUUM!” in shambles.

😂

They're just evil. Kill them before they kill you.

Some used sand to cook; others taught sand to think.

We are not the same.

https://youtube.com/shorts/GQoQkeMdvQM

Amazing

https://youtube.com/shorts/YwVBsFD7v84

Flock employees were caught watching children doing gymnastics repeatedly with zero justification.

1. Why the fuck is there even an internet connected Flock camera setup to do this?

2. Flock feels they're so above the law, and basic morality, that they don't even bother hiding these records.

A very clear view of how Russia attacked the main mall in Kryvyi Rih during the day, with jet powered shahed drones. After the main attack they did a follow-up attack awhile later to try to kill first responders. So far 15 confirmed murdered, with another 130 injured.

Lots of young people, teens and children. Sadly in this case they still haven't found her (understandably terrified) dog:

...and the same day, among many other crimes, Russians attacked a minibus in Zaporizhia with a FPV drone:

I've been on the exact same street the minibus was attacked on. Zaporizhia isn't some war-torn town. It's a nice place with big malls, good restaurants, and beautiful parks. Hell, when I was on that street I was hanging out with friends riding rental scooters from one end of the city to the other:

The only problem with Zaporizhia is the closest Russians are about 25km away. Just barely within the range of their best FPV drones.

Unfortunately, a bunch of utterly psychotic Russians sat down and decided they were going to use their technical expertise to figure out how to murder woman and children, to try to steal land that isn't theirs.

They're sub-human scum. The sooner we accept that the sooner we can get on to the task of eliminating their disgusting culture.

Credit to the other dude: he really sold that hit.

Wild video from outside Moscow taken this morning: the Wildberries Koledino hub burning on one side and the Domodedovo hub on the other.

The "bingo card" of Wildberries logistics warehouse attacks is crazy. Won't be long before the company is completely destroyed.

My interview with Kanyuk, from Flash Battalion, on how he volunteered to fight for Ukraine, became a drone pilot, got injured... and how he wants to get back in the fight as soon as he recovers.

"It's just a flesh wound!" 😁

I filmed this about a month ago; for his safety I had to wait until he got out of hospital and left Kyiv to actually publish the video.

I didn't know it at the time. But it turns out I actually spoke to Kanyuk and another soldier at his position a few months ago. They had a problem with their generator, and I was helping them debug it. In the end I found a replacement generator small enough to fly into forward positions on a vampire drone, a technique that we used for a different forward position that had also lost its generator.

Most of the donations I've been getting have been through the $LADA memecoin. But I'm also accepting Bitcoin donations:

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https://petertodd.org/2026/bip-110-code-review

I just published by BIP-110 code review.

My conclusion: if you're running Core, absent some kind of attack, nothing will happen.

You may still want to do something for replay protection if you want to try to sell BIP-110 coins. But your ₿ are safe.

“The Russian economy is rapidly transitioning to the cloud.”

The list of Wildberries (Russian Amazon clone) warehouses that have been destroyed is now about halfway to completion. Square kilometers worth of warehouses up in flames.

https://youtube.com/shorts/VAKoFeYu_4A

...and another example of a recent Ukrainian assassination: high ranking Russian Roman Vnukov, known for his involvement in running torture camps for Ukrainians in occupied territory. This time just showing the aftermath rather than the assassination itself:

Of course, in this case, he just directed the torture: there's still dozens if not hundreds of Russians who worked under him who also need to be executed. But it's a good start.

Ukrainians have started a new "bingo card" recording hits on logistics warehouses in Russia, now that two major warehouse locations have been totally destroyed:

There was actually a third location hit, in part by Russia's own anti-aircraft fire. But unfortunately that warehouse didn't catch on fire strongly like the other ones.

...and the unboxing video, where Sean installs the new training simulator on their main gun and try it out:

It's a very clever design: since these large AA guns are aimed by IR camera anyway, the simulator is simply be a tablet with an IMU and trigger switch. The IMU figures out where the gun is pointed, and the software simulates where the bullets would go if you had been shooting for real. The tablet itself just straps on in front of the screen the IR camera would be connected to.

Far cheaper than a purpose built simulator. With the advantage that they can train while on position, whenever nothing is happening:

Allegedly the moment when Russian military engineer Andrey Tisarev was assassinated on behalf of Ukraine, in Samara, Russia.

He was head of thermal physics and gas dynamics at an enterprise that manufacturers and services engines for Russia's strategic bombers and helicopters.

Impressive stuff. They found the right time and simply stabbed him in the neck:

https://x.com/i/status/2078536069499297907

My interview with Sean Francis, from the civilian volunteer anti-air unit that I supported with a donated training simulator. He explains how he, a former American marine, ended up doing real estate in Kyiv, and volunteering his time to do anti-air defense as a civilian.

I also filmed Sean explaining how the gun and simulator worked, and the unit trying it out for the first time. I got a chance to try it to, and managed to down a simulated shahed. 😂 Working on editing that footage.

Most of the ~$6k cost came from the $LADA memecoin community; some of it came from Bitcoin donations. Thank you to those who donated!

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This is fun: https://drukarmy.org.ua/en/donate

These guys accept Bitcoin donations, and are using those donations to buy explosives and other supplies to build weapons for drones.

You sure as hell can't fundraise for this with PayPal! 😂

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'"A Russian missile killed an entire family. Will this photograph stop the war? Most likely not. But I believe the world needs to see the truth," said photographer Yefrem Lukatsky.

"I hope those whom this photograph will cause pain can forgive me. Kyiv, July 6, 2026," Lukatsky added.'

Red Bull gives you wings! Sometimes angel wings.

https://youtube.com/shorts/XFr4jYbFnpY

...and right on cue, the far left psychos have started gearing up to try to get Ukraine to stop fighting:

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Russians pay taxes, about 50% of which go directly to paying for a genocidal invasion. They're no different than the soldiers using the weapons they've paid for.

Merely blowing up their oil refineries and power plants is already a kindness that they do not deserve. There is nothing ethically wrong with Ukraine intentionally killing so called Russian "civilians" to collapse the Russian war effort faster.

This is doubly true for the ~1 million Russians who have moved to occupied Ukraine, forcing out the Ukrainian population and stealing their homes in the process. They're clearly war criminals directly participating in genocide.

The videos from the latest Ukrainian attack on Moscow are wild. Though the funniest has got to be how Russian anti-air defense seems to have blown up an oil tank:

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The only Russian anti-air defenses proven to work. Tower cranes:

https://youtube.com/shorts/vMy4Y-Becg4

😂

https://stacker.news/items/1506620

Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile en route to Cheboksary, Russia:

That thing is huge, 40ft long, with no stealth. You can just imagine the (remaining) Russian radar operators...

“Video with subtitles of yesterday’s attempted beheading of a young British man by a Somali migrant in Belfast. It’s a hard watch but Europeans must see it.

Those who intervened and smashed a shovel over the attackers’ head are heroes

They most likely saved that young man’s life”

https://x.com/i/status/2064303968973394213

Guarantee you that the UK will extend their on-device "nudity filters" to preventing videos like this from being shared.

What did they call the man who combined his love of artistic expression with his skill in electrical engineering?

Power Banksy

https://youtube.com/shorts/P8f5wVYjej4

Bitcoin^H^H^H Martial Law fixes this.

Nice video of two Ukrainian fixed wing, medium range, drones taking out a Russian truck deep within occupied Ukraine. The first one doesn't work. But the second...

This is a new development. It's looking like Ukraine will be able to shutdown the main highway through occupied Ukraine from Russia to Crimea, leaving only the Crimea bridge as an option.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39153486/student-vegan-diet-delusions-coroner/

A cautionary tale... Humans can not survive on a vegan diet without artificial supplementation of vitamin B12. Without modern biochem technology humans simply must eat animal products to survive.

~7000 Gazans directly participated in the Oct 7th massacre.

Gaza's military age (15-35) male population is only ~350,000. So ~2% of that population directly participated in a self-destructive orgy of rape and murder.

These low-IQ psychopaths must never have a state again.

https://youtube.com/shorts/epeMaZN37-M

Rare depiction of the savagery of the American natives.

Canadian banks prohbit you from storing cash in safe deposit boxes; Ukrainian banks advertise it.

A recent video of a mother with her child in Kramatorsk, Eastern Ukraine. She's hiding from Russian FPV drones:

This is a new development. Previously Russia didn't have the range, and wasn't close enough, to threaten Kramatorsk with FPV drones much. Unfortunately this is gradually changing.

Friends of mine are in that area, holding Russia back. They're the ones keeping that mother and child safe. One of the soldiers I know recently paid $1800 of his own money to get another vehicle that they need. I'm trying to get him paid back, and get funds for more vehicles. So far I've gotten 726,360sats (~$586 USD):

https://mempool.space/address/bc1qdds28nk2n69kc2zh0y62flnxarsp2lv80tn8t5

Ukraine is doing really well right now winning the war on the economic front, by destroying tens of billions of dollars of Russian oil infrastructure. But the ground war is a brutal game of holding ground and minimizing losses, and they need all the help they can get. I know these soldiers myself, and have seen first hand the good work they're doing with the ₿ donations I've gotten for them:

https://x.com/i/status/2049565495712530888

https://stacker.news/items/1475314

They're going to the trouble of setting up a backup in Switzerland... but they still aren't time-stamping their data with Bitcoin.

"Please don't see the world for yourself. Let us tell you about it instead!"

Wild footage from Tuapse, Russia, of houses 200m away from the tank farm burning up from spilled oil that the firefighters have failed to contain:

Ukraine's attacks on this port have been spectacularly successful. Ukraine will win this war through the destruction of the Russian economy as long as the western world helps them.

Yes, this has been fully geo located:

https://x.com/i/status/2049134233218629819

South Africa, a country whose politics is mainly about stealing wealth from whites, also wants to steal wealth from Bitcoiners.

I'm shocked. Shocked I said!

Best sponsor segment ever.

The Bob calendar is down right now because it's out of funds to pay tx fees: bob.btc.calendar.opentimestamps.org

If people can send funds to bc1q83zmvtfks2dnvqfgcmxme24kah602cxr59h5v7 to get it back up that'd be much appreciated.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/maybe-its-not-science-fiction-solar-panels-are-causing-rainwater-to-fall-in-one-of-the-driest-places-on-earth

“The researchers modeled solar panels as nearly black surfaces that absorb 95% of incoming sunlight.”

It's hilarious how easy it is to debunk this article. Typical solar panels convert about 15% to 25% of the incoming light into electricity while operating. That's energy that is removed from that location entirely, and re-released somewhere else. This is one reason why putting solar panels on your roof can keep your house cooler.

It is physically impossible for efficiently operating solar panels to absorb 95% of the incoming sunlight.

Kramatorsk, Ukraine

Your daily reminder that journalists are parasites on productive society.

“With apologies to Clarke and Dawe.

INTERVIEWER: Thank you for joining us Senator Collins. Now this OpenBSD vulnerability that was revealed earlier today–

COLLINS: The one where the kernel panicked?

INTERVIEWER: Yes

COLLINS: Yeah, it's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.

INTERVIEWER: Well how is it untypical?

COLLINS: There are a lot of these packets going around the world all the time and very seldom does anything like this happen. I don't want people thinking that C is not safe.

INTERVIEWER: Was this C code safe?

COLLINS: Well I was thinking more about the other ones.

INTERVIEWER: The ones that are safe.

COLLINS: Yeah, the ones that don't panic the kernel.

INTERVIEWER: Well if this wasn't safe, why was it running at ring zero on millions of machines?

COLLINS: Well I'm not saying it wasn't safe, it's just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones.

INTERVIEWER: Why?

COLLINS: Well some of them are built so that they don't segfault at all.

INTERVIEWER: Wasn't this built so it wouldn't segfault?

COLLINS: Well obviously not.

INTERVIEWER: How do you know?

COLLINS: Well because a selective ACK block placed 2^31 bytes away from the receive window, causing an int comparison to overflow, so the kernel concluded the same byte was simultaneously above and below the acknowledged sequence number, deleted the only hole in its SACK list, appended to a null pointer, panicking the kernel and pulling down the entire machine. It's a bit of a giveaway, I just like to make the point that that is not normal.

INTERVIEWER: Well what sort of standards is this C code written with?

COLLINS: Oh very rigorous software engineering standards.

INTERVIEWER: What sort of thing?

COLLINS: Well it's not supposed to crash, for a start.

INTERVIEWER: What other things?

COLLINS: Well, there are regulations governing which functions you're allowed to call.

INTERVIEWER: What regulations?

COLLINS: Well, gets() is out.

INTERVIEWER: And?

COLLINS: No strcpy. No strcat.

INTERVIEWER: sprintf?

COLLINS: Look, sprintf is fine if you're careful.

INTERVIEWER: Are people careful?

COLLINS: For the most part.

INTERVIEWER: What else?

COLLINS: Code's gotta be in source control. There's a test suite.

INTERVIEWER: What does it test for?

COLLINS: That it compiles I suppose.

INTERVIEWER: So the allegations that it's a dangerous language that does next to nothing to check whether code is doing what it's supposed to, that's ludicrous?

COLLINS: Absolutely ludicrous. C is a serious production language.

INTERVIEWER: Well what happened in this case?

COLLINS: Well the kernel crashed in this case by all means but it's very unusual.

INTERVIEWER: But Senator Collins, why did the kernel crash?

COLLINS: Well it got a packet.

INTERVIEWER: It got a packet?

COLLINS: The kernel received a packet.

INTERVIEWER: Is that unusual?

COLLINS: Oh yeah. Online? Chance in a million!

INTERVIEWER: So what do you do to protect the internet in cases like this?

COLLINS: Well we patched the bug upstream.

INTERVIEWER: …leaving other vulnerabilities no doubt unfixed.

COLLINS: No no no the bug has been patched. You might need to deploy it but–

INTERVIEWER: But this class of vulnerability–

COLLINS: It's not a class of vulnerability, it's a one-off bug caused by programmer error.

INTERVIEWER: Well what else is out there?

COLLINS: Nothing's out there.

INTERVIEWER: There must be something.

COLLINS: There is nothing out there. All there is, is code, and programmers, and fixes.

INTERVIEWER: And?

COLLINS: And untold numbers of exploitable kernel-level exploits.

INTERVIEWER: And what else?

COLLINS: And a 27 year old integer overflow.

INTERVIEWER: And anything else?

COLLINS: And large private models at AI labs discovering more vulnerabilities in secret. But there's nothing else out there.

INTERVIEWER: Senator Collins, thank you for joining us.

COLLINS: It's a complete void. Nothing worth thinking about. Oh, we're out of time? Could you call me a cab?

INTERVIEWER: But didn't you come in a self-driving car?

COLLINS: Yeah I did but…

INTERVIEWER: What happened?

COLLINS: Well the kernel panicked.”

https://x.com/i/status/2041711892159484172

Police collecting bodies in Kherson, Ukraine, after a recent Russian FPV drone attack. Notice how fast they're moving? They're worried about themselves getting killed by follow-up attacks:

Here's another recent example. A son whose elderly mother was killed. The police officer has to pull him away because they need to collect the body before a follow-up attack kills them too.

I recently had an opportunity to visit the outskirts of Kherson. I turned it down, because I didn't have a good enough reason to be there to take that risk. Maybe I'll visit with a better reason; hopefully Ukraine pushes Russia back far enough that it's safe again.

https://youtube.com/shorts/pyT32HyYBVU

Question: can I rent an Umbrel Air in the cloud?

So we just found a good deal on a Ford Transit van for ~4000€. Not as sexy as a truck. But the unit does need efficient transport to move soldiers and equipment around.

At the moment we already have 2653€ left over from previous donations, so we just need another ~1500€ (~1725$) in donations to get them them that van.

https://mempool.space/address/bc1qdds28nk2n69kc2zh0y62flnxarsp2lv80tn8t5

I also managed to do some interviews with some of the soldiers and foreign recruits of the unit. Flash Battalion is an English speaking one, so mainly from the US and UK/Commonwealth. It's telling how many of the recruits are conservative. One was even a self described MAGA Republican; another from New Zealand had previously worked in the gun industry in manufacturing. Which of course is now basically dead in NZ. Those videos should come out soonish once their editors finish.

Sarah and I going for a walk to the east edge of Kramatorsk out by the (former) airport:

Sadly that's getting to be a dangerous place to be. The road we were walking down had a few fibers left over from Russian fiber optic drones. Not a lot, yet. But we were about 14km away from the very edge of Russian lines.