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Dark Prague here I come. But it's very sunny at the moment.

If you put your website behind Cloudflare with that traffic verification setting enabled you've made accessing your site more annoying than even the worst cookie banner. If you need some bot protection (and you probably don't) just use Anubis because as annoying as it can be it's thousands of times better.

Fancy a bit of bitcoin in a seaside town in mid-September? Check out https://entropical.space

Time to spin up a Knots node to see how it will perform tomorrow.

Surprised no one has already made this meme.

I have made three purchases from Coinkite (between 2022 and 2024). The first by a credit card with my own name (yes, dumb to do this and I can't remember why I did) and the two others paid for with bitcoin. For each one, I used a masked email address only used for Coinkite stuff. So I'm quite surprised that today I received an email from Coinkite to my primary email address, not the masked one. How has this happened? Is Coinkite using some databroker data that matched my credit card to my primary email address? Or is this a phishing attempt that has managed to get some control over Coinkite's domain?

Running self-hosted services is initially more work to setup but I like it so much more. Not only because of the ops and data sovereignty, but the software experience is just faster and better. This is particularly true of Forgejo over Github; it makes one realize how slow and shit Github is now. Also, if I want to make a personalized change (which I've done for my time tracker), I just can. Plus, software quality is good enough these days so sysadmin time ends up being virtually nil.

So I don't get the desire to merge chat and payment apps. Maybe because I'm a Unix graybeard but I want each app to do basically one thing and do it well. We've had URI schemes (e.g. mailto) for ages and they work fine. Just make your app aware of bitcoin payment schemes (see BIP 321).

Could have written this article myself: https://quillette.com/2026/07/08/why-soccer-is-boring-fifa-worldcup/

Color me surprised that Dan Boneh doesn't hate bitcoin.

Not a very original take but quite remarkable how OpenSSL managed to create such poor APIs that the blast zone spread so wide.

Has anyone gotten WhiteNoise chat to actually work?

My Yubikey of many years just died. Took its secrets to the grave.

Starting an initial block download on a Pixel 4 running PostmarketOS (pruned because only 120 GB internal storage). Let's see how long this takes.

Core v30 release caused the largest liquidation event in history. Perhaps Knots people were right that bitcoin ends this Friday.

Compiling Core v30.0.

Everyone's gone full proper cunt over this filter shite.

Fuck NAT with a the fury of a thousand suns.

A Declaration of Separation: https://voluntaryist.com/articles/issue-145/a-declaration-of-separation/

Does anyone have a torx screwdriver? #38C3

What a great moment to close and re-open my channels.

So it seems the Zambian government does TLS interception for any site that is not Big Tech (I suppose that would break too many things). They serve a self-signed certificate for localhost. C'mon guys, at least make it look more legit.https://m.primal.net/JlVa.jpg

To those app makers that provide an easily accessible APK, or better yet a PWA, thank you!

Apart from Assange getting his freedom it's a terrible outcome. Getting a guilty plea sets a clear precedent: whistleblowers deserve no protections and will be punished. An important check on state power has been eviscerated. In the end, the case against Assange was legally flimsy – first treason, then espionage despite him not being an American citizen – because it was ultimately based on revenge. The files he leaked exposed the US government as a liar, double-crosser of its allies, and war criminal. So the true purpose of the case was to destroy his life and intimidate all journalists from ever publishing unfavorable information again. And the inability for the media to hold government accountable is surely a foundation for tyranny.

I'm looking for a man in finance. Bitcoin. Big beard, laser oiyessss.

Checking the mempool...Have the Runes degens already burned themselves out?

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