Hi all, I moved to another instance:
https://x0f.org/@stevenroose
@stevenroose@x0f.org
No problems with @fosstodon whatsoever, just a smaller instance.
Hi all, I moved to another instance:
https://x0f.org/@stevenroose
@stevenroose@x0f.org
No problems with @fosstodon whatsoever, just a smaller instance.
This is so important.
* As societies polarise, free speech is under threat. It needs defenders
> 37% of American college students told Gallup that it was fine to shout down speakers of whom they disapprove
> 10% [of American college students] think it acceptable to use violence to silence speech they deem offensive.
https://www.economist.com/node/21769677?frsc=dg%7Ce
#TheEconomist #FreeSpeech
I wish #Europe had a Bernie #Sanders!
> Bernie Sanders calls for a ban on police use of facial recognition
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20812032/bernie-sanders-facial-recognition-police-ban-surveillance-reform
#privacy
> Sub-Saharan #Africa gets little of its power from #coal. Outside #SouthAfrica the region boasts just 12 functioning coal-fired power stations. Things are changing, though. Governments plan to build dozens of new coal-fired power stations. Many are underpinned by Chinese investment.
> African states should instead be improving transmission and distribution. Power cuts are often due to inadequate maintenance of infrastructure rather than insufficient supply.
@yaaps
Where can I find info about YAAPS?
rust-bitcoin v0.19 is finally released!
I'm currently updating rust-bitcoincore-rpc and hal to the new version.
Especially excited about the Amount type in the RPC crate!
#Rust #Bitcoin #BitcoinCore #dev
#Belgium: government source code is public information
#Joinup
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/open-data-directive
Climate change and the weakening of the Gulf Stream means big weather changes for Florida, the Eastern US, and Europe.
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ClimateEmergency #weather #science #Florida
I've been wanting to make more posts like this that just give some updates of stuff I'm working on. Any idea if there is a common hashtags known for that? #CodeUpdate isn't used anywhere I think.
Does anyone know a hashtag for development updates?
rust-bitcoin merged a refactor of the Address type that now allows creating bech32 addresses of versions higher than 1 and it supports creating addresses from scriptPubKeys.
About to release v0.19!
#CodeUpdate #Bitcoin #Rust
@PINE64 the "99 dollar laptop" turned out to be quite a bit more expensive than that...
39 USD shipping and 82.75 EUR import tax
That makes a 207.93 EUR or a 230.88 USD laptop.
July 2019 was hottest month on record for the planet
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190815130854.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis
Cool quote from Saifedean Ammous:
> #Bitcoin is a form of money that provides way better economic incentives to be productive rather than being extractive [than other forms of money].
Good summary of the book The #Bitcoin Standard by its author Saifedean Ammous
Moved to over here: https://x0f.org/@stevenroose