What Is Citrea?
This is a good write up on Citrea and how it factors into other Bitcoin layer 2 protocols. I like the privacy angle with zero knowledge proofs, but we have Palantir’s Peter Thiel investing in the company, so you have…
Jason
EPA Issues Final Disapproval for California’s ‘Clean Truck Check’ Emissions Rule for Out-of-State Semi Trucks
Truckers without modern emissions can’t run into California, forcing some truckers to run more modern problematic trucks. So this would be sanity for legal truckers to deliver and pickup in California by limiting California enforcing its more stringent regulations on…
Linux After Linus? The Kernel Community Finally Drafts a Plan for Replacing Torvalds
Linux is a pretty far left liberal by some of his crash outs and opinions, so even if he doesn’t go away it’s conceivable that we could have to run an alternative kernel. Currently, I mainly run the Liquorix (gaming…
Russian Army Received First Batch Of ‘Zubr’ Automated Anti-Drone Gun System (Video)
As warfare transitions to cheap drones, the way to combat them are being perfected. But being able to handle the volume of drones meant to saturate defenses is also a problem. The first batch of the Zubr anti-drone gun…
XFCE Spends Donations to Write New Wayland Compositor… in Rust
It looks like they’re going the way of KDE in separating out Wayland from X.Org, possibly with the direction to drop X.Org down the road. I like XFCE, but if they dropped X.Org support, they’d be dead to me (fork?).…
Palestinian Authority Promised Terrorists More Than $200 Million in ‘Pay-To-Slay’ Payments After it ‘Scrapped’ Program, State Department Tells Congress
And this just goes to show that the Palestinians are just a bunch of troublemakers with no interest in a peaceful agreement with Israel. And it also goes to show that both side’s governments are deceitful and evil, so what…
Bill Would Force Wyoming Counties To Pay Self-Defense Legal Fees
It’s a good insurance policy against activist DA’s promoting an anti-gun agenda instead of following the law. And it would be good news for citizens of liberal cities like Laramie and Jackson most likely to have trouble. Of course, we’re…
The EU Has a Powerful New Weapon To Attack Press Freedom, and It’s Already Wielding It to Devastating Effect
And this is why you should have some Bitcoin (Monero too?) in self custody. Today it’s a journalist in Germany being oppressed by the EU, with a prosecution threat if you were to aid him, but tomorrow it could be…
Turkey Is Plotting To Grab Iranian Territories If U.S. Attacks
Interesting developments for neighbors to seize territory if the government of Iran collapses. Turkey is planning to establish a buffer zone on the Iranian side of the border if a worst-case scenario unfolds and the government in Tehran collapses,…
Canadian Feds Say More Than 22,000 Firearms Reported in First Week of Compensation Program
I was listening to a podcast yesterday and one of the hosts mentioned a friend that received a letter about turning in his guns, for which his friend said an expletive no. It looks like several assault style rifles have…
BIP 110 for Bitcoin’s Future
If you’ve been unhappy with the path of Bitcoin Core and blowing up OP_RETURN along with adding the taproot bug that enabled the blockchain to be spammed with images and extra data without ever trying to fix it, also blowing…
(OPINION) Fourth Amendment Questions We Should All Be Asking
A great opinion piece that elegantly lays out two issues I’ve posted about that are a violation of the fourth amendment, and part of an infringement creep by the city council of Cheyenne who have become a bit too cosy…