shielded-nate.bsky.social
@shielded-nate.bsky.social
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RIP Internet
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Features for my fantasy of a revision control tool:

- somehow self-sustaining economically
- UX-driven design
- local-first, decentralized, 1 cryptographic identity per repo
- private by default

November 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In the latest example of the set of Zcash contributors rapidly expanding and decentralizing, some new (to me) folks have shown up with a new (to me) full-source bootstrapped reproducible toolchain called StageX and are hardening major components.

Especially crucial as supply chain attacks ramp up!
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Since the CT sleuths figured us out, I've decided to defect and reveal the full plans and methods of the Great Zcash Pump-and-Dump:

Phase 1: The Pump - We realized the best way to make the pump super massive was to deploy a permissionless system with "digital scarcity" so the marks would FOMO.
October 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The @ShieldedLabs Crosslink milestone 4a ripped:

- fixed 2 major bugs from ms3
- much easier UX, ~x3 participants on the BFT roster
- our new custom-fit BFT proved more stable than prior sdk
- we experienced a BFT safety failure from a known design gap (not a BFT bug)

Buckle up: 🧵
October 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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#ZingoTips Changing the language of your Zingo! wallet is super easy. 🔄

Follow this #tutorial and let us know how it goes 💚

#Zingo is digital money in your pocket
October 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
When I first heard of Culdesac Tempe, I loved the idea, but the initial photos looked bland / flat.

It's really nice to see how it's growing up. The layout, architecture, and landscaping make it look waaaay more appealing.

Kudos to the devs & residents!

culdesac.com/tempe/
Culdesac Tempe
The first walkable neighborhood of its kind in the US designed to connect residents, local shops, and all that Tempe has to offer.
culdesac.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
A review of firefly dot social after a couple sessions of use:

Crossposting has worked, and that by itself is a major value.

Crossposting has failed sometimes, to bsky. (Expired token error.) Just a transient bug?

Incoming works well for FC + bsky, no X.

Good enough to continue. Keep it up devs!
October 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Pondering how we can make Zcash a significant proportion of the global money supply. On tech:

- network security scales w/ value stored/xfer'd
- strongest possible privacy
- txn throughput supply as high as possible
- issuance/supply constrained & known
- as unfuckwithable as possible

What else?
October 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Your network-enabled dev tool is awesome, but I bet it follows this anti-pattern:

1. user enters command
2. checks network for latest stuff
3. uses latest stuff.

Instead, do this:

1. user enters command
2. uses latest local stuff

Later, user uses explicit "update" which taps net.

✊ Local-First
October 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I'm experimenting with firefly dot social which aggregates posts from X, bsky, and farcaster!

I expect all 4 accounts have lower security; but if it works, so worth it for long-tail engagement.

Don't see X posts yet. Will my post appear on X?
October 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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A point on how we educate the youth to seek truth:

When I was starting to write papers in middle school in the early-mid 2000s, we were taught: never solely rely on Wikipedia, and independently validate claims even if the Wiki answer is good, to get used to building our own independent synthesis. +
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Zcash Arborist call, intermittent thoughts / notes: Zashi team has been busy improving performance/quality of the backend due to a big influx of users.
October 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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All crew,

Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu

Worf
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I am an optimist and have great faith humanity can come together to overcome the greatest of obstacles in our path!

It is to this end I call you to unite in a great mission: let us make websites which can link to other websites with Uniform Resource Locator technology!

#web1.0
October 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I'm glad people are working on AI alignment!

I look forward to their results, which presumably will come after they or a predecessor has succeeded at human alignment.

(-which is why I appreciated this approach: www.winwinpodcast.com/p/47-emmett-... )
#47 - Emmett Shear - Why Nature Holds the Answer To AI Alignment
And why the big labs are probably going to fail...
www.winwinpodcast.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Double-clicked the hardware button on my Apple phone to pay for an app, and imagined my money leaving me for the App Store instead of the dev, and I thought "damnit, when am I gonna wean myself off this?"

So I ordered a Solana Seeker. :-)
August 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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how can i ddos the borg
August 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Incepintioception
August 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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reminder:

- this website you are currently on is not yours

- the first amendment has never and will never apply here

- there is no such thing as a for-profit corporation’s space being “colonized”

- the rules can be changed at any time

- we must make the underlying protocol succeed
May 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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May 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Did you know we can slow or even reverse the effects of climate change by sending sulfur dioxide to the stratosphere to reflect a little more sunlight?

You can buy cooling credits from Make Sunsets, I offset my entire family's carbon usage for $30 a month

Technology!
May 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In the future the unattainable immaculate conception is a new social media nexus which is not initially populated by refugees complaining about the last one.
May 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Raspberry Pi index update: About 5 million repos synced, 870GB of disk space used, and keeping up with the firehose.
Syncing a bit slower than I would want because every time i turn it higher the office internet gets upset and we start getting rate limited by cloudfront.
May 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM