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Aggressively filter your social media follows by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli very aggressively aggressively people in social media.
There are basically 3 categories:
Winklevoss twins' involvement in Bitcoin by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01
These dudes are relentless!!!
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Paul Dirac revised fourth edition (1967) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01
How Mark Zuckerberg spends his money by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01
- www.architecturaldigest.com/story/zuckerberg-real-estate-holdings#:~:text=Zuckerberg%20began%20what%20has%20now,Kauai%20for%20about%20%24116%20million.
- padailypost.com/2017/11/15/zuckerberg-builds-new-houses-near-his-palo-alto-home/
- www.staradvertiser.com/2017/01/18/business/facebooks-zuckerberg-sues-to-force-land-sales/?HSA=74dae150a1d9f99e2592d0eac31ea430d01f35d5
Of course those racist Nazis are a bunch of idiots, but how can you be surprised when freedom-of-speech focused tech gets used by them? www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-gab-migration-fediverse-app-blocking
Obviously, a few large instances dominate the user base for all practical purposes: kevq.uk/centralisation-and-mastodon/. And likely the network splits into hate-speech/non-hate-speech blacklist boundaries. And since the dominating closed networks will never lose user counts (???), the only instance that dominates will be the main hate speech one.
The flagship instance was mastodon.social and then in 2020 they closed signups for it and created a secondary mastodon.online.
The "advanced interface" feature is bad. Really bad. MacOS file browser inspired.
Ciro Santilli's LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/cirosantilli/ see also: accounts controlled by Ciro Santillis.
LinkedIn fully complies with censorship imposed locally by the Chinese government, and does so in a non-transparent way: cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/linkedin.
It is hard to understand what the point of that website is, as it is basically just a more closed version of Facebook, but alas, it has flourished as the only place where people post more useful content compared to Twitter and Facebook. In any case, Ciro just applies the same unfollow policy to all of them: aggressively filter your social media follows.
Impossible to hide your current location?
Privacy coin vs cryptocurrency tumbler by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01
In 2024 they started making tumblers illegal:
So why privacy coins weren't fully forbidden then?
Created by Luke Dashjr.
The pool is named after Saint Eligius, patron of miners[ref]
Eligius also means to "choose" or "chosen" in Latin: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eligius, same root as "to elect" in modern English presumably.
Get Bitcoin transaction id from position in dat file by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01
Suppose we specify:The question then is, which transaction is encoded at that position of the file?
- a .dat file
- the offset in bytes within that file
This would allow us to index inscriptions in the .dat files directly with fast C tools, and then retrive the transaction ID to get cleaner data and metadata.
It should be possible if we managed to take the information from bitcoindev.network/understanding-the-data/ and dump into an indexed SQLite database.
I tried to start things off with LevelDBDumper:but that consumed all 64 GB of RAM on P51... github.com/mdawsonuk/LevelDBDumper/issues/15
LevelDBDumper -d ~/snap/bitcoin-core/common/.bitcoin/indexes/txindex -f btc.csv -q -o . -t csv
But OK, nevermind that repo, it can be done easily with the LevelDB API of any language: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/121888/what-is-the-data-format-layout-for-txindex-leveldb-values. Just the data seems wrong and we don't know why.
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