Got no takers on this yet.

I'm listening to soundcloud.com/neilcic/mout... and I'm convinced that Queen's "We Will Rock You" and the Spongebob Squarepants Theme Song were made for each other. 👌

Looking for an open source Rust codebase that: 1. You care about how efficiently it runs 2. It has benchmarks 3. But you haven’t optimised out all the dynamic allocation 🙂

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I resent retail music now. I don't want to hear rock music from my teens at home depot. I don't want to hear christmas music before thanksgiving at target. If physical retail were actually humanized, it would play whatever the employees want to listen to.

Cool! Proposal to develop bootstrapped and deterministic builds of Zcash software: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/bootstrapp...

I think this incident reflects badly on the broader institutions currently covering AI and the environment. I should absolutely not have been the first person to notice this. From the end of the post:

In case people want to know what those funky hashes are in Nix thingies, those are the raw binary hashes converted to base64. So, for instance, if you are using the experimental blake3 support, you can do b3sum --raw file.tar.zst | base64 | head --bytes=-1 | sed 's/^/blake3-/' #nixos

"Mr TIFF"--https://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/

Zcash Grants: "We’re sharing this early so the Zcash community has plenty of time to spread the word across the privacy universe. There’s never been a better time to help field the strongest possible pool of candidates!"--https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nominations-for-zcg-seats-open-soon/52731

I’m really digging this Devo playlist while doing chores around the house: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

turns out Mark Henderson is the CEO of Zcash

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These graphs are bullish for freedom. Total value of all ZEC over all time: coingecko.com/en/coins/zcash ⤵️

Alllmost there!! zechub.wiki/dashboard

I just remembered about “David’s Sling” by Marc Stiegler. It was written in 1988. When I read it, probably a decade later, the political setting was embarrassingly obsolete and the tech was ridiculously speculative. But now I’ll bet they are both juuust right.

omg this is so great! Thank you, Apple! Now can I can work on my laptop in the car without getting nauseated.

if you for some reason think this is useful: 1) why. why would you use this and not something like ChaCha20Poly1305. 2) this is an exceedingly bad toy impl written by someone with no cryptography training. there seems to be better constructions of BLAKE3 AEADs than.... this bullshit

keyed blake3 XOF is basically a stream cipher, keyed blake3 is literally a MAC, I can make an AEAD out of this, so I did just that gist.github.com/vgskye/6253a...

I like this essay. Global namespaces are attractive to software engineers and businesspeople, but not because they are good for users. We need instead to work for the opposite goal: to increase the user’s illegibility. newsletter.squishy.computer/p/soulbindin...

There’s an idea that is widespread among software engineers that goes: “Sure BLAKE3 is faster in software, but CPU makers put dedicated hardware for SHA256 into their CPUs so SHA256 is faster than, or at least as fast as, BLAKE3 practice.”. This argument is mostly mistaken. …

The next Zcash Crosslink workshop coming a week from today! Join in and test out our prototype of a Proof-of-Stake+Proof-of-Work hybrid upgrade for Zcash! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/crosslink-... (Requires Zoom this time around.)

If you like cryptographically hashing lots of small things at once — and who doesn’t? — Rüdiger Klaehn’s patch to BLAKE3 can give you a substantial speedup on Apple Silicon! Speedups on other platforms expected but not confirmed. x.com/klaehnr/stat...

We've built ML-DSA-B, ML-DSA powered by BLAKE3 instead of SHAKE. Up to 20% faster signing, 30% faster verification, 60x pre-hash. Code & details: github.com/PQC-Suite-B With @zooko.bsky.social @aumasson.jp @conordeegan.bsky.social from Project Eleven

I'll be in Bucharest next week, talking about @iroh.computer and BLAKE3. There will also be a rust workshop.

folks, hear me out, the best long-term trading strategy is privacy itself. Those who build and hold it are shaping the foundation of a free economy. And guess what, its yield is true sovereignty: the _only_ return that truly endures.

wtf Anthropic

One of my little pleasures in life is drinking coffee in bed while submitting useful bug reports to open source projects. ☺️ github.com/bazhenov/tan...

Hey, I've written a new heap allocator for Rust code, and I'm looking for a Rust codebase to test it on. Ideal candidate has either tests or benchmarks (I don't care which) that do *not* spend time waiting for a timer to go off or for network traffic to happen. Know any? Thx.

Whoo-hoo! A bunch of improvements to Zebra CI/CD to make it easier for other teams (like Shielded Labs) to test forks of Zebra. Way to go, Zcash Foundation folks! zfnd.org/making-zebra...

downsides of other platforms: psychological manipulation via algorithms openly fascist leadership lack of portability/walled gardens user hostile design no jerry downsides of bluesky: the CEO refuses to smite my enemies

Bluesky needs *someone* to take the heat for moderation decisions. Perhaps they could look to the great state of Albania for inspiration

Somebody asked me in person “Why is Zcash going up so much?”. I said, because people care about unstoppable private money.

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Sup frens I have a DHT protocol now: www.iroh.computer/blog/lets-wr...

If the water and energy usage of data centers dropped a thousandfold feelings probably would not change much. Actual argument is something else entirely, which makes arguing against the secondary argument very frustrating.

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Benchmarks of Binius64 vs Polygon Plonky3 and Starkware Stwo and Plonky3: www.binius.xyz/benchmarks/

It feels really great when an expert sees your work for what it is. A lot of the work we do is illegible to most folks, but to my eyes -- and the eyes of a few others out there -- it is art. :-) x.com/bryan_gilles...

The "Shai-Hulud" supply chain attack has pushed people over the tipping point where now they are talking about how to defend against supply chain attacks. "Exclude malicious code" is unsustainable and unscalable. We need instead: "Safely use malicious code". github.com/LavaMoat/Lav...

Things I’m excited about in wasm 3.0: 64-bit address space, multiple memories, relaxed vector instructions, deterministic profile. 👍👍👍👍 webassembly.org/news/2025-09...