@applesupport Please provide a way to update all apps (third party, non-App-Store) together in a single process with a UX similar to system updates so that I am not constantly bombarded with update requests interrupting my day at arbitrary times from dozens of apps.

TIL: While attending an event with a "no AI" rule, I found that I was cognitively impaired, and thus need to do more reps at the meat-brain gym.

Zcash devs, Chatham House Rules: "So just quit your job, go anon, and build what you know needs to be built."

I am SO on board for the "local first, e2e encrypted, cloneware" that is cannibalizing old-school "web2 all your data are belong to us". logseq > roamresearch, AnyType > notion, etc... What other apps are in this… https://firefly.social/post/ff-6627a148dbb3468684780eec16478d36?s=bsky

Just relearned about "Auditable, Anonymous Electronic Cash (Extended Abstract), Tomas Sander and Amnon Ta–Shma" from @feministPLT @daira.bsky.social . https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~amnon/Papers/ST.crypto99.pdf

Loving @shieldedmark.bsky.social 's office hours which are covering intro / intermediate study sessions for the dev community. Starting now: multi-session overview of the Zcash protocol spec! Zcash Discord, jump in… https://firefly.social/post/ff-f1e81a4ab07d47c28253535da7a6b4fc?s=bsky

This looks like a promising crate to file down the annoying edges of work with floats: https://docs.rs/typed_floats/latest/typed_floats/

I always misread AIpocalypse as ALpocalypse and hope it involves Weird Al.

@fireflyapp.bsky.social I love your product. Are any product/UX ppl interested in a ~25m chat? (I'm allergic to Telegram so I got stuck on the feedback flow and decided to shout atcha.)

Agent Orchestration I will alpha test, subscribe to, or angel invest in: It's a task list / todo manager that provides me with prioritization / planning UX (maaaybe with some AI augmentation as long as I can have thorough… https://firefly.social/post/ff-66a3a17b53ab4e99bddf325b45c939df?s=bsky

Okay, fine, you crazy kids, instead of getting off my lawn, just explain to me how you orchestrate more than ~2 agents? One claude does like 5-30 seconds of work then blocks on a prompt from me. Two claudes makes that… https://firefly.social/post/ff-6d8cc2a924fe4c7087cf204031b6ccad?s=bsky

If you're in crypto, you probably associate "51% attack" with Proof-of-Work, but there's a much broader 51% attack to be concerned about: https://onedollar.today/

Massive LLM Prompting Unlock: Rather than iterate through prompts to produce successive approximations of the result you want, where the implementation it uses is messy / hard to scrutinize, use this agentic technique… https://firefly.social/post/ff-0cb54361bc05497fb38014333e4e1cd0?s=bsky

Listening to a NetworkState + Zcash talk.

USA may be fraying yet there is hope: I have a bold plan to reunite in one goal all can rally behind: A congressional inquiry to understand & prevent the decisions that lead to the catastrophe where after I've typed, -no… https://firefly.social/post/ff-44ef23d4c5564883a1d540b7febf8440?s=bsky

People: "Agents aren't replacing software developers, they're making software developers more like software managers." Agent (the twelfth such question in a few minutes): "Is it okay to run `cd ~/project && nix eval… https://firefly.social/post/ff-b0e839ed264c4c478e1b7e0ec3026922?s=bsky

A funny edge case for increasing block rate is to surpass assumed global thresholds like `nLockTime` which has a consensus rules switch of: ``` if nLockTime < THRESHOLD { treat_it_as_a_block_height(nLockTime) } else {… https://firefly.social/post/ff-64eb31b95a0843259d524168a92507af?s=bsky

PSA: I've heard multiple people rave about the Mac M4 Unified memory, yet I've stumbled on a particularly nasty work load. One hypothesis llms give me is that the culprit is multiple concurrent logins w/ multiple electron… https://firefly.social/post/ff-26b47202bd6c4620bb2a35bb4b8a02cd?s=bsky

Petition to merge '-' and '_' into a single character and pretend the distinction never existed. ... also get rid of capital letters and homoglyphs.

I posted earlier how I'm untangling some concerns around Zcash culture & my personal principle of empowering agency & responsibility as my north star. One of the concerns has been private requests to avoid sharing… https://firefly.social/post/ff-ed699611a8e04e2d854683cb6b15c9f6?s=bsky

Zcash's superpower is the culture of Zcashers; all the tech wizardry, organization, and capital allocation is a side-effect of this. I've decide to begin sharing and advocating for important aspects I value in this… https://firefly.social/post/ff-b3569e9caa12435bbe603acaf8fdc9e3?s=bsky

Yes, humanity faces many problems, but I'm pretty sure UI elements that appear, disappear, or move in response to events not initiated by the user is lowkey one of our xrisks.

So… autism trends: I’m moderate confidence most apparent change is changes in diagnostics/metrics… However, is there also social diffusion via social media increasing the prevalence of “autism-styled” culture/norms?

Oh snap! Another cryptography-expert startup announcing their focus on private mobile wallet privacy+UX+performance 🚀 for Zcash. Potential dovetail with Tachyon. Potential alternative? Zcash is at a dev network size/speed inflection point! Wanna know who/more? Come to Arborist calls. 😉

zec.rocks rewards Zcash lightwalletd operators! Sweet. I somehow missed that you can get rewards for running those. They are a privacy/performance lynchpin, so having more operators helps resist panopticon-style adversaries. Tachyon, IIUC, largely removes both the performance and privacy issues.

A bigger picture take-away I'm learning from Zcash Arborist is that some of the prior goals are getting pushed back a bit as multiple teams focus on performance and reliability with growing Zcash adoption and interest. Nice Problem To Have!

Ooh, Zcash Arborist call goodies incoming: Zashi team has sync benchmarking: https://bencher.dev/perf/zcash-speed/plots Something I missed about considerable optimizations to proving?!

I'm a simple fellow: if your cafe has decent coffee, is anywhere near my route, and you, the proprietor are working there, I am 100% your fan and will become a regular.

Pondering "supply chain hardening" similar to LavaMoat but at the "native binary" layer... Is LLVM a feasible abstraction layer for cross-module safety restrictions? (My main binary/vm linking safety awareness is WASM because that's a key design goal there.)

It's fun (scale, productivity!) and scary (supply chain attacks) to watch the docs dot rs build queue to see how many crate updates are awaiting docs generation. Either rust has gotten a lot busier, or maybe it's Monday rush hour? https://docs.rs/releases/queue

My favorite FLOSS constructerfuge is "irc nerd sniping": Setup: - channel is "l33t" - If noob asks a question: no answer. - If noob posts claim/proposal, ignored. Solution: Sockpuppet 1 asks the question, SP 2 answers incorrectly. l33ts cannot resist correction. Use wisely.

RIP Internet

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 …

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!

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.

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: 🧵

#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

My todo app had an outage, so it was a fine time to reread this classic: https://outofourmindstoyours.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/frog-and-toad-together-a-list/

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/

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!

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?

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

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?

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. +

Zcash Arborist call, intermittent thoughts / notes: Zashi team has been busy improving performance/quality of the backend due to a big influx of users.

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

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

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-... )

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. :-)

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