Can someone ELIA5 why "proof of stake" in Ethereum is a good idea? One appeal was to reduce the environment footprint significantly over the previous proof system. Apparently that is a success. But trying to understand the contribution to censorship resistance, PoS seems to *emphasize* the ones with the highest stakes... Show more

Looking at retrospectives of the 2025 news on the US, two song titles came to mind to describe the overall impression: "Do you know the ICE screaming men?" and "Baby Trump, doo‑doo‑doo‑doo‑doo‑doo".

Apple is in talk with Starlink for direct integration in smartphones. What can go wrong on liberties when a verically integrated private platform integrates itself on a complementary vertically integrated private platform? End to end privacy is useful only when there is end to end connectivity. This includes digital ... Show more

The International Intrigue people estimate 90% possible that crypto goes mainstream this year in the US. Interesting prompts on the geopolitics consequences. (And interesting other predictions)

Damn. Team successfully gets a project from a governmental space agency. Now everyone has to get an online research ethics course on a late 90s website. No LLM escape hatch this time.

Trump Media and fusion energy in the same sentence is really weird, and politically worrying. When media can self-power, they cannot be stopped spreading whatever they want. Law systems are too slow to course-correct.

Many tokens to get this Claude advice, verbatim: ```rust // Line 130 - Change this: system: Arc<Mutex<s>>, // To this: system: Arc<Mutex<s>>, ``` Still hesitating to press apply or not.

The crime rate in the US is record low for 2025. Something like -20% on average. Problem with raw numbers and absence of context is to know why. Is that because the apparently brutal show of force scares offenders, or it scarves people to go out in the first place?

Bank of Japan has just increased interest rates to highest for the past 30 years. New rate is 0.75% Can anyone share links to explanation why cryptocurrency holders seem to freak out about this announcement?

Marshall Islands paid the first universal basic incomes using the Stellar blockchain. A first at such scale.

Looking for a link to an old Celebrity deathmatch video featuring RAGTM, top links were reports of the death of Zach de la Rocha. All the reports were hoaxes. Apparently same for many artists.

Tiny robots with embedded compute and extended autonomy for a penny a piece.

Whether or not you want to pay for LLM services. From GH mailing list: “introducing a new $0.002 per-minute GitHub Actions cloud platform charge that will apply to self-hosted runner usage” So we will have to pay for using our own compute. Sure part of it is GH software, but steep price at scale. Enshittification’s c... Show more