modrobert @modrobert@qoto.org

"30 Years Of Linux - An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git"

https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds-linux-and-git

a more detailed write-up about the taproot activation (to go into the release notes) can be found here: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/0.21.1-Release-Notes-draft
(thanks @harding)

@lynne@pars.ee What happened to "posit"? Has it been adopted anywhere? Designed for direct drop-in replacement for IEEE Standard 754.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0Y1uAA-2Y

Do you isolate different aspects of your computer activities to improve security?

For example, if you install a game on Steam, the creator of that game now has full access to all your personal files, which might not be the most ideal of situations.

The same goes for any other software of course. That NPM library you just installed? Well, it can copy your SSH keys, and so on.

TIL there is a 'gpg' python module that interfaces to gnupg through a shared library (libgpgme)

detached signature validation is a simple method call, this makes things much easier, and more robust:

https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-maintainer-tools/pull/90