Last Notes
Mandatory normy post for new accounts m?
It's not just employees, also any regular private investor in a seed round might not know in advance what the tax treatment will be.
Institutional and corporate investors are not affected by this, they fall under completely different taxation rules - they don't pay until the asset is sold.
Dutch bureaucrats trying to come with a "solution" for startup equity holders in the upcoming unrealized gains tax system.
A bureaucrat is going to decide if it's sufficiently innovative and if the innovation is scalable.
Totally unclear if foreign startups can apply for this for Dutch employees. And what if they don't, or it after years of legal procedings the application is denied?
Then the employee is just fucked and has to pay 36% of the paper gains the moment a funding round bumps the completely illiquid stock price. And will not get it back if it subsequently drops to zero.
https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/ondernemen-werk/10597781/nieuwe-definitie-startup-moet-box-3-probleem-oplossen-pas-betalen-bij-verkoop-aandeel
I prefer to clone the repo and then ask, it can more easily grab context and even try things.
It reminds me of the 2018 supply chain attack on Copay, but that targeted end users in the browser, not developer machines.
I briefly covered it in my book in the chapter about Guix.
https://image.nostr.build/de7ec16e1bd8bc0b2da05273bac9b1a17c5d81789946172879214a6d0a2ef343.jpg
Yet another npm supply chain attack, though of course this can happen elsewhere. It was detected quite quickly. Seems to be aimed at developers, of which there are a lot more now thanks to LLMs.
https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan
(not saying it should replace e-cash, but that's definately not the case for all wallets - but I would like to see it)
I guess I should have said: until you've spec'd and implemented bolt12 zaps :-)
My lightning node is never offline, unless it's under DDoS or a bug.
Temporarily holding received zaps, until you get around to implementing bolt12 zaps.
So far I only read section "VIII. Dormant Assets" of the Google quantum whitepaper. Although I wish they used a two column layout, it's an interesting analysis.
The National Security Response might actually be the easiest path, and there's nothing we can do about it. But it does require a president with diamond hands. They could issue an executive order, stating the United States shall be the first country to build a quantum computer, as publicly demonstrated by burning any coin that hasn't moved yet.
By the time lawyers get to object, the transactions are already confirmed.
The OP_RETURN statement would read: "EO 21400: fork your bitcoin if you want fork"
https://image.nostr.build/b710600057975f1827314eba300c20716f31ad5e261ea9a56d97a9d8528eb628.jpg
https://research.google/blog/safeguarding-cryptocurrency-by-disclosing-quantum-vulnerabilities-responsibly/
This would have made an excellent April Fools newspaper headline.
#nevent1q…j7fn
Thursday, Rotterdam, be there: https://bitdevsamsterdam.org/2026-04-02-april-bitdevs-rotterdam
Version bit grinding? :-)
Though in that case it'd be easier to just pay her to record this.
Could be an information campaign to throw off Iranian intelligence of course, just send a bunch guys to a strip club with government money.
Also not too great OpSec if this operation was supposed to be a secret. I assume intelligence agencies monitor strip club revenue carefully, and then TikTok does the rest.
Loose lips sink ships.
Doesn't look fake to me* and it seems plausible that a stripper doesn't know military jargon.
It's her interpretation that the soldiers are "kinda depressed" and I don't think she meant "all their money" literally.
Seems reasonable that they're a bit anxious and need some extra entertainment because there's no strip clubs on Kharg (yet).
* = not an expert in spotting AI slop videos though
Every six months there's this recurring discussion about daylight savings time. It's a nice opportunity to learn new historical tidbits. E.g. I already know that the Nazis put us on Berlin time, but always wondered why we didn't switch back to London time.
Well, that's because we didn't use London time, we stubbornly kept using Amsterdam time (yellow on the map). Still doesn't explain why France and Spain didn't revert.
I also still want to go back to per city timezones (using UTC under the hood). Should be no problem with smartphones.
Then there's this constant recurring argument that we have adjust the clock for health reasons. I find that pure nonsense. Obviously it's non-issue for people who work from home on their own schedule. But you can also just change the times schools and office jobs start. You don't have to change the clock for that.
https://youtu.be/1ph_PqrUlRc
https://image.nostr.build/1246b3f864172eab78c07fb35d16bd5cd874eb45496dec13ff4f25c588958417.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/94b2c448f8469b9a7356ab3103a80e4b31c8be1023c71edfde06f4a08cf2bdd7.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/f56dfd931b8d557f6dbf57b4ff8c40e023b2a647e574dfe4d86f7ea106e133bc.jpg
Reviewer (on a different project): this looks weird, must be LLM generated?
Me (not out loud): I'm sure it does, to someone who doesn't lint their whitespace
Why manually order a few books in two minutes, if you can spend a day automating it?
https://github.com/Sjors/cloud-print-rs