Luke Dashjr @[email protected]

#Bitcoin reminder: #Taproot activation can't really begin until N months after software is released with the activation parameters. That N months needs to be enough time to be sure enough of the community has upgraded to it.

The quicker the community upgrades to 0.21 (or the upcoming 0.20.2 backport), the clearer it will be that a shorter timeframe can be used for activation!

The Qualys Research Team has discovered a critical vulnerability in #Sudo, which allows an unprivileged user to gain root privileges in its default configuration. #linux #unix #vulnerability

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-research/2021/01/26/cve-2021-3156-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-sudo-baron-samedit

#Bitcoin #Taproot activation meeting on #IRC

Tuesday 2nd February 19:00 UTC

Agenda:
- BIP review (2 PRs)
- Code review (1 PR)
- Discussion of activation params & making a formal proposal (if we have time)

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-January/018370.html

Apparently #Twitter thinks this violated their rules lol

Got a 12 hour ban out of it

(Removed on appeal, but still)

#TwitterCensorship

#Bitcoin Core PPA updated for 0.21

Now also including support for @Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

https://launchpad.net/~luke-jr/+archive/ubuntu/bitcoincore

A new user on this instance was reported for scamcoinery, specifically regarding DXY (dollar index).

Is DXY a scamcoin? Should it be allowed here?

Please select "no opinion" if you don't want to look up what DXY is.

Why is bitcoinhackers.org the example used by Mastodon docs on how to block an entire server???

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#block-domain

(Would prefer to be able to browser toots of users on other instances via my own instance's web interface too...)

How can I follow a user on another instance, if their instance's web interface doesn't have a follow button? :/

Is there a way to turn off browser notifications for toot favouriting?

What is with people moving to Parler? Seems like it's just as bad as Twitter... Why not here to Mastodon???

In case anyone is still shopping for Christmas gifts for a young adult...
My 15yo daughter just published her first book.

(begin retweet)
I PUBLISHED MY FIRST BOOK!!

"Notre Nouvelle Famille" by Tasmyn & I

https://www.lulu.com/shop/tasmyn-hutchinson-and-philomena-dashjr-and-j-anne-marie-halebien/notre-nouvelle-famille/paperback/product-46m9dm.html

#CatholicTwitter #youngadult #book #Christian #France #Amiens #family #Catholic #ChristianBooks #adventure #Christmas #friends #friendship #sisters #mystery #war #WWI

Preliminary analysis on the GCC 9 & 10 memcmp bug suggests it CAN affect #Bitcoin Core & Knots, but does NOT affect the Bitcoin consensus code (phew).

If yours was compiled with GCC 9/10, use caution for now (or rebuild with GCC 8).

Affected: p2p & PSBT

Note that gitian builds use GCC 7 and LLVM, so should be unaffected.

PPAs for Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal) and 20.10 (Groovy) are affected (and will not be fixed immediately).

https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1308835425872642055?s=20

IMO if you're spending $849 for a dedicated #Bitcoin full node machine, you should expect a POWER9 CPU in it.
Just saying.

(You should also make sure you're only buying node hardware made by reputable developers... But that's another topic.)

#Bitcoin Knots 0.20.1.knots20200815 released! 🎉

http://bitcoinknots.org/?20200815?mastodon

Reminder that part of the reason *fake* conspiracy theories are so common, is because the real conspirators are using them to help obscure and dismiss when people find out about their *real* conspiracies.

Not all conspiracies are fake.
Not all claims are unfounded.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768389

"It’s not getting a lot of coverage, but there is a rash of miscarriages and stillbirths among mothers with COVID. My wife if a labor and delivery nurse in LA and has been absolutely devastated by the number.

She came home the other night crying that she delivered three dead babies in two days. She used to go a month or more between stillbirths."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/hxlfwa/8_month_fetus_dies_infected_with_sarscov2/fz73gok/

#Coronavirus