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A crappy course on torrents In 8 points1: You start seeding a file -- that means you split the file in a certain way, hash the pieces and wait.

A Canção do Cavaleiro Bolsonaro em meio ao caos, às trevas e à imundície da esquerda atroz, que a pó a nação reduz surge um guerreiro cavalgando as planícies pra libertar a Terra de Santa Cruz tendo sua liberdade ameaçada o povo prostra-se em pia oração d…

idea: Per-paragraph paywalls Using the lnurl-allowance protocol, a website could instead of putting a paywall over the entire site, charge a reader for only the paragraphs they read.

Democracy as a failed open-network protocol In the context of protocols for peer-to-peer open computer networks -- those in which new actors can freely enter and immediately start participating in the protocol --, without any central entity, specially wit…

The illusion of checks and balances The website history.com has a list of some of the most important "checks and balances" put in place by the United States Constitution.

P2P reputation thing Each node shares a blob of the reputations they have, which includes a confidence number.

As valas comuns de Manaus https://www.terra.com.br/noticias/brasil/cidades/manaus-comeca-a-enterrar-em-valas-coletivas,e7da8b2579e7f032629cf65fa27a11956wd2qblx.html Todo o Estado do Amazonas tem 193 mortos por Coronavirus, mas essa foto de "valas coletiva…

Um algoritmo imbecil da evolução Suponha que você queira escrever a palavra BANANA partindo de OOOOOO e usando só alterações aleatórias das letras.

An argument according to which fractional-reserve banking is merely theft and nothing else Fractional-reserve banking isn't anything else besides transfer of money from the people at large to bankers.

How IPFS is broken I once fell for this talk about "content-addressing".

Sparko This started as a reimplementation of the Spark Wallet server (which also included the client app, copied directly) because NodeJS isn't a proper way to distribute software to end users and it was also a pain for me to install.

trustedcoin A lightningd plugin that replaces a bitcoind node with trusted public explorers.

Maybe a new approach to the Austrian Business Cycle Theory, some disorganized thoughts This approach is loosely based on the guido-hulsmann concept of "cluster of errors" and on general ideas about capital heterogeneity taken from Lachmann.

Lightning channels without HTLCs ` DISCLAIMER: the following design is flawed and kept only for the history.

Não tem solução O melhor presidente dos últimos 50 anos, o melhor congresso, o melhor governador, os melhores ministros, um resultado eleitoral muito melhor do que o melhor dos meus sonhos e nada acontece.

Músicas grudentas e conversas Uma vez que você ouviu uma música grudenta e ela volta, inteira, com toda a melodia e a harmonia, muitos dias depois, contra a sua vontade.

"House" dos economistas e o Estado Falta um gênio pra produzir um seriado tipo House só que com economistas.

Cultura Inglesa e aprendizado extra-escolar Em 2005 a Cultura Inglesa me classificou como nível 2 em proficiência de inglês, numa escala de 1 a 14 ou coisa parecida.

A memória está nas coisas A memória está nas coisas, mas se você tiver muitas memórias já mesma coisa parece que uma se sobrepõe à outra, de modo que se vive quiser acumular mais memórias é melhor mudar de casa todo ano.

idea: clarity.fm on Lightning Getting money from clients very easily, dispatching that money to "world class experts" (what a silly way to market things, but I guess it works) very easily are the job for Bitcoin and the Lightning Network.

Bitcoin transactions explained A transaction is a piece of data that takes inputs and produces outputs.

O Bitcoin como um sistema social humano Afinal de contas, o que é o Bitcoin?

Comprimido desodorante No episódio sei-lá-qual de Aleixo FM Bruno Aleixo diz que os bêbados sempre têm as melhores idéias e daí conta uma idéia que ele teve quando estava bêbado: um comprimido que funciona como desodorante.

IPFS problems: General confusion Most IPFS open-source projects, libraries and apps (excluding Ethereum stuff) are things that rely heavily on dynamic data and temporary links.

My personal experience (as a complete ignorant) of the blocksize debate in 2017 In the beginning of 2017 I didn't know Bitcoin was having a "blocksize debate".

Liquidificador A fragilidade da comunicação humana fica clara quando alguém liga o liquidificador.

"Você só aprendeu mesmo uma coisa quando consegue explicar para os outros" Mentira.

IPFS problems: Shitcoinery IPFS was advertised to the Ethereum community since the beggining as a way to "store" data for their "dApps".

IPFS problems: Dynamic links Content-addressability is cool and we all like it, but we all also know we can't live in a world without readable and memorizeable names.

IPFS problems: Pinning "Pin" is a nice word the IPFS team has come up with to designate the act of telling your node to store some content permanently and don't garbage-collect it.

IPFS problems: Conceit IPFS is trying to do many things.

@lntxbot A Telegram bot I made just because I was bored and no one had done yet.

litepub A Go library that abstracts all the burdensome ActivityPub things and provides just the right amount of helpers necessary to integrate an existing website into the "fediverse" (what an odious name).

gravity IPFS is nice as a personal archiving tool (edit: it's not).

piln Piln was a prepaid IPFS pinning service you could use anonymously and instantaneously with the Bitcoin payments over the Lightning Network.

Haskell Monoids You've seen that <> syntax and noticed it is imported from Data.Monoid?

O que é Bitcoin?

Propaganda Está na moda ser contra a propaganda.

superform.xyz This was an app that allowed people to create micro apps powered by forms.

Firefox in comparison with Chrome as of 2018 Better - Faster page loads - Displays <table>s better by default - Using the same browser on multiple places actually makes your experience better, because you can list and send tabs from one device to another -

Ver Jesus com os olhos da carne Olavo: "Ver Jesus com os olhos da carne, sobretudo vê-Lo operando milagres, é altíssimo conhecimento espiritual.

fieldbook-to-sql This used to turn books from the late multi-things-manager (or tridimensional spreadsheets provider) fieldbook.com into complete SQLite3 databases.

Cadeias, crimes e cidadãos de bem A idéia de ficar dentro duma dessas penitenciárias superlotadas é aterrorizante para qualquer cidadão de bem, logo, nenhum cidadão de bem comete crimes puníveis dessa maneira.

sitios.xyz Based on sitio, this was supposed to be the successor of Websites For Trello.

LessPass remoteStorage LessPass is a nice idea: a password manager without any state.

ijq An interactive REPL for jq with smart helpers (for example, it automatically assigns each line of input to a variable so you can reference it later, it also always referenced the previous line automatically). https://github.com/fiatjaf/ijq See also jiq

jiq-web Made with jq-web, a tool to explore JSON using jq that works like jiq. https://jq.alhur.es/jiq/ https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq-web See also jq-finder

jq-finder Made with jq-web, a tool to explore JSON using jq queries that build intermediate results so you can inspect each step of the process. https://jq.alhur.es/finder/ https://github.com/fiatjaf/jq-finder

Jethro Tull, uma breve história Ian Anderson, John Evans, Barriemore Barlow e Jeffrey Hammond eram amigos da escola em Blackpool e tiveram uma banda entre 1964 e 1967 que teve vários nomes porque eles eram ruins e meio que precisavam mudar de nome para en…

Google, Uber e ostracismo Pensando sobre como o Google poderia implementar uma solução "pure software" para o problema dos programinhas de carona paga -- já que agora parece que o Waze vai virar tipo um Uber -- me vi pensando em que poderia haver punições…