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@heynavtoor But how can it check the age of the user without internet?

🚨Someone just open sourced a computer that works when the entire internet goes down. It's called Project N.O.M.A.D. A self-contained offline survival server with AI, Wikipedia, maps, medical references, and full education courses. No internet. No cloud. No subscription. It just works. Here's what's packed inside: → A local AI assistant powered by Ollama (works fully offline) → All of Wikipedia, downloadable and searchable → Offline maps of any region you choose → Medical references and survival guides → Full Khan Academy courses with progress tracking → Encryption and data analysis tools via CyberChef → Document upload with semantic search (local RAG) Here's the wildest part: A solar panel, a battery, a mini PC, and a WiFi access point. That's it. That's your entire off-grid knowledge station. 15 to 65 watts of power. Works from a cabin, an RV, a sailboat, or a bunker. Companies sell "prepper drives" with static PDFs for $185. This gives you a full AI brain, an entire encyclopedia, and real courses for free. One command to install. 100% Open Source. Apache 2.0 License.

A quick update on the infamous EU “ChatControl” 🇪🇺 What a turn of events in EU tech policy: from potential mandatory mass scanning of data (“ChatControl”) → to even voluntary scans losing their legal basis (for now). Just months ago, fears were growing around mandatory scanning of private communications in the EU (incl. pictures and videos). Now, talks between the EU Council (Member States) and the European Parliament have collapsed - and the result is a complete reversal. As of April 3, even voluntary scanning of data by platforms loses its legal basis under EU privacy (ePrivacy & GDPR) rules, as the temporary exemption was not extended. A striking example of how fast EU tech policy can turn - and a big win for European privacy advocates.

When @spacebudznft launched in March 2021, it felt like the beginning of something special for Cardano. I had already been investing in Cardano and collecting NFTs on other chains, so when these little astronauts appeared, I was instantly hooked. I minted 3 Budz, my babies, and quickly became very active in the community that formed around them. Along the way, I also became friends with Ales. Over the years, I've watched him build things that quietly shaped parts of the Cardano ecosystem in ways many people may not fully realize. The funny thing is, Ales never really saw himself as "a dev." He was just exploring, building things he found interesting, and sharing them openly. Before any of this, he had already become an SPO with a simple mission: to prove that Cardano was so energy efficient it could run on Raspberry Pi computers, and to teach others how to run nodes and become operators themselves. Like many great builders in open source, Ales built on tools and libraries that came before him and shared his own work openly so others could build on it. And through that same curiosity and generosity, he ended up enabling a lot of what people build on Cardano today. Amongst them: - The CIP-25 NFT standard, which SpaceBudz and Berry NFTs helped pioneer. - Nami, which helped make dApp connections possible. - The SpaceBudz marketplace, the first smart contract-enabled NFT marketplace on Cardano, which he open-sourced so other marketplaces could build and flourish. - Lucid, a JavaScript library that made development on Cardano much easier. - CIP-68 NFT Standard (programmable NFTs), opening the door for more advanced on-chain assets. Recently, Ales shared with me that after a lot of reflection, he feels ready to step away from the digital world and pursue a life that feels more grounded in human connection. And as part of that decision, he chose to pass SpaceBudz on to new hands. And I fully support him in that choice. SpaceBudz will always remain a special part of Cardano history. It wasn't just a collection, it was a moment when imagination met experimentation, and suddenly the possibilities of the chain felt wide open. A huge thank you to @berry_ales and @punk9968 for creating something that sparked that moment and sharing it so openly with the ecosystem. And thank you to the SpaceBudz community, which has always understood what this project was really about. Exploring the capabilities of the chain, building with open tools, and letting each Bud take on a journey of its own. Ales, thank you for your friendship and for the journey we’ve shared through all of this. I will never forget it. And to @Knackfish and the @TavernForge team, now stepping in to guide SpaceBudz forward, thank you for taking the torch and continuing the journey! SpaceBudz has always been about curiosity, exploration, and the courage to step into the unknown. A reminder that sometimes the greatest adventures begin when we choose to see what might be possible beyond the horizon. I'm excited to see where you take the Budz next and look forward to the adventures still to come. 🚀

Write Cardano smart contract in LEAN4, evaluate UPLC with github.com/utxo-company/p…, prove the correctness of LEAN4 expression that defines smart contract, and prove the correctness of compiled UPLC directly using github.com/input-output-h… Everything interactive via LSP

Dolos v1 is here. 🚀 Years of building. Almost a 1000 commits. One goal — a Cardano node optimized for dApp backends. Today it's production-ready 🧵

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@CardanoNoodz @pool_pm I'm not sure they have open sourced their player yet. It's likely a little too early overall , but at some point this would be nice.

@SmaugPool So it would work on @pool_pm ? 👀

Wow

Great article on this alt rust node development

Les chiffres sont basés sur une analyse de cycle de vie (ACV) conforme aux normes ISO, et prennent en compte l'ensemble du cycle de vie du nucléaire, de l'extraction de l'uranium à la gestion des déchets. Ils viennnet de l'ADEME: base-empreinte.ademe.fr Explication dans cet article du Monde: lemonde.fr/blog/huet/2022…

@SmaugPool @EmmanuelMacron Les chiffres pour le nucléaire prennent-ils en compte le coût CO2 du démantèlement, de l'enfouissement, de la maintenance des sites d'enfouissement, de la construction des sites d'enfouissement, du cycle de vie de l'uranium pour être utilisable comme combustible... etc ?

L’énergie nucléaire nous donne ce dont notre époque a plus que jamais besoin : l’indépendance, la résilience face aux crises, la compétitivité et la capacité de tenir nos ambitions climatiques. Au moment où nos économies s’électrifient, où le numérique et l’intelligence artificielle transforment nos usages, où l’industrie a besoin de s’électrifier, la demande mondiale d’électricité progresse deux fois plus vite que durant la décennie passée. Face à cette montée des besoins, la France dispose d’un atout que beaucoup de nations nous envient : 57 réacteurs répartis sur 18 sites, soit le parc nucléaire le plus important au monde rapporté à notre population. Le nucléaire civil est aussi un levier décisif pour la décarbonation : le nucléaire c’est 12 grammes de CO2 par kilowattheure contre 490 pour le gaz et 820 pour le charbon ! À Belfort en 2022, j’avais fixé un cap clair : reprendre en main notre destin énergétique, en sortant de la dépendance aux énergies fossiles et en retrouvant notre souveraineté industrielle et énergétique. Nous y sommes et nous tenons ce cap. En 2025, nos centrales ont produit environ 370 térawattheures d’électricité, et la France a exporté plus de 90 térawattheures d’électricité décarbonée. Notre programme de construction de nouveaux réacteurs avance et nous accélérons. Au niveau européen, la neutralité technologique, de la standardisation, des financements à renforcer, des compétences et une vraie chaîne de valeur européenne. Au niveau mondial, des collaborations sur les enjeux de recherche et de développement, et un travail collectif sur la sûreté. Voilà notre ambition sur le nucléaire et ce que j’ai dit à Paris à tous les pays ce matin. Dans un monde plus instable, plus fragmenté, plus incertain, il est un choix de souveraineté, un choix de compétitivité, et une garantie pour l’avenir. Ce choix, la France l’a fait.

Initial 350M ADA NCL was for 72 epochs & will apply again w/o a new NCL budgetcommittee.docs.intersectmbo.org/archive/2025-b… New 300M ADA proposal is for 100 epochs #0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gov.tools/connected/gove… So it would lower max withdrawal from 4.86MADA/epoch in avg to 3.5MADA, w/o preventing further decreases later. Right?

@sandstonepool 🔥

Big update. Torsten is running as a block producer on the preview testnet. Not long before we're forging the first block ever using an alternative cardano node! preview.cardanoscan.io/pool/6954ec11c… Remember. This is not production ready yet so don't go deploying this just yet!

We've been working on something: Torsten — a Cardano full node written from scratch in Rust. No GC pauses. Minimal memory overhead. 10-crate workspace. Still experimental, but already syncing the chain. Come break it with us. sandstone.io/blog/introduci…

The legend Michael Fazio casually dropped a cardano-node implementation written in rust 🔥 Holy sh*t 😀 github.com/michaeljfazio/…

🚀 Major update for AdaStat is live. Introducing the new Modern UI along with: • Search with history • Watchlist upgrade — now supports Stake Accounts, Pools, DReps, and Tokens • Greatly expanded user preferences • 9 new languages • Support for Preview & Preprod testnets • Many improvements under the hood For now Classic UI remains the default. If you'd like to try the new interface, you can switch to Modern UI in settings.

371 security and privacy academics, including a Turing Award winner, just signed a letter saying age verification laws are building global surveillance infrastructure. Every search, every message, every article read would require ID confirmation. Nothing in offline life works that way, and it shouldn't work that way online either.

I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies. The company is worth a quarter of a trillion dollars. I did not misspeak. Two hundred and forty-nine billion. The stock is up 320% in the past 12 months. The product is surveillance. I do not use that word at conferences. At conferences, I say "data integration," "operational intelligence," or "decision advantage." These mean the same thing. Surveillance is the honest version. I save the honest version for rooms where honesty is a competitive advantage. I gave a speech on March 3 at the Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism Summit. "American Dynamism" is the fund's label for military technology. The name makes it sound like a fitness supplement. The fund's thesis is that defending the nation is a market opportunity. I agree with the thesis. The thesis made me a billionaire. Agreement is the product. I sell it at scale. Here is what I said, verbatim, to a room of six hundred people whose combined net worth exceeds the GDP of Portugal: "If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job and you're gonna screw the military — if you don't think that's gonna lead to nationalization of our technology, you're retarded." I used that word. The word is on the clip. The clip has eleven million views. My communications team asked me not to repeat it, which is how I know they are still employed. They will not be reprimanded. The clip is performing well. The stock went up. The word cost me nothing. The nothing is the point. Let me explain what I meant by nationalization. I meant it. I am telling the technology industry that if they refuse to cooperate with the United States military, the government will seize their technology. I am telling them this at a venture capital conference, on a stage designed to look like a living room. The living room had throw pillows. The throw pillows cost more than the median American's monthly rent. I sat on one. It was comfortable. Comfort is the setting in which I discuss compulsion. The audience laughed. I want to be precise about that. They laughed. I was not joking. Nationalization is the seizure of private assets by the state. I am a private asset. I am telling an audience of billionaires that the state should seize technology from companies that do not cooperate with the military, and the billionaires are laughing, because they believe I am only talking about the other companies. I am talking about the other companies. Three weeks before my speech, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk." Anthropic is an AI company. They had red lines. The red lines said: if our AI is used for lethal autonomous weapons, we stop. If capability outpaces safety, we stop. The Pentagon assessed the red lines as a threat to the supply chain. The company that wanted to verify the safety feature worked was designated the risk. The company that agreed the safety feature could be decorative got the contract. The company that got the contract was OpenAI. OpenAI signed a deal with the same Pentagon. The terms are not public. The timing was hours after Anthropic was blacklisted. The speed was noted. The speed was the point. The lesson was the speed: the market for military AI does not pause for ethics. It pauses for nothing. It accelerates through objections. I know this because I built the runway. Two hundred thousand people joined a campaign called #QuitGPT. They signed a petition asking OpenAI to honor its original charter, the one that said the company existed to benefit humanity. The charter is on their website. The contract is also on their website. The charter and the Pentagon contract occupy the same domain. This is not a contradiction. This is a business model. The charter is the marketing. The contract is the product. I run a surveillance company. We have contracts with the Department of Defense worth more than a billion dollars. We have contracts with ICE. We have contracts with intelligence agencies whose names I am not permitted to say at venture capital conferences, even ones with throw pillows. Our software has been used to track undocumented immigrants. Our software has been used for things I am not permitted to describe in this format. The revenue from the things I cannot describe exceeds the revenue from the things I can. The ACLU called our ICE contracts a system for tracking and deporting families. They were correct. The contracts continued. The families continued to be tracked. The ACLU issued a statement. We issued a statement. The statements were different. The tracking was the same. The company is named Palantir. The palantíri are the seeing stones from Tolkien. In the novels, Sauron captured one and used it to corrupt everyone who looked into the others. I named a surveillance company after a surveillance device from a novel about the corruption of power. I have a doctorate in social theory. I have read the books. Here is the thing I want you to understand. I am not threatening anyone. A threat implies uncertainty. There is no uncertainty. The technology industry will cooperate with the military. The companies that cooperate first will be the richest. The companies that cooperate last will be acquired by the companies that cooperated first. The companies that refuse will be designated supply chain risks, and their technology will be obtained through procurement channels that do not require consent. I am describing a process. The process has already started. Anthropic is proof. OpenAI is proof. I am not a warning. I am a narrator. The narration is the product. The revenue was $3.12 billion last year. Up thirty-three percent. The analysts say we are overvalued. The analysts have said this for four consecutive years. Each year the stock doubles. Each year, the analysts adjust their models. The models were wrong four times. I was wrong zero times. The market rewards prediction. My prediction is that every AI company will work for the military within three years. The prediction is on the clip, next to the slur. The audience gave me a standing ovation. The ovation lasted nine seconds. I timed it. I time everything. The water was San Pellegrino. The throw pillows were from Restoration Hardware. The future of American technology was decided between the sparkling water, the nine seconds of applause, and a word I am not supposed to repeat. I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies. I am worth more than the combined annual budgets of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. I named my company after a corrupting surveillance device from a fantasy novel. I told six hundred billionaires that the government should nationalize their competitors. They applauded. I used a slur. Eleven million people watched. The stock is up. The philosopher does not threaten. The philosopher describes. What I described is already happening.