Ivan Anishchuk

@esrtweet Fixed fee tax is the most reasonable approach... if taxes have to be paid at all for some reason. Why anybody should be punished for earning more? If they receive more services from the govt they should just pay appropriate fees rather than participating in mini-socialism.

Jeff, this is another terrible idea that won't die, like UBI. The problem with it is that it creates the wrong political incentives. The higher the "no-taxes" floor goes (and we already have a pretty high one due to the net effect of government transfer payments) the larger the constituency constantly clamoring for more gibs is, and the more difficult it gets to build a political bloc against taxes going even higher on an ever narrower segment of the population. It's a very slippery slope, and the logical outcome is visible in places like California where states are absurdly dependent on tax revenue from a handful of very high earners. Who then respond to incentives and bail out. Goodbye revenue base, hello debt death spiral. This is why a flat tax - no income brackets at all - is the best policy and in the long term they only stable one.

@0xMahalakshmi GM GM sis 🙏

can I get a gm?

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@zkEverything @LaFamilia_so @colosseum GM GM

And this is exactly why we are exploring cheaper OG cryptography and novel gadgets in this space with our projects like @nozkash and @zkEverything and trying to map the tradeoff parameters 🙃 "ZK proof verification gas: Verification of zero-knowledge proofs on Ethereum is prohibitively expensive in terms of onchain gas costs. Verification gas and proving times were identified as the highest-priority bottlenecks for several teams — this was also a key reason why some teams opted to drop ZK in favour of other approaches."

Didn't really ask us 😅 But I guess we are so private and obscure we're on nobody's radar yet... #nozk

And this is just a beginning 😉

"Even more bugs are inevitable, software is all going to become probabilistic now" is cope. "AI bug-finding means we have to embrace closed-source now" is a psyop. Writing buggy code has moved from hard to trivial. Writing secure code has moved from impossible to hard.

@JardineCash @TH3NormieReport @tayvano_ Sorry, I couldn't parse this. ZK snark-based privacy pools already exist. They are just hard to use and expensive. Blinded sigs are much, much cheaper to verify. They are just hard for public smart contracts to generate.

@IvanAnishchuk @TH3NormieReport @tayvano_ Cash fusion in eCash is pretty sweet right now, but once someone builds a ZK subnet on eCash that's when the big win for privacy wins as it'll have all the technology innovation of instant finality and 51% attack protections and all the other benefits from the chain

Oh the centralized vibe coded thing that openly laundered for criminals, including numerous IRL armed robbers, and who’s main selling point was lying about doing KYT (even though it was a fully centralized vibe-coded mess) might have gone bye-bye? You don’t motherfucking say. 🙄

@TH3NormieReport @tayvano_ Idk, I am actually working on a bit of a privacy ecash project. Not like fully anonymous but simple classic blinded signatures plus a little compliance can go a long way if set up correctly. Fewer trust assumptions than custodial services. And much cheaper than zk pools.

@tayvano_ I like this post. More than this post, I like all the comments that prove that most people are retarded because anyone with a brain knew long ago that there's no such thing as an anonymous monetary system. Silly, arrogant, narcissistic, delusional, retarded fucking humans 💯🤣

@fede_intern Believe in something 🦄

ETHEREUM

@esrtweet I'm a big fan of Gentoo and binary packages are much more fun these days (although easy rollback available by default would require some configuration but infra for it is available). SystemD being optional is a big plus IMO.

More thoughts as Eric wanders through the wilderness of possible next Linux distributions... My core criterion has strengthened to "rolling-release, *and* must have a convincing story about rollback tools". This means, at minimum, that package installations need to automatically create restorable system states. I also want broad repository coverage, so I don't have to do a lot of downloading and compiling. This steers me away from several niche distributions that are technically interesting but have communities too small to generate a broad range of installable packages. I have some other criteria as well, which will become apparent as you read this list of updates. CachyOS with Snapper integration into the package manager: still the top contender. To displace it, anything else needs to have at least as convincing a story about easy rollback. EndeavourOS: can also be Snapper enabled. Probably okay, but CachyOS seems to have a larger and more vigorous community, and that does matter. Omarchy: It's clever, it's doing a good thing for new Linux users, it has a strong rollback story, but. It's very opinionated, and I don't need DHH to have good taste for me, I can manage that for myself. By the time I got done customizing it, the value he added would probably be gone. So, no advantage over a friendly but less opinionated Arch reskin like CachyOS. Vanilla Arch: now has an installation TUI, so not the ridiculous pain in the ass to set up that it used to be. Could be configured with the package installer calling snapper, yes. But if I'm going to install Arch, I don't see any reason not to use the work other people have done on making Arch a better out-of-the-box experience. Which redirects me to CachyOS, EndevourOS, and Omarchy. Gentoo is out. It doesn't have a convincing rollback story. Also, I do not welcome long compile times - especially since Rust is becoming more popular and the Rust compiler is painfully slow. Void Linux looks really interesting, technically, and has a good rollback story. The design of its package manager looks very thoughtful. But immature Cosmic Desktop integration is a crash landing, and I'm concerned about its repository breadth. Regretfully, no. Debian, and the Debian derivatives such as Ubuntu and Mint and Pop!_OS, are out because I really do want rolling-release. If I hadn't decided that, I'd just stick with Pop!_OS, which has overall been pretty good to me. NixOS might be back in contention if (as some on X allege) the gay race communists got fired late last year and have fucked off to ruin something else. Possibly the project might recover. I am investigating this. Alas, Guix is still out. Narrow repositories and an extremely purist culture leading to annoyingly limited hardware support. I'm told people will scream at you if you even mention the distribution channels for non-free software. Fedora: only semi-rolling. No integrated rollback tools. Nope. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed: possible. I had Grok compare it head to head with Cachy OS and they look very similar with respect to my criteria, except that CachyOS probably has much broader repository coverage. AUR is a huge advantage that way for anything Arch-based. I'm sure I've missed some possibilities, and I'm sure people will tell me about them in the comments.

keepandroidopen.org #KeepAndroidOpen

I always thought why they need admin access to my repo to deploy static files..? An equivalent action + pages can do it with like zero permissions in pure yaml. Now it all makes sense.

@NoahKingJr What writing code has to do with it? Do you think civil engineering is drawing?

Software Engineers, what’s your backup plan if Artificial Intelligence writes better code than you in 2 years?

@chainyoda Georgia, I recommend Bank of Georgia. ~12.5% APY + plus Lari is really stronger than dollar last few years. Not guaranteed, there's political instability, the russians, etc... but so far so good. No crypto taxes (and possibility of flat 1% income tax if you become a resident)

Is there a way to earn more than 5% yield without risking 100% of the principal?

@keter_slater @KevinNaughtonJr Not baited, just trying to capture some leftover rage engagement energy. Most of the posts are fake anyway, no?

@KevinNaughtonJr yall really got baited by a startup promo post no cap. community notes is right there. this dude was never an Anthropic employee and turned it into a discount code ad in the next tweet. the AI twitter crowd is so desperate for drama they'll believe anything fr. do better

I was fired from Anthropic today. I was the engineer responsible for shipping the latest dev/claude-code npm package. Wanting to improve the debugging experience for the team, I decided to include source maps in the release. This resulted in our entire internal codebase being publicly exposed including thousands of files with every agent command, all system prompts, the complete query engine, Undercover Mode, Bypass Permissions Mode, and our internal telemetry configuration. I take full responsibility. I genuinely believed the safeguards Claude Code had built for me would be adequate and it was a serious miscalculation on my part. My actions have unintentionally open-sourced major parts of Claude’s architecture well ahead of schedule. I apologize to the team and to Claude.

@KevinNaughtonJr Thank you for your service sir! I'm pretty sure it's pretty unusable for regular users but will have a lot of opensource projects. Sorry about the job, let's hack something meanwhile?

Why are you people so focused on coding though? Programming is not about coding, guys, never was, coding was never the hard part and if you think it was you just never leveled up from being a junior/mid. People who used to code by copypasting stackoverflow now copypaste chatgpt, the rest of us meanwhile keep reviewing as we always were, with our eyes, just with much more work to do because everything became so much verbose (and often plausibly looking while dysfunctional, which is the worst) when LLMs replaced those underpaid iterns from India.

Serious question: Is there any programmer left in the room still coding the traditional way, character by character, without using AI? If so, why? Explain your reasoning.