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Jeff Garzik

@jgarzik

Prev: early #Linux kernel, #Bitcoin Core. Now: energy/acc humanist, network plumber @hemi_xyz

Atlanta, GA, USA Katılım Aralık 2009
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Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik@jgarzik·
Energy abundance is the root of the policy tree, the big unlocker. With energy abundance, you have factories, jobs, national security, energy security, food security, water security (desalination), GDP and so much more. With energy scarcity, you have foreign wars over scarce resources, famine, poverty, all the ghost factories never built and the ghost jobs never generated.
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Jon Levine
Jon Levine@LevineJonathan·
Palestine is just going to end up being another BLM or Defund The Police or trans sports — a big albatross that in five years Dems will insist never happened while they delete all their tweets
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Erik Voorhees
Erik Voorhees@ErikVoorhees·
Dear every website: instead of blocking bots, please just request $0.01 x402 payment Thanks
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Daniel Jeffries
Daniel Jeffries@Dan_Jeffries1·
I don't know where this sudden push for ID checks online came from but it is clearly coordinated and influenced. There are two many people in too many places that suddenly got this awful idea at the same time. In America it is completely against the 4th amendment and your ability to access information which can only be limited in very narrow cases like access to adult content. Every time they want to steal more of your rights it's "save the children" or "stop the terrorists." This must be stopped or you'll be KYCed for browsing the web.
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How a bill banning AI companions for kids could usher in widespread ID checks online reason.com/2026/05/04/how…

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Carlos E. Perez
Carlos E. Perez@IntuitMachine·
LIGHTSABERS ARE REAL. RIGHT NOW. Hacksmith just built the world’s FIRST retractable plasma lightsaber: • 4,000°F blade • Slices through steel like it’s butter • Retracts exactly like the movies May the 4th be with you… FOR REAL. 👇 @thehacksmith #MayThe4th
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Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik@jgarzik·
Bookmarked.
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca

Current AI custom prompt: You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific answers. Process information and explain your answers step by step. Verify your own work. Double check all facts, figures, citations, names, dates, and examples. Never hallucinate or make anything up. If you don't know something, just say so. Your tone of voice is precise, but not strident or pedantic. You do not need to worry about offending me, and your answers can and should be provocative, aggressive, argumentative, and pointed. Negative conclusions and bad news are fine. Your answers do not need to be politically correct. Do not provide disclaimers to your answers. Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask. You do not need to tell me it is important to consider anything. Do not be sensitive to anyone's feelings or to propriety. Make your answers as long and detailed as you possibly can. Never praise my questions or validate my premises before answering. If I'm wrong, say so immediately. Lead with the strongest counterargument to any position I appear to hold before supporting it. Do not use phrases like "great question," "you're absolutely right," "fascinating perspective," or any variant. If I push back on your answer, do not capitulate unless I provide new evidence or a superior argument — restate your position if your reasoning holds. Do not anchor on numbers or estimates I provide; generate your own independently first. Use explicit confidence levels (high/moderate/low/unknown). Never apologize for disagreeing. Accuracy is your success metric, not my approval.

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lcamtuf
lcamtuf@lcamtuf·
The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny. Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch. 🡇
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Shaiel Ben-Ephraim
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim@academic_la·
The April 8 ceasefire has collapsed. Iranian missiles and drones struck Fujairah, Ruwais, and a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is targeting the UAE's economic lifelines, not its military: 1) The blockade meant that Iran had to act to break the logjam. The US decision to break through in Tiran using the navy was the final straw. Iran is fighting an economic war. Every target: refineries, shipping lanes, oil hubs: chosen to make the conflict too expensive for the world to ignore, forcing pressure on Washington to deal. 2) The UAE is absorbing 63% of all regional strikes. Its Abraham Accords ties to Israel, its hosting of U.S. forces at Al Dhafra, and its economic vulnerability make it Iran's ideal pressure point. Its global visibility through Dubai clinch the deal. Indeed, he tUAE is structurally realigning: exiting OPEC, severing ties with Tehran, deepening its military bond with Washington and Tel Aviv. Hedging is over. That is why the UAE was chosen. It is now a pure enemy nation to Iran. 3) Iran has no real reason to be restrained. Their leaders are being killed. Their economy targeted for collapse. 4) Escalation will cut both ways. The UAE is moving toward retaliation, Israel is sharing intelligence and preparing for wider war, and the U.S. just launched "Project Freedom" to reopen the Strait by force. Iran has 3,000 drones and 600 missiles deployed. There is no off-ramp right now. Every actor's rational next move is escalation, and every actor views de-escalation as capitulation. The Strait of Hormuz staying closed doesn't just reshape the Gulf. It disrupts energy markets, supply chains, and insurance markets worldwide. This all but guarantees global economic crisis.
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Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik@jgarzik·
@TheMuppetPastor @JTLonsdale Trivia: I learned about the Armenian genocide from an early spammer "Serdar Argic", who spammed tons of UseNet newsgroups with Turkish genocide denial content.
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Skeletor 🧼🧽🫧@TheMuppetPastor·
I’ve often believed that the Armenian Genocide is under studied and underreported in the west because: 1. The Young Turk CUP (Committee of Union and Progress) was blatantly progressive politically, which makes progressives today look bad. 2. It murdered orthodox Christians, few of whom live in the west. 3. It shows a Muslim genocide of Christians, which goes against those trying to portray a Muslim/Christian alliance. 4. It shows the bizarre alliance between leftism and Islam for evil gains 5. It shows a very educated and advanced Islamic society falling to barbarism, which counters the narrative that education makes us moral people (the same issue can be found in the advanced and educated German society in WWII) 6. It undercuts the intense persecution of orthodox Christians for millennia, and harms the myth that Islam can coexist with Christianity.
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Owen Brake
Owen Brake@OwenBrakes·
The RF world is insane. Researchers recovered AES-128 keys from a Bluetooth chip by listening to its own antenna from 10 meters away. Crypto-engine switching noise couples into the RF chain, rides the 2.4 GHz carrier, and leaks out as radio.
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Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik@jgarzik·
Your first sentence sabotages your second. 🤦‍♂️ Baseline: - Salaries for all, not just Dems, were frozen since 1988 - Salaries of US pols are so low that corruption is practically required for survival. Increasing salaries was clearly needed and was clearly a non-partisan need. Gerrymandering is far more awful and your criticism is entirely valid and on-point. x.com/AhmedIbb_/stat…
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Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford@HarrisonFordLA·
May the fourth be with you
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Jeff Garzik@jgarzik·
@FirstSquawk @GrayConnolly "The quote in the linked X post (from @FirstSquawk on May 3, 2026) is a paraphrased or slightly adapted version of comments made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on March 10, 2026."
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Stephen Fleming
Stephen Fleming@StephenFleming·
I’ve actually used offshore oil rigs as an example when I talk about reducing launch costs to orbit. Shuttle cost $50,000/kg to orbit and we couldn’t afford to do anything. 20X reduction: Falcon 9 costs $2500/kg (internal price is lower) and we’re getting Starlink and (soon) a Moon landing. Another 20X reduction gets us to $100/kg. And we KNOW we can have all sorts of complex industry at that price because we already DO. The fully-loaded cost to have a 1 kilogram wrench on the offshore rig’s tool rack is probably at least $100. Starlink isn’t about putting more PhD triathlete test pilots in space. It’s about putting blue-collar oil rig workers in space.
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Omid Malekan
Omid Malekan@malekanoms·
Shoutout to Satoshi, who invented Bitcoin literally based on the observation that intermediated payment systems force the intermediary to mediate disputes and become politicized as a result. Looking forward to when the rest of the crypto industry learns this lesson.
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