Loredana Cirstea

After 2 years of programming 12-16h/day (self-funded) and more than 50 progress demo videos, I built the most flexible WASM-based blockchain engine. Today, I made the source code public. This is the only blockchain engine capable of metamorphosis:

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Some titles from their email, presented without any real victims or proof: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism uncovers AI "rapper" funded by far-right Does the EU's AI Act provide effective remedies for AI harms? Consumer rights organisations included in AI standardisation processes thanks to AI task force How AI is making more people vulnerable New toolkit for social justice organisations to contribute to digital justice How AI chatbots are reshaping violence against women and girls

Well, they've started the manipulation campaign all right: The PEOPLE WANT REGULATION!! Don't you understand? This is what @EuropeanAIFund sent me today in an email: "Standing up for safeguards: How civil society is resisting Europe's regulation rollback In our latest funders’ briefing, the European AI & Society Fund sets out how civil society groups are rallying rapidly to respond to the EU’s deregulation push to ensure hard-won public safeguards are maintained and how funders can help."

@ThomasBurkhartB @hhpriestess When 1.4k people bother to give you great ratings on the App Store ... odds are in her favor. apps.apple.com/us/app/stella-… How about your clients? Do they love your product this much? If not, you have things to learn from @hhpriestess

@hhpriestess Yep the 300k MRR do I still not believe.

about to cross $300K MRR and it hasn’t even been 2 months since i launched my app the girlies are going to take over consumer apps no paid ads, no vc don’t let the lashes and tarot cards fool u

I very rarely talk politics, and especially US politics. But debating POLITICS IS A DUTY for any citizen. And when politics brings wars to your courtyard, you can't impose on citizens not to discuss these issues. On specifically US issues, both my native country and the country I am in now are involved and aiding the US military. And you are telling me that I should not have the same voice as a US citizen when I bear the costs of US politics (maybe even worse than a US citizen, without the benefit of living in the US)? Punish low-effort posts, misleading & factually incorrect posts. Make community notes appear faster. Punish for retroactive mistakes like these. Punish spamming. Go for identity verification & boost accounts that show their full civil name (therefore exposing themselves to risks). Not enough? Force each and everyone of us to review 10 X posts a day and rate them, ffs. That should take care of it. I would review 50/day for free, just to contribute to the global town square.

I left Facebook (hundreds of friends that I knew IRL) and stopped posting there since ~2014. I joined @X so I can be part of the global community and find people with similar values and interests. If @X will not be a global stage anymore, another social media platform will replace it. The direction we move towards is decentralized communities, digital societies of nomads. It does not matter how much governments try to censor, block, or impose regulations on things that should be human freedoms.

So tldr; practical pattern that worked well for us with a @ScyllaDB CDC log consumer: ✅ consume CDC by canonical position ✅ buffer future positions ✅ wait briefly for missing positions ✅ reconcile gaps from the base table ✅ persist inconsistencies instead of blocking forever

I spent today fixing a @ScyllaDB CDC log consumer. We have a high-throughput system that can write > 1 million records/second 🚀🚀🚀, and a second pipeline that must process the inserted records as they arrive. Records are inserted in concurrent chunks (that's why Scylla is so fast! 💨), so CDC logs are not guaranteed to follow the record’s own timestamp value (generating pre-save). We had rows timestamped earlier, but their chunk was processed later. Because CDC follows chunk commit time. Obvious in retrospect 🤦, but it only surfaced with battle testing. That means using a record's timestamp as a progress marker will eventually filter out entire batches (e.g., in my test batches of 1000 records at a time). So we switched to monotonic position tracking. In our case, this works. We use positions in our schema, and the order is very important.

@jakobdiepen @praxisnation (Digital) nations need an evidence layer. It's a matter of security and utmost respect for their citizens. Our indexers can power Praxis. Applied.

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If @__tinygrad__ ever wants to define their ethos and make it a computable contract within the company, there is nobody more suited than @ctzurcanu to help with that. virtues.provable.dev ctzurcanu.github.io/ethos George is one of the few founders who works for a mission, so all the mercenaries absolutely hate him for it. Ethical capitalism is not well defined because it is the top of Maslow's pyramid. Even more powerful when you try this while not actually being rich.

@ashleyshrimpe @effectfully @comma_ai The only ethical way for a founder to sell equity is if the company is making a genuine profit and you sell it back to the company (or through dividends). And only if there's no good way to deploy capital to improve the technology further.

@effectfully I (George) make 100k at tiny, have never sold a share of either @comma_ai or @__tinygrad__ and have no intention of doing so. You might be able to make more in advertising or finance, but when you look back at your life you'll have nothing to show for it.

@tkexpress11 I am building the foundation for digital evidence: cryptographic notarization for any digital action. As an easy-to-understand application: video notarization at frame-level: oliver.provable.dev

i'm opening my calendar for 15 min slots this Friday! a16z speedrun application opening is just weeks away - come AMA 1:1 first come, first served... drop a comment / like and I'll send you a link to schedule! (if there's space remaining)

The goalpost keeps moving. You are free to make a company and give a high salary and/or equity to your devs. And if it's a good company, you will be more successful than George. That's how it works. Obviously, if George's approach is unfair, he will fail. So, good luck proving your words to be right.

@lorecirstea @effectfully The company can give enough equity though

OK, autist to autist. 100k salary + a huge chunk of equity is very different to 100k salary + a small chunk of equity. There was a time people helped you by donating money, because they appreciated your work. You may as well pay your employees like you appreciate their work.

@effectfully Does the company make enough money for a competitive salary? I don't know his numbers, but maybe you do

@lorecirstea "it was the tight thing to do" -- unlike paying a competitive salary of course. So the employees could enjoy a similar safety net. I fail to see your point.

"people helped you by donating money" - do you mean donating money specifically for the Sony lawsuit ("this cause")? I don't know of any case where George asked for money for himself. If I am wrong, can you link? Those who donated for the Sony lawsuit cause did so because they believed it was the right thing to do. You are willfully misrepresenting this, and I keep autists at a high bar of clarity. You are not passing it, anon.

I need to clean my timeline again by clicking "I want to see less of this" Now it's full of influencers (even tech) with illogical takes or fallacies that any honest person would catch. From hypocrisy, to bad pattern folding, and lack of logic. People asking for advice and then getting upset that they got it, etc. It's so prevalent among popular accounts, and it irks me so, that I may eventually (when I have time) start posting commentary on why these posts are so bad.

@toddsaunders @garrytan @EquipmentShare Yeah, founders like @tobieapb, building maritime software @marnexii have an anchor point inside the industry and will probably be the bedrock of US maritime intelligence soon. These industries have value-producing use cases for AI models now.

@garrytan @EquipmentShare That’s totally fair and others! Meant YC symbolically

YC’s model works for a specific founder. Technical, Bay Area adjacent founders who want to play a zero sum game. But there’s a massive founder group being ignored. The operator who built a $5M-$50M services business and knows exactly what software their industry needs. They know the pain and workflows better than anyone else. And that founder has an industry following / friends to sell the product to. Claude Code just gave them all the power. And I’m going to surround them with the best people I know to help turn their domain expertise into a giant software company.

ADHD in AI agents: high branch exploration, low commitment stability, weak pruning, volatile attention weighting