Brian of #Coinbase went to #China to plead with the big mining pools to switch to the #Bitcoin-Classic fork (the new try at #Bitcoin-XT). #BTCC CEO Bobby Lee: “It was almost like imperialistic Westerners coming to China and telling us what to do.” Has a breakdown of #Bitcoin mining power by pool: 26.3% F2Pool, 20.1% #Antpool, 12.6% BTCC Pool, 11.9% BW.com, 9% BitFury, 4.8% Slush, 3.3% KnCMiner, 4.5% “others” (?), 7.6% “unknown”. Also profiles #Bitmain’s Jihan Wu. Bitmain runs Antpool.
How to write software for #CP/M using the Hi-Tech C compiler.
Discussion on #CP/M development, including cross-compilation from Linux.
Running #CP/M on a TRS-80 and Tweeting from Kermit, cross-assembling under Linux with a new LASM-compatible assembler.
discussion of #Bitcoin, with Hermel saying they’ve been temporarily banned from /r/Bitcoin twice by Theymos for mentioning Ethereum in comments.
Sort of anti-#trans #gender essay (though sympathetic to transsexuals) from the perspective of radical #feminism. “To call yourself non-binary or genderfluid while demanding that others call themselves cisgender is to insist that the vast majority of humans must stay in their boxes, because you identify as boxless.”
Russian #handwriting, including some #calligraphy samples. “it is a standard practice to write Russian in the Russian cursive almost exclusively”
SpiderOak now has a proprietary group #chat service called Semaphor. “generates multi-word passphrases for users”
Your chats can be subpoenaed, as in the #Gawker Hulk Hogan trial.
chart of #Bitcoin Core contributors
#Bitcoin clients that support SPV, so you don’t have to download the whole blockchain, include bitcoinj, picocoin, and Electrum
#History of the early days of #JS, plus some stuff about Java and Strongtalk and Hotspot and Blackburn and whatnot, an #interview with Brendan Eich (transcript and #audio)
Groupware Bad, the famous #JWZ essay that explained in 2005 how Fecebutt would take over the world: “‘How will this software get my users laid’ should be on the minds of anyone writing social software (and these days, almost all software is social software).”
Viki Donda (and 37 other representatives) proposed a bill to legalize #abortion in #Argentina, under the name “Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo”. #politics #aborto-legal
Beautiful #photos of #aurora on Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope
Oral #history interview with Ann Hardy, founder of #Tymshare
Did women stop coding (or at least majoring in CS) because of hobby home computers? #history
first self-driving car fatal accident
Robin Hanson explains why he’s spent his life promoting #prediction-markets and #economics and why he’s now deciding to crusade against prestige itself.
List of "active learning" #education techniques
discussion thread about userspace #TCP/IP stacks
Beautifully handmade electric motor (w/ laminated core!) by @ccrazyNK (Navin Khambala) from a transformer. No use of electrical steel. I’m imagining that using regular low-silicon steel dramatically lowers the efficiency, but dunno if he measured permeability or efficiency. The weirdest part is that he actually extracted a bunch of electrical steel from the transformer and then threw it away! #hardware
#video of Esteban Quispe, Bolivian robot inventor, and his robots made from trash. #hardware
Soapstone (#talc) “evaporator” humidifier, plus a soapstone trivet and soapstone-topped stove #video #materials
“Homesteading and permaculture, all the time”. Forum thread about castable #refractory formulations for rocket stoves and whatnot. #materials #hardware
Where to get fireclay #materials
Chelsea #Manning is not satisfied with the new US #military #trans policy: “I worry that this type of requirement will further entrench the gender binary”