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Mainly on Farcaster! (https://warpcast.com/dfern.eth) Software Engineer interested in chip design, compchem/bio, crypto & DWeb tech.
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Great read www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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The prosecution of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm raises larger concerns "that could chill the future development of privacy-enhancing technologies more broadly," EFF argued in its brief.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

This would make something I'm trying to do a lot easier

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Reporting on the L.A. fires had me wondering how well the rebuilding efforts on Maui have been going since the August 2023 fires. Of the 2,000 homes destroyed or severely damaged, a grand total of 3 have been rebuilt. That's a rate of one home rebuilt every six months. reason.com/2025/01/22/1...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Ross Ulbricht pardoned! Brian Doherty, who has been covering his case from the beginning, weighs in reason.com/2025/01/21/p...

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

Ross should never have gone to prison and Biden should never have let Trump have this win.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Ross Ulbricht was neither charged with nor convicted of anything relating to contract killings. That was a throwaway accusation from the prosecutors at a bail hearing. He did not deserve to go to prison and he definitely did not deserve to spend his life in prison.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Thank God Ross is free. Sometimes good things can happen.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

ROSS ULBRICHT PARDONED A GOOD THING OMG

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I'm actually stunned by this. Not the pardon mind you (I would have been happy if Ross got 10-20 yrs, he only got life+ as a trial penalty and having a stupid attorney penalty), but that Trump actually remembered a campaign promise and kept his word!

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Well, I’ll probably get some pushback here, but Ross deserved the pardon. I’m sad it was weaponized by Trump but Ross shouldn’t have received a life sentence.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Why does the bluesky monorepo have two different did resolvers, with one being completely unused?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Sweet jeebus these pilots have gonads of tungsten carbide: Twice as dense and three times stiffer than gonads of steel.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder that Telegram is not an encrypted messaging app, unless you know what you’re doing. www.404media.co/telegram-han...

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

One pitfall lots of people fell into with crypto that seems to be repeated with AI is basing fundamental objections on temporary problems. If your problem with crypto was the energy impact, did Ethereum switching to proof of stake change your mind? If not, was that actually your issue at all?

submitted 60 days ago • 10 comments

People who say H-1B visa holders are “low-wage indentured servants” are misleading you or don’t know what they’re talking about. The H-1B has minimum education requirements & the average wage is well over $100,000—more than the vast majority of people. Shame on Bernie Sanders.

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

Some predictions for 2025! warpcast.com/dfern.eth/0x...

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Nice Christmas read: The NY Times writes about how AI "hallucinations" can actually be a good thing when it comes to designing proteins. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/s...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Thinking out loud about the problems of still using Discord in 2025 paragraph.xyz/@dfern.eth/t...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

While American healthcare isn't perfect: there is no other country that is even remotely close to matching this. There are myriad reasons for this, but one of the main ones is that we are willing to pay the astronomical cost of R&D that no other country is. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/h...

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments