waxwing @waxwing@x0f.org

Quite shocking how large the scale is of these small #oil refineries in the Niger delta in #Nigeria. They siphon crude from pipelines, distill it rudimentarily and sell it on the black market.

https://bittube.video/videos/watch/fea79243-5fab-49e9-a266-7a0a7d98459c
#climatechange #environment

Google India only selected girls for internships – Sexism
https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/82800?#comment-697715

(submitted by Flamingo94)

most 2020 error message yet

Okay, so I really like the account policy of #SportsBetIO - who just emailed to say that my account has been inactive therefore will be deleted unless I place a new bet soon.

As well as being a great way to streamline their database to just active accounts, it's also good that they don't care to store personal information of people who don't use the service.

https://www.sportsbet.io

From Ars:

"Facebook is both incredibly firm and incredibly arbitrary about leveraging the "real name" policy in its ToS… Should [this] happen, Facebook is clear: You can kiss your purchased software goodbye. The same goes for anyone who enters a Facebook-branded VR social zone… and breaks a Facebook ToS in those spaces"

"New rules coming to the Facebook VR developer portal will soon force anyone who wants to sideload apps to either supply a working phone number or a credit card"

rough sketch of WabiSabi credential bootstrap and unified registration requests including proofs (see CredentialTests.cs or last commit):

https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/pull/4377

I deleted #Reddit after watching The Social Dilemma and I've only tried opening the app 1268 times in the past 5 hours.

Hoshikuzu Struck 88% https://video.autizmo.xyz/videos/watch/7636fdf7-d9bf-4971-ac61-1913d254d8ac

What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
https://filingdb.com/b/pdf-text-extraction

(submitted by fagnerbrack)

Merged PR from sipa: Update secp256k1 subtree (including BIP340 support) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19944

Discreet Log Contracts (DLC) are a L2 (like Lightning) protocol to make financial bets on future oracle outcomes, w/o the oracle seeing the bettors. Future #Bitcoin #DeFi primitive. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy1sL2ndcDg

Since the Order Book and the coinjoin coordination of #JoinMarket is decentralized you can run it yourself manually:
https://github.com/openoms/bitcoin-tutorials/tree/master/joinmarket#run-the-offer-book-locally
or from the #JoininBox menu.
Can also check this Hidden Service in the Tor Browser:
http://gopnmsknawlntb4qpyav3q5ejvvk6p74a7y5xotmph4v64wl3wicscad.onion
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The http://joinmarket.me website will be …
https://twitter.com/openoms/status/1304009638644334592

After long and careful conversations, the #Dart #Cryptography library that I passively maintained for many years is now transferred under the #BouncyCastle umbrella!

Which, given it's name "Pointy Castle", seems like it was always meant to be :)

https://pub.dev/packages/pointycastle/

"Move slow and break things" is my motto wading through the BTCPay Server codebase 😆

Looking for a tester for building #Bitcoin QT on OpenBSD
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19903