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if you've been blocked by me, at least one of the following is true:
- you blocked me first
- you're a bot
- you keep copy pasting responses from LLMs
- you're an airdrop farmer
Talip retweeted
I'm excited to share 𝗜𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗯𝘂𝗹. The streets and buildings of Istanbul, on both its European and Asian sides, on one isometric map you can explore in your browser.
Talip retweeted
Bitcoin Core v32.1: a deeper look
First, why no 32.0?
It was tagged on October 21 but never fully announced or released. A remotely triggerable TCP crash was reported on October 23 and 32.1 shipped on October 27 (yesterday) with that fix and two others.
I'll dig into the security updates, but this release also represents months of testing, maintenance, and work to make Bitcoin easier to verify and use.
What went into these v32.1 changes and what do Bitcoin users get from them?
Talip retweeted
We've just published 15 security advisories across BitcoinJS libraries (14 High and one Medium), with patched releases available on npm.
This follows work with @junderwood4649 and the reporters to investigate the issues, prepare fixes and provide backports for the maintained release lines.
The findings cover areas including transaction and block parsing, PSBT fee calculations, proof verification, mnemonic handling and elliptic-curve operations. Their impact depends on the affected version and how an application uses the library. Each advisory explains those conditions and the required remediation.
If you maintain an application using BitcoinJS packages, please check your direct and transitive dependencies and upgrade affected versions.
For bitcoinjs-lib, the patched releases are 7.0.5, 6.1.10 and 5.2.3, depending on your release line. Both tiny-secp256k1 and bitcoin-js/tiny-secp256k1-asmjs have fixes in 2.2.5.
The other patched releases are bip39 3.1.2 and 2.6.1, bip38 3.1.2 and 2.0.4, bolt11 1.4.2, merkle-lib 2.0.11 and bip32-utils 0.11.2.
Some fixes require changes in the application as well as a dependency update.
You can find the affected ranges, technical details and upgrade guidance here:
github.com/bitcoinjs/bitcoin…
github.com/bitcoinjs/tiny-se…
github.com/bitcoinjs/bip39/s…
github.com/bitcoinjs/bip38/s…
github.com/bitcoinjs/bolt11/…
github.com/bitcoinjs/merkle-…
github.com/bitcoinjs/bip32-u…
Thanks to the researchers and reporters: the Bitcoin Red Team (@Rob1Ham, @callebtc and @danielabrozzoni), @0xaudron, @real_a_kalout and ARSB (github.com/ARSB1).
subexponential 3sat
it's joever guys pack it up time to actually become a carpenter
holy fucking shit
We are announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics about harmonic analysis, complexity theory, and quantum field theory.
openai.com/index/building-sc…
In a couple private groups I've mentioned/discussed this risk over open weight Chinese models, no matter how great they are, there's always the risk of strange behaviours, or even, jailbreaks.
Model weights being in the wild does not let you detect. Heck, even if the training data that is released, if you do not replicate the training end to end completely (?!?!), is there a way to verify that there are no extra additions/removals to the dataset over what's been published?
Once again, welcome to the new era.
p.s. maybe there are solutions to these but I'm not aware of any, at least didnt appear in my timeline. Would be happy to be corrected.
It turns out cohere guys are a bit retarded sometimes lol
But the point stands imo
In a couple private groups I've mentioned/discussed this risk over open weight Chinese models, no matter how great they are, there's always the risk of strange behaviours, or even, jailbreaks.
Model weights being in the wild does not let you detect. Heck, even if the training data that is released, if you do not replicate the training end to end completely (?!?!), is there a way to verify that there are no extra additions/removals to the dataset over what's been published?
Once again, welcome to the new era.
p.s. maybe there are solutions to these but I'm not aware of any, at least didnt appear in my timeline. Would be happy to be corrected.
I am currently in the middle of a long asf blogpost and
This table alone aligns really well with my feelings sort of (except the thinking levels and DS being over Kimi)
But I have a lot more bonuses, stay tuned
Note that it isnt necessarily something intentional, that's not my claim (and here it probably most definitely is not)
But only the ones with paranoia will survive























