The devs listened <3 I complained for quite a while that writing tests for @phylaxsystems assertions had really bad devex. External feedback verified this, and fixing the devex was prioritized. The fix is a simpler and more powerful testing interface!

I'm an idiot. First I thought a magic touchpad would be a good idea for my office setup, I was very wrong. Then I thought a logi mx 3s would be a good idea, because everyone recommends it, but it actually is a PIA to config and I accidentally double click all the time. I should just have ordered a second Razer Basilisk, which is absolutely amazing and half the price of the logi and 25% of the touchpad.

I'm a very optimistic person with my own particular view on AI. Please, by all means, use/experiment with AI. Explore it. Stretch it. But _please, please_ keep your hands on the wheel. Otherwise, we're just passengers in someone else's _untrusted_ car (meaning a car of OpenAI, Google, Meta, etc.) and we don't even know where it's going. Tools can get sharper, but not wiser. That part must always remain with us. You know, thinking is (y)our last line of defence. Surrender it and you become a slave to the machine, not its master.

The battle is far from being over. There's no fucking way we're letting the government win. Roman will not spend a single day behind bars. It's our duty to back him up with everything we've got. If Roman wins, privacy wins, and that's a victory for all of us. Let's show the world that we, as a community, are fucking stronger than they ever thought. We will not let Roman down. ✊️

Louis CK made this joke/point a decade ago, but it's every bit as relevant today as it was then. Everything is amazing, yet you do nothing but complain about it. We are an utterly ungrateful species.

I stand with @rstormsf, @semenov_roman_, and @alex_pertsev. Writing open source code is not a crime. Online financial privacy is not a crime. Creating permissionless software is not a crime.

🚨NEW: Just caught @rstormsf outside the courtroom. I asked how he was feeling. In a quiet voice, but with a noticeable smile, he told me: “It’s a big win. The ‘1960’ charge is bullshit and we’re going to fight it all the way. You know how President Trump said ‘fight, fight, fight’? We’ll do that too.” He expressed relief at not being remanded to jail and mentioned his 5-year-old daughter as one of the reasons he plans to keep fighting the one charge he was convicted on. He said he’s heading back to Seattle tomorrow.

This is the charge he was found guilty on: 18 U.S. Code § 1960 - Prohibition of unlicensed money transmitting businesses (a) Whoever knowingly conducts, controls, manages, supervises, directs, or owns all or part of an unlicensed money transmitting business, shall be fined in accordance with this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both. (1) the term “unlicensed money transmitting business” means a money transmitting business which affects interstate or foreign commerce in any manner or degree and— (C) otherwise involves the transportation or transmission of funds that are known to the defendant to have been derived from a criminal offense or are intended to be used to promote or support unlawful activity;

If Roman is not found guilty, he's not guilty, right? I don't know much about the US legal system, but that must be the case, right?

We have a verdict in US. v Storm