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Important update for the entire XMTP community: XMTP is becoming an open-source messaging stack you can run yourself. Please read this post for all of the details, changes, and plans for the future https://blog.xmtp.org/future-of-xmtp/
I have an AI agent that logs every negative comment someone makes about me online. It then creates a profile of the person, maps all of their social connections, and finds all their emails. Tomorrow morning, my AI agent will sent out an email blast to everyone's extended social network, detailing the horrible things they've said about me.
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Compiled a list of protocols that have shut down in 2026. 82 protocols year-to-date. I've never seen anything like this before.
a 6 hour (so far) FULL OUTAGE across EVERY SYSTEM is absolutely deranged for a bank @Revolut's entire infra team should be fired, holy absolute failure of the most critical aspect of a financial institution - availability
this is wild connected the kindle over usb and let claude code jailbreak the kindle removed all the Amazon bloat + added tailscale
We are aware that casts on Quorum are not successfully posting, nor replicating to the farcaster fork. We are currently diagnosing. So far, we have confirmed: the snapchain mempool topic, which our node previously was meshed with without issue, suddenly no longer can mesh with them. We have done typical diagnostics and procedures – we cannot get it to peer. We do not know yet if this is intentional from the NS side, but we are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. There is no indication of protocol incompatibility being the root cause, rather, some kind of configuration change, not on our part.
@thefaketomato we're trying to diagnose this, but what we're currently seeing is that casts sent to haatz (the endpoint quorum uses) are not getting accepted in the forwarding to snapchain. can't confirm yet, but it's acting as if they blocked our peer from forwarding messages. f…
Is my Ledger safe, or is there a spy implant in it? Detecting a spy implant without cracking your device open is possible. I'm working on a device to make it cheap and easy, and will publish the PCB and specs so anyone will be able to build it. https://youtu.be/0tLgcshzErI
