It is all vibes, and the vibes will never be pure enough on a censorship resistant public bulletin board.

Yes.

She got into the position by being really good and convincing other contributors, includng Luke, of her abilities.

She was really good at her work.

I don't share his impressions at all. Obviously I am highly biased, but from my perspective the project is as cypherpunk as ever, still has the OGs he named heavily involved, and moderation is as light handed as possible. The geographical distribution listed is very incomplete. Also not clear to me who the DEI hires are supposed to be here?

We can all agree on that.

Your description of the scheme brings a distinct geometrical shape to mind.

It is the latest of a few 'eco-populist' proposals by the right wing conservative party. If you read the actual text, it embeds the proposal in ecological reasoning - paraphrased "to guarantee a sustainable population growth, especially in protection of the environment...". Putting a technocratic cap on pop growth is an easy no from me though.

Yes, it is that.

South Africa.

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I enjoyed the analogy with the aircraft. In the end it should feel mundane if it works well.

This makes my stone masonry heart warm and fuzzy

Is that last thing that for many development is becoming a performative act to be shared like a holiday on the socials?

I've also wasted time on some of his sensationalist twitter posts, but once it became clear that he's just regurgitating a chat window's output, I quickly gave up. Others spent way more time on it though, which is really frustrating. The constant pandering to some specific agenda (which I think you picked up on correctly), is very annoying. Others have similarly hinted at efforts to build alternative clients.

Indeed.

Also hard work happening in Core at the moment on making maintaining it way more efficient.

bitcoiners must

No.

I only mention Core, because it uses the same bootstap chain, that you could use for LDK, LNDK, Ord, etc. Maybe it would have been better to mention Liana wallet, which is Rust-based and uses this bootstrap chain too.

I wouldn't trust anything that guy is saying. As far as I know there is a bootstrap for Rust through mrustc, gcc, and finally stage0. Bitcoin Core takes a lot of in pride in only shipping a binary that is built from a fully transparently bootstrapped toolchain using a similar chain of tools.

Thanks for the summary :)

I don't know, I've never lived within either :)