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ChimeraDefi retweeted
> At the same time, we must scale the chain in order for projects to onboard users and have them enjoy ethereum for cents/tx, not hundreds of dollars, and it's a balancing act.
why are these hypothetical projects not deploying and onboarding users on the plethora of chains that already exist with transactions that are cheap and fast?
it's a big assumption that this specifically is what Ethereum needs to do to win vs being a home for transactions that are slightly more expensive, but come with solid immutability guarantees
ChimeraDefi retweeted
And number one: doing Devcon on the eve of one of the most important holiday for Indians, when many tens of thousands come home to visit from overseas to be with their families, was a stupid idea (if you wanted Indians to be able to actually come)
Devcon in India was bad because the ETH ecosystem has been punched in the gut for years, everyone is poor again, and any existing communities are more fractured and hanging on by threads.
And with this Devcon being out of reach for many as a result, it feels like a final blow to a lot of ETH people who could have used a Devcon, I’m sure (though maybe the only people left are like me and just here forever, so nothing matters).
Point is, I still think that a Devcon in a more accessible location to the *existing* community of builders and devs would have been a better outcome for Ethereum’s ecosystem.
I tried to hint at these thoughts a while back and was more or less accused of just being privileged.
So why can it not all be true that:
1. it’s important to expand the dev community further to places like India
2. a physical devcon there in this market might not be the best way to expand the dev community in India
3. a location that considered the existing community for devcon, and hosting a separate ETHIndia to focus on local dev expansion, would have been better
I know it’s all said and done, but I just feel like Devcon was more harmful than helpful honestly, which kind of sucks. Hope I’m wrong.
ChimeraDefi retweeted
Replying to @kennyistyping
are you serious right now?
all our stuff is open source and fast. that's why the devs use them and love them, and people cant rmb how it was to dev on ethereum before we build these tools. you need the devtools to build anything. the devtools gotta be fast else your devs churn. 101. basics!
promoting the usage of a slow, painfully dumb setup e.g a miniature quantized qwen in your qubes over tor using kohaku is not making the world a better place or promoting a helpful ideology, it's making you sound like a fucking hipster, and worse you're baiting other people with potential in dumb hipster philosophies.
ChimeraDefi retweeted
This is the guy who was on the LearJet that crashed.
From a business perspective, what a legend, may he rest in peace.
2019: I want a $25m ARR biz w/ >35 FTE.
Retention.com today: $23m ARR, 27 FTE.
2024: $10m ARR w/ 3 FTEs is the dream.
RB2B.com Today: $9.5m ARR, 3 FTE’s
Today: I want a $1B ARR 1 man startup.
MoltSets.com in 2028: …to be continued...
ChimeraDefi retweeted
SOLAR: 100x FASTER SOLIDITY
Solar is the future of Solidity and the EVM.
It's >100x faster than Solc.
It has faster bytecode than Solady with no assembly.
Its bytecode is faster to interpret by the EVM.
Solar fixes Stack Too Deep!
foundryup
forge --use solar
Blog below.
ChimeraDefi retweeted
yet a woman can say her boyfriend hit her and police will immediately arrest him without proof or evidence. this is bullshit
We want to address some confusion surrounding the investigation into the home invasion in the Bridle Path neighbourhood.
Investigators immediately recognized the potential connection between the home invasion and the individual who showed up at hospital with a gunshot wound.
But recognizing a potential suspect and having enough evidence to arrest them are two different things. Suspicion alone isn’t enough. Police need reasonable grounds, supported by evidence, to make an arrest.
We will continue to gather evidence and will go where the evidence takes us. We are grateful for the professionalism, tenacity and commitment of our investigators who continue this work.
Let’s keep the focus where it belongs: finding the outstanding suspects and holding those responsible for this violent home invasion accountable.
ChimeraDefi retweeted
Hard for me to see someone who was a colleague at MIT relishing in my destruction. Particularly since they barely knew me and never bothered--as perhaps scientists should--to check if there was another version of events.
🚨 BOMBSHELL COURT EVIDENCE EXPOSES EXPLOSIVE PRIVATE MESSAGES REVEALING COORDINATION BETWEEN KRISTIN KNOUSE AND MIT PROFESSOR SANGEETA BHATIA IN THE DAVID M. SABATINI ORDEAL.
🔱 NEW REVELATION — Court evidence exposes how Knouse and Bhatia privately celebrated Sabatini’s removal, discussed the potential destruction of his professional career, and anticipated the revocation of his @MIT tenure.
An 80-message exchange between Kristin Knouse and MIT Professor Sangeeta Bhatia, dated August 20–21, 2021, reveals their private reactions immediately following Whitehead Institute and HHMI's severance of ties with Professor @DMSabatini.
The communications contain statements that deserve serious public examination.
🔴 1. “YOU DID IT” — “AND HE’S OUT.”
On August 20, 2021, Bhatia congratulated Knouse:
🔴 “YOU DID IT. You crossed the finish line. It's out in the open. And you're not out in the open. And you're on the faculty. And he's out.”
Knouse responded:
🔴 “You connecting me to Nancy [Hopkins]was the turning point. I will never forget that walk in Lexington.”
🔴 2. “THIS WAS THE OUTCOME I DREAMED OF.”
The following morning, as news coverage spread, Knouse discussed the possibility of Sabatini losing his MIT tenure:
🔴 “Hard to imagine MIT will be left with any choice other than to revoke tenure.”
Bhatia responded:
🔴 “You're right about tenure”
She subsequently wrote:
🔴 “This was the outcome I dreamed of but NEVER certain I would get it.”
Knouse also described her assessment of Whitehead's handling of the matter:
🔴 “And as skeptical as I was of Whitehead's end game, in the end I think the overall process was perfectly executed.”
Bhatia expressed her approval of Whitehead Institute Director Ruth Lehmann:
🔴 “I'm proud of Ruth [Lehmann]”
These exchanges occurred months before MIT's April 2022 tenure-revocation recommendation.
🔴 3. THE PROFESSIONAL CONSEQUENCES — BEYOND WHITEHEAD.
The participants also discussed Sabatini's corporate affiliations and prospects for future employment.
Knouse wrote:
🔴 “I know of one company already speaking with lawyers to remove him on grounds of morality clause.”
She subsequently stated:
🔴 “Hard to imagine how he can be gainfully employed anywhere after the past 24 hours ...”
These were not merely discussions about an institutional investigation. They extended to the potential consequences for Sabatini's career, tenure, corporate affiliations, and future livelihood.
🔴 4. THE DIVERSITY SURVEY AND PROTECTION FROM PUBLIC IDENTIFICATION.
In another particularly consequential exchange, Bhatia wrote:
🔴 “Also the dei survey and subsequent investigation really protects you, which I love. There is not even a scent of whistleblower in all the press.”
This statement takes on particular significance alongside the previously disclosed communications in which Knouse and Nora Kory discussed using Whitehead's diversity survey to conceal an investigation already under consideration (📑 see the original court evidence in the first comment below).
🔴 5. “WE DRANK CHAMPAGNE” — CELEBRATING AS THE NEWS SPREAD.
Perhaps the most striking exchange appears on KK011419.
On August 21, 2021, Knouse declared:
🔴 “I KNOW! Young people took down a relatively young king. Progress, progress, progress.”
Knouse also wrote:
🔴 “Two other women who came forward and I drank champagne while watching the Tweets and articles roll in last night. It felt like campaign headquarters after an election victory. Really special.”
Bhatia responded:
🔴 “That's awesome.”
These exchanges reinforce the serious concerns about coordination and conflicts of interest raised by our previous disclosures. Their significance must be assessed alongside the full documentary record and the subsequent jury verdict.
The scientific community deserves full accountability for any misconduct established by the evidence, including the roles of individuals who participated in or improperly influenced the institutional processes that subjected Professor Sabatini to a devastating ordeal and profoundly damaged his career.
📑 REVIEW THE ORIGINAL COURT EVIDENCE BELOW.
🔱 ScienceGuardians™ Legal and Investigative Team
MORE COURT EVIDENCE. MORE REVELATIONS. STAY TUNED. ⚠️
@SciGuardians 🔱
so many gems and great tips in this talk from @yminsky about how to improve your codebase for agents
• agents thrive on feedback, and types are one of the best kinds
• make illegal states unrepresentable with types, and it enforces global rules across your codebase
• property based tests, fuzzing, and even full-system deterministic simulation testing
• expect tests: just print stuff out and capture it in the test. makes behavior legible. it's very similar to how compilers have fixture tests, it reduces the review surface area
• formal methods used to be very expensive: seL4 is about 8,700 lines of C and took around 25 person-years, with 23 lines of proof for every line of C code, but agents change the roi
youtube.com/watch?v=rUYP4C29…
ChimeraDefi retweeted
I've said this a few times but I really want to emphasize it:
This isn't the usual "gemini is silly and 5-10% behind the other labs".
Gemini is a straight up liability in your stack. Any engineer who thinks it's usable should not be taken seriously.
ChimeraDefi retweeted
We are officially in private beta with the first 5 users on-boarded.
DM or comment to join the waitlist and we’ll swing you a link to the public beta in the coming days.
ChimeraDefi retweeted
Initia chain hacked and a bunch of tokens infiniminted.
Hacker has cashed out $2.6m thus far with more in flight
ChimeraDefi retweeted
October has been an absolute nightmare for software
> Railway - customer secrets exposure
> LiteLLM - malicious PyPI + Docker releases
> Zeabur - infrastructure breached
> OpenCode - AI API keys exposed
> OVHcloud CLI - official binaries backdoored
> Rank Math PRO - malware in official plugin
> TeamUpdraft - customer data compromised
> ConnectWise - cloud backup identities compromised
> Tensorlake - npm package infected
> SubQuery - backdoored npm package
> GhostAction - GitHub repos with malicious workflows
> PHP - critical RCE vulnerabilities
> Node.js - security vulnerabilities patched
> eMudhra - certificate authority keys compromised
> Tailscale - eMudhra incident
At this point, the biggest security risk might not be the code we write, but the code we trust...


































