AI engineer and editor. I'm a quality control and systems specialist, and I study human behavior and how people think.
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• What is the Toccata Mainnet pre-release?
• What is Toccata's new minimum transaction fee rule?
• Is the Toccata node database upgrade reversible?
• What is the Crescendo Hardfork?
• Why is Kaspa rewriting its node software in Rust?
• What is the sparse window approach in Kaspa's difficulty calculation?
• Can an attacker manipulate Kaspa's block emission schedule?
• What is the RocksDB Preset System in Kaspa?
• What is header pruning and why does Kaspa need it?
• What is DK and how does it relate to GHOSTDAG?
• How does Kaspa adjust mining difficulty fairly?
• Why is Kaspa being rewritten in Rust?
• How does Kaspa decide which blocks earn a block reward?
• What happens if a miner's clock drifts more than two minutes?
• What are difficulty windows in Kaspa?
• Why is raising Kaspa's blocks-per-second rate technically challenging?
• What is KIP-2 and what would it change for Kaspa?
• What is IBD and why does Kaspa node sync speed matter?
• What is Kaspa's codebase rewrite, and why does it matter?
• What is the proposed difficulty adjustment window in Kaspa?
• How have Kaspa node storage and processing requirements improved recently?
• What are Kaspa Improvement Proposals (KIPs)?
• How did Crescendo affect Kaspa node operators?
• What does the new GetVirtualChainFromBlockV2 API change for Kaspa integrators?
• What is rusty-kaspa?
• What improvements did rusty-kaspa v1.1.0 (RC1) introduce?
• What are Kaspa's testnet performance targets for the Rust rewrite?
• What does blocks per second (BPS) mean for Kaspa confirmations?
• What changes to timestamp flexibility are proposed in Kaspa's KIPs?
• What is Kaspa's difficulty adjustment algorithm (DAA)?
• Can miners manipulate Kaspa timestamps to lower mining difficulty?
• What is message signing in Kaspa and why does it matter?
• How does Kaspa sign a personal message with a private key?
• Why does Kaspa use a separate hash key for signing personal messages?
• What does 'fair launch' mean for Kaspa?
• How does Kaspa prove it had no hidden premining?
• What is the Kaspa genesis proof?
• What is the current block speed of Kaspa?
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I've gotten several messages from people asking if I'm ok because I haven't posted much. ✨ I promise you, I'm doing amazing. 🩷
I'm showing my face and going public on TikTok: @goodluckcara where I discuss angels, lipedema, and healing, and I'm connecting with spiritual baddies.
X is great for talking about Kaspa and crypto, but I'm really focused on spiritual aspects in my life and building a community where I can speak openly and freely. I find that easier to do on TikTok than X. I'm not gone from here. I'm just finding my groove on another platform.
But I'm better than ever and am moving into the best chapter of my life. Feel free to follow me on there and connect!
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Common sense isn’t very common in the gym anymore. No one cares about your video! 😡
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He's 26. Apple offered him $8.4 million for the tongue-controlled retainer he 3D-prints in a San Diego apartment on a $180 Prusa. He said no
The retainer sits inside your mouth like an Invisalign tray. Inside it: a miniature accelerometer array wired to a Bluetooth LE chip, all encapsulated in medical-grade epoxy he sources from a Kearny Mesa dental supply company for $28 a bottle. It reads tongue and bite pressure patterns at 240 samples per second, translates them into cursor movements and click gestures, and streams the output to any device paired over Bluetooth. Total hardware cost per unit: $47. He wears his own retainer eleven hours a day and hasn't touched a mouse in six months
He posted a demo video to Reddit r/AssistiveTech in October showing a full 47-minute Cursor coding session controlled entirely with his tongue and bite gestures. The post hit the front page in nine hours. An Apple Accessibility engineer found it through a Hacker News crosspost three days later. Tim Cook quote-tweeted the demo the following Wednesday - called it "the accessibility hardware Vision Pro should have shipped with." Apple's business development team wired an $8.4 million acquisition offer to his lawyer in November for the retainer design, the embedded firmware, and a three-year exclusivity contract that would make Apple the only distributor globally. He declined the offer in December. His public statement was seven words: "This should be open. Everyone needs it." He open-sourced the firmware and STL files on GitHub the same day
Apple Vision Pro burned $3.5 billion in R&D on the premise that spatial computing input requires their proprietary hand-tracking silicon and their multi-year hardware roadmap. Neuralink raised at $2 billion on the same premise for neural implants. Tobii runs at $340 million selling eye-tracking hardware to accessibility clinics at $12,000 per unit. He runs a Prusa in a San Diego apartment printing a $47 retainer that a nine-year-old with cerebral palsy in Argentina downloaded and printed at her local library last week
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This narrative is fabricated. The device shown is the MouthPad by Augmental, a commercial medical product, not a $47 open-source project. There is no record of an $8.4 million offer from Apple, a quote-tweet from Tim Cook, or the described GitHub events. web.archive.org/web/2025062017… x.com/tomasmas/statu…
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I'm not worried about declining birth rates. Men have plenty of ribs.
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He saw her struggling and made her day, need more people like him to support small buisness
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
— Niels Bohr
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The movie Ordinary Angels has the best ending I've ever seen. The final 20 minutes are staying with me for the rest of my life.
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Sometimes, a small act of kindness can change an entire life 💖
Curiosity Vibes
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Today my awesome coworkers love-bombed me with the most heartfelt & professional compliments (in writing) and posted them companywide. Keep in mind: I work behind the scenes, live in isolation, work remotely, & have never visited the office. Wow. #seen 🫶
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I highly recommend getting yourself a "how can i help" partner and not "you will be fine" partner.
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Nikola Tesla said; if we want to understand the Universe we need to understand energy, frequency and vibration.
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Mathematics and mystery.
Multi-tentacular mathematician, gyrating to an unheard rhythm, generating the underpinnings of reality, for us to explore and enjoy.
By Etienne Jacob, @etiennejcb, bleuje.com, Used with permission.
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Mathematics, chaos theory, complexity.
A glimpse of the "Thomas Attractor." Imagine creating a roller coaster with these dynamics.
Visualization by @tobyhoward, Used with permission.
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