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Discord just filed to IPO.
Surely this won't have any negative consequences for its users. 😬
If you ever accidentally delete a disk partition and need to quickly undo, "testdisk" is a very powerful utility that works on multiple operating systems.
Ironically, I deleted a partition while using "ntfsfix" to try to unset the "dirty bit" on an NTFS partition that Linux refused to mount. Turns out if you give the root device as a parameter rather than the specific device partition, "ntfsfix" will just wipe all of the partitions without warning! ⚠️⚠️⚠️
Indeed, there are many points along the process that may stop it from ever reaching a courtroom.
The entire situation is tragic and easily avoidable, but I can confidently predict that the State will deem this to be a justifiable homicide.
Not saying I agree with it, but the State heavily weighs the system in favor of protecting the safety of its agents over that of non-agent citizens.
Everybody wants to fuck around.
Nobody wants to find out.
You can call them Knotzis; they've earned it!
Knots didn't filter it either. Turns out the lead maintainer doesn't even know what code he's slurping from upstream 😬
https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/29.x-knots/src/wallet/dump.cpp#L289-L292
Yes, the bug was introduced in v29 and was merged into knots. Verified here:
https://x.com/w_s_bitcoin/status/2008925702893011155
Buttcoiner hopium 😏

An overlooked benefit of sticking to free weights is that, unlike with machines, when you travel 1 kilogram always equals 1 kilogram.