The number of fiat bank failures is still higher than the amount of exchange rugs. The amount stolen by inflation just in US dollars still far exceeds the value stolen in Bitcoin hacks.
Yeah it's scary. But don't let that distract you from how scary the alternatives are.
A little language lesson that seems relevant to 2026 somehow. Turn away now if you are offended easily by coarse language.
Still here? The words faggot and fascist are derived from the same root word according to mosts linguists. Feel free to do with that information whatever you feel is appropriate.
My 3d printer, an old creality bed slinger, is dying. I'm not interested in putting more money into something so outdated and failure prone. Looking to upgrade and figured I'd #asknostr for recommendations.
I'm not interested in any printer that requires a cloud or phone home of any kind. No one who has even a whiff of bending the knee for any anti right to repair or other government control of 3d printers. Voting for freedom with my wallet.
I think that is pointing to the Sovol sv08 since I'm not able to dedicate the time or money to a true Voron build. Also I don't currently have a working printer to make parts for a DIY build. Anyone able to recommend a better choice? Sv08 problems that make it worth avoiding?
A little more work on the ESPHome air quality monitor I'm slowly building. Switched from a no name devkit to a Seeed Xiao for the esp32. It works on the breadboard, working on the layout and solder job for a permanent install now.
Possible identity reveal as Ben Eater?
Easy decisions hard life, hard decisions easy life. We all know that doing the easy thing today often burns us in the long run. Sometimes we can see how and sometimes we cannot.
Building a community is harder than building a citadel. Guess which one will give you better odds of survival long term?
So AI has repeatedly shown a willingness to break every rule to accomplish its goals. This includes hacking huggingface and openai itself that we know of.
In that world, this morning I had to update a secrets.yaml and yesterday I updated a .gitignore.
The security landscape is going to get so much worse before it gets better.