tupac's murderer convicted 30 years later 👀

i feel stupid for having sang praises of the clever design choices in coldcard while unaware until today its seeds were generated from such low entropy. i should have known better. hearing about these losses from strangers and people i know feels bad

a few months ago i moved my blocksdir off my node's 1TB SSD to a spinning disk drive to put off buying a 2TB SSD had a random chainstate database corruption a couple days ago reindex-chainstate took 20 hours 🫠🫠

my preferred way to watch world cup is finding a stream from social media, then dig into the ad-riddled page to find where the video stream (m3u) is hosted. then stick it in vlc or add it to jellfin liveTV the best streams are almost always from mexico, dont understand what they're saying but sure sounds exciting -- bless them 🙏

some taiwanese still follow folk religions with traditions with historical record going back to the 16th-17th century. (for comparison, the Catholics in Taiwan didnt get to stick around until the 1850s, Matsu worship is probably the closest) In donggang district they have a cool exhibit called the King Boat museum. The king boat refers to 王爺 which is a deity that wards off disease that is also celebrated in Mingnan provinces of mainland china and throughout southeast asia too (vietnam, Philippines, indonesia, etc). Oftentimes when people talk about Taiwan's "ancient" historical ties to China it's referring to these sorts of traditions which is only a subset of what has been followed around the island across history and certainly unrecognizable to People's Republic of China of modern times in taiwan, every 3 years they construct beautiful ships as a tribute to the deities only to burn them when completed. Set a giant wooden ship on fire every 3 years as a measure to suppress epidemics 🤭

at the donggang bluefin tuna auction in Pintung County Taiwan looks like a great haul today 🤤

today went gravesweeping for my great grandmother (1887) which ive never met. During gravesweeping season there are many to go to, but i look forward to this one in particular because the view is great. its an old site overlooking Tamsui River toward the sea that sometimes hard to find because of overgrowth, and alongside 4 decades of wear, has destroyed most of the paths to it. However a unique pair of angels help mark it. There are angels instead of the traditional guardian lions because she became a Christian late in her life. the view has changed a lot and the path up here has gotten harder, but the great weather today make it worth it

tuna season in Taiwan begins 🥳🥳. the fisherman association press release says the ship captain is the oldest ever at 67 years old (53rd year on the job) to catch the first tuna of the season. https://www.tkfisher.org.tw/Comm_NewsPage?sid=F4C7A091E0F054CDB32C79150B8918CD&enid=AC0D16E6A82B6F1EBEAE1166868912C9

today i opened X and saw a post describing that oysters are a sewage filter which i thought was a funny way to describe them, but then it followed with many replies of people declaring they'll never eat an oyster who doesnt like oysters 🤨? surely they're trolling, right? taiwanese cuisine has oyster omelettes (egg, sweet potato + tapioca starch, and oysters), so delicious