Macro Value Bros: "X, Y and Z are massively overvalued. Don't people realize P, D and Q are imminent? IMMINENT, I tell you! When SHTF these investors are going to be FUBAR." Markets: "Nobody cares. You've been saying the same thing for 10 years."

H/T: UncompromisingM (other bird app)

"Did Tape Storage Die Today?" No.

Tom

Tape Storage Trundles On, Increases Yearly Volume to 128 Exabytes

For a storage medium said to be dying, tape is looking pretty good.

Python Package Index (PyPI) was subpoenaed: data on 5 users demanded by US DoJ

PyPI was subpoenaed - The Python Package Index Blog

The PSF received three subpoenas from the US Department of Justice for PyPI user data in March and April of 2023.

Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary

Bitcoin defunds the State; Nostr actually replaces it

Why real world economic trade is the key to mainstream Nostr adoption, and how relational contracting indicates the viability of global, State-less...

H/T: @Delta, Dirac

bitcoin transactions supplement miners miners sustain excess grid capacity excess grid capacity supports economic development *gradually, then suddenly ( World Bank: Different Dimensions of Energy are Closely Associated with Rising Per Capita Incomes:

World Bank Blogs

How much do we know about the development impacts of energy infrastructure?

Can investment in energy infrastructure directly lead to growth or does it simply follow growth? With climate change intensifying over the coming c...

)

Good advice from Vint Cerf.

IEEE Spectrum

Vint Cerf’s Career Advice for Engineers

The Internet’s co-creator on humility, collaboration, and cultivating soft skills

snap (packages) and snapd are basically bloatware for Ubuntu here's how to remove and disable them completely:

Baeldung on Linux

How to Remove and Disable Snap | Baeldung on Linux

The snap package manager may impose limitations on how certain software is installed. We can disable it from our system if needed. We look at how t...

(better yet use Linux Mint, Debian, etc.)

Do the 'weirdest' thing that feels right. "Weirdness is a construct that is a stand-in for other people’s expectations."

Do the weirdest thing that feels right.

From "what to write" to "how to live" | Castles in the Sky #35

Flowchart of how Slack decides to send a notification. Goes to show why a simple feature may take much longer to develop than many people think. Users may not have any clue of the complexity of a system's design if it feels like the thing "just works".

There are 1000's of bitcoiners and other #remnant here building, speaking their minds, evading censorship, escaping shadowbanning and sidestepping centralized systems of control.

Short term bearing bitcoin and risk... Chance the Fed raises again in June, and balance sheet continues to roll off as they said they would. It's been a year now (of raising/QT) and multiple banks have failed. You have to ask yourself: What would be the catalyst for the Fed to actually pivot, lower rates and restart QE? (Really bad, is what it would have to be. Hence bearish risk until something *different* happens.) #my2sats