Now that Pride Month is over, can we make August be Wrath Month?

History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. I expect that governance battles will be a recurring growing pain for Bitcoin.

Cypherpunk Cogitations

Reflections Upon Bitcoin's Block Size Debate

Analysis of the ideological split and narratives employed during Bitcoin's scaling debates.

StarFox for Switch 2 is the perfect reboot for those of you seeking some 90s nostalgia. Same gameplay but better graphics!

My mastodon server stopped syncing so I went in to do maintainance on it. It was about a year out of date so I started following the instructions to upgrade the release version. After several hours of navigating dependency hell I hadn't gotten the first version bump working because it also required migrating all my data to a new postgres version and the postgres version migration tool failed due to permission errors... Suffice to say I'm not bothering to run a mastodon server any more. Running a nostr relay is zero headache while the mastodon server is a bloated app that is not admin friendly at all.

Clarkson's Farm had an episode recently about farm automation and he visited a high tech farm in the Netherlands. This guy built a bunch of drone hardware and software to do precision pesticide and weed control, but laws in the Netherlands make flying drones, even just a few feet off the ground on your own property, illegal. What did the farmer do? He filed the paperwork to have his entire farm designated as an airport! 🧠

I keep pressing "1" on these google phishing automated calls to try to signal to the operators that they should have a human call me but still no luck! Come onnnnnnn I wanna scambait so bad...

Pet peeve: when I tell a friend details of my current location / plans via a secure comms channel and then shortly thereafter they send an EMAIL that includes those details. 🤬

It's a great day to be alive.

"Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said." - Alan Greenspan RIP

I’m thinking of developing a game where you have to go back in time to assassinate Adam & Eve. It's a first person shooter.

Not too shabby.

IN THE WEIGHTS

IN THE WEIGHTS

The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S Thompson

Thinkpad screens don't get bright enough to use at the beach, even with shade from an umbrella 🫠

Blaming a shadowy cabal of gatekeeping Bitcoin is not going to relieve you of the pain of engaging in the messy and frustrating work of persuading your most qualified opponents to adopt your proposed changes to the protocol.

Someone make it make sense.

The only thing worse than no internet access is shitty internet access. If you're a frequent traveler to remote areas, a starlink mini is a no-brainer.

Malicious slop artists are trying to trick me into listing their LLM generated sites on my Bitcoin educational resources. Unfortunately for them, I know how to check GitHub and Internet Archive to assess reputation.

Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make them a bad person. Just because someone agrees with you doesn't make them a good person. You shouldn't judge someone based upon their opinions. Rather, character should be judged by the rationale someone uses to form those opinions.