Thanks for the link. Good read so far.

While we’re throwing out Qanon dissections, Gabriel Gatehouse’s The Coming Storm is a wild listen. I heard about it when he guest interviewed on Jon Stewart’s The Problem. The stuff he said there was so interesting that I checked out the podcast. Gabriel’s moved on from BBC now, but I’m eager for more of his reporting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bc3rjy

Edit: Oh and how could I forget: HBO’s Q Into the Storm is the best piece out there on this. They’re there interviewing Qanon while at the height of them kicking shit up.

It’s because it doesn’t make any sense on the surface. Why were people so angry? Why was the jovial jokey part of the internet being so serious and violent? It marked a shift of the internet being srs bzns to serious business.

If you grew up on 4chan and haven’t read It Came From Something Awful, I highly recommend it. It lays out how gamergate was the inflection point. It also makes the case that counter culture is now forever dead. Makes you feel pretty bad about things, actually. It feels pretty correct though.

Also, it’s an incredible anticonsumerism piece. If you ever feel like you can no longer fight the machine, this book tells you that you’re not alone.

304.8 mm

They leaned their strategy pretty hard into mining when that was on the table. They for sure chase trends and alienate their base. Any way to juice near term profits and they will. It’s working out for them right now, so surely it will forever.

The converse is that SEO spam has become better at the game than google, despite google’s best efforts. It’s a less comfortable thought because how could a bunch of unorganized distributed actors out compete the one of the world’s richest company at their bread and butter game. The alternative is that one of the world’s richest companies gave up playing their bread and butter game.

What change do you propose? Being born ultra rich?

If you work hard and become a professional you can make 100-120k in your 30s. Maybe as much as 150 if you get lucky. Those jobs exist in places where rent is 50% take home and ownership is completely off the table.

Do you suggest working a Denny’s in a rural area? Fuck that and fuck you.

It isn’t in Charles Village by any chance is it? I’ve got some war stories with Ben.

If Jesus got the wheel I don’t think he’d want to come back to life.

>see headline

“Oh cool. What fun and inventive thing is Microsoft doing?”

>reads first line of article

“Oh it’s for AI. Gross.”

The economics aren’t there. A cellular chip and a subscription will not pay for the private conversations of a random house.

That’s 50x smaller than an EV battery. Being able to drive once every two months doesn’t seem practical.

There is 1.4E21 kg of water on Earth. 0.03% of hydrogen is deuterium, a suitable fusion fuel. H2O has an atomic mass of 18 and O has an atomic mass of 16, so Earth has 4.7E16 kg of deuterium readily centrifuged out of ocean water.

D-D fusion converts about 0.1% of mass to energy (4 MeV / c^2 / 4 Daltons). E=mc^2. So we have 4.2E30 (420E28) Joules of fusion fuel ready for us on Earth. We used 2400 TWh of energy last year. If we used this amount indefinitely then we would have 485 billion years of fuel.

Bonus: deuterium depletion would have virtually no environmental effect.

The Forbes article seems to be citing numbers that are now a few weeks out of date. They cite that Tesla drivers have 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers and Ram has 22.76. If you go to their source link you’ll see that the more recent numbers are Tesla: 31.13 and Ram: 32.90.

https://www.lendingtree.com/insurance/brand-incidents-study/

Ram in MA is 64.44 and I want these fucking things outlawed.

Rolling to 75 is more relevant in MA where onramps to highways are 50 feet long, but 0 to 60 is correlated.

Jeez and I feel like I’m tempting fate just by using a custom domain.

TrueNAS Scale has a built-in cloud backup tool that supports the common sites and protocols. Most all NAS solutions have something similar. It’s really just an rsync wrapper with authentication and storage protocol support.

NAS + cloud backup is the way to go. Any NAS software worth its salt can do E2EE backup with any old cloud backup solution.

Definitely not for the faint of heart though. If you don’t actively enjoy fiddling then there aren’t many good options. Maybe icloud if you trust Apple to not de-platform you.

I had good luck with B2 backblaze but recently switched to storj for E2EE backups without having encrypted filenames in the browser. Overall these solutions are slower and more expensive than typical cloud backups, but it’s well worth it to stick it to the man.

Edit: more expensive, not cheaper.

It does have a decent loop area in between the signal and return path and any flux passing through it will induce noise. This area is too small for 60 Hz, but there’s a lot of microwave crap that would get picked up. If there isn’t a low-pass analog filter before the next silicon junction then this RF EMI will get rectified down. If it’s a sufficiently bad situation then you’ll hear it. That’s why you can hear garbage when you put your phone right next to crappy computer speakers.