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We still doing BGP update typos?

Meanwhile my Wordpress blog on DigitalOcean is up. And so is DigitalOcean. My ISP is routing public internet traffic to my IPs these days. What keeps me from running my blog from h…

Does requiring proof-of-work in order to connect accomplish 99% of what Cloudflare does?

I was reading up on home lab server racks, and every single site is down with a Cloudflare error. So much for DIY!

I live by myself and "charge" calories to an account whenever I buy raw foods at the store or eat out. Then, whatever is in my house, I have already "accounted" for in my caloric b…

None of this would matter if there were real competition in the insurance market, instead of people having to change jobs to change insurance, and not getting a direct say even the…

They claim one resolution to the Fermi paradox is that civilizations tend to evolve toward a state that resembles nature (non-industrial or non-civilizational, I'm not sure). So th…

Media profit from our outrage. And we go along with it. Politicians derive power from our outrage. And again we go along with it. We must befriend our political rivals. Consider th…

If one could, say, solve this problem, which is apparently quite difficult, then it could be the basis of a premium product?

U.S. manufactured microcontrollers can be had for < $100 for instance. With the parts, the assembly per unit must take on the order of minutes. How do you get to $10,000?

The last steps I still can't fathom. When everything is outsourced to China, it is inevitable that you, now a mere middleman, will be cut out. So by maximizing profit at each step …

It appears that Valetudo is an alternative firmware for existing robot vacuums. The OpenWRT of robot vacuums if you will. I don't think it's accurate to say that it is simply us wa…

No... I ask this question in all humility... but also frustration---my ignorance of hardware is part of my country's ignorance of hardware, because we don't make things here anymor…

There is no robot vacuum manufactured in the United States as far as I can tell. It seems crazy to me---these devices map out the interior of people's homes and businesses, often w…

I lived in Provo for 17 years and the legacy of WordPerfect was still in the air - not to mention the development and gardens at Thanksgiving Point which was an Ashton project, IIU…

With LLMs and foreign troll farms and bot nets, it seems it would be valuable for Americans, or any country's citizens, to have conversations that more or less can be relied on to …

You can use libtorch directly via `tch-rs`, and at present I'm porting over to Burn (see https://burn.dev ) which appears incredibly promising. My impression is it's in a good plac…

When I set out to learn Rust about a decade ago, I chose to write a game - a clone of "Empire" that I call Umpire. It's a different task to re-implement an already-designed languag…

I learned programming on QBASIC in the 90's, aged 11 or so. My brother and I had dabbled with GW-BASIC, which a more knowledgeable friend used to draw cool-looking rainbows and wha…

One way to say "none of your business" is to abandon their OS. Did so at the beginning of the year and haven't looked back. (Linux Mint on workstation; Debian 12 on laptop; Proton …

Valve's work is what let me ditch Windows completely earlier this year.

One issue with solar and wind is their intermittency. But (my economics / engineering mind thinks) if we have a market for electricity where the price of electricity depends on cur…

"There are no figures available on how many Salvadorans have taken up Bitcoin." Doesn't this contradict the headline?

Should the permitted traits by which the state and employers discriminate be a whitelist rather than blacklist?

What's the multithreading story? tch-rs's (and libtorch's) lack of real threading support was causing problems for my async code - at least, I haven't found a way to work around it…