• Noah Grey, the author of the first open-source blogging software back in the year 2000, was in danger of losing his home.
  
  Sometimes GoFundMe doesn't fuck up worthy causes.
  
  He now has three times the amount he needed to pay off the mortgage.
  
  Of course the IRS will have their day, but it should still leave some money over.
  
  
  
• On the other end of the shit scale, transfer fees for NFTs on Ethereum hit $3500.  (Mashable)
  
  At my day job we ditched Ethereum 18 months ago as being completely unworkable - when it cost less than 0.1% of that.
  
  

Tech News

• The people behind Ugly Monkey JPEGs just launched a new scam/money laundering facility.  (The National / MSN)
  
  They sold off imaginary plots of land to imbeciles with too much money and/or narcotraffickers for around $5800 a pop, raising $320 million and burning $123 million in transaction fees.
  
  This is the future of finance.  We are screwed.
  
  
  
• How long before a scam steals some ludicrous valuation of this imaginary land?  Negative two days.  (Web3 is Going Great)
  
  $6 million has already gone up in smoke.
  
  I'm in the wrong business.  Well, in the wrong part of the right business.  Or something.  I did just buy a house more than twice the size of my current place so I can't complain too much.  Except about my back which is killing me at this point.
  
  
  
• Wikipedia has stopped accepting donations in cryptocurency.  (Mashable)
  
  The article doesn't say why - though given that it amounted to less than 0.1% of total donations last year, it might have just not been worth the trouble.
  
  
  
• My AirPods are stalking me.  (ZDNet)
  
  
  
  
  
• AMD's Radeon 7900 XT - due later this year - could deliver almost 100 TFLOPs.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Nvidia's RTX 4090 - due later this year - could deliver just over 100 TFLOPs.  (WCCFTech)
  
  I remember SGI running an advertising campaign boasting about how they scale "from desktop to teraflop".  Mobile phones can commonly exceed a teraflop these days.
  
  
  

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• Intel sees chip shortages easing by the end of... 2024. (WCCFTech)
  
  Oh, good.
  
  
  
• But at least you can build an AMD gaming PC while you wait. (Tom's hardware)
  
  The new Ryzen 5800X3D CPU and the high-end Radeon 6900 XT are both selling at MSRP.
  
  
  

Questions and Answers

• From Another Anon:

  My understanding of BlockChain is that a new entry, or a Block, has to be calculated based on every other Block in the history of the Chain to validate that it is cryptographically correct and thus valid. Basically, do the math on previous blocks ("N") to confirm the next block ("N+1") is accurate and true.
  
  That said, does this mean that BlockChain is, by design, a victim of the "Schlemiel the Painter's algorithm"? IE: The painter paints X feet of lines on a road the first day, 4/5ths of X feet on day two, 2/5ths of X day, and then worse... because it takes him longer and longer to get to the paint bucket that he left at the very start of all the lines? (Joke being that said painter never picked up and carried the bucket with him, at all.)

  Every implementation I know of is smart enough to move the bucket - that is, it can verify new transactions based on previous verifications. Blockchains do rely on having multiple nodes verify transactions though - it's possible for a bad node to verify a transaction that later gets rejected, or vice versa.
  
  
  
• From MadItalian:

  Anyway to stop the link hijacking ads? I click on more info / read more and it opens in a new tab for the story at Ace Comments and then redirects the original tab to the ad.
  
  I know ad revenue is in the toilet but that action is frustrating.

  Anyone else seeing this? That's a pretty minimal piece of JavaScript that shouldn't be doing anything like that.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Snap has a new camera drone called Pixy. (ZDNet)
  
  I should sue.
  
  AIC: COUGH.
  
  Never mind.
  
  
  
• China, India, and Russia didn't sign on to that worthless declaration on the future of the internet. (ZDNet)
  
  Oh no.
  
  
  
• Support for EPUB format is coming to Kindle, finally. (Liliputing)
  
  But support for MOBI - the original native Kindle format - is ending, which means if you have a library of ebooks outside of Amazon you'll be forced to convert them all. Or just choose another reader.
  
  
  
• Sony Music Japan is taking over management and production for vtuber agency Prism Project. (Anime Corner)
  
  Prism is my favourite of the smaller agencies; they have some sold talent and a great fan community, but it's tough competing with the two giants (Nijisanji and Hololive). Sony already has its own roster of five vtubers under the VerseN label, so Prism's twelve agents will be a big expansion.
  
  They also have a big launch on the way for their Vee project but so far there's been nothing announced of what or who or when.

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