Friday, January 07
Daily News Stuff 7 January 2022
Nerd Fight Edition
I've heard this song a hundred times but never saw the video before today. It's everything I could have asked for.
Nerd Fight Edition
Top Story
- Nerds have swarmed Mozilla, the organisation behind the Firefox browser, after it announced it would accept donations in cryptocurrencies. (Tech Crunch)
Chief nerd and Mozilla cofounder Jamie Zawinski was quoted as saying:
Which made me laugh out loud because there's nothing better than watching communists fight over money.
- Talking to the blockchain camp and the anti-blockchain camp makes me understand why jocks shoved nerds into lockers back in the day. Insufferable asshats the lot of them.
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- Speaking of communist and money global Bitcoin mining suffered a blow when Kazakhstan shut down its internet. (The Guardian)
The people of Kazakhstan barely rate a mention. The effects of massive civil unrest on Bitcoin's price, though, that's important.
- The Signal messaging app meanwhile now supports untraceable-ish crypto payments. (Wired)
The blockchain is public, but that doesn't mean you need to make it easy to track payments. You just need to be able to prove that a given amount has or has not been paid, and you can do that while keeping other details secret.
- Meanwhile comedy struck Manhattan when an art gallery owner lost two million dollars worth of imaginary monkeys. (Motherboard)
Oh no. Anyway-
- Yes, it's a Ponzi Scheme. So what? (CoinDesk)
That's illegal is what, you chucklefucks. Doing it in purely digital fashion just makes you automatically eligible for wire fraud charges.
- In non-crypto news (I hope) Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 has an 8 inch tablet. (CNet)
Not is an 8 inch tablet, has an 8 inch tablet. To the right of the keyboard.
And it's one of those shitty 1280x800 models too because we can't have nice things even when they are otherwise absurd.
- France has fined Facebook and Google €210 million over asymmetric cookie popups. (The Register)
Being jerks, Facebook and Google made it much harder to turn down cookies than to accept them.
Being jerks, France decided to steal their lunch money.
Nearly as good as watching communists fight over money.
- The ESA is sending a probe to visit the moons of Jupiter. (Popular Science)
All 67 of them, in fact. Which makes sense. Why travel all that way and not see the sights when you arrive?
- QNAP's TS-h1290FX is a 12-bay 2.5" NAS. (Serve the Home)
And an Epyc server CPU and dual 25GbE and a $7500 price tag. So probably won't be finding its way into Starlab any time soon.
- Speaking of which, got another box today - including the first of the 4TB SSDs.
Still waiting on the laptop RAM to arrive though.
Party Like It's 1980 Video of the Day
I've heard this song a hundred times but never saw the video before today. It's everything I could have asked for.
Disclaimer: From five to nine I have to spend my time online. My job's exciting, I fight internet crime.
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"Which made me laugh out loud because there's nothing better than watching communists fight over money."
He can't blame Micros~1 this time!
He can't blame Micros~1 this time!
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, January 08 2022 12:27 AM (Z0GF0)
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If Zawinski thinks AWG exists, he is basically a grifter himself.
It is easy to see what is probably going on with the alternative hypothesis, using only a highschool level grasp of physics and chemistry. Carbon is pretty light, and you would kinda expect it to be in the atmosphere. It gets to the sea floor because of life (particularly) concentrating it in denser forms. It gets carried into the earth with the seafloor, and when the sea floor melts, it gets broken down into simpler lighter forms. Those lighter forms seep/diffuse back up. Look at Volcanic CO2 emissions.
Fossil fuels are the stuff that hasn't gone deep enough for conversion to really light stuff, or has and has also gotten trapped on the way back up. The oilfield exploration types had a lot of the information to figure this stuff out, and because of siloing /and/ deliberate knowing malice, they were not asked.
It is easy to see what is probably going on with the alternative hypothesis, using only a highschool level grasp of physics and chemistry. Carbon is pretty light, and you would kinda expect it to be in the atmosphere. It gets to the sea floor because of life (particularly) concentrating it in denser forms. It gets carried into the earth with the seafloor, and when the sea floor melts, it gets broken down into simpler lighter forms. Those lighter forms seep/diffuse back up. Look at Volcanic CO2 emissions.
Fossil fuels are the stuff that hasn't gone deep enough for conversion to really light stuff, or has and has also gotten trapped on the way back up. The oilfield exploration types had a lot of the information to figure this stuff out, and because of siloing /and/ deliberate knowing malice, they were not asked.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Saturday, January 08 2022 01:11 AM (r9O5h)
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Currently, JWZ is about two goosesteps away from demanding that the unvaxxed be lined up, shot, and buried in unmarked graves.
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Posted by: J Greely at Saturday, January 08 2022 02:56 AM (ZlYZd)
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