Jeff Allen
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Unapologetic Jewish Libertarian who loves technology and history.
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Joined Apr 2017
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We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. ―Epictetus, The Discourses
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Eight bits are enough.
READY.
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The free market is the ultimate equalizer: it does not care if you grew up poor, the color of your skin, or by what name you call God.
Absolutely *nothing* beats this train wreck of a support call with #Verizon from ~10 years ago. Their techs couldn't do 3rd grade #math and tell the difference between $0.02 and 0.02¢. I kid you not.
The short version is here: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Customer_says_Verizon_confuses_dollars_and_cents
A long readable transcript of this cluster-[BLEEP] is here:
I know there is an audio version of the call, which runs some ~30 minutes, but I don't have it handy.
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Skipped many of the risks and downsides and didn't talk much about alternatives besides name dropping a few of them.
But now I'm curious, what do you think about stuff like Spritely's Hyptis?
This https://spritelyproject.org/ and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_exchange_trading_system are good starting points, also Chris Webber's latest FOSDEM talk.
BITCOIN: The Future of Finance or Fool’s Gold?
This is a *really* good and simple 15 minute overview of what Bitcoin is, what the risks are, etc.
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"The craft of programming begins with empathy, not formatting or languages or tools or algorithms or data structures." - Kent Beck
The #Amiga 1200+ is a modern #opensource Amiga motherboard in an A1200 form factor. It requires a handful of custom chips from a donor board to work.
It has lots of cool new features:
* Modern internal PSU
* A CF slot in place of the PCMCIA slot.
* Modern fan headers
* An I²C controller.
* Extra power leads for ClockPort devices.
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@mike @profoundlynerdy '< somefile grep somelongasspattern' is perfectly valid shell.
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How long have you been using your current daily use smartphone? What model is it? How did you manage to keep it going? What repairs did it need? Boosts appreciated!
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My friend's shop is hiring Sr. Software Engineers (and other positions).
https://atsi.recruiterbox.com/
Please boost. I'm tired of hearing him complain about no available talent.
Does anyone else here like The Sojourn? It's a new science fiction audio drama developed by a prominent YouTuber.
It's an independent series that feels a bit like Mass Effect. It's nice to see something so fresh that isn't just a bad rehash of an existing property.
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I got my mother some saffron for her birthday and I know it's the spice of kings and all, but I can never get over how much saffron smells like Band-Aids
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Lots of fascinating details on how Perseverance was delivered and landed on Mars.
https://jalopnik.com/how-nasas-perseverance-landed-on-mars-an-aerospace-eng-1846332411
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When your fuckup becomes world famous and is remembered a hundred years later:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_Jenny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_Jenny
Is there a #Mastodon instance devoted to house flipping?
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Who remembers back when PC CPUs didn't need a fan or heatsink?
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Streamlink, CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink
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@profoundlynerdy I don't think the cost would be in terms of energy but rather how much you are willing to fuck up the universe.
@sys64738 What got you into #Lobjan? If you know any #Esperanto, how does it compare?
I've had my eye on Lobjan for a while now, but don't know what to think. Are there meetup groups?
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Fancy an accelerometer-equipped skirt?
https://hackaday.com/2021/02/21/beautiful-and-bouncy-rgb-led-skirt-reacts-to-movement/
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