It’s okay, Let’s Encrypt only provides SSL certs for… 63.7% of the market?

Okay okay, that is a lot. But what does a CA need funding for anyway? It doesn’t take much bandwidth to send out new certs.

The only thing that could be expensive is if they had to rapidly invalidate thousands of certs to protect the security of the entire internet.

But haha, that’s a pretty outlandish scenario that would never happen.

Portal though?

Also: mobile games? Flash games? FarmVille left a helluva mark.

Meanwhile Nintendo in the 1980s:

Yokoi’s most enduring contribution may have been his product philosophy, often translated to the almost luddite-sounding ‘lateral thinking with withered technology.’

The genius behind this concept is that for product development, you’re better off picking a cheap-o technology (‘withered’) and using it in a new way (‘lateral’) rather than going for the predictable, cutting-edge next-step.

Not really. There are barely any chips out there.

Oct 2021: 200 billion ARM chips

Nov 2023: 1 billion RISC-V chips, hoping to hit 16 billion by 2030

Nov 2024: 300 billion ARM chips

Cool, but… why not just NixOS?

ARM support. Every SoC is a new horror.

Armbian does great work, but if you want another distro you’re gonna have to go on a lil adventure.

Functionex: because a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors.

It makes people click.

SnotFlickerman nailed it, so I’ll just add that the “man or bear” saga taught me what a “scissor statement” is.

For me, that was the biggest revelation of the whole thing.

You had people encountering the same general words in the same general order, but understanding them to mean completely different things, and not being able to comprehend how anyone could disagree with them.

It was like a rehash of “the dress”, but not so whimsical.

It was really kind of distressing, the extent to which it laid bare (no pun intended) how poorly we’re actually communicating with each other online, even though it otherwise seems like we’re communicating more than ever.

Aaaaand then we just kinda shrugged that off and went back to internet as usual.

History sure rhymes, doesn’t it

Dumbass could’ve been remembered as “IRL Ironman” forever if he just shut up and enjoyed his wealth.

I think becoming a billionaire causes brain damage. Like, for real, literally brain damage.

I’ve heard that before. But the main point of the paper is that drag is decreasing. So I’m curious to know how that impacts the stability of Starlink going forward. I doubt they have new figures after one day.

“Modelled CO2 emissions scenarios from years 2000-2100 indicate a potential 50-66 percent reduction in satellite carrying capacity between the altitudes of 200 and 1,000 km.”

That’s a severe reduction.

I imagine Starlink still plans to launch as many as legally allowed.

Imagine if Mr. “Occupy Mars” ends up being the guy to trap us here on Earth forever by clogging up space.

This is a good situation for a therapist. Nobody here is gonna be able to give you an accurate assessment.

Some editor ran this piece through a shredder. The main content is good, but the headline and intro are terrible.

Here are the highlights:

One reason this administration is so disorienting is that U.S. foreign policy has been guided for decades by the opposite of realism. The key fights in Washington, especially in recent decades, were between neocons who wanted to spread democracy through war and liberals who wanted to spread democracy through soft power like U.S.A.I.D. contracts to bolster civil society.

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While Mr. Trump embraces some elements of realism — giving in to the strong and sacrificing the weak — his tariff wars and threats against peaceful neighbors could end up being as costly as the military adventurism of the previous liberal order. Rajan Menon, a professor emeritus at the City College of New York, told me that people who expect the Trump administration “to follow the playbook of realism” by showing restraint “are going to get very disappointed.”

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To Mr. Trump, America is a great power that Russia wouldn’t dare attack, and Ukraine is a pawn that can be sacrificed. But here’s the thing about great powers: They all decline eventually. Neanderthal realism doesn’t save them. After Athens sacked Melos, word of its brutality spread. Its allies turned against it. Athens lost the war. Noble ideas, it turns out, do matter.

I’m playing “tinker with my devices”, but if I get any real game time it’ll probably be Balatro or maybe Luma Island.

I’ve been thinking about digging out my hacked Wii U to play Art of Balance though.

That feel when my phone only rendered “geneva_convenience@le…” but I still knew it was .ml before checking

“They don’t need to collect dollars in order to spend them” does not mean “They ought to spend dollars and not collect them”.

I’m only describing that collecting X amount from tariffs does not imply that spending must necessarily increase by X somewhere due to some kind of conservation of dollars that the OP seemed to assume.

Found the Randall Wray enjoyer. :)

You’re not wrong. Burning is what they used to literally do in earlier times, and the conceptual model today is exactly the same even if there’s no literal burning.

People don’t like hearing it though. Idk why.

No one.

Remember, the government is the issuer of the currency. They don’t need to collect dollars in order to spend them.

Imagine a referee removing a point from a participant.

The point doesn’t go anywhere, waiting to be reused, it just gets deleted. The next point to get added isn’t the “same point” in any sense, even though the point total is the same and maybe even some physical point token got reused.

Conceptually, sovereign currency is always on a one-way trip from being spent into existence to being taxed into annihilation.