So now it became clear that Ukraine government lied about whole thing regarding crypto donations, FTX and "converting" money for army needs. Blockchain told us completely different story.
Take a look at https://etherscan.io/address/0x88ef7bf4e94d9c6a4615e5a9f32ea2d2f141f2e9 This address received more than $30 millions in stablecoins from FTX and around $7 millions from official government crypto donations. And seems that its private wallet which active from the start of war till now.
The mass extinction of UNIX workstations
Back in the '90s and very early 2000s, a whole market segment of computers existed that we don't really talk about anymore today: the UNIX workstation. They were non-x86 machines running one of the many commercial UNIX variants, and were used for the very high end of computing. They were expensive, unique, different, and quite often incredibly overengineered
https://www.osnews.com/story/135605/the-mass-extinction-of-unix-workstations/
It's that most wonderful time of the year when Wikipedia is fundraising hard.
They literally have hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and enough runway to essentially run the site for decades.
If you have money to donate to good causes, consider local charities; if you want to donate to an Internet thing give to the chronically underfunded Internet Archive: https://archive.org/donate
MS ecosystem: Hell
Apple ecosystem: Purgatory (colorful, though!)
Linux: Heaven
#OpenBSD: VALHALLA XD
While I don’t want to make more work for @randrews, all you crybabies should know that standing against perverts and getting cowardly anonymous reports for it only makes me stronger
I was recently reminded of the Toledo family's unique outsider-engineering computer, the Biyubi: http://www.biyubi.com/eng_principal.html
It was never really a "success" but they accomplished rare feats in building an entire computing system and software for it entirely independently within their family.
Although the project is largely dormant today, the eldest son, Oscar, publishes work on vintage computing projects on his own website still: https://nanochess.org/
@atomicpoet I think you mean:
Facebook: Old people who don't know why they hate computers
Mastodon: Old people who know exactly why they hate computers
The problem with gun grabbers and their flailing after a shooting is that they fail to understand the underlying problems: lack of mental health care access, American culture that stigmatizes mentally unwell people, and the news making the shooter a celebrity for days on end.
At the end of the day, government must fear it’s people. Guns are a primary measure of that.
Don’t like it? Too bad. The 2nd amendment says you can get fucked while I continue to collect firearms and hobby shoot.
CW: Satire, making (somewhat) light of a heavy topic, comic relief, I hope
In other news today, @Raspberry_pi@rasberrypi.social found itself on the receiving end of a fusillade of critical toots from people who hold them at a higher standard of ethics than they themselves can *ever* hope to live up to.
Please #boost, I'm a glutton for punishment. XD
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