Daily Archives: 2021-09-24

Article note: This is going to be fun. Not only is it going to help systematically discourage proof-of-waste (work) cryptocurrencies, but I'm curious what kind of 2nd hand hardware is about to start flowing out of China. I've already got some really nice Zynq FPGA boards out of the decaying cryptomining industry...

Article note: If I took anything about the remaining academic 'research' world seriously, I'd be out in a Ted Shed plotting violent overthrow. It's not exclusively the fault of the publisher-parasites, but they sure are a driver of the brokenness.

Article note: It is sort of amazing just how much of an abusive monopoly and in bed with the government AT&T was for ...most of the 20th century..., and yet they were much more restrained and socially productive than the modern analogous entities.