Jason

Jason

Gridlock Is Good

This is my take as well, as laws passed by either party are usually not good with many gotchas. So the less they do the better. Personally, electronic voting can so easily be manipulated, who knows how people actually voted,…

Your Linux Distro Isn’t Special

This is a pretty good video giving a real overview of Linux distributions. My only quibble is recommending Bazzite for an immutable distro that relies on Flatpaks. I hate Flatpaks and Snaps with a passion, Flatpaks being promoted by IBM/Red…

F*CK SIGNAL!!!!!!!!!!1 (The Hated One)

This is kind of funny, in that The Hated One misses the biggest problem with Signal, which explains his problems with it, metadata collection. They’re identifying you by phone number or payment, as it was always about tracking connections between…

Electrs v0.12.0 is Fast

Since I’ve moved to Paul Lamb’s Bitcoin Knots version based on Bitcoin Core 31.2, I was finally able to switch to the latest version of Electrs v0.12.0, and boy is the new indexing server noticeably faster. If unaware, there are…