Honda’s $225 Million Mistake – Rune Review
They lost over $100k manufacturing each bike, but it is a work of art. Though worth a look for the engineering that went into making the motorcycle.
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Crypto Fund Manager: This Is The ‘Single Largest Arbitrage In Human History’
What’s really funny, is that it looks like they base stablecoins partly off US debt already, keeping the spending party going (remember debt per US taxpayer is $323,048, total $36.6 trillion). Our fiat US dollar is pretty bad given the…
Tor, F-Droid, & Let’s Encrypt Lose Tax Payer Funding, Go To Court
More than just the DOGE effect which is fun as we keep learning how our tax dollars are being spent irresponsibly considering the US debt is $323,048 per taxpayer… But the more interesting bit is how the money is used…
Mullvad Android App Has Successfully Passed MASA, a Standardized Security Assessment, Conducted by NCC Group
Mullvad VPN continues to have their service tested in their commitment to security and privacy. Successful security assessment of our Android app March 27, 2025 External audits Our Android app (version 2024.9) has successfully passed MASA, a standardized security…
Wyoming-Based Custodia Bank Is First To Send, Receive Digital U.S. Dollars
Looks like they’ll use this new stablecoin Avit based on cash deposits for completing transactions digitally on the Ethereum blockchain, and then back to fiat as a work around for the expensive and slow wire transfer monopoly. It’s been suggested…
Exclusive: Google Will Develop the Android OS Fully in Private, and Here’s Why
We so desperately need an alternative to Android and iOS. Here’s hoping that some good Linux based phones are available soon. Android OS development will now fully happen behind closed doors, but Google says it’s committed to releasing source…
Linux Kernel 6.14 Is a Big Leap Forward in Performance and Windows Compatibility
I had to roll back a couple Raspberry Pis I was running Linux Kernel 6.14 on due to an apparent WiFi firmware bug, but I’ve been using it with my Debian, Debian Testing, and Debian Unstable and it’s been working…
San Francisco Rolls Out Newsom-Approved Program Fining Speeders Based on Income
The fines based on income level is interesting, and how does San Francisco know your income level? And an interesting angle as it only captures license plate, so who was the driver? I suppose that is why its only civil…
British Chat Forums Close to Avoid New Internet Policing Law
A sneaky way of shutting down forums and driving activity to the major tech platforms for surveillance and policing, destroying free speech online. And after the crackdowns on online comments, people are self-censoring on those platforms already. You’d have to…
China Unveils a Powerful Deep-Sea Cable Cutter That Could Reset the World Order
(Headline article at bottom) As we’ve had supposedly accidental undersea cable cuts around Europe, the timing of this announcement is suspicious. You’d have to think they’re grooming the public for internet outages and cable disruptions. And this would go along…
Italy Demands Google Poison DNS Under Strict Piracy Shield Law
Today it’s pirate sites, but what will it be tomorrow? An easy way around this is to run your own DNS servers with Unbound that go out to the authoritative DNS server for that domain recursively. This gives you security…
Introducing Rpi-Image-Gen: Build Highly Customised Raspberry Pi Software Images
An interesting new project from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, but this one paragraph caught my interest as it implied some legislative requirements forthcoming, at least to begin with in the UK. With the move to have Windows and macOS lockdown…