Is Manjaro Done? Stick a Fork in It
I ran Manjaro for a while as one of my first Arch based distributions, and it was very good. They hold back Arch updates a bit with the intention to prevent breakage, but sometimes packages get out of sync with…
Bitcoin Is So Resilient It Could Survive As Much as 90% of the World’s Undersea Cables Failing Simultaneously
There are a lot of personal nodes distributed around the world, so I doubt the secondary conclusion about a directed attack at hosting providers. And really, anyone interested in using Bitcoin should have their own node to verify the transactions…
How Wallet Fingerprints Damage PayJoin Privacy
A technical write up on how Payjoin transaction wallets can leak information to identify who paid and who received, breaking the purpose of Payjoin transactions meant to conceal that information in Bitcoin transactions. Though in fairness to both Bull Bitcoin…
As Wildfires Burn More Than 750,000 Acres In Nebraska, Wyoming Is Just As Dry
(Headline article below) The linked article has more pictures. But I hadn’t seen a lot of coverage of these fires. The references to Custer in South Dakota is Custer State Park, which is a beautiful nature area with their own…
U.S. Sends Two Early Warning Aircraft To Middle East After Destruction Of Another Long-Range Radar
Who helped Iran with their guidance systems? As they’ve been pretty accurate hitting targets when their weapons aren’t intercepted. Of course, allies will need to buy new versions of these radars and possibly backups, so a lot of money to…
Apple Can Delist Apps “With or Without Cause,” Judge Says in Loss for Musi App
The crackdown on what apps you can run just got a legal victory in the states. I believe internationally Apple allows some side loading in certain countries due to a legal settlement. Consequently, Android is trying to lockdown users being…
The I-5 South Union St. Exit in Seattle, Washington Has to Be the Worst Design Exit Ramp in the USA
This just struck me as funny. You’d have to expect that it has good signage regarding speed for the exit ramp. So are people impaired or not respecting the sign? Can they not see the approaching curve? I’ve taken all…
Pastor Says Jesus Was Flirting With Samaritan Woman, Offering Her ‘Living Waters’ AKA ‘Semen’
I offer this story up as we’re seeing a lot of stories about churches being burned up in various parts of the world, even Canada. So it points out that a lot of supposed “Christian” churches are not, and being…
Details Of Fire On US Navy’s Largest Carrier Much Worse Than Previously Known
Seems like they should send them back to port for repairs and replace them with another carrier group as there are several. They could use more ships to open the Straight of Hormuz too, though you have to conclude the…
Privacy Search Proxy SearXNG
I’ve previously wrote articles on SearXNG with how to run them with Docker, and I’ve setup a Docker server with a SearXNG instance with SSL certificate via NgingxProxyManager using Let’s Encrypt (same server as this blog). Feel free to use…
From Shipcoiner To Bitcoin Core Maintainer In Just 2.5 Years
Holdonaut put together a good amount of information on how we got these young silly women added as Bitcoin devs, and it kind of seems like this Newbury guy might have groomed (seduced?) and manipulated them as people he could…
Fernando Alonso: Aston Martin Losing Out in F1’s ‘Battery World Championship’
They’ve really trashed Formula 1 on the march to Formula E and phasing out ICE use. I might have given them a pass if they made the front wheels electric drive, computer controlled with the rear which would have justified…
Gamblers Trying To Win a Bet on Polymarket Are Vowing To Kill Me if I Don’t Rewrite an Iran Missile Story
Here in the states online gambling has gotten out of hand after a court struck down a law. It’s infiltrated sports heavily, where odds and betting expert segments now litter the coverage. Lately on Discovery+ we keep seeing this gambling…
Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups – March 17, 2026
The locations of US aircraft carriers, with one on the move from the west coast to Virginia to be decommissioned. Leaving the two in the Middle East without enough assets to secure shipping. The biggest problem is magazine size, as…
Some Ships Are Eastbound and Down from the Strait of Hormuz – March 16, 2026
Some interesting developments in the Straight of Hormuz and the Red Sea.
For The Record Books: Highest Wind Speed Ever At Cheyenne Airport (92 mph), 14,000 Lost Power
Our power outage lasted a few hours, but wasn’t too bad considering. Looking at the map, there were several outages which get prioritized by the number of people affected. Our neighbor across the street had to wait a few more…