~58k USD


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need to rest a bit for that next big run up.

ramen noodle reserves: 67% so looking ok

babylon 5
the expanse

some of you folks with the outlier times really need to see a sleep specialist and get a sleep study done. proper sleep is far more important than many might think. there are several stages of sleep and all are important. some stages are for the brain and some stages are for the body.

of course society today with its mandated work shifts, swing shifts, multiple jobs, impossible study schedules and such isnt really that conducive to proper sleep hygiene.

well i sure hope the next simulation im in has ECC memory cuz my memory is shot.

palm hair long enough to braid probably

personally i NEVER use wifi on my phone. its turned permanently off.

when a phones wifi is on it will check in with any wifi signal it can. whether you want it to or not.

i treat any wifi network as compromised.

yubikeys ftw


you can also configure a trezor as a yubikey.

edit: a rooted phone is just asking for trouble. dunno if the affected phones were or not.

when i 1st started looking into this in 2011 i admit didnt have much faith this would really go anywhere.. just another cool experiment with the possibility of offsetting the price of a shiny new gpu (and that was if i could figure out a way to sell them without getting my identity ripped off, exchanges were sketch af back then). also, i mined it partly because folding@home was going downhill (infighting) and i wanted out of that scene and to be part of something else that had the chance of being worthwhile. and this seemed to coolest project id seen yet.

its just luck i managed to keep some. i lost a lot playing with wallets and things i didnt understand and whatnot, and at only a couple bucks a coin it wasnt worth my time to figure out how to recover lost coins. little did i know.

the fact that any of us older timers (i dont consider myself OG) managed to keep some of our stack is a tribute to either: luck, good backups, and/or real faith in the project. and while as i understood more about it and i had more faith in the project that didnt stop me from selling coins at ridiculously low prices compared to today. back then its future was a lot more nebulous than now of course.

you need to add another option for peeps like me: shitposter

since that option doesnt (yet?) exist i voted bitcoiner as thats the closest i guess

edit: ive mined btc (on gpus/fpgas back in the day) and alts currently (to sell for btc) and read here most every day. but thats about it.

scary indeed.

sucks a firefighter died.

but glad youre OK

here are my checksums from the original file i downloaded back in the day and still use now. i posted it before but here it is again.

of course trust no one, dyor but our sha256 checksums match as you can see. not tthat means you shouldnt look into it further.

my body is ready for maths and science to do its thing.

kinda. its here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

not richy but ill give my (more or less useless) opinion based on my zfs and raid stuff as well as having SSDs since the intel X-25 SSDs. (2007 or so)

spinners are great for long term storage especially when not powered for long periods of time (years) which admittedly is not common in a NAS. but more importantly if they fail they can often be recovered with specialized equipment.

when a SSD goes its tends to be gone with no real way of recovering data. they are supposed to die in a read only mode but i have had 2 SSDs die in 10 years or so with no way to recover (hooray for backups!). and NO spinners die in that same timeframe although i lost a couple maybe 20 years ago.

the key to long life on spinners is to never turn them off imo.

for me its now its all mirrored drives (desktops) or ZFS level 2 (? i think its Z2 have to check) for important stuff on the NAS (my Z2 is 4 spinner drives any 2 can die) and Z1 (3 SSD drives, one can fail) plus a mirrored set of external USB spinner drives for (more or less) easily replaceable media. and kinda an experiment to see how far i can beat those externals as i do a full scrub every week on all pools. all in a freenas box that backs up to another freenas box thats off line except for that backup process.

so for me, i use spinners for important long term storage. safer as there is a chance of recovery if the drive goes belly up.

also for a NAS please use ECC memory!

i will be happy to be proven wrong on any of this however.

under 60k USD.. poor again

anyone what to go in on a pallet of ramen noodles?

i have no "exit plan/price" unless you mean an exit from fiat.

my plan is simple: i sell if and when i need to, at whatever price it is at the time and cash in as little as possible.

for example i sold enough years back to retire and that took a good chunk. and i do try to cash out enough periodically to have a cushion for a couple years for when the bear market returns. and while i try to time it for decent prices ive long learned that timing an accurate top is not my thing.

so exit strategy? ah no. its the "stay in the game" strategy that matters.

this was years ago and took advantage of all the zombie movies and such around then. by linking it to that in a humorous way they got publicity and information out that many would never of read otherwise.

its basically the same things you do in any emergency situation, but with a zombie flair. doesnt make it any less useful.

errr... up or down?

there was the book and a movie based on it. the books far far better of course so read it before seeing the movie, which was mediocre at best.

someone wrote a book about a message embedded into pi after some ridiculous amount of digits, had plans for some machine or something. carl sagan maybe?

the ultimate easter egg for sure.