markjgsmith

2024/07/31 #

• Since most things had been cut off yesterday, I couldn’t continue with much, having to save on power and water. I chilled for much of the day. The escallations subsided somewhat. There was a load of weird synchronicities in the early morning, but harrassment appeared to calm down or at least change a bit in tone, and there was some piece and quiet. I was able to rest for a few hours.

  I found an annoyingly difficult to spot bug in the reusable workflows feature. When you’re having to stand to use the internet, the needle in a haystack bugs become really difficult to spot. Anyway hoping to spend a bit more time on that today. Looks like I’ll be able to charge my devices again.

  Really would like to figure out how to avoid these boom and bust starvation cycles. So just mentioning it here, if you have any ideas universe, I’m listening as best I can.

  Sending out good vibes to all you regular readers, and much luck :) #

• A large masonary brick was left, on the way to the internet place, on the same corner that a dead rat was left previously about a month ago. The dead rat thing happened the same day an apparrent funeral memorial service was errected across the street from said corner. I wrote about it at the time.

  That was about the same time the people dressed all in black thing started becoming a thing. Just wanted to summarise in case there are more escallations. Seems the world is once again on the warpath. #

Today’s links:

• The New Internet - Well written piece, entertaining read, by an internet old timer building new technology. It’s an interesting vision of a different type of internet that’s more peer to peer, less client server. The are trying to get rid of many of the layers of gunk that have accumulated into modern software stacks. I keep hearing about Tailscale, I think the Changelog guys mention it a bunch. Might be worth knowing about. tailscale.com #

• California DMV puts 42 million car titles on blockchain to fight fraud - Interesting to see some large scale non-money blockchain projects. It’s using the Avalanche blockchain. Also includes a client that end users install to browse the cars that have been registered. www.reuters.com #

• Labour’s defining moment and the next Tory leader (The Rest is Politics Podcast) - Great episode with thorough analysis and roundup of UK politics, how the government handover is going, who is up for the Conservatives leadership position. Also what’s going on with the Bangladesh riots, the Olympics in France, Maduro in Venezuela. Rory has a bit of a man crush on Tom Tugendhat! But in all seriousness his Tugendhat review is quite spectacular. I thought he looked the part last week. Very interesting background, especially with his european connections and being bilingual, but kind of a scary vibe, which might make him the perfect opposition leader. Oh and a fascinating look at Pretty Patel’s Essex - Hertfordshire Christopher Walken style accent. More accent reviews please! podcastindex.org #