Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Look at the coring drill on #Perseverance!

People often ask me questions about Bitcoin, and I'm tired of answered the same questions repeatedly, so here are the answers.

Q: When should I invest in Bitcoin?
A: Never.

Q: What altcoins are good investments?
A: None of them.

Q: Have you made money trading crypto?
A: Yes, thousands in profits.

Q: Do you recommend crypto investing, and why?
A: No, it's an endless pump & dump scheme with few winners.

Finished some major backhaul on my accounts.

I deleted 121,000 emails from my Gmail accounts this week. Finally decided to part with those digital receipts from 2004.

Set my Google account and all my passwords to transfer to my wife if I die. I didn't know I could do that!

I deleted all the dumb e-mail rules I made for sorting mailing lists and unsubscribed from like 300+ mailing lists.

For the first time in a decade, I had no unread e-mails. I woke up with only 2 new emails this morning!

I'm certain you could wreak havoc on plenty of websites using this tool. It takes a bit of processing power, but you can take two JPEG images, and brute-force them into having the same MD5 checksum.

https://github.com/cr-marcstevens/hashclash

This 1994 company was ahead of its time.

Started playing around with Matrix, but I honestly don't see what the real benefit is. ActivityPub is so fast and seamless, but Matrix applications feel like dial-up Internet.

I do miss when the Internet was smaller and more user-driven, but I definitely don't miss when the Internet was slower...

Best Schwarzenegger film I've ever seen.

"Ultimate Reality is a collaborative performance by Baltimore’s Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche. It combines an intense musical composition for electronics and drums with a psychedelic montage of Arnold Schwarzenegger films."

https://archive.org/details/ultimatereality

Actually, it still starts off on just as much of an unintentionally funny note.

Considering watching this, but somehow I doubt the show is going to be as funny as this preview.

How dare you sir

My pandemic hobby has been data-hoarding. I have 45TB of drives hooked up, and only have 7TB free now. I probably should try to clear duplicates, delete trash, and cull some of the stuff I'll never actually use before I buy more 16TB drives, right?

Or should I just shell out for a massive NAS and never delete anything ever again?

#introduction

I'm new to the Fediverse. Jumped from server to server, but ultimately settled on my own instance for my main account.

I work in Zero Trust networking in Seattle, and enjoy Retro Gaming, 3D Printing, and Hiking. I'll mostly be posting about those things.

Spent all evening messing with Mastodon and eventually setting up my own instance. Learned how to use it, and how not to use it.

Now I've got everything the way I want it and I'm too tired to post anything good.

Anyway, good night.