newsletter
Burns After Reading: Volume 8
In this eighth edition I discuss my ongoing political radicalization, the fediverse, and birds.
enshittification
Things getting worse thanks to companies extracting all the value for themselves.
automation
Bliss Alta Motionblinds Home Assistant Integration
Do you have a Bliss Automation - Alta Window Fashions roller shade or other device that you'd like to add into Home Assistant? Then this is the place for you! Background Part of de-Amazon-ing my house, or "un-Bezo-ing?", "de-Jeff-ing?" is to control all my
Projects
BTC Trading Insanity
I've been flailing around trying to figure out how trading BitCoins works. I haven't really DONE any trading - but check out these crazy graphs over at BitCoinWisdom.com. There is so much going on. Click on all the things. You'll see.
Technology
Tech Weekend - BitCoin
Project #1 Today: BitCoin Today’s first item on the agenda was to figure out how BitCoin works and then invest some money into the thing. I had thought that anonymity was a cool part of BitCoin but it looks like if you ALSO want the convenience of sitting in
Comments
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I've found an entirely new form of diversion. The facebook is sucking my life away from me. Not only is it horrible in terms of personal privacy and all of that, it's awesomely entertaining. It's completely possible to stalk some random person because it