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This website you’re on (Anhan’s Blog) now lives at https://32.ax! After quite some difficulty acquiring the domain due to age verification madness, I was able to get it! Attempt #1: First, I tried registering with 101domain; who responded with this … Continue reading →

Gwern Branwen used to write these incredibly long essays that were wonderfully detailed and easy to understand for someone moderately versed in software and writing. Now he’s fallen for the AI mania and is co-authoring these short one-off “blog posts” with … Continue reading →

My city is getting digital price tags that have cameras on each individual tags, and lithium batteries, and need charging (despite having solar behind the screen?), therefore are necessarily more expensive than a $0.01 printed tag delivered by a stocker … Continue reading →

The seven principles of sound money are as follows: fungibility, divisibility, durability, portability, acceptability, scarcity, and recognizability. Lets go through them one by one. 1. Fungibility 2. Divisibility 3. Durability 4. Portability 5. Acceptability 6. Scarcity 7. Recognizability Ok, got … Continue reading →

I’m one of the first 1000 users of Tutanota, and I can confidently tell you there are NO good email providers! Email itself seems doomed to centralization and surveillance because the original designers didn’t anticipate a duopoly. About Tutanota; it … Continue reading →

Keep an eye on Project Agorá, it’s the Fed’s attempt to create a “totally not CBDC” trojan horse. Read the PDF here: https://www.bis.org/publ/othp110.pdf [archived] From the Institute of International Finance: Project Agorá seeks to explore a new approach to wholesale cross-border payments … Continue reading →

It’s been many years since I last used WordPress, so I thought I’d give it an install try it out. I was what, 12? when I installed it last? Wow! It feels mostly the same, although the new “Gutenberg” editor … Continue reading →

I was recently analyzing network traffic on my communications network to see if a campaign against attacks was beneficial in the first part of March. From that, I realized that out of 15,497 servers, the campaign made a noticeable impact … Continue reading →