you should change your name to that of a famed celebrity. or even one infamed. good for the soul

nono i went through each of them, i'm done now

might still take down the site tho

I think you're right, and the hostility you mention (wrt suspecting GoFundMe-s) is something (1) youth centric, and (2) weaponized effectively by people running scams.

I want to emphasize "youth centric"-- I think everyone I know (who is mostly 25+) feels the same wariness to Go Fund Me's and whatnot. I think we've all seen our share of scams.

And there's nothing wrong with the basic principle of "effective altruism"! It's the Effective Altruism movement of LessWrong types who'll throw out the vast troves of unquantifiable facts in favor of what they personally have the tools to measure and model. It makes them ignorant to their own insular culture, to the point where they are actually worried about, like, Roko's Basilisk.

But wanting to maximize the good that comes from your time/money/energy is still a good idea. I've donated exclusively to the two you mention (UNRWA and PCRF) for their long track record of making good use of their money, and not to any GoFundMe.

That said, I believe GoFundMe allows you to start a campaign in benefit of another beneficiary, e.g. this GoFundMe with the PCRF as a beneficiary. Who can say if the loss from GoFundMe's 3% cut balances out with a campaign potentially getting more people to donate

i picked a bad time to stop following siivagunner, this is excellent. thank u for sharing this

To be fair, neither is RTX ;p (it's path tracing) (i am told this is different)

that's how every post from the past 8 years feel to me

Would you tie a bunch of sticks to your horses tails, only to have them go through the mud?

Nono I just stopped clearing them in 2020

Update: Nginx sucx and Caddy is the way to go B)

i want to delete this post but that would be unpostlylike

Woah... This is really good

Woah... This is really bad

https://youtu.be/kI40AoVzE48?t=42

reflective mirrors in sunshine (but i think i was being facetious at the time)

been thinking about this and the big problem is (1) i have to place trust in a local trump supporter who's great grandfather's middle name was honestly "wigglesworth" and (2) so does everyone else

that's fine if i'm interacting with a government and we're all pretending government works, but what if i want to notarize something to real people?

well, cryptotrash hasn't gotten usable for anyone to use it

and i think committing the document (or a hash of it) to a public github repo is good enough, for as long as github exists. any site with timestamps people trust

Lost in the transfer, one of my favorites :(

1. This is post 69!!

2. One of my proudest and earliest trolling moments was being a child in 2007 and telling people on AnimalCrossingCommunity.com that I think Oprah should run for president and getting long long long replies in response

woah i missed this entire post two years ago!! Jstpst's deep technical knowledge is something I appreciate so I'm reading this now.

I really appreciate this deep-dive and I am sorry it took me literally 2.5 years to read it. I appreciate that you somehow could prognosticate what I did and did not already know (51%, halting problem, etc).

The big thing is that I honestly didn't know that ETH requires every EVM computation to be run on every node. That does seem wildly frustrating.

I can't imagine a use I'd have for Burner Machine, unless I was an especially cool journalist.

I have nothing to add but I really appreciate this post

Coming back to this... Ada was actually pretty fantastic and I think of it regularly. It brought things way forward, it's a shame it was basically entirely unadopted outside of govt agencies and contractors lol

I missed this, but I agree. The big benefit of the command line is the uniformity. Every interface is its own language, subject to change, laborious to speak, and unrecordable.

But the Linux command line can be stored and every solution recorded for future use. It kicks ass.

Sometime after this post, I broke my bootloader partition because I made it hilariously small. But my "things to do after installing Linux" script was pretty thorough so I just copied my home dir and reinstalled Linux lol

It took ~1h of copying and a bit of attention in between baking cookies, autumn of 2022 :)

Looks like it's succeeding. Amazon Games needed a win, good for 'em

(jk, but i am glad they didn't kill the game under their tutelage)

wait. that's your government name?

i missed this 2 years ago

i'm so sorry

monkey paw status: curled