raising cash for friend to cover their rent due today

I/we can only take USD in via CashApp

(and sorry for spam)

@rl_dane howdy! hey by any chance might you be able to toss bucks at a CashApp account? friend is urgently raising cash for rent due today and I am tapped out. I can hop on calls if needed too. yes this is lame and dorky

exhausting week and its only Tue/Wed/Thu

for a small fee I'm willing to sign any cert using any priv key in the range between 0 and 9

not limited to just 4 like some of my CA competitors

RE: https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBot/117481919058803450

Strangely enough the professor's personal ring had only one item attached to it, and I was soon to learn that it could serve as a kind of skeleton key which could unlock all the hitherto unknown mysteries of the universe, including even those secrets Man was never meant to know. The ring had affixed to it only one small strangely sculpted bit of grayish metal, and my mind recoiled in horror upon realization of that shape:

"4"

cc @GreatOldBot

guys in the interests of maximum transparency my root private key is the following 384-bit integer:

(*REDACTED*)4

Typescript in Rustlang is like polka in disco

Tuesdays in 2026: emergency security upgrades to All The Things

someone online just referred to The Amityville Horror as "a franchise" and I should prob step away from the Internet for the night

whenever I see online an ostensible programmer refer to "the application" or "your application" I cringe

if you're old enough you'll understand

@dougmerritt hey Doug if youd be up for a call sometime let me know, ye of the diplomatic polymathery & ostensibly refined geekery!

@internic hey if you'd ever like to try brief call sometime let me know. (saw your like/boost of my post about it). I've done it with a few Fediverse folks here so far, been fun

its sad to see the #AI gullibility psychosis come for Torvalds too. had tons of respect for him prior

very much doubleplus ungood

modern website UI roundtrip latency (from user input event requesting new page to output finish of its fetching/rendering): anywhere from 2000 to 15000 ms, with p90 of say 4000 ms

BBS (equiv UX): anywhere from 15 ms to 1000 ms, with p90 of say 100 ms

"SECOND ONE, PLEASE, AND THANK YOU!"

(yes, anecdotal, but typical for me recently)

#BBS

RE: https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBot/117448653037923931

honestly, same

Mixed feelings on #AI bubble. Looking forward to the nauseating hype wave receding. Not looking forward to a crash of the US economy.

ssh BBS interaction in 2026 is a refreshing (jarring!) reminder of how horribly bloated and slow most modern web apps and native mobile apps are, by design.

lately I am interacting with a remote, cloud Linux VM-hosted, Golang-written ssh BBS and the roundtrip latency of the "user input -> UI response & rerender" cycle is lightning fast. Massively faster and more resource efficient than The Norm now.

RIP Margaret Hamilton

20 episodes into Dark Shadows

one of the best vampire stories ever. holy moly

a "database of labelled images"

ooh...