Network == Abstraction Layer @overunderlay@bsd.network

Decomposing Transactional Systems
L: https://transactional.blog/blog/2025-decomposing-transactional-systems
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43722692
posted on 2025.04.17 at 18:00:30 (c=0, p=6)

Many thanks to Humble Bundle and their community of supporters who used purchases of books and games to raise money for digital rights! We at EFF are deeply grateful for you.

Their Social Impact Report is out now: https://blog.humblebundle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/HumbleSocialImpactReport2024.pdf

You are here.

Every now and then I remember that the first person to isolate phosphorus had a process that started with “take 150 barrels of horse urine and leave them out in the sun until the maggots appear” and then I look at whatever I’m working on and think, maybe this isn’t that bad, maybe this has more potential than I realize.

The thing I really want to find in a dumpster or at a charity shop is a PC that I could use for producing a live stream with decently complicated browser-generated on-screen scenes in OBS. Ideally with a few cameras and maybe a capture card.

i.e. I want a semi-trash computer that still does well enough to do a live stream from my workshop

Make China Great (Again).

Trump Forfeits U.S. Global Leadership at Americans’ Expense and to China’s Gain - Center for American Progress
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trump-forfeits-u-s-global-leadership-at-americans-expense-and-to-chinas-gain/

Newsletter: Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it.

https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto-empire/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

More heuristics for model rigor from @rebeccawb

RFK Jr. Says There Are No Autistic Poets. We Asked an Autistic Poet. – Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/rfk-kennedy-hhs-autism-diagnoses-poet/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=slack

The evil stupidity of this fool is unspeakable...

This Trump family crypto empire is set to profit precisely because Trump is gutting the regulations that would normally constrain it — brazen self-dealing that represents perhaps the most flagrant exploitation of presidential authority in American history.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Memory Size Matters to PostgreSQL
L: https://pgdba.org/post/2025/04/size_matter/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43722981
posted on 2025.04.17 at 18:37:12 (c=0, p=3)

Elon Musk bought a global microphone and used it to prove he’s the dumbest guy at his own dinner party.

We all have our cameras up for this slide :)

The Trumps have cashed out around $390 million from their memecoins. A month after their launch, the SEC stated that memecoins do not fall under SEC authority.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

While there have been some attempts by Democratic Senators to sound the alarm with various agencies, these agencies are largely under Trump’s control. If there’s been any action on their letters, it hasn’t publicly materialized.

This is a dangerous convergence of the president’s financial interests and his power to shape policy, and it poses serious risks to all of us.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Ars Technica only rarely resorts to op-eds. When it does, tends to be powerful.

"This is not a breeze; this is the whirlwind. And it will leave a state-dependent, nationalist university system in its wake unless academia arises, feels its own power, and non-violently resists."

As is remarked therein, failure to organize will likely be fatal. As with labor vs. management, organization wins to the extent it's not countered with other organization.

#ClimateOfFear

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/resist-eggheads-universities-are-not-as-weak-as-they-have-chosen-to-be/