> ASCII (pronounced “as-key”) is short for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. This is a simple encoding scheme that was first used on Tele-type machines to map keyboard characters to numbers. from The Linux Command Line book - page 41 #ASCII #text

I just published my weekly email newsletter. Topic is on Encryption and Digital Cash. Also announced the winner of my weekly giveaway:

Encryption and CypherPunk Culture

Announcing winner of ThinkCentre Tiny giveaway

#DigitalCash #BitcoinCash #GiveAway

I'd love to own this vehicle! Maybe someday. What's your dream car? Do you already own it? #subaru #sambar #DreamCar

Okay, I have to get some sleep. Talk with you nostr folks later.

I like this quote. "Earn the momentum!"

Tomorrow (Wednesday United States time), I will be doing the drawing for my Weekly Computer Giveaway. This week I will be giving away a refurbished ThinkCentre M710q Tiny PC with Linux pre-installed. I have already shipped a computer out of the United States to a winner... but shipping was expensive. More people from outside the United States are subscribing to my newsletter. That's a good thing, but I may not be able to ship to some countries or it would just be too expensive to do so. So I thought of additional prize options if the winner chose not have the computer shipped to them. $50 worth of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) or Monero (XMR). My goal with the newsletter is to encourage people to use alternatives to BigTech, such as Linux and other less well known operating systems. To use older hardware, preferably PC hardware. And to have fun with computing. But I also want to promote the CypherPunk ideas of encryption and Digital Cash. I think the two can go together. For a chance to win a computer every week (or $50 worth of Bitcoin Cash or Monero), just be a subscriber of my email newsletter. To find out if you won, all you have to do is read the email and check to see if you are the winner and reply to claim.

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#CypherPunk #BitCoinCash #Monero #Linux #giveAway

I sold a refurbished Dell Optiplex desktop computer today. Did a bunch of other service. Picked up more computers for testing, a desktop gaming computer and a ThinkPad laptop. Good to have work to do.