Our first live stream from the floor of #NixCon just wrapped up. The live chat is powered by Nostr! We’ll do it again on Sunday!

Bitcoin is like DOS. This is a great clip to play for your nocoiner friends.

4% of The entire Bitcoin supply is now backing US Spot ETFs 👆 If that worries you, be sure to catch today's episode of This Week in Bitcoin to hear both sides of it: https://www.thisweekinbitcoin.show/episodepage/02-saylor-is-just-lucky

The White House is attacking Bitcoin mining again today. They are dead wrong, in fact, they have it embarrassingly backwards. Here’s a clip of part of my reaction in today episode of “The Launch 🚀”

Getting the SCaLE ride road ready!

A distro hopper at heart I swear. Trying out my third Nostr app. I do appreciate having the choice and options. Can you zap from iOS Nostr apps?

For the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with bringing my desktop screens into VR. It's getting there. The folks at Immersed have thought through working in a VR environment. And I'm happy to say the #Linux support is solid. Has anyone else tried this?

Today I learned my little town has 14 cameras that have spied on 167,157 different drivers in the last 30 days using surveillance as a service. https://transparency.flocksafety.com/arlington-pd-wa The company makes these "transparency portals" in an attempt to seem on the same level. The reality is that they are selling solar-powered LTE-connected spy devices that allow law enforcement access to the data without a warrant. And possibly a lot more than law enforcement. The company boasts that its tech can't be fooled by plate swapping: "Identify vehicles by make, color, decals; transforming footage into actionable evidence. No plate required." They take care of everything; you just gotta give them some of that sweet tax revenue: "We service, maintain, and take care of your cameras bundled into one straightforward subscription fee." And the worst part is I have no way to opt-out; I can't think of a defense against this that is practical and legal.

Someone needs to break the news to this lazy dog it's almost show time. Today we're going to give a stab at introducing NixOS to perfectly happy Debian and and Fedora users... No idea we'll pull it off. Will be live in just about an hour if you want to join us search for "Jupiter Station" in your Podcasting 2.0 app of choice! Producer Levi the poddog is a professional, and he'll be joining us in studio. Just after someone feeds him. 😆 First to bed, last out of bed. Every day. https://image.nostr.build/1571fb2e1adfbbbf78562a8faed6b7ef7ab149f962f4b9d5be3d2bce42164871.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=756x1008&alt=Lazy+Levi+&blurhash=_IHw%5BL9G%7EBNI58adIp0L4.-nRQ%250xZbb%5D%7C%3FbRjNItQs.s%2C4%3B-%3BjEs%3AI%3AIpSio%23M_IWsns.oJjXb_Ri-%3Bk8NbozW%3FOYIVNKjEaeobaJt6NKRit6tRRjtSRibJxtRno0a%23V%40&x=0f73c445bc7e71d5133363c26f66fdcd798df91302f0ebc19642e04426221969

This is Ian Sherr.. Ian claims Google and others are doing layoffs because we're "seeing the growth of AI a lot more than we expected," so the "tech world" has been "forced to re-think the way they do things". After all, "consumer and business adoption" is growing SO FAST. So Ian, are you just gaslighting or whitewashing the glutinous tech over highering during COVID-19? Ian describes himself as a "news AI-startup founder & tech contributor for CBS." But the best I can tell is he's just making shit up that fits the "AI is going to steal yer jerbs" narrative that he and others like him have been FUD pumping for the last 8+ months. It's a big tech spin and denialism about a building-crushing recession all in one stupid package. The logic falls apart; there is no serious adoption of AI at scale. There are lots of ideas and tons of hype. But AI is not revolutionizing 25+-year-old companies in six months. They don't do anything in six-month time frames. The entire idea that an AI boom is forcing layoffs is silly. So we're just left with layoffs. The question is, why now? Are they bracing for something? https://video.nostr.build/cb2837259995731a02d26ed6fff59916edde69cd0f0881b54b1c337a622ae0f1.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=1280x720&alt=I+am+Sherr%27s+bad+take&blurhash=iBAS*%2C%25G11R.%3DGS%259s-V-7%24yRkIoRjV%5BWBS5xZxu0%7DtS%7D%3FxtEiaJw%24ELI%3AI%5BV%3DxGNGNGs%3BxVX9WV-oxsNxNefRxZxWf7NG&x=6038f8406b26b2a9dc2fc25a666be75ce1373d1a942e23c6e923f69180107998

One last special Office Hours for the year.

Podverse

36: Alby's Home for the Holidays - Office Hours 2.0

A special edition of Office Hours gets into the wild future of Podcasting, and Moritz from Alby joins us. Music by: The Top Hats Orchestra - Boost ...

You'll want to catch this one if you're an @Alby user. The interview starts around the 25-minute mark. As 2024 approaches, some big things in podcasting are going down. TWiT layoffs, Podcasters reporting massive download drops, and tracking woes. We get into all that, and Moritz from @Alby joins us to chat about Alby's future.

GM from El Salvador ☀️ Last day of Adopting Bitcoin.

My little buddy likes to eat some of the garden trimmings. Peas are his favorite but tonight cabbage was on the menu! I had no idea dogs did this!

Standing watch over the garden.