this age verification in the operating system is a non-starter for me. void linux team came out against it (although not as strongly as I would have liked). interesting watching the community split over this. its unfortunate that politics has hit our OS.

im getting back into FreeBSD. I used it a lot in the late 90s in my home labs but some how drifted away from it. my firewall runs pfsense (freebsd) and it has been rock solid for many years now. I have started reading through the freebsd handbook, which is quite refreshing how well structured it is. im excited about the potential of the combination of jails, jail networking and zfs. who knows I might even start contributing to the project if I can find the time. im looking for more connection with my tooling and a deeper understanding of the fundamentals. so much so that ive started to go deeper on c programming.

I went hard on AI coding there for a while and these are my observations: 1. its really easy to just click the dopamine button, but really hard to make sure the code going in is cogent. 2. AI code is almost impossible to maintain and the amount of subtle bugs increases at an unacceptable rate the more of it you put in 3. it makes me feel unsatisfied. It's satisfying in once sense in that you can get things done quickly, but you're left feeling empty and like you're getting dumber 4. it is a fantastic learning tool - ive decided to start handwriting code for projects I really care about - and using AI as a companion for brainstorming and learning (to a certain degree) is useful 5. it's really easy to produce a lot of stuff like new products, etc. but cognitively it's exhausting. 6. it's great for proof of concepts, mockups, failing fast type situations 7. its great for internal tooling 8. its great to offload those certain annoying tasks that you don't care so much about so you can focus on the creative things 9. it makes me feel scattered in my thinking 10. I don't want a job that involves 100% AI coding - I'd rather be handcrafting with some AI assistance. I want to feel the connection with what I am creating.

get ya esim at dracotel.com. bitcoin lightning supported!

Another business launched -

OpsFleet

OpsFleet — Fleet Operations Management

OpsFleet is fleet operations management software for equipment tracking, staff coordination, job scheduling, compliance monitoring, and reporting.

dracotel — Global Data eSIM. No KYC, No Breakage, No BS.

Launch price $10/year + pay as you go wholesale rates. No expiration. No borders. 200+ countries.

transactions are rolling in. very satisfying. bitcoiners and normies seem to be excited about the product. i built this for myself as i wasn't quite satisfied with the other offerings out there.

made our first esim sale on dracotel.com to a bitcoiner. STACKER50 for 50% off the yearly subscription fee.

dracotel.com back up - bring it scammers!

so i launched dracotel.com, fired off an ad campaign and immediately got a pakistani fraudster buying and toping up esims as fast as they could using stolen cards from a bank in argentina. i shut the site down temporarily to put in some fraud controls. i can see this is going to be a bit of a wack-a-mole. first control is putting top up limits on accounts less than 7 days old. more will be added. its all coming from stripe. bitcoin doesn't have this problem.

no kyc, no bs esim. launching very soon..

dracotel — Global Data eSIM. No KYC, No Breakage, No BS.

Launch price $10/year + pay as you go wholesale rates. No expiration. No borders. 200+ countries.

the gap between the rich engineer and poor engineer is growing

ai this ai that stfu!

i frickin hate being tied to these proprietary AI model providers, even the so called anonymous ones. my goal is 100% local inference with open models by 2027.

finally got my 32gb v100 online.

pi.dev

A terminal-based coding agent

is better than opencode or claude code or whatever else is out there. hardcore customizable. keep token use to a minimum. works with small local models.

a script for fetching passwords from pass with dmenu #linux #pass #dmenu #suckless #dwm

i manage my passwords on #linux with the CLI application "pass". it's built into most distributions. the hierarchical layout allows you to nest your passwords, for example: stripe.com/acct1@bar.com stripe.com/acct1@bar.com/api-key stripe.com/acct2@bar.com stripe.com/acct2@bar.com/api-key

distilled my go sqlite usage patterns into this library

GitHub

GitHub - unixmonks/go-sqlite: A lightweight SQLite wrapper for Go with dual connection pools and embedded migrations.

A lightweight SQLite wrapper for Go with dual connection pools and embedded migrations. - unixmonks/go-sqlite