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A conversation with my wonderful former pastor, Tim Fox. He's leaving me, so I wanted to scrape together some life advice from him before he went. But really he just wants to talk about Lord of the Rings 24/7. John 6 John 8 John 10 Romans 1 "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis "Orthodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton Psalm 37 "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien 2...

Peter's way to mobile Linux Motorola A780: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_A780 Motorola A910: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_A910 Openmoko Neo FreeRunner: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner Really old stuff Hardware 2000: Agenda VR3: The first Linux PDA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_VR3 2002: Sharp Zaurus (SL-5500): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus 20...

Who is J.M. Bush @jmbushwrites Thank God for Bitcoin Christianity 101 BibleProject Romans 15:4 The Most Important Commandment Micah 6:8 The law was our teacher Bitcoin 101 The Bullish Case for Bitcoin We reap what we sow Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Bretton Woods system Denial of self Christian questions about Bitcoin The rich young ruler...

Really glad to have Matt Odell as a return guest. Instead of an interview we used this as an opportunity to talk about our wonderful dystopia full of 30 hour battery life, folded proteins, and zero privacy. Enjoy! SHOW NOTES Apple Silicon Mac Mini vs iMac 5K Syncing Bitcoin on M1 Why it's fast Community builds of Visual Studio Code The Verge's MacBook Air review Redox OS with Jeremy Soller (I was...

In classic podcasting style, I managed to frontload this episode with highly technical questions up front and then we slowly morphed the conversation into a more conceptual what-is-the-future-of-computers sort of thing. James is a really wonderful guy from what I've learned over the decade or so I've been following him on Twitter and you should def check out Actual if you're in the mar...

This is a tough one because I'm fairly undecided. Are we sliding toward an apocalypse? Is too much getting worse to expect anything to get better? Is YouTube actually kind of a great thing? I've been stuck on this long enough that I figured I should just put it out there and let you decide. A lot of different thoughts here but I swear it's all connected. Thanks to ZappyCode for buying a fake ad th...

No offense to @jayriverlong, but I think his think piece on GPT-3 is kind of dumb: "In a GPT-3 World, Anonymity Prevents Free Speech" So I did a whole podcast about it. Also check out this book: How Innovation Works

Today's episode is a work-in-progress essay about the role of UX and "ease of use" in tech, with a specific focus on Bitcoin. Here are some links to what I'm talking about in the episode. The full essay will be published on my blog someday. Thank you for your patience. Bitcoin Node Q+A Bitcoin Governance Strike app Bitcoin bites the bullet Utreexo "Don’t make me think" thread

So I screwed up and didn't select my nice podcasting microphone for this episode and am instead speaking to you through that joke of a pinhole mic on my MacBook Pro. The good news is that we're not here to listen to me, we're here to hear from the fascinating Jonathan Pallant: Town Mayor, retro computing enthusiast, and embedded systems engineer. Jonathan Pallant, Town Mayor of St Ives...

Something that's been refreshing about doing this new podcast is how little of my time is spent thinking about what "big" companies are doing. But these big companies keep doing stuff. So let's talk about it! Skate 4 Skate 4 has been announced! Vergecast segment about Skate 4 in 2019 (at around the one hour mark) Will Skate be the "Quake 3: Arena" of skateboarding games...

On this episode I had the pleasure of speaking with John Cantrell, the lead of the Juggernaut decentralized messaging project. I'm very enamoured with the idea of decentralized, peer-to-peer, e2ee messaging. But there are so many drawbacks and pitfalls, and it's hard enough to get your friends to even use something like Signal, that I had begun to give up hope. Lately, however, a handful o...

These are some books I like! Fire in the Valley by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson AI Superpowers by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough Life After Google by George Gilder The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli The Master Algori...

Today's episode is a little different. Basically, I want to convince you that you can and should learn to engage with the command line on your computer. There are a lot of tools that are only accessed, or best accessed, through the command line. In a perfect world maybe this wouldn't be the case, but in the world we live in the command line unlocks a lot of the hidden potential for your co...

Today I'm joined by William Casarin who is one of my favorite twitter follows. William is a freelance software developer, he runs a bitcoin consultancy called bitcoin wizard , and he's constantly building wild and weird projects that seem to "own" technology in the sense I'm always chasing after. Explain Yourself (talking about tweets) "thinking about hooking CI build ev...

"You can't stop other people from reading that which you disagree with." @pierre_rochard on Noded 0.62.0 Speech laws and regulation and platform moderation are always about what "others" should see. Because you have to see it to moderate it. Just something to think about. The first amendment The way I'm thinking about "free speech," as a principle, is that I'm not going to use my power proactively...

Richard Myers is a "decentralized applications engineer" at Global Mesh Labs, which is a very good job title in my opinion. We talk about his work on Lot49, a protocol for incentivized mobile peer-to-peer communication. A Richard Myers primer @remyers_ on Twitter goTenna goTenna Mesh Global Mesh Labs Tales from the Crypt #88: Richard Myers Stephan Livera's podcast with Richard Myers The opportunit...

I did a pod about Bitcoin, I hope that's okay! Bitcoin resources I recommend Tales from the Crypt Noded Bitcoin Audible Satoshi Nakamoto Institute The Bitcoin Standard A Bitcoin Future What if everything you bought got cheaper every year, but your salary stayed the same? You'd eventually go to space, right? Human material needs are in some sense finite, but human wants are infinite. Human time is...

Internet of Shit: the origin story @internetofshit Product Hunt "Samsung smart fridge leaves Gmail logins open to attack" "Hackers can hijack Wi-Fi Hello Barbie to spy on your children" "how many servers could it take to turn on a light bulb lol" A history of IoT JavaScript Raspberry Pi Gartner 2014: "In 2020, 25 Billion Connected "Things" Will Be in Us...

The next generation of consoles Faster storage, ray tracing, higher resolutions. Unreal 5: "nearly a polygon per pixel" But what about Simulation? Single shard MMOs? Multiplayer physics? To me, Dwarf Fortress still feels like the most next-gen game on the planet Minecraft with RTX is the perfect example of what's going well and what's not improving in games. Portable assets and a...

Everybody needs an operating system. But do we need a new kind of operating system? Right now we basically have three major options: Windows, macOS, and Linux. Windows and macOS aren't open source, but that's not the only thing that's wrong with them. Linux is open source, but oftentimes that feels like its only advantage over the other two. For years now I've dreamed of an alternative desktop OS...

A skateboard for our minds The computer is "a bicycle for our minds," as Steve Jobs once said . Do you ever watch those velodrome events in the Olympics? They either have a rolling start, or they have to have someone holding them up for a standing start. The bikers look silly and helpless until they get moving. And then they go in a loop, round and round, very, very fast. If you turn a l...

This week I'm joined by Matt Odell, the co-host of the Tales from the Crypt podcast. Not only is Matt Bitcoin-famous, he's also hugely informed on technology in general, especially when it comes to security and privacy. I'm grateful to have him as my first guest on Cyberdeck Users Weekly , and grateful to have someone as practically paranoid as Matt in the world pushing for better ways to use and...

WELCOME TO THE POD In this episode of Cyberdeck Users Weekly we'll review a bunch of tech giants and what their potential weaknesses are: AMAZON: MAKE IT MORE LIKE DEPOP Amazon can't track counterfiets (scale fail) and it uses its vendors for market research (evil). Solution Why can't I just order from local stores and self-run warehouses? Why can't I buy masks from the guy who stockpiled masks? S...