Every six months or so, I re-balance my retirement portfolio. It's not much, but I do it to keep each investment in correct proportion. One of the asset classes is a commodity. For the first…

For the past few months, a mini-rant is percolating in my mind about how KYC/AML is bullshit and how we're not punishing companies enough for leaking our data. Fundamentally, the cost bears to the individual…

Rent-Seeking Smartphones are boring. Try to find a smartphone that isn't Android or iOS. Go ahead, try. Ok, so your searching skills are great and you find Sailfish OS. Try to buy a phone with…

How it started That damn fan noise. Getting frustrated with everything but my own ability to solve a problem one day, I focused on the droning of the fan in my desktop network switch. In…

By Henriok - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96026688 In case you haven't heard in the last five minutes, Apple released their new macbooks based on Apple's own cpu, the M1. Here's a fine writeup as any.