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Rebuilding my home server with Indie Box
My wife and I have run a server at home pretty much continuously since we came to California in 1995. I remember carrying stacks of Slackware floppy disks home from work: whatever code was needed, I downloaded it at work to a 1.44M floppy disk, and installed it when I got home. Lots of driver…
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The “we-pretend-its-free-and-sell-you-out-behind-your-back-Web2.0-business model”
Silicon Valley goes through those phases. They are long enough that somehow, everybody seems to have forgotten that they are just the flavor du jour and will pass just like platform shoes and Milli Vanilli. For the past ten years, all that anybody can conceive of doing in startup land is this: we build a…
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Peak cloud
Yesterday, Bill Gurley tweeted: It is clear that US tech companies are about to suffer from NSA activity. Politics aside, this is really, really bad for Silicon Valley. He’s of course correct. It’s been a wonderful surprise for lots of non-US companies who suddenly have a rather compelling argument to make against their US-based competitors.…
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Wansview NCB541W review
Wansview is bribing me, with $10, to write a review for their Wansview NCB541W camera. Deal! In summary: the hardware is nice, the software and the documentation sucks. Hardware: Good: can pan and swivel by remote control Good: comes with mounting bracket Ok: picture quality Bad: audio out and power in have the same plug…
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What’s wrong with the economy — a techie’s perspective on Bitvasion and Lazy Leechie
Look at these graphs: Ever-decreasing labor participation Food stamps participants are going through the roof Shift from middle-income to low-income jobs In spite of zero interest rate for many years, and trillions of newly printed money Something’s rather wrong with the economy, and it’s not getting better. The political left says: “offer more government assistance,…