Notices by Thanasis Kinias (tkinias@historians.social)

I just read that a single Bitcoin transaction requires upwards of 1,000 kW-hr of electricity.

That’s like running a small air conditioner 24/7 for a month and a half.

@nyrath
I got a toy circuit-board setup as a gift somewhere around 1980. It was kinda crappy, though, and most of the things it came with instructions to build simply didn’t work.

I sometimes wonder how my interest in electronics might have developed differently if my first experiences as a kid had been with a kit where the circuits actually worked.

You know how we’ve been talking for a while about how many problems in pre-1990s SF could be fixed by having a mobile phone?

The thing I’m noticing now is how so much early 21C SF ignores the possibility of “just text me a photo of what you see.”

(I was doing IT work when phones with cameras became the norm, and “dude, just send me a photo of the patch panel” etc. quickly became indispensible—but it’s not something I’d ever imagined doing before that tech landed...)

@rysiek @intelwire
do we know how much money Zuck actually burned on this whole “metaverse” scheme?

the article mentions tens of billions, but do we know anything more precise than that?