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He did in the form of Posthaven [1] but I'd say please keep it updated. The last post on the Posthaven blog is five years old.[2]

[1] https://posthaven.com/ [2] https://blog.posthaven.com/read-about-how-fly-has-helped-wit...


Incredible, a public + private UGC hosting service with no service terms or code of conduct (that I could find, even in onboarding). That's so brave lol


"Because ISRO actually launches satellites built by students for free into low-Earth orbit, we must ask what these satellites do. It’s been a decade of India launching student-built satellites and it’s been the same decade of our student-built satellites doing very little, if anything surrounded often by deliberately misleading narratives."


> Ask the people in the developing world using it to replace their countries' failed monetary systems.

Where oh where is this happening?

The El Salvador experiment failed: https://restofworld.org/2022/el-salvador-bitcoin/

And I hope you don't mean millionnaires of the developing world because they're people who've escaped the rigours of being in a developing world.


> Where oh where is this happening?

broadly gestures at Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe

not-so-broadly gestures at Ukraine

> The El Salvador experiment failed

A few growing pains != "failed"

And from that same site:

https://restofworld.org/2022/ukraines-tech-community-rallies... <---- Bitcoin donations serving as a critical part of the initial lifeline for Ukraine's self-defense.

https://restofworld.org/2022/were-still-very-afraid-of-failu... <---- It ain't just me saying that cryptocurrency is a solid bet to unshackling the Global South from the Global North's financial hegemony.

https://restofworld.org/2021/stablecoins-find-a-use-case-in-... <---- People in Nigeria using stablecoins in the midst of local currency inflation and restrictions on accessing foreign currency.


It might be about profitability, long-term energy storage and much less maintenance (since no moving parts). Ref: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062...

"Evaluated herein is one E-TES concept, called Firebrick Resistance-Heated Energy Storage (FIRES), that stores electricity as sensible high-temperature heat (1000–1700 °C) in ceramic firebrick, and discharges it as a hot airstream to either (1) heat industrial plants in place of fossil fuels, or (2) regenerate electricity in a power plant. … We report that systems of 100–1000 s MWh may be cycled daily, and discharged at a constant heat rate typically for 70–90% of the storage capacity. Traditional insulation can reasonably limit heat leakage to less than 3% per day. Preliminary cost estimates indicate a system cost near $10/kWh, substantially less expensive than batteries."


The author has published a new post: "Just more confusion" https://rootprivileges.net/2022/04/07/hi-wordpress-com-youve...



Thanks for sharing these links.


Managing it after is I believe the bigger problem.


Seconded. Already breathing easier as well.

Also, a good example of the sort of attitude we've come to expect from WP folks, and from which the sudden Pro-plan changes departed.


Out of curiosity, what would you use to build nixCraft if you had to start over?


I will use a static blog generator (or probably write my own in Perl/ Python). I just want simple stuff. In the early days, WP was simple, and I loved it. Now, it turned into a hot mess—every primary functionality (like anti-spam or form) needed a plugin which is a significant source of pain. Fun fact, b2 was slowly dying and had few issues, so they created a b2 fork known as WP. Then Movable Type messed up with its userbase in 2004, and those users did mass migration to WP, and the rest is the history.


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