21: Bigfoot As a Service

Looking forward to the SCaLE and Planet Nix coverage! Here's some sats to help with the travel. If you see any of the nix/bsd people down there, I'd love to hear about it. I find that particular combination intriguing. Wechsel sounds insane, but then I've done exactly that in the past with a Perl script.

Kept listening and heard that you also noticed 👍

Lads, I think you missed some boosts last episode. At least mine and m00ninite's show up in Fountain but seemed to have missed your bot. The headset sounds good to me! For the TUI challenge, I think sixel should be allowed, since it's something that real DEC terminals did. Otherwise I vote no for external graphics. Also, what about another bonus challenge to do social media from the TUI. toot for Mastodon is great, for example

Happy episode 100! I hope the show keeps being worth you making it, because I sure appreciate listening to it. Banger of an episode 99 too 👍

(Typo correction : *bad attitude)

I agree we need a good modern in-kernel filesystem. I'm also still frustrated at the bzf attitude of the kernel devs wrt zfs. If they'd embraced it as an external project with a special status, the fs story would have been so much better

Jumped ahead to listen to 626 and 627 whilst catching up. Throwing in some support !

Congratulations on 20 years of podcasting, Chris! Thanks for the van tips. I'll look first at monitoring internal temp, and freshwater temp and levels.

Just food for thought. I do wonder what the eventual effects might be for bitcoin, hopefully positive!

Welcome back for the new year! Whilst I prefer the shows not focused on US-internal politics, I know there'll be some of that, it's only natural for a US based show. If we're talking about the US Fed, though ... what do you think about the NY Fed holding 7000 tonnes of gold on behalf of foreign governments ? After invading Venezuela, the US might be able to steal its bitcoin reserves, or maybe not. The gold in NY is much easier to steal. If I wanted a sovereign reserve, I know where I'd look!

Love the track! Nice pick, Chris. Filoxera: love it

Minor time-travel boost from episode 657. Thanks for putting in all the time and effort for the planet nix and scale coverage! Picking mtr in 2026 is hilarious, but it's still a great tool

I'm looking forward to hearing your reports from RedHat Summit. I've started the TUI challenge early because I'll be on holiday most of next week. I'm having a blast, and it reminds me of how much I enjoyed using Linux (and BSD) back in the day. My write-up which I'm updating as I go along is at tui.chef-li.eu

I really enjoyed both the eBPF show, and the coverage of the Rust/kernel mess a couple weeks back. Hope you lads had a great time at Scale !

This seems a very accurate description of btc to me, and also one which depends on two things: btc being hard money, and btc being usable as money for trade.

Trying to keep it short: Money used for Money-Commodity-Money trades is capital. This is how an industrialist uses money. Contrast this to the Commodity-Money-Commodity use of money by say a poor farmer.

It's interesting that you ask if Saylor is downplaying btc as an asset, when the clip you played has him describing it as capital. In classical political economy, capital is a specific role played by hard money.

I did appreciate the RedHat coverage, though it left me feeling down (their fault not yours) ... and apparently uninspired to boost!

I use KeePass with syncthing and it works great for my needs. Love the Gnome Commander pick, and it's a nice little bit of nostalgia remembering when Gnome initially shipped Midnight Commander as their file manager.

Something seems to have gone wrong with my Daemon update boost, which shows as anonymous on the fountain fm website. That was me, thomato

Daemon update time! Last Saturday night, I sat down to install FreeBSD. I haven't done so since 4-dot-something, but I'm sure it'll be easy. I'm a NetBSD user after all! The FreeBSD installer is not as easy as Net's. I eventually gave up trying to get zfs to boot on my T440p, and started thinking about Comic Sans. Didn't boost in last week out of shame. This week I tried on a new machine (a more modern thinkpad). Got root on ZFS working, thankfully, which for me is the whole point of trying FreeBSD. And eventually X11, KDE, and sound. I still can't get my preferred keyboard layout, though. I went for syncthing in a jail to get 7 points instead of just 2. I also did a fresh install of my favoured NetBSD, which I don't normally run as a desktop. I have to say, getting a graphical environment working was easier. In general, I find the NetBSD installation process much more pleasant, though I'm of course more familiar with it. Wes might enjoy looking at the NetBSD boot process. It's wonderfully simple. You can even get root on ZFS, though it's a manual process that makes for a slightly janky boot procedure -- no worse than how Linux boots, though! https://wiki.netbsd.org/root_on_zfs/ For scoring: 6 points for: FreeBSD installed and online, audio recording (will send link later), and syncthing 15 points for: syncthing in a jail, firewall configured, and I also installed a NetBSD desktop. I don't think I'll keep the FreeBSD installation, but I am going to keep NetBSD on this laptop. It not only suspends (FreeBSD could do that), it even resumes! But in general, I'm sticking with Linux as a desktop.

I'd bet Saylor's selling btc is because of whatever Galaxy Brain thing I don't understand that separates what he's doing from a Ponzi scheme. But if it's not that, maybe it's simple? Buy low sell high, and he's betting against a hot bitcoin summer?

I love the episode 666 daemonic challenge plan. One idea for a challenge would be to run Linux binaries or even a Linux container. I think Brent in particular might enjoy NetBSD on some dumpster hardware. It can run on remarkably small machines!

I love that ThinkBox case! I wish I'd known about it back when I could afford 4 HDDs!

Thanks for the great coverage of RedHat summit! I'm looking forward to finishing the TUI challenge in sync with the rest of you.

Hearing about the state of the engine sealing, here's some sats for an MQ-7 so Brent can get carbon monoxide monitoring going

Thanks for the good coverage of what's going on in btc core. This is the sort of episode I appreciate with the show

I've enjoyed the variety of show styles recently, including the gaming silliness. I wouldn't want every show to be like that, but once in a while is fun!

Loved the LFNW coverage! I've got DragonflyBSD and OpenBSD both downloaded. I've never run either of them before, so let's see how this goes. 666 devil horns etc etc

Hope you've been having a good Linux Fest. Looking forward to hearing Sunday's show, and finding out if Brent made it!

I'm simultaneously sick to death of hearing about AI, and enjoying LUP's AI coverage. You all are on a very, very short list of exceptions, because you strike a good balance. Both in terms of the amount of coverage, but also in being neither cheerleaders nor thought-free haters. I'm pretty much aligned with Brent, and like he clearly is, I'm enjoying hearing Chris and Wes's AI adventures

I don't see any reason why btc couldn't stay under the cost of mining a coin for quite a while. The miners with reserves would keep going, and the small ones wouldn't make it. But my prediction is that it doesn't stay below $60k for long, exactly because this idea is widespread and people will start buying again if it does

Loved the discussion of all the bots and especially the talk with Abe

Loved the This Old Network segment! I'd be curious to hear if Brent's started to automate his van yet. Mine is completely un-automated and I'm not sure where to start

I've been enjoying the balance of the show recently, keep up the good work!

Not really enjoying the extended US politics arc of the show. I'll be tuning out for the near future, and will check in again after the US has calmed down a bit. Thanks for the first year of the show, which got me back into bitcoin.

Nice song!