Siilwyn @Siilwyn@mastodon.social

Just to put this into perspective:

The average value of a Bitcoin transaction is currently $119 and requires energy worth roughly $100 (the world average price is $0.14 per kWh).

👏👏👏

"The average energy consumption for one single Bitcoin transaction in 2020 was 741 kilowatt-hours."

https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-consumption-transaction-comparison-visa/

📦 Just released: 🍡 Bubbles 0.7.6

This release features a simple, flexible, and customizable progress bar for your terminal apps.

For details, see the release notes:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles/releases/tag/v0.7.6

Found out that migrating from one user to another is not as simple as I would have expected, but still very doable. Wrote it up to share the process I used: https://defragged.org/2021/01/13/migrating-to-a-new-user-on-mastodon/

You can use Mastodon to add comments to your static blog engine.

https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/ #webdev #fediverse

📦 Just released: ❄️ Glow 1.3.0, Holiday Anniversary Edition

This release contains lots of UX improvements, most notably, your stuff is now organized into tabs.

To update check your fave package manager or download a binary from the releases page.

https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/releases/tag/v1.3.0

Dear web developers and admins,
please stop embedding Google's hideous #ReCaptcha into your websites. Its algorithm is faulty, forcing regular users to click dozens or even hundreds of fire hydrants, bicycles, or traffic lights each day. It puts a 'suspicious activity' flag on users who won't obey to Google's business model - such as people who don't sign into Chrome, use anonymity VPNs, or use browser extensions to suppress common tracking mechanisms. Enough is enough. Stop it.

Indigenous people from modern day Canada and Alaska invented the first sunglasses. The oldest pair known dates back to the year 1200. They work by limiting the amount of sunlight that hits your eyes, preventing snow blindness.

The fact that Cyberpunk 2077 is getting so much press and attention is frustrating to me, if only because EA/Respawn pulled the exact same situation months ago and yet it was the best selling Star Wars game of all time—and press didn’t seem to call out the PS4 issues.

Keytap2 - acoustic keyboard eavesdropping based on language n-gram frequencies:

https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio/discussions/31

"It doesn’t feel like we’re celebrating games anymore, instead preferring to attack them and the people who devote their lives to creating them. Reveling in being offended by them. We’re drowning in toxicity instead of fascination."

^^ I wrote this 10 years ago...

"2020 Year in Review"

... oh just fuck off already.

We're excited to announce the launch of GNOME Circle! This new initiative supports apps and libraries that use the GNOME platform. Learn more about how GNOME Circle works in our news article:
https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/11/gnome-circle/

#GNOMECircle #opensource #FOSS

Loving Zelda & Chill II. I just wish it was on YouTube Music as an actual album instead of a video! But this is the first time I’ve been happy YouTube can pull from YouTube videos to source music, as I can still listen in my preferred app on my phone. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=rJlY1uKL87k&feature=share