Images of grains of sand photographed under the microscope.
Around the world from A to Z.
“At first we were in an arms race with sophisticated criminals,” says Eric Grosse, Google’s head of security. “Then we found ourselves in an arms race with certain nation-state actors [with a reputation for cyberattacks]. And now we’re in an arms race with the best nation-state actors.” Primarily, the US government.
The Democratic Republic of Koana Islands is an Oceania country situated in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It's closest neighbours are Australia to the east, Madagascar o the west and India to the North.
News from the future.
We need to talk about TED.
The Two Cultures of Computing: User Culture Versus Programmer Culture.
Give me a schtickle of Lorem Ipsum.
“We have no plans to fix this bug.”
Bitchcoin.
Out of curiosity and to better understand the recent cryptocurrency craze I started to mine dogecoins.
First, I installed the +scrypt variant of cgminer via MacPorts (you need version 3.7.2, the last one being able to mine via GPU/scrypt – you can read how to install an older version of a port at the official MacPorts site).
Then I registered an account at doge.gentoomen.org – which unfortunately ceased to exist not even 12 hours later…
So I checked out some other doge mining pools and currently use doge.coinium.org – there is a good getting started guide for the whole setup process.
For now I am mining ahead at a speed of approx. 7 Kh/s average and looking forward to earn my first dogecoin – if ever…
Update: Halted the mining process after approx. 20 hours due to the noise and heat emerging from the laptop. In fact, I seem to have some confirmed dogecoins now, estimated worth 0,00001 € or something, but I gained a lot of insights to the whacky, parallel existence of cryptocurrencies.