A recurring (kinda)joke in my circles is “Blockchain is solution looking for a problem to solve”. Now we can move on step forward and say “Blockchain is a non-solution with bigger and novel problems we now need to solve”.
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Quick tip: Managing disk space on Linux Ubuntu 1: beware of systemd journal logs and backups
A quick-but-not-so-quick tip for Linux users: beware of systemd journal logs and backup hogging up disk space and learn how to use journalctl on Linux UBUNTU 20.04
“The social contract is broken, and that’s why the game feels rigged (What Robinhood and Facebook have in common)”
Great article by Zeynep Tufekci published on The Atlantic about the “complex interplay between business models, technology, and existing power structures”
We are so much more than what they are forcing us to accept.
Adam Curtis interview to Tom Hodgkinson at Idler: “hat I’m saying is that human beings have been reduced to a very simplified version of themselves, which they’ve accepted, in order to fit into this machine model, both of society and the internet. […] We are so much more than what they are forcing us to accept.”
Linux/MacOs tip: use du to check folder and files sizes (disk usage)
Whenever you are using terminal on Unix, Linux and MacOs and need to check the amount of space used by a folder or files, you can use the `du` command.