Constantin Jacob

Dry German. I fondly watch motorsport I have little knowledge of. Not a sponsored state actor, protector of virtual cordless drills @guardianiosapp

[chris @hugelgupf]

https://t.co/NoDw2Eax4S

[Chris Fleming @chrisfluming]

CEO of Patagonia

[Digiconomist @DigiEconomist]

Let’s start the year by reflecting on the colossal waste of resources in Bitcoin mining:

During 2022 Bitcoin consumed 161 TWh of electricity in total, exceeding a country such as Sweden.

Related CO2 emissions were ~90 Mt; again negating the entire global net savings from EVs.

[Years Progress @year_progress]

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[Years Progress @year_progress]

▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 100%

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

“People’s reaction to telling them I wasn’t drinking was a strong filter for who I wanted to continue being around”

“Alcohol was the only thing holding together many shallow relationships” https://t.co/W3ZWjy2yne

[Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak]

Before you make fun of that kid who still believes in Santa 🎅

Just remember you still think that pre-revenue startup is worth $2 billion 🦄

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁

[Mike Cvet @mikecvet]

The sad reality of all the 2.0-era bad takes on how simple it would be to “fix” or “rebuild” Twitter is that they are wholly under-appreciating the challenges and complexity of this system at scale. If it looks like a simple app as a user, that is because the UX does a good job.

[Guardian Firewall @guardianiosapp]

Guardian for macOS update released 12.21.22. Please visit https://t.co/sl6IpJpBmz to download to your Mac and drag the file to your applications folder to install. ***Important*** this update may not install automatically and require the steps above.

[Ben Sandofsky @sandofsky]

A rewrite is like rebuilding a plane mid-flight. The first Twitter rewrite placed Rails with Java+Scala; it took *years* and seriously debilitated product work in the process.

Rewriting Twitter all over again is the dumbest imaginable move, and I can’t wait to watch.

[Paul Niland @PaulNiland]

In case you haven't heard, the US military budget that just passed was for $858 billion. So for about 5% of that the army of your biggest enemy, Russia, is being eradicated. A bargain.

Also, for those not paying attention, Russia's stated intention is genocide.

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Fixing a complex system sounds pretty easy when you're an idiot.

[Darshan @chiefchimpanzee]

😂😂😂 more startup bro reality checks. This time George Hotz. A short story of a guy who found out…

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

defaults write com. apple.dt.Xcode XcodeCloudUpsellPromptEnabled -bool false
(remove the space after com.)

[Avid Halaby @AvidHalaby]

Mudge informed Agrawal that there were thousands of failed login attempts to Twitter's engineering system every day. Agrawal did nothing.

[Kim Ahlberg @kimahlberg]

Currently working on adding the Baltic countries & Poland to my electricity price tracking app.

Looking for beta testers in those regions. Join the beta program here:
https://t.co/sVQ0XIIRMG

#energy #energybills #electricitybill #poland #estonia #latvia #lithuania #baltic

[David Buchanan does not tweet anymore @David3141593]

Apparently @Namecheap is now selling bloch*in-based domains, and unless you hover over the illegibly low-contrast "i" icon there's no indication that you're buying something "not compatible with DNS" throughout the rest of the checkout process.