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Daily Tech News 2 May 2022

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Noah Grey, the author of the first open-source blogging software back in the year 2000, was in danger of losing his home.

Sometimes GoFundMe doesn't fuck up worthy causes.

He now has three times the amount he needed to pay off the mortgage.

Of course the IRS will have their day, but it should still leave some money over.
On the other end of the shit scale, transfer fees for NFTs on Ethereum hit $3500. (Mashable)

At my day job we ditched Ethereum 18 months ago as being completely unworkable - when it cost less than 0.1% of that.

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The people behind Ugly Monkey JPEGs just launched a new scam/money laundering facility. (The National / MSN)

They sold off imaginary plots of land to imbeciles with too much money and/or narcotraffickers for around $5800 a pop, raising $320 million and burning $123 million in transaction fees.

This is the future of finance. We are screwed.
How long before a scam steals some ludicrous valuation of this imaginary land? Negative two days. (Web3 is Going Great)

$6 million has already gone up in smoke.

I'm in the wrong business. Well, in the wrong part of the right business. Or something. I did just buy a house more than twice the size of my current place so I can't complain too much. Except about my back which is killing me at this point.
Wikipedia has stopped accepting donations in cryptocurency. (Mashable)

The article doesn't say why - though given that it amounted to less than 0.1% of total donations last year, it might have just not been worth the trouble.
My AirPods are stalking me. (ZDNet)
AMD's Radeon 7900 XT - due later this year - could deliver almost 100 TFLOPs. (WCCFTech)

Nvidia's RTX 4090 - due later this year - could deliver just over 100 TFLOPs. (WCCFTech)

I remember SGI running an advertising campaign boasting about how they scale "from desktop to teraflop". Mobile phones can commonly exceed a teraflop these days.

Disclaimer: Pack 50 boxes and what do you get? Lower back pain and you're not half done yet.

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