Bitrox Tech

Remember, it all started with Pong… here’s the next level… https://gizmodo.com/what-its-like-to-play-ping-pong-with-a-robot-1821974940

All my systems are patched up for Spectre and Meltdown. The performance impact isn’t noticeable on my laptop and main desktop as in general they’re lightly used. However, on one of my Win 10 development systems were I have quite a few Docker containers running, the hit was sizable! All my CPUs are pre-Haswell (2015), […]

I wonder how long we’ll have to wait for Waste Management to announce their own WaistCoin to track your garbage. It should be good for at least a 300-400% stock price increase. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42630136

A recent quote from one of the founders of an alt coin currency pretty much says it all: “I have a lot of faith in the Dogecoin Core development team to keep the software stable and secure, but I think it says a lot about the state of the cryptocurrency space in general that a […]

For those more technically inclined and interested, here’s a pretty good article explaining the scalability problem that very well end up being the achilles heel for the majority of cryptocurrency out there. https://hackernoon.com/blockchains-dont-scale-not-today-at-least-but-there-s-hope-2cb43946551a

The insanity around digital currency very much reminds me of the early 2000’s when people were dumping billions/trillions of dollars into anything with a .com name. My guess is that 99.999% of investors have absolutely zero understanding of the digital currency’s actual value or business case. Very soon there’s going to be one hell of […]

A great example of how automated stock trading has become. . . https://gizmodo.com/hooters-whispers-blockchain-and-its-parent-company-s-1821706292

FYI for anyone looking to upgrade their lighting to LED. I would avoid the Cree light bulbs sold at Home Despot like the plague. About 12 months ago I bought and installed a bunch of them. Over the course of the year, they’ve died like flies… honestly I’m not sure they last any longer than […]

So Apple, if a “degraded” battery causes such problems, are you slowing down your iPads? How about my MacBook Pro? iWatches? If not, then exactly what is so different/critical about iPhones that makes it imperative to slow them down vs. the 100’s of millions of other Apple devices out there? If it’s unique to the […]

Even though I’ve been switching back and forth between Windows and linux for over 10 years, I still get caught out by Windows being non-case sensitive… arrrgggghhh!