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Cake day: July 4th, 2024

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  • The Federal Reserve, which manages interbank money transfers in the US, last year approved a service that creates near instant transfers for pennies.

    We have three official ways: wires (same day; acceptable for lawful purposes ie real estate; costly at $20+ each), ACH (takes days; fractions of a penny; used for bulk transfers that are planned in advance or are not time sensitive ie checks and payroll; what venmo etc actually do in the background, behind the facade of their app), and now FedNow.

    FedNow is more like bank transfers used in other countries where silly stuff like venmo isn’t needed. Problem is every bank needs to spend the time and expense to implement it. That is going to take ages, and with venmo-like services being well established there isn’t a lot of demand driving adoption. And probably why anyone reading this never heard about it.








  • It needs to have three little wings on the outside of the ring. These fit into the threads in the screw-like adjustment mechanism.

    Mine looked good until I realized two of the three wings had broken clean off and disappeared.

    It’s a big part of why they say to adjust the grind with the motor running. If you change it to a finer grind while beans are wedged in the burrs you’re putting pressure on these fragile wings.







  • Another big area of Windows that uses kernel-level drivers is anti-cheating engines for games. Microsoft has been speaking with game developers about how to reduce the amount of kernel usage, but it’s a more complicated use case as cheaters often have to purposefully tamper with their machine to disable protections and get cheating engines running.

    “A lot of [game developers] would love to not have to maintain kernel stuff, and they are very interested in how they do that,” Weston says. “We’ve been talking about the requirements there, and I think we’ll have more to say on that in the near future.” Riot Games told me last year that it’s willing to follow potential Windows security changes and “recede from the kernel space.”


  • Another big area of Windows that uses kernel-level drivers is anti-cheating engines for games. Microsoft has been speaking with game developers about how to reduce the amount of kernel usage, but it’s a more complicated use case as cheaters often have to purposefully tamper with their machine to disable protections and get cheating engines running.

    “A lot of [game developers] would love to not have to maintain kernel stuff, and they are very interested in how they do that,” Weston says. “We’ve been talking about the requirements there, and I think we’ll have more to say on that in the near future.” Riot Games told me last year that it’s willing to follow potential Windows security changes and “recede from the kernel space.”



  • It appears President Donald Trump won’t be getting anywhere close to the $20 billion he demanded from CBS and its parent company Paramount Global now that a mediator proposed a $20 million settlement instead.

    The proposal would include a $17 million payment to Trump’s presidential library, $2 million more than ABC’s settlement with Trump in December, and another $3 million in legal fees and public service announcements covering antisemitism