The SpiderOnFire NFT Drop Strategy

This seems like a natural fit since the creator of W.A.R. (me under the purview of SpiderOnFire) envisioned dead drops as a possible application when first releasing the W.A.R. app in 2012.

SpiderOnFire will be minting W.A.R. NFTs through its page https://spideronfire.com/makenft.php

Here is how we would like to integrate the NFT world into our metaverse a.k.a. Widespread Augmented Reality (W.A.R.).

Drop SpiderOnFire NFTs under private handles at physical locations.

W.A.R. users within 3 miles of these locations will be able to tap on the NFT geotag in their heads up display and start a redeem process.

Still hashing out the redeem process.

Maybe the first user to tap on the NFT geotag will own it with a signed transaction sent to a blockchain.

Maybe subsequent taps will trigger a bid to buy the NFT geotag.

Still hashing out the incentive or motivation.

Perhaps this is finally a way to gamify and monetize the W.A.R. app.

Go ahead. Feel free to steal my idea.

Generate a Non Fungible Token (NFT)

SpiderOnFire not only produces Widespread Augmented Reality, but perhaps also a fun way to produce an NFT image. Check out Generate NFT.

Surge 2 - Metal Armor

After 2 weeks of frustration trying to defeat the Metal Armor boss in Surge 2, I found this: https://cheatevolution.com/downloads.php

Downloaded the file, unzipped the file, double clicked "CheatEvolution.exe", searched Surge 2, turned on unlimited health after starting the Steam game, and I finally got through the Metal Armor boss in Surge 2. Can't wait to use this tool to just complete the darn thing and uninstall it. I suck at poke, dodge and parry game play. Just don't have the patience nor is the repetition fun.

This is me all armored up with a bad ass weapon, and I still suck

How Big is 2**256 ( 2 to the power of 256)

Excerpt from the book Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song

How Big is 2**256?

2**256 doesn’t seem that big because we can express it succinctly, but in reality, it is an enormous number. To give you an idea, here are some relative scales:
2**256 ~ 10**77

Number of atoms in and on Earth ~ 10**50

Number of atoms in the solar system ~ 10**57

Number of atoms in the Milky Way ~ 10**68

Number of atoms in the universe ~ 10**80

A trillion (10**12) computers doing a trillion computations every trillionth (10 **–12) of a second for a trillion years is still less than 10**56 computations. Think of finding a private key this way: there are as many possible private keys in Bitcoin as there are atoms in a billion galaxies.

Kali Linux Add HP Printer

First of all going here: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01174360 did not work.

Followed these steps from here: https://subba-lakshmi.medium.com/how-to-install-and-configure-printers-on-kali-linux-78a0476b3cfe

sudo apt-get install cups cups-client "foomatic-db"

sudo /usr/sbin/adduser root lpadmin

sudo /usr/sbin/adduser s33me lpadmin

sudo service cups restart

sudo systemctl enable cups

sudo systemctl start cups

Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:631/

[Administration] [add printer]

The only snafu was setting the default print settings to "draft-grayscale". This caused a "filter" error. After specifying print quality as "normal", my text document printed out; however, I do not want to spend a great deal of ink printing out test code. Naturally, I will eventually have to find a way to print at draft quality, or reboot into Windows and print from there.

Gradle sync failed: The specified Gradle distribution does not exist

Gradle sync failed: The specified Gradle distribution 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5-bin.zip' does nbot exist

Close Android Studio and Run as administrator

Crypto Staking

Language is big barrier of entry into the Crypto universe.

Crypto staking is the process of locking up crypto holdings in order to obtain rewards or earn interest. Cryptocurrencies are built with blockchain technology, in which crypto transactions are verified, and the resulting data is stored on the blockchain. Staking is another way to describe validating those transactions on a blockchain.

Source: https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/crypto-staking/

Staking is the process of actively participating in transaction validation (similar to mining) on a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain. On these blockchains, anyone with a minimum-required balance of a specific cryptocurrency can validate transactions and earn Staking rewards.

Source: https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/trading-and-funding/staking-rewards/staking-inflation

What is my take on stake? It is the process of loaning your fiat currency to an institution that is not FDIC insured.