Cypherpunk Adventures

Where to buy ammo in the US in 2024?

I’m broadly assuming anyone reading this either has enough firearms, doesn’t want firearms, or can’t get firearms. If you want to buy guns, there are…

Apr 1 • 

Ryan Lackey

March 2024

Portable Podcasting Gear

At home in Puerto Rico I have a pretty decent audio recording setup: a Shure SM7B on a deskmounted arm, Scarlett XLR to USB interface with Cloudlifter…

Mar 29 • 

Ryan Lackey

Weirdest Frequent Traveler Perk So Far

Delta Diamond to Jet Blue Mosaic 4 Status Match includes 4 Blade Helicopter transfers

Mar 24 • 

Ryan Lackey

Drones and US Manufacturing

I’ve got a decent collection of small drones (2 x DJI Mini 3 Pro, Air 2S, etc.), and am looking at getting something in the low-end industrial range as…

Mar 20 • 

Ryan Lackey

Ah, Twitter

I’ve had a twitter account (https://x.com/octal) since…2007? Just got “locked/suspended”, for no obvious reason. “Your account was suspended due to…

Mar 18 • 

Ryan Lackey

Finney Forum and FUTO

Just got back from a quick trip to Dallas (and Austin) to speak at Finney Forum and to stop in at the FUTO offices as well as attend their spring social…

Mar 18 • 

Ryan Lackey

Seasteading Begins: led by cruise industry

I’m a big fan of Seasteading as an idea, but as I’ve written before, there are a lot of launch difficulties — it’s capital intensive, and operating…

Mar 13 • 

Ryan Lackey

ETH Denver 2024

The best community-run cryptocurrency event in the US

Mar 7 • 

Ryan Lackey

Simple Live Audio at Events

A non-expert's guide

Mar 4 • 

Ryan Lackey

January 2024

Substack in 2024

I obviously didn’t maintain the “one post per day” goal in 2023. I think “daily substack posts for an entire year” was over-ambitious given full-time…

Jan 2 • 

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March 2023

Seasteading Option 3.5: Cheaper Dedicated Residential Cruise Ships

Since I last wrote about the “dedicated residential cruise ship” on 9 Feb, looks like an even cheaper option has come to the market. Life At Sea Cruises…

Mar 28, 2023 • 

Ryan Lackey

Back on Substack, in Japan

Looks like a 14 day gap in posting — the last couple weeks have been particularly crazy for me, but plenty of amazing things happening in the world…

Mar 27, 2023 • 

Ryan Lackey