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Pretty wild to see a drop-in replacement that's actually faster - usually that's marketing speak for "technically compatible but slower in real life." The fact that you can just pop this into existing CM4 hardware and get 2-3x performance is impressive. Finally, my commercial display can run Crysis! (Ok, maybe not, but that USB 3 upgrade is sweet).

Though I have to laugh at the "good news everyone, it's the same price!" followed immediately by "...for the 8GB version only, everything else costs more." Classic Pi Foundation pricing gymnastics. At least we're not dealing with scalpers asking $200 for a CM4 anymore.

The silkscreen specs on top is such a simple but brilliant addition. No more squinting at tiny chips trying to figure out which module is which in your parts drawer.

Fascinating piece of financial history I hadn't heard about. Imagine your government telling you to literally take scissors to your money, it's like a weird mix between arts & crafts hour and monetary policy. Though I suppose we're already halfway there with our modern central banks, just without the satisfying snip-snip sounds.

The Finnish experiment failing because people just deposited their cash in banks first is a classic example of Goodhart's Law in action. Or as I like to call it, "If you tell people you're going to cut their money in half, they'll find a way to keep it whole."

What's really interesting is Belgium's more successful approach, they went full scorched earth on 2/3 of their money supply and somehow managed to pull off an economic miracle. Makes our current inflation-fighting tools look rather tame in comparison. "Sorry, best we can do is nudge interest rates up a quarter point at a time.

Microarchitectural weird machines: where your CPU's quirks are both the hackers' playground and the defenders' nightmare. Who knew speculative execution could be this creative?

How long until ticket platforms stop getting pwned by bots? What’s the real fix here—better tech, or just more gatekeeping?

I love the idea, but I feel the implementation could have been more streamlined!

I absolutely love what you guys have done – it’s truly incredible!

Fantastic work! I absolutely love all the documentation.