#Nostr is full of people building stuff and Twitter is full of people bouncing from one pointless argument to the next. 🤷‍♂️

Ok, whining forced me to actually check the settings. Turns out I needed to turn off the show wallet chooser option and reset my default wallet again to get back to the experience I was used to. I’m an idiot and should have looked before complaining. View quoted note →

Resist the urge to run nodes in a box out of convenience and learn how to run the software you depend on yourself. It’s a joke to claim you are “sovereign” if you are just booting up a tangle of docker images on a toy computer and you have know idea how any of it works or what you are even running. None of it is as hard as you have convinced yourself it is and now you have LLMs available to walk you through every command line option and config setting for anything you might need. View quoted note →

I’m definitely not paying my quarterly tax payments this year until December. I’ll take the hit and pay the penalty. Because fuck them. It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.

Only $25K for the whole John Wick 4 collection 🤣

Holy shit, imagine getting fired via a ChatGPT generated text message. Guaranteed this has already happened.

Yellen will get to dump $1.5T worth of bonds on the market over the next 9 months. I wonder what that will do to bond yields. I also wonder what mix of terms she’ll be trying to sell. Maybe Yellen will step down and let the next commie - Lael Brainard - take over now.

I want to feed the text of the debt ceiling deal to gpt4all and ask it questions about it.

We were dealing with the consequences of unlimited free speech in 1993. It took the rest of the world 30 fucking years to catch up. I learned to distrust anyone who had the knee-jerk reaction to censor anything they disagreed with way before then, but the Wild West of Usenet helped me truly internalize the consequences of that. 2009 + 30 years is 2039. I first got a taste of building web software in 1997 and it was a mind blowing experience. It totally changed my perspective on what was possible and helped me see a new path forward. 10 years later I started a web based SaaS. It felt like a lifetime at the time but feels like a blink of an eye now. There are a bunch of things bubbling around Bitcoin and Nostr and AI that feel similar to that Cambrian explosion feeling I had throughout the mid ‘90s. This is a worthwhile read whether you lived through that time like we did or whether you came later. View quoted note →

Nostr’s obscurity is the thing that protects it from the drama queens who are addicted to Twitter and make it such a cesspool. I’m thankful they can’t get their fix here.

I’m sure they restricted private jet flights too, right? 🤣 Anyone who doesn’t see through this nonsense at this point is probably not worth the trouble of trying to convince.

This is one of the first things I noticed too. His need to appeal to Davos plus whatever drives a man to wear 8 rings is enough to convince me to never trust Ledger as a company regardless of all other factors. I can’t even comprehend what would be going through the head of a man who wears 8 rings.

For about the price of a Coldcard and minimal accessories for it, you can get a barebones Nuc and 16GB of RAM and use it to practice setting up an air gapped signing computer. There are risk trade offs for every approach, but if you have tried a bunch of dedicated hardware devices and you haven’t tried using an air gapped PC running tails with no storage devices or networking, it’s probably worth spending a couple hundred dollars to play with some configs that are possible using that approach too.

“What if mirrors are not what we think they are?” What do these people think they are? Have any of them explained that? “How does the mirror know what’s behind here?”

This is going to be fascinating to watch. Still far too early to say, but if the daily total fees end up 5x higher than what they were before, ≈20 BTC/day to ≈100 BTC/day, that would be something.

I smile when I see people who have never had their livelihood depend on their ability to support the use of complex software by real people in the real world make bold predictions about how their grand theoretical software visions will play out. That’s cute, now go build something and prove it.

Both the Miller Lite chick and the HK chick show their tits off at least as much as the old ads they criticize. You think that’s an accident?

If you want to understand why half the country is on Adderall, it’s so the pharmaceutical companies can get rich giving losers an excuse for not doing all the things they know they should have done/should be doing. The DSM-5 is a jobs program for people who borrowed too much money for the wrong degrees and the pharmaceutical companies get their vig too.

We have lost so much of the ancient context that the Bible emerged in. “All your base are belong to us” “Your gods are nothing but servants of God.” Solon got just a taste of what Moses would have grown up immersed in as an adopted noble in Egypt. If you assume The Flood coincided with major milestones in the Great Year and you look at new archeological evidence that is emerging from the same time ≈12K years ago, and you evaluate our cultural artifacts through that lens, what insights are waiting to be found?

A recent supply chain attack.

Kaspersky official blog

Review and analysis of fake Trezor cryptowallet

Fake hardware cryptowallet, and how bitcoins were stolen from it.