Overall LLMs increased productivity for everyone. In relative terms it increased the value of excellent developers, and decreased the value of average developers.

I don't share any personal details with big AI, I assume it's all being logged and could potentially be used against me. ("Claude has given your details to local authorities" lmao wot) For my public work (open source software), which is 95% of my AI usage, I want nothing less than the best – Opus 4.5 today. It's a good tradeoff. Some people don't realize you can't really get banned from using these models. Just use a proxy like @PayPerQ (there are many others), or Cursor. For private/personal queries, gpt-oss:20b via Ollama locally, and more powerful models via @Maple AI are great options. View quoted note →

Psychopaths doing psycopath things View quoted note →

If you send an unsolicited PR with AI-generated text, especially for a previously undiscussed bug/feature: 99% chance I will close it. Code is cheap. Show proof of work! GM!

Who will run a gold-backed cashu mint? Cashu seems way more useful for metals View quoted note →

Non-interoperable freedom tech that works > interoperable freedom tech that doesn't

@Jumble heads up, Shift+Cmd+Z should redo but instead only does undo – Shift is ignored. This breaks user expectations, lost part of a note I was redacting

Improved alternative of NIP-98 and Blossom Auth 👀

GitHub

GitHub - pippellia-btc/nostr-web-tokens: Nostr Web Tokens (NWTs) are signed Nostr event used to convey claims between parties on the web.

Nostr Web Tokens (NWTs) are signed Nostr event used to convey claims between parties on the web. - pippellia-btc/nostr-web-tokens

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There's plenty of terrible things in the world. There's plenty of awesome things in the world. Be aware of the former, focus on the latter. GM

Obsidian and Keet are two closed source applications that typically deal with very private data. It's interesting how Keet gets 100x more hate.

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