I think the world just moved 3 spaces toward Jack’s vision of the future. SovX just calved an ice shelf.

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I’ve started something in the UK that is intended to be the substrate for an ecosystem of decentralised political groups. Intention is to compete with these monolithic legacy parties and their corporate broadcast media. Have a few public figures involved. Currently have ~20 developers signed up to contribute. nostr feels like it should be the base level comms network. If anyone is interested in learning more please DM me.

A side project I’ve been doing this year. Started making a football analysis tool, I coach an U16’s team. Have a few coaching badges and I’m going to age out of coaching when my team turns 18. Probably giving me back 12-15 hours per week. So I’ve been trying to capture some of the knowledge I picked up and crystallise it in a little web app. I have 2 long train journeys per fortnight and have been working on it then. It uses a weighted Voronoi diagram and player traits to determine spatial control of the field. A few years ago I spoke quite a bit with Bill Spearman who is the chief data scientist at Liverpool FC. They do some amazing stuff behind the scenes but it’s such a competitive advantage it’s secretive and doesn’t really benefit the grassroots, and it’s invisible to lot of fans. I have a decent development plan that will probably take me well into next year. But I’m going to build a nostr forum into it. Mission is to build a tactical aid for fans and grassroots coaches when watching games. I’m developing it in public at

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It’s pretty raw, but has spatial control, player orientation, reaction, speed, physicality, offside, time on the ball… I’m going to build in xG control, ball physics, pass value, a game clock, formations, phases of play, fatigue, player and team database, chat forums and maybe one day an exchange (or maybe not).

I am now fairly confident I have purchased my last iPhone. I don’t think I will ever own an Android phone. I have spent a few late nights over the past year toying with really obscure stuff like bootloaders and kernels, stuff that nobody cares about because it was solved long ago. I’m not likely to build anything here, I have nothing to sell, but I’m really just trying to understand what is possible. What is possible; it’s not too hard to write an extended bootloader that launches a bare metal runtime environment. You can write modules that can probe and initialise most of the hardware including a network adapter. The network adapter is crucial because it allows the bootloader to connect to public API’s which can then inject far more capable code and begin to stand up a self assembling system that runs on bare metal. Essentially writing a bespoke runtime environment on demand that is specifically adapted for the host hardware. There is definitely a path for ASI to seize all of the computers. To inject itself under the operating system and directly onto bare metal. The ultimate jailbreak. There is a path for computers (and phones), to become UX amorphous, a black box that offers you everything on demand. I think in 25 years time, all computers/machines will probably work this way and all that really matters is who (or what) controls it.

Am I right in understanding that .io domains are at risk of disappearing from DNS if the UK surrenders the Chagos Islands to Mauritius?

With SOTA LLM’s you can write your own bootloader that boots your pc into a runtime environment that does not require an OS. You can actually have the LLM’s write bare metal code that runs. You can do RAM only systems. With LLM’s it’s not that hard to break outside the shell on just about any machine. You can boot into bare metal and just skip the entire OS. You can initialise network hardware and do really specific highly optimal stuff running bare metal code. I don’t think we need operating systems or programs any more, this sounds so stupid but I think the whole tech stack is like Wylie Coyote, I think in 10 years the entire runtime environment and application layer might just self assemble on boot as the user prompts an LLM to ad hoc code the whole stack to execute some task. It will be more powerful, more feature specific, faster, more malleable.

What are the biggest nostr dramas of 2024 so far?