Im excited for a whiteboard that's being delivered today. Simple things please simple minds... 😆

#amethyst auto translation feature surprised me (and still does) by how seamless it is. Once you've seen and used it, it makes you wonder why other (all?) apps don't have something similar.

"There's a universal way to see who you are, if you have the courage. You are reflected in your friends. If you have no friends, or all your friends are asses, it's you. You're the ass. Hate to be the one to tell you. If, on the other hand, you look at your friends and feel humble that people so cool are willing to spend time with you, in that case you are doing well. Just don't get smug. " #books #friends #quotes #qotd

Unpopular opinion: big tech wants to "slow down" pace of AI Frontier models for a restricted set of actors to gain an advantage finding flaws in others' software.

"The European Union makes buildings, chocolate, cheese, and regulations. That's what they're good at." (heard on a podcast)

"I do not trust billionaires to ever be altruistic."

Just listened to this interview/conversation and I recommend giving it a listen. Looking forward to Helena's new book. #bitcoin #money #books #reading View quoted note →

"With the lizard and the monkey both fearing change, it can take an extreme act of human will to do the right thing."

I blame on Nostr for making me stay up so late.

When I grow old, I wanna be like Statler or Waldorf.

"Identity verification company IDScan has confirmed that hackers accessed customer data stored in its cloud platform, days after reports linked the company to a massive database containing more than 153 million driver's license scans."

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IDScan confirms breach tied to 153 million stolen driver’s licenses

Identity verification company IDScan has confirmed that hackers accessed customer data stored in its cloud platform, days after reports linked the ...

Sending web links via email is a practice we should consider deprecating once and for all. Perhaps when AI models start routinely using/abusing links for phishing, we'll see email software modified to reject URLs and!/or stop displaying them as clickable hyperlinks.

Today I received some road safety advice from a driver(*), delivered with a touch of passive aggression: “Look and see.” 😁 I wanted to respond with “maximum speed in residential areas” and “signalling manoeuvres in advance”, but he’d already driven off.

‘loose pub talk’... B0ll0x 😝

This second-hand pixel reboots too often for my taste. I could either reset and start from scratch or.. 👊 🚮 keep it as a last resort device.

“If you’re thinking about reinventing yourself, do it while it’s not yet an urgent necessity. If you wait until it is, you’ll cling to the first thing that comes to mind.” #showerThoughts

I used an LLM (I call it Marvin 😁) to quickly improve some of the documents I work on. Marvin does a remarkable job with simple documents, to an extent that I feel I'm giving directions to a junior colleague: I open a new chat, talk about the scope of the document, give and/or ask for data, then ask Marvin to write an exec summary, perhaps specific assumptions or caveats. Marvin suggests different versions: a formal response, a more concise one, one that sounds more legal. My company wouldn’t hire someone to do this, so I don’t feel Marvin is taking a human’s job. I provide the information, then judge whether it’s fit for purpose or needs amending. Will it take my job one day? Who knows. For now, though, I still build better rapport with customers than Marvin would.

Toying with a small #network idea where new nodes in separate locations would self register their npub on DNS, ideally trigger a certificate generation by a private CA. I imagine something like: 1. New node comes with nsec, npub. 2. Registers npub A record (also last 6 digits of npub, too) on "domain(.) com" DNS zone. 3. Maybe some SRV records to facilitate service discovery. 4. Other (known) nodes find the new node, wg to it, cool stuff happens. 5. Profit (joking). There will be a couple of name resolvers that nodes will use to locate other nodes and services. What I'm not sure about is what software I could use to update DNS records. Wishlist: lightweight, maybe container based. Bonus: standard API. Has anybody approached this use case? How did you solve it? Software recommendations? Nodes needn't know about Nostr, but this could be used in the backend. I'd like the frontend to be DNS, to minimise friction on devices that can't be *taught* Nostr. #asknostr

#startpage giving out "URI request too large" 414 nginx errors. 🤔. Yes, I know it uses Google, but SP is Dutch. #choices /.within. website/x/cmd/anubis/..

My node and home network need some #TLC.