talk is cheap ๐โโ๏ธ
looking forward to it ๐
day five, or mid-autumn festival day in #taipei #taiwan #traveltok
forgot to eat a mooncake ๐ฅฎ oops
glad you're enjoying your trip ๐ฅณ come back to hike the other mountains and explore the rest of the island
shopping malls are just contemporary museums where exhibits are mostly for sale ๐
https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet
check it out :)
got put onto bitmagnet (DHT crawler) by reading nostr and about a year and a half later my server has crawled and indexed 16 million+ torrents.
while it's mostly porn, my bitmagnet index getting to the point where it's pretty useful. it's fun to think of music or movies and be like "I wonder if my server can find that" before busting out search engines. I haven't needed to use normal torrent sites for awhile
THE TYPICAL BLUE CHECK UNDER ELON CANT EVEN BE BOTHERED WITH SIGNATURES, NO WONDER THEY ARE BOMBARDED WITH ENDLESS A LOADS OF NONSENSE
What a jackass ๐ค
I think it's time to watch the party die ๐ ๐ป
The good beer is gone. This water was offered to me by a friend. Free beer is good beer too. Plus, I'm making nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnfdenx7qg6waehxw309aex2mrp0yhx7unpdenk2urfd3kzuer9wcq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7raruhg and nostr:nprofile1qqsvf646uxlreajhhsv9tms9u6w7nuzeedaqty38z69cpwyhv89ufcqpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0r0jdwk proud right now too. #beerstr #waterstr #boatstr 
Best beer is free beer ๐
More bitcoin and bigger trucks ๐ฅณ
i open up the makefile and guess ๐
Making my own templates mining on nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze
Can't overstate how significant this is. 
Real mining ๐ช
Test~ Are you alive again ๐ฅน
welcome to Taipei ๐ฅณ its a nice day, check out ่ฟชๅ่ก (dihua street) ๏ผ popular tourist attraction
chinese in general is filled with homophones (many many characters share the same sounds) so its a common method of circumventing blacklisted words, but homophones can get blacklisted too ๐ (and using too many homophoes screws up context which chinese heavily relies on)
chinese netizens have to get even more clever than that, discussing gov officials using animals that resemble them (i.e. winnie the pooh and toad king ) would be evolution of that, and so on
when too many homophones get blacklisted (ie. Government ๆฟๅบ) they just start resorting to phonetic english abbreviation 'ZF', then they wait to see if the censors want to blow out two letters from the english alphabet ๐คฃ so far they havent cross that bridge
Chinese internet is a strange strange place
In China, many social media users began using the meme "garbage time" (a sports terminology) to criticize the state of the economy.
As that meme grew here in 2024, China's central authorities began cracking down on it.
But many Chinese citizens are adept at moving around censorship. When desiring to criticize the current state of the Chinese economy, many of them will instead bring up historical examples of prior Chinese dynasties that made similar errors, and draw clear parallels to the present, while maintaining plausible deniability and difficulty of censorship.
Pretty interesting. My hat is off to the Chinese social media users working around top-down censorship with memes and historical analogies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/world/asia/china-economy-garbage-time.html
An impressive display of dissidents circumventing state censor was the Hong Kong Billionaire Li ka-shing during the HK protests hiding a secret message in a newspaper ad
Sadly, since 2019 didnt get anywhere..... "Laying flat" for "garbage time" has even less energy
Observing from across the Strait, i think in the mid 2000s the chinese internet slang felt very clever, but as censors expand the blacklisted words, trying to decipher what Chinese are trying to say gets harder ๐ its like a mixture of metaphors, folk tales, memes, english substitions -- keeping up with their slang isnt easy
A comment that stuck with me went something like this: "Will people of the future look back at our internet discussions and think we're all retarded cowards who cant speak straight?"