There is a subtle but crucial difference between self-sufficiency and self-responsibility.
Being responsible for oneās own happiness, well-being, and material confort, however you define it, does *not* imply that you must be some ārugged individualistā who provides everything for themselves, yet that is a stereotype that is often invoked when discussing voluntaryism.
You of course can, if you want, but more practical is developing strong, positive, voluntary relationships with your family, neighbors, and chosen others so you can coordinate and collaborate to produce more abundance than you could alone.
Youāre still responsible for your own way in life, but you can usually do better by specialization and division of labor than you can on your own.
This actually isnāt that far-fetched. One could calculate semantic embeddings for each arriving note and store them alongside in the local db. These embeddings are typically arrays of floats in the size of 300-1500 entries each. The machine-learned algorithm has been pre-trained to encode similar meaning sentences into numbers that are ācloseā in the vector space of the embeddings.
Then, for a feed prompt, one calculates the semantic embedding of the prompt, and can query the embedding database for the top-K closest notes that match, or in real time, filter out a stream of notes based on semantic similarity as they arrive.
All this exists and only requires commodity lower-end GPUs (or even just CPUs, but it is slow).
Kind of an obvious application in retrospect.
Sure. I mean there really isnāt a Bitcoin ācommunityā per se; itās not surprising that there are diverse motivations and values among participants in the network, and that these would shift over time.
Perhaps it is just a signal-to-noise issue for me personally, and the voices of the origin of the movement are drowned out by the more numerous ānumber go upā participants that look at Bitcoin more as an exchange ticker and a way to obtain more fiat.
Or maybe Iām just pining away for the old school hard core cypherpunk/voluntaryist discussions about building tools to solve oneās own problems instead of relying on the state to do so, where having sound and independent money is plays such a crucial role.
Your last sentence really sums it up.
The changes in the development community have been expected as things mature and the development āorganismā optimizes itself.
I was specifically referring to the wider community āmovementā, which has seeming morphed away from its cypherpunk origins of bypassing the state and providing an alternative financial ecosystem to fiat, towards integration with fiat (exchanges, ETFs, payment processors), lobbying congress for bitcoin-related legislation (legal tender, āsensible regulationā), celebrating politicians who promote bitcoin, an so on.
Iāve had more than one OG privately share similar sentiments with me.
Thereās a lot more I could go on about here.
When I was a child, we had about a 40 volume set of encyclopedias, that I spent years reading cover to cover. What a way to learn about the wider world outside!
Of course, as Iāve become old(er), Iāve also learned a lot about the biases and editorial decisions that went into it. As the famous philosopher Bob Seger once wrote, āwhat to leave in, what to leave out.ā
One of my biking routes takes me through some local farmland just south of the city. Also, enjoying the wildfire smoke blowing in from Oregon š 
Bitcoin itself has been surprisingly resilient. Having been a part of it since ā12 Iāve been happy to witness the threats it has survived. But now Iām completely baffled by the shift in the community from its roots to what it is today. Or maybe Iām just old.
Your not the first to feel this way š
I like to frame it as, if youāre not going to deal with other people by voluntary trade, that is, barter, payment with mutually agreed upon money, or just not interacting with them in the first place, the only other choice is for people to deal with each other by force.
You can delegate that force to politicians, tax agencies, and their enforcers (police), but you canāt hide it.
ā¦and I see the conservation of drama rule is still in effect here.
Rejoining the Bitcoin ācommunityā after a few years away. Ditched Twitter a while back, so itās good to see a few of the OGs here and many, many new faces. Probably wonāt get up to much coding but Iām excited by technical developments in both bitcoin and now nostr.
My professional career is still focused on digital signal processing, machine learning/AI, and scientific computing and simulation, but those topics donāt seem to have much crossover interest with bitcoiners š
If you've been here for a while, and have created a lot of notes, remember that relays will delete old notes.
To keep them, use my Backup service to download copy of them, you will be able to restore them later, it also updates your notes everywhere.
Backup everything: https://nostryfied.online
Tried this out with my very small number of eventsā¦works perfectly. Thanks.
GM bitcoin peeps 
Good morning, to those of you for whom it is a good morning.
I havenāt followed it closely but apparently Tor folks recently implemented a change that prevents the DoS attack the network has been under.
