I used to think that if there were ever a global thermonuclear war, I'd have so much reserve built up that I'd outlast everyone else. But then I realized that I'd just be the one they'd eat first 😆
The convenient fictions about the world that are taught to children become held so dearly they hinder seeing things as they really are as adults.
When navigating life armed with only the knowledge instilled in you by your parents, tribe, church, school, or government, you end up only serving their agendas, not your own.
Question everything. You may end up right back where you started, reinforcing your worldview, or you may discover uncomfortable truths that you can no longer avoid and change your mind about many things.
Either way, you'll own your own mind, no longer relying on the inertia of your upbringing.
I remember when election season in the US started about a year before the election, and you could just hold your nose and try not to be affected by the stink and noise. Nowadays it's continuous election season 24x7 and there's no escaping the sewer gas.
Structure one's life in such a way that it is irrelevant who the politician, bureaucrat, or strongman of the day is, then one can ignore the smoke and mirrors such charlatans employ to seek power over you.
GM ☕ There comes a time when it is better to know someone who knows something than to try to learn that subject oneself.
It's great to have smart friends and colleagues to lean on.
I've had the opportunity in the past but declined. Not because of what it was but wasn't confident it was prepared properly.
If the success of Bitcoin and its ecosystem is still dependent on or even just affected by which politician or bureaucrat is in office, cypherpunks must write more code.
GM ☕ Turns out the kids are alright after all...
The mining process for proof-of-steak.
Pro tip: You can buy shares from a retail broker that don't even get recorded in your name of an ETF that promises it will back its IOUs 1:1 with bitcoin IOUs from a retail bitcoin exchange that hopefully tracks the price of bitcoin through an SEC neutered arbitrage mechanism and give said retail broker all the information needed to perform identity theft in the event of compromise, or--
You can just buy Bitcoin.
I remember the story of the guy in a Berlin bar texting the address QR code (pre-lightning) for his bar tab to a friend in Argentina who then paid it from his own wallet. Seems mundane now but magical at the time.
"These sludge of kleptocratic gerontocracy" added to my vocab 😂
Never meet your heroes.
This Nostrich will take all steps necessary to not see any advertisements while using Nostr. The very idea of targeted ads showing up in my feed is repulsive, regardless of who would benefit. I don't think I'm an outlier here.
Perspective changes everything.
I lived and worked not too far from all this when it happened and had an employee that lived in an apartment building almost next door to this.
I got stories. 😆
I just miss running applications on my computer instead of running a browser that runs a framework that runs the front end of an application that perceptibly lags because it has to consult a backend run elsewhere by a company that requires an account and sells your data.
I have one of these based on nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp s post, running OPNsense. It works great, e.g. I can watch HD Youtube anywhere in the world with Wireguard going home first. It helps to have gigabit fiber of course.
Problem is that it doesn't cap the log size by default, so those quietly grew to 99 GB.
I have a vpn endpoint set up on a cloud instance, and *all* my home/office network traffic gets wireguarded from the local opnsense to that before going out onto the internet. My mobile devices connect to that instance as well.
