To be fair, if all you knew about bitcoin were the headlines and speaker list from Bitcoin 2024, it would be easy to conclude that bitcoin really *was* about crypto scammers and politicians.
Infinite money glitch.
Web client here. When I first bring it up it pegs a core at 100% for several minutes, then calms down. During that period I can use it okay but if interact with a note it often doesn't register, like the like heart not turning red, or if I reply, I'll get a "no relay acknowledged your reply" timeout. In the latter case though if I refresh the page the reply actually did go out. This isn't recent, by the way, it's been this way for me for a long time.
Sometime yesterday I think there was a few minutes of Cloudflare reporting the website down.
GM ☕
One of life's great liberating moments is when you realize that you don't need to convince anyone to change, that it's okay if other people make different decisions than you, and you don't need any one else's approval to be who you are.
Little guys, Cessna 172/182
GM ☕
Going outside and practicing "present moment" meditation is very powerful.
It's quite simple--if you notice yourself thinking about anything that is not currently in sight or hearing, gently bring your focus back to anything that is.
I think a lot of people have become so embedded in and dependent on the status quo that, while they have the intelligence to and might even have once questioned it, they've lost the ability to conceive of alternatives.
GM ☕
Nothing like the feeling of a morning coffee, a fresh editor window, and a new idea.
I can heartily recommend this one:
http://prometheus-unbound.org/2010/11/26/book-review-withur-we/
It's a freshman effort, and could have used another pass at editing out some of the exposition, but ultimately captures the notion of rules without rulers and cooperative collaboration without hierarchy.
The Culture books have great stories but were ultimately disappointing to me; the author makes the classic "post-scarcity" mistake of assuming infinite abundance of goods and services without ever actually explaining how they come to be. "Benevolent AIs run everything" is a cop out.
So apparently #español has 2 completely interchangeable versions of the imperfect subjunctive. e.g. 'cupiera' can be 'cupiese'.
Because verbs were too simple, sure let's add multiple versions of each conjugation!
For those non-students of the language, here's what the conjugation of that verb looks like:
https://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-spanish-verb-caber.html
To be fair, the core 4 or 5 conjugations bed into your mind OK after enough time, for most 'normal' verbs (caber is a bit 'spicier' than most), but the very complex way the subjunctive gets used mixed in with past tenses and conditionals really is over the top sometimes).
The two versions are interchangeable but have wide regional differences in usage. In Spain the -ese versions are much more common; I rarely hear them from latinos on this side of the pond.
Even in my own family (Spaniard descent) here in US the -ese forms sound quaint.
Took me seven weeks to fix an issue where the bank had an incorrect address on file for my business (for 14 years) and suddenly started denying incoming wire transfers because of it.
Follow people you are interested in, reply to their notes, occasionally post your own original stuff--your reach is what you make it, not what the "algorithm" does.
Thank you Satoshi, and thanks to the thousands of cypherpunks still writing code.
GM ☕ May your notes be relayed in peace.
6M: Am I a joke to you?
Recent Nostr'ing events and seeing the fresh accounts here has made me less grumpy about all the political simping and general noise from the US election season.
The Nostr community is rocking the early bitcoin vibes I miss from those days!
I guess we doin Brazilians now 😎