I am actually liking the exercise of 47. It keeps you in check. Readability is much better.

It’s amazing how throttled downloading and using torrent clients is on Mac. I download one, and immediately I’m blocked “for my protection.” The only option is to move it to the Bin. I manage to bypass it from settings (not straightforward), run it, and after being warned twice that I’m in danger, I finally download a few torrents. Then I shut down the laptop, relaunch it the next day, and the client is deleted without my consent. I have to repeat the same process all over again. I can easily imagine a future where the same thing happens, but this time with self-custody wallets and node clients. Fuck this dystopian world!

I have to admit it was a long time I used it on desktop. I'm satisfied with it as a server OS.

Thanks for the heads-up though. Just realized debian is abandoning X. What kind of world we are living in... Might need to switch to Devuan.. (?)

Did you know that Ron Paul has never been on Joe Rogan’s podcast? Pretty strange.

But then again, maybe it isn’t strange at all. 🏦

Replacing everything I use Nextcloud for with Copy party + Tailscale. Much more simple setup.

American software culture produces developers who are, for the most part, over-socialized. From early on, institutions are designed to cultivate trust in authority and submission to group norms. Genuine crypto-anarchists are rare precisely because they resist that conditioning. Satoshi was one of those rare figures. He built a system that does not depend on leaders, and then he stepped away to make sure it stayed that way.

This over-socialization is not limited to schools and workplaces. Online gaming culture has reinforced it through endless peer group-think. For an entire generation, online worlds trained people to organize around emergent hierarchies where knowledge is shallow but socially reinforced. It is the blind leading the blind, and over time this produced a reflex: align with the dominant peer consensus rather than interrogate first principles. The same dynamic now plays out in technical communities.

The people who rise to prominence in global software projects almost always embody these institutional and peer-socialized traits. They are comfortable representing "the group" because they were trained to align with it. When this psychology enters Bitcoin development, it manifests as a kind of soft technocratic priesthood. Instead of letting the market arbitrate, they invoke the authority of prior discussions, developer consensus, or "long-standing decisions" as if these were binding decrees. It’s the same maneuver used in public hearings when lawyers say "this was decided long ago" to shut down meaningful debate. It’s not technical reasoning; it’s authority signaling through procedural language.

This is exactly what we are seeing in the OP_RETURN and relay policy debate. Real technical issues: bandwidth abuse, RAM pressure, and mempool externalities; are being dismissed not on their merits, but because they fall outside the cultural frame of those holding the microphone. The instinct is not to engage, but to close discussion and declare the decision settled. That instinct is cultural, not technical. It comes from the same systems Bitcoin was built to circumvent.

The irony is that this behavior reintroduces centralization through culture, not code. It creates a developer class that sees itself as the legitimate arbiter of Bitcoin’s future, using the language of technical stewardship to mask what is, in essence, social control. This is the real root of the issue. OP_RETURN is just the surface. The deeper fault line is between those who view Bitcoin as a self-regulating market protocol and those who view it as a managed project.

Moments like this sift the wheat from the chaff. Those who understand Bitcoin’s nature will resist every attempt, soft or hard, to reinsert authority into the system. Those who do not will become its domesticated managers.

Oh yeah, there is no way to use Nvidia on Linux these days. It's all a mess.

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is there any serialization standard that is not complete crap and supports schema evaluation?

JSON is slow, Protobuf is full of crap design decisions, ugh

Its why I have a habbit that for text I use control + x and then paste it back in and tben paste it where I wanted it.

Bitcoin: The Linux of Money

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Some quick thoughts on what a Bitcoin PAC might want to do in DC. Some more realistic than others. Some ideas that need work. Some just fun:

-de minimus tax exemption. honestly should mirror BSA threshold of $10k but $2,500 would be a good start

-bulletproof legal protections for open source devs especially ones building privacy tools. Cannot be a country that goes after the blacksmith for what others do with the knife

-ability to use self-custodial BTC as collateral

-phase out “crypto czar” and “working group on digital asset markets” and any other federal institution or process that seeks to conflate shitcoins with bitcoin

-tax incentives for home mining and for nat gas facilities or landfills etc that eat methane with mining

-Manhattan Project-level collaborative effort to identify all wasted/curtailed electricity in USA and deploy miners to those locations

-incentivize bitcoin education for high schools

-a bitaxe in every high school compsci/techEd department

-a Bitcoin museum in DC

-educational congressional testimonies from global Bitcoin users: activists, remitters, refugees, off grid miners, etc

-Jan 3 national Satoshi holiday of some kind

-Congressional Bitcoin Committee

-end to the bitlicense

-all formal bodies that do American democracy promotion abroad, to integrate bitcoin

-enable foreign countries that owe America (or IMF/World Bank) debt to pay back in BTC, not just USD

The actual resignation of George Washington’s command, having made peace between the civil and military powers of the new country -- and, in an emotional ceremony, bidden farewell to his officers on December 4, 1783 -- took place in Annapolis, Maryland, on December 23, when he formally handed back to Congress his commission as commander in chief, which they had given him in June 1775. He said he would never again hold public office. He had his horse waiting at the door, and he took the road to Mount Vernon the next day.

In London, King George III questioned the American-born painter Benjamin West what Washington would do now that he had won the war. "Oh," said West, "they say he will return to his farm." "If he does that," said the king, "he will be the greatest man in the world."

79F/26C is the best temperature.

Kotlin

Don't treat the symptoms, remove the Cause.