I did figure some of it out. I think the platform could use an easier onboarding for people who think that keys are too complicated. Maybe there's a way they could make it easier. I've long thought that a USB reader system would be far superior. You plug the USB in to signin and then bypass all kinds of noisy security systems. We're on 2025 and the fact that there isn't an automatic login system is pretty sad.

Android 4life! 🍻

You can’t make this shit up

Euan Blair, the son of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, is the founder of Multiverse, a company that has been chosen to produce the UK's Digital ID app.

Cronyism: Tony Blair lobbied the government for his billionaire backer, Larry Ellison, whose technology institute, the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), has received significant government access and could benefit from the digital ID scheme.

Read something interesting a few days ago that really made sense.

What if AI suddenly has zero free options?

Once everyone’s job depends on “leveraging ai”, it suddenly becomes subscription-only?

whattya think, Nostr?

#asknostr

Never heard of this one. Would you recommend it?

#asknostr

What browser are you using?

Which book are you reading right now? #asknostr

Disclaimer before I say this, confirm another way.

I think that looks like chicken of the woods.

"plex has changed their privacy policy to be even more less private"

how did nobody expect that. genuinely. why do people even use plex. you're talking about a not-in-your-control "solution" to your "private" media servers.

like, why are you using plex at all.

Spending a few hours tonight going through my fiction writing and seeming where I can change passive voice to active voice, like removing was/were wherever possible. A bunch of tiny little sentence tweaks to tighten up the prose.

One of my early run-throughs was to search for "ly" and see what percentage of adverbs I could eliminate by using stronger or more precise verbs. And now this run through is meant to increase the ratio of active voice.

As a benchmark comparison, Brandon Sanderson used the word "was" as about 1.2% of his words or less in the Mistborn trilogy, whereas I found it to be 1.5% of my fiction writing.

Yo, what’s the hottest read you’ve picked up in 2025 so far? Drop your faves! Truly appreciate it 📚👇💬

was entirety against listening to anything at 1.5/2x speed

now i do it with everything

Got my sci fi manuscript back from the editor, meaning it's ready for me to look through all the proposed edits and do another draft.

But I have so much email to catch up on and so much macro content to get to.

So all day I'll be distracted. -_-'

So what’s all the hoopla about DeepSeek and why is it breaking everybody’s brain right now in Ai?

I’ve been doing a dive for a couple of days and these are the main deets I’ve pulled together, will have a Guy’s Take on it soon, so stay tuned to the nostr:npub1hw4zdmnygyvyypgztfxn8aqqmenxtwdf3tuwrd44stjjeckpc37q6zlg0q feed

DeepSeek ELI5:

• US has been hailed as the leader in Ai, while pushing fears that we need to be closed and not share with China cuz evil CCP and they can’t figure it out without us

• ChatGPT and “Open”Ai is poster child, eating up retarded amounts of capital for training and inference (using) LLMs. Estimates say around $100 million or more for ChatGPT o1 model.

• In just a couple of weeks China drops numerous open source models with incredible results, Hunyuan for video, Minimax, and now DeepSeek. All open source, all insanely competitive with the premiere closed source in the US.

• DeepSeek actually surpassed ChatGPT o1 on most benchmarks, particularly math, logic, and coding.

• DeepSeek is also totally open with how its thought process works, it explains and shows its work as it runs, while ChatGPT makes that proprietary. This makes building with, troubleshooting, and understanding with DeepSeek much better.

• DeepSeek is also multimodal, so you can give it PDFs, images, connect it to the internet, etc. it’s a literal full personal assistant with just a few tools to plug into it.

• The API costs 95% LESS than ChatGPT API per call. They claim that is a profitable price as well, while OpenAi is bleeding money.

• They state that DeepSeek cost only $5.6 million to train and operate.

• Capital controls on GPUs and chips went into effect in the past year or two trying to prevent China from “catching up,” and it seems to have failed miserably. As it seems China was able to do 20x the results per dollar with inferior hardware.

• The US model of Ai, its costs, its capes structure, and the massive demand for chips has been the model for assessing the valuation, pricing, and future demand of the entire Ai industry. DeepSeek just took a giant dump on all of it by out performing and spending a tiny fraction to achieve it while also dealing with lack of access to the newest chips.

All of this together is why people are freaking out about a plummet to Nvidia price, reevaluation of OpenAi, and the failure of US to stay dominant or even the legitimacy of staying proprietary as it may just cause us to fall behind rather than lead. All after a $700 billion investment was just announced that now just kinda looks like incompetent corporations wasting horrendous amounts of money for something they won’t even share with people, that you can’t run locally, and is surpassed by a few lean Chinese startups with barely a few million.