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Michael Welnick
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I drink tea and I learn things

The way zaps works is when you send a lightning payment to the server there is a nostr bot account on that server that publishes a zap receipt event that says how much was zapped. Nothing is stopping that server from saying there was a zap that actually didn’t happen or lying about the amount.

Does anybody know anything about the shape of the FedNow API? I’m guessing it’s very hush hush at this point but it can’t hurt to ask. In my eyes knowing what the API looks like is the only way to separate fact from FUD.

Fair I can’t fake zaps on your post but I could fake zaps on my own posts

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These are getting impressive

Security recommendations to not run containers as root are outdated now that it’s relatively easy to run the docker daemon in rootless mode. Always being root is one of the great joys of containerization and partly what gives it its development efficiency. Security people please don’t take that away from developers.

Whole Foods hot bar is underrated

A message for those of you who pushed for masks and vaccines: We know who you are. We forgive you but we will never forget.

Is math invented or discovered? I find myself in the invented camp these days. Math doesn’t “exist” in the same way as a physical object like a rock. If humans never existed math would not exist but a rock still would. Also math is not as objective as most people think it is. It’s our collective best attempt to describe the complex phenomena that we observe but it’s not the thing itself.

AI is being setup as the perfect scapegoat for the next big crash. Just like Covid, it can be cast as an invisible enemy except this time the internet is where it spreads. It can be used to explain currency collapses and justify draconian measures like the RESTRICT act and CBDCs. I really hope I’m not the only one seeing this.

What? Naw. A P/E of 147 is definitely way too low. It’s AI we’re talking about here