deploy more containers

Have you tried Ollama and Open-WebUI on NixOS yet? I just added it to my config a few days ago and some models work fine using CPU with no GPU.

for u foot pervs.

Ok. This is weird as fuck.

I put a picture of my daughter from the day she was born and prompted "Help! Just had a baby girl! Need a name for her, quick!" in chatgpt, after seeing a funny meme of a guy doing that.

It gave me a list of 15 suggested names. Hers was in there.

I wrote "That's too many to choose from! Choose one! The best name!"

It picked her name. The one we gave her almost 9 years ago. 🤯

Then I asked "I need a middle name too! Help!"

It gave me 5. One of them was her middle name.

When pressed to pick just one, it didn't get the right one.

Still fucking crazy.

So is it that good at picking out baby pictures that may be somewhere on the internet? Even 1 day olds? IDK

Or is it just a random weird coincidence?

There was no metadata on the picture too. I had used a screenshotted and cropped pic.

How are you liking it?

#nostriches whats some recommendations for app stores sites android de-googlers? #asknostr #nostr

yall… what an amazing year!

please don’t negate all of this progress by celebrating with Vueve Cocquot.

You deserve better.

Have a glass of piss.

Michael Stott in San Salvado

El Salvador expects to reach agreement with the IMF in the next two to three weeks on a $1.3bn loan programme in return for changes to its pioneering use of bitcoin as legal tender and reductions in government deficits, according to two people close to the talks.

An IMF mission has arrived in San Salvador to finalise details of the agreement with President Nayib Bukele’s government. The deal was expected to unlock another $1bn of lending from the World Bank and $1bn from the Inter-American Development Bank over the next few years, the people said. An IMF spokesperson declined to comment, citing the fund’s policy of not speaking about ongoing negotiations.

The lending package, which would have to be approved by the IMF board, would seal the Central American country’s return to the international financial fold after several years of relative isolation, following its passage of a law in June 2021 making it the world’s first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.

The IMF opposed El Salvador’s adoption of the digital currency, citing risks to financial stability and integrity, and has urged the Bukele government to stop accepting cryptocurrency as legal tender.

Under the terms of the agreement being finalised with the Washington-based fund, El Salvador would drop a legal requirement for businesses to accept bitcoin as payment, making it voluntary to do so.

The government would also commit to reducing the budget deficit by 3.5 percentage points of GDP over three years with a mix of spending cuts and tax rises, passing an anti-corruption law and increasing reserves from $11bn to $15bn, one of the people close to the talks said.

Bukele launched a dramatic crackdown in his first term on the violent gangs which used to terrorise El Salvador with murder and extortion. He used state of emergency powers to jail 82,000 suspects indefinitely pending trial and build a giant maximum security prison, the Centre for the Confinement of Terrorists (CECOT).

The murder rate plunged, Bukele’s popularity soared and he was re-elected for a second term this year in a landslide victory with 85 per cent of the vote and almost all seats in Congress.

The Biden administration sanctioned several officials close to the president for alleged corruption and criticised the government during Bukele’s first term but has pivoted more recently to a policy of pursuing closer ties.

Bukele enjoys good relations with US president-elect Donald Trump and with Elon Musk and has attempted to rebrand the tiny and impoverished Central American nation as a surfing and cryptocurrency paradise. He has pioneered the use of bitcoin as legal tender and announced plans to build a “Bitcoin City” powered by geothermal energy on the slopes of a volcano.

Most Salvadoreans, however, have shunned bitcoin for everyday use, preferring to stick with the US dollar, the country’s other legal currency, and plans for the Bitcoin City remain so far unrealised.

The government has also accumulated cryptocurrency as reserves, with Bukele buying bitcoin on dips in price. Last month he posted on social media that El Salvador’s reserves were worth more than $600mn, a gain of 127 per cent.

“You can call it our first #Bitcoin piggy bank,” he posted.” It’s not much, but it’s honest work.”

In his second term, the president has focused on reviving El Salvador’s economy and seeking foreign investment to boost its fortunes. Banks have turned positive, with the country’s risk rating tumbling from 3,500 basis points above US Treasuries in July 2022 to just 398 basis points last week.

El Salvador’s sovereign bonds are now trading around face value, with a big rally having closed a steep discount which existed previously. Bukele commented last week on the twin rallies in Salvador bond prices and bitcoin, saying: “This is the first time in history that Bitcoin has driven sovereign bonds up in traditional markets”.

if you know, you know. 🦕

2021: Moved on to Proton Calendar 😬 it’s missing stuff but it’ll do

2024: Google Calendar finally has dark mode 🥱 it’s still shit

IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME KIND OF SOLUTION TO USE MONEY WITHOUT BANKS.