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Been into Bitcoin since 2013—mixing local AI (LLMs & Stable Diffusion) with Python/PHP coding to turn ideas into real-world projects. I create art in Blender, 3D print my designs, then paint them for hands-on use. Passionate about self-hosted smart home systems like Home Assistant to make life smarter and more connected.

Clients allowing local personal "algo" would be nice. We have open source very small and efficient LLM's that users could use to filter and sort posts by topics that users prefer (all local on user hardware, nothing on line).

Clients could offer "outsourcing" of said model (for example i am running larger LLM's on my gaming PC most of the time) so i could set up exterlan point and client would use it for algo if it's accessible, and if it's not, it would use smaller local one (similar thing is done by Immich....you can tell it to use AI from any IP you want, hosted by you or someone else, and if not accessible it will revert to local cpu/gpu).

For more powerful stuff someone could offer "algo" service that would be paed vith zaps. Hosted efficient LLM that would filter content for others (by rules that users themselves set up). Those could be larger and more potent LLM models.

I'm ok with "algo" as long as user can control it and choose and pick everything from local on device to remote ones by users rules.

I don't know man....that's why i ask...what people mean by strong family. For me someone is family or is not. Like how can family be strong or weak? Do kids love and respect their parents? That's good or bad parenting. Do parents themselves have good relationship? That's good or bad marriage.

Is strong family like good parenting + good marriage?

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The only thing in the universe that should have a 50/50 chance of being plugged in correctly and still fails 80–90% of the time.

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The fog of the Maduro extraction is clearing, and the "why" beyond the Trump pressers is coming into focus.

Despite the Don repeatedly saying Venezuela stole our oil, the Pentagon didn’t move on Caracas for crude.

Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, but the quality of that oil is very low.

It is a heavy, sour crude that is high in sulphur content which only a handful of refineries worldwide can process.

In fact, by some estimates it would cost $1 trillion to upgrade the Venezuelan infrastructure just to have the country surpass Canada’s exports of 3 million barrels a day.

So, while Trump uses oil as a way to make the American people feel like they will directly benefit from the excursion, the real reason they moved was because of a convergence of three existential threats:

- Chinese control of AI-critical minerals.

- Iranian drone manufacturing on Western soil.

- Russian military integration in the Caribbean.

If Washington cared about restoring democracy, why wait 13 years into Maduro’s reign?

The military brass felt a growing strategic vulnerability less than 3 hours from Miami and felt they needed to act immediately.

But while the media focuses on rare earth elements and degraded oil infrastructure, the real prize might be sitting on a hardware wallet in Caracas.

For eight years, the Maduro regime operated a shadow financial engine designed to be unfreezable.

Since 2018, they’ve been liquidating gold from the Orinoco Mining Arc and "washing" oil proceeds through USDT into Bitcoin.

The scale is staggering.

Intelligence reports by Whale Hunting now point to a "Shadow Reserve" of roughly 600,000 to 660,000 Bitcoin.

To put that in perspective: that is twice the size of the US government’s entire Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

It rivals the holdings of MSTR and BlackRock.

If these numbers are accurate, Maduro and his cronies have been sitting on a $60 billion life raft that will play as a lynchpin in how the negotiations play out.

Washington likely knew about this secret stash since its very inception.

Court documents now reveal that Alex Saab, the Venezuelan businessman who was the architect of this Bitcoin accumulation scheme, had been a DEA informant since 2016.

The capture of Maduro has now triggered a high-stakes interrogation with the recovery of seed phrases likely playing a critical part.

As news of this reported 600,000 BTC stockpile begins to spread, the market is currently pricing this as a massive "supply lock-up."

Bitcoin is up over $5,000 since the abduction of Maduro went down.

Under the Trump administration, the probability of a "fire sale" is near zero.

Trump campaigned on the promise of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

Getting Maduro to fork over the seed phrase would be an easy, budget-neutral way to triple its size overnight.

Maduro’s "unfreezable" asset could become the cornerstone of the American balance sheet with the only stack larger being Satoshi’s.

Bitcoin has always lived outside the logic of violence.

But as Maduro is finding out, that only holds true as long as you can keep the keys in your head.

It's hard to believe that stash exists....i'm not convinced.

I'm doing my part! You?!

Proof of work:

Bit of printing, bit of painting.

Those who do not know their history are bound to repeat it. As time goes by, we are all slowly forgetting lessons of the past. I just hope i won't be around to see us being forced to relearn them. Last time it was ugly.....really ugly.

Point of view as an outsider on duopoly:

US used to be predictable. Dems or Reps, they had their own way of doing things and you could plan your life accordingly (whether we want it or not, US politics affect us outside US).

With Trump, it feels like 3rd party is created and it replaced Reps. You can't count or trust on anything anyone from this new establishment says or said at any time in the past. Things change from minute to minute. One day is white, another day is black. Most blatant lies are at random accepted as a truths and long standing truths are called lies.

It’s like someone you knew for a long time, someone you could argue with and still understand, suddenly became unrecognizable. The rules changed, consistency vanished, and even basic shared facts are no longer agreed on. From the outside, it feels like dealing with someone who suffered a personality-altering brain injury the same name, the same history, but none of the old predictability or shared reality.

I don't know how it happened or why it happened, is this real state of Republicans or US or is it just a fluke, is it good for US or bad in long run (i have my doubts which are not topic of this post) but it's wild to see from outside.

Trump said so multiple times himself. No one in government cares about national debt. What they do care is to fill their own pockets and pockets of people that got them to power and they will do so with largest reserves on earth under their control.

And it's not all about money. What politicians love, maybe more than money? Power. This gives them power over some countries. Saudis can not run she show anymore.

Confusing speech with censorship. Thinking criticism equals an “attack.” Not understanding that the First Amendment restricts the government, not private individuals or TV commentators, etc. Criticizing, talking about change etc. of 1st amendment is ironically protected by1st amendment.

And that's not all. For attack on 1st amendment to have an effect, 1st amendment would have to be changed. For 1st amendment to be changed, there should be overwhelming support of American people.

What do you think American people are like if you think that someone talking on TV can make them support changing 1st amendment? Do you see a problem there? No...do you see multiple big problems there?

If you think that talking does change minds of big majority, if all it takes is talk to loose foundation of your country, what does that tell you about whole thing? Do you see multiple problem there?

Thinking that Canada, England or Australia are somehow attacking US 1st amendment and are not real allies, while ignoring Russia and China, that's absolutely ridiculous and tells more about you than about system that you think is attacked or US citizens that you think would be willing to change it because of that attack.

And all that while US president is limiting reporters....holy shit dude....holy shit.

Reality is always more complicated than one sentence or word. I tend to explain my positions and do not let others make my positions up.

Propaganda can be a tool, a technique, a process and yes, a weapon. It’s used by everyone. Governments, political movements, corporations, media, religions, advocacy groups, and individuals. The US uses it. Canada uses it. The UK and Australia use it. Businesses use it. Private citizens use it.

If using propaganda disqualifies someone as an ally, then the US has never was an ally to anyone and had an ally and no country has ever been a friend to another. As long as humans have tried to influence opinions, propaganda has existed. That’s just reality.

By that standard, even internal political campaigning would count as hostile action. Which is obviously absurd.

For example: Elon Musk openly encourages Europeans to vote for extremists and attacks moderate political solutions. He’s far from the only American doing this. So hearing accusations of “foreign propaganda” coming from the US is, frankly, ironic.

What’s really interesting in the current situation is this:

People are suddenly calling influence from the UK, Canada, and Australia “propaganda” countries that have admired the US for decades, adopted large parts of US culture, and literally fought, bled, and died alongside Americans when the US asked for help.

At the same time, many of those same people downplay or ignore propaganda from China and Russia countries whose explicit goal is to weaken the US and reshape it into something more like themselves.

If I were China or Russia, my primary objective would be simple: Use propaganda to divide Americans. Help elect the most incompetent and corrupt leadership possible. Convince people that longtime allies are enemies. Wrap it all in slogans about “making the country great again”.

You are being played but you have no idea by who.

1st amendment is external thing, not internal US thing and England, Australia and Canada did not respond when US called for help?!

How is Israel, England, Australia or Canada assaulting US first amendment? Even if they wanted, they couldn't. It's US internal thing. Only US citizens can change it from inside.

And those countries proved that are not "supposed" allies. They proved it when US called for help. They came, helped, bled and died for US.

Even things i do understand (physics behind how tons of aluminum and plastics can fly) still make me wonder. It's one of those things that humans can't really imagine in some easy way. Like....100 billions of dollars. How does one imagine that number, that amount of money? There are plenty of things we say that "we get" but are hard to imagine.

As a kinda new nostr user (we'r talking months, not years kinda new) i'm bit confused now.....doesn't gm mean "good morning"? If not, what does it mean? Is it does....how the fuck is that connected to a nazis?!

Am i living a lie?!

Yes, it all started in 2014. We all know that. Genocidal maniac had eyes on Ukraine for long time. It's good thing that Russia is incompetent so "second army in the world" can't conquere highly corrupt and underequipted neighbor.

"You do not know me or what i think. " Yes i do know what you think. You posted what you think. If you do not think that, than you are someone who is lying which again tells me enough about you.

Commercial banks cant move a finger without central banks. Central banks are running the show anyway. They set up rules for commercial banks, and they do print money when needed. Its not like commercial banks somehow make things better.

When i see "x does not want war, x just want's to live their lives and be left alone" i really don't know what that means? Are we bunch of children who think that you have to "want" war to get war? That you have to somehow invite it to have it? That you have to actively participate in creating war? That simply ignoring it can somehow remove you from effects of that war?

Yes, you can try to ignore war, that's for sure, but what happens when war or it's effect comes knocking on your doors?

Is it ok to ignore war that is near you and do nothing and hope it won't spill out to your land one way or another (it doesn't alway happens as a wave of tanks coming across your border), or is it better to help defender defend himself so that you have friendly thankful neighbor in between yourself and attacker?

Or are we naive enough to think that "they won't attack us"?

You can't get peace by sitting on your hands and pretending it doesn't concern you. Bully will eventually look your way and you can't say: "leave me alone, i don't want to participate" to a local bully. It did not work in school, it did not work on local playground and it does not work in global politics. Never worked and it never will.

Only thing people of Europe can do to keep peace inside their borders and keep living their lives without war is to group up and help Ukraine to stop Russia.

If you think that ignoring whole thing and pretending it doesn't concern you is viable option, you need to retake history classes, because you clearly failed to learn what happened in the past when whole nations said: "they won't attack us".

Last time people of Europe played dumb we had that thing called....world war. Even some people of US tried to play dumb. Some of them called for "talks with Hitler" and "he did nothing to us" etc. And than war came knocking.

You can't stop war by simply ignoring it or not wanting to participate in it. It's like "i don't want to be sick". Well....flue virus simply doesn't care what you want.

He was not sentenced for "offensive posts". He accused person of being pedophile. That's not simply offensive. He accused people of other racial stuff too.

If you are tough online, you better be ready to back it up once you are faced with what you said in person. If he had any proof of what he said, he would not be sentenced.

He lied, tried to destroy someones reputation by lying and got bitchslaped. He won't go to jail if he does not repeat his lies for some time.

You still have to watch out for creating an echo chamber, though. If you block or mute too much, you can lose touch with reality. I’ve seen it happen whole communities on social media get shocked by events just because they spent too long agreeing with each other without any outside perspective.

I have experienced it more than few times myself. Result of Brexit vote, first Trump win etc.

My streams are working on zap.stream or nostrudel.ninja, but not on primal. What gives?

They ask me how bussy i am at the moment. I'm so bussy that my 3D printer is not printing anything for days now and this is waiting to be installed for days now....

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Pfff ... this is already a reality for Gen X in Europe.

https://video.nostr.build/fabecf57320cd28d7a2a0064737287dbbc8ae9a9ebfae0883ce2e2a8b1b67879.mp4

Except that elder care is already rotting in the hands of the state. Or what do you think all those migrants are doing here in Germany, for example? There are entire care facilities that don't have a single ethnic German on staff. From the manager to the trainee, they're all from southern countries. They're basically wiping the butts of the parents of those who vote for the extreme, racist right today and who have no time or interest in their own parents.

Let's be absolutely clear about this: Central banks and their fiat money have destroyed families. Now both parents have to work because wages are worth shit. Add 5-6 decades of individualism and feminist propaganda in all media, and the elderly parents wait for their death after retirement in nursing homes. Alone.

And the systems of an aging and increasingly isolated population are crumbling. How do you delay the crash a little? That's what every party that comes to power asks itself. You bring in foreigners who do these jobs that no German or any other EU member wants to do. Because they get paid even worse than the bullshit jobs that most people have in their fancy offices. And you tell the population something about a 'migrant wave' and such nonsense. As if countries here never knew how to close their borders if they really wanted to.

Basically, we are gonna live like everyone before us except that one generation that exists only in handful of countries on very limited time and amount.

Both of my grand grand parents had to work to create enough food for their families. Same for my grand parents, and same for my parents. Im first generation that is not fighting tooth and nail to survive.

All Bitcoin has to do to win is survive. Current monetary system is set up in a way that it fucks up people and drive em into Bitcoin bit by bit. My preachin in 2013 and 2014 did not convert single person i knew and talked to personally (had more luck with on line conversatins as some people reached out to me to thank me after few years). Inflation converted one completely and one more partially.

Bitcoin just has to be alive.

That “3rd out of 193” figure is about total firearm deaths, which by itself doesn’t mean much since it’s not a per capita number.

Per capita is the real deal:

With those cities included (full U.S. data, 2022), the firearm homicide rate is ≈ 5.0 per 100,000 people.

Without Detroit, LA, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Chicago, it drops just a bit to ≈ 4.5 per 100,000.

Still nothing to write home about when you know that in Singapore it’s approximately 0.01 per 100,000, 0.02 in South Korea, 0.04 in the UK, or 0.1 in Switzerland — which has a TON of firearms! That’s 4.5 vs 0.1.

And just to be clear: guns themselves aren’t the problem. I’m not a gun enthusiast, nor am I strongly against them. I’m happy I live in a country where you can’t just walk around buying and carrying one (you can buy and carry, but you have to pass a lot of exams and tests). The fact is, there are countries with a shitload of guns that don’t even come close to the death rate the U.S. has — so it’s more than clear that guns themselves are not the problem.

There are not many Tesla Superchargers in Europe where you can go for a swim while your car is charging! This one is in Senj, Croatia, Adriatic sea. https://blossom.primal.net/d4cf4c2b85cc95c21eede0595cb36c68f280e918fef6bc332abcebbf607fd9d2.mp4

Let me give you a fresh example from my country. It happened yesterday (or the day before—I’m not sure, depending on your time zone):

https://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/pozar-na-ciovu-izazvao-argentinac-s-gumenjaka-bacio-je-opusak/2698252.aspx

Feel free to use ChatGPT or Google Translate to read it in your language.

Long story short: people do stupid things all the time, and it causes real damage. In the case I linked, the damage was relatively small—still over 28k—but that’s nothing compared to other incidents. This sort of thing happens hundreds of times every summer along our coast. Often, the damage is massive: huge fires, entire areas burned, and costs through the roof.

So, can I justify a 28,000 fine? Absolutely. I could justify much more. Make an example out of him. Put him on every TV channel and news portal, and explain exactly why he was fined so no one else gets the same idea.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. It's all about responsibility. When i see someone calling for freedoms and not a word about responsibility i know it has nothing to do with freedom but with ego.