GM ☀️ PV 🖖

Testing a spooky new Nostr app this morning… 👻

You have more trust than I fren!

I know one folder of mine it would delete

/home/stephen/SLOP/

Gotta be in the GB by now 🤣

What is the state of Lightning wallets for Nostr zapping? I tried zapping people who commented on my recent post, and it seemed like half of them failed. I think most were people who have Alby but, I guess, never updated to self-hosting? I am still using a centralized solution, Coinos, but the most functional seems to be the Primal Lightning addresses—another centralized solution. Who is using self-hosted solutions for zaps, and what is the best seamless solution you’ve found compared to centralized ones? Any friction is a turn-off to new people.

i don’t know if there’s a single product in the software world worse than the google cloud console.

you’ll hear many bitcoin skeptics using “ai is deflationary and thats bad for bitcoin” argument. partly true, so prepare your answers.

tech deflation exists but it never reached escape velocity. pc hardware, software and bandwith got cheaper but none of it fundamentally rewired the entire economy’s labor structure. governments could outprint the deflation because productivity gains were always linear, not exponential. with ai prrhaps for the first time, productivity could compound faster than money creation.

This is incorrect

ai is deflationary. very soon

probably within the next 5-6 yrs, the money supply to debt ratio vs business productivity will completely flip meaning productivity output will grow far faster than the expansion of money or debt. in that environment bitcoin absorbs productivity surplus and can be the best vehicle to store the excess value created.

I don’t think I’ve ever done anything with python and pip that didn’t result in an entire cascade of errors, failed installs, can’t use newest version, can’t write to disk, and a myriad other absurd errors.

Then I go online and people are using these tools like you just double click something and it goes.

What internet do you guys live in where any of this shit actually works?

Maybe if you are an artist you can make this argument. Like you create real things in opposition to ai slurm.

For 90% of things agents and robots will be cheaper and more efficient in a couple of years. I always thought this is bla bla, but last year things changed. What took weeks and months in software development, people do on a Sunday afternoon now. Ai agents do tasks a person was doing full time. Robots get sophisticated enough to do the laundry. And it's still early.

Insurance companies have an incentive to get you to spend more money on health care. It's the only legal way they can increase their profits (which are restricted by law AS A PERCENTAGE of payouts, so more payouts = more dollars for them). That makes all the difference. If insurance companies got paid to save money, they would have clamped down on the $50 fee for one aspirin.

Because the cost of insurance is basically unaffordable, I tried switching from health insurance to Crowdhealth this year.

I was nervous at first but it's worked out great. I get the same care I got before, but pay less money. It's a lot easier to afford healthcare when the monthly bill gets reduced by over $1000! Some prescriptions actually cost me less now than when I had insurance.

If you are in a similar situation, I'd highly recommend checking into Crowdhealth. If you go with it and want to save $99/month for the first three months, use my referral code: LOLHAX

Feel free to ask me questions here too.

what’s premiums for crowd health? do you get insurance cards?

How do you teach people to care about agency, self-sovereignty, freedom, community, and health?

That’s a fundamental question tied directly to bitcoin adoption

Late night nostr.. who here?

Fun fact: The white paper was released on Halloween.

Running fedimint (on my phone)

#hodlbutter production day tomorrow.

LFG.

Damn missing out. @damus is where it’s at. Better UI imo

Every time I touch JS (and especially bundlers) I'm reminded of what an incredible pain in the ass the entire ecosystem is.

I'm never going to use a JS framework for a new project again. And while I'm at it, fuck it maybe I'll never use Typescript again either.

Either use an actually typed language (Rust), use something enjoyable (Ruby), or at a push, write some plain vanilla JS.

This is wild. I asked ChatGPT “Generate an image of what it’s like to talk to me on any given day. Be as honest, vulnerable, and brutal as you want”

This is what it made 😂 (it’s not wrong…)