Arca is also a product: https://www.arcaai.com/
Ok, that makes sense. I've written similar, just appending some history and context to a request automatically. I'm starting to look at MCP as a way to do that with more sophistication.
Haven't heard of Arca before. What's cool about that chat AI in particular? Also, is your code in a rep anywhere? Maybe I could play with it.
He also refused to vote for a bill on holocaust remembrance. He says resolutions are, generally, not valuable and he signs fewer of them than he ever did in the past. He condemned the holocaust, as he has before. But critics are saying he's antisemitic. So... it's a dumb question. The mayor shouldn't be visiting foreign countries and has no power over Israel.
That said, this guy is a socialist who wants to ramp up government spending in ways that are scary. His wishlist of government services is cool. His plan to pay for it will require more taxes and more debt. Some voters are going to find that unpalatable.
Nice. What kind of batteries are you charging?
EFF Is Hiring a Policy and Research Staff Technologist
EFF, the OG online rights people, are hiring a staff technologist to help with policy and research. If you've got the chops to do tech work that informs and amplifies their policy work, this is a dream job. It's a decent place to work -- morale is pretty good there and the atmosphere is positive. The people are focused on the civil libertarian mission. Pay is on the upper end of the scale for this kind of non-profit work.
This job is fully remote. You'll need to work Pacific hours and be in CA, DC, GA, MA, MD, NV, NJ, NY, OR, WA.
You really want your logo to be simple, reducible to a couple (or one) colors, vector-scalable, and different from the 1000 of other btc logos out there. This is a cool picture but not a usable logo.
Sorry, I don't have a specific product recommendation. My battery work is in other areas.
That golf cart battery will have a couple hundred watt-hours. Divide that by the watts you'll use and you get hours of use. Real world performance will be less. How long do you need to run off the battery for?
At 6V, you'll need to convert to whatever your laptop is running on and the Starlink will want at least 12V. The bigger the jump, the bigger the loss. I'd look at a higher voltage battery.
And lifepo will serve you better in many respects as well. For a mobile setup, it will be lighter, for example.
Given access to all its databases, I wonder how many Nostr posts it would take for Palantir's AI to dox you. You're leaking all kinds of little drips. Time of posting, public web trail, details about your life/location that are innocuous on their own, etc. At some point, that Jackson Pollock of drips is uniquely yours. It's a fingerprint, right?
#asknostr
I'm not sure it's all figured out, but we have a plan that gives them a decent chance. The world is changing fast and for all our planning, who knows what's coming?
The potential flaw in the plan is that my kids are, so far, not very entrepreneurial. That's ok. Not everybody needs to be. But they're going to have to be flexible in different ways than I have been.
I'm not, no. My teens are hella smart, have great work ethic, and will have options. We've saved enough money that they can go to any college but we're counseling them to go somewhere inexpensive (we'll let them keep whatever is left). They'll start adult life with education, some real world experience, some money, and no debt. The key, I think, is teaching them to be nimble, to network, to always have some options open.
Worst case scenario, I hire them at my company while they figure stuff out. One of them is already going to be working for me this summer doing entry-level stuff.
I feel like something shifted in culture where a percentage of guys lost the cultural knowledge of how to ask a woman out. They're too unpracticed, shy, scared to offend, clumsy with the pass, or whatever. Even when they're feeling the vibes, they don't trust it enough to go for it.
This will make me seem old (I am old), but maybe it's dating apps? Maybe having dedicated spaces in which we shoot our shot from a distance took guys out of the in-person game. I dunno. But something happened.
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Suddenly everybody wants to know how to fend off a drone attack. Lol. These guys have answers, and my favorite its VAMPIRES: https://roboticsbiz.com/top-15-most-effective-anti-drone-technologies/
Asking people to pay for a usable experience before they've experienced the value of the network is a really hard sell. If Nostr can't overcome that, it will be tough to #grownostr.
But maybe that's ok. Maybe Nostr isn't the next Facebook. Maybe it's the next Mastodon: a set of protocols and clients and sites that has enough center of gravity to keep certain communities together and sees spurts of growth when other networks shed users. I wouldn't regard that as dead or failure.
A lot of people don't seem to understand that Ross Ulbrich single handedly produced the most epic generation of people in Bitcoin to ever exist. We would not be here without him. ty nostr:npub1pzzrdngrnlufqazx3lfj07k0vfuya6ehfy8q5yv2h8c5e8fxgmxqhxdsr8 🧡
Are you talking about the guy that tried to hire murderers to kill his enemies? That Ross Ulbricht? That's the guy you revere?
The future of Bitcoin is inclusive. Sorry to the steak bros with microphones 🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month.
It's fascinating to watch the reaction to this post. You learn a lot about a community at moments like this. Can you #grownostr from a substrate of reactionary bigotry?
Yeah, the nostr onboarding experience is pretty terrible. There are too many entrypoints, most of them are rote instructions that don't actually explain anything, and they differ in arbitrary and inscrutable ways. #grownostr is a bit of joke --- the vast majority of people who consider joining will balk at the current onboarding experience.
Things get fraught when we talk about "rights". There isn't consensus about what that word means, even in the field of law, where people like to get precise about what words mean. I'm not quibblng --- calling it a BoR will convey what you're doing well enough. I just want to note the terminological wiggliness.
LLMs are good at making predictions from deep datasets. But there are a lot of problems that LLMs are pretty bad at --- problems that involve wide, shallow datasets. A company I am working with has built a machine to look in the LLM's blind spots. They can take the wide, shallow datasets and generate insights (not predictions) that drive decisions. They can, e.g., identify genes of probable significance to a disease from existing medical literature, patient data, and research. It's all very cool, and they're fending off suitors at big valuations.
Here's my question, the one I ask myself every day since I linked up with them: what are the problems that LLMs are failing at because the data is wide instead of deep, diverse instead of homogeneous, constantly changing (and thus resists training)?
They've agreed to let me test drive their machine and scope a problem to solve. I get to play with the coolest toys!
#asknostr
If you care about #FreeSpeech, you have to be rooting for Alaa. He is a genuinely nice human being, but even putting that aside, he's been imprisoned just for speaking up for freedom.
My #homelab is just a server in my home connected via ethernet to my modem/router. I rent an entry-level VPS from Digital Ocean that just runs Caddy (https://caddyserver.org) for when I want to give my homelab services a public internet presence. I use tinc vpn (https://tinc-vpn.org) to connect the public Caddy server to my homelab server, but you might prefer Wireguard (https://wireguard.com). This is all incredibly simple and it allows me to self-host just about anything as a docker, a VM, or a native service. Caddy is hands-down the easiest web server to run. Wireguard is similarly easy as a VPN. If you're just starting a homelab, start with those pieces.
I do not see where in my coinos dashboard to extract an NWC connection string. Guides mention a gear icon that does not appear in my coinos interface.
Docker is a game-changer for managing upgrades. I don't do a ton of audio books, but I have a pile of photos, ebooks, video, and a music collection going back to the mid 90s. Hosting my own wiki as a knowledgebase is super useful. Same with Readeck for remembering the things I read.
I use tinc to access the box from wherever, which lets me use the wiki while out and about. It's like wireguard, with smarter routing. If I am at home, I get a direct connect instead of going out to my vpn server and then back in to my home to reach the NAS. Tinc is a pain to put on a phone, though. Wireguard is much easier to setup and maintain on mobile.
For back up, borg-backup is pretty great, but for low-value data (e.g. popular media) I just rsync a copy somewhere periodically and call it good enough. Tinc lets me put a box offsite and back up to it pretty easily. If you want something more commercial, Backblaze is solid and inexpensive.
I've never used a commercial NAS box, just generic linux boxes with lots of drive bays. There's something unsettling about depending on Synology not to forget who their customer is. For most things I want to do, that's good enough, though I am probably missing some ease-of-use features I don't even know about!
Good luck with your #homelab!
I #homelab. Grabbed a cheap 4-bay NAS box. It's just a generic linux machine loaded with drives. It runs a bunch of native and docker workloads to manage media and a personal wiki. I have resisted doing anything mission-critical on it because I don't want downtime to ever be urgent -- I already have a job and this shouldn't feel like one.
In principle, yes. You would have to deal with the usual consistency issues, but it's definitely doable. If you have a specific use-case in mind that you actually want to build, DM me and I can connect you to some folks who have been building interesting things with mediawiki and know its guts better than most.
What are you trying to model?
http://getlantern.io has been playing cat-and-mouse with national firewalls for over a decade. If you want to help them beat the censors in Iran and China, install this extension: https://unbounded.lantern.io/ It basically volunteers your IP as an introducer so people who need circumvention can get to the Lantern network.
It is worth noting that this isn't a flaw in OpenPGP or GPG or anything like that. It's only Proton Mail's javascript implementation that's buggy. It's not a flaw in the algorithm. The math still works. But signing things in Proton Mail (and whoever is is using their code) broke.
I once asked a ham radio buddy of mine what he chatted about on his radio. He said they mostly talk about ham radios. That's what Nostr is like. It is the premier technology for talking about Nostr. Seriously, if you are passionate about chatting about Nostr, there is no better medium.
Any ham radio people out there?