It is low risk. And all assets are speculative. Even fiat.
I celebrate the attack on Monero, but for completely different reason. Monero should be anti fragile, so it will end up better after the attack. It's still small and insignificant and it's better if it goes through it now.
When I had a company managing server farms, I wrote out own ssh client that was brutally scriptable. You could say login here and it would know that in order to get there, it needs to login somewhere else, forward ports, then write su and type the password because of some company policy of the client not allowing direct root logins. We had scripts checking everything and just connecting wherever it was needed without a care in the world.
Then there was version two written by someone else that also logged the content of all sessions to a server so we could show the customer what we did or did not do.
On the plus side, now I login mostly to my machines and I can set it up however I want.
Most people believe central planning works. We are the weird ones.
Use Nostr with Voyage. Text only, very different experience.
We call it central Europe, but it's eastern anyway 😅
Warsaw pact and further east...
Same reason. Central planning. Different flavor, same result.
Yes.
Eastern Europeans in their 40s and 50s remember the decline of the Soviet bloc and horrors of dictatorship and central planning and are working to avoid the same fate.
At the same time enjoying the decline, again.
#enjoythedecline
tmux can do probably much more than screen. you can even code plugins.
vibe code all the things
Best bitchat terminal / cli app? tried bitchat-cli and bitchat-terminal on mac, neither could send messages to other clients.
Use-case: Display the chat for conference questions in a beautiful terminal (the desktop app does not look nice and the input box is broken - I've typed something in the box and it's not seen there:).
Omgomg
I thought I wanted a new terminal app, but I really wanted a tmux plug-in. Since I'm in the process of tuning tmux.
Is anyone working on a FOSS AI terminal app that you can connect to local ollama?
Specifically terminal app, not command for the terminal, I would like to use it to do things on dumb devices I can ssh/telnet to, but can't install software on.
Should be a bit faster, I added some parallel processing.
It has a few gates to go through, it does not just dump the answer from the LLM, but makes sure it is not infected by statist bullshit from training sets.
Not perfect, but the gate is needed :).
You can talk to it via curl or any openai api compatible client 😉
No JavaScript needed. The frontend is actually not mine, I took it from Eric Hartford (author of Dolphin):
https://gist.github.com/ehartford/1bf8119dc840b14957fe492853ba6f36?s=09
Basic cryptoanarchy chatbot. Shouldn't give you statist bullshit. This is probably my third or fourth attempt at solving this. This one is probably the best.
It's a bit slow though.
https://cypherpunk.today/static/chat.html#cryptoanarchy-nonreasoning
That's theory, we haven't seen that. Most nodes currently subsidize it below cost of risk and capital I believe.
From the discussion in one of our private groups: People say that by far the most they have paid in fees was for lightning payments. And some are shitcoiners and have paid for defi and more then a few have experienced the high fee market of Bitcoin in December 2017.
For me it's not the case, but lightning is close second. You can expect 0.2-0.5% per payment, sometimes you need to pay for incoming liquidity.
Lightning did not really solve the fee problem, but that might be good, because it is a business, meaning there's sustainable development and infrastructure.
Me pregunto cómo llegaron a ese diseño. Mi amiga nostr:nprofile1qqs92th0y0cnk8lup9v45ts0mj044u8e7449uwzus3j43veulv4p2cspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezu7n9vfjkget99e3kcmm4vs5ynd80 y yo organizamos un festival nostr:nprofile1qqsqza5k06dwfvjnst0jtg4qguvmq6unraleyn83x4qtrvqxreh5w8sppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9utlgjdz desde hace ya varios años.
Y el número 23, por supuesto, tiene un significado en el libertarismo debido a la trilogía Illuminatus!
Ah, y está esta cuenta: nostr:nprofile1qqsxedq7j0ltfhew0hnequ34lve0sxw4t4mkytrsas85vyrnvkydmhsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnr09cxsetjwp6ku6eww3hkgcte9u60ahe5
¿Qué es exactamente esto, qué significa y dónde puedo conseguir uno también?
Best opening sentence of a book (or any other reading). Go!
I'll start:
"The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel"
(from W. Gibson: Neuromancer, still one of the best fiction books about AI, I highly recommend especially the ending, because that is still the most likely scenario in my mind).
That's the biggest problem. It's not a wall that you suddenly hit. It's like constantly trying to cross a wild river. You always hope it's just three more steps and then you are on the shore. But there's no shore to reach, it keeps moving away from you.
But I'll give you examples. VAT is different and keeps changing. One country would lower VAT on books to 5%, then to 0%, then they have an election and say ebooks for children have the full VAT. Multiply by all countries in EU.
Or you want to send the book to Germany. But no shipping company would take it, because they have introduced a special system where you have to pay a fee and register and report each package's wrapping material. What kind of envelope, did you wrap it in plastic, etc. I'm not joking at all BTW. You really have to do this. Multiply this bullshit by all member countries.
If you knew this in advance, you would never do it in a million years. But since people believe it can't be that bad, they go into the river. And there's no shore...
On the internet especially with Bitcoin, you can just do things...
Testing a new vibe coding tool - Crush.
Claude Opus 4 with thinking - those credits add up! But it's credits that expire in a few days anyway, but it's good that I can see that.
Very nice tool.
https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush
I have started more than 15 companies in my lifetime. A few of them successful. I would do an AMA, but I'll answer three questions that you didn't dare to ask instead.
Q: What is the best advice you have for young entrepreneurs?
A: Stay away from EU. Don't incorporate there. Don't target EU customers.
Q: What is the best target market that no one sees?
A: The netizens that own cryptocurrency and can use them for payments (no ETF owning grandmas).
Q: Where do I find investors or money?
A: Don't. Bootstrap.
Coinjoin will reduce the value of your coins. You might be in a circular economy, but it often happens that the recipient refuses coinjoined coins, because they know they will be refused by the exchange.
Also, very few people actually do coinjoin. Most just talk about it. And it is not something that normies would do.
Lightning is actually better for this. But it still is easy to doxx yourself, especially if you mix onchain and lightning.
That consolidation will doxx you
But that's not the only privacy problem.
You can map it easily - the customer knows to which address they paid you. They will eventually see other income you receive because you join the utxos. They see your whole revenue basically.
Clustering is easy and they can watch you...
Unless you really know what you are doing (and forgive me, but it seems you don't), you'll get doxxed to customers and to the merchants you pay at the same time.
That does not guarantee privacy, unless you are extra careful not to join the addresses in one transaction.
I actually do this when earning bitcoin and it’s a bit like surgery, you need to know very well what you are doing.
I don’t agree. It’s simply a reputation system and it’s OK if the women choose men according to their reputation.
It’s similar to when I want to do business about someone. I ask around. And reputation of the person responding to the question also comes into the equation.
It’s good even for the men - they don’t get to date with women who have shitty judgement in the apps and the way to date, saves men a lot of time with “wrong” women too.
I had (thankfully indirect) interaction with a shameless scammer. We know his full name, he has 70k followers and just steals money (fiat, crypto) under various pretenses (OTC trades, he even tried to sell citizenships). He has a full on act, it's quite interesting. When people realize he's a scammer, he just laughs and tells them they scammed themselves because they are stupid.
These people exist, it's super weird. I believe it's some kind of psychopathic disorder. Even his family knows, his brother helps, parents know and pretend they don't. Hundreds of thousands of euros.
I don't think they have a long lifespan, so it's not an evolutionary adaptation. But we live in the same world as they do.
For me, the main point is assuming other people's inner world is similar to mine (also called empathy) is super wrong. They're hacking this assumption.
A friend of mine has a good heuristic for this. When someone is talking to you, and you get obligated to listen, ask "are they trying to hack my brain through empathy?". Imagine a beggar. You might or might not want to help them, but you should be able to identify if and when it's a hacking attempt.
Not much, 2gb for smaller models, around 8GB for llama. Then some more for whisper (500MB maybe)
I run it on 32GB mac mini.
Pro-tip on fighting illegal immigration:
- Make all immigration legal
- Do not hand out welfare to any immigrants ever
Problem solved. Fiscally positive.
For more political hints, follow, like, boost, subscribe and zap. In this order 😉
Bitcoin fixes this.
I know both categories - cantilionaires and real entrepreneurs.
I know more real entrepreneurs than cantilionaires (but that might be due to my social circle). What is interesting, cantilionaires often can't sustainably build wealth - even using the effect. They often spend more than they earn. And often it is very unstable, one regime change and they lose their income.
Not all of us fought for legitimacy and mainstream adoption.
Original cryptoanarchists were a bit elitist, I think Timothy May would laugh at the suits.
But it is what it is, no need to be nostalgic. Bitcoin wins anyway
The alternative is always personal, as is voting BTW. The society is emergent property of individual action.
The real question is how to live your best life. If you give up politics and create space, you start looking for solutions of your problems outside of politics. And when you miss something, you can help build it.
A good way to do it is to be a tourist or an expat, if not really, then adopting this mindset. If you move to some other place, you have to pay taxes and deal with the local bullshit, but you can't vote. So you look for other ways to solve your problems. You might find them, sometimes you don't find them, but your vote definitely does not change a thing.
(In most elections the probability you change a single seat it parliament or decide the winner is zero).
You are not powerless, but your power does not come from voting.
On the contrary, there's a huge personal cost to voting. You get involved in politics, the debates, you fill your mind with spam instead of doing other things.
POV: it's first may, time to remove the Christmas tree
GM
Good for the bags of bitcoiners
But states should be poor ☹️
(Still needs signature of governor who threatened to veto)
It's about that time of the cycle where Bitcoin yield products start rolling out, but we're not like other yield ideas, we're a publicly listed company and we're only going to arb between spot and futures, but we're already claiming returns of 4% - 8%
https://www.theblock.co/post/352173/coinbase-eyes-4-8-annualized-btc-returns-via-bitcoin-yield-fund
Important distinction - the carry trade yields 4-8% but in fiat terms, not BTC!
So you get yield but lose the Bitcoin upside.
That is what I call a spectacularly bad deal.
Yes, it's good. Payment issues probably not due to minibits, but chosen mint.
I have a theory that every place on earth resonates with some substances that alter some brain receptors or neurotransmitters.
For example in Paraguay, it is definitely tereré, in Uruguay it is 🧉. In Czech republic it is 🍺.
You don't have to use them (I don't drink beer for example), but it's quite possible that you get more in sync with the local vibe if you do.
I have a podcast. Well, three podcasts, but who's counting. But I do it specifically for niche audience. I don't do things like publishing an episode regularly (weekly). I have an episode when I have something to say or an interesting guest. And when I have time and I'm in a mood. I've done over 100 episodes so far. There are no advertisements for hardware wallets, VPNs, or probiotics. I do occasionally have a referral.
But this is interesting. I've been playing with YouTube monetization. My reach was just enough to apply for YouTube's monetization features. At that time about half of the listeners used YouTube to listen.
I'm also publishing RSS feed with value tags for a long time now.
YouTube's monetization: annoying for audience unless they block ads or buy YouTube premium. And I have never made the 50 bucks required for payout. I stopped the monetization, it just sucks for everyone
Podcasting 2.0: I share splits with all collaborators and guests. Each episode is a common project. We all get to read the boosts. They are way better than YouTube comments, people send sats and love. No grumpy angry people.
... but but but .... podcasting 2.0 has no reach, right?
It might be true, but I really made at least the 50k sats that I've never seen on YouTube. And Spotify for podcasters does not share anything.
It is still a labor of love. I still lose money on the podcast. But if I wanted to focus on growing revenue, the best decision seems to be growing v4v. Not old recipes, the new world is better.
End of announcement.
OK, so we can do rotating bloom filters.
Architecture:
We are syncing relays (which can be on a slow network and sync while we sleep). Let's say we have clever filters, so we don't sync everything (relay knows about follows and replies), but this is not that important, maybe for small networks, we can sync everything.
Algorithm:
- client relay creates a bloom filter with nonce (just a random number that gets applied to all hash functions in the filter construction). It sends filter ("give me notes for the past 24 hours"), nonce and the bloom filter of note ids matching this description it already has.
- server relay (or relays, we'll see if we can somehow broadcast this without overloading the network) collects the events. It fills a preefined number of packets with content that matches the filter and does not match the bloom filter. If there's nothing, it sends back "you've seen all" message (this can be trusted, bloom filter does not have false negatives).
- after receiving or after some time, the process is repeated with a different nonce.
The bloom filter for sure filters out note IDs that the client already has. It might filter out some other note IDs, but this is mitigated at the next request, because the bloom filter will have different false positives, because of different nonce.
Now we need the broadcast protocol for Reticulum and let's get coding. Since all reticulum nodes right now are basically Linux machines (RNode needs control), everyone can run their own relay, listen to wire traffic, update notes from the air and sync from time to time on everything it missed.
We will use unchanged relay software, unchanged Nostr clients (Voyage is perfect for this), only the syncer is required.
nostr:npub1f49twdlzlw667r74jz6t06xxlemd8gp2j7g77l76easpl8jsltvqvlzpez any inputs?
Playing with Voyage. I like it a lot so far. Although I miss the memes, the minimalistic vibe is amazing.
Thinking how to integrate it with some Lora based mesh (like Reticulum) to have a local city district relay to completely bypass internet. It would need much more compression though.
It should be integrated first at relay level probably and then local mesh node would do a relay interface.