Maybe this on linux?

"Use oathtool Linux command line for 2 step verification (2FA)" https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/use-oathtool-linux-command-line-for-2-step-verification-2fa/

I'm of two minds about AI. My initial reaction was that it's all hype. But I've since heard from people I know that they use it for :

- writing reports in their work (because the person is good enough to be able to review the AI's work and know if it's good or not, and be able to tweak it),

- writing code faster (again, because the person is good enough to be able to review the code to see if it's good or not),

- helping older kids learn by helping them consider different points of view, different ideas, etc, and

- helping older kids prepare for exams.

So I think in the right hands and if used properly, it can be useful.

But I hope no one uses ChatGPT and other corporate-owned and controlled AIs. We don't need to feed those algos even more, we don't need to fork over our privacy and we don't need to build a dependence on those tools. I'm only talking about open source AIs like Llama 2, etc.

Covid authoritarian.

From memory, when they started : they were closed source for a while and they also even used a web blockchain explorer for their app without telling us (not exactly privacy friendly). Someone else had to figure it out. I remember that Greg Maxwell said on reddit at the time that he wouldn't use that project. So I don't use it.

I also don't want to use Wasabi since they use a chain surveillance company.

So it's down to joinmarket for coinjoins.

But onchain tx fees being what they are, it's tempting to play around with lightning, liquid, payjoin, etc, I'm also bullish on e-cash token applications like minibits, cashu, etc. I think it may help for privacy going forward.

Where can we get **beefy** cloud VMs (for AI) that we can pay for in bitcoin? The VM with 16 cores and 80GB that I'm trying out doesn't seem fast engouh

Liquid is very interesting. It's not for your pension fund but it's a great in-between step : between small lightning amounts and bigger amounts in cold storage. I can live with the federation tradeoffs for limited amounts. I appreciate the extra potential privacy. However, I really wish we could have coin control on liquid. Last I checked, neither Green nor Elements had coin control for liquid.

I'm having fun toying around with LlamaGPT 70B (with the umbrel script for docker) on a cloud VM from a provider that accepts bitcoin/lightning. Answers are slow even with 16 cores and 80GB of RAM but it's very interesting. Might actually have to rub a few sats together and get an actual machine to play around with this AI thing. I'm not interested if it's closed source but this open source LlamaGPT thing is fascinating.

"Freedom tech" is popping up everywhere now. Does anybody have a good resource/list with lots of different freedom technologies? Maybe @npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

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To add the link : https://wise.com/help/articles/2899986/what-are-my-spending-limits

In that case, might I suggest looking into Wise.com? I think they can be useful for travel and I believe they have a slightly higher ATM limit. Again, just a stopgap.

I muted that troll. The profile/notes are full of that.

100%. It's a stopgap measure. As soon as any money hits the bank account, it can be divided up, withdrawn in cash and converted to bitcoin.

Then you can also make many bank accounts. Get the max ATM withdrawal limits you can on all of them.

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沖縄でしょう！ (^_^)

I recently learned that even the Bible warns against wanting a king :

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%208&version=NLT

10 So Samuel passed on the Lord’s warning to the people who were asking him for a king.

11 “This is how a king will reign over you,” Samuel said. “The king will draft your sons and assign them to his chariots and his charioteers, making them run before his chariots.

12 Some will be generals and captains in his army, some will be forced to plow in his fields and harvest his crops, and some will make his weapons and chariot equipment.

13 The king will take your daughters from you and force them to cook and bake and make perfumes for him.

14 He will take away the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his own officials.

15 He will take a tenth of your grain and your grape harvest and distribute it among his officers and attendants.

16 He will take your male and female slaves and demand the finest of your cattle and donkeys for his own use.

17 He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you will be his slaves.

18 When that day comes, you will beg for relief from this king you are demanding, but then the Lord will not help you.”

Thank you! Yeah, I'm less a fan of snaps and flatpacks but the repository alternative is interesting.

I asked the livechat for the checksum but they referred me to their forum and this answer in the forum says they don't have the checksums https://forum.onlyoffice.com/t/download-file-verification-checksum/890

Good thing that they have the repository option. Thanks!

Hmmm, come to think of it, it's true that the formatting is not always perfect when coming from Word files, etc. I didn't even know Onlyoffice existed.

Looking at their github, I don't see a gpg public key file and a checksum file which I usually prefer to have before putting anything on my computer. Apt-cache on xubuntu doesn't seem to show that it's part of the repositories.

I'll try to find the verification files somewhere. If you know where I can find them, please let me know.

Oh? I've been using that suite exclusively for as long as I can remember. Although admittedly my needs are simple. The text editor, the spreadsheet and the presentation applications do everything I need them to do. What do you feel are the missing features?

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In the past, I tried twice to create twitter accounts. Both times, I got my account blocked by twitter as soon as I tried to follow you (Will), Matt Odell nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and Francis Pouliot. To unblock, I would have had to give them my phone number. That wasn't going to happen so I never had an account.

I then kept on following people whose opinions I cared about using an rss feed reader with different nitter instances (that read twitter for us). Those have now been blocked as far as I know.

So, from personal experience, it seems like Nostr just has to exist. Twitter and all the other centralized services will do the Nostr promotion for us. It just takes time. We're like what, 14 years in for Bitcoin? And many bitcoin-accepting merchant lists are still thin, even though it is really constantly getting easier to live on a Bitcoin standard in our daily lives. It just takes times. It's growing well.

Furthermore, people who are still ok with a centralized system at this point, ... well, to be frank, I don't what to know their opinions on other topics. My life is already pretty full. So I'm more than happy to have them stay over there. It's the Great Bifurcation 😀