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Nostr seems to be where all the kids who grew up in the 80s and 90s, and all the kids who wish they could have grown up in the 80s and 90s, hang out. I love it. 😂💜


I don't like to tell people what to do with their lives, especially with their money

Though here's a small nudge because now would be a good time (if you can) to offer a decent meal to someone who can't afford it... or treat a friend, pay for a random person's meal..

Make it count for something


💀💀💀 https://video.nostr.build/7141044c6062fe2cd16871ee3130471f39eb3b4428436a67d7a1efd95d7d7729.mp4


We're getting all getting new wives LFG


Don't you know Trump it up, you got to Trump it up


Did you know: with Elon appointed to the Department of Government Efficiency, that’s the first time an openly autistic person will hold a high level position in the US federal government.

Not that it should matter, but it’s funny to me that the “tolerant left” is too busy shaving their heads to acknowledge this. Same with the first ever female chief of staff. And the first openly gay cabinet member in his previous administration.

Almost like you don’t need forced DEI quotas and token hires for diversity if you have equality of opportunity or something it’s crazy.


Real life been super stressful but with Bitcoin making moves like this I just had to check in on my Nostr fam.


Bitcoin at $91k

Ross is being freed in January

All US stock indices up bigly

Hamas, Putin, and Xi want peace

The man’s not even in office yet bro 🔥⚡ https://image.nostr.build/13f23d6eb3cbd4937ffbdc48a89e7602151fe9a6912dfa96432fc92eef310984.jpg


So no posts for 12 hours? 😉


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iOS 18 😂😂😂😂

https://image.nostr.build/12e43648848c950496500e68c032bd42aae37f4b162b60a8a7b12f3e54988864.jpg


This has been stuck in my head all day 😅

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/gmac_mechanic.mp4


Latest Graphene update adds a duress password feature. If forced to enter your PIN under duress you can enter the duress password and it'll wipe your phone in an irreversible manner. Once the wipe starts it cannot be stopped.

Serious respect to the #Graphene team for this one. Proving yet again you are the kings of #OPSEC.


That's enough internet for me today


The Joneses is a super underrated movie about consumerism. Just in case anyone was wanting something to watch tonight or this weekend.


The Mistral LLM running on my local machine is absolutely crazy good. I don't even have a GPU just using the quantized model on my CPU but damn it is doing some impressive shit.

Local LLMs are easily exceeding GPT 3.5 at this point. If you have a modern CPU and at least 32GB RAM, check out Ollama (command line) or LLM Studio (GUI) both are open source and use the same models.

You can run it on 16GB RAM but it'll lag, ideally you do want at least 32GB, the quantized models use a lot of memory to run on a CPU.


#taxes

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/taxes_spending.mp4


GME is up 50% just in pre-market trading today so far.

If you do stonks as well as BTC I hope you're holding at least some GME.

It's possible the MOASS is actually coming for real this time.

Could also just be a pump ofc, but the fundamentals of the thesis are solid. All the shorts absolutely haven't closed yet.


Yeah it is. He's only posting there right now, no new YT or Reddit posts yet.

If he was on Nostr I'd send a big zap for sure.


Roaring Kitty is back.

GME is up.

Return of the meme stonks? 👀

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It's kinda crazy that criticising the corrupt government and monopolistic corporations run by oligarchs who want to make us all serfs unites us so closely that I find myself having to check if someone doing it is left wing or right wing because it could just as easily be either.

I'm seeing this intergenerational too. I've seen everyone from boomers to zoomers agree on exactly why the system is fucked.

Is the divide and conquer method starting to crumble as more people unite against the same corrupt system?

You can only push people down so long before they revolt.

(I'm very stoned rn so I hope this made sense.)


“With exceptions so rare they are regarded as miracles of nature, successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.” - Walter Lippmann


Bitcoin mixers are now being targeted. Anonymity itself is slowly being considered a crime. The word "Privacy" will soon mean "Criminal Intent".


“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.” - Ludwig von Mises


I just realised

> Thank era for pointing out the mistake

Srsly are you okay ChatGPT? 😅


GPT-4 keeps making typos in its own variable names today, over and over again even when I prompt it specifically not to make typos, it's basically a hungover intern rn 😅

At least it can find and fix those typos when I tell it to but

> `storage_ahnfo`

Lol you okay ChatGPT?
 https://void.cat/nostr/a3db5ec41dfe72d5bef1242409aa36cdb26ca5de7d9800382dc6660a3354454d.png


"You're poor because you're being robbed to fight wars to facilitate the robbing of Palestinians' land and homes."

Saifedean Ammous

https://void.cat/nostr/10df96d9c30583e7ba118be7ebbca6b734f2d7d2fdbda3beadc3d68865035f59.png


No single clip has made me feel more secure for owning Bitcoin in my life. No 🧢 this is basically a Bitcoin marketing video 🤣

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They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/fiat.mp4


"The #government definitely prints #money, and it definitely lends that money, by uhhhh, by selling #bonds. Uhh, is that what they do? They, they, uhhh, um, they, yeah, um, they sell bonds and people buy the bonds and lend them the money... But there is no question that the government prints money, and then it uses that money to, urm, erm, so, um, I don't get it, I don't know what they're talking about. The government clearly prints money, it does it all the time, and it clearly borrows... I don't think there's anything confusing there."

- Jared Bernstein

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/fiat.mp4


"Oops I did it again!"

#Boeing

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/Boeing_whistleblower_2.mp4


Yet another #Boeing whistleblower has mysteriously died ☠

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https://image.nostr.build/2565f0cc9930feee536e4473367cd37eb48cc8a5fe37483bc0509c940b404068.jpg

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/27673825/boeing-whistleblower-joshua-dean-dead/


Reality being too crazy to meme rn


I've certainly been noticing a decline in activity in my follow feed the past couple months. I've been less active myself most days. I salute those of you who are still regularly shitposting on here. 🫡 Thanks for being here!
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Bitcoin will last longer than your government.


There's a McDonald's in Guantanamo that feeds the military.

Lawyers were banned in 2018 because they used to buy meals for inmates.

It has a gift shop.

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/gitmo1.jpg
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#news

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Read

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dea-plans-back-reclassifying-marijuana-drug-sources/story?id=109795806


Capital gains tax is the penalty you pay for investing wisely.


A two party system is a one party system

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“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” - George Bernard Shaw


It's real 👀👀👀

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bitcoin-PEZ-Dispenser-with-Candy-LIMITED-EDITION/1915338112


Can you access APK Mirror? You can download it from there.


Yup and silencing any dissent.

Good parents should encourage their kids to think critically. That being the norm would lead to a better society in so many ways honestly, but that's a whole other topic on it's own.


Imo once you are an adult you can do whatever you want. I might not understand it but whatever. Adults should have personal freedom.

What I think is a genuine concern is raising children with this ideology that not having a gender is the default and being trans is somehow the norm, when in fact gender dysphoria is a rare condition affecting a small minority.

Not sure to what extent it's an agenda over just gen z's and younger millennials projecting their virtue signaling but I don't think it'll lead to happy well adjusted people regardless.

It's definitely being used by corporations for PR and to try and appeal to gen z now they're becoming old enough to spend money that's for sure.


The reactions are hilarious too, I've literally seen people try to argue she's a Nazi and has coded secret Nazi messages in Harry Potter because they don't like her views on trans shit.

Their basis for saying that? "Harry Potter has goblins working in a bank, they're obviously Jews!"

I'm not even making it up, I've literally had to be like "if you see goblins and think Jews, guess who the racist is?"

It's pure entertainment watching gen z kids REEEEE over JKR expressing her opinions. And it's madness how saying "yo maybe children too young to make informed consent shouldn't have permanent life changing procedures" is now supposedly bigoted.


Been a bit busy today 😇

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GM #NOSTR

Put a #bitcoin sticker in public and get zapped!

This photo by nostr:npub1gcfaxg923qp8j2j69ue5ng3q0ce0vu0gcpqqtqxacv8d5m7a7c4qmhchdf was zapped 21k sats 🔥

The stickers are free! Link in bio. https://image.nostr.build/ee63ace3a0b2a9e1700f8e57dbb7f2e97d971011950369909b845f9550a97e21.jpg


Absolute best, rational, calmly spoken criticism of #woke culture I've seen 👀

Source: scisavage on TikTok

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/scisavage_woke.mp4


#ThievesInSuits https://i.nostr.build/jYZz5.jpg


There's a fake nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s on Twitter/X retweeting the real one and following the followers of the real account...

I'm guessing the goal is to trick people into following back so they can do a DM scam to steal sats.

Once again Elon is a genius for defeating the bots and fake accounts! 🤡
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Never ending cycle of tyranny.. https://image.nostr.build/0ac43fe83acbffe1974ad9b6effac20faaea524b68dcb806841065b1746b59d8.jpg


The best use case for inscriptions is inscribing the names of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients into individual sats on #Bitcoin

That way, the FBI will be forced to completely ignore any transactions involving these sats.

We’re sacrificing fungibility, but gaining privacy.


There is actually something new in this statement from the FBI:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/fbi-warns-americans-against-using-non-kyc-crypto-money-transmitting-services

If you actually read the second and third paragraphs, they are quite explicitly telling you that the primary risk is that *they themselves* are going to steal your money.

So by 'something new' I mean that this is the first time you are explicitly being threatened with confiscation. It would not be surprising if this is the start of a trend, but, who knows.


Is this an app I can use now or just a concept?


Paying in cash has always been easy, fast and inherently private.

Users didn’t realize they were acting privately - they were just taking the path of least resistance.

This should be the goal with bitcoin.
Privacy should be so easy and cheap that it’s the default.


This is definitely much easier, but just wanna add that a keylogger is a rootkit, it's capable of uploading files from your computer as well as logging keystrokes, so you aren't protected from a compromised machine unless you use a hardware wallet (even then, it's possible to divert funds if you don't verify the recipients etc).


Pro tip: latest version of Sparrow wallet (1.8.6) allows you to import your Samourai.txt backup file instead of your seed words. Only then need to enter your passphrase to decrypt it. Much better in case you do have some key logging software on your computer.

https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.8.6


Privacy is normal and good.

There has been an effort among authorities to make “money laundering” and “financial privacy” the same thing. That is, the mere act of moving money privately itself becomes a crime. That’s not okay.

Money laundering is when money that is obtained through crime is concealed by obfuscating it with clean money. The actual crime is the initial non-financial crime (say, mob stuff), and historically money laundering involves manual activity to work with the criminals.

Now that open source tech can make certain transactions private, authorities increasingly equate all private money transfer with money laundering, even if the developer of the open source tech had no direct involvement with criminals. Authorities target them regardless, and sanction the technology itself. Financial privacy becomes synonymous with crime in their minds, and in the minds of the public.


The entire developed world tax apparatus that was built in the 20th century and extends into the 21st century depends on ubiquitous financial surveillance.

They are not going to give that up without a fight. I have been saying at a number of conferences and podcasts that privacy is the main battleground for the next decade.

Back in the 19th century and before, money was mostly private. There were plenty of dictators but there was no major method of surveilling all transactions. Therefore things like broad income taxes were untenable to enforce.

But in the 20th century as money increasingly moved around at the speed of light, people needed bank accounts to keep up. It wasn’t all forced on them; they chose it. And those bank accounts were centralized, surveillable, and ruggable.

This allowed authorities to switch to income taxes, which require ubiquitous financial surveillance to work. And ultimately it allowed them to switch to fiat currency altogether.

Now in the 21st century, Bitcoin and its various layers allow people to hold and move around money globally without permissioned banks. They can do so peer to peer, or they can do so with custodians and open layers, etc. Unlike the base layer of fiat, the base layer of bitcoin is permissionless.

But this represents a threat to the entire current system of taxation and financial control. If bitcoin and particularly various private methods on top of it were to be adopted at massive scale, the entire tax structure and other things would need to reshape themselves around that reality. And so they won’t make it easy; they will try to criminalize financial privacy as much as possible while the network is still pretty small.

The only solutions are to 1) make privacy tech so ubiquitous that it can’t be isolated and can spread organically in a distributed way and 2) to apply legal pressure when possible so that governments sort of have to operate within the bounds of their own law, like the 1st and 4th amendments.


"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it."
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Is knowing that your product is used by criminals "Aiding and abetting"? Is AT&T "aiding" because it knows it's phones are used for criminal acts? Or Chrysler by knowing that it's fast cars are used as gettaway cars? You can't cripple PRIVACY just because criminals use it.


They hounded Snowden off to Russia, put Ross in prison for life for undercutting the CIA’s drug running, and are trying to martyr Assange for revealing US war crimes.

If the US Government knew who Satoshi was, WE would know who he is. They’d have smeared him up and down, put him in Gitmo and gone too far with the waterboarding one day.

You don’t threaten The Empire without consequences, and there is no greater threat to their hegemony than taking away their monopoly on monopoly money.


Ahhh. I'm not familiar with NixOS tbh. It looks like a really cool project and I'm aware of it, but haven't done a deep dive or properly tried it out yet. So can't really give any advice on how it manages packages, or if Kleopatra has compatibility issues with Nix for any reason.


Need this on nostr https://i.nostr.build/aQP3B.jpg


Exactly, you're bang on. Use providers in countries that have hostile relations with the US because there's no way in hell they would give Uncle Sam any data on you. But pay with non-KYC funds and use a burner email anyway.


100%.

And the only governments I trust less than the USA right now are my own (AU) and Euroland's.

On the upside, GovCrims are at each others throats, we should make use of it.

Russia and Iran both have commercial datacenters that rent VPSs and accept Bitcoin/Monero from foreigners.

If the IRS / FBI send an email to Iran asking for your VPS logs, the reply will be a photo of a burly bearded man giving them the finger.

If the IRS / FBI send an email to Russia asking for your VPS logs... IDK what the Russians will send back but it sure won't be your logs.

Of course, don't give the datacenter any true data anyway if you can help it. They are perfectly capable of wanting to steal from you without American government help.


Since US law enforcement agencies have been able to identify a money laundering offence involving this particular wallet, then they are well equipped to detect such crimes, and there is no need to criminalise mixers or #bitcoin wallets as a technology and its developers in general.

This is exactly what we talk about in our meetings with regulators: we understand that US law enforcement has all the tools to track #Bitcoin  transactions on the blockchain. That is why real criminals, and even more so oligarchs, use completely different schemes to launder dirty money.

Besides, Western intelligence services are diligently training dictatorial regimes how to recognise both traditional banking and crypto-assets transactions, so the oligarchs have this knowledge from the intelligence services under their control in non-democratic countries. They don't want and don’t need to use such tools.

And to be precise, I definitely think it's very harmful to promote or ask oligarchs, criminals to use your privacy payment tools. It gives more opportunities to weaponise this kind of rhetoric by any kind of government.

Our 15 years of human rights practice shows that real oligarchs prefer other tools for laundering dirty money. For example, the daughter of dictator Nursultan #Nazarbayev, Dariga #Nazarbayeva - #UK law enforcement authorities failed in their attempts to hold her accountable for money laundering. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/08/uk-agency-loses-case-against-ex-kazakh-president-family-aliyev-nazarbayev

Kazakhstani regime used political lobbyists, expensive Western law firms, and the Kazakhstani state apparatus to succeed in laundering her dirty money.

This scheme works for the oligarchs, people who have stolen billions from the budget of a country where their family members have been in power for decades, politically persecuting any dissent, torturing and killing.

They do not need mixers, they have perfectly mastered money laundering schemes through investments in expensive real estate and consultations with former higher officials, top Western law firms.

Mixers and self-hosted wallets, on the other hand, are used by activists who are financially excluded by authoritarian regimes and do not have the privilege to use banking services in general due to political repression.

Moreover, the knowledge of US intelligence agencies is used to financially exclude regime critics and their family members both domestically and transnationally. This is exactly what #Turkey, #Kazakhstan and other regimes do all the time, sharing knowledge gained from Western partners with #Russia, #Iran, #China to repress dissenters abroad.

In less than 5 minutes Kazakhstan blocks fundraising via bank account or @stripe for families of political prisoners, so bitcoin p2p transactions and mixers are currently the only instrument to protect human rights in such authoritarian countries. Regimes can trace such transactions, but they can't stop them and so far it has helped save lives.

Therefore, an effective fight against money laundering would begin not with the criminalisation of privacy payment tools and their developers, but with ending the impunity of authoritarian regimes and their oligarchs in using legal schemes to circumvent sanctions through the banking systems of third countries. https://image.nostr.build/c349d26015a22cf1db76dad933a7752bb4986ef55720154f4dbe67f999c56320.jpg https://image.nostr.build/224b3d0be9bfd139e2d74c1172629518ccd6dbaab20d78d0b92f4e968d4a4cdc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/fe3aee61fe806c37d9a688784bbad901b7fdbc5cccea63bcd09194e063521ab9.jpg


#Boobs

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IMPORT YOUR EXISTING SAMOURAI WALLET INTO SPARROW WALLET

Read entire post before attempting at home!

You will need:
1. Your Samourai Wallet seed phrase (12 words)
2. Your passphrase
3. Sparrow Wallet downloaded and installed on to your computer. (https://www.sparrowwallet.com)

Configure your server. This could be your own node, or a public electrum server. I have selected Blocksteam's electrum server here.
https://void.cat/d/tepSUYuDJZwEZtwNmuf6C.webp

Toggle on your server using the switch on the bottom right. It should turn yellow, green or blue depending on what you've selected.

Go to File -> New Wallet, or click on New Wallet.
https://void.cat/d/77w9Z2qJVWRw8hqKjgrU54.webp

Name your wallet.
https://void.cat/d/Mpjvk4PUpaMbUW8TQDXZdy.webp

Click on New or Imported Software Wallet.
https://void.cat/d/Qe3dUWMpXikRabdrwYU95u.webp

On the dropdown menu besides the Mnemonic Words (BIP39), select 12 words. Type your seed into the fields displayed in the correct order from 1 to 12.

Check the "Use passphrase?" option. Insert your passphrase and click Create Keystore.
https://void.cat/d/RwGXKENhUxDop61gmFEsZZ.webp

Click on Import Keystore.
https://void.cat/d/6gnrC8FAYy1LqFTqJHL2V8.webp

Reenter your passphrase as prompted
https://void.cat/d/EF2cnjoDQ1sAiqwMYqW3wV.webp

Click on Apply on the bottom right.
https://void.cat/d/GBzT1GXF14YMTSTtTWo5FB.webp

If you want to add a password to open up your wallet with, enter one, otherwise click No Password.
https://void.cat/d/RRGNKKmpQikdUJKxbFccXJ.webp

In the bottom of the settings page, you will see "Add Account..." button. Click on it.
https://void.cat/d/SzPC67pcdjZPQe7imFn3An.webp

From the dropdown menu, select Whirlpool Accounts
https://void.cat/d/JZn4zB5Zj2xXxR9maDuhny.webp

Your wallet will be scanned by the server you have selected. You should also be able to see your respective deposit, premix, postmix and bad bank accounts.
https://void.cat/d/XnAkV8pYvReFbqmKCPiXg8.webp

You should now be able to send your bitcoin to another wallet/address of your choosing. I would recommend sending this out to a hardware wallet.

Notes:
- Be sure you obtain sparrow wallet from sparrowwallet dot com. Get it right!
- Because you are inputing seed words into a computer, ensure no keyloggers are installed. Be wary of dodgy browser extensions.
- Dojo users need not worry. This is for those who used SW backend.
- Beware of scammers on the Sparrow Telegram chat. They're out in full force today. Nobody will ask you for your seed words. Do not give them out to anyone.


Host your nodes either on your own hardware only accessible by Tor, or on VPS's outside of US jurisdiction.

Incorporate your companies in fuckin Belize or Nevis or Singapore or the Cayman Islands or whatever country gives the least fucks about the US courts.

The US government is making clear, repeatedly, that it is actively hostile towards financial sovereignty and freedom, of individuals simply wanting the same transactional privacy they are used to receiving from cash.

Also wouldn't be surprised if custodial lightning wallets are targeted next as they don't require KYC. So as always, keep your sats on hardware you control.


Buy a watch, car, or other expensive item with my stack.

Sell it for fiat.


I am a #Samurai! https://image.nostr.build/f1a0f9d631168e75c4b21596cf2e0bdd8d3b5777fd4fa8d176098eba76d5ebc6.jpg


Privacy is not a crime https://image.nostr.build/c13ae5a3645e0dce56a7284a1065a7c51891dc1accaa137b14270632253223a2.jpg


BREAKING: Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested & Charged with Money Laundering, Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses

- The charges include conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmitting business.
- The Samurai Wallet website has been confiscated, and a seizure warrant for Samurai's mobile application has been submitted to the Google Play Store.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/samourai-wallet-founders-arrested-and-charged-with-money-laundering/


So since joining X yesterday I have 45 followers.

43 of those are bots.

9 of those bots have blue ticks.

Well done Elon 🤡


Privacy tech cannot be built around companies, authorities take them down. RIP Samourai Wallet.

Decentralisation & FOSS prevails ✊

Privacy is not a crime, it's a human right.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering


USDT and USDC are just CBDCs


At least his name fits 🤡🤡🤡

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The FCA is notoriously strict on Bitcoin. They still ban investors from buying Bitcoin ETFs too. Literally they're worse than the SEC!

(I know the ETFs are a controversial subject but I still want my pension to go into BTC and an ETF is the only way it'll happen.)


nfa... 😂
 https://image.nostr.build/37879894ccb3af9700fb80580711affa440ef252ce47f4d2b56083d87226d7c4.jpg


Ah okay. Will keep an eye out.


UK next?


Is it better than DDG or Startpage? Intriguing concept.


They're a KYC app so this is to be expected tbh.

Wouldn't mind using it when it comes to the UK just to keep a little KYC stack, but my main stack will remain non-KYC'd for sure.


Niiiice 👀


TikTok... for now.


Apple continues its groundbreaking innovation.

https://image.nostr.build/4ffb7ad832f83cc0f46efbadf3e26d94948fe13b9624d16f84e1d1143acba02a.jpg


So Biden just escalated the slide into WWIII, banned a social media app, and increased capital gains tax to 44.6% all in one day?

Urm yeah mate if you lose the election, look in the mirror...


There's still some big brains on Twitter after all.

https://image.nostr.build/60c4b852c0c571f83f99808b8fecce99e52ad8095bfed8a2ae404bcd4d6aa2c3.jpg


#Strike has just launched in Europe 👀

 https://image.nostr.build/a1ca75bda8899e6a5393a69d94d210d50bc9efc582dd8b4265dd51bf71c9d059.jpg
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Made an account on Twitter/X which I'm currently dipping in and out of for memes and news.

Following bitcoiners ofc. Will follow back my Nostr fam. Found some of you I already and followed :)

https://twitter.com/XBongfire


Politics and principles have an obvious disconnect.


This Blossom thing has serious legs. Set up the cdn.satellite.earth server in like 15 seconds.

- 77 Sats for 1 GB of storage for one month
- Logged in and paid with  nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm extension
- Acts like any normal remote drive

https://m.primal.net/HzUu.png
https://m.primal.net/HzUv.png

Check it out for yourself https://github.com/lovvtide/satellite-cdn/blob/master/README.md


Holy shit. Found my next project. Had no idea you could self-host Satellite with R2.


Rule 34 has no exceptions 😂


Bitcoin Conversions is officially rolling out today!

Square 🤝 Cash App 🤝 Bitcoin

Soon millions of Square sellers will be able to automatically stack sats from their card sales, passively accumulating bitcoin simply by running their business.

A historic day for Block, Square sellers, and bitcoin!

Congrats to the team and everyone involved 🚀 https://image.nostr.build/66cb3d5a0fd8ae956471ff5b5efc3dc5ae13bdb369e4c07d95b0d5a415d48a30.png


imbeciles who believe in the 'government' will receive this:

https://void.cat/d/XHyrXqdpfQFmYM4bEpSUPq.webp


IT IS EVEN WORSE THAN THE CHART MAKES IT SEEM SINCE ANTPOOL, VIABTC, F2POOL, BINANCE, BRAIINS, AND SECPOOL ARE ALL USING THE SAME CUSTODIAN AND BLOCK TEMPLATE PROVIDER.

BASICALLY ONE BIG CHINESE POOL AT ~47% HASH.


As long as governments are composed of collectives of individual humans, we will always arrive at the place where the government sees the individual as a competitor or a nuisance rather than the agent that the government serves.


No KYC hits different after your government passes laws to increase capital gains taxes 😏


#Ubisoft

https://image.nostr.build/7161b46d0d77929af613a6f9dcf75fc185240db3426ddd942849c2e52f47d2d9.jpg


The FBI Has announced a crackdown on Conspiracy Theorists. Waiting for them to shut down that group of conspiracy nuts who are propagating the insane belief that Epstein killed himself.


No-one in their right mind could take ANY candidate seriously. Presidents have zero power. The system is like a car with a frozen steering wheel. It don't matter who's driving.


No security whatsoever is better than any exchange. Hackers know where the exchanges are. They don't know where you are. But get a hardware wallet. Keep it under your mattress, or stuffed inside your underwear. Pretty damn safe.


Every marriage has ups and downs. It's the make up sex that makes it all worth while.


Welcome!


So Lightning Labs had a company profile on the WEF site but were never listed as a partner. It is true the WEF creates profiles on random companies without necessarily consulting them.

However Yuga is listed as an official WEF partner alongside all the megacorps. To be on that list you have to drop a few mil on joining the Davos gang.

The CEO's response was to troll people who called them out on it, so they ain't denying anything.

And they are based on Ethereum whose creator is so deep into the WEF he literally eats crickets on Twitter so no one should be surprised 😂


Same. This whole vision of using unique tokens to track all purchases (supply chains, real estate, etc) is literally a WEF wet dream. Jpegs are just the beta test.


Half price ape jpegs for good citizens with a social credit score of at least 800! USDC payments only!


Reminder: Linux is free!

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Agreed 100%! Make the internet cypherpunk again!


I'm not here on Nostr because I run away from Twitter. I'm here because I'm in search for an internet as it once used to be.

I'm a hacker who fucking hates that social media is in the hands of private companies. I remember using IRC and meeting likeminded anons online. I remember what the internet utopia felt like. People who didn't care what your name or status is, people who aren't interested in sharing their boring holiday pics with random strangers online. I'm not interested in what politicians and influencers have to say. I don't care about the latest mainstream trend that's going viral.

I want random weird interesting smart people around me who share their ideas in a free and open space that isn't controlled by anyone.

That's all I'm looking for. There aren't many such spaces on the internet.


And not to mention all the fake paper wealth like the $1 quadrillion derivatives market, which is the same speculative Wall Street bullshit that drove the 2008 financial crisis (CDOs, synthetic CDOs, etc...) simply can't happen when you have a foundation of sound money.

This is the greatest power of Bitcoin imo. In this way it really can bring the money back under control of the people, not the banking cartel.


Jpeg flippers are now #WEF partners 🤡🤡🤡
 https://image.nostr.build/c73bb379c21d05fdd4fcf527577a9b2e3e5e9866e2d75e06b9e4efdb38f07e04.jpg

https://www.weforum.org/organizations/yuga-labs/


We have new stuff. Not much tested yet, so feedback is welcome:

1) Iris Docs — https://docs.iris.to

Proof-of-concept collaborative text editor and simple canvas on Nostr. Recently also added a chat, so might rename to Iris Apps?

https://void.cat/d/Po8kXtpo116x3enNczizPP.webp

2) IrisDB — https://github.com/irislib/irisdb

Extensively used by Iris Docs. Tree-like data structure on Nostr.

Build wikis, marketplace apps, games and other decentralized applications where users can choose whose edits they want to see (e.g. followed users, extended social network or specific group).

Enables science fiction stuff like deleting & unliking posts, or editing a user profile or list of users without risking overwriting the whole thing with an out-of-sync version.

Use a filesystem-like interface to create all kinds of applications on Nostr without having to define obscure event kinds for each purpose.

Has simple & powerful useLocalState and usePublicState hooks for React applications.

3) npm create iris@latest — https://github.com/irislib/iris-docs

A template that quickly gets you started with Nostr & IrisDB web application development. with dev tools and basic components like login, settings or avatar. Built on Iris Docs — remove the parts you don't need. Decentralize everything!

https://void.cat/d/DeLzMtoFj2TgHXQVvvGsPV.webp


If you use Ubuntu or another distro based on it or Debian, the repos will serve up outdated versions of many apps including Kleopatra. If you look for Kleopatra builds direct from the project itself, they have recent builds, and these not only support Curve25519 but actually use it by default to generate new keys.

I use Kleopatra for most of my PGP stuff and never had a problem when using the current releases rather than the outdated repo packages.


I'm still a junior so big companies are good for gaining skills and experience. Once I have more knowledge I will go the same way as you, into a smaller company without the corporate bullshit.


Let's normalize Tor integration on Nostr.


Was a good episode though, he spent most of it mocking shitcoins and SBF 😂


😂😂😂

#JimCramer #MadMoney

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/jim_kramer_best_of.mp4


You can also create a modern Curve25519 key using Kleopatra GUI which is much more accessible for normies. Needs to be a recent version though. The one provided by Gpg4Win supports it. On the Linux side though, gotta avoid distro repos as usual.


Ledger is a bad recommendation for a hardware wallet with their closed source nature and multiple recent security blunders.

Trezor, Jade, Seed Signer all better options.


Got multiple DMs asking how to create a Nostr bot like nostr:npub150zg3mqeqmz4dthsjncvflvwadua66gfhtw4qz3sxg60ym3n767suqr564 or nostr:npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr.

All the code along with a write up is on GitHub!

https://github.com/xannythepleb/nostr-quote-bot


Really excited to see it! Your excellent UX combined with no Apple restrictions will be amazing.


Tiny11builder - Scripts to build a trimmed-down Windows 11 image
https://github.com/ntdevlabs/tiny11builder

 > Scripts to build a trimmed-down Windows 11 image - now in PowerShell! Tiny11 builder, now completely overhauled. After more than a year (for which I am so sorry) of no updates, tiny11 builder is now a much more complete and flexible solution - one script fits all. Also, it is a steppingstone for an even more fleshed-out solution. You can now use it on ANY Windows 11 release (not just a specific build), as well as ANY language or architecture. This is made possible thanks to the much-improved scripting capabilities of PowerShell, compared to the older Batch release. Since it is written in PowerShell, make sure to set the execution policy to Unrestricted, so that you could run the script. If you haven't done this before, make sure to run: Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted as administrator in PowerShell before running the script, otherwise it would just crash. This is a script created to automate the build of a streamlined Windows 11 image, similar to tiny11. My main goal is to use only Microsoft utilities like DISM, and no utilities from external sources. The only executable included is oscdimg.exe, which is provided in the Windows ADK and it is used to create bootable ISO images. Also included is an unattended answer file, which is used to bypass the Microsoft Account on OOBE and to deploy the image with the /compact flag. It's open-source, so feel free to add or remove anything you want! Feedback is also much appreciated.


Uhhh 🤯 https://image.nostr.build/56495b300256857be691c163f74a9440c222ccec7dd9d387be4e07ea704dea8c.jpg


Hope so! It'd be pretty ideal if I could find work elsewhere asap since I'd get my severance + a continuing salary both at once, leaving me with a decent amount to invest in corn and still having enough to treat myself.


There's also regulatory risk for handling Bitcoin payments though. They'd have to comply with various KYC laws in all the markets they operate in too. I think from their POV they'd see Bitcoin adoption as a bigger risk.

Not saying that's my belief. Just that it's a tradfi based business and that's how they will see it.

If they did implement Bitcoin it'd likely be through a centralised payment processor that could convert their commission to fiat.


Yeah def still expecting to interview. Hoping I get more eyes on my application rather than it getting lost in the pile. Thx for the input, hopefully it works out like that for me too.


If you work for FAANG or some other big tech company:

Do referrals actually mean anything? Seen a lot of conflicting info on this, with some saying it makes sure an actual human looks at your application, while others say it makes no difference at all.

I'm talking about referrals from managers I actually know, not low level employees selling em on LinkedIn or something.


Thank you man 🫂


Thank you man really appreciate it.

Already got an interview and only just started sending out applications so hopefully something works out.

Lots of competition right now with mass layoffs everywhere though. So 🤞🤞🤞


I definitely don't trust him just as I don't trust Zuck or Elon. But the questioning from the senator could have dug into these interesting avenues of questioning instead of "yo are you working for the CCP?"

He was able to come off really well here because the bar was set very low.


I have a GitHub for setting one up.

https://github.com/xannythepleb/nostr-quote-bot


Sorry I've been away from you wonderful plebs. Real stressful time in my life. Good news? I own a home. Bad news? I lost my fiat mine.


Framework is looking to expand beyond laptops... I really hope there is an upgradable Framework Android phone in the works, esp if it has an unlockable bootloader 👀

Their laptops are amazing btw.

nostr:nevent1qqs9kejpfwy0rgkppz5y43ty5kcuphls4qfpenp7rn336x6w8tcgshqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzqem5yg73kxwuz4z5wvatw4v6ehsay87l8l5myefvgc78ltd39szzqvzqqqqqqydphtlp


Your LN address is 404ing btw
 https://image.nostr.build/36126fc64fae2fb00ad56bab7f6fd31e979c5245e98b83bdb6df4b8eb5412296.jpg


Thank You Elizabeth Warren🙏🏼 #Bitcoin https://video.nostr.build/a1f3d0521c864e02bbbf8177b483e4965fec034de719ecbce2d4aa5ae01ec152.mp4


In theory yes. In practice it won't because it wants to take 50% commissions from sales which no one will put up with if they can make decentralised P2P payments.


At the #Bitcoin halving there will be no bailouts.
https://m.primal.net/HwuA.jpg


Reminder 👀

#FollowTheMoney

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/GPT_bil_nw.jpg
https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/GPT_avg_nw.jpg


https://image.nostr.build/02e028eeea36e678e7bc62f0bb4c257ec9e723e580a42fd8d79c059bf32c0d62.jpg
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Delicious 👌
 https://image.nostr.build/781aac657e7befbadf56ec1bbb62a806c1eb9a90f51bbbce73345bc445cffe51.jpg


Cock soup 😂

https://image.nostr.build/9c6928289116c5ccdf6494a6feed83d512802d99d38a2f3a2b819db5b79e9814.jpg


US Senate questioning the Singaporean TikTok CEO 😂

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/TikTok_Singapore.mp4


You mean on behalf of OpenAI to stop the detectors from working? Absolutely.

Just found it funny these companies claiming to detect AI content and even charging for that service just can't do it as long as you do very basic prompt engineering (literally just tell it to write in a different style to what it normally does).


Am UK but no it's not full of selling. There's obviously ads you can just swipe past. But the actual content I see is mostly amateur comedy skits, YouTube clips, standup comedy clips, fun facts and science, true crime, investment, conspiracies (would def get Zucked on IG), and random shit like that.

Algo needs time to learn your preferences but once it does it shows more of what you pay attention to.

And yes guys I know the issues of algorithmic social media, ofc, but TikTok does have good content.


Makes a huge difference. What did you get? I have Sony WH1000-XM4's as my mains and despite being more "prosumer" they're very very good and you can really appreciate high res lossless too especially through the AUX.


AI detectors are still very very easy to fool, at least as far as text is concerned.

This "100% human" text was straight copy/pasted from ChatGPT. Did not edit it or use the "humanise" option.

Six AI detectors including, hilariously, OpenAI itself, reported this as 100% human.

Only two reported it might be ~50% AI, 50% human.

Again it is 100% written by ChatGPT with zero modifications 😂

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/undetectable_ai.PNG


And no one is surprised...

https://www.autoblog.com/2024/03/14/americans-faith-in-self-driving-cars-has-tanked-aaa-study-suggests/


I've moved outside of London sadly mate.


Wow nostr:npub18kpw3akvdsyk239lx0jgwksr74sq4nlha3r8u9g2rnrhztfpfhysy469c4 thank you for that 21k zap!!!


Bitcoiners are the highest form of weaponised autism


Got a few hundred of these to deploy... nostr:npub18kpw3akvdsyk239lx0jgwksr74sq4nlha3r8u9g2rnrhztfpfhysy469c4

 https://image.nostr.build/187390a8f1d8c336f333bb383b9f190281a9e641a2fbc949e0fe8af53affaf50.jpg


satoshi will be the first trillionaire


😮 at this rate Bitcoin will do a flippening on gold ETFs within months. I still rather own real Bitcoin but this is impressive.
 https://image.nostr.build/74909c94416bcd4194b5ab848960167b05c30380d48094344bf64bb9dbe3b7dc.jpg


Choose Freedom over KYC 😎


Okay I've not joined the Primal hate but this is some straight KYC shit...

nostr:nevent1qqs0mjrdsyq3vwyrejxwyjjwar53r5p6jntjp665xqhw9ljy5j3q8dcpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcpzqlng7ffalchhjdayphmk43lt4evevmrqvl78qdedf2hfjkyjkapjqvzqqqqqqy8kt83e


CONSUMERISM KEEPS YOU POOR AND JEFF BEZOS RICH


Boeing whistleblower Epsteined? 🤔🤔🤔

> In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company.

> It said the 62-year-old had died from a "self-inflicted" wound on 9 March and police were investigating.

https://image.nostr.build/b9f501ac28f2074d591f31d59e2dafaba7bce79b27b76d938b0c981d6628c52b.jpg

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534703


#TaxationIsTheft

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/public_transport_taxes.MP4


I'm starting to think this Bitcoin thing might just be around to stay... 🤔😂


Oct. 1963: JFK threatens to Dismantle the CIA. Nov. 1963: JFK Assasinated. May 1968: Robert Kennedy says he'll remove the CIA if elected. June 1968: Bobby assassinated. May. 1974: Nixon says he'll end the CIA. Aug. 1974: Nixon forced to resign. Who controls our Government?


“The road to serfdom is working exponentially harder for a currency that is growing exponentially weaker.” - Michael Saylor


“Fiat is broken, and you can’t fix it. Bitcoin works, and you can’t break it.” - Lina Seiche


Sound on
 https://video.nostr.build/9d4c5ccb7d578b4efbe2e389674d0b80202e7b40fb0d935c42847ce6aa56874e.mp4


Hope he follows through on this. Open source AI is important.

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You can play with models that have the "safe guards" removed on Hugging Face 👌


I feel you goody2, I feel you https://i.nostr.build/8RAG.jpg


Me: #Bitcoin to the moon!

Also me: Waaaait a min not yet I don't have enough!


#JimCramer looking at the $BTC price today! https://image.nostr.build/33c0655b54337c299dd1dda417eeb08293960575957c634543e9fdfc59e9d3aa.jpg


#Signal now hides phone numbers by default and lets you set a username on both #Android and #iOS 👀👀👀

#privacy #security

https://www.signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/


https://image.nostr.build/27b9cf6dea7a61faf67b678486f2d61b1dcb918fa27847f90fb01a1854d5d17a.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 834,184 🤙💜


Gm
 https://image.nostr.build/22556c57cf359bc503e88533eb99f473129a67b76f01a405b44da64b7c55bcde.jpg


Happy Cypherpunk Manifesto Day ✊
Thanks and massive respect to the legends who saw/see the future and worked/work so hard to build the tools they knew/know we’d need 🧡 https://i.nostr.build/ak0y.jpg https://i.nostr.build/xDPk.jpg https://i.nostr.build/Y6W2.jpg https://i.nostr.build/w5lr.jpg https://i.nostr.build/34Jm.jpg


This is fucking brilliant 😂😂😂

https://www.goody2.ai/


Caring about race is the dumbest thing that has ever happened. I will not listen to any of it. We all get along. Don’t let the govt convince you that you hate your neighbor. nostr:note165dtpxxsuqr5pm5rrhlpxjxn8leypjrkxaz6vs90yd6wjg0kurdsx4l0e4


Passports are a shitcoin.

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You vill own nothing and you vill be happy!

https://image.nostr.build/4625ffef23786fe4149da1bfe186ff7a6cb6331fb7a5fff7fd00d4d2138b867b.jpg

https://www.wired.com/story/hp-all-in-plan-printer-subscription-service/


God bless you my friend for telling the truth. The truth is an unpopular and dangerous thing.


“Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.” - John McAfee


New ATH holy fuuuuck!!!


“Every government explains its existence, and justifies its deeds of violence, by the argument that if it did not exist the condition of things would be very much worse.” - Leo Tolstoy


Must watch this
🇺🇸 US Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr says "Transactional freedom is as important as freedom of speech, and you only get that from Bitcoin" 🙌

#Bitcoin #btc #stackharder #zap
2 minutes

https://video.nostr.build/6f147e6680977b66f63db005f47252e97390faf009567adc76f5defa8bcdd97d.mp4


Succession is really good. First season at least.

Pretty realistic too, never met anyone from old money who is happy, it's all politics, sad.


Megabytes are a tax on time


Indeed we do. But I suddenly see a lot of red dots when that VPN is on. Many others don't play nice. I suspect they're on a default Cloudflare config.


Too many NIP-05 identity providers block VPNs


Some of my zaps didn't show up on Nostr before I setup wallet connect. Now it seems to work 100%. Not sure if this is just the UX on my side though.

Mostly using Amethyst on GrapheneOS here. I have the Primal Android app too but Amethyst is still my go to since it has all the features.


“You can literally get KYC-free bitcoin by starting a nostr and saying something amazing that people like”

- #[0]

We’re in the right place 💜


Sometimes I meme. 🫡

Bitcoin haters will have no recollection in the future. https://video.nostr.build/dd99fb5df7370b2e38933d34e75e9c4a9f8240ceaef3c184a3b24b06f7102bcd.mp4


Pretty good tbh. In the UK we get clean ket. Cheap too. Tenner a gram off the darknet.

Gives my brain a bit of a kick and reset at a time when it's needed.


I got respect for that. You're paying for the quality and feel of something you probably use most days of your life.

Paying that for a bit of rubbery plastic with a fruit logo on it, though, would just be regarded.


Thank you, I hope so too. A lot of uncertainty right now but I pray for a positive outcome. I will make a positive outcome happen. No other way for a human to look at life.


Same


The beauty of nostr is that you don’t have to do anything, or be anyone to be here. Setting arbitrary rules on how you think people should act on here is hypocritical.


Kind of fucked up shit going on in my life right now is the kind of thing that makes you stand up and look at yourself in the mirror, question what kind of person you really are... prove to yourself that you really are what you think you are.

I don't give up that easy.

I'll talk about this less cryptically on Nests or something after it's resolved probably.

I hope so. I love you plebs.


Can't beat the real physical feedback can you?


TIL about Keychron... 👀

I do like mechanical keyboards. Might have to get one for my home office setup soon.


I got the Apple case free with my used iPad off eBay 👌


Pablo Xannybar

The one and only.
BTC. XMR. Freedom maxi.
Say no to CBDCs and digital ID.
#FreeRoss
#McAfeeDidntKillHimself


My brother in Christ it is a keyboard https://image.nostr.build/84ff95a4a0c3c4f7c3ab7539e746a1e6ff2d9f4dda1591cd416911adcc164dbc.jpg


I think Bitcoin and gold will both remain the two soundest forms of wealth and safe harbour there is. It's like yin and yang. Bitcoin for the digital world. Gold for the physical.


Stay humble at $60k

Stay humble at $100k

Stay humble as fiat dies and Bitcoin flies


CNN leak shows internal distress about double standards on Israel coverage

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39565115 )

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/01/cnn-christiane-amanpour-israel-gaza-coverage/


Doing lines of ket

Zapping pics of cats


hodl for how long?
bitcoin is useless if you don’t spend it


Don't let them sell you a phone on your face.

It's a data collection device.

Don't let them sell you a phone in your head.

It's a data collection device.

https://image.nostr.build/0485cc113d1623cfeeeb4a7c7e9ad4ae9fa0359007549689a4d00676a41f91db.jpg


Slowly then all at once https://image.nostr.build/0e1f4da4969e44955511e5b6facac8ff525caa028fb556a9380935c5a54bfd71.jpg


Way too relevant rn

https://image.nostr.build/c40bbb750f63508f5ff7cdea5f35adee2f17caf78427619c153f12d5f486e549.jpg


Is it a coincidence that "online harms" laws are being forced through worldwide just as every country is preparing for war? 🤔

You gotta control the narrative for the propaganda to work.


Farmers break through police roadblocks in Brussels 🔥

https://v.nostr.build/kMB6.mp4


Wartime is exactly when governments inflate their currencies - the Vietnam war was a primary factor in the collapse of Bretton Woods - and as a result is exactly when the people seek to protect their wealth by investing in safe harbour assets such as gold and, in the modern digital era, Bitcoin will likely serve this purpose for many as well.


As an extension of this: LLMs lower the barrier to entry for more complex challenges, which could allow more average coders to effectively produce the same results as senior engineers as the models evolve.

In this scenario employers will have less incentive to hire as many expensive senior engineers when average ones with AI can meet the KPIs for much less cost.

This obviously makes assumptions about how good generative AI will get (it's absolutely not at this level yet) but they're reasonable assumptions given the evolution we've already seen in a short period of time.

It's also logical to assume that employers will seek to lower staff costs wherever they can, especially large publicly traded companies answering to Wall Street analysts.


BREAKING: The naked emperor’s old clothes. The Euro lost 99,35% against #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/7ee77679cfcd59d95d085122bbc203a4fa94015ee450f5ca8743c5be8b94536f.jpg


True currently. But models are rapidly advancing. This time next year we will look back and laugh at how primitive today's generative AI is.


“War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.” - Randolph Bourne


https://image.nostr.build/f5208e6f06fed5ef2d7edefc1df8e1e9a733e1bbfdd5a5babb110db2f5d1cd9e.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 832,143 🤙💜


I'm now convinced Covid lockdowns were just an experiment to see how easy it is to manipulate the population in preparation for the statist wartime propaganda and military recruitment that we are now seeing.


“You can’t force an agenda, you have to inspire one”


Fun fact:

The close button in most lifts (elevators) doesn't actually do anything.


Google Gemini is even worse 😂

It's actually an interesting test because some puzzles ChatGPT is really really good at.

https://image.nostr.build/e7547c1d4412973376c4ce77a87f081a498f6edf158231a4c1da8b31d56b1451.jpg

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What app is that?


"because terrorists, children and pedophiles" 🫠

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ChatGPT is excellent at image recognition but terrible at Wheel of Fortune

https://image.nostr.build/fcc60f69974164c8bf1b0bdd9e7b0c2dfc4eccc519bda09465ce5f45fbc57567.jpg


We snoop onto them as they snoop onto us


Awwwww


the State is not afraid of 'misinformation' on the internet. they are afraid of the truth.


New Amethyst build dropped that looks like it might fix some of the main bugs:

> Refactors clickable text and notification feed filter


“If government will not instill discipline, markets will. The dollar will collapse into worthlessness.” - Patrick Barron


Was gonna shut off my laptop but someone in Poland is downloading a torrent at around 20kb/s and I'm the only seeder so I'mma leave it on all night


“[The cloud is] stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign. Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.” - Richard Stallman


“Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.” - Ayn Rand


With Apple up to their old bullshit again I feel like bringing this back 😅

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Apologies if this came across aggressive btw, wasn't meant to be. I enjoy debates especially over topics as interesting and subjective as philosophy 🙂


It's actually a pretty broad quote from Zarathustra. I've read Zarathustra as well as everything else Nietzsche published. The overarching theme here is one of encouraging individuality and creativity to triumph over conformity and mediocrity.

Nietzsche attacked society and traditional values, but he aimed much criticism squarely at those who influenced and enforced those things: namely, Christianity and the State.

Remember, Zarathustra is also the source of the famous quote: "Everything the state says is a lie, and everything it has, it has stolen."

Also: “State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people’.”

Another: “The state wants to be absolutely the most important beast on earth; and it is believed to be so, too!”

These quotes, like the one in the OP, are all from Zarathustra, so I think this paints a pretty clear view of the context.


They were too busy fudding it and hoping it would disappear.

We're now in the stage where they know it's adapt or die.

It is a function of capitalist markets that market participants will opt for sound money, therefore the laws of supply and demand apply to monetary systems, and the laws of supply and demand are absolute.


Inevitable result of the Covid lockdowns. Average people lost jobs. Top 1% got richer.

Total coincidence I'm sure.


I know I shared the notes these images are from already, but they seriously belong together. This is why #Bitcoin right here.

https://image.nostr.build/90b902e3344f8a42106d9bc91838ba239cbe283f100f399b164ab45ec3c312b7.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/08d489052e4fb401ee746d3b986b8cdd6ea88923ac6ebd23bad32c9fa4764aec.jpg


Damn. https://image.nostr.build/c1ab2ffb989eaf8fec757a840ade4fe46ca51971f7385277ea33c18c6258188a.jpg


Friedrich Nietzsche was the most prolific and influential anti-statist of the past few centuries. Highly recommended reading fr.

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I think the fault is shared here. The EU ruling makes no sense, but the case only exists because Apple insists on such a strict walled garden to begin with.

Basically fuck em both.


This is cool, Unifi finally updated their firmware to support WireGuard clients, no more OpenVPN needed to use the built in VPN client.

Just loaded up WG configs for Mullvad in there.


OpenAI, although I also have access to Azure deployments of the same models.

Google Gemini is also worth a look. It's not very good at more complex tasks yet but it is good at summarizing info and linking sources.


Definitely understand the desire to keep things local rather than on someone else's computer.

When I am in a position to rebuild my home lab I may well revisit this.


I know. I've used Graphene ever since it was Copperhead.

I do think this particular feature could be implemented in a way that is easier to troubleshoot if you are a privacy conscious user who needs some flexibility from split tunnelling and so on.

There is not even a notification to let the user know always on is the default behaviour. I think a notification with the option to disable it if it's not needed would be a good addition to the UX.


I can one up that 😉

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I can't unfortunately, I've been learning by using LLMs, they're really fuckin good at this type of thing, learning new knowledge. Just remember to tell it to show you sources so you can verify what it tells you is correct. GPT-4 is usually very good these days though :)


#Android #OPSEC protip:

If you use GrapheneOS, the system level always on #VPN feature is enabled by default if you install a new VPN app.

While there's security reasons for this, it breaks split tunnelling and can cause other unexpected bugs that can be hard to troubleshoot if you don't know what's going on.

If any #GrapheneOS devs are watching this, a notification telling the user this is enabled and a setting to disable this automatic behaviour would be great, especially since the setting to disable always on VPN is buried in menus.

To disable the always on VPN feature for your VPN app on Graphene open the network settings > VPN then hit the gear icon and disable always on VPN.

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/VPN_1.png

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/VPN_2.png


"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Friedrich Nietzsche


Assuming you don't have any hardware damage to your LCD, this looks like a graphics driver issue.

If you boot from a live image does it work okay?


My new hobby is reading about quantum mechanics and attempting to understand it. The vast range of possible implications of all these insane unknowns about the very functioning of our entire universe is insane.

The fact atoms and molecules exist in superpositions that change when observed and we can only theorise about exactly why.

The fact many of these discoveries look almost like software bugs.

The fact this allows for the possibility (albeit currently unfalsifiable) that both the multiverse theory and simulation theory are true.

Shit actually blows my mind man and I'm not even stoned.


Usually man if you have serious malware on your computer these days, you wouldn't even notice it until it's too late.

I can give suggestions on good OPSEC practice but I can't really troubleshoot things like this especially on Windows simply because I lack experience with it.


I am making memes today.
https://image.nostr.build/6d29d4a5e7a65917504d6ee127ef828c7e8ec51bd8ed70a79d84e4a16089cc85.jpg


#privacytechpro tip: non kyc #btc + #monero is good stuff for privacy. period.

btc maxis, i suggest allowing for a private by default companion currency to bitcoin with a very different purpose (store of value vs private currency)...while #lightning and ecash grow.

#cybersecgirl


Try out Primal in the browser, that's my go to for desktop.

No idea about the watchdog thing. Guessing you don't mean the game? 😅


I don't unfortunately. I really want to, but I don't wanna lose all my passwords if I fuck up my home server. But Bitwarden is open source and end-to-end encrypted so I trust it enough (or rather, I don't have to trust it too much).


Stop using it. It sounds like it has relay issues, and if it broadcasts any changes to your relay list it would cause problems in other clients too.


Definitely it's a relay issue.

OP, add more relays and you'll notice your following showing up again.


If even China can't ban it the inept EU has no chance 😂


GM Nostr ☕

The trend is clear.
https://nostrfiles.dev/uploads/4uwPzG4Lq2KNRKtFiLd9.jpg


I use Bitwarden already. It generates long five word passphrases for me.


Sounds like a problem with the client connecting to relays correctly.


Bitcoin fixes this 😁

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Legit a useful reminder now I'm back on the Addies cheers nostr:npub1qqqqpht69e2vw7jjzgm629hwlvw5rheeq3afceyg95zmepxf6enqe5mx92

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#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 830,675 🤙💜


It's a half truth... corporate greed no, but banker greed yes (credit expansion).


US government wanting to censor miners when most miners are not even in the US lol


White and orange makes the text stand out way more to the eye, the contrast between black and white is very strong.


European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption 🇪🇺

https://www.eureporter.co/world/human-rights-category/european-court-of-human-rights-echr/2024/02/14/european-court-of-human-rights-bans-weakening-of-secure-end-to-endencryption-the-end-of-eus-chat-control-csar-mass-surveillance-plans/


Zaps seem to be working fully in #Amethyst with Alby wallet connect setup.

🤞🤞🤞


🔵 Blue wants to fund a forever war in Ukraine.

🔴 Red wants to fund a forever war in the Middle East.

🟠 Orange wants to end wars forever.


Hmm, zapping from Primal on Android with Alby wallet connect isn't working, that's a problem 😔

https://m.primal.net/HdGg.png


🇦🇺 It's the weekend 😎

Time to fuck around and find out

Whilst the tx fees are low:
- tidy up your wallets
- open/close ⚡ channels
- consolidate & join utxo's
- experiment with:
-- Replace By Fee (RBF)
-- Child Pays For Parent (CPFP)
-- Mempool's Accelerator

Get comfortable with tools you may need later whilst its cheap to learn this weekend .. in short:

Fuck around and Find out 🔥

Avagoodweegend 🧡


Wealth redistribution happening naturally with sound money 😌

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“Those who fear men like laws.” - Luc de Clapiers


I do use Proton with custom domains and it works well. Can't speak for Skiff but I'm curious how they stack up.


Well it hasn't crashed once yet so true 😂

I have to say I respect Primal's approach of NOT "moving fast and breaking things."

They don't have all the features because they're making sure it all works first.


Web client feels further ahead in development. Android app feels a bit glitchy. Most of the settings still missing. etc.

Looking forward to seeing what comes of it in the future but I don't think it's ready for daily use yet.


Notifications keep disappearing in #Primal for Android 🤔


Testing out the Primal Android app. Very clean and smooth UX.


😬 https://image.nostr.build/40d8b19486dfd42ed1d1b8904d24149376d2ba70ebeeef4555b15ee6d94881bd.jpg


Can I get some context on this?


Ohh I'm gonna check Spring out. Sounds great for discovery. Love the pace of development from this community. Really want to contribute to some projects myself once work and personal shit calms down a little.

Agreed 100% about Amethyst. I stuck with it despite the instability because it has all the features. I likely will keep it installed but use another client with fewer features and more reliability as my daily driver.


Very easy to onboard people to it as well. Just install and generate an ID. Boom. Done. It's become surprisingly popular in multiple circles of less techie people who want some anonymity for this reason.


Yes exactly. You can do this on the Mullvad Android app too in the settings. I use it on mobile to exclude banking apps from the VPN otherwise they can get weird and lock me out.

You should be able to do the same on any platform except for iOS... Apple has locked it down so you can't do split tunnelling on the device.


Btw here is the Amethyst crash thread I mentioned. It mentions Graphene but it happens on all Android devices I tried it on.

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Thx for letting me know they tried to tag me!

Sadly the Amethyst crashing bug has been there for a long long time now.


Lmk what mobile client you land on, I've been meaning to branch out myself. You're far from the only one to have that crashing issue. Was a long thread of people with the exact same complaint just last week. I can find it if you want.

I've been out the loop for a bit due to irl shit so not even sure what Spring is. I know Amber is a signer so you don't need to put your nsec into apps, right?

I'm gonna test drive Primal for a bit.


What are you trying next? Amethyst has been unstable for a while, slows down before it crashes so feels like a memory leak. I know a lot of extra dev work has gone into Primal recently, might check out their mobile client.


> wtf is wrong with this guy

He has a blue tick 😂


Interesting development to keep an eye on:
https://media.procial.tchncs.de/media/thumbnail-2b5e504c-4fc8-4ea9-b70d-7888b7d8ddc4.webp

#nginx #freenginx #foss


Thanks for sharing. Communities > corporations. I'll keep an eye on this fork.


Definitely

https://image.nostr.build/554ad916470d02ebacd811a650d520c8de5cb7ccb605aaff0aa5463abecc5389.jpg


This illegal in France now? 🤔

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Telegram is at least half-decent even if it's cloud based. I tend to use Signal for peeps I know (and can convince) or Session for people who care but I wanna stay anon with.


It is satisfying haha!

I sadly pretty much have to use WhatsApp because it's become the standard instead of SMS here, but I use contact scopes permission in Graphene so it only sees the numbers I want it to.


I like setting up split tunnelling at the router level so that for example all BitTorrent traffic always goes through the router even if I forget to connect on the device itself. Especially useful for things like Stremio on smart TVs or streaming sticks.


Same. I used to run a Matrix server implementation (pretty sure it was lighter than Synapse) running on a RaspPi 4. Was a fun project but I just never used it.


“Bitcoin number go up means state power go down.” - Stephen Cole


Loving it so far but I'll see how I get on with it over the next month. I'll try get it running on my Unifi router too.


I used to run an XMPP server, had fun with it, but sadly hardly anyone else I knew used it.

If it was more widely used I'd definitely jump on it again. Conversations in particular has OMEMO E2EE on by default too. It's based on the Signal Protocol iirc.

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Testing out Mullvad VPN
Impressed so far
Simple, private, fast, FOSS clients.


Finally getting around to updating this bot with new quotes!

Later today I'll fix the NIP-05, just a config change I forgot a while back.

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Yes. It's on the IzzyOnDroid repo. Which is good because the official F-Droid one is slowwww at pushing updates.


I am posting this from Amethyst on GrapheneOS right now. Works great. I get updates from Obtainium. There's a build without Google services but it still shows notifications if you want them.


We don't indeed. But even despite the huge clash, it didn't cause massive drama on Nostr like that GitHub issue. Which is funny when the core userbases of fedi and Bluesky are basically the same.

Also worth noting, on semi-decentralised federated social media like Mastodon, you can block entire instances. So even with this bridge you could block entire domains because you don't like some users on it. Happens all the time on Mastodon.

We lack that filter here, we just have to block the entire fedi bridge from our feeds, which is actually a shame because there are chill people on there I still follow on Nostr. A lot of them run their own instances. Usually Pleroma rather than Mastodon tho. Same protocol, Pleroma is just cheaper to host, more customisable, and is usually where based people hang out.

Ironically the people you really don't want (actual Nazis and shit) are more likely to use Mastodon just to troll.


Love getting my hands on those older enterprise laptops. Most companies seem to throw em out after only 4-5 years. Still plenty of life in them especially on Linux. Enjoy the machines.


“If people are saying, look, we gotta ban Bitcoin because it's somewhat anonymous and anonymous transactions can occur, or because it's possible for criminals to use it, all of those arguments can be used to say, just ban dollars.” - Jared Polis


“It must be remembered that an army is not a field upon which persons with Utopian ideas may exercise their political theories, but a weapon for the defence of the State.” - Winston Churchill


“I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.” - George Carlin


Meanwhile Nostr has had an ActivityPub bridge for ages and it's caused very little drama despite them being very different communities.

This is funny though because I've used both Mastodon and Bluesky and the userbases are practically identical 😂

Both are just full of woke shit. So much infighting in that group 😂


You are 100% right. In fact despite my frustrations, I consider it bullish. They've been trying to sell the "Bitcoin is for criminals" line ever since Silk Road got bust in 2013. The market clearly doesn't care. But they clearly have no other cards to play at this point.


Very sorry to hear.


People like Gary Gensler still talking as if Bitcoin is the go to medium of exchange for black market activities in 2024 are absolute clowns.

I can tell you, and anyone who uses DNMs will back me up, no darknet market today wants to accept Bitcoin. Many don't even provide it as an option.

Black market operators like privacy coins for OPSEC reasons. Fact. And where do darknet vendors get their supply? From black market wholesalers who want cash. Untraceable fiat currency.

I'm an agorist so I'm not saying this to badmouth privacy, just venting because I see clowns like Gary Gensler talking about how Bitcoin is used by criminals. No it is not. No criminal wants their entire transaction history public forever.


Some good push back from Joe on the typical nonsense spewed about Bitcoin on these types of programs.

https://v.nostr.build/XZzl.mp4


Bitcoin is NOT the number one payment method for ransomware. That's actually Monero. Fake news. No one called him out.


Noticed an #Amethyst bug. My zaps show up when I look at all the interactions to notes, but the little zap icon doesn't turn yellow.

I used to have a bug where some zaps wouldn't show on Nostr at all and people I zapped confirmed they couldn't see those zaps, so if everyone else is seeing my zaps now this is a definite improvement, basically just a UX bug.

Just giving some troubleshooting info. Would send a PR but I'm shite at Java.

https://image.nostr.build/b78a18e00d132cb4718fec208969fe0bd747f821d328232307b26c45ffcd8029.jpg


Respect for cooling down and posting this, most people double down on shit.

This is a good community ❤


Actually agree, too much NSA involvement with NIST curves, we should use Curve25519 or Ed25519 as appropriate, but as per your last rant it is difficult to change without breaking shit at this point 😅


Nostr is not a giant shit show.  I was frustrated and that was an over the top thing for me to say.

The point was a good one though, and people writing PRs for NIPs need to keep it in mind.

What actually gets merged turns out to have a lot less breaking changes than I thought (now that I've gone through the git trying to count them). I may have overestimated.


Netflix docs are very hit and miss but I rank Take Your Pills highly. If you're curious about both the historical and contemporary use of amphetamine both medically and recreationally, it keeps you interested and provides a balanced view.

On the other end of the spectrum I watched The Most Hated Man On The Internet recently and that was utter shit. It did not need three hour long episodes. Could have been done in 30 mins and summed up with "he bragged about shit under his real name and 4chan got him" lol.


#Amethyst v0.84.1: ncryptsec support (NIP-49)

Now you can export and login with a password-protected version of your private key.

This new format starts with **ncryptsec** and requires inputting a password to decrypt the key before loading it into a client. Keep in mind that the new format is not designed to replace your **nsec**, but to work side-by-side with it. Keep your nsec in the safest place you can and use the **ncryptsec** to move your key between devices, deleting it as soon as you are done with the transfer.

New Additions:
- Adds support for NIP49 to login and back up key screens
- Adds cryptographic support for NIP-49 to Quartz
- Enables citation on chats via @
- Adds "₿itcoin" to the set of custom hashtags

Updated translations:
- Portuguese by nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6
- Hungarian by nostr:npub1ww8kjxz2akn82qptdpl7glywnchhkx3x04hez3d3rye397turrhssenvtp
- Dutch by nostr:npub1w4la29u3zv09r6crx5u8yxax0ffxgekzdm2egzjkjckef7xc83fs0ftxcd
- Chinese by nostr:npub1raspu6ag9kfcw9jz0rz4z693qwmqe5sx6jdhhuvkwz5zy8rygztqnwfhd7

Performance Improvements:
- Avoids the memory use of the flatten operation on Notification counters
- Adds a check for the main thread when pulling opengraph tags.
- No need to crossfade when clicking on Show More

Code Quality Improvements:
- Updates Compose dependencies

Download:
- [Play Edition](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.84.1/amethyst-googleplay-universal-v0.84.1.apk )
- [FOSS Edition - No translations](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.84.1/amethyst-fdroid-universal-v0.84.1.apk )


Same is true for 2 hours of conversation with the right people. #SovEng
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Finally catching up on notifications and following plebs back 🙂

I've not been ignoring you guys! I get weird bouts of anxiety where I don't check notifications properly. No idea why. Spoke about it on Nests before so I know I'm not the only one at least haha.


Usually we do but it's Valentine's yesterday innit


You truly do stay humble. Thank you for jumpstarting all this 🙏


👀👀👀

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Wtf


So, I mostly code in Python and JavaScript but I'm making an Android app.

I made a little demo app in Dart/Flutter and it works but I always seem to break things when I add features, not as easy to work with as I hoped.

But I'm not a quitter so I'm looking at frameworks like React Native and NativeScript so I can use what I know. I do want the app to work like a real native app though, not just a shitty web wrapper.

Anyone got experience with these? Are they really any good at compiling native Android apps written in JS?


As well as Bitcoin, stonks also pumping. I'm up 138% on MARA and up 180% on AMD and the profits are all tax free - no theft!

Most of my capital is allocated to BTC but I've got crazy returns from a lil diversification too 👌


Dat pussy and Dem titties tho


Just spent 200k sats on dinner, girlfriends are expensive 😂


How did you get this photo of me


With our powers united no one can stop us https://image.nostr.build/324aa4c4403b376c4595b12ba8d68209a679170dc06170319502f7f7eaa06b08.jpg


People don't WANT to believe it, this is the problem. They want to believe that "these people must know what they're doing, right?"

They don't want to face that the emperor is wearing no clothes.


The OG HomePod is legit an AMAZING speaker, the bass especially is amazing. Wish it wasn't so locked down but for the price I paid (£200 used but like new) hands down it is fuckin great man.


Now this is a gm https://image.nostr.build/6b2fd31daa43fd1ba16d482f538c86a929377c34fde3a8332ed6c8f5f2afaf4b.jpg


And no this won't just be another Bitcoin price tracker, will add a lot more data too with a sick UX, and whatever other functionality I think of, writing it in Flutter/Dart.

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What an amazing thing to see right after you get your new Bitcoin Android app working 👀

(Super alpha at the moment, dropping on GitHub and launching on IzzyOnDroid when it's ready for beta!)

https://image.nostr.build/d9d27b3dc6a58d4e1691a0fdf7fecd51d837b076d8d1a7c648a41b49b6028f17.jpg


50k 50k 50k 🚀🚀🚀

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"No war, no money. The organizing of principle of any society is for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers."

JFK (1991)

https://video.nostr.build/97e0cec2288b6d8f9cd9533ebd0e0183bc420bcb442d746570b4722a4a9bf37a.mp4


nostr:npub1alpha9l6f7kk08jxfdaxrpqqnd7vwcz6e6cvtattgexjhxr2vrcqk86dsn built a Chrome browser extension that adds a forum to every website on the internet.

https://satcom.app/

It's also open source:

https://github.com/jinglescode/web-content-conversation

Bit-aloo who's working on https://gitlab.com/walletscrutiny/nostr-opinion-plugin just sent me the link. Digging into it to see if there is some synergies or standards to be developed.


Gemini Advanced (Google's GPT-4 competitor) is definitely still a beta product at least where code is concerned, but the extra functionality it has (e.g. it actually reads URLs you give it) looks very promising once it's had more time to mature and more training done.

Another thing it really does well is constantly update itself with new information rapidly, whereas ChatGPT only has a limited Bing integration, Gemini is hooked right into all the Google services APIs.

This means if you ask random obscure questions like what model of car someone in an episode of a random TV show is driving, Gemini is much more likely to have an answer since it does more than skim a couple links from Bing when the answer isn't in the training data.

Basically it looks really promising and has potential, but it's far from a ChatGPT killer in its current state. However, it probably doesn't surprise you that when it comes to looking up obscure facts, Google's LLM makes for a better search engine.

For more advanced tasks like code generation though, despite Google flexing increased complexity, GPT-4 still way excels Gemini based on my tests.


These brownies are good and Jack Whitehall's new standup thing on Netflix is fucking hilarious


The UK is sadly infamous for "libel tourism" for exactly this reason, it is way too easy to use libel laws for fear and intimidation here and way too costly to defend yourself.

You're effectively put in a situation where if you're sued for libel you must prove your innocence.

The real kicker is this is after libel law was reformed in 2013 to try and stop this. Made fuck all difference as this story demonstrates.


On Amethyst the zap icon turns orange instantly if you zap a note usually. And it's seemingly random when it doesn't. It doesn't show on the list of zaps for that note either nor does it get updated when the app is restarted.

That's why I'm wondering if some metadata is just not being correctly propagated through relays or something, because the actual zaps work, they just don't show on Nostr.


I should do it this too tbh, the Phoenix fees are stupid for small transactions. I'll setup wallet connect.


Wait actually no, it can't be that because zaps from others are showing, so maybe it's relay related or something? Hence it being random. 🤔


I'm guessing it's probably an event type some LN addresses don't respond with metadata for (that the invoice was paid) or something along those lines if it happens in different setups then.

But yeah at least I know the sats were actually zapped on Lightening.


Okay I just zapped someone from #Amethyst with #Phoenix, the sats sent but the zap doesn't show on Nostr. I restarted both apps, zapped again, same thing happened again.

Zapped someone else this morning and it worked perfectly fine.

Both times I'm using a solid WiFi connection not mobile data.

The zap that didn't show was to a WoS address. Dunno if that's relevant.

Zaps are set to public by default in Amethyst.

I just cleared the cache of Amethyst and Phoenix, made no difference.

Anyone have any insight into this?


For context re: Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre and why there should be no mercy.

My life changed completely on March 29th, 2019. Almost five years ago now.

I had made several tweets, warning people about Craig Wright, and making my opinion about him clear. A matter of very public interest.

I was sent a legal letter on twitter DM, where it was made clear that I either had to apologize and acknowledge Craig as Satoshi, or they would file a libel case against me in UK.

When I didn't comply, Craig and Calvin put a public $5000 bounty on my identity and then firmly doxxed me after finding out who I was.

They proceeded to put private intelligence surveillance on me, that have tried to gain access to my social circle, both online and physically. Presence in 100s of groups. Monitoring my house. Producing regular, detailed reports on all my activity. Travelled where I travelled and so on. And god knows what else. This is still going on today.

I have been continuosly smeared and lied about on social media and in Coingeek, the publication owned by Calvin.

Threatened directly/personally with bankruptcy and worse by Calvin and his followers on twitter, with my real name, on countless occasions.

Anonymous phone calls with indirect threats.

My dad was fighting against cancer when this all started. I was dealing with constant legal pressure and threats throughout his fight. When he finally died late 2020, the legal pressure was at a peak and my funding situation was uncertain.

I've had to give up tons of private communication in discovery, to prove I had not been behind "an organized and vicious campaign against Craig."

I've had to turn down professional opportunities, since a good percentage of my bandwidth has been continuously occupied with defending myself legally. The amount of legal letters, hearings, appeals, judgments etc are beyond belief.

I've lived since 2019, with the constant knowledge that my house and belongings are on the line, and Craig's stated goal of bankrupting his enemies would be reality if I lost.

All the while I've tried to, and largely managed, to shield my child and family as well as possible, but I know all of this has put stress on them as well.

No mercy for these people.
Only Welcome to Law.


THATS THE FUN PART

https://m.primal.net/HamQ.jpg


No exaggerating here:

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True story: I've had a scar that hasn't healed correctly for years, it's been painful and bloody. Docs literally have no idea what it is or what to do, since it's not infected they don't know what's causing it. They all told me to just live with it.

This has been an ongoing problem for YEARS with zero treatment possible.

I started medical cannabis few months ago, been using daily since.

I don't wanna jinx it but... since then it hasn't played up, doesn't feel sore or swollen, and the scar tissue feels a lot stronger. Even when I do things that used to trigger it, I'm fine.

And even when the weed wears off, there is still no pain at all anymore.

Wonder if this is related? 🤔


GPT-4 is solid for programming


Yup. Everyone getting distracted while they push dystopia.

Same goes for Elon buying Twitter too. Literally the only real change aside from the rebrand was the introduction of KYC. But the MSM milked that shit for six months straight while a proxy war started.

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/distractions_psyop.mp4


(using the overly simplistic "left" and "right" labels here just to make the point)


Left: We hate that corporations and billionaires collude with the government to increase their wealth and control undemocratically by lobbying against the interests of the people.

Right: So do we, look at how corporate interests influence global politics at Davos every year, it absolutely undermines democracy when private interests make private deals with world leaders.

Left: OMG THAT'S A CONSPIRACY!!!

For real here... the fact the narrative in politics remains so polarised despite such a strong fundamental overlap is unfortunately a triumph of a huge psyop.


Lazier. I straight up had someone I work with ask me recently "what's the point of learning new skills when ChatGPT can just do it for you?"


They wanna keep us on the hook like the fish
Soon the poor ain't gonna have shit to eat except the rich
Yeah they love you when you're dead
Let you have that loan, yeah they love when you're in debt
Still sitting here with this bird on her bed
And I've still got the claret all down my leg
Discussing conspiracies that I've read
Leaving me full of existential dread
Hopped in my sled, and then off I sped
V10 penis extension in red

- CASISDEAD - Sarah Connor

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/CASISDEAD-Sarah_Connor.mp4


🤡🤡🤡
https://m.primal.net/HajE.jpg


⚠  Technical article ahead!

I reverse engineered TicketMaster's rotating barcodes for fun and profit. They're actually very easy to pirate.

https://conduition.io/coding/ticketmaster/


Reposted from X

Reality Tunnel = Apple Vision Pro? 🤔

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/YouWillBeHappy.mp4


"Who is fracturing the world? Them."

#WEF #Davos

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/wolf_in_sheep.mp4


Early this morning I woke up and noticed on my watch only wallet in BlueWallet and Sparrow desktop that someone has initiated an unauthorized transfer of all of my UTXO's to a BTC address that is not mine. It has not confirmed yet. It is showing as a low priority transaction that is set to clear in about 3 hours.I am unable to enter a higher priority transaction to drain my wallet before this unauthorized transaction does. Because Sparrow says I have an insufficient balance.

Doesn't this unauthorized transaction always need my signing device in order to finalize the transaction?

Any ideas what I should do? Thanks


The absolute biggest thing I've learnt as I've grown up is that materialism really cannot make you happy.

Wealth itself, I'd argue, is a neutral tool that can be used in fulfilling ways or destructive ways depending on the person who holds it.

But absolutely no one has ever become a fulfilled person from buying designer clothes, bigger houses, and faster cars.

Short dopamine bursts are not happiness. And like any substance that causes a quick dopamine release, what goes up must come down.


Big brain shit


The last mRNA treatment couldn't even treat a cold from China 😂😂😂


If you are on a low income the state will literally return some of your tax money as a benefit you have to apply for with a load of expensive and inefficient bureaucracy in the middle instead of just not stealing your money in the first place.

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
- Oscar Wilde


Twitter: Post selfies in a rented Rolls-Royce to pretend you don't drive a Toyota

Nostr: Post selfies from the bus to pretend you didn't buy a Toyota instead of stacking


Wanna be taxed more lmao anyone who buys this is so stupid, no way those billionaires aren't paying accountants who funnel all their income to tax havens, offshore trusts, etc.

Like you're saying here let em put their money where their mouth is or stfu.


Yessssss 🔥


My weed is def real, smell this shit


Legit why they gotta be so gay 😂


They want you in perpetual debt as a form of control.

Fiat money is the mechanism through which this power is coerced.


Normie you a fiat saver
That ain't me, I got sound money
Normie you a fiat saver
Getting 4% interest but you got 6% inflation
Normie you a fiat saver
Mad as fuck cuz the sats passed you by
Normie you a fiat saver
Can't go to the store cuz your social credit ain't high


Profit taking is the most foolish thing people do. Long haul or don't haul at all.  The one good thing about profit taking is that it purifies the market, at least temporarily, by removing idiots from it.


Rationalizing your own slavery is merely adding one more bar to your cage.


History is sympathetic to its authors.


Inadvertantly letting it be known that you actually follow the mainstream media makes you look foolish my friend.


You will never miss the train, and there will never be a bad time to buy Bitcoin.


But we - the ones who imposed lockdown - are now killing many times more than the countries who did nothing. Are we not partially to blame for those unnecessary deaths? Would not have happened had we done nothing.


In prison I am surrounded by murderers, muggers and thieves. Not as bad as our government of course. But still ...


They see me stackin'
They hatin'
They stayin' fiat
Tryna catch me ridin' humble

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/ridin_humble.jpg


TIL: In Northern England "tranny" is slang for a Ford Transit


Reddit is banning VPNs... probably old news but damn they're going downhill.

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Usually only listen to rap but this is a sick high energy track 🔥🔥🔥

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This is now a Peter St. Onge fan account.

“… in that case, rising GDP means the country is getting richer. Because more stuff is being produced.

But it's actually the opposite when it's government spending. Because government's job is taking wealth and lighting it on fire. That means when GDP is growing from government spending it's not measuring wealth.

It's measuring dissipation of wealth at best, destruction of wealth at worst.

Essentially, the pace at which we're going Soviet, replacing private wealth with government waste.”

https://www.profstonge.com/p/27-trillion-buys-spectacular-gdp


Not sure if the bug is in Amethyst or Phoenix but when I zap from that setup there's like a 50% chance the zap isn't registered on Nostr even though the sats are sent and the zap is set to public.

Anyone else?


WeChat of the West I'm dying 😂😂😂

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I forgot how good Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was

https://image.nostr.build/7ee3342663a126428bf3ef457ff7aaa617cd0a62ac61d13b85228e930725d574.gif#m=image%2Fgif&dim=360x197&blurhash=iRM6eY%7EC9bIUD*%3FaShaxV%404o9GIVtRkCWBs%3AofWCE2odE2oextIps%3Aazj%5ByDkq%252bFWVxZRkaeofITnNaza%7EofWBbHt6ay&x=018c1cd1beb41f7f997462d7adb669d143b5e7cc5c6192cda9066229c006dfd7


The natural vaccine wins again 👌

https://image.nostr.build/a046d2f77aeda965b385eddd8ee41f7f0f53a2f565ad612cb95c5f59b7007ed4.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=720x1321&blurhash=%5D6ATyF%3FH8_t7ExrNo%23WYjbn69GX7t8ofs%3A%7Eor%40M%5EbHOq01bvxvV%5Bw1%25MtQV%5Boyoy%5ESnPMwahOW1Db%5D%25NWBwK%3D%24t7M_kBS3&x=46987d765a72d848a383e174d59306d60b8a73df9b21ce76153ae710ec57f12d

Article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajherrington/2023/10/13/study-finds-cannabis-users-had-better-covid-19-outcomes/

Study:

https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(23)02201-8/fulltext

#weedstr #covid #vaccine


Clonazepam + a nice indica = confidence and total lack of anxiety, literally anxiety no longer exists as a concept


Been pretty low energy recently but not anymore


Imagine you have a stupid name and you grow up getting bullied for it so you say "fuck these guys I'm gonna have a whole planet named after me and they'll have to take me seriously!"

So you study hard and become a space scientist and work at NASA and eventually discover a planet and name it after yourself, truly you have earned respect this day.

And that's the story of Professor Uranus.


Best fucking shit on TV 😂

#TrailerParkBoys

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/Ricky_in_court.mp4


Wisdom of Ricky

https://cdn.bitcoinku.sh/ricky_littering.mp4


just in case you missed it.

Bitcoin developers have fake Satoshi on the ropes in legal fight

good on you for stepping in nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m 🫂

here's the paywall-free link.

#cybersecgirl #bitcoin

https://archive.ph/6xknW


NSA Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Unclassified Letter Says

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39136770 )

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/politics/nsa-internet-privacy-warrant.html


nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m is BASED for helping the victims of this narcissist fraud


On his second coming, our Lord and Savior Satoshi Nakamoto will be around 165 years old 🙏

https://image.nostr.build/25b189c23815411e66cd7d9245507ff84501d4965e1009cf0e77f63c9ae5e6e7.jpg


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persistent issue (since amethyst inception) on non-play version of amethyst using gos:

issue: when composing a post, when a user swipes up (on grapheneos) to go to another app, it's a crapshoot if the post edit will still be there when the user returns

happens ~ 30/ 40% of the time and seems completely random

expected behavior: user starts composing a post, swipes up to go to another app to grab a link or search for a photo to download and can return to the app and the post draft will still be there.

seriously, i have to save my posts to a notepad because this issue happens so often

looking forward to your reply and a resolution. this doesn't happen with other apps.

#cybersecgirl #privacytechpro #amethyst


Getting this too. I assume it's very RAM intensive because the app tends to start lagging a little when this happens.

I've gotten into the habit of copying what I type before closing the app just in case.


DSA looks wonderful too...

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-eus-digital-services-act-is-the-next-big-threat-to-free-speech