What’s funny, is the part of me that was worried before kids that I was gonna miss going out to bars, partying with friends, and being able to just travel without a ton of pressure and the like — I just don’t miss those things anymore. It’s not that I don’t get to do them, it’s that I don’t really want to as much anymore. And we still go out all the time, travel all the time (it’s more work of course), and get to do tons of new things, and it’s all way more fun because there this little kid with you who is seeing it all for the first time and he’s fucking STOKED! 🤣
You ever have that feeling where you make a new friend and find out they haven’t seen your favorite movie? Remember how much fun that is to watch? Having a kid is like that, but basically every day. Everything is more difficult and frustrating at times, but also way more fun and it all means a lot more, imo.
I’m waiting for version 2, but I’ve heard people have had value using it for work. Problem is they can’t use it for very long due to the weight. Theres a lot of cool potential but I think the lighter and cheaper Quest is better just because it’s easier to play really active games due to the lighter headset.
Dude, the amount of Kamala ads on YouTube now is fucking vomit inducing. And they don’t let you skip them! So I have to hear that bitch’s nonsense for like 20 seconds. And it’s literally event before stuff that my 2 year son wants to watch.😡
God I hate election season. I really should’ve put a pi-hole in my network a long time ago. This might make me finally do it.
I hardline our Apple TVs and I despise “smart TVs,” but it’s all you can get these days really. I’ve considered buying computer monitors for TV screens more recently because everything has some awful, slow-as-piss, obnoxiously convoluted interface with less than the bare minimum hardware necessary to actually run it built into the TV now. It’s incredible to me how poorly built and designed they are, and yet alternatives are basically nowhere to be found. I still have some older flat screens with physical buttons on the back during the last era where you were able to still buy them without “Roku” installed.
Nah dude, I love the Apple TV to be honest. After going through like 20 of the various “internet TV devices” over decades (from when they were literally brand new), the latest Apple TV kills all of them. And I also use my computers for way too much, I’d have to devote one to the TV at all times, which goes right back to just having an Apple TV basically but with a mouse/keyboard interface, which is just awkward. But I probably will come up with a different option for YouTube unless I grab premium.
Considering it’s iOS though, there might be a cool pear based app option to run with PearDrive. Might be an opportunity to explore how to get this in the Apple TV environment too. 🤔🤔
I believe I’ve become unhealthily addicted to #nostr in a similar way I used to be addicted to Twitter.
I mean I manage it ok, I have a timer for my Nostr apps (all social apps, but I don’t spend time on any others), but I hit my limit and “snooze it” for another 15 minutes… maybe I do it twice, basically every day.
But when I have a minute, I go straight to it to check in on my frens and what they are talking about. Why do I keep doin dis?
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If on iOS you can set category or individual time limits under “Screen Time” in settings. Really useful and it’ll give you stats for whether you are doing worse or improving.
I’m certain there are options in Android and Graphene or the like, but I’ve not used them because they are secondary devices for me. Maybe @Jeff Swann knows
Man that isn’t what an Oreo looks like under a microscope, that’s just a gross fucking Oreo. That dude was pulling beetles out of the cream filling that could be seen with the naked eye. What the hell is that person doing to their Oreos?
Working on that as we speak. We’re getting it packaged for Start9 in the next couple of days (week or two at the latest) and then I’m going to jump to focusing on the Zeus side.
This will make Start9 so much easier to use though. Imagine just fast booting any service into your browser without the delays and frustrations or Tor. Gonna improve it a lot. 👏🏻
It's already happened, its just barely begun. Pear Runtime was released in February but i already use it constantly. Except for the game (which was a test and run over pear but was barely a rough draft) these are all real examples of things i do regularly.
It launched in February, the tools i showed are ones I'm using now, its just extremely early and most of it is still beta. I'm also building an application with this stack.
Yes, everything except the game are tools in actually using. The game was just a test with some devs who are experimenting with things.
This is all very new so a lot of the apps are in beta and some are still in development. I’m working on an application myself and have been for quite a while (hoping to have something soon). But this is very real and it works, that’s why I’ve started a pod about it. 🫡
Lots of good rooms on Keet. You can jump into my lobby if you want to check it out and look for good groups.
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I disagree. In many contexts its totally used as a gimmick, but as an editor and filmmaker there is nothing at all questioning in my mind for the value of these. If you've ever done any complicated VFX work you'd know how valuable this is. As a compositing tool this stuff is like fucking magic.
Much of LLMs shown and how they are proposed aren't working and I think the development direction of them is going to change. Looking at how people *actually* use them vs how everyone said they were going to be used makes me think things will start to shift soon. You aren't entirely wrong with how things are today.
Yeah sure, but 2 years ago, video generation was barely even a thing. Of course they aren't perfect, but the major problems are disappearing at an incredible rate.
“So children will grow up being exposed to nothing but fake images of physical perfection to which neither they nor their prospective partners can measure up to.”
This has been the case for 30+ years already so don’t worry, it won’t be anything new from that context.
Got my weekly dose of Normie Land today.
[[ Logged into Twitter, immediately saw a single tweet from Elon explaining that inflation is caused by govt, and THESE were the community notes proposed on this tweet👇 ... just holy shit....
Posted this shit and logged out 🤣 ]]
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For those who may not know, YES, every dollar in deficit spending IS inflation, it IS money issuance, and it IS the only reason prices have gone up without ceasing for nearly a century. It IS the single and most explicit, inexorable cause of inflation.
https://video.nostr.build/e44ce2b0afa92744f4800e5a7cde83ad3b8934193bccefdfecb82f8cc4116748.mp4
Following a lot of people rather than being really selective about your follows is a good strategy here. You see way more conversations and good posts that are “one hop away” from your graph that you’d otherwise miss.
Also I follow a handful of hashtags that are really helpful for branching out, but there is some risk there, fyi.
I’m hoping clients start making some features (and/or thinking of doing this myself on the relay side if it’s not too much work) to help with the problem of spam and porn in global. More integrated web of trust visibility will help there as well.
Completion of the basement.
HVAC lines are getting moved to tear out the floor for stairs,
we are cutting into the slab for downstairs plumbing lines,
walls have been mapped out on the floor.
Oh god I feel for you, we just changed out *everything* and its been needed for years.
It does mean i can move both of my miners to the basement though and keep the setup much simpler than the chimera i had running last winter. It worked but it was frustrating and half finished.
Those people still don’t understand the problems of money. Most still think money is *supposed* to lose value over time and that this is good for the economy. I’ve come to a point where I start by asking that question, and if they say “yes otherwise people will hoard it,” I know there’s no progress to be made discussing Bitcoin’s value
It’s even simpler, there’s no such thing as “hoarding” money that can be objectively defined, and to save money in any form it literally the act of providing resources to the economy without taking anything in return. It’s the BEST thing you can do for economic productivity, to produce and not consume.
Not in a general sense as most believe (which you caveated obviously), in fact, one can argue the opposite, the overwhelming majority of investment fails and merely wastes resources. This is exactly why investing should be left to actual investors. Plus, too much investment can be just as big of a problem as not enough.
Not really disagreeing, but I think this general sentiment is very dangerous. Because it allows people to excuse forcing people into putting their savings in to stupid, thoughtless trash like "indexes" and other instruments for no reason, and it leads to gross over allocation to massive corporations and bloats the ever loving shit out of financial institutions.
Always feel the need to counter this idea, even though your statement is true because of your qualifier.
Also there's another point to be made here: "Savings" and "investing" are the exact same thing. Savings IS investing. The question is what should we be investing in? The people and their families, their livelihoods, their security, their sustainability, and their optionality and freedom to explore that which they desire and have meaningful time for connections and self discovery?... Or some huge corporate enterprise that will stick them in a cubicle and they will be trapped without options because they have no savings?
ALL savings is investment.
Personal savings is investment in your future, family savings is investment in your time, options, and sovereignty, and producing a surplus for society is an investment in humanity as a whole as you leave those resources for others to create and work with under the trust that they will be good custodians of that value you've produced.
lol, respectfully hard disagree in return.😆
This may be a semantic disagreement. But to further explain, there is no such thing as idle resources in an economy (aside from literally purchased and rotting capital). Money is not a resource, it is a record keeping system. The act of saving is producing resources into society and holding onto a receipt of your contribution.
All savings are the creation of capital for productive endeavors, it is simply that you choose to not yet decide which enterprise to place it in, so you simply leave it to the whole of the economy to decide. But your net contribution remains an investment of resources regardless.
TARGETED investment is to believe you have found something that will, on net, do better than the average of society (which will be realized in the value of the money itself). Thus it becomes worth it to explicitly decide where those resources go.
But either way it is a net capital availability for society, and what it means is the same. One is simply targeted, while saving money results in investing in the index of the entire economy that uses it (in an abstract sense). Plus being critical for the safety, security, and mental well being of all members of society in their individual situations.
In other words, there is no objective claim that “investing is better than savings,” because it is purely a subjective judgement over where resources should be directed. To my future, or to a business enterprise? To anyone in the economy to determine where it goes, or to a specific counterparty or idea? And to say that the security, net surplus, and personal sovereignty of the individual isn’t important or “as important” as some business enterprise for society is, imo, to misunderstand what society is. To sacrifice the well being of the people for the blind goal of “more output” is to beg the question of what is valuable to begin with. You have to make that judgement first before making the claim, which means it’s built entirely on our subjective idea of which is a more valuable use of resources. But it’s ALL an investment of resources somewhere.
This is all true, but realize that you are using an example without money in the equation. When you add money then the act of saving allows investment for others to be available in the first place. And it doesn’t require a loan, this is what producing extra resources and thus lowering their price will naturally do.
- If Bob doesn’t know what to invest in, he can produce and save money, and this gives the societal surplus of the same amount for Tim to make his fishing net. the same thing happens with the capital, him loaning it is merely for him to think he know exactly *what* to invest in.
lol this is just what real bitcoiners love to do for fun, argue. 😂
Every time I go hang out with bitcoiners all we do is debate about about big ideas, lol.
Yeah, even though i have paused everything with the website the vote page is still live and it was a ton of fun for the 8 months or so I was keeping up with it.
My intention is to redesign it to just work with Nostr posts but bring it back because it was good signal for what to cover on the podcast. And with Nostr the whole setup is far simpler.
But right now I have someone finally doing work on the website to get it into some sort of working order, so hopefully before the end of this year we have something solid and working to share so that can come back to life. Miss it
Tether is not a CBDC.
It's literally a BDC
Tether is not a central bank, they don't issue notes of an independent monetary unit. They aren't associated with any govt. Tether is just a modern banknote with most of the same problems, risks, and trust issues. The difference being it is available to anyone with a smart phone without an account -- which is actually a significant improvement over the old garbage.
Tether is custodian issued digital banknotes. Literally in every use of those terms this is the accurate thing to call it. "Cash" has always just referred to banknotes issued that were redeemable in gold or at a bank that was a bearer asset. The difference with a stablecoin like Tether and physical cash is the oversight/surveillance that the institution has for the digital alternative. This is why ecash is actually the only thing that digitally shares basically all the characteristics of physical cash (txn privacy from issuer and bearer asset). Tether is far easier to freeze accounts and spy on what everyone is doing. Obviously why people want to label it "something bad."
My point is that the CBDC label is NOT accurate, and when we use words and labels arbitrarily, it desensitizes people to them. If people just become "whatever" about Tether (because if you don't use it, who cares), and everyone calls it a CBDC, then after a few years of this people are just going to think "CBDCs are fine, who cares?"
Calling everything we don't like a CBDC is a HUGE BENEFIT to actual CBDCs.
Bank digital currencies are not a problem. They will remain solvent as long as the "bank" does. They are a much better option than credit cards, and the option of being able to issue ecash is even better.
BDCs are certainly a far cry from the #Bitcoin sovereign world that we are building and have nothing to do with it, but they are ALSO a far cry from a genuine CBDC.
So please, stop using words that matter in a stupid and cheap way, because when we REALLY need them, you'll have sucked them of all of their power and meaning.
I’ll probably be doing another episode on it sometime soon, but I covered a recent piece of theirs on the show and have abridged versions of my thoughts in there commentary afterward.
I think the theory is generally sound, and definitely a move for the dollar that some are trying to exploit, but I don’t think it’s as clear cut as to what the outcome will be. I question just how good for the US debt market it will be, especially accounting for the fact that tether (our stablecoin example) has zero interest in buying any *long term* bonds, but buys the shortest time they possible can. I think that has huge implications for the market for govt debt, even with an expansion in the dollar network.
More to unpack, probably a coming Guy’s Take
Part 1: https://fountain.fm/episode/g5C0zTVvroRbCP34NaNo
Part 2: https://fountain.fm/episode/r9wR7NMqAe3eomHtaZbx
Have you noticed that it takes any longer to dry the clothes? Have you compared the electricity usage and sats output by chance?
I’m really curious about any hard details you can gather on this because it’s something @Jeff Swann has been talking about for a long time and I’d considered it as well.
Heating the house with miners has been great, but it’s significantly more expensive than the gas heat we had (our gas is significantly cheaper than electrical), but we don’t get that benefit with the dryer. So that might make it a more interesting proposition. 🤔
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