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Christian. Bitcoiner 🇦🇺 #AUSTrich

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2026-08-01 20:23:21 UTC

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That's not that hard and a powerful learning process. Hardware wallets are hard and not empowering.

2026-08-01 12:51:14 UTC

Growing up on a farm taught me how easily a large herd can be controlled.
One person can move hundreds of animals with surprisingly little force. Once a few begin moving in the intended direction, most follow. The real effort is spent on the handful that resist, break away and encourage others to turn. They are chased down, subdued and, if necessary, separated and isolated.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the possibility that Bitcoin maximalism has always served a similar function.
Bitcoin began as a challenge to systems built on monetary control, permission and unequal access. It offered the possibility of moving society toward greater freedom, fairness and human dignity. Yet many of the people who asserted themselves as leaders of the movement have replaced those broad principles with a rigid definition of ideological purity.
Instead of centring the movement on the values that sound money can promote, they rally people around slogans, loyalty tests and exclusivity. The result is an in-group and out-group culture in which questioning preferred technologies, personalities or narratives is treated as betrayal.
That is not intellectual confidence. It is social control.
Bitcoin will always be under attack. The best defence is not conformity, but informed users with genuine choice. People must be free to compare technologies, question incentives, test claims and support alternatives without being marginalised for stepping outside an approved narrative.
That is one reason Nostr matters. Open communication infrastructure can make it harder for institutions, platforms or influential personalities to control what people see and who is allowed to speak.
But it is sobering to think that Nostr has been promoted largely by many of the same influencers who have worked to dominate the Bitcoin narrative. That does not mean they are all bad actors, and I am not accusing any particular person of deliberate sabotage. The problem is structural.
Once a developer, company or influencer becomes dependent on funding, sponsorship or institutional support, they are no longer completely free. Even without explicit instructions, dependence shapes incentives. It affects what gets built, what gets criticised, what gets ignored and which compromises are considered acceptable.
That gives independent hobbyist developers something many professional influencers and developers do not possess: freedom.
They may have less money, less polish and less visibility, but they can pursue ideas on merit rather than on whether those ideas satisfy sponsors, investors or established factions. They can build tools that threaten existing interests precisely because their livelihood does not depend on pleasing them.
So do not be discouraged when your work is overlooked while inferior competitors are heavily promoted. Do not assume that visibility proves quality or that funding proves legitimacy.
Being ignored may simply mean you are building something that cannot be easily controlled.
That is part of the struggle.
Keep building.

2026-08-01 02:44:10 UTC

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Marcus Karpelès wasn't a wanker, just incompetent.

2026-07-31 23:53:43 UTC

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Yeah, but they would want to have a 1oo2 key to a multisig, other wise they wouldn't know if you just spent it and claimed theft.
A better model would be a bank holding part of a multisig in a safe deposit box. No way for them to know what's in there to rehypothicate. But it stops wrench attacks and would have inheretence planning.

2026-07-31 12:44:43 UTC

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Makes me feel sick that as a community we were led to paying for expensive crap at the expense of simple and secure options.

2026-07-31 12:08:30 UTC

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Don't trust anyone else's security. Not your entropy, not your keys.

2026-07-31 11:40:11 UTC

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Also found this https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/diy-bitcoin-private-key-project

2026-07-31 07:52:05 UTC

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Thanks. Started watching it and saw the sponsors ads, lol. Right now my scepticism is off the charts https://npub1wvtljy7rmeeeaqat9hwxwq9g7h90ghavtgpvd2yxk400ndlrf4qsytjhd0.blossom.band/a39de93b788d809f243e750855d26b87f54490913cf82f2ceac7065cfac75e46.jpg

2026-07-31 04:56:50 UTC

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How? Genuine question. I have seen 0 templates for recording rolls and converting them to a bitcoin key or seed phrase ever on nostr or bitcoin twitter, but thousands of posts about hardware wallets.

2026-07-31 04:35:12 UTC

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But again, this vulnerability was from trusting others. In this case the hardware manufacturer.

2026-07-30 12:10:02 UTC

Yes
#nevent1q…ykua

2026-07-30 02:41:08 UTC

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Not voting is a psyop
#nevent1q…ncw2

2026-07-29 21:30:12 UTC

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What are you using to set that up?

2026-07-27 08:34:03 UTC

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Do you know any clients that do this? I have been trying to build an app to view highlights and comments on websites, letting users filter by different layers.
https://blossom.primal.net/20d01e842fec11634515a1505b5a852a2f6bf17bd8bec300f5798a9e79abffc3.jpg

2026-07-26 21:15:27 UTC

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Yeah, it needs layers. The open social graph let's a web of trust be built, but it needs a private layer too. Concord is moving in that direction

2026-07-26 08:22:55 UTC

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Sorry to hear

2026-07-26 03:47:18 UTC

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Sort of.
At a simple level, as soon as people started farming, they created an incentive for violent raiders to come and plunder the harvest. Out of necessary they had to pay a government to recognise their ownership and provide protection. But once that government was formed their source of income was from extracting the labour of others. A neighbouring government that was more successful in harnessing citizens labour could overthrow and conquer the less extractive government. The government must demand a monopoly on violence, on an on until its a massive communist empire.
But larger empires require more bureaucracy which becomes inefficient.
Not all technology enables the violence, some resist it, like castle walls did before dynamite.

2026-07-26 02:25:36 UTC

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It all comes down to the return on violence equilibrium.
If you can be a tyrant, you must be a tyrant, otherwise someone else will be a tyrant to you.

2026-07-25 23:22:13 UTC

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Keen to hear how it goes

2026-07-25 22:16:36 UTC

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Yeah, but we have a social graph, and its not dictated by an instance moderator. I agree that nostr needsnmore work in this area.

2026-07-25 09:03:00 UTC

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Everyone who holds bitcoin has an incentive for it to do better and gain demand. The market will punish it for stagnating, then eventually the holders will punish those holding it back.

2026-07-25 06:46:20 UTC

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The article is from the 26th july 2025 https://blossom.primal.net/51346b027074feb7feb798ce9f0f577c66fe0fc3cbe0f18356d31dfdafc89c4e.jpg

2026-07-25 06:29:59 UTC

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Not here for the Normie's.
I think nostr's architecture is better and its starting to work well... Coincidentally when all the "Nostr is dead" FUD kicked in.

2026-07-25 06:14:21 UTC

Sorry, this is outdated
#nevent1q…lkmk

2026-07-25 05:09:22 UTC

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What's the alternative?

2026-07-25 00:01:43 UTC

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An outright ban is a sign of desperation and that they are close to loosing.
The current approach is to embrace bitcoin, making it win in terms of market cap over all other coins, then limiting it's privacy and increasing the cost of transactions to limit P2P use. This ensures people are dependent on a financial system that can be used to maintain a level of control.

2026-07-24 23:51:37 UTC

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If it starts to take hold and threaten the establishments means of control via the financial system they will ban it. But that is the last and firmest hand they can play. Then whatever survives proves that they don't have control and its all up from there. I see similarities to the protestant reformation that resulted in religious freedom after a struggle from the Catholic church. The Renaissance from sound money will draw demand and when people since weakness they will jump ship. The harder the establishment tryes to suppress monero and privacy coins the more it will become apparent that they are gaining an unfair advantage from the status quo and the more resistance they will get.

2026-07-24 09:39:45 UTC

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Yeah, that's interesting.
I suspect monero will breakout soon, followed by total ban. Then they are out of ammunition.

2026-07-24 06:10:01 UTC

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#nevent1q…6c6j

2026-07-23 12:23:32 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/de4bf454b2fdb4068a87af75cc27cc2dd372832f6ef74a81e859be1aab2b86c6.jpg
#meme #memes

2026-07-23 10:35:17 UTC

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I think the timeline of the Reformation following the printing press is close to what digital fungable money following the invention of the internet will be. https://blossom.primal.net/d514ea4b9d78d4bb307496f2ef3a9ee3aa7ffe3d9522f73d879821907d5fe6bc.png

2026-07-21 19:41:41 UTC

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It affects performance in the same way zombie accounts do. Trying to reach dead relays costs time.

2026-07-21 05:30:49 UTC

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Need one for zombie relays

2026-07-16 01:50:10 UTC

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Focus on feeling your hands and feet.

2026-07-14 08:16:26 UTC

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Why not privacy? Monero?

2026-07-14 06:39:56 UTC

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They, that's flying out of my neck of the woods

2026-07-14 03:09:34 UTC

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Wasn't there a nostr alternative with web or trust filtering on the edits happening?

2026-07-14 03:05:36 UTC

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Same

2026-07-14 00:29:31 UTC

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Yeah, I suck at this. Have always felt like I'm imposing on people.

2026-07-12 10:36:01 UTC

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AI increases state control and surveillance, that's bad for bitcoin.

2026-07-12 06:52:21 UTC

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I need to understand what it enables.

2026-07-11 09:14:25 UTC

Golden hour at the beach https://blossom.primal.net/2fb83c6901e60e8e74f64a12ed3c25f721b7800d29ce8e17bcb507c0c263a83a.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/00d81d091df9e7140e81dfcc16e9a1fdecfc08256e32968722a8ce661fa9b20a.jpg

2026-07-08 02:28:55 UTC

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Dunbar's number.
At the moment there people holding the protocol together as a single community. Newcomers either join the community or post into the void until they give up.
We need to focus on educating community leaders that nostr is a tool that empowers them, and developing the tools to do that in a way that doesn't have the security flaw of corporate platforms harvesting their data and having power over them.
Let nostr grow as thousands of communities.

2026-07-05 10:36:44 UTC

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Way to make the VPN pay for itself

2026-07-05 02:16:10 UTC

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Neither 😂. I'm watching this space because there's still a lot of development.

2026-07-05 02:10:55 UTC

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I am trying to build a client that let's users post in different layers, public ally, to selected read restricted relay groups or into a Marmot group or similar encripted group chat format. - Still researching the best solution.

2026-07-05 01:52:26 UTC

Social media and bank accounts are transparent by default.
Individually, that may not feel like a major risk. The bank that knows your wealth probably is not going to rob you. Facebook reading your messages probably will not create an immediate problem for you personally.
But the risk is at the aggregate level.
A small number of institutions can see liquidity, sentiment, relationships, political energy, social coordination and emerging grassroots movements. They can trade against it, shape it, throttle it or intervene before it reaches critical mass.
That creates an enormous asymmetry of power.
“Private” accounts are not truly private when the platform itself can still see everything. A private Facebook profile is private from other users, not from Facebook.
Nostr needs more read restricted relays and encrypted notes that only the intended audience can see. Something closer to a private social graph, without a Facebook like entity sitting above it all.
Privacy is not just about hiding individual secrets. It is about preventing aggregate surveillance from becoming a control system.
#nevent1q…w893

2026-07-04 12:11:42 UTC

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To worship God and enjoy him forever

2026-07-02 10:16:20 UTC

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Yes, the genesis narratives as Ancient Near East literature flipped, like a meme template reworded.

2026-07-02 10:03:22 UTC

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Already doing it 😂. Its been a lesson in prompt engineering to stop it breaking one bit while you improve another.

2026-07-02 10:01:38 UTC

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Amethyst has been smooth amd fast lately

2026-07-02 06:33:03 UTC

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Would you consider only accepting kind 0 events? Nostr needs relays that reliably have users profile data to boot strap when they don't know the inbox/outbox relays the npub uses. Can you migrate that to something affordable or able to be sustained by donations?

2026-07-02 03:04:36 UTC

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Congratulations. Enjoy fatherhood

2026-06-30 08:23:31 UTC

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Yeah, you should add nostr relays to the pubkey indexer and publish it as a nostr indexer relay that treats home servers as inbox/outbox relays.

2026-06-29 10:37:05 UTC

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Ver needs an apology.
It should be pretty clear by now that the divisions in bitcoin are state level bad actors forcing a choice between 2 compromising solutions.
BCHs modest block increase wasn't as reckless as it was made to be.

2026-06-29 03:15:48 UTC

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Following

2026-06-27 23:41:51 UTC

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Memory remains single was the second CD I bought too 😂. I bought Load of a friend for my first.

2026-06-27 23:31:06 UTC

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This is probably the first time since 2017 they bitcoin cashers and bitcointer have united for something.
https://blossom.primal.net/80faa1a9e6b46880626e0d45c0ecc2c7fd622698de420c1beb164d5375e8b5ce.jpg

2026-06-27 23:13:18 UTC

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Its good to see nostr growing out of a bitcoin echo chamber and being used by other coins.

2026-06-27 10:14:32 UTC

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Yeah. It needs to be automatic when you create your profile it creates a fips node for you on the relay you choose.

2026-06-27 08:03:19 UTC

This is interesting. Organise your bookmarks into knowledge projects
#nevent1q…5qka

2026-06-27 07:09:23 UTC

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Love the Nixon moment on the tv

2026-06-27 07:05:29 UTC

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This is great

2026-06-27 00:19:41 UTC

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What is the definition of long time holders?

2026-06-26 02:18:49 UTC

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Always have been

2026-06-26 01:07:07 UTC

Influencers saying we are going lower is my bottom signal
#nevent1q…a0wv

2026-06-25 11:04:32 UTC

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There are a few

2026-06-25 03:07:10 UTC

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I think there is scope for an algorithm that is curated to promote material that will create a well rounded and informed person.

2026-06-25 01:59:57 UTC

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That assumes I have spare capacity and that I'm not operating on my limit balancing raising a family with work obligations.
I'm not saying I haven't been prudent with my financial commitments, but imbonly in an OK position because I didn't listen to the bitcoin influencer hype that is aimed at pumping the price of bitcoin at the expense of the community of bitcoiners.

2026-06-24 23:52:54 UTC

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Is this rugging covenants and therefore trustless and permissionless scaling?

2026-06-24 23:42:09 UTC

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Pay off a mortgage

2026-06-24 21:32:03 UTC

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It's literally your available capital to do stuff that is reduced.

2026-06-24 21:28:00 UTC

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Its not called being wrong when you know.

2026-06-23 06:32:36 UTC

Someone make this a skin for @nprofile…07tq
https://blossom.primal.net/9dcf658d630bc6a956614d9cc6ef0bdeea3e27c9dd608c1d4fc14aa144906ca8.jpg

2026-06-19 04:53:16 UTC

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What is it?

2026-06-18 23:16:33 UTC

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Basically the things that make us human

2026-06-18 22:31:36 UTC

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"There is a great thirst in the crypto economy to generate Bitcoin-backed yield... Every dollar that flows into digital credit will flow into the digital capital"

2026-06-18 09:44:37 UTC

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2 should say thinking what they care

2026-06-18 09:41:28 UTC

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Is it available anywhere?

2026-06-18 09:14:17 UTC

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Is that an Android app? Ive started vibe coding one so I can highlight. And see a feed of just highlights. They are the highest signal.

2026-06-16 02:32:27 UTC

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@Grok is this true?

2026-06-15 08:20:51 UTC

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But you did get there

2026-06-13 06:37:48 UTC

Pirate Teddy #yarnstr
https://blossom.primal.net/ca506958b231b0034b3f7dfb4e772606b1331ef898482ed7cea96f2d72b1a6ea.jpg

2026-06-13 03:35:16 UTC

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Crypto wars again

2026-06-12 12:20:53 UTC

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Works in Amethyst
https://blossom.primal.net/83832251b9483b7bc3c207dcf6915559dfc975aec7f8da5562ee30c8da6abd72.jpg

2026-06-12 10:51:54 UTC

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C, @nprofile…99hm

2026-06-12 10:43:38 UTC

This is a must read.
#nevent1q…4qzu

2026-06-11 11:49:44 UTC

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I agree. However, before a Schelling point is reached it needs to function in some way that it reaches critical mass. Like the information kiosk at central station
It needs to be open and providing assistance consistently and better than everything else around.

2026-06-10 20:34:04 UTC

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Thanks, I can install it again

2026-06-09 03:33:19 UTC

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2026-06-08 11:06:46 UTC

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It's a hefty 4 digit zap , definitely not a bitcoiner from nostr 🤣

2026-06-08 08:49:31 UTC

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My guess is that most Monaro Maxis have more Bitcoin than most Bitcoin Maxis.

2026-06-08 03:08:10 UTC

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2026-06-07 23:15:01 UTC

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Sorry. I'm guilty of seeing this and not responding. Hope you are feeling better. I appreciate you being here 🫂
It is something to think about. We can build anonymous, permission less networks, but building trust and human connection requires something else. Nostr could benefit from a more closed way of sharing notes that will allow vulnerability and intimacy, so we are not pouring our hearts out into the void.

2026-06-06 07:56:04 UTC

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Boom.
I had a better start, bun unfortunately lucked out on the 50:50 #nevent1q…wdep

2026-06-06 07:54:41 UTC

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2026-06-05 04:56:55 UTC

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I set up a Linux server relying on AI to help me figure it out.

2026-06-05 02:37:53 UTC

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2026-06-04 10:40:55 UTC

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I'm surprised that your starter word has 2 A's

2026-06-04 09:16:34 UTC

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