szarka

GM. Let's be careful out there!
https://npub1szarka696ualy6w4mtg7n9f08mlc28flzm79a7clq55gnh4psuzsg8qxet.blossom.band/cf59393cb38cdcdb5730ebddd07125287cffed9a8b910461f72f91d90b03ab31.jpg

2026-04-11 13:27:52 UTC

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Yup. Losing value on my miners, but the 128GB machine I bought to run local models back in December is with hundreds of dollars more. 😆

2026-03-28 18:23:38 UTC

This is the way.
#nevent1q…ycn5

2026-03-19 09:54:11 UTC

"Markdown is the new hot coding language. Deal with it." https://www.infoworld.com/article/4146579/markdown-is-now-a-first-class-coding-language-deal-with-it.html

2026-03-16 01:36:09 UTC

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Tired: shorting oil
Wired: shorting fertilizer

2026-03-12 01:21:34 UTC

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Sorry, but if it's not a proper subset of YAML, it's dead to me.

2026-03-06 12:37:13 UTC

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nostr is NNTP, not SMTP.

2026-03-05 01:11:41 UTC

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Great idea!

2026-03-05 01:00:29 UTC

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I feel attacked.

2026-02-28 16:03:24 UTC

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You realize they can both suck, right?

2026-02-20 08:46:59 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/07cab5a6f8264afc010af2d32692130ce2404dca09c156f20945f0dcf25eab72.jpg

2026-02-20 03:43:58 UTC

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Never mind that. Where's the *crowdfunding* site for that!?

2026-02-20 03:34:43 UTC

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Yeah. That looks like the one!

2026-02-20 03:34:15 UTC

OK, who out here has a working setup to take complex Markdown documents with tables and equations and make fully-accessible PDFs using Pandoc? I need your wisdom. #A11y #pandoc

2026-02-20 03:32:14 UTC

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In high school, one of my friends had a Casio calculator watch. NGL, I was a little jealous. IIRC, it could even store, like, 4 KB of data.

2026-02-19 18:12:58 UTC

And that's why I spent $2K on a computer to run local models.
Well, that and privacy/security.
#nevent1q…es46

2026-02-19 18:10:29 UTC

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You and me both, brother. https://image.nostr.build/8653425e699ff38f2a11fe78743efec21333222f352e13ae847674c580dc482f.jpg

2026-02-19 18:07:18 UTC

To be fair, each of us is at most a few levels above this kind of ignorance. The last time I studied chemistry, Ronald Reagan was president.
#nevent1q…23k8

2026-02-19 18:04:00 UTC

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Thoughts and prayers. 🙏

2026-02-19 18:03:15 UTC

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I think you're outside the US? But, if not, this is a nice backup: https://calyx.org/projects/mobile-internet

2026-02-14 20:15:24 UTC

MAKE CROONERS GREAT AGAIN
#nevent1q…j0hd

2026-02-14 20:14:38 UTC

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It's a standard for a reason. 👍

2026-02-14 20:08:27 UTC

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You should tell us who those eight people are, then, so we can all follow them.

2026-02-01 16:24:52 UTC

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Why are so many of Jesus' followers spammers? A local church litters my apartment building with tracts every week, too.

2026-01-31 19:39:03 UTC

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I dunno. But I'm waiting for the weekly Sunday dip to buy. 😆

2026-01-27 05:29:01 UTC

Dang. Had to force close a lightning channel that had been open for over two years tonight because my peer had a corrupted database. It was a good run, though. /me pours one out

2026-01-26 17:23:21 UTC

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That's just a retronym, my dude.

2026-01-26 16:42:38 UTC

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And then development of products that used encryption moved out of the US. Talk about an own goal.

2026-01-26 16:40:25 UTC

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that'sbait.gif

2026-01-26 16:39:19 UTC

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Ain't gonna get through a paywall to read that.
But I assume this is less "don't understand economics" and more "have terrible normative commitments".

2026-01-26 16:37:27 UTC

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OK, but Bitcoin matters more than which awful political party is in power.

2026-01-22 14:09:09 UTC

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Isn't a television an electronic device?
But, seriously, people in the 70s were saying similar things about turning off the TV to spend quality time with the fam.

2026-01-12 02:59:44 UTC

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The only thing worse than an independent central bank is a central bank that isn't independent.

2026-01-06 17:26:46 UTC

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All I want is the truth. https://youtu.be/dV25atoI6T8

2026-01-06 17:22:05 UTC

Although it's worth noting that, if you're running Knots, you will eventually need `softwareexpiry=0` to do so…
#nevent1q…gsuv

2026-01-04 20:09:30 UTC

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Presidents, and international conflicts, to be decided via arm wrestling contests. https://priceonomics.com/how-southwest-airlines-settled-a-legal-dispute/

2026-01-04 16:41:43 UTC

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How do you figure? There aren't significant differences vs. Core in the relevant part of the code.

2026-01-04 16:40:22 UTC

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Or it could be more nodes running on shitty home Internet instead of AWS, et al.

2026-01-03 21:25:17 UTC

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So-called libertarians who voted for Trump hardest hit. 🤡

2026-01-03 21:20:45 UTC

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Same

2026-01-01 22:05:50 UTC

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Good news for all that junk silver I've been hoarding!

2026-01-01 22:04:27 UTC

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To be fair, so are Bitmain miners.

2025-12-31 13:47:29 UTC

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John Law erasure.

2025-12-30 20:36:51 UTC

You may be a Gen X nerd if you see "AT protocol" and think we're talking about Hayes modem commands…
#nevent1q…v6d2

2025-12-30 14:20:05 UTC

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Closing in on a decade of daily language practice… https://image.nostr.build/c864c6a314e31e56ae24f053ad3d186f6cd60acc4003226c4837db29f0669985.jpg

2025-12-15 13:03:52 UTC

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I don't even know *which* bad news you mean.
RIP, Rob Reiner.

2025-12-15 12:58:34 UTC

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I mean, I just go dancing. But whatever works.

2025-12-15 12:57:34 UTC

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My cable management is not that fancy. But, otherwise, accurate.

2025-12-15 12:56:25 UTC

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You love to see it. 🔥

2025-11-30 20:31:09 UTC

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I went with one of these instead: https://www.gmktec.com/products/amd-ryzen%E2%84%A2-ai-max-395-evo-x2-ai-mini-pc?variant=64bbb08e-da87-4bed-949b-1652cd311770
YMMV, depending on what toolchain you want to work with.

2025-11-30 02:58:02 UTC

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I read that as "miner". And, that, too, actually.

2025-11-29 21:49:02 UTC

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Nice cover. Though, weird to hear that song without the iconic gated reverb on the drums.

2025-11-29 19:01:15 UTC

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A summer dress is nice and all, but sometimes you need all the pockets.

2025-11-29 00:00:51 UTC

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Ah.
What's the advantage of the IPC interface vs. good old RPC?

2025-11-28 23:56:54 UTC

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Back at my local theater tomorrow…

2025-11-28 23:52:38 UTC

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If so, the page you linked needs an update:
https://image.nostr.build/54428689a5c0a8bbc9d280ef9ee40c03fb5e227e85994b652e77038c077f94d0.jpg

2025-11-28 23:50:56 UTC

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So we don't have to use the bundled Core and can just configure any node via RPC?

2025-11-28 15:20:48 UTC

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The real subjective value is the friends we made along the way. 👍

2025-11-28 15:19:30 UTC

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The bigger shame is that Krugman has traded his integrity as an economist for shilling tired leftist politics at a time when his actual expertise on trade is needed. :(

2025-11-28 15:16:02 UTC

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So, one way or the other, you still have to run Core? Kind of defeats the point of building your own blocks if you're forced into building them Core's way.

2025-11-24 02:28:52 UTC

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A pair of Avalon Nanos are doing a really nice job of heating my apartment, though.

2025-11-21 07:48:40 UTC

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Fake news: they're actually from India.

2025-11-14 00:27:58 UTC

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Oh, that's great! Thanks!

2025-11-14 00:10:36 UTC

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I said "maybe 200k". Could still happen, right?

2025-11-14 00:06:40 UTC

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Welcome to the club, Gramps.

2025-11-13 23:58:18 UTC

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One of my all-time favorite covers. I wish she'd release this on CD or FLAC.

2025-11-13 23:57:12 UTC

If Douglas Adams were still with us, he could turn this into a hilarious dark comedy.
#nevent1q…g84c

2025-11-13 23:53:52 UTC

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All my dollars went to miners. So I have to buy the dip very slowly.

2025-11-08 22:38:45 UTC

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Are they ad-dependent, though? If they charged $10 per month for Gmail, that would replace it all. Granted, not everyone would pay. But IMHO it's just that advertising is how they've currently chosen to monetize their integrated surveillance system.

2025-11-08 22:35:22 UTC

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Given the level of surveillance built into Waymo, they'd probably give Waymo a medal!

2025-10-16 23:01:01 UTC

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I don't have more sats, but I do have more miners mining sats. So I've got that going for me.

2025-10-16 22:57:22 UTC

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Seems like at least some of this should be doable by querying the API on mempool-space instances? (Not just the one at mempool.space.) And there are a lot of those, though I'm not sure they're listed anywhere.

2025-10-14 19:39:58 UTC

LFG
#nevent1q…a5uj

2025-10-13 05:29:59 UTC

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https://youtu.be/mVUpKIFHqZk

2025-10-02 12:51:29 UTC

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https://xkcd.com/356/

2025-10-02 12:50:56 UTC

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LOL I introduced a friend to that term just last week.

2025-10-02 12:49:00 UTC

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"It only makes an existing problem a little bit worse" is not exactly comforting.

2025-10-01 14:45:10 UTC

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The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks.

2025-09-29 11:59:28 UTC

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If it works, why fix it?

2025-09-29 11:58:08 UTC

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*Buckaroonies
https://image.nostr.build/42f707b650471d02f5d976e52c07be6eecb4f6db65d5d31dea75978910df5700.jpg

2025-09-20 19:08:46 UTC

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I mean, it kind of is. They just don't understand that *all* monies are. /me shrugs

2025-09-12 15:01:30 UTC

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Relaxing the policy limit decreases the cost of littering for the use cases where it would make sense to use it instead of an inscription. Demand curves slope down. So, the policy change encourages more littering with little offsetting benefit.

2025-09-06 09:10:17 UTC

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If I take a shit on your lawn, wipe my ass with a dollar bill, and leave you the mess to clean up, is that littering?

2025-08-25 16:34:31 UTC

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Just so you know, this is whom I picture every time I see your alias. I don't make the rules.
https://image.nostr.build/6cf5f99f14dcf7959fb729d40b9089d98922e90c62c85eae8f0f5106c6a2930c.jpg

2025-08-24 15:45:40 UTC

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Wanted to spend the day writing syllabi. Now fighting with Windows to get ConTeXt installed so I can create "accessible" tagged PDFs.
#nevent1q…w2f0

2025-08-24 15:42:33 UTC

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Why should we care whether "Wall Street" gets rekt?

2025-08-20 23:19:03 UTC

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Having just nighyt a new Pixel this summer, no thanks. Don't wanna know what I'm missing.

2025-08-20 23:12:30 UTC

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What's the spread, tho?

2025-08-20 23:02:11 UTC

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Same untroubled operation from some gammas, NerdQAxes, etc. Also some Avalon Nanos during the winter.

2025-08-20 23:00:03 UTC

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Like I said, I call B.S. This is a Supra, which is the least powerful of the bunch, and it has no issues. You can even verify the shares at https://ocean.xyz/stats/bc1qce93hy5rhg02s6aeu7mfdvxg76x66pqqtrvzs3.SzarkaSayHash , since it's donating hash to the @nprofile…llr6.
https://image.nostr.build/75ecfa52461f6d84004169389dd684f7aa6fff8afa997e04663bd73bcd7fc7e7.jpg

2025-08-18 11:57:22 UTC

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A variety, from a Supra up through the new NerdQAxe++. Both via the default pool and via DATUM. For a long, long time. Both via my Comcast Business connection and via a cell hotspot.
IOW, I call B.S.
Tested a bit on SBI and Luxor at one point and that was OK, too.

2025-08-17 15:19:15 UTC

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I don't see this issue on @nprofile…ckyu.

2025-08-17 15:18:00 UTC

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I guess you'd know whose phone it is if it gets lost at a party or something?

2025-08-17 15:16:01 UTC

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I'm good for, like, 1 acre if we're building a Bitcoin citadel. 👀

2025-08-17 15:13:54 UTC

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Hell, yeah!