Been into Bitcoin since 2013—mixing local AI (LLMs & Stable Diffusion) with Python/PHP coding to turn ideas into real-world projects. I create art in Blender, 3D print my designs, then paint them for hands-on use. Passionate about self-hosted smart home systems like Home Assistant to make life smarter and more connected.
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Last Notes npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Canada should protect it from.....who exactly? Who is invading that lake.....US?! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan November -> March in my country doesn't agree with statement that "there is no shortage of sunlight". Geological exploration of my country doesn't agree with statement that "there is no shortage of oil and fuel" There sure is no shortage of "water cycling through Earth", but thing is, it's not accessible all the time and not drinkable and usable all the time....so again you get to: "shortage of drinking water" (i doubt we care about industrial water). You can have as live soil as you want, but when number of mouths outnumber what soil can produce, than you do have shortage. We have whole history of species to prove it. I would agree with last one. Even tho big percentage of humans are not creative types, there is plenty of us that are. And your conclusion, that earth will thrive....yes, with or without humans it will. Earth does not care about humans or any other single animal species. It does not care about whole spices categories, countries, continents. Same goes for the universe. Most of it wants us dead anyway. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan "Time is money" twists reality. It makes it so that people think that they have to invest their time, to get money. Like money is a goal. Reality is completely opposite. Money is medium to buy time. You buy food so you do not have to spend time producing it yourself. You buy car so you do not have to spend time walking long distances etc. More time is a goal, not more money. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan It sure can be as many as people like. I care only about true decentralization. MiCA has same impact on Bitcoin and any other cryptocurrency. MiCA stops cryptocurrecncy interaction with real world no matter how private it is. Thanks to MiCA i can't receive USDT to my Revolut. Same can / will happen with any cryptocurrency. Only way around it is by true decentralization and real world trade services/products<->Bitcoin. Everything else is joke. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Rly? I have don't know anyone like that. What would be reasons behind that? If anyone valued decentralization, BTC was and still is the king. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan fun fact. i found myself vibecoding simplified versions of certain services i want on my local network. Like there is already software for it but it has too much stuff i dont need, so i simply create simplified version for my needs. I think moats are dissapearing bit by bit when you can tell LLM to create something like x without feateres a,b,c and with feature d,e and f. It's crazy time....new frontier models are crazy good. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan i have extended my local storage by 8tb not so long ago....i dont like speed at which its getting filled in.... npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Chinese AI companies are on the fire. First kick in the balls to western competition was GLM 5.2. Extremely cheap model that had 80% capability of than frontier models. At that time, for coding, if you had any development knowledge (so you can create concrete plans and steer it) it was money burning to use anything else. They decided to open source it, basically setting bottom line for everyone who is offering AI over network. Than Kimi 3 came. That was not kick in the balls, that's shot in the knee. And they are planning to open source it too! Frontier model, available to anyone who can afford hardware to run it. And now i hear that there should be GLM 5.5 coming out next month. So not only do we have Chinese frontier model, but we will have two if rumors are true. Don't know if they will open source it too. Frontier open source models.... That basically resets whole game to zero. It's like we just started. Everyone has to up their game like it's day one of LLM's. I used to follow image generation scene too....things are simply coming at too high speed for me to follow it all....i have life outside computer too....we are moving at crazy speed at the moment. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Fun fact.....even gold based currencies were debased in their time by issuer. They remelted coins, added non gold metals to be able to create more coins. Countries were always and will always debase their currencies no matter base and i would even argue that some debasement isn't bad. Problem is that "some" never stays at "some" and turns into "a lot. What we, citizens need, is something to "run to" when they overdo it and that's why i fell in love with Bitcoin all those yeas ago. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Im still captivated by GLM 5.2...even thinking about getting some hardware that could run it.....slowly but still run. Even 10x slower than cloudl would be acceptable with how good it is. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Russians can stop Ukrainian attacks in a moment. All they have to do is remove their army from Ukraine and stop sending missiles and drones all over Ukraine. It's about time this is happening. Russians do not understand anything but force. If you do not show force, they think you are weak, and you are next on their menu. The collective West did not have the balls to show strength when Russia occupied Crimea, and that is the only reason why Ukrainian cities are burning and being destroyed. If strength had been projected then, none of this would have happened. It's a shame that Ukraine had to pay for our cowardice with hundreds of thousands of lives. I give zero fucks about the invader. They are not getting even close to what they deserve. I lived through the invasion of my own country by a larger force, and I know what Ukraine is going through at the moment and what they will be going through for decades. Putin is the main culprit in the current situation, and the collective West is an accomplice for being spineless cowards and being afraid of "escalation". With every "don't escalate", they sent Putin new message: "we have no spine and balls, do whatever the fuck you want". I lived trough what they are living now and i knew from my personal experience that pleading to invader to stop won't stop invader. That's not how invasions are stopped. That's not how you deal with bullies.....even school bullies needs to get his nose hit before you can start talking to him. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I agree. Fuck cancer. My dad has lymphoma cancer, my friend's nephew, 7 years old, has brain cancer and 3 days ago we found out that his dad has liver cancer that spread to lungs and bones. My father in law died from lung cancer after one year of battle....i was holding his hand when he took his last breath. Cancer is reason of deaath for so many people.....fuck cancer! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Don't drones explode? How do you dodge an explosion that happens meter or two away from you? npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan What does Nostr HR team says about that? Was everything by company policy? npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan If you can host caching server yourself it's good design (fast is always good for user). npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Looks nice, played a little bit but my eyes started hurting....i think it's low FPS or something....is there a way to make it more smooth? Do i have to denable something in my browser (Firefox)? npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan No matter how bitcoinized society becomes, governments and legal systems will still exist, and people will still need to interact with them. SSN is integrated into taxes, banking, employment, healthcare, education, and many other administrative systems. Not having one mostly creates friction without really removing the government's ability to identify or regulate the individual. So the real question is whether benefits of not having SSN (which are basically almost none) outweigh problems that not having SSN create. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Right? An SMS or "invite" from someone....i was not sure if i was on real web site, if it was some kind of scam site or something like that. "Strictly better" my ass. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I just tried to create acc on Pubky....it asks me for an SMS.....and you tell me that "Pubky is strictly better than Nostr". That's not something someone even half serious would say. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan What? Why? How? What?! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Every "key" in life seems to be finding the balance between two extremes. The older I get, the more I realize how difficult that actually is. Not only is it hard to define where that middle ground even is, but you're constantly being pulled one way or the other. Sometimes by the world around you, but even more by your own instincts, fears, habits, and emotions. I fight outside and inside all the time. Staying balanced is not something you achieve once. It’s something you keep correcting for over and over again. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan those old colorado laws were extremely stupid. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Reproduction is one of basic drives of nature. If someone doesnt have it, maybe they should not spread their DNA around, there is clearly something wrong with em on biological level. That said, i dont know single individual who does not want child in ling run. But i know more than i would like to, that want but cant. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Sad reality is that absolutely huge percentage of users will never switch from Photoshop to Gimp. Not because Gimp is bad, but only because they are afraid of change and are afraid to even try, and if they find smallest difference imaginable they will use it as a reason not to switch. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan This is one cool image from Otočac, Croatia that shows how tough bones of that part of Croatia are. You can basically build whatever you want there and it will stand. They are making underground garage around current building that will be used as a restaurant. It's near Tesla Supercharger. https://blossom.primal.net/24d72b925aa301593a5419d8001e4ecf0a2f757a735f9943ed3c8d5fa22bd576.png npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I'm not sure if doing crack....or heroine would be better than starting self hosting......if it's not better....it's close.... npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Damn that looks good. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan We do vote with software on our nodes so.....it's better democracy than democracies in some countries out there. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I don't know if this is funny or sad anymore. If this was some kind of movie or series, i would stop looking it at this point. I would be like: "Nah man, this is simply not believable scenario, whoever wrote this is amateur, this is shit storytelling". npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan https://www.rdw.nl/en/news/2026/rdw-explanation-of-european-type-approval-tesla-with-provisional-validity-in-the-netherlands Netherland (country that Tesla get's all it's EU approvals) is first country in EU to allow Tesal FSD usage. Less than 24 hours later, people are already reporting that they are downloading FSD update. As NL RDW says, next step is to move this approval to EU level. If vote goes well, FSD becomes legal in whole EU. If not, each country will have to decide for itself. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan First day of April, Trump's day! You can simply say and write almost anything and it will pass. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan We’ve been unhappy with our outdoor lighting for years. Everything we actually like costs over €50 per fixture… and on top of that, most of them are basically disposable. No replaceable bulbs, just built-in LED modules, sometimes even sealed in plastic. So when it dies, you throw it away and spend another €50+, assuming you can even find the same model again. Otherwise, you’re stuck cutting, soldering, and gluing, hoping you can retrofit some random module from AliExpress or Amazon. Two days ago I stumbled upon a model on Makerworld and decided to turn it into an outdoor wall lamp using GU10 sockets. I grabbed some GU10 holders, printed a set in black PETG, assembled everything, and mounted it on the wall. Most parts were printed with a 0.8 nozzle and 0.4 layer height since they’re not visible so i prefere them to be strong and ugly. The visible parts were printed with a 0.4 nozzle and 0.2 layers on a Cool Plate SuperTack for smooth texture for everything that touches the plate. Now we’ve got exactly the design we want, fully customizable and upgradeable. And since it uses GU10 bulbs, we can easily change brightness and color temperature whenever we want. I can even put some smart bulbs and manipulate them via zigbee and local instalation of home assistant. If a bulb dies, just replace it. No waste, no hassle. There is one downside though… now we can see some uneven spots on the facade 🤣 Tomorrow I’ll print a top cover in either white or transparent PETG to keep rain out. The white (with thin layers) should give a nice diffused, milky light, while the transparent one will just act as weather protection. Once i'm satisfied, ill be replacing all my outer lighting. https://image.nostr.build/5cb556e24dd0fa8e26b0209c776656b9171ac80b9e90acf50dbe5ac4a6aa5ffc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/acbbcf39bfd4a798d38512b2d670d71a401f66e57f8b92265b2c663d34a9d159.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0edefe6f00c75990de41e1e8e74d34e223a79c386d17d60debce117056ffbee1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4e033f3e9c66ca89d6e92c849a3d0bb02cf044d5a8656cf8ca715a2903066579.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f0399dfd4463fa7ceb25ce05752eee176850c47062976e31f9ec1ebeeba71ede.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7eb52b1764d7c492308fa07876b7d93e014d0b2c792afbf6e24e57d352379da3.jpg npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Painting in progress. https://blossom.primal.net/8faab6e0c840d7f29e953a0161ec349bbe8be5b29ce612408e65c303d979a661.png npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan My son printed and painted this for girl he likes. https://blossom.primal.net/4c1a918f17467fc81e012d4f3b87d0e955110e48f58f0a593b9895d3a6c468a6.png npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I see all topics i am interested in on NOSTR. Never heared of Fediverse. Fast google / AI info about it tells me it's server centric network, not my cup of tea. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan X down, NOSTR still working.... npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan https://blossom.primal.net/f53c52dd8678f6261dca68c002c5efb985a9c397ddbd4f60b9ad930d80455424.mp4 npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan You don't. That's why you don't get zap from me ether, and if quality drops i will unfollow too. You don't work for me, and i don't have to have this bullshit on my feed. It all depends on what is your goal. Inform people of reality they live in, be useful to them and get zaps for your work, or spread bullshit. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Nazi Germany was far right not left wing. It was Authoritarian dictatorship under Adolf Hitler and it suppressed communist and socialist and had cooperation with industrial elites and private property. Adolf Hitler violently persecuted Germany's left. So no....it was not war between two left wing governments. Both systems ended up looking same (dictatorship, secret police, camps, killing of political opposition etc.) npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Oh come on now! You used to give us normal level news. Why would you post this garbage? npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Well, it's not like anyone with shread of critical ming beleved him anyway. Those who did would vote for his side one way or another.a npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan No link to his profile, and now we will never know how retarded he really was 😞 npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan It sounds logic. Out biology developed for world where food is scarce and not energy rich. Now, we live in world with a lot of food which is extremely energy rich (won't even go into how we produce it and what else can we find in our food) and our biology did not have time to adapt. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Play stupid games, win stupid prizes i guess. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Well, with increased adoption, bitcoiners are getting averaged into population. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan There he is. 30cm of awesomeness! https://blossom.primal.net/8f04215644ebd09a88f46306cce5d7439c1817ba2391d9029ed5855eed0a5683.png It will take some balls to paint it well enough without compromising the quality of the model and the print. I hope i can do it. #nevent1q…v2ut npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I'm sucker for good guys winning, but this one....i'll gladly have this one on my shelf once hes done. https://blossom.primal.net/1b0dd87281962b41b826a0002ffa8b4a280046fb7e3f4c262a32555d5ac2e512.jpg npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan You are telling me that guy who was talking abou possible pandemic for a decade and has a lot of money to invest, invested in what he preached? npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Suicide drones need RAM ejection mechanism.....just saying..... npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan That piece of lying shit. It's sad that there are individuals who actually believe him. He way saying same thing for Ukraine. "It's just an military exercise". "We would never attack" etc. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan #3DPrinting https://blossom.primal.net/837b5d6b5b04229b30979405addd2e50669bb15809e139e4cb792d4050e155d8.png https://blossom.primal.net/84eb882b48f13ff67e2e6a13c1555efbc4e85ceed68db6f8e7fca1137a73a031.png npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I'm in Bitcoin since end of 2013 and i did not see it like that. Only parameter i saw them fight over was decentralization. Will it stay decentralized or will it become centralized and governed by basically few people / organizations over long time. Medium of exchange, store of value, none of those were important. Small blockers winning did not change anything in that regard. Big blockers win would not change nothing in that regard. Instead of LN we would have on chain transactions and stuff like that, but as far as medium of exchange or store of value go, nothing did change or would change except decentralization. At lease that's my perception of it now when enough time passed by. But you are right that it's discovering what Bitcoin actually is. That's how things are defined in decentralized systems. Multiple parties offer their interpretation and ideas which than get in fight each other and one with most support wins defining what that system is at that point of time. Maybe more accurate would be to call it "way how Bitcoin develops over time" because whatever it is now, it's not same as when block size war was happening and it wont stay this way in the future (and i don't say that with any negative conotation....if you do not develop and adopt, you die, that's how nature works form everyone......except tardigrades i guess.... Anyway, when i see how big block forks ended, when i see other big and fast block networks and problems that happen on them and when i see how many confirmations are required on them (some have fast big blocks, but receiver requires 200 confirmations) i am glad that we chose what we chose. Big blocks would not be free and i was not ready to pay the price. It's not like i will die on that hill, it's not like i won't never ever accept blocks being expanded, but i will be on careful side if we ever get to that. I'd never go even close to what big and fast block networks have. We have practical knowledge now about what happens in those networks so we do not have to guess what would happen if we did it. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Exactly! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Finished with printing: https://blossom.primal.net/800a5ceabd9da7719e4dd7551ab9ee199bcbff5a4b79fac63003f61fa77045a7.png https://blossom.primal.net/d690df327f1f2e719e3b5a7f289f74288faea40a9424f7ad299813470da82fae.png Now to post production and painting! #nevent1q…zlnn npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan In the making: https://blossom.primal.net/1df7d1b10061f6974ac4bf74dfabdbbb6666d26a39a3fc7071aaaf3924f43044.png npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan After years of gas powered backup generator, i switched my whole house to a solar + battery. Long term solution that not only keeps house powered in case of power outage but allows me to produce my own energy long term and reduce electricity bills when public network works. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan wait, they still cling to it?!! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan If you want to help yourself and be more useful as news source, do not preset "opinions". Present facts. MSM turned into shit exactly because they stopped giving news and started giving opinions. To you or anyone willing to be news source, give us data, let us form our own opinions. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Almost burned my weekend house down like that when i was young. Wooden house, full oak wood, with setup similar to this. Chimney was not going straight up but bit up and than into the wall (and that short length was almost our downfall) and than up on another side. It was in the middle of the winter, snow falling outside, and we came there after night out and no one was in for more than a month so inside was very cold too. We fired it up, filled it up with wood and fell asleep. Close to morning my friend woke me up coughing (it was lucky for us that he was breathing trough his mouth and not nose so smoke irritated his throat). Long story short, chimney got so hot that it heated up wooden wall around it so hard that wood turned into....don't know....like red hot coal. Luck was that we had plaster on the walls which prevented oxygen coming inside the wall so no open fire started. That wall was like red hot coal which released ton of smoke. We ran out, called firefighters who lucky for us came fast, prepared whole thing, broke of plaster from one side of the wall and sprayed it with foam never letting open fire ignite so house was saved and basically nothing major happened. Whole house was full of smoke, some things were destroyed and wall had to be rebuilt. Looks as cool as hell but it can be dangerous if not properly build like in our case. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan X down again. NOSTR working, Bitcoin ticking away, zaps zapping.... npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan As usual, short TikTok videas not telling whole story. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan My 3D printing game just got serious upgrade https://blossom.primal.net/1502236fbba871685c9fc4c998dd4bb56574d2c386ee044f8df75b616d753480.jpg npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan So, he bluffed, his bluff was called, now he's gonna do what he could do from day one, and he and his followers are announcing huge win. What a world we live in.....zero self respect. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I propose they make a trade. "Piece of ice" for "piece of sand" (Texas). I'm sure citizens of Texas would be glad....what do they care.....it's just sand.....right? It's not like you love your sand / ice. It's not like your family has history in that place or anything like that. It's just a transaction. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan low IQ people from place that is not even a country stol19B from US.......well....i'm not sure he understands implications. Or better said, his voters do not understand implications of what he is saying. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan crazy AI npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan The EU is buying a small remainder of Russian oil under the G7 price cap, around $47–50 per barrel, which significantly cuts Russian profit. In volume terms, the EU is buying roughly 10 percent of pre-2022 levels. Since early 2022, EU imports from Russia (oil, gas, coal combined) have fallen by about 85–90 percent. That is a massive reduction. Eliminating the last share overnight is not realistic due to infrastructure and refinery constraints. The price cap exists precisely to handle this reality: buy less, buy below market price, and keep cutting dependence. This is no different from the US continuing to trade with China while calling it a strategic rival. You cannot shut down complex trade systems instantly without self-harm. The trend is clear: Europe is rapidly diversifying, Russia is losing its most profitable market, and what remains is shrinking and discounted. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Truth be told, all words are made up 🤣 npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Excellent doc on forever chemicals and DuPont https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2eSujzrUY npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I live in country in which we pick our prime minister and some other officials via representative democracy, and president and some other officials via direct democracy, so please, drop the act. I see how changes are being done when citizens want change and i see how no change is made when they don't want it. I live it for decades now. Not agreeing with an average voter does not mean that democracy is not working, it just means you are not part of majority. For example, i do not agree with average citizen of my country. We voted in representatives for prime minister that i like 2 times in 20 years, but percentages are being thinner and thinner, change is slowly coming even in the rural parts of the country. On the other hand, locally change came 6 years ago, we voted in new face that is not part of two largest parties, and our town is flourishing so much he won last time with huge percentage win. So what it means? It means, democracy is working but i simply do not agree with majority of citizens of my country, but i do agree with majority of folks in my town. It's so condescending thinking that i do not understand how it works. It's like only you are living it and rest of us are on Mars or something, only reading about democracy on internet or whatever. Feel free to mute. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan LoL! To think that you have to be clueless about USSR governance or about EU or, which is more probably both. USSR had one party democracy which is something you can not compare to EU or US (US has representative democracy....even more representative than EU). In US and EU, voter has a choice, in USSR there was none. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan People that do not know but think that they know are worst enemies to themselves. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Truth be told....i would too. Just look at me reacting to some uneducated post on EU elections on Nostr. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan You first have to corroborate my age 🤣 npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Tariffs effect US citizens most....there is nor reason to overreact. Keep it simple, keep it calm. It would play right into his field if EU governments started acting like he does. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Yes i can see. If you did read more before your original post, you might know how she was elected. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan You got me there with pure facts! "Young" 🤣 npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan They can and very easy. They elect representatives that will vote for some other candidate on next elections. Just like any other election for example for prime ministers in countries (or equivalent government leaders). Democracy might not be perfect (FAR from it) but it's best we have for now. Once we create new, better system, i will be all for it. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I am not playing with words. Representative democracy is all over the world on different levels of government. It's in parts of government of US, it's in EU, it's in EU countries themselves. EU citizens put names of representatives that chose her in ballots and that gives them (representatives) and her (chosen by those representatives) legitimacy. Just google "representative democracy" and see list of institutions and governments that use it. It's not my opinion, or "play with words". Only one who is playing with words are JD Vance, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and rest of shitheads that want to spread this narrative that she has no legitimacy. Facts: - In every EU country, the head of government is chosen indirectly. Citizens vote in parliamentary elections for parties. The legislature (parliament) or the majority coalition selects and confirms the prime minister or equivalent leader. - Heads of State (Presidents/Monarchs). Germany, Estonia, Italy, Hungary, Latvia and Malta are some of examples where the president is elected by parliament or a special assembly. - US citizens vote for electors pledged to a candidate. Those electors form the Electroal Collage. Electroral collage formally elects the president. US president is voted in by representative democracy. - Because of representative democracy in place, US citizens do not have 1 voter 1 vote system. Cirizen in one state has more voting power than citizen in another state. - In US, candidate can win without winning popular vote. This has happened multiple times. In that sense US is even more indirect than EU is.. So....please tell me how am i "playing with words"? Show me some facts, that will counter mine, not some random thought of what someone else think, those do not have bigger weight than facts. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I agree that EU is not a state. No one with his sane mind said so. But reality is that she was voted in by representatives who were voted in by citizens of EU. Each member state has to have elections for their representatives, it's part of membership deal. You are basically writing random word salad that has no foundation in real world. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan All EU member states hold elections where citizens vote for their European Parliament representatives. That is a legal requirement of EU membership. So, yes you did vote for your representative. Maybe you voted for someone else, but that's not an issue. Whoever your representatives are, they were voted by your countryman and they have legitimacy, so does she as she was voted in by representatives of all EU countries. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan She is elected by people that citizens elected. It's representative democracy, which every democratic country in the world has in one way or another, on one level or another. Saying that she has never been elected is misleading. Claiming she was “never elected” ignores how democratic systems actually function and relies on a deliberately false standard that is never applied consistently elsewhere. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan As the saying goes, everyone buys Bitcoin at the price they deserve. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan https://blossom.primal.net/357af3ed06e25aefcf063a3cc7aacc87c62715764d10487061e1aeac5a93d668.png "beautiful little community" What level of delusion is this? npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Exactly. If you can make provocative content that will pit groups against each other and create traffic, you will be good, no matter what. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Yes but that effect has short life span. Thanks to Elon, Nostr will have more users in the future because what is happening there right now is pretty good drive to come to nostr and i see no end to it. He is pushing for such algo changes there that it can not but drive people away and make governments react, and once governments react, it's NOSTR time! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan That requires so much more information. 1) IARC is organization that classified it (International Agency for Research on Cancer) which makes classification pretty serious 2) The IARC has classified combined hormonal contraceptive pills (those containing both estrogen and progestogen) in group 1 That is old news. 2005/2008 3) so, it's old news and it's only some pills. For example, progestogen-only pills are not in group 1, they are in group 2B 4) basically everything that is tested is classified in one of groups. Being group 2B doesn't mean much. For example, coffee (yes, hot drink a lot of us drink every day) was for long time in 2B. Aloe Vera extract is 2B etc. One should not make simple conclusions to complex situation and call for radical moves. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Not only that, but scientists love to make each other proven wrong. You can pay some of them, but not all of them in all countries in the world. If claim is provable (basically if it's scientific and not just an idea) they will be all over it to prove it right or wrong. More often than not, problem lies with interpreting scientific claim by non scientists, not claim itself and it comes in few flavors. Non-experts simplifying claim, because they want to make it clickbaity or readable for an average. Non-experts not understanding claim Non-experts thinking that hypothesis is theory and theory is hypothesis and not understanding what those two words mean etc. How many times did you hear: "It's just a theory" meaning "it's just someones idea, no real proof of it". How many people know that theory is a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature, built from many tested hypotheses, supported by large amounts of evidence, makes predictions and survives repeated attempts to falsify it and that it can be refined, but not casually overturned? In many discussions with many people all over the world i never ran into non expert really knowing what "theory" is which is real shame and fail of many school systems (not only one in my country). npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan We live in society. Those that live in the middle of nowhere, without connection to society, that do not use anything from society, can't earn much really. Best they can hope to do is to be self sufficient and hope for best in extreme situations (drought, fire, flood etc.) You don't see many millionaires (or equivalent of) that came out of the woods with a lot of wealth that they created while being disconnected from society. That's simply not how world works. And when you use society, than you do own something to it. How much? It's hard thing to define. Best i can do is : "it depends on how much society you live in gives to you". So it's not one fixed amount or percentage. It depends on society you live in. If it offers a lot, you own them more than if it does not offers a lot. So same percentage (let's say 20% of what you make) can be way way way too much, or way way way too little. For example, i am not glad we (my countryman) have to pay 38% of average paycheck to my country. I think it should be less. Not because i think that 38% is too big number, but because i think that my country does not offer enough to warrant those 38%. It's not far, but i think it's too much. On the other hand, there are certain countries where i would be glad to pay 50% or even bit more and there are certain countries i would not be happy to pay even 10% and there are some that would have to pay to me to live there. So answer to question, "what is fair share" would be "depends". npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Does same rule apply for Android phones too? npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan What is Andreas doing now? Haven't run int him online for quiet some time now. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Yeah...SSD's are made of same memory modules (or something like that....basically same factories) as RAM.....and when OpenAI boutght out manufacturing resources, they halted everything....things that have preexisting contracts are not rising as fast as things that do not have preexisting contracts. It's a huge shitshow all thanks to OpenAI. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Error....not a Kingston SSD, it's WD SSD.....not that that changes anything really but still, mistake was made. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Did you hear of RAM manufacturing issues? (Manufacturers moving to produce memory for AI instead of consumer electronics) That's that.... Prices of RAM went trough the roof and other memory related items will be too. This is price of Kingston 32GB (2x16GB) memory package trough time: https://blossom.primal.net/a6ccab80275ef9194c81282fb1ae99aab037c548a9a60cc23a3a5c6d9fd8467f.jpg From 120€ to 420€ Fuck yeah! This is Kingston SSD drive: https://blossom.primal.net/c92abdb046b46c8a2138d266b815b30071b27c3c5ee3388d3acc1a958e76a3b0.png npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan You know what? I don't really think it's grooming or anything like that. I think it's not understanding how whole thing works. Why are they seeing certain content and that what they see is not good representation of the world they live in. Current X algo is pure fishing for reaction. It will throw at you most disturbing thing, no matter if you follow that content / creators or not just to get an reaction out of you. It doesn't care about anything else in this world. I came there for tech, Tesla FSD, Bitcoin and similar forward looking stuff. I'm European so i expect to get mix content, bit of international, bit local. What do i get? 1% Tesla FSD, 1% Bitcoin, 1% tech, 97% current US politics outrage. Muting and blocking helps a little bit, but as soon as something new happens, i get it force fed by algo and i have to block and mote again. For example, when that police agent shot that woman in a car, i got screen after screen of videos, screenshots and comments about it. And i got both side, not only one side. It's not like it is pushing only one side, like it pushed before (for example when US elections laster, all i could see is Rep / MAGA posts). No....both side, one below other, but what i realized is that i got most ludicrous posts from both sides out there. Posts that are dragging your fingers to comment, to try to reason or tell how you interpret video that was posted. Absolutely zero posts that would say: "It's shame what happened, pray for her family, put video recording on those guys like on cops, investigate what happened and act accordingly." No....only rage and baits from both side. Before that, it's screen after screen of Trump and Greenland, before that Maduro etc. And again, i repeat....i'm European who is following people that talk about tech. Not following single American, European or even local politician. Not even mayor of my town! But X algo doesn't care for what i want. It just wants to trigger me, to write anything to anyone. It doesn't care what i write ether. I could b swearing one side or another and it will show me that side even more just to get as much reaction as it can. And i'm sure 99.9% of users do not understand that. They see certain topic, they react, algo starts pushing it to them, and they think that it's end of the world, that everyone and their dog is talking about that topic because they do not see anything else for pages upon pages of content. They have no idea that they are being played and that they are not seeing real picture, real representation of what average people around them think. All they see is extreme of one side arguing with extreme of another side (of whichever topic) and no middle ground which in reality is most of population. 70-80% of population (i plucked those numbers out of my ass, it's just for illustration of what i want to say) is not represented in the feed. "Worlds town square" my ass. Most of loud morons would be chased off that square if it was real place where you have to look the other side in the eyes. And with that warped image that X is offering it's users, it has negative impact on society because people get wrong idea about what is important and what is not. And i won't even talk about bots.....jesus christ....bots.....bots everywhere. God forbid that you heared some news about for example Ukraine, that something happened there.....once algo thinks you are interested in it.....jesus christ....bots.....from everywhere....username_123123123, post after post with flags of countries in their names and when you see what is their location, it's on the other side of the world or on opposite side of what they pretend to be etc. Twitter was far from good, really far from it, but you could at least tell it what you want, and it would give it to you. If you wanted politics, sure you would get it, but if you did not, than it would mix it up in your feed here and there just to check up on you and your needs (because they change). But it did not force feed you....waterboard you with it. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan 100% natural, non toxic, floor heating sensors. https://blossom.primal.net/5facd792751fc45e971024c1fcca5e28a7036343a3028e819d4353457fa45192.jpg npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan This creates double standards in my head. First i don't like banning. Especially communication platforms. Than i go to X (which i still use almost as much as nostr) and i see what shithole it became and realize that i would switch 100% to nostr if more people talked about topics i am interested in over here. And it's not that it only became shithole....shithole is downplaying it a lot, it's being nice to it. It's becoming borderline useless for any sort of decent communication and algo is force feeding people topics they have zero interest in.....if X servers burned tomorrow and they lost it all i wouldn't flinch or feel like we lost anything useful. But than again....i don't like bans as solution to anything.... If i wasn't lazy, i'd insert that sweating guy with two red buttons below this text....but i am currently too lazy. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Is it even "family" without them? Isn't it simply a marriage? It kinda looks like to me that you need that 3rd party one way or another. Can't have one? Adopt! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Clients allowing local personal "algo" would be nice. We have open source very small and efficient LLM's that users could use to filter and sort posts by topics that users prefer (all local on user hardware, nothing on line). Clients could offer "outsourcing" of said model (for example i am running larger LLM's on my gaming PC most of the time) so i could set up exterlan point and client would use it for algo if it's accessible, and if it's not, it would use smaller local one (similar thing is done by Immich....you can tell it to use AI from any IP you want, hosted by you or someone else, and if not accessible it will revert to local cpu/gpu). For more powerful stuff someone could offer "algo" service that would be paed vith zaps. Hosted efficient LLM that would filter content for others (by rules that users themselves set up). Those could be larger and more potent LLM models. I'm ok with "algo" as long as user can control it and choose and pick everything from local on device to remote ones by users rules. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I don't know man....that's why i ask...what people mean by strong family. For me someone is family or is not. Like how can family be strong or weak? Do kids love and respect their parents? That's good or bad parenting. Do parents themselves have good relationship? That's good or bad marriage. Is strong family like good parenting + good marriage?