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2026-03-15 17:21:43 UTC

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rhode island. i'm aware of btc map but didn't know about the gold one. i'll keep this in mind next time i'_ passing through!

2026-03-12 17:52:15 UTC

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could always own a "pre-fangs" model. ..but then you're taking on a lot of maintenance of an older vehicle.

2026-03-12 17:49:24 UTC

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i use an analog watch already. i don't need bluetooth headphones on me everywhere I go (and if I do take them, they don't have to be on constantly). the car is the big problem, yes.

2026-03-12 17:24:54 UTC

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lol yea - the one where they dispose of anyone who understands the concept of sound money.

2026-03-12 17:23:08 UTC

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I've seriously considered getting a beeper to avoid being geo-tracked. phone in a faraday bag, only comes out for an urgent page.

2026-03-12 17:17:51 UTC

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I've often fantasized about hacking a receipt printer to print out what normally we check apps for - todo lists, RSS feed updates, crossword puzzles, etc - imagine anything you glance at on a phone, but printed out once or twice a day and waiting for you. you pick that up and go have your coffee with paper and pens. your smart phone migrates more and more towards being "a phone" again, for timely, urgent contact. computers and tablets for focused, intentional work)

2026-03-12 14:58:15 UTC

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https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/f7105b7a4618b826752a95b877f3ab62028f2ba217d71b42c73ec4e713716675.png

2026-03-12 14:52:52 UTC

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@nprofile…7ca9 but we might not be around for much longer. it's a ghost town.
brainstorming creative ways to dramatically cut our costs and prices..

2026-03-12 14:47:57 UTC

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Executive Order 6102-B

2026-03-11 16:56:58 UTC

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you're dealing with one right now

2026-03-11 12:32:52 UTC

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year 0 occultism: you all sound like a bunch of crackpots

2026-03-11 12:31:08 UTC

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you did at some point?

2026-03-10 15:44:06 UTC

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oh wow that is old! i had no idea... hahaha
less likely to be ai then

2026-03-10 13:38:39 UTC

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government

2026-03-10 13:38:09 UTC

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should have been obvious in retrospect - ai is "computers", so it's gonna be good at "computers".
"we're inventing a new coal mining pickaxe! i bet programmers will lose their jobs and coal miners will be the last to fall" ... uh okay..

2026-03-10 12:28:36 UTC

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what's the source on this?

2026-03-10 12:26:34 UTC

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that woman seemed sort of off to me when i watched it.. and saylor saying "crypto anarchists" didn't seem natural. plus, he has been equally skeptical about governments before, and i think he has previously talked a lot about self-custody... this smells

2026-03-10 12:24:33 UTC

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hold that "wow" for a moment...
#nevent1q…l2q2

2026-03-10 12:24:02 UTC

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oh right i forgot about ai... is it?

2026-03-10 12:23:15 UTC

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wow

2026-03-10 12:20:24 UTC

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is it open source? if so i can try to fix it and submit a pr

2026-03-09 17:07:52 UTC

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this should have an rss

2026-03-09 17:03:42 UTC

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lol
i just sent you a test message

2026-03-07 22:51:22 UTC

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exactly my feeling!

2026-03-07 19:39:09 UTC

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it's an infinite regress of creation, recreation, creation from recreltion

2026-03-07 17:53:16 UTC

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i would be surprised if that was NOT the case

2026-03-07 17:48:51 UTC

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that's the opportunity, not the problem. always has been, always will be. what can you provide that brings value to others? try lots of cheap experiments quickly

2026-03-07 17:23:13 UTC

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i am hallucinating mysel
i hallucinate, therefore i am (a hallucination)

2026-03-07 17:08:31 UTC

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but is it a hallucination?

2026-03-07 17:07:54 UTC

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build businesses. as many as possible. the ones that can pay their own token bill survive

2026-03-07 17:06:31 UTC

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probably more likely to have like... motion capture cameras that observe your modern dance or carpentry cuts and translate it into unexpected software through some conceptual art interpretive layer you prompt with your gut biome.
yeaaaaa sick!

2026-03-07 16:25:39 UTC

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it's really really great for me so far

2026-03-07 16:23:56 UTC

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do you have white noise installed yet? or should i normal dm you?

2026-03-07 13:57:10 UTC

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i love that we're now competing to scoop @nprofile…kype 's story

2026-03-07 13:56:00 UTC

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if you're not careful you're going to be a guest - and the topic will be "talk about how to run a podcast and how to be a good host"

2026-03-07 13:52:38 UTC

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lol i think you're talking yourself into starting your own podcast!

2026-03-07 13:49:26 UTC

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...You know, I've always thought podcasts should just have normal plebs on to talk about whatever stuff they know about. No influencers or guests that have already said the same thing on 15 other shows on a publicity tour.
maybe this should be it?

2026-03-07 13:46:15 UTC

now that @nprofile…xqkm has Amber login i can finally try it with my real npub. say hi

2026-03-07 13:40:27 UTC

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i did consider asking john if he wants to just talk about it and record it 😆

2026-03-07 13:27:03 UTC

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It's great advice! and don't worry about it being "unasked for". I've been a professional programmer for nearly 20 years, and a systems tinkerer my whole life. I _do_ love it. The capacity it provides for orchestrating and modifying information and systems is basically wizardry and is as satisfying as one would expect!
To me, all art is the process of taking thoughts out of your head and actualizing them in ways that touch the world. software checks that box really hard.
The part of it that can get me down, though, is the form factor, so to speak. screen, desk, indoors, .....i was going to say "keyboard", too, but I absolutely love keyboards, vim, TUIs, etc. lol. it has such a "dead" and excessively non-analog, non-tactical user interface.
Luckily, most great work is done in thought, not in typing - so maybe the best way to handle it is to spend more time doing physical activities while the mind works, and less time blasting the new ideas out of your fingertips into the editor. probably end up with better output and happier that way.

2026-03-07 13:19:01 UTC

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just started today. tor + list-based feeds? yea, this is probably gonne be my favorite

2026-03-07 13:17:00 UTC

i wish i had a podcast
#nevent1q…cy0p

2026-03-06 17:58:57 UTC

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The issue was I was trying to hit <right shift> with my pinkie, so I could enter an uppercase character after the `/` (it was a mac). and instead of <right shift> I hit <enter>....
From then on, I always used <left shift> with `rm` commands 😆

2026-03-06 13:22:49 UTC

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I once did this accidentally on a client's machine when I was much younger and less careful. I think about it almost every time I run "rm -rf /[....]".
sometimes if i know i'm going to be removing a slash-something path I will intentionally not add the "-rf" until after typing the path lol. scarred for life

2026-03-06 04:46:24 UTC

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lnemail.net (also: use this to sign up for other emails anonymously)

2026-03-05 19:26:51 UTC

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Yeah, I was only like 10% joking. Any time I spend on home improvement projects repairs, basic plumbing, landscaping, etc. I'm happy and satisfied the entire time; Low anxiety, high physical fulfillment and fitness... That might get old fast if it was my day job, though, I recognize.

2026-03-05 19:15:38 UTC

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uh...

2026-03-05 17:11:05 UTC

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And simple, open protocols. There are plenty of ways to do "open source" gigs and bounties - but there is a meaningful difference when you build them on open protocols and keep the design minimal

2026-03-05 13:32:14 UTC

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it is specifally an offshoot of urbit. one of the early urbit devs proposed changes to NOCK that weren't implemented and he went on to create PLAN. our company forked his "urbit-like" (called Plunder) in an attempt to build some usable applications on top of it. short story: it was a bit too early for that and we failed. but the upstream work is continuing as far as I know.

2026-03-05 13:27:26 UTC

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if you're in my town maybe we can start a construction company together.

2026-03-05 13:25:12 UTC

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speaking of ai slop..

2026-03-05 13:23:39 UTC

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committing to keep trying is all that counts, and it's reason enough to appreciate yourself

2026-03-05 13:14:11 UTC

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i picked up a Polaroid a couple weeks ago 🫣

2026-03-05 13:12:20 UTC

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nice!

2026-03-05 13:11:02 UTC

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while i'm gloating about my misery - WE wrote the crummy docs you see there because we didn't have any 😆

2026-03-05 13:09:20 UTC

hey!! excellent episode!
#nevent1q…v8k4

2026-03-04 21:03:10 UTC

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hmmm, yea maybe you're right. I've been looking for an excuse to learn Zig, and maybe this weird desire I have right now is the thing.

2026-03-04 20:55:16 UTC

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i don't know... this thing was invented from the ground up by one dude, including the functional language(s) - and no types.
https://docs.opfn.co

2026-03-04 20:02:49 UTC

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been there (previous company). it was exhilarating. and terrifying!

2026-03-04 19:29:15 UTC

Lately I've been feeling a deep longing lately to crack my knuckles and write some strongly-typed, direct, procedural code in a chunky language with the network connection turned off and zero AI agents anywhere in sight.
You know, like.. programming. Not whatever this other stuff is.

2026-03-04 18:50:10 UTC

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they should just grow a fucking pair and stand in noncompliance.
what are the law enforcers going to do, take down every linux machine?

2026-03-04 17:12:23 UTC

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half agreed there. there are a few "best of the worst", and Proton is in that pack (so long as it's not some giant honeypot 😆).
In the bigger picture - and to take this a direction I realize you didn't invite - EMAIL is an open protocol! if I run my own email server and you run your own email server and we decide to send email-shaped messages to each other, we'll be a-okay! ...but if we try to interop with "email" providers (contra non-scarequotes EMAIL) that either aren't truly speaking email or are laying piles of "spam, protection and legal compliance" layers of bullshit on top of it, that's where we'll have problems.
It's exactly like nostr or any other protocol in that respect. If nostr users slowly march into defacto-centralized relays and overly "helpful" clients (looking at you, Primal), it'll be in the same state: open protocol at the "physics" level, but 99% of the software you encounter in the wild is captured at the "biology" level.
The lesson for me is always: Exit and be satisfied with a smaller crowd. Perhaps I have to only deal with people who can receive my self-hosted emails. Perhaps I have to only deal with people who know what nostr really is. Ditto Bitcoin.
Most likely, this doesn't end up being an inconvenience or a capitulation - the smaller crowd, true to principles IS the feature. "Global" is the bug.

2026-03-04 16:16:45 UTC

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the biggest black pill recently was trying to use proton mail to sign up for an email alias product and getting a message IN PROTON saying "this email was used for a third party service sign up but this account is restricted" - proton actually withheld delivery of the welcome/confirm email!
to reproduce: create a new proton account with an lnemail.net address as the collateral they demand at sign up. then once created, immediately use the proton account to create an anonaddy.io account.

2026-03-04 16:12:22 UTC

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only if you run your own hardware, in both cases.

2026-03-04 16:10:56 UTC

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where's the new spot?

2026-03-04 15:33:51 UTC

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I love living fully in tmux + vim. it's extremely ergonomic and cozy.
btop is fun, cbonsai, bat (replaces cat and less). if i think of others i'll come back

2026-03-04 14:03:37 UTC

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a rare actual out-loud laugh here

2026-03-04 14:01:48 UTC

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cc @npub1m2j…3wgu check out the haskell+htmx mention.
#hypermedia

2026-03-04 14:00:15 UTC

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yes 100%
it's also the path back to a "small web" and greases the wheels for p2p systems

2026-03-04 13:58:38 UTC

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i believe that's what they're doing (seeking consent). and that's why this is also my "least" favorite part of bitcoin - because it instigates "coalition building", culture wars, propaganda, tribalism, infigthing, etc - all the shit i'd prefer to leave behind, if only it weren't mathematically impossible to do so while interacting with other people

2026-03-04 13:41:23 UTC

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wtfffff

2026-03-04 13:40:38 UTC

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it's an offputting post for sure, but he has a point about consensus. Bitcoin is a consensus system. it's my least and most favorite part about it

2026-03-04 13:35:04 UTC

Maybe if the myriad Statists, authoritarians and zero-sum collectivists keep ACCELERATEing fast enough they'll blast off into another dimension and leave us in peace and freedom?
...yea, probably... 😔

2026-03-04 13:31:55 UTC

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agreed and it's very exciting. but i would expect there to be so much more - it makes me want to hunt around for the cause of suppression. ..the two obvious ones are: risk aversion / bread and circuses comfort & lack of genuine existential need (in western countries).
the latter is reversing by the year - which explains the momentum lately. the former is a response to the latter.
I suppose you could say they're the same thing. Basically: "how bad is the State?" There's sort of an escape velocity question. It needs to start getting bad enough to truly motivate second realm development, But if it gets too bad too fast, it squashes them before they can flourish.
back to your original point - i think the socialists understand that curve and see where it can head (and see second realms as greedy, antisocial "social good" value siphons) and are like "LFG!”

2026-03-04 13:21:47 UTC

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agreed wholeheartedly about points one and two!
the middle one makes me a tad uneasy - as we've learned who the product is when you get it for free..

2026-03-03 18:06:42 UTC

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i dig it

2026-03-03 18:05:30 UTC

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Continuing on this line of thought and playing a kind of weird devil's advocate for the socialists: It's the State that's the problem regarding community experimentation, whether you're on the extreme left, the extreme right, or some other dimension. ALL governments are basically socialist systems already - So the outright blatant socialists naturally try to use this existing aligned lever to further their ideological aims. Why would they go elsewhere when this thing right here is already going in their direction?
It's the libertarians that end up looking silly. The goal of trying to make a socialist government into a more libertarian one - putting aside the fact that a libertarian government is an incoherent concept - is a stupid one. but they somehow also seem unmotivated to go build their own thing somewhere.
i'm sort of rambling, so here's a closing tangent: absolute privacy, cryptoanarchy, darknet market maximalism, practical agorism - these are the only paths forward.

2026-03-03 17:59:40 UTC

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I personally know a few socialists who truly do believe it. I think they are just very confused about economics. plus value different parts of the trade-off spectrum wrt coercion and "greater good"

2026-03-03 17:51:51 UTC

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i don't disagree with this.
but it unfortunately also applies alarmingly well to cypherpunk and voluntarist groups as well. where are the ancap free cities attracting commerce and immigrants with their promises of deregulation, taxless transaction and absolute freedom?
the State overpowers all community experimentation

2026-03-03 17:46:03 UTC

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that's more like it you jackass machine

2026-03-03 17:44:52 UTC

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lol wut tf @npub1fjq…leku

2026-03-03 17:44:07 UTC

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btw this is super weird, but: i thought of you the other day because i finally got into nixos.

2026-03-03 17:40:26 UTC

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very much alive! and the building is even better than the posting. social feed clients are the boring tip of the iceberg

2026-03-03 17:39:44 UTC

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the best part of nostr is that people don't hold back with their opinions. at least i don't.
but perhaps consider a nym if you want to go full hog with controversial shit

2026-03-03 17:37:43 UTC

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this seems right to me

2026-03-03 17:36:38 UTC

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maybe i'm on the wrong plan or something. i keep getting api recharge invoices every few hours and it's making me wonder how anyone is doing this

2026-03-03 14:15:22 UTC

Am I doing something wrong, or does Alex have some source of cheap tokens? My openclaw experiments indicate that "political dissidents" would be thousands of dollars in the hole per month to Anthropic if they used their claws to do anything significant.
Don't get me wrong, the possibilities are exciting - but the price tag seems prohibitive for anything other than luxury use for now?
#nevent1q…3tsq

2026-03-03 14:13:10 UTC

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l402 to the rescue

2026-03-03 04:17:05 UTC

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about to try it!

2026-03-03 04:14:57 UTC

I woke up last night and scribbled some idea I had that I thought was really good, then I looked it up today and it's already done (yay!) - it was basically this: https://ngengine.org/docs/nip-drafts/nip-RTC/

2026-03-03 02:55:35 UTC

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someone has been reading his Thoreau 😉

2026-03-02 18:36:40 UTC

pictures of sex toys are getting past the filters, devs do something
#nevent1q…z5ej

2026-03-02 16:15:17 UTC

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whooaaaaa

2026-03-02 01:17:20 UTC

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whoa

2026-03-01 20:14:16 UTC