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Every programming language can be constructed using just three logical gates: AND, OR, and NOT. Because humans struggle to process machine code composed of zeros and ones, we invented abstractions that more closely resemble natural language. Historically, in computer science, these programming languages were designed to eliminate ambiguity by leveraging the deterministic nature of logic and mathematics.
However, LLMs are probabilistic, meaning they will inevitably hallucinate at some point, even if you set the temperature to zero. My experience so far using LLMs for programming is that it forces you to think more like an architect or a product owner rather than a junior coder.

2026-05-23 10:28:44 UTC

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Good luck with your talk. P.S. Nice Lambo. My favourite Lamborghini is the original one from the time when Lamborghini used to build tractors (‘trattori’).
https://blossom.primal.net/ea40936e59a3265f01909ed6b4a060f768f4461c0f2abf14e2b5c7b5d2c7eae3.jpg

2026-04-20 08:41:56 UTC

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Anonymity is there for a reason.
https://blossom.primal.net/1c81fcc76ebb2bb3d840adacd04b53bc3bf86411e99354cef050f223bf7758fc.gif

2026-04-18 13:35:35 UTC

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You mean write a new NIP?

2026-04-18 13:23:54 UTC

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Sorry I had to check the IMDB database.. The film is "Meet the Fockers"

2026-04-18 13:22:20 UTC

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Being in the "circle" always reminds that comedy movie with Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Teri Polo.. In the script.. "This is our trust circle" lines make me lol..

2026-04-18 13:09:51 UTC

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In the very beginning, Facebook had one interesting feature: reconnecting with old pals. I remember finding people I hadn’t heard about for ages, probably because they built their database around academic networks. Then the corporate, money-making vibe took over, and we ended up doing social networking through advertising-driven ranking.
I wish the circles-based idea from Google+ had taken off. Social networking always reminds me of the Six Degrees of Separation from the Stanley Milgram small-world experiment, and even that UK-era “find Satoshi” argument game from around 2006 https://findsatoshi.com/

2026-04-14 12:33:50 UTC

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Nah, not for me. Quantum computing hardware that supposedly only breaks Bitcoin and still mostly exists in researchers’ imaginations feels like fud to me. Maybe if you were building and selling post-quantum wallets, that would make more sense as a selling point.

2026-04-13 05:35:02 UTC

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Why use X in the first place?

2026-04-11 16:21:12 UTC

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Recently, I was thinking about how data must physically reside somewhere. It reminded me of my CS 101 lesson on data structures. Since a data structure is essentially how we organize memory, I wasn't surprised that a great way to organize things came from a field outside of computer science... Organise memory like old ancient Greek https://www.mempalace.tech/

2026-04-10 15:25:41 UTC

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🤣 yeah.. So yeah, shitcoins, stablecoins, and gold bars aren’t great choices in an unstable war situation.

2026-04-05 20:05:07 UTC

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A government-issued identification card such as a Java Card–based smart card, which is relatively simple yet secure hardware is one matter. However, embedding a government-issued digital certificate within a smartphone that enables precise, meter-level geolocation tracking raises far more significant concerns. While it may be argued that large technology companies already possess similar technical capabilities, the critical distinction is that they do not hold the legal authority to detain or arrest individuals.

2026-04-04 11:51:32 UTC

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.If humanity is not destroyed by war..
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2026-04-01 13:00:30 UTC

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🤣 Joe thats reminds me.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTdOHBIppx8

2026-03-31 17:15:53 UTC

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I have a feeling that a Google engineer will be fired, just like Timnit Gebru.

2026-03-31 12:20:28 UTC

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I was wondering if there are any projects this year that relate filmmaking and gaming. I ask because I recently came across a game on Steam that I found intriguing. I think it would be interesting to brainstorm a similar game concept, but one that uses zaps as the monetary mechanic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwKL5eCiLt0

2026-03-30 04:09:51 UTC

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Quantum stuff again? It doesn't exist!
Quote:
"Finally, we calculate the number of physical qubits required to break the 256-bit elliptic curve encryption of keys in the Bitcoin network within the small available time frame in which it would actually pose a threat to do so. It would require 317 × 106 physical qubits to break the encryption within one hour using the surface code, a code cycle time of 1 μs, a reaction time of 10 μs, and a physical gate error of 10-3. To instead break the encryption within one day, it would require 13 × 106 physical qubits.
In other words: no time soon. Not even remotely soon. "
Cite them Right Reference:
Schneier, B. (2022) ‘Breaking 245-bit elliptic curve encryption with a quantum computer’, Schneier on Security, 9 February. Available at: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/02/breaking-245-bit-elliptic-curve-encryption-with-a-quantum-computer.html Accessed 21 Mar 2026.

2026-03-25 09:23:19 UTC

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Bounded Free Will.. I believe free will exists on a spectrum. For instance, I can decide whether or not to raise my hand 9, 10, or 11 times, but eventually, the body faces physical limitations. Try raising your hands 1,000 times and tell me how it goes! I guess that’s also true for the amount of information our brains can process or the patterns we can find.

2026-03-23 17:10:26 UTC

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I started my NixOS journey by reading Eelco Dolstra’s paper at Association for Computing Machinery library (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1411203.1411255). I’m still learning, and I’m currently running bitcoind-knots, which I found on search.nixos.org (maintained by Pavol Rusnak).

2026-03-19 11:08:54 UTC

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Indeed, we underestimate the economic weight of Bitcoin’s controlled supply ( https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply ). It is a direct response to the core economic dilemma.. addressing human unlimited needs with finite resources. If each of us possessed a magic lamp, such as the one described in the tales of Aladdin, from which a powerful genie could be summoned to grant our every wish, the fundamental problem of economics would instantly cease to be a concern for humanity.
My epiphany struck while I was at the London Science Museum, contemplating the Moniac. I was fascinated by what a brilliant way it was to visualize the flow of money in an economy. This led me to wonder: is the flow a closed loop, sort of “Circular Economy?” If so, the water, representing money, is finite much like Bitcoin.
I confess that I still think about going to a hackspace and trying to craft a sort of Moniac B, but my carpentry skills are terrible. Then I ended up just vibe coding a Moniac in JS…
PS. The name "MONIAC" is suggested by associating money and ENIAC, an early electronic digital computer. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine ) https://blossom.primal.net/b409a97f3c7fa4553f00921fa5a5f1938e2355e842b5d72beb97ba205c0b18b0.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/8cd4131b68254aff7ed4311dcf96cf72d80e4b54ddc9aea3991cd1ce0bc4ce21.png

2026-03-13 07:37:53 UTC

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Indeed, the 🚀Moon/Doom💀 narratives are just shifts in market sentiment. Buy when sentiment is deeply pessimistic, sell when it turns euphoric. When financial news is flooded with negativity, smart money is often quietly accumulating. When the media flips to “to the moon,” that’s usually when they start selling.

2026-03-11 19:24:16 UTC

@nprofile…x32y I remember when GoPro’s image stabilization, known as HyperSmooth (introduced in) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3PDXmYoF5U

2026-03-04 13:05:07 UTC

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👂👀

2026-03-02 14:08:32 UTC

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Like the LLM boom in 2023, 2026 will be the year of agentic AI… What could go wrong?

2026-03-02 14:04:47 UTC

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Like Blockstream and the Web3 thing… Web3 is not an Internet standard, and it does not originate from the IETF, IEEE, or ACM. That alone tells you a lot about its maturity and legitimacy as a technical architecture. Not surprisingly, they are pushing the same blah blah about Ethereum dApps, NFTs, smart contracts, etc.

2026-03-02 06:53:12 UTC

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I still think we don’t have a proper language for AI. Computers are deterministic, while LLMs are probabilistic models. Traditional programming languages are designed to avoid ambiguity, but LLMs try to mimic natural language, which adds another layer of ambiguity.
What I’ve noticed, though, is that people using vibe coding focus more on the final artifact, almost like product managers and that’s actually a good thing, especially for prototyping.
PS
Regarding progress in AI languages, I’ve been following Domingos’ Tensor Logic development (https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/tls.pdf). It tries to unify symbolic AI with deep learning.

2026-02-25 11:11:24 UTC

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2026-02-21 23:46:05 UTC

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Miners are complaining because Luke has 11 kids. That’s the problem when you marry a honey girl.

2026-02-19 08:45:34 UTC

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2026-02-19 07:20:11 UTC

Shitcoiners’ Dictionary.
Web3 – A marketing buzzword used by scammers claiming to build a fictional web with no established standards. No RFCs no IETF

2026-02-19 07:14:33 UTC

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Does “Web3” have an RFC published by the IETF, or is it simply a marketing buzzword?

2026-02-17 19:37:50 UTC

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🎸📻 https://youtu.be/8SbUC-UaAxE #onechurch

2026-02-17 19:29:37 UTC

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Any Church of England has doors opened up to the ceremony..

2026-02-16 17:06:39 UTC

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Bitcoin hodlers in bear market 🎤🎵 https://youtube.com/shorts/Zx_Ljnq8Oio?si=OsDW5-_7kmx51FSa

2026-02-16 14:57:30 UTC

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2026-02-13 05:47:47 UTC

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Normie traders have ‘Buy/Sell’ buttons, while maximalists only have ‘Buy/Hodl’ buttons on their trading interfaces. Bitcoin is the ultimate asset.

2026-02-02 06:20:29 UTC

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The Transformer architecture is not the only way to do AI. It is still not energy-efficient, so there is a lot of room for optimization. Remember when DeepSeek was released? Nvidia’s stock price suddenly crashed because people realized that you don’t need expensive H200 GPUs with 192 GB of HBM3e memory and 8 TB/s bandwidth to achieve the same results simply by fine-tuning the software.

2026-02-02 05:41:32 UTC

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We have a 10-sigma event in silver, a gold pump-and-dump that looks like a shitcoin chart pattern, and trillions of dollars wiped out in a single stock-market session. To me, this looks more like a major reset than random market behavior. From that perspective, I even think Bitcoin is behaving pretty solidly as more people begin to understand its foundational concepts.

2026-01-24 20:21:21 UTC

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About people running their own node, and in response to “Argumentum ab Auctoritate.”
I follow Carl Sagan’s warning: “One of the great commandments of science is, ‘Mistrust arguments from authority.’ … Too many such arguments have proved too painfully wrong. Authorities must prove their contentions like everybody else.”
While expertise matters—I could not fly an aircraft, perform brain surgery, or design a skyscraper—running and fine-tuning a Bitcoin node is something anyone can learn, much like playing the guitar. Much of computer science and IT is built on practice and empirical knowledge, and only in the last four decades has software development become more formalized as engineering.
History has shown that even brilliant, highly credentialed experts can make catastrophic mistakes. For this reason, we should incentivize decentralization: it builds resilience and enables knowledge discovery through the wisdom of the crowd.

2026-01-24 19:08:21 UTC

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You’re more likely to get a sensible explanation from AI than from people reacting emotionally on social media. I asked Gemini to go through all the BIPs to get a big-picture view of Bitcoin’s development history. Then I asked it to specifically explain BIP-110—its pros and cons, the criticisms, and who would benefit from it, etc. At the moment, I still haven’t changed my mind, and I’m still running a Knots node via Tor.

2026-01-20 06:55:49 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/4c05078c567d021b952746f68ba9a2a59e58434cc51402361af566ff847b89d7.jpg

2026-01-10 12:19:46 UTC

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We should deploy it on our politicians.

2025-12-30 19:53:26 UTC

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Nice build https://youtu.be/R3W9zplEiV0?si=feu5b_BMI9mqKZCo

2025-12-23 11:23:51 UTC

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The only reason he bashes Bitcoin so irrationally is that it provides him with a platform for propaganda he wouldn't otherwise have.

2025-12-21 07:45:57 UTC

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What I appreciate about mathematics is that it offers a framework for understanding nature that has endured for millennia, such as Euclid’s Elements.

2025-12-15 17:42:25 UTC

.Three Archetypes..
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2025-12-15 15:56:56 UTC

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💤😴

2025-12-06 09:34:06 UTC

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"War is nothing but a continuation of policy with other means" --Carl von Clausewitz

2025-11-21 12:23:43 UTC

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Have you tested tools like Google Antigravity ( antigravity.google).. Jules, useful for documentation Stitch useful for UI/Figma (labs.google)

2025-11-11 10:12:47 UTC

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Maybe my previous Wikipedia link about the Philips Machine isn’t working, so here’s a more readable link ( https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/news/2022/trickle-down-economics-phillips-machine-shows-how-macroeconomy-flows ) and a photo I took at the Science Museum in London.
https://blossom.primal.net/9335a67a8e4104b598c789a4ba198492b29d8006f969d9ca1dff1d26f42beecb.jpg

2025-11-11 09:55:12 UTC

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I wonder if we could now prove that hard money is better than fiat money. One crazy idea that came to my mind is for you people in economics to develop a concept or simulation of a ‘Moniac-₿’. 😁 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine)

2025-11-03 10:25:38 UTC

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The EU now is like the old USSR's big government (aristocracy), trying to control every aspect of individual life. That's why Putin is so jealous, mainly because most of Eastern Europe would prefer never to come back to the USSR system. The way I interpret all that is through the lenses of "Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin" (Department System Design and Management Program - MIT - https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/153030), which suggests it's all about "Real Power, Abstract Power."

2025-11-01 17:07:30 UTC

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"Fiesta forever" can refer to several things, most notably the phrase "Karamu, fiesta, forever" from Lionel Richie's song "All Night Long (All Night)" or the EP and tracks by Raphael Schön. It can also be the title of songs by Pachanga Boys

2025-11-01 16:58:29 UTC

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poor Youtuber hit NSA after reading academic paper about BITcoin at 'bitcoin.mit.edu'

2025-11-01 16:10:25 UTC

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How do you think Luke lost his $\sim 300$ Bitcoin and started calling the FBI? trusting Linux Kernel Devs?

2025-11-01 15:53:59 UTC

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Festum Omnium Sanctorum is a good, relaxing day for reading a book. https://blossom.primal.net/73929822b115152f1f4eeeddb850e9eb6ba3dfc9b0ed8d48be33b8a6f58ef191.jpg

2025-11-01 13:34:34 UTC

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Hashcash was cool, but thanks also to Moni Naor and Cynthia Dwork for coming up with the concept of ‘Proof of Work,’ originally called ‘Pricing via Processing,’ in the 90's.

2025-10-31 12:08:59 UTC

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More than 44K.. citations on Google Scholar, definitely it signifies that the work is foundational and highly influential across multiple fields..

2025-10-30 05:37:31 UTC

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And then, speculation about short selling.

2025-10-23 16:40:06 UTC

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it has to do with ARM and https://tropicsquare.com/tropic01

2025-10-23 16:38:25 UTC

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are you come or not https://bitfest.uk/

2025-10-23 16:27:34 UTC

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true that is the point of ARM instruction set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family

2025-10-23 12:58:08 UTC

@nprofile…2e5q geo tag at vitorian times Lodge of Fidelity No. 289

2025-10-23 12:36:01 UTC

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I was thinking about that stuff too: Secure Elements, along with Ben Arc, and the Portuguese/German national ID government. It was actually related to ZeitControl and their open-source format (see: https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2013/04/19/how-to-set-up-your-fellowship-card/ and https://basiccard.com/). Do we think it's better to keep those wire switches in a 'black box' while keeping everything else open?

2025-10-23 12:05:05 UTC

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do you intend to sell "https://145324096.hs-sites-eu1.com/" "tropic01.-a-new-era-of-secure-elements" at lnbits? https://145324096.hs-sites-eu1.com/samples-order-form-2

2025-10-22 13:30:50 UTC

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Developing a Secure Element is an expensive and time-consuming process to get the Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL5+ or EAL6+) certification. This is the reason we have very few open-source projects. I wish all success SatoshiLabs the sister company Tropic Square's with Tropic01 ( https://tropicsquare.com/tropic01 ) not only for their hardware wallet, but also their ambition for commercial secure IoT—this is more than necessary for cybersecurity these days. Congratulations!👏

2025-10-13 11:26:30 UTC

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We constantly hold elections when making decisions — within individuals and our own biological neural networks, and collectively as a species within our communities, neighborhoods, and beyond. Bitcoin is an expression of those collective decisions made by its user base.

2025-10-13 07:59:12 UTC

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I don’t like the term “crypto.” I prefer talking about Bitcoin and life. 😁 as Bruce Schneier wrote in his book…
https://blossom.primal.net/915a9d6647a8e325503c951c0135394e38f534afdc0fd3288c8314e99d3a52c3.jpg

2025-10-10 20:31:18 UTC

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All down... 🔻but gold is up.. 🆙

2025-09-28 09:31:18 UTC

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I am in favor of digital ID. I know that political parties prefer to maintain a labor black market so they can blame immigration for various problems, control the narrative, and take over the government. This is their strategy.

2025-09-28 09:20:50 UTC

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Fortifying ourselves mentally and physically reflects the gradual cultivation of resilience. Somehow, it reminds me bitcoin and sdf.org philosophy.. Ps. SDF (Super Dimension Fortress) is a long-standing public access UNIX system that has provided users with access to a range of computing services since its creation in the late 1980s. Today, it stands as one of the most enduring examples of a "community computing" platform, offering a diverse and active user base access to both modern and vintage technologies.

2025-08-10 11:44:56 UTC

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Hallelujah! Well, my only connection to Harvard is that I use Harvard’s referencing style, Cite Them Right, in my academic work.

2025-07-19 08:14:02 UTC

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At the hackspace foundation, some members made interesting experiments with LoRa. PS I am thinking about Ofcom regulations https://static.ofcom.org.uk/static/spectrum/fat.html

2025-07-17 08:06:51 UTC

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That reminds me of Bruce Schneier's book, Applied Cryptography 20th Anniversary. By the way, that's why I don't like the term 'crypto.'
https://blossom.primal.net/915a9d6647a8e325503c951c0135394e38f534afdc0fd3288c8314e99d3a52c3.jpg

2025-06-30 13:42:05 UTC

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Walfield, N.H. and Koch, W. (2016). TOFU for OpenPGP. Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on System Security, pp.1–6. doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/2905760.2905761.

2025-06-30 13:38:40 UTC

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Like OpenPGP Web-of-Trust Public Keys Infrastructure… trust user public keys, not a photo/nickname profile… BTW, the TOFU concept is also an interesting one…

2025-06-21 09:28:32 UTC

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My uni research is more or less about reproducible environments. I'll have a look at it and see if I can help.

2025-05-31 14:32:38 UTC

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true ..

2025-05-26 08:14:41 UTC

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GM
https://blossom.primal.net/f2789284efaecaa076cdb5756164bf408a24ac0ae7b90ce2fd539ac51ffa4498.jpg

2025-05-25 05:34:36 UTC

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It's a burden on volunteer node operators when people leverage the network to store 'rubbish JPEGs,' effectively seeking free, perpetual storage and making node operation more expensive. This feels dishonest. If you're contributing to this, perhaps consider switching from Bitcoin Core to Knots.

2025-05-20 05:14:04 UTC

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Keep sats and make Nakamoto’s mother happy ..

2025-05-20 05:10:55 UTC

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Adding rubbish to the blockchain will lead to centralization; everyone is a witness to what happened to ETH.

2025-05-20 04:59:42 UTC

Running Knots. Bitcoin is not a .jpeg database, not a VM; it's for bookkeeping.
https://blossom.primal.net/57f239440dc2c4fff8715f2a97f3863f642f958d3b271e2c955896885c2e571b.jpg

2025-05-15 03:47:44 UTC

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I will not let rubbish in my node, running Knots… Bitcoin is for accounting, not VMs and JPEG…

2025-05-15 03:40:26 UTC

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@Luke Dashjr CS fundamentals: Truth tables define our basic logic (1s & 0s). With just AND, OR, & NOT gates Knot, Knot ;-) .. we can construct any computational logic, forming the bedrock for bitcoin.

2025-05-14 02:21:27 UTC

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Luke talking about chemical stuff reminds Luca of the Last Universal Common Ancestor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Universal_Common_Ancestor

2025-05-12 12:17:41 UTC

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Stay focused 😁

2025-05-05 09:41:29 UTC

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That's nice; it would be nice to have apps like Abintegro {
{ https://www.abintegro.com/welcome/Abintegro }
- used in many UK universities
}, but focused on the niche Bitcoin ecosystem.

2025-05-05 08:38:27 UTC

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Some software is very resilient to changes; for instance, the Airbus A320’s primary fly-by-wire computers still use Motorola 68000 CPUs. Re-certifying new silicon costs millions for safety-critical systems. Regarding AI, many of the "hacks" documented in HAKMEM (AI Memo 239) have become fundamental techniques in areas such as bit manipulation, mathematical functions and algorithms, and algorithmic design. Now, back to the present time: making AI-generated code more accurate in any language is interesting research at MIT Press. https://news.mit.edu/2025/making-ai-generated-code-more-accurate-0418

2025-04-22 16:30:43 UTC

Enhanced Bitcoiner Keyboard
https://m.primal.net/QZaq.jpg

2025-04-18 09:12:28 UTC

GM
https://m.primal.net/QUjH.jpg

2025-04-18 06:40:15 UTC

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I can’t believe that they don’t have simulation models with billions of parameters running on a supercomputer.

2025-03-11 04:58:33 UTC

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Zoom out the market
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) -15%
Meta Platforms (META) -18%
Nvidia (NVDA) -30%
Tesla (TSLA) -50%
Apple (AAPL) -25%
Microsoft (MSFT) -22%
Amazon (AMZN) -28%
Alphabet (GOOGL) -20%
Netflix (NFLX) -35%
Walmart (WMT) -12%
Disney (DIS) -27%
Intel (INTC) -40%

2025-03-03 09:22:09 UTC

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Indeed, “awakening” is a rich storytelling topic. The Matrix (1999) sounds like it follows the Hero’s Journey template popularized by Joseph Campbell. I think this topic will continue to produce decent popular scripts as we live in a time of social media being heavily manipulated, and it is difficult to tell what is real and what is fake. In the Bitcoin case, at least we knew how to tell if a digital event occurred, got a Bitcoin network timestamp, and it could not be easily altered. I guess in finance, this is the closest we can get to reality.

2025-02-21 14:03:57 UTC

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Looks like a transaction in a mempool

2025-02-09 07:20:08 UTC

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I hope Trump t-cell will detect that type of cancer..

2025-02-03 07:39:11 UTC

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To the US: good luck balancing that massive spreadsheet. Balancing it with gold—or gold on steroids, aka Bitcoin—would be easier.

2025-01-13 11:16:38 UTC

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Probably for a good reason. I just keep in mind the real purpose of Bitcoin, to avoid ending up in another shitcoin fork.