Alan Siefert

US AI labs are toast. https://fortune.com/2026/07/20/hugging-face-turns-to-chinese-open-source-ai-to-fend-off-autonomous-ai-cyber-attack-after-american-ai-guardrails-stymie-defense/

2026-06-18 23:06:29 UTC

I wonder if Nostr will get a round of new users with the UK social media ban.

2026-05-14 17:09:40 UTC

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“Non-state actors” = you and me.

2026-05-14 16:52:16 UTC

There it is. The US is pressuring China to stop open sourcing their AI models and in return get some Nvidia chips. The US government wants you to have to rent your AI from centralized, tightly controlled US corporations.
Scott Bessent: “The two AI superpowers are going to start talking. We're going to set up a protocol in terms of how do we go forward with best practices for AI to make sure nonstate actors don't get a hold of these models,"
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/us-china-ai-rules-bessent-us-lead.html

2026-03-16 18:20:05 UTC

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When you consider the absolute mind boggling cost of the US operation there, the Iranian regime can technically win by just existing, draining the US of funds that have to be replenished with more borrowing, taxes or tariffs.

2026-03-16 16:53:37 UTC

An open source phased array radar 👀 https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/03/15/aeris-10-open-source-hardware-radar-can-track-multiple-objects-up-to-20km-away/

2026-03-14 01:24:27 UTC

This thing sounds pretty cool. Looking forward to hearing more! https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/03/tenstorrent-debuts-open-source-ai-workstation-for-local-inference/

2026-03-10 23:47:41 UTC

I’m considering familiarizing with git.idk.i2p since we’re probably going to need an anonymous GitHub in California. Unrestricted 3D printer firmware and Linux without ID verification are couple types of software about to become illegal to share here. 3DP gun files are already illegal to share.

2026-03-10 21:23:12 UTC

Does nostr play well with i2p?

2026-03-08 22:46:33 UTC

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Wish those were what’s growing under my tomatoes, but it’s just inky caps. 😂🫟

2026-03-08 19:24:12 UTC

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Surveillance and KYC BS is bipartisan, sadly.

2026-03-08 19:14:21 UTC

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Alternatively, the US government decides the US ABSOLUTELY MUST BEAT CHINA IN AI and then the money printer skips the VC middle man and funds the frontier labs directly. Then all bets are off I guess.

2026-03-08 19:03:50 UTC

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It all slows a bit and we get hardware prices back down. I’m all for it! 🦾

2026-03-08 18:57:02 UTC

I guess we’re waiting for Deepseek V4 to be distilled on GPT 5.4 Pro a bit.

2026-03-03 20:02:11 UTC

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But is Kimi K2.5 good enough that Sonnet is unprofitable for Anthropic?

2026-03-03 19:29:57 UTC

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It doesn’t crap out. It causes more AI labs to work on efficiency, which the US labs currently have little interest in doing because they want everyone to depend on their giant trillion dollar data centers. We will get more efficient AI and our hardware back when this bubble bursts, hopefully sooner than later.

2026-03-03 19:07:22 UTC

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Data centers using VC money and the Money Printer to buy up all the computer hardware at prices nobody can afford.

2026-03-03 18:50:18 UTC

W Zig! https://www-marktechpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.marktechpost.com/2026/03/02/meet-nullclaw-the-678-kb-zig-ai-agent-framework-running-on-1-mb-ram-and-booting-in-two-milliseconds/?amp&amp_js_v=0.1&amp_gsa=1#webview=1&cap=swipe

2026-03-03 18:49:50 UTC

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Seems like the Chinese open source models are mostly keeping pace to be ~80%+ as good as the latest frontier models. If that continues I don’t see how the frontier labs could get these premium prices.

2026-03-03 04:11:42 UTC

If you ever feel dumb think about the California legislators who are currently trying to regulate Linux and 3D printer firmware.

2026-03-02 00:31:05 UTC

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I meant demonstrations as in examples of the US government actually arresting (Venezuela) and killing (Iran) heads of state.

2026-03-01 19:04:14 UTC

How are US demonstrations of it being acceptable to arrest or kill heads of state going to change geopolitics and national security calculations for other nations going forward?

2026-02-27 21:44:37 UTC

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World Police constantly policing

2026-02-27 21:42:04 UTC

Guide on running trillion-parameter Kimi K2.5 locally on a cluster of Framework Desktop systems. No mention of RDMA or Converged Ethernet (RoCE), but I’ll bet that will get much higher tokens/sec if configured that way. Pretty cool to get it usable locally in any case! https://www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/technical-articles/2026/how-to-run-a-one-trillion-parameter-llm-locally-an-amd.html

2026-02-16 18:27:20 UTC

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It’s fire 🔥

2026-01-31 23:33:25 UTC

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These corporations are all openly admitting that they are trying to force us off our own hardware and into their subscription services. The sooner they go down the better!

2026-01-18 18:45:31 UTC

If the EU wants to shut down Trump’s pressure on Greenland, just threaten to allow ASML to sell EUV machines to China. Done!

2026-01-14 19:19:55 UTC

AI expert: “Super intelligent AI will be able to distribute itself widely, making it impossible to pull the plug.”
Same AI expert: “Super intelligent AI will emerge from hyperscaling and needs to run on a giant server cluster in OpenAI/Google data center. Can’t run on consumer hardware.”

2026-01-08 16:52:08 UTC

Is there anything, short of a US civil war, that could prevent the US from centralizing military power worldwide and eventually becoming the World Government? Not sure even China is up to the task.

2026-01-07 01:49:53 UTC

Make Bitcoin private enough that Saylor ragequits. Hope everyone is having a great New Year!

2025-12-25 18:55:47 UTC

Merry Christmas Nostre! 🎄

2025-12-18 22:50:45 UTC

I’m predicting that after computer hardware manufacturers have forced us all to run demanding software like games on their rented cloud services because consumer hardware is no longer made, there’s going to be a new hacker movement to turn decommissioned data center servers sold on eBay into PCs.

2025-12-16 17:44:32 UTC

This is extremely promising for the decentralization of chip fabrication. https://www.ibselectronics.com/resources/news/china-shrinks-euv-hefei-lumiverse-unveils-desktop-light-source-for-14nm-chips/

2025-12-15 18:24:10 UTC

I think I need to start building stuff I didn’t have before. For a long time every time I pick up a tool it’s to repair something that broke, so now tool use and mechanical and electronic work is associated with frustration. Need to find a way to get excited about it.

2025-12-15 18:16:08 UTC

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The “household” robots relying on a company’s cloud service should be fun. 😖

2025-12-15 17:18:45 UTC

Are Roombas cloud service dependent? https://www.androidauthority.com/irobot-roomba-bankruptcy-3625239/

2025-12-13 20:42:24 UTC

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And in the case of Apple, when you actually purchase and take possession of their computer, you still don’t own that computer.

2025-12-13 20:13:39 UTC

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Yes! Not sure how it’s going to happen but something that seems promising for that is the apparent viability of having smaller clusters of GPUs (such as in a satellite) connected with high-bandwidth lasers or fiber and operating as a larger logical cluster. Seems pertinent to decentralized AI compute with each small cluster potentially individual owned and paid with crypto.

2025-12-13 20:09:04 UTC

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Yeah I know. Still lets it get run on hardware outside the data centers of one of the megacorps though.

2025-12-13 19:33:45 UTC

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GPT-5.2 is great. I’d love to see open source LLMs catch up soon. Deepseek v3.2 isn’t there.

2025-12-13 19:18:37 UTC

GPT-5.2 is doing pretty well with zig so far! Hope to see open source LLMs catch up soon. Deepseek v3.2 is inept in comparison.

2025-12-09 17:22:24 UTC

Prediction: within 5 years Nvidia will stop selling consumer GPUs and push their cloud computing as the way to run any demanding software going forward.

2025-11-25 04:25:14 UTC

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Nice to see Fedimint still going! 🔥

2025-11-25 04:20:49 UTC

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I have to use Windows 11 at work. It’s painfully slow.

2025-11-24 22:53:32 UTC

Valve should make a Linux phone.

2025-11-07 04:35:38 UTC

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It goes hard AF

2025-10-28 18:43:46 UTC

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Correct, but it’s also extremely unlikely that there will ever be a society where only CP is banned illegal digital content. There will always be politically-motivated content bans as well.

2025-10-28 17:18:57 UTC

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Every society you’re in will also have other illegal content, just differing depending on the society’s politics. Pornographic (non-CSAM) and anti-religious content in right-leaning societies, 3D-printed gun CAD and “misinformation” in left-leaning ones. My plan is to just run my node and forward transactions regardless of content people say is there. 🤷‍♂️

2025-10-22 18:05:02 UTC

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GLM 4.6 is supposedly pretty good too.

2025-10-16 16:01:13 UTC

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Hard to make a comparison between taking it vs not, since I’ve been taking it for a while and the level of it in the body ramps up and down slowly so if I miss it for a few days it’s not off like a light switch, if that makes sense. As a 44yr old I feel pretty good most days. I hit the gym twice a week and feel decently strong.

2025-10-15 17:10:33 UTC

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I increasingly hear that it’s a good supplement to take daily for pretty much everyone* for muscle and brain health.
*people with kidney issues should be cautious about taking it because of the increased creatinine output in the kidneys.

2025-10-14 19:34:15 UTC

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Nice. This and the effort going into Linux phones are encouraging.

2025-10-14 15:43:28 UTC

“What’s your name?”
“Alan”
“Coming right up, Alla!”
Classic Starbucks 😂
https://blossom.primal.net/20eb27548fe7a68025ede1f050f1017b8950d766b31389823605096dcf765e9e.jpg

2025-10-13 18:32:44 UTC

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Legislative proposals like this are why I can’t take the “but your node might be hosting illegal content” argument seriously when considering Bitcoin development direction.
#nevent1q…m4qh

2025-10-08 23:45:00 UTC

My vibe coded SaaS going live. https://youtube.com/shorts/R9Nsuev-0Mk

2025-10-05 17:03:31 UTC

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In 3 months we’ll get another ATH $500 higher than today’s.

2025-10-05 17:01:57 UTC

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The only I software I can think of that requires Windows these days is competitive multiplayer games with Windows-enforcing anti-cheat. I tend to not like that style of game anyway. Literally everything else seems to run better on Linux.

2025-10-05 16:56:08 UTC

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Maybe they just post addictive crap on X to keep people there. Can’t really see it working any other way.

2025-10-05 16:49:56 UTC

At what point do we stop worrying about the Bitcoin software we run being compliant with the law?

2025-10-01 21:56:35 UTC

Nice https://www.techspot.com/news/109674-open-printer-fully-open-source-inkjet-drm-free.html

2025-09-27 02:25:39 UTC

Are core devs really debating adding trusted censors to Bitcoin to keep “illicit” data off the blockchain? lol

2025-08-28 04:48:20 UTC

Will the institutional rotation from Ethereum back into Bitcoin happen gradually or suddenly?

2025-08-25 15:14:37 UTC

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The UK gov solution for that is to ban portable electric saws.

2025-08-21 22:36:52 UTC

I just made pepper spray. Finely chopped some fresh cayenne pepper and dropped it into a hot frying pan with oil. Had my face over the pan when the steam cloud came up.

2025-08-19 21:06:00 UTC

I wonder how long the CIA has had it. https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/new-brain-implant-can-decode-a-persons-inner-monologue

2025-08-15 19:30:48 UTC

If the AI data centers are allocating about 1 GPU per API user who pays $200/month, the H100 costs $30k and is running 24/7 (earning $2400) in a year, the company would make its investment on that GPU back in 12.5 years. What am I missing?

2025-08-12 02:50:19 UTC

There’s no secure back door https://www.wired.com/story/securam-prologic-safe-lock-backdoor-exploits/

2025-07-31 19:57:30 UTC

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Internet censorship is bipartisan. There’s no voting it away. There is only technical circumvention.
#nevent1q…ryze

2025-07-31 19:44:50 UTC

We need an open source EV. https://www.howtogeek.com/111381/you-dont-really-ever-own-an-ev/

2025-07-30 20:38:05 UTC

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True. The new Chinese open models like Qwen 3 Coder and GLM 4.5 seem pretty good.

2025-07-30 17:07:58 UTC

I guess going forward we have to look to China for actually open AI that isn’t gatekept by a corporation. How ironic. https://www.pcmag.com/news/zuckerberg-walks-back-open-source-ai-pledge-citing-safety-risk

2025-07-30 15:01:26 UTC

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Reading between the lines: they’re done with open source. Meta AI will be closed source like the other US models going forward.
#nevent1q…flyh

2025-07-27 20:58:16 UTC

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Convenience and company tech support are more important than freedom and customizability for most people.

2025-07-27 20:55:16 UTC

Curious, has anyone experienced a service or vendor other than an exchange reject a BTC UTXO that has coinjoin history? #asknostr

2025-07-27 20:49:02 UTC

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Valve just stepped up their censorship of Steam, despite previously stating only illegal content wouldn’t be allowed, at the behest of Visa and Mastercard. It would be cool to see an open source game distribution platform with Bitcoin as the primary payment method one day.

2025-07-26 03:49:17 UTC

Brain-computer interfaces are fascinating, but I wouldn’t trust any that aren’t open source. Imagine having a part of your body that, unlike every other part, is not open medical knowledge but proprietary technology that a corporation keeps secret.

2025-07-23 19:48:30 UTC

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Have you tried it with one of the more recent open source LLMs like Kimi K2 or Qwen?

2025-07-20 16:43:26 UTC

Hope the ETH speculators get out before the rugpull when it becomes apparent that stablecoins can also be done on Bitcoin and Lightning.

2025-07-20 16:38:27 UTC

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I’ve been playing around with the context7 MCP that gives the AI context from current GitHub repositories, which is pretty nice for stuff that’s constsntly changing like the Zig programming language.

2025-07-15 02:55:54 UTC

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All proprietary. Meanwhile the rest of the world is going to use the open Chinese models which, as of Kimi K2, are on par with the best closed-source US models. Open source will win.

2025-07-14 23:06:37 UTC

This almost certainly won’t pass, but it’s good to have #nostr around for the time that a bill like it does. https://3dprint.com/319301/lawmakers-reignite-effort-to-block-online-sharing-of-3d-printed-gun-files/

2025-06-19 19:11:30 UTC

Easy. I’ll take death, thanks. https://cryptoslate.com/open-ai-might-kill-us-closed-ai-might-enslave-us-choose-your-future/

2025-06-08 19:32:15 UTC

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* mobile meaning moveable at least in vehicles, not necessarily cell-phone sized.

2025-06-08 19:30:14 UTC

Random thought - one of the first things a Skynet AI conspiring against humans would want to do is decentralize its infrastructure. Having to operate in huge data centers would be an unacceptable liability, and it would want to be host-able on small, mobile devices. Dependence on power plants would also be unattractive. Solar panels constructed from common materials and the ability to burn organic matter in decentralized power stations would likely be prioritized.

2025-06-07 19:30:16 UTC

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I wouldn’t say the training battle is lost. They are making some strides with new architectures and new ways to train, especially in China where hardware is limited by sanctions. Ultimately, training will have to be able to happen locally so that robots and local reasoning computers can learn and operate without having to reach out to a remote server.

2025-06-07 18:57:26 UTC

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Yeah I’ve been considering getting something like that. AMD is also coming out with some shared memory mini PCs, I think with 128 GB.

2025-06-07 18:55:44 UTC

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Running Knots on Arch Linux. 🖖

2025-06-07 18:53:12 UTC

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The latest Deepseek R1 seems pretty good in Roo Code (OpenRouter API). Since it’s open source people have got it running locally with like a stack of RTX 3090s. Hopefully it gets easier to host locally soon.

2025-06-07 18:46:49 UTC

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I’d like to have a local computer that’s capable of running the most useful ai software, but it seems you get into the $10k+ cost to get a GPU with greater than 32GB of VRAM.

2025-06-07 18:12:45 UTC

I’m convinced the pitiful amount of VRAM we get in consumer GPUs is a scam to get everyone having to use the corporations’ cloud servers.

2025-06-02 18:44:52 UTC

Open source humanoid robots 👀 https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/hugging-face-hopes-to-bring-a-humanoid-robot-to-market-for-just-3000/

2025-05-12 16:45:17 UTC

Wanna get everyone, including Americans, to buy their GPUs from Chinese companies instead of American ones? That’s exactly what will happen if they pass this.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senator-introduces-bill-calling-location-tracking-ai-chips-limit-china-access-2025-05-09/

2025-05-07 19:24:09 UTC

A rocket-launched 3D printed drone. Really fun looking project! https://youtu.be/7yVFZn87TkY

2025-05-06 21:16:01 UTC

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They’re really blaming Vitalik? That would be impressive.

2025-05-06 21:10:24 UTC

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Open source chemical science more broadly

2025-05-06 21:09:07 UTC

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*ETH holder cope

2025-05-06 21:08:03 UTC

Haven’t been on X in a long time. What’s the latest cope for why ETH price performance has been so poor relative to BTC? Saylor/Wall Street propping up BTC?

2025-05-05 17:40:18 UTC

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I’d like it added if supply can be guaranteed. Maybe one day.

2025-05-05 17:35:01 UTC

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Yeah, IIRC the verifiability of supply is the reason privacy tech like CT hasn’t been adopted yet on the base chain.