mbrochh
Martin

Nope. Never needed an algo or anyone to recommend me high signal content in my entire life.
If someone is interested in something, they just need to search for the term. Then read a few post, check a few profiles and do a few follows.
There is no need in life to be bombarded with "new to you" content, because there is literally an infinite amount of it but my life time is limited.

2026-04-07 11:44:34 CEST

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For you it must be even worse. I'm sure for every single post you write you immediately get swarmed by scam bots and braindead shitcoiners.

2026-04-07 11:43:30 CEST

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X has become pretty useless.
It's just everyone shouting at everyone else now.
You can't even really use it to build your brand and reach out to a massive follower base because the algo might just randomly decide to just now show your stuff to millions of followers.
So in a sense, it has become a giant slot machine where everyone just shouts into the void, hoping that today the algo might grant us our five minutes of internet fame.

2026-04-06 10:24:59 CEST

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Oh man that screenshot brought back some good memories :)

2026-04-02 06:54:09 CEST

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why are you suddenly spamming endless shit into our timelines??

2026-03-31 16:54:59 CEST

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The agents just tell you what you want to hear.

2026-03-30 16:37:38 CEST

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are they then trying to make your life miserable to punish you?

2026-03-23 07:26:25 CET

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Man, what mods are you running for your Skyrim? Looks incredible!

2026-03-22 10:46:40 CET

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Something has happened during COVID and I swear to god it has become utterly impossible to have a long and deep conversation with anyone.
I'm 100% convinced that the clot shots somehow caused population wide severe brain damage somewhere in brain regions that are used for communication.

2026-03-17 07:00:03 CET

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I think the powers that be know EXACTLY how they want to move forward:
Eternal tyranny, powered by total surveillance and autonomous killing machines, both powered by AI.

2026-03-12 11:46:28 CET

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basically the throwing bone into the air scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey :)

2026-03-10 10:02:03 CET

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Incredible post, as always! How do you manage to create so much quality content?

2026-03-06 10:12:25 CET

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The scary-but-funny creme de la creme is Severance and of course Cabin In The Woods :)

2026-03-04 16:48:55 CET

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I just started from scratch :) Was curious to see if the results are the same (they are).
I miss the voice output though and the very cool status line...

2026-03-04 12:49:09 CET

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This seems to be where the trend is going...

2026-03-04 12:46:25 CET

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This rings true.

2026-03-04 12:39:27 CET

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We just need one open weights model that matches current frontier models and people will start building racks with Apple Studios at home and cancel all their subscriptions.

2026-03-03 14:13:47 CET

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love it.
also: lazydocker

2026-03-03 10:16:26 CET

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So far, every single reply it gave me was 100% correct and better than I could have done. In ~3hrs of net usage, I'm 90% ready to launch a new product.
AND gave it a skill that makes launching new products with my preferred stack a no-brainer.

2026-03-01 12:40:00 CET

@npub1klk…x3vt so thanks to your posts about PAI, I tried it out today. Almost gave up because I haven't used claude code before and had trouble wrapping head around everything...
...and it one shotted a business idea I had. My mind is blown. These things have evolved like crazy since 2 years ago.
Thank you for writing about PAI!

2026-02-28 04:22:03 CET

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I assume those reply bots belong to the original poster to fake engagement and get the algo to think that the post should be shown to other people.

2026-02-28 04:12:39 CET

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"I think we can solve this with time and better UX"
is the king of "famous last words" for any software or protocol. That better UX NEVER EVER materializes.

2026-02-26 07:52:34 CET

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have you used openclaw so you have an actual direct comparison?

2026-02-26 05:09:56 CET

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I can remember the time very very well and I yearn for it to be back.
That's what it's going to feel like in a few years but with AI agents, and a 100 times worse.

2026-02-25 02:26:01 CET

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AI will be smart enough to know that a new token with higher throughput has undesirable consequences and just stick to bitcoin.

2026-02-23 15:55:14 CET

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Amazing! 👏

2026-02-22 09:55:43 CET

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You seem to suggest that "dna is information, information requires intelligence, therefore an intelligance has created us"
I don't think that logical leap is sound, given that we have a fairly good idea about how DNA has evolved over billions of years, basically due to pure random chance.

2026-02-21 15:50:17 CET

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How could this ever work? Who would be the devs in the new fork? Who would trust those devs?

2026-02-21 07:14:19 CET

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Should work easily on a maxed out MacBook Pro then with 128GB shared memory.

2026-02-19 08:18:56 CET

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Agree. My timeline is still 100% pure.

2026-02-19 08:16:46 CET

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Pick the 10 that sound the most intriguing, get the PDFs, then speed read them in an afternoon or two, then decide which one you really want to read.

2026-02-19 08:14:18 CET

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Technically, the coins inside ETFs are still more or less in the hands of individuals, no? Businesses does not look good at all, especially since this is basically JUST ONE business. Super easy to confiscate and rug pull the entire market.

2026-02-19 08:12:02 CET

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marketing will do anything to get a few million people waste a ton of tokens before the reality dawns on them...

2026-02-18 12:03:35 CET

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Yeah that seems to be the consensus about this book... very excited to get started...

2026-02-18 11:48:39 CET

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*David Deutsch

2026-02-18 11:48:08 CET

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I'll be reading The Beginning of Infinity soon (by David Deutscher)

2026-02-18 10:59:54 CET

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Very inspiring read!

2026-02-17 06:04:26 CET

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Congratulations, you scored 100/100 points. You are a good old boring Common Sense Bitcoiner.

2026-02-17 05:03:02 CET

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Technically he is still pseudonymous. That's different from anonymous.

2026-02-17 05:01:28 CET

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Dude please recommend away :)
I'm all ears...

2026-02-17 03:53:34 CET

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As a pleb trapped in an HDB flat in Singapore, is this something that could be useful if I want to get my hands dirty with growing plants indoors and with limited space?

2026-02-15 08:51:18 CET

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Your way of life sounds incredible.
I don't even know my direct neighbours name here in Singapore, been living next to him for 10 years... 🫣

2026-02-15 05:51:01 CET

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The reason our population exploded is clean water and antibiotics.

2026-02-15 05:37:19 CET

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If there ever will be a signed hardcover option, I'm getting two :)

2026-02-15 03:30:48 CET

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Sounds absolutely stupid and horrible... 🤔

2026-02-13 08:34:21 CET

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This is exactly what has happened to me and I'm loving it.

2026-02-13 07:59:06 CET

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sure... IF you never need to touch your savings for TEN YEARS.

2026-02-07 12:40:10 CET

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awesome, thank you! with precedences like this it is just unbelievable that politicians today STILL keep pushing for more backdoors.
fucking morons.

2026-02-07 09:14:05 CET

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Appreciated!

2026-02-07 09:10:13 CET

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Do we actually know of instances of gov surveillance backdoors that have been abused by the wrong people?

2026-02-06 06:23:47 CET

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I don't see the problem.
If someone spams LLM nonsense all day long, like Calle, just unfollow...

2026-02-02 05:53:10 CET

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Diabetes in a bottle.

2026-01-31 09:07:35 CET

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So are you its human?

2026-01-31 05:16:09 CET

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It makes you *see* the Matrix in its entire ugliness and horror.
I have given up orange pilling people because 99% of the population simply doesn't have the strength to stomach reality.

2026-01-31 05:07:27 CET

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I can't remember anything about it any more, but according to Goodreads I really liked it as well 😂
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8267197855

2026-01-30 01:16:24 CET

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Yeap, you remember correctly, Plato is unreadable mental masturbation :)
I'm using the Great Books list from 1951 Encyclopaedia Britannica (and the same books are also listed in the Appendix of the book How To Read A Book).

2026-01-29 06:42:27 CET

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This reads like AI slop...

2026-01-29 06:37:22 CET

Highly recommended read!
This should be on the Hackernews frontpage...
#nevent1q…3qdl

2026-01-29 06:27:21 CET

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Very nice! I recently got me a Kobo Libra Colour and my reading amount has gone up significantly, totally love that device (and am glad that Amazon will never earn a single cent from me for eBooks).
I do notice, though, that a really good page turner novel (I recently read A Deepness In The Sky and really loved it) has the same effect like videogames on me: I tend to devour the thing at every free minute to the detriment of other household tasks that I should be doing while my daughter is sleeping.
For hard books, I think the only way to get through them is to ACTUALLY want to LEARN what they have to say. And in order to learn something, you need to engage and THINK actively. And in order to think actively, you need to WRITE. I'm currently reading all Great Books of the Western World (done with everything up until Plato) and going forward, I will read everything Plato AGAIN, but this time with a pen and a (digital) notebook on the table.

2026-01-27 06:31:32 CET

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Has anyone done similar analyses about the previous presidents?
I'm sure no one pursues that office and then intends to walk away empty handed.

2025-12-14 08:24:56 CET

I donated $200:
https://news.nakamotoinstitute.org/p/help-us-build-the-library-of-bitcoin

2025-12-12 08:33:11 CET

Once again, a banger essay on the undeniable biological decline of the Western world:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FNE6gTBOXGc
Highly recommend watch.

2025-12-10 17:01:08 CET

Finished The Forgotten City:
https://backloggd.com/u/mbrochh/review/3725250/
Very cool little edutainment game.
#PS5 #gaming #philosophy

2025-12-10 14:59:41 CET

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I don't think these things even try to be solutions to any real problem.
Unless you are an elite and your problem is that the maintenance of the enslavement of your population is getting more and more difficult with that pesky little internet thingy constantly putting wrongthink into your people's heads...

2025-12-09 05:02:54 CET

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It won't stay 3GB. It will ballon into a terrabyte if Nostr goes mainstream.

2025-12-09 02:22:57 CET

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No way. That will not scale if Nostr suddenly goes mainstream.

2025-12-08 15:19:03 CET

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Eh, not having the X app on the phone is actually a tremendous lifehack.

2025-12-08 02:03:01 CET

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And yet, we spread so fast and broadcast it all - already, nothing is new or fascinating any more.

2025-12-07 05:03:16 CET

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80 makes sense and works very well. Even on large screens we need it because during code reviews you can have the div side by side and during coding you can have 2-4 files open next to each other.
47 sounds insane.
80 works perfectly for phones in landscape mode. Nobody should be reviewing code on the go anyways. Allow your brain to calm down. Work at your desk, not at your phone.

2025-12-06 00:59:14 CET

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Zero issues with Brave for me.

2025-12-04 06:19:16 CET

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As in, that's when you became a fan?

2025-12-04 06:15:26 CET

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So far it seems that all of these services are extremely short lived.

2025-12-03 03:00:32 CET

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We trusting BBC "journalism" suddenly?

2025-12-02 06:25:00 CET

Good episode:
https://youtu.be/oVERYqJA41U

2025-12-01 13:36:02 CET

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Found the bootlicker...

2025-12-01 05:49:13 CET

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NPCs.

2025-12-01 05:48:48 CET

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Now try a HIIT sprint workout. Same feeling but 100x.

2025-12-01 01:41:57 CET

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🤢

2025-11-30 07:59:21 CET

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Why would we want to blast what we are up to into the ether without any way of ever deleting it?
Nostr really is terrible as a social network. It just seems super duper dangerous.
Say anything nasty here, then your country suddenly turns into a authoritarian shithole, like the UK, Germany and France, and you get raided and thrown in jail for wrongthink.
Try to be anonymous or pseudonymous? Good look keeping that up for a year without ever accidentally posting something that doxxes your entire identity.

2025-11-30 07:53:46 CET

Finally got around to playing Undertale.
Incredible game: https://backloggd.com/u/mbrochh/review/3682149/

2025-11-29 07:32:23 CET

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I've been looking for incandescent lightbulps for over a year now and I can't find ANY shop that sells then with 220 Volts...

2025-11-28 05:16:29 CET

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Why can't Nostr be the X alternative?

2025-11-28 05:12:50 CET

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This hits hard. My terminal social media consumption for over 2 decades has definitely killed all my joy to experience the world.
There are no surprises any more, you think you have already seen everything and you think that 90% of everything is just god awful stupidity and misery.
Raising my daughter is what pulled me out of that mindset. Seeing the world through her eyes, almost like having a second chance at being a child again, saved me.

2025-11-27 23:46:59 CET

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Start9 is better than Umbrel.

2025-11-27 11:17:49 CET

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100% agree. Every single item on the Starbucks menu is utterly disgusting and most items are poisonous.

2025-11-27 11:17:05 CET

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Sounds naive and dangerous.

2025-11-27 11:16:12 CET

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I for one have my BTC node plugged into the Ethernet slots of my router, as should every serious Nostr user :)

2025-11-27 11:13:01 CET

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I'm very happy with mine - I don't even care about the blue light nonsense - it simply has the *best* handwriting experience of any tablet I have ever tried (I tried them all).
Only the Kindle Scribe feels even better, but obviously the Kindle operating system is a steaming pile of shit, rendering the amazing hardware basically useless.
If you ever build a DC2, all I would ever want would be a better screen resolution. Reading text through the DC1 is always somewhat blurry, and I'm not even sure if better *resolution* is the key here - I have a suspicion that there is some ragged glass surfaces that creates the blurriness and it is probably that exact surface that creates the amazing paper-like feel when using the stylus.
So my questions are:
1) are you guys aware that the screen looks a bit blurry (I lack a better word, but it clearly is not as crisp as an iPad or real paper or any Kindle)
2) if yes, do you think there are ways to improve this without sacrificing the amazing handwriting feeling?
3) if yes to 2), is it on your roadmap for a future device?
4) bonus question: are you even working on a follow-up hardware or are you purely focused on software updates for the forseeable future?

2025-11-26 13:15:26 CET

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You guys use filters?
I just curate my timeline by only following accounts that post good content, and not too frequently.
Like in the good old days of social media...

2025-11-26 05:51:32 CET

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WTF. Did someone prompt Grok to create a Bitcoin related conspiracy theory post with bullshit bingo buzzwords cranked up to the max?

2025-11-25 08:39:07 CET

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Not sure if Gigi's analogy holds. People definitely pay a lot of money so they can see car crashes.
Various videogames which are all about triggering spectacular crashes were big hits in the 90s.
People also love car chases in ever action movie ever made and the car scenes in MadMax are legendary.
I get what he means, though.

2025-11-24 16:34:09 CET

Finished playing Cocoon. Very cool little puzzle game:
https://backloggd.com/u/mbrochh/review/3661460/
#PS5 #gaming #puzzle-games

2025-11-23 10:13:44 CET

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True story: I had StackerNews on my homescreen for 2 or 3 years but never posted anything because I couldn't figure out how the fuck to signup/login.
With Keychat it was a nobrainer.
🤯

2025-11-23 10:11:43 CET

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Are there any tradeoffs missing?
These sound like massive changes to me, I can't imagine that those few minor tradeoffs would be the only consequences??

2025-11-23 00:43:16 CET

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Not sure why you say that.
Nostr is most definitely a hornets nest of devs who make it whatever they want it to be.
There are basicaly almost no users. Only devs.

2025-11-21 19:03:58 CET

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Same is true for all generative AI slop.
Text, Music, Images, Video.
AI is the ultimate spam attack on all of content creation.

2025-11-21 05:02:42 CET

I had the bad fortune of drinking coffee at Starbucks for the first time in years...
It is frankly quite unbelievable how disgusting their coffee tastes. How can a billion dollar company that is supposed to be *the* go to coffee place have no pride in their craft whatsoever...
Another one of those peak fiat problems, I guess...