Nostr notes by Mark

https://data-star.dev https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Ki3aXgmZU

2026-08-02T06:51:06Z

https://data-star.dev

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Ki3aXgmZU

Dependency culture talk: ...

2026-07-29T21:30:01Z

Dependency culture talk: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E82ly38YEEQ

Twitter files retrospective ...

2026-07-11T17:52:45Z

Twitter files retrospective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XomSn9ocTKU

Determining the sex of chicks before they hatch ...

2026-07-02T05:24:43Z

Determining the sex of chicks before they hatch https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7_lcuHx1J2s

RAND's Extending Russia 2019 paper ...

2026-05-29T07:03:45Z

RAND's Extending Russia 2019 paper https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3063/RAND_RR3063.pdf

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. - Deitrich ...

2026-05-27T07:04:59Z

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. - Deitrich Bonhoeffe

Bricklayer's accident report ...

2026-05-24T10:32:28Z

Bricklayer's accident report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb3eG1xwg3Q

ffmpeg/vlc interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nepKKz-MzFM

2026-05-11T06:25:26Z

ffmpeg/vlc interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nepKKz-MzFM

Interview about psychedelics ...

2026-05-09T22:00:54Z

Interview about psychedelics
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Axpnkqd-Agk

Iran war analysis ...

2026-05-04T09:15:33Z

Iran war analysis https://richardmedhurst.substack.com/p/how-the-us-pulled-off-an-armed-robbery

On the factors that enabled the sub 2 hour marathon: ...

2026-05-01T06:15:51Z

On the factors that enabled the sub 2 hour marathon: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y12s8kfM6s0

US Marines introduced to their drill insteuctors 1987 ...

2026-04-22T18:57:43Z

US Marines introduced to their drill insteuctors 1987 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iOo8cjwTq5A

Brookings Iran strategy from 2009 ...

2026-04-18T06:56:57Z

Brookings Iran strategy from 2009 https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf

Tool - Pnuema time signature explained ...

2026-02-08T22:20:33Z

Tool - Pnuema time signature explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX656XCml9Q

Fil-C - compiler adding memory safety to C programs ...

2026-01-30T20:54:48Z

Fil-C - compiler adding memory safety to C programs https://fil-c.org/

The man who killed Google search ...

2026-01-24T11:15:30Z

The man who killed Google search https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Zoe Keating - Optimist Alludes to Three Blind Mice: obvious in ...

2026-01-17T21:56:26Z

Zoe Keating - Optimist

Alludes to Three Blind Mice: obvious in hindsight. Reminds me of how Joni Mitchell's River alludes to Jingle Bells.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4xVOhVX8T4

p2p video calls - I've not validated it ...

2026-01-06T18:31:37Z

p2p video calls - I've not validated it https://neverrain.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon

2026-01-01T01:34:17Z

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bdKV93pK8qo

2025-12-29T08:11:29Z

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bdKV93pK8qo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city

2025-12-29T08:08:52Z

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city

Damn hackers copying and pasting ...

2025-12-24T17:01:01Z

Damn hackers copying and pasting https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media

Good summary of the consequences of europe seizing russian assets ...

2025-12-21T00:50:10Z

Good summary of the consequences of europe seizing russian assets https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nQZnPfOh3y8

Can't find the source, but it might be by Rob Pike: ...

2025-12-18T18:54:56Z

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Can't find the source, but it might be by Rob Pike:

Vivaldi on accordion: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9SE222v1eyM

2025-12-11T07:44:48Z

Vivaldi on accordion: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9SE222v1eyM

More card magic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CvzMqIQLiXE

2025-11-29T17:21:56Z

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More card magic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CvzMqIQLiXE

Card magic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TJX-z0O9TOE

2025-11-28T21:48:15Z

Card magic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TJX-z0O9TOE

You see articles like by both left and right commentstors. The ...

2025-11-25T12:50:47Z

You see articles like by both left and right commentstors. The other side is always shown as ridiculous and ridiculed.

I'd say the purpose of this article isn't to point out the idiocy, but to encourage a polemic political world view, engage people's tribal instincts, and attribute specific beliefs to each. That's how the propaganda works, in my opinion - it's divide and conquer. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/a60eba2479acc5ec

US living wage analysis ...

2025-11-24T08:38:57Z

US living wage analysis https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie

Holocaust survivor story: ...

2025-11-23T19:06:37Z

Holocaust survivor story: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/you-have-a-mother

Great podcast on AI psychosis ...

2025-11-21T19:16:51Z

Great podcast on AI psychosis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CllJPWmm9So

UK house prices haven't changed since 1950s when measured in ...

2025-11-16T11:08:19Z

UK house prices haven't changed since 1950s when measured in gold

Also good utf8 explainer ...

2025-11-15T09:18:11Z

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Also good utf8 explainer https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vpSkBV5vydg

for music: https://strudel.cc/workshop/getting-started/ random ...

2025-11-11T12:21:38Z

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for music: https://strudel.cc/workshop/getting-started/

random similar visuslisation software: https://hydra.ojack.xyz/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M

2025-11-11T07:10:25Z

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M

Live coding trance musichttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M

2025-11-11T07:10:12Z

Live coding trance musichttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M

Funny how much of this kind of elitism touches. Rob Pike on Go: ...

2025-11-11T07:03:04Z

Funny how much of this kind of elitism touches. Rob Pike on Go:

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

More going on with immutable linux distros than I realised ...

2025-11-09T09:57:46Z

More going on with immutable linux distros than I realised https://jnsgr.uk/2025/09/immutable-linux-paradox

https://www.ee.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

2025-11-04T12:00:12Z

https://www.ee.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

I'd guess it's people ethically aligned with what nostr ...

2025-10-24T06:32:51Z

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I'd guess it's people ethically aligned with what nostr aims to be that will stick around. That's who to approach, in my opinion

Expensive bed requires an internet connection (and online AWS ...

2025-10-22T19:01:34Z

Expensive bed requires an internet connection (and online AWS servers...) https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-crash-causes-2000-smart-beds-to-overheat-and-get-stuck-upright-3272251/

Prediction time. Those who believe in bitcoin tend to believe ...

2025-10-22T06:16:19Z

Prediction time.

Those who believe in bitcoin tend to believe other things will also be world-changing technology. Specifically, they tend to overestimate the speed of adoption and impact of AI. In my opinion, they incorrectly think a change that will take multiple decades (if not longer) will happen in a decade.

Believing you're a philosopher king due to being enriched via bitcoin compounds the issue. Surprising how often this bias seems to hit.

I think LLMs are one trick, and it can only cut so deep. Unless they pull another rabbit out of the hat, I expect little to no improvement in AI over the next decade.

Straightforward explanation of US bubble: ...

2025-10-21T21:21:47Z

Straightforward explanation of US bubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXCVrLPTUHQ

It says something about western society's psyche that ...

2025-10-21T16:19:42Z

It says something about western society's psyche that something so fundamental to navigating the human condition needs to be written down.

Or maybe not. We, the great unwashed, seem to struggle with the basics.

https://substack.com/inbox/post/167631424

50 cent - Many men AI cover ...

2025-10-19T06:29:53Z

50 cent - Many men AI cover https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S4GrSKMzQg0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

2025-10-15T20:31:13Z

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

Time to rewatch it, again... ...

2025-10-15T20:30:29Z

Time to rewatch it, again...

"Every physician carries within himself a small cemetery, ...

2025-10-15T10:47:18Z

"Every physician carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray." - René Lerich

Detailed recursion + alternatives explainer ...

2025-10-12T12:38:13Z

Detailed recursion + alternatives explainer https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YuaJ8x_NcLw

Text rendering hates you ...

2025-10-12T07:46:03Z

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Text rendering hates you https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/

Want to try programming my own UI now... ...

2025-10-12T07:26:22Z

Want to try programming my own UI now... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XYFBOIr6n_s

"At first, I was going to go through a bunch of Michael ...

2025-10-11T16:27:54Z

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"At first, I was going to go through a bunch of Michael Novati’s claims and debunk them.

Then I realized I was missing the entire point.

This isn’t a normal debate where there are two sides of the truth and we need to sort through it to get to the real answer.

It’s about one side torching the truth with a firehose of chaos and distortion."

How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit ...

2025-10-11T16:18:11Z

How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator
https://larslofgren.com/codesmith-reddit-reputation-attack/

Multi-core by default code - very good article ...

2025-10-10T06:47:12Z

Multi-core by default code - very good article https://www.rfleury.com/p/multi-core-by-default

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2025-10-10T06:32:14Z

https://x.com/ForrestTheWoods/status/1976432433634607548

"A crooked tree lives its own life, but a straight tree is ...

2025-10-08T08:01:04Z

"A crooked tree lives its own life, but a straight tree is turned into wood."

James Mickens on the security community: ...

2025-10-08T07:33:28Z

James Mickens on the security community: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

Now that's how cookie notices should be done ...

2025-10-06T17:14:06Z

Now that's how cookie notices should be done

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2025-10-06T06:23:32Z

https://x.com/xwanyex/status/1974546739819651112

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions." W.B. ...

2025-09-22T11:09:47Z

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions." W.B. Yeats

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of ...

2025-09-13T05:34:15Z

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

If correct, surprising that such a big incident scores the ...

2025-09-11T05:13:40Z

If correct, surprising that such a big incident scores the hackers so little. https://decrypt.co/338864/crypto-exploit-creates-panic-steals-1k

Sounds like nostr but not json: ...

2025-09-08T06:19:23Z

Sounds like nostr but not json: https://devmesh.platformos.com/projects/unravel - and by a very capable programmer

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/163/

2025-09-07T06:54:46Z

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/163/

Me working with a midsized typescript node_modules madness ...

2025-09-01T15:23:20Z

Me working with a midsized typescript node_modules madness codebase - just substitute "crown" for "reasonable code" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOy1aOxoEc

Penn and Teller burn a flag ...

2025-08-27T04:17:07Z

Penn and Teller burn a flag https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wVSNL-3Ru7M

Solid debugging advice: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sfrnU3-EpPI

2025-08-25T07:08:15Z

Solid debugging advice: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sfrnU3-EpPI

Learning from dirty jobs ...

2025-08-23T08:32:03Z

Learning from dirty jobs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVdiHu1VCc

The terrifying power of conformity ...

2025-08-22T06:32:58Z

The terrifying power of conformity https://jonathanshedler.substack.com/p/when-pressure-to-conform-overrides

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2025-08-19T20:02:08Z

https://x.com/Wassimulator/status/1957805300716622213

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2025-08-19T06:08:33Z

https://drpippa.substack.com/p/american-glasnost-stockholm-syndrome

Fading audo can be CPU intensive: ...

2025-08-14T05:59:38Z

Fading audo can be CPU intensive: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y-NOz94ZEOA

How to do science https://substack.com/inbox/post/166679358

2025-08-13T05:16:43Z

How to do science https://substack.com/inbox/post/166679358

Sneaking changed into a git merge commit: ...

2025-08-11T12:31:11Z

Sneaking changed into a git merge commit: https://tavianator.com/2025/sneaky.html

*mind

2025-08-06T13:50:16Z

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"If you cannot take on the suffering of the Great Universe, ...

2025-08-06T13:48:40Z

"If you cannot take on the suffering of the Great Universe, you will not attain the happiness of the Great Universe either. To attain the joy of this timeless indestructibility, this great peace of mine, one has to see through every obstacle and put all of one's life into this one breath" Rev. Kanko Ishimoto

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2025-07-27T21:12:11Z

Hunger macht frei

Under the heavens, till the end, end, end of all fields, ...

2025-07-24T18:26:53Z

Under the heavens, till the end, end, end of all fields,
Long-awaited fresh breeze of the Dharma.

More optimizations https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=19ae5Mq2lJE

2025-07-24T14:29:11Z

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More optimizations https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=19ae5Mq2lJE

RPCS3 PS3 emulator optimizations ...

2025-07-24T14:03:53Z

RPCS3 PS3 emulator optimizations https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0HWOmEjlpMs

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2025-07-20T04:26:43Z

https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1946069562723897802

The Personality Syndromes by Jonathan Shedler ...

2025-07-19T09:48:06Z

The Personality Syndromes by Jonathan Shedler https://jonathanshedler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Shedler-2021-The-personality-syndromes-R.pdf

Jai demo and design by Jonathan Blow ...

2025-07-09T14:14:00Z

Jai demo and design by Jonathan Blow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdpD5QIVOKQ

Posting this with the caveat that different projects have ...

2025-07-06T16:12:51Z

Posting this with the caveat that different projects have different requirements, but I've seen plenty of programmers who consider cutting corners universally unacceptable. There are no absolutes. The correct answer is always "it depends". https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/09/23/the-duct-tape-programmer/

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2025-07-05T17:49:12Z

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https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/

Wolfram's theory of everything ...

2025-07-05T16:45:44Z

Wolfram's theory of everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Cu0_A_rfg

XOR trick https://florian.github.io//xor-trick/

2025-07-03T18:50:18Z

XOR trick https://florian.github.io//xor-trick/

"Who shall I say is calling?" for me implies that the ...

2025-07-02T19:15:31Z

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"Who shall I say is calling?" for me implies that the person is intending to lie about who is calling. Not seen anyone else suggest this interpretation

https://www.ou.org/holidays/full_text_of_unetaneh_tokef/ On Rosh ...

2025-07-02T18:03:43Z

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https://www.ou.org/holidays/full_text_of_unetaneh_tokef/
On Rosh Hashanah will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed how many will pass from the earth and how many will be created; who will live and who will die; who will die at his predestined time and who before his time; who by water and who by fire, who by sword, who by beast, who by famine, who by thirst, who by storm, who by plague, who by strangulation, and who by stoning. Who will rest and who will wander, who will live in harmony and who will be harried, who will enjoy tranquillity and who will suffer, who will be impoverished and who will be enriched, who will be degraded and who will be exalted.

Who by fire - Leonard Cohen ...

2025-07-02T17:43:29Z

Who by fire - Leonard Cohen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilGahIwQEQ0

The rule of idiots https://substack.com/@chrishedges/p-165340048

2025-06-22T10:53:34Z

The rule of idiots https://substack.com/@chrishedges/p-165340048

Good talk explaining strength and weaknesses of AI and what we ...

2025-06-20T16:48:56Z

Good talk explaining strength and weaknesses of AI and what we can realistically expect from AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ

I'd like to hear him explain what a "peaceful ...

2025-06-18T22:37:14Z

I'd like to hear him explain what a "peaceful bombing" is. A bombing that avoidee casualties I could understand, but peaceful?

https://x.com/RepFine/status/1933540737519362300