libertas primordium
Libertas Primordium

Some people are going to come in here and recommend this or that obscure Linux project distro that a small number of people maintain as a hobby. I wouldn't go that route for a computer that you need to get work done on.
Debian is a stable, well-maintained distro upstream of some other stable, well-maintained distros, but without the bloat and specialization that those downstream distros introduce. It just simply works and it has a huge package repository. The choice of desktop you run with it is personal preference but I like KDE. It's full-featured, customizable and stable.

2026-07-20 01:12:46 UTC

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I am gonna sue!
But I'll settle outta court right now for five dollars.

2026-07-20 01:11:43 UTC

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Ironically both banks will make money this year whether they're right or wrong.

2026-07-20 00:36:20 UTC

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I don't think so I saw a bunch of people talking about sportsball and posting flags today.

2026-07-20 00:34:37 UTC

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Bit of a cost difference there but yeah.

2026-07-20 00:26:05 UTC

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Checks out

2026-07-20 00:19:09 UTC

I hate Americans on all sides of this particular topic. Both the boomers who thank me for defending their freedumb, and the anti-war pussies who try to tell me I was being manipulated. I didn't give a shit about any of you when I joined, or about politics or global affairs. I was a bored 18 year old adrenaline junkie who wanted to experience some high-risk violent shit. Now your tax dollars are paying for my mortgage and my healthcare. Suck it, faggots.
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2026-07-20 00:12:54 UTC

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2026-07-20 00:06:09 UTC

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Israeli terrorism?

2026-07-20 00:03:45 UTC

To be fair, @nprofile…vhl6 has never accused me of user error when I report an issue. He always wants to know as many details as possible and if he can reproduce the issue he adds it to his mind bogglingly enormous to-do list. All star dev right there.
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2026-07-19 23:57:45 UTC

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Bro whatever goes wrong with your client you just blame it on the user or blame it Amber and move on with your day.

2026-07-19 23:56:02 UTC

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I propose to build a decentralized pet tracker system that runs on nostr.
For $100k I'll publish a vague white paper.
For $300k I'll push a few commits to GitHub every now and then that make no sense, and maybe to a rough sketch of the hardware.
For $1 million, I'll take the money and run, still never releasing a working product.
This is the perfect OpenSats grant proposal, now gib me sats @nprofile…6z2t

2026-07-19 23:03:18 UTC

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You insulted one of his heroes. He also thinks Trump is American Jesus and space boy Lowery is the smartest man to ever put words on paper.

2026-07-19 20:09:12 UTC

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Tell me whyyyyyyyyyy 🎶

2026-07-19 20:08:26 UTC

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All they really care about is being fiat rich on paper.

2026-07-19 19:48:09 UTC

I prompted Sol on Tuesday evening to do a final exhaustive review of this codebase that 5.4 and 5.5 built, correct any issues, and continue to test and correct until there is nothing left to fix or optimize.
It's still going.
I'm not sure if I should be concerned or impressed.

2026-07-19 19:43:03 UTC

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"But if I peer-to-peer I could miss out on number go up!" 😭

2026-07-19 19:22:40 UTC

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Argentina are the white guys, right?

2026-07-19 19:11:12 UTC

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"Whatever Saylor does is justified because he's doing it to acquire more Bitcoin!"
Uh-huh... You realize that's every crypto scam ever, right?
Regardless of how many layers of financial engineering are involved, the scheme is always to extract value from people and end up holding a pile of Bitcoin.

2026-07-19 18:54:07 UTC

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"It's going up forever, Laura!"

2026-07-19 18:48:58 UTC

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I don't watch it but I've enjoyed seeing you all enjoy this sportsball competition.

2026-07-19 18:39:52 UTC

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You're conflating anyone who spends Bitcoin with being a bitcoiner. The debit card in my wallet does not make me a bank.
A bitcoiner is somebody who acts as their own bank by holding keys and running a node. They have secured their own financial sovereignty on the network. They are part of the network. They can receive and spend without permission.
Not everyone is a bitcoiner. Yes, this is elitist.

2026-07-19 18:27:09 UTC

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Yum!

2026-07-19 18:09:08 UTC

Just buy clean wine! The wife and I will be dropping an order for @nprofile…6dty once the weather cools!
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2026-07-19 18:05:54 UTC

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"But he owns more Bitcoin IOUs than anybody man!"

2026-07-19 17:50:33 UTC

It's why influencer is a lucrative career.
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2026-07-19 17:49:26 UTC

It's why podcasts are popular.
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2026-07-19 17:46:01 UTC

Most people have limited capability for independent thought.

2026-07-19 17:26:40 UTC

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He hasn't added anything of value to the conversation. He should have took a backseat and as you say stayed humble rather than trying to fake his way into becoming the hype-man of the party. He took a failed zombie corp. and turned it into a Bitcoin holding company, whatever the fuck that even is. I see no material difference between him and any of the scammers of cycles past. "Beetconneeeeeeeeeeeeect!"

2026-07-19 17:08:42 UTC

Michael Saylor... Moves into the Bitcoin tent one day...
And he's a quick social study: he picked up right away on the catch phrases our cult uses.
So he starts repeating them, louder, with more conviction...
And all of these bitcoiners start falling all over themselves like "OMG! That failed business man is saying all the things we say. I feel so validated!"
And I'm like... Jesus Christ. It's embarrassing how gullible you guys are.
At least some of them are starting to realize it. There's still a lot of Saylor dick slobberers around.

2026-07-19 16:28:52 UTC

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I value what this guy thinks about as much as a wet fart.

2026-07-18 23:40:49 UTC

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Interesting premise. As somebody who can't possibly be persuaded by an unsolicited SMS, it's easy to forget that so many of my fellow citizens can be.
I don't draw the same conclusions from it. I see this as a condemnation of democracy rather than technology. The people don't deserve a vote if they cannot assume the mantle of responsibility that comes with that freedom. This is why when this country was founded not everyone was given a vote.

2026-07-18 23:15:23 UTC

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I understand it's more crowded than when I was there about 15 years ago.

2026-07-18 22:57:23 UTC

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Old news.

2026-07-18 22:51:53 UTC

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It's an unearned sense of entitlement.

2026-07-18 22:47:09 UTC

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It would be fun to know how many watt hours of electricity this has consumed 🤣
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2026-07-18 22:41:03 UTC

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I've used two resets since Sunday, but three other times this week my weekly limit just reset early on it's own. It's almost zero or at zero and then I go check later and it's slowly dropping from 100% again. I have no idea how or why but I'm not complaining. I've burned about 7 billion tokens since Sunday! 🤣

2026-07-18 22:36:56 UTC

There are some brilliant thinkers who are bitcoiners, but there are also a lot of hive-minded cult followers who believe themselves to be free thinkers. They've never had an original idea in their life, and yet they firmly believe that the ideas they parrot are ones they reached on their own, and not that somebody walked them down that path.

2026-07-18 22:26:13 UTC

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It's a Northwest brand

2026-07-18 22:25:22 UTC

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Nothing beats Tim's, All Dressed, with a cold beer. Lays lovers are weak of character.

2026-07-18 22:19:35 UTC

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Very gay.

2026-07-18 21:45:09 UTC

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Gay.

2026-07-18 21:41:52 UTC

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2026-07-18 21:28:41 UTC

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💀

2026-07-18 21:22:55 UTC

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I used to jokingly spam every #introductions post with
WELCOME TO OUR CULT!
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While I did so in jest, I was calling out a real issue.

2026-07-18 21:11:26 UTC

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Taproot was a change. The people who pushed through such changes are now saying it should never change. I've grown tired of the duplicity.

2026-07-18 21:02:56 UTC

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I admire the tenacity. I don't agree with the ambition of people like Derek to onboard the masses to nostr. The masses don't have anything interesting to say or contribute.

2026-07-18 20:56:40 UTC

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There's enough friction to keep the useless fucking mouth breathers out and that's not necessarily a bad thing. You and I are still here.

2026-07-18 20:50:47 UTC

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2026-07-18 20:46:21 UTC

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Very preoccupied with pedigree.

2026-07-18 20:41:21 UTC

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🫡

2026-07-18 20:39:12 UTC

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I'm trying to contextualize this as an American, so northerners are twats, and when you say North, how far north are you talking? Like Scotland? Or just north of London?

2026-07-18 20:30:50 UTC

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It was a long prompt but it was basically "fully un-fuck this massive codebase that 5.4 and 5.5 slopped together. Make no mistakes." 🤣
Sol has been working on it since Tuesday night.

2026-07-18 20:16:44 UTC

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How do I un-poison my penis gland?

2026-07-18 20:13:28 UTC

Codex has been working on this prompt for four days. 👀

2026-07-18 19:49:47 UTC

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Yeah I got distracted and didn't go check it in time! 😭

2026-07-18 19:48:14 UTC

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2026-07-18 19:42:07 UTC

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You are entitled to the value you produce. No more. You're still thinking like a Jew. So many bitcoiners think they're enlightened and yet they're still stuck in the fiat mindset of receiving unearned value.

2026-07-18 19:30:31 UTC

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So you have no point. My point was that people care more about capital gains than growing a permissionless economy, and they'll sacrifice usability to get it. Then you interject with this meaningless diversion. In other news: the sky is blue.

2026-07-18 19:26:07 UTC

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What's your point?

2026-07-18 19:11:06 UTC

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"Did I stutter human?"

2026-07-18 19:04:47 UTC

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If it's more than zero, then it's functional for trade. It's been used as a currency for 17 years already, so there is no fiat exchange rate threshold where it is or is not valid to exchange for goods and services. It was being exchanged for goods on the Silk Road when the price was less than $100.

2026-07-18 18:26:40 UTC

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Something a bot would say...

2026-07-18 18:19:47 UTC

I overcooked my bacon! 😭
Some people like it so crispy that it crumbles to dust when you bite it, but I do not. I like soft chewy pork fat that's just crispy around the edges.

2026-07-18 18:10:43 UTC

I've actually done this before. It smells good but it's very smokey.
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2026-07-18 18:00:22 UTC

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Technology is fallible. Complexity can be defeated with cunning.

2026-07-18 17:57:48 UTC

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Grit.
I watched a bunch of goat fuckers with AKs resist the most powerful and technologically advanced military in the world for 20 years and ultimately win.

2026-07-18 17:54:58 UTC

# DELETE TAPROOT.

2026-07-18 17:34:48 UTC

They think it needs more use cases. They think with smart contracts the fiat price will go higher. They don't have faith in it as peer-to-peer electronic cash, a function which is has been serving well since 2009. They claim they are here to fix Bitcoin, and **they** call **you** subversive if you oppose them.

2026-07-18 17:31:14 UTC

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People who believe it needs such functionality to succeed don't have faith in it as peer-to-peer electronic cash, a function which it has been serving well since 2009.

2026-07-18 04:08:42 UTC

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There's no perfect translation that has been printed. Most of them are close enough, with a couple exceptions.

2026-07-18 04:05:52 UTC

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This person would snitch on you for wrongthink and have you sent to the ministry of love.

2026-07-18 03:50:34 UTC

I think a lightning strike just killed my central air. 😬

2026-07-18 02:31:55 UTC

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2026-07-18 02:07:30 UTC

There's a thunderstorm approaching.
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2026-07-18 01:58:43 UTC

"I am Jack's utter contempt."

2026-07-18 01:51:59 UTC

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They don't know what a shitcoin is anymore, because they don't know what Bitcoin is anymore.

2026-07-18 01:33:04 UTC

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Once upon a time they used to grant you unfettered access to their platform based on having pre-authorized a single dollar on your credit card, and when the card started declining they would send you polite emails but not shut your servers down... For about three months!
I'm the reason why they don't do that anymore. 🤣🖕

2026-07-18 01:28:12 UTC

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As long as people keep buying and trading that debt the government can keep selling more of it.

2026-07-18 01:11:12 UTC

They chose the blue pill: Regulated riches over unpredictable freedom. They see themselves as the grown-ups in the room. They've been making their case against the cypherpunks for years. You have to compromise. You have to accept regulation. We need Wall Street adoption.
Most will follow them. I will not. I don't care about the price going up. I don't care about ETF inflows. I don't care about publicly traded mining companies. I don't care about corporate treasuries or nation-state reserves. I don't care about smart contracts or settlement layers.
I care about decentralized, permissionless, peer-to-peer electronic cash.

2026-07-18 00:30:59 UTC

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I took a 5-axis CNC class just for fun. I love anything that involves precision and exacting tolerances. There's no opinions or "good enough". It's either fucking right or it's trash.

2026-07-17 21:43:57 UTC

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Bitcoin is elitist. It's up to you if you want to be part of that elite. I say it's worth the effort.

2026-07-17 21:29:34 UTC

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You're stupid. This is why I should be dictator the world, not you.

2026-07-17 21:22:06 UTC

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Took me two days last time I synced a fresh one and it wasn't on a fast connection. Often the bottle neck is the CPU verifying everything as it comes in.

2026-07-17 21:07:07 UTC

I woke up today with a sense of unease that something was wrong. That instinct was justified. Not sure yet how this will all play out.

2026-07-17 18:09:20 UTC

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Agree. Character attacks are a pointless diversion. The people engaging in them lack the mental capacity to consider the actual issues.

2026-07-17 17:18:20 UTC

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That's the debate though. Should Bitcoin users fight to preserve it as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, or should it be allowed to evolve into something more like ethereum? That's the entire bip-110 debate.

2026-07-17 16:31:09 UTC

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Not everyone has the same goal. The goal should be peer-to-peer electronic cash, but many accept any compromise that comes along which dilutes that purpose.
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2026-07-17 15:43:55 UTC

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I'm on my own team. Fuck off with that we're all on this together bullshit. Bitcoin is adversarial by design.

2026-07-17 00:19:55 UTC

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I heard data centers are vanishing all of the drinking water.

2026-07-17 00:09:56 UTC

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When I lived in a little Eastern Washington farm town I had a roughly 110 year old black walnut tree that towered over my 2 story house and shaded it in the summer.

2026-07-17 00:06:09 UTC

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I think they like really wet ground like Aspen trees though. Can't just plant them anywhere.

2026-07-17 00:02:03 UTC

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Ground cooling trees are cool. I'd rather have explosive diarrhea than be super constipated so bad it blows my butthole out and gives me hemorrhoids. What else do you wanna talk about?

2026-07-16 23:58:55 UTC

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It's not.
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2026-07-16 23:18:17 UTC

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That OpenSats money being put to good use I see...

2026-07-16 19:46:11 UTC

A vacuum sealer is one of the best tools you can buy for your kitchen, hands down.
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2026-07-16 19:02:50 UTC

I've been lamenting for about six years now that for most bitcoiners today, fiat-denominated capital gains is their dominant priority, and they will accept any compromise in the furtherance of that goal.

2026-07-16 18:59:46 UTC

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My mirror would get bored. There's like 30 black T-shirts in my closet. If it's above 90 degrees outside I change it up and wear a white T-shirt.

2026-07-16 18:34:05 UTC

I'm not afraid of a fork. Are you? The people telling me I need to compromise on my principles, and go along to get along for the sake of consensus are dead wrong.
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