I just put this on Stacker News. Tell me I'm wrong. #bitcoin I just don't know how "progressives" can reconcile proof of work. No matter how it's sliced or rebranded, the basic premise of "progressives" is socialism, which is taking from one group (the producers) and giving to another group (the non-producing receivers). All that verbiage like a more "just and equitable" world is just framing and marketing of this basic premise. And, this premise is fundamentally the opposite of how bitcoin works. <paste this on the "change my mind" meme>

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Bitcoin: A Guide for Progressives \ stacker news

Succinct guide for any audience really (except anarchists … they don’t require bitcoin complement governance) - I almost feel like creating a c...

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Doing an arts and crafts project at the public library. The splatters look better than the project. It's basically a Kandinsky. #art

How can I update my follow list or my kind 3? I did something with a kind 10002 and suddenly my follows are invisible in some places. #asknostr #nostr

Another user's input. There's a lot of education about #nostr that needs to be learnt. Read the convo on Hive:

PeakD

Snap by @crrdlx | PeakD

And there it is. I just posted a note on #Nostr using a bridge I made (it auto-bridges from Nostr to the Hive blockchain... by crrdlx

Read the convo on Stacker.news:

Stacker News

stepping off of nostr island \ stacker news

And there it is. I just posted a note on Nostr using a bridge I made (it auto-bridges from Nostr to the Hive blockchain). Then, over on Hive, someo...

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And there it is. I just posted a note on #Nostr using a bridge I made (it auto-bridges from Nostr to the Hive blockchain). Then, over on Hive, someone asked the magic question. This is how we #grownostr, by crossing off of Nostr Island onto other islands to people who have never heard of such a place. konetik:

konetik

A text-only Nostr client with Nostr-to-Hive bridging

(under construction, but semi-working) hostr:

GitHub

GitHub - crrdlx/hostr: Hive <--> Nostr bridge

Hive <--> Nostr bridge. Contribute to crrdlx/hostr development by creating an account on GitHub.

(bi-directional bridge, post on one, it auto-cross posts to the other)

I went for a jog yesterday after having not done so for a month. My knees were screaming at me the first 5 minutes! 🏃

Debugging with AI do be like this. Put in too little info, it doesn't know what you're trying to do. Put in too much info, it gets overwhelmed and or starts changing everything, or just breaks the whole thing. Gotta stay in the sweet spot.

I've always found it easy to juggle back and forth reading a couple of books, like watching different TV shows as a series. This summer though, I chose "Master and Commander" by Patrick O'Brian and "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. Swapping the high seas in a tall ship written in the Queen's 18th century English and the futuristic cocky attitude of a twenty-something in the Metaverse is proving to be a bit challenging. #books

Views on the future with AI seem to be either a) AI takes over the world (Matrix style) and humans are in danger of extinction or b) AI will perfect efficiency for humans and we will no longer have to work and will enjoy prosperity like never seen on Earth (Worldcoin's view). I'm thinking c) AI will be like every other tool man has ever invented, such as the wheel, hammer, and automatic coffee maker. (So, you'll still have to work)

Taco Tuesday is both yummy and fun; not sure which is the greater. 🌮 🌮

How much lost dev time is caused by browser cache false positives or false negatives? I'm guessing...a lot.

I'm happy about a cease fire, however achieving lasting peace in the Middle East? Well, about 6000 years of recorded history (that is, the entirety of history) suggests otherwise. Still, I hope and pray the peace lasts though.

Every single space movie either has the people or machines go loco at some point. I'm watching yet another right now, "Slingshot". The whole premise seems to be slingshot around Jupiter toward Saturn or abort the mission, that and who goes loco first. Hmm.

With all that's going on in the Middle East, I didn't see this coming:

Diva devs ramping up again. We are back! 🍿

Love this, except seeing whatever avatar the user actually chose to represent him/hetself gives info about who were dealing with. When that sexy babe I've never heard of suddenly says hello, I know it's not real. A good side of this npub generated avatar is that it makes it hard for stupid accounts to use another's profile image. View article →

My avatar generated by lumilumi.app is one of the those figure-ground illusions. Half the time I see the blue guy looking to his right and slightly downward, half the time I see him as looking to his left and slightly upward. What do you see, down or up?

Some of the most skilled and adept manual coders are now openly using AI to enhance and speed up their work flow. Vibe coding is no more, it's just coding. (And, I no longer embarrassed.)

Some of the most capable manual coders that I know of are now openly using AI to enhance and speed up their coding. I'm no longer embarrassed. Vibe coding is no more, it's just coding.

As I get older, I'm trying to try new things. Summer is a good time for this too. So, yesterday I installed one of those "Calm" type apps. It was weird. Somehow I thought it was more than just listening to sounds. Plus, installing the thing was dang stressful. Step after step after step after almost there...etc. I never even got to the sounds, finally uninstalled it, and felt more stressed than before.