Broadcasting to the world what makes you cum is creepy. Making it your entire personality is a sign you have an untreated mental disorder. Everyone understands that, sometimes.

If your hobby is flexing on the Pours at 2am in the city in 2023, it probably is best to give that up unless you also wear a gun and want to use it.

Them: “We need more women in bitcoin. We need more progressive bitcoiners.” Progressive women bitcoiners: “Don’t say anything that hurts my feelings, bigot.” 🍿

Median sats/vB went from ≈15 to ≈60 and some of the noisiest bitcoiners responded with an offer that is hard to refuse.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Balaji *wants* the West to fail.

The reason the AI vendors are in such a hurry to bring about maximal regulation ASAP. They need their moat.

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So @a16z talked about why AI apps have low retention before https://t.co/JPJWiyyNTy

Learning about Lighting this weekend. Core Lighting is definitely going to be my jam for my first implementation to try. I should have known that if there is something cool to play with, #[0]​ would have already been there and done that. The cammando plugin is one of the first things to jump out at me and there is a great video of Will demonstrating his lnsocket library.

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GitHub - jb55/lnsocket: A minimal C & js library for sending messages to lightning nodes

A minimal C & js library for sending messages to lightning nodes - jb55/lnsocket

Fees were lower when there was more vBytes/sec in February and March. We’re hungover from the panic a few weekends ago. If you don’t *need* your transaction to clear for a couple months, make sure you have RBF enabled and bid 3-5 sats/vB. You can always adjust the fee later if the current trend reverses again, but you’ll very likely get your transaction committed at a steep discount relative to current rates if you can be patient.

#Nostr is full of people building stuff and Twitter is full of people bouncing from one pointless argument to the next. 🤷‍♂️

Ok, whining forced me to actually check the settings. Turns out I needed to turn off the show wallet chooser option and reset my default wallet again to get back to the experience I was used to. I’m an idiot and should have looked before complaining. View quoted note →

Resist the urge to run nodes in a box out of convenience and learn how to run the software you depend on yourself. It’s a joke to claim you are “sovereign” if you are just booting up a tangle of docker images on a toy computer and you have know idea how any of it works or what you are even running. None of it is as hard as you have convinced yourself it is and now you have LLMs available to walk you through every command line option and config setting for anything you might need. View quoted note →

I’m definitely not paying my quarterly tax payments this year until December. I’ll take the hit and pay the penalty. Because fuck them. It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.

Only $25K for the whole John Wick 4 collection 🤣

Holy shit, imagine getting fired via a ChatGPT generated text message. Guaranteed this has already happened.

Yellen will get to dump $1.5T worth of bonds on the market over the next 9 months. I wonder what that will do to bond yields. I also wonder what mix of terms she’ll be trying to sell. Maybe Yellen will step down and let the next commie - Lael Brainard - take over now.

I want to feed the text of the debt ceiling deal to gpt4all and ask it questions about it.

We were dealing with the consequences of unlimited free speech in 1993. It took the rest of the world 30 fucking years to catch up. I learned to distrust anyone who had the knee-jerk reaction to censor anything they disagreed with way before then, but the Wild West of Usenet helped me truly internalize the consequences of that. 2009 + 30 years is 2039. I first got a taste of building web software in 1997 and it was a mind blowing experience. It totally changed my perspective on what was possible and helped me see a new path forward. 10 years later I started a web based SaaS. It felt like a lifetime at the time but feels like a blink of an eye now. There are a bunch of things bubbling around Bitcoin and Nostr and AI that feel similar to that Cambrian explosion feeling I had throughout the mid ‘90s. This is a worthwhile read whether you lived through that time like we did or whether you came later. View quoted note →

Nostr’s obscurity is the thing that protects it from the drama queens who are addicted to Twitter and make it such a cesspool. I’m thankful they can’t get their fix here.

I’m sure they restricted private jet flights too, right? 🤣 Anyone who doesn’t see through this nonsense at this point is probably not worth the trouble of trying to convince.

This is one of the first things I noticed too. His need to appeal to Davos plus whatever drives a man to wear 8 rings is enough to convince me to never trust Ledger as a company regardless of all other factors. I can’t even comprehend what would be going through the head of a man who wears 8 rings.