For example: put your nuts in emojis and your mint behind a private relay View quoted note →

If you post notes to a set of private relays and reference them in notes posted to public relays then you’ve got a Nostr native redaction system.

Honeypots, tarpits and the like can slow down your target but it’s an arms race for them to build better tools. This new product from Cloudflare will cost them a lot to maintain. If you really want to let the public use your service or crawl your site let them pay with sats and be excited when they scrape your content.

Ars Technica

Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

New approach punishes AI companies that ignore "no crawl" directives.

Try it out! It’s a nice little workaround for a problem I just mentioned yesterday: View quoted note → View quoted note →

Ok ok fine I’ll buy a pixel and install #grapheneos and buy an eSIM with bitcoin. It’s been on the TODO list.

Trying to figure out how to connect my Cashu.me wallet with Damus on iOS so I can zap from there. Or Nostur. Nostr wallet connect is setup but zapping still does nothing. Got my balance to show up in Nostur but can’t send. I don’t want to plug my nsec into Cashu.me which may be adding friction? Anyone have a magic incantation to make this work?

Nostr is a network where the majority of the value created goes to the users. Third parties have more fierce competition and less likely to capture a large percentage of the value unlike in traditional ecosystems like Google, Meta, TikTok, etc. It’s an inverse “tragedy of the commons” - a “prosperity of the commons” if you will.

You can discover bitcoin through an investment position (ie. NGU tech) but you can’t stay there. Holding bitcoin long term means you must embrace the cypherpunk ideals or you run the risk of destroying the very thing you “invested” in. Either you get rugged by your exchange, tricked into dumping at the worst time, or promote policies that run counter to bitcoin’s adoption.

Important life lessons View quoted note →

Ecash meet sneakernet 🤝 View quoted note →

Calling all (quality) content creators. View quoted note →

Meat space meetup! View quoted note →

If I was a DARPA-like organization with advanced AI I would promote lines of AI research with natural throttles built in to slow down adversaries. For example, the transformer architecture with quadratic memory constraints or any architecture that relies on extreme, whole-internet scaling laws for training data. They’re promising and tempting to pursue but likely suboptimal. Obviously that strategy doesn’t hold up forever but it buys time. We’ve been iterating on transformers for almost a decade… That’s a long time in the digital world.

Governments are incentivized to make policies that convert home owners to renters. If someone owns their house they pay property taxes and that’s it. If the house is rented out then you have the same property tax, but now that house generates an income for someone and can be taxed further.

Photons mediate the electromagnetic force. Gluons mediate the strong force. *hits bong* Bitcoin mediates the economic force.

“The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today” - J C R Licklider, “Man-Computer-Symbiosis”, 1960

Man–Computer Symbiosis - Wikipedia

The matrix was apparently a documentary. View quoted note →

Sean Carroll, who knows a thing or two about quantum mechanics, says the Microsoft topological quantum chip is a nothing burger: Granted he’s a physicist rather than an engineer or materials scientist but still it sounds like MSFT embellished a wee bit. Maybe this circulated around Nostr and I missed it but sharing just in case.

Spring is here. Time to take the bike and go hit some hills. Might even dust off the ol’ skateboard and hit the skate park this weekend for a change up.

Every once in a while try giving up caffeine for a few weeks. You might find after a few days that you have more energy and better sleep than when you were drinking coffee. You can also try skipping coffee every other day or every third day if you really need that experience. I’ve found that after a few days of skipping coffee I fall asleep within a few minutes of hitting the bed and my quality of sleep is so much better.