Wife processed 12 pounds of strawberries, organic cane sugar and lemon for citric acid into jam. Based on the kids' current PB&J intake this should buy us 3 weeks supply or so 😂

Boomer politicians struggling to get your oil shipped? Give me a call.

GM Nostr. A little proof of work ASMR. I worry at times that Nostr doesn’t have enough interesting content but then I recall that I didn’t contribute anything new so why am I surprised? Post what you want to see more of, who else will? Or just bitch about on chain zaps, up to you.

Egg printers in full over drive. Sunshine and free ranging acts like a multiplier.

GM gifts from @oshi

I wrote this irresponsibly fast with my Clanker this afternoon. Borderline AI slop, but the message is very true. I've been wanting to write and create content for young men to help attract their attention away from nonsense, and into truth. This is a foray into that. It's not perfect, but if I never start, I'll never get anywhere or improve. Massive assumptions being made. However, I feel that this information would have had the power to change my life at a younger age. I'm making up for that now. My hope is that perhaps it will change someone else's life for the better. Please critique and share. View article →

Anybody know if @Start9 servers are impacted by the Linux Copy Fail bug?

Something smells off, and it's not the seafood.

Important lessons being learned. We choose to not ignore the fact that evil exists. The best solution is not to hide from it, but confront it with strength and virtue. Instead of trying to keep the next generation in a utopia where they trade personal responsibility for false security promised by the state, perhaps arming them for a future where they can protect themselves should be considered. Being weak and saying you stand for non-violence is hypocritical because you do not even have the capability to be violent at all. Being strong, capable of violence but choosing to remain peaceful is true virtue.

GM Nostr

GM Nostr. I need some AI knowledge from you if you could please read my use case, and see if it makes sense. I am trying to build agents for a legacy business that is highly adverse to using AI due to privacy concerns etc. However, I believe I can integrate AI without exposing any critical information outside of their network. This is how I propose I pull that off. (I've also tested this with Openclaw and have a production ready version that appears to work fine). Essentially I need to take sales information (with sensitive data) and inventory information (with sensitive data) out of a database. I have no barriers to do that, but I don't want that information on a cloud server outside the network. So here is my solution. I have SQL reports run monthly, pulling this data from the database, saving it where my Openclaw agent running Ollama can get to it. Then that Ollama agent (hosted on a local private server) masks the sensitive data using SHA-256, and saves the "key" file that maps original data to masked data locally. Then another agent running Claude Haiku, gets the masked data, does some analysis on it that I need done automatically. Returns that analysis back to the Ollama agent, which then decrypts the output using the original mapping file. That way no sensitive data is getting onto Claude servers. Even though I am using API keys, I would prefer to have zero data retention, no training, no exposure whatsoever hence the Ollama hashing step. Is this sensical? Is it over engineered? Is it doing what I am describing? There is zero tolerance for data exposure, and this was the solution that I thought could address that. I would run all of the analysis locally on Ollama but I have several workflows that need to run using the output data and need OpenClaw to manage that for me. In addition, I need some compute power hence why I am electing Claude for the "hard work". I don't know that Ollama could do everything I need it to without Openclaw, and so far I haven't got those two to play well together. Let me know.

On the deck tucked under a blanket and the moon, getting started on another book. Thanks @Sourcenode for the reminder that I've been wanting to read this one.

Peak life experience is when the kids are restless and it turns into the most epic and spontaneous dodgeball fight. My boys usually take Mom's side so its always 3 v 1. Since I get outnumbered I throw the balls as hard as I can with no remorse. I love hearing the fear and squeals as dodgeballs whiz by them and slam the wall. So many laughs and close calls. Great way to wind down before bed time!

GM. I just had a minor personal epiphany this morning, help me think through it anon. I have spent some time recently reviewing the past decade of my life to see how the choices I've made have led me to where I am today, specifically with my career and finances. What I realized is that beginning to stack Bitcoin was the most significant and pivotal point in this era of my life. Not because NGU, but for another reason entirely. Pre-BTC I was simply trading my time for fake promises. Some people call this "work". However, until I was actually taking my energy and effort, then converting that into something backed by proof of work, then and only then was I for the first time working. Hear me out here. You can spend time working physically hard, but so long as you are doing that for a promise that another man can print, the value of that work is meaningless and null to you. The only way you can preserve your work and value over time, is BTC, we all know this. So, when I look at my past working life as a young man, I don't call it work or a job. I would refer to it as a period where I traded my valuable time for something that would eventually hold no value. This sounds like servitude to a degree when you think about it. The first time I began working was when I began holding small incremental amounts of Bitcoin, which is enforced by proof of work. To put it in a shoddy illustration, think about the Notre Dame Cathedral, or any other of that era. It took nearly 200 years to build. Imagine if the men working on it were given sand to form the stones by hand, and every time they made a completed of blocks, as soon as it rained, they were washed away. This is the fiat equivalent of building Notre Dame. Now consider how the men who built the cathedral were bounded by nature and proof of work. They used limestone that was verifiably proven by nature to last centuries, and these materials could only be harnessed and deployed through true effort. That is what saving in Bitcoin is equivalent to. So the men building with sand, were "working" but the value was toiling away. The men building with stone were WORKING and that value was preserved for centuries. I admit I was a fiat normie and wasted nearly a decade of my life trading valuable time for nothing. Who else would recognize that, admit it and move on to sound money? Those who are humble enough to study and understand Bitcoin. Bitcoin may just be the ultimate ego test.

GM. I just had a minor personal epiphany this morning, help me think through it anon. I have spent some time recently reviewing the past decade of my life to see how the choices I've made have led me to where I am today, specifically with my career and finances. What I realized is that beginning to stack Bitcoin was the most significant and pivotal point in this era of my life. Not because NGU, but for another reason entirely. Pre-BTC I was simply trading my time for fake promises. Some people call this "work". However, until I was actually taking my energy and effort, then converting that into something backed by proof of work, then and only then was I for the first time working. Hear me out here. You can spend time working physically hard, but so long as you are doing that for a promise that another man can print, the value of that work is meaningless and null to you. The only way you can preserve your work and value over time, is BTC, we all know this. So, when I look at my past working life as a young man, I don't call it work or a job. I would refer to it as a period where I traded my valuable time for something that would eventually hold no value. This sounds like servitude to a degree when you think about it. The first time I began working was when I began holding small incremental amounts of Bitcoin, which is enforced by proof of work. To put it in a shoddy illustration, think about the Notre Dame Cathedral, or any other of that era. It took nearly 200 years to build. Imagine if the men working on it were given sand to form the stones by hand, and every time they made a completed of blocks, as soon as it rained, they were washed away. This is the fiat equivalent of building Notre Dame. Now consider how the men who built the cathedral were bounded by nature and proof of work. They used limestone that was verifiably proven by nature to last centuries, and these materials could only be harnessed and deployed through true effort. That is what saving in Bitcoin is equivalent to. So the men building with sand, were "working" but the value was toiling away. The men building with stone were WORKING and that value was preserved for centuries. I admit I was a fiat normie and wasted nearly a decade of my life trading valuable time for nothing. Who else would recognize that, admit it and move on to sound money? Those who are humble enough to study and understand Bitcoin. Bitcoin may just be the ultimate ego test.