I like #ChatGPT. It helps me with peripheral knowledge. So when I'm coding in non-familiar languages, it's instrumental in a way that a good team mate would be. Would you know of similar alternatives that I could #self-host and run from my local environment? #asknostr

The amount of bullshit Apple's platform developers have to put up with is unbelievable.

I'd like my #macbook dongle had a reset button. It keeps turning off when I switch monitors.

Since I started programming I've been writing small web apps to people in my spare time. Usually members of my family or church. Just to see my apps being consistently ignored by (what I planned to be) its users. It feels like I have both the urge for doing something that positively impacts the lives of people around me and do that with something I enjoy working with, so it would be a win-win. Maybe the problem is that I've been projecting my needs of delivering value into other people, instead of concentrating in the feature/bugfixing work of my day-to-day job, which also delivers value to people, just no the ones I know. And if I'm being honest. Maybe people don't need more apps, services, or #software. I don't feel like I do, why would they feel any different? Just a bit frustrating to realize I can't deliver as much value as a postman, a baker, or a locksmith.

I remember when I first opened Tor years ago wanting to checkout what was all the fuzz about the "deep web", and I opened that deepweb wikipedia (I'm not an initiated, I don't remember its name) and read an article about how we were living in the #Matrix and the corporations were the machines we would need to fight against. For some time, that just sounded as #Marxist propaganda to me. However, I eventually started perceiving that every large institution develops its own mechanism of self-protection that becomes embodied by the people who work there. Reaching a point where they might sacrifice their own lives as an offering for it. Reaching a point where they might sacrifice *others'* lives as an offering for it. The existence of institutions is not the problem. They are mostly created by well-intentioned people, but there's a bad seed that the founder might (and often will) plant there: "it needs to grow". That in itself might be responsible for governments, corporations, and even churches to become the human-fed machines we struggle against. View quoted note →

Just watched Jonathan Morrison's update on his health. It's good to see the improvements, but God, I feel sorry for him. I hope he finds a cure to whatever that is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7vnaLICrw

I don't see a point in having a list of #nostr #relays to read from. I'd like to read from the relays where the people I follow writes to. What am I missing? #asknostr

bread + butter + honey ❤ #foodstr

I'd like all americans to take the reality check (#redpill, if you will) written by the #Moldbug. His take on the current state of american politics is really good:

Heroin liberals and cocaine conservatives

"The difference between conservatism and cocaine is that you can OD on cocaine."

I understand the business perspective of requiring an 8-hour workday by default. However, anyone who has worked in non-manual labor knows it's much more about what you deliver than how many hours you've spent at the office...

I have a Samsung chromebook that I got as a "gift" when I bought my Galaxy S9+. It has always been the stupidest computer I've ever owned, until this week when I spent some time and replaced its operating system with latest version of Lubuntu. It's a very limited computer, but after installing #emacs and #algia, it has become a no-distraction #nostr typing machine that I simply love to use. I'm even thinking about buying a mechanical keyboard to plug into it and fix the unreliable space-bar.

I'm 1/3 of the way through Huckleberry Finn and this is such a good #book. I think I was missing a good adventure since my read of Solomon Kane. Isaac Asimov was disappointing and the more I read #Huckleberry, the more I understand why is it a classic of American literature.

It's annoying to talk to someone who seems to be just trying to correspond to whatever you're saying instead of honestly thinking about it. It's like talking to one of those LLMs that will agree with anything you say or will use someone else's opinion to disagree. "Would you mind taking that smile off your face, turn off the little alien behind it (yes, MIB), and saying something that you truly believe in?"

I've been working with some large data processing software for the past few years (things like high volume of text analysis and other stuff). I might be able to put kafka, neo4j, and spark to work for nostr someday.

This is a test publishing from a new computer using algia. The interface is now fairly clean and I should be able to spit out some thoughts with ease. I'm not sure that will work, but I've been liking nostr the more I use it. Hard to think it will become a giant like the other platforms with their "for you" algos, but I feel more connected to real people here.

The Aesthetic City dropped another video yesterday: everyone here should check that out #architecture

Running one's own #bitcoin node for the sake of not relying on someone else's computer doesn't seem to be enough incentive for normies to give up 1Tb storage and leave a computer running indefinitely. Eventually, people will accept bitcoin only because they know someone who wants it and that they can redeem the social contract that bitcoin represents (as money); not because they are sold on the whole cypherpunk philosophy. I might not trust a single person's computer; but it's hard to doubt the whole network one's connected to. So, am I missing something, or will our ever-growing chain, coupled with general public's unwillingness to run their own node, slowly lead us to node centralization? Will the cypherpunks always carry the burden of running the majority of the nodes to prevent it from being attacked? I bet @npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc or @npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev have something written or read-over it. Could you share?

#Tron Legacy is such an underrated #movie. The soundtrack is absurdly good, the visuals are stunning and the whole storyline immerses us so deeply into its world that the movie pops into my head here and there when (and mainly) I'm afk. The creators did a great job. It is noticeable that they treated it with care and respect.

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I'm constantly fighting against leaving stuff on my desk. It is constantly filled up with stuff what I "might need" or used 3 days ago and will not use again for a week. How y'all keep it organized around you? Everyday effort or you embrace the chaos? #asknostr