I am getting relay time-outs... if you care for what I have to say 🤨, wss://relay.mess.ch is where you find me.

As we work with AI smartly, we will get a massive productivity boost. And we get evaluated and rated by the engine. There will be committees assembled by the leading AI engines and some of you will get a call and perhaps even a medal like "Member of the Global Brain Atrophy Committee" ... jk ..., but realistic it is to be expected.

Working with ChatGPT is like working with an optimistic colleague who takes one step at a time and takes feedback really well. This is me and ChatGPT writing a little Rust program that calculates the final seedword for a set of 11 or 23. The draft was straightforward; if the code failed to compile, I would poke back and get these replies. It is funny how it would say, "You are slicing..." when the code was written by ChatGPT just five minutes ago. However, with a bit of tweaking, I got a working program. - Ah, good catch! That’s due to a change in the crate structure in the newer versions of bip39. The MnemonicType was moved or renamed. - Ah yes — another subtle change in the bip39 crate! - Ah! Got it — thanks for catching that. The issue here is that in the newer bip39 crate versions, Language is an enum, and its word list is not accessed via .wordlist() anymore. - Ah yes — this error means you're slicing a string (&bits[..entropy_bits_required]) at a character index that doesn’t exist. Let's break it down...

Today, I want to thank @ODELL for providing an outstanding technical, moral, and cultural compass in the Bitcoin space. For years. His takes are often posted super early and later turn out to be accurate. Wasn't this the role of priests in the Middle Ages? Is @ODELL Bitcoin's priest-in-chief in the best sense of the word? (I will thank @marty in another post ;-) ) View quoted note →

Wenn ich richtig gerechnet habe, dann beträgt die Masse aller bisher ausgegebenen Bitcoin zusammen um die 30 kg (

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GM - I completed the new backup project using the proxmox backup server software running on a supermicro hardware (this plus Bitcoin = peace of mind 🧘‍♂️)

Today, I analyzed the Ethereum blockchain and found that about half of all bits are zero. This just cannot be sound money.

The Pendulum Nothing is ever exactly right. Instead, any particular part of the universe is always off to one side or the other. Universal forces, including human actions, constantly aim to push everything back to equilibrium, only to overshoot and start all over. Politics is no exception to this rule. Hence, the current state can always be criticized. Very prominent examples of such criticism are targeted at Milei for his attempt to put the budget and state finances back onto their rails, at Musk for shutting down government agencies and cutting costs, at Trump for kicking people out of the country and focusing on the USA, or at Kennedy for "putting American public health in jeopardy" as the Guardian noted back in November. No complex task has one correct solution. There are just different approaches with advantages and disadvantages. In current public discussions, I lack a fair appreciation of both effects and side effects. Of course, if one starts cutting spending in large and convoluted organizations, wasteful and valuable work will be affected. And if governments overspend their budgets by spending their grandchildren's money, this is not just evil but also has positive effects. The current public discourse is not nuanced enough, as far as I can see, thereby increasing the pendulum's amplitude. Let's take the letter that 77 Nobel laureates sent to the US Senate last December to oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s (RFK) nomination as Secretary of the HSS as an example. I don't mind the 77 people speaking up and writing a letter, but I criticize their lack of self-reflection. Since the start of the millennium, the public has lost trust in institutions (including pharma, the food industry, and medical policies), and rather than informing and counteracting, the corporate media stoked that fire. I ask the 77 to think about what they could have done differently in the last two decades to solve or mitigate those problems based on which an election has now been won. There are countless such examples. Even though I can't ask the 77 directly, I can ask myself. If I dislike current developments, I ask myself what I should have done differently and aim to change accordingly.

I could use some help. Every time I try to sign into a new app using nos2x-fox, I get 12 pages of signing requests from yakihonne.com. What is happening, and how can I get rid of it?

My feed here on Nostr is the most intellectually honest stream of info apart from DMs.

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GM 🍀 friends - my coffeemaker takes about 20 minutes to get ready - enough to fold stacking sats into the morning routine

Take the words for entertainment purposes only and watch the actions. There are no shortcuts. Don't hope, do the work.

This is too good not to get up at night to buy corn. The outlook for #Bitcoin is as strong as last month, and the entry price has improved as quite a few people need liquidity.

Today: dd.mm.yyyy = 25.02.(20+25)^2

I asked ChatGPT to estimate the likelihood of the following opcodes being merged and deployed in the next five years: OP_CTV, 50-70%, simple, well-reviewed, useful for scaling. OP_CAT, 30-50%, more general-purpose, but not urgent. OP_VAULT, 30-50%, niche use case, but useful for security. OP_CSFS, 10-30%, powerful but complex and controversial. Are these reasonable?

Poisson distribution: 40 minutes without a block and now four blocks in two minutes