Steve Jobs predicted the rise of LLMs that could distill the personality of a human, allowing one to converse with it like they were still here. Too bad he’s not around. Apple would have been all over this.

Ordered myself one of these today, the m5stack cardputer adv. I’m going to hack my own OS onto it and start building some everyday carry apps such as mp3 player, tasks, voice notes, calendar, etc. Hoping it can partially replace the phone for gym sessions, walks, etc.

It feels like we’re in the middle of a US dollar collapse and the gov is pulling out all stops to keep the thing afloat since 2008 . Things are accelerating the last 5 years.

Picked up this cool little palm sized e-reader called the xteink x4. My dream one day is we get something like this with a touch screen , dac, headphone jack, and cell capabilities with an open source OS that is not android.

Finished setting up gitea in my home lab. Pretty nice piece of software! Cutting the GitHub cord. Now that they’re scanning all our repos for LLM training, I’d prefer not host up there, at least for private projects.

Just resurrected my AMD Ryzen 9 3900X from storage with a fresh install of void Linux + ext4. The x1 carbon thinkpad gen 8 was slowing me down, as much as I love it.

God it was a nice day in the Socialist Republic of San Francisco

Nissan nailed the rear end on the Z Nismo

Finally got a dev version of my esim business up and running. In the hands of friends for testing. Been an intense few weeks knocking it out. Still more work to do but the hard work has been done. Now it’s just polishing. Unfortunately only fiat support for now (need to make a living, targeting normies). Bitcoin added after mvp. If you’d like some free esims to help me test, shoot me a message and when it’s ready I’ll hook you up.

Saw Tron: Ares in the cinema. Special effects were pretty wild. I enjoyed it. I’ll be watching the original this weekend.

I'm obsessed with everything japanese. From the tech, the cars to the food. Everything they do has so much precision and workmanship. I'm never dissapointed with japanese products.

How would you heal a stomach ulcer? #asknostr

a nice little hack I discovered today is to use claude code or any other LLM to inspect your firewall rules for security risks. Either give the LLM some read access to pfsense/opnsense APIs (non-sensitive ones) or dump your config to xml (and remove sensitive info). Ask it to look for oppurtunities for an attacker to move laterally, etc. Then have it generate curl commands for fixing the holes via the APIs. As a bonus, set this up as a cron job for regular security reviews.

Instead of asking my daughters “what are you going to be when you grow up?”, I’ve started asking “What businesses are you starting today?”.

I quit my job of 11 years in march and it’s been the best thing I’ve done for myself in a long time. Suddenly I’m calmer, happier, more in shape than I’ve been in a while. The anxiety has gone. I’m more in sync with the family. I also have 3 business opportunities on the go and teaming up with some cool people. I’m also solving more problems and writing more code than I’ve written in years. Being in the zone feels good.

A neat trick I learned from someone here on nostr that I finally got to setting up today. On my postfix mail server I have a wild card that forwards any emails to any user in my domain to my main user account. Then when I need a burner email, such as a gym membership or something, on the spot I just make up an email address and hand it over. When the spam starts rolling in I just hit a key in neomutt that adds that burner address to a shit list and all emails to that address get sent to /dev/null and bounce. Bloody beautiful.

Today I finally got to the point where I could delete 20 years of photos and emails off Google servers. I have been self hosting for a few years now but never quite cut the cord.