It was only logical that they would soon replace the products (us) with AI. That's the plan. First, we were there to create content, then AI sifted through the 'right' content for viewers, then we were there to train the AI, and then they don't need us anymore. At most, we're just cash cows. The 'social' in social media will soon be dropped. They want to become real media platforms. View quoted note →

We're not ready for this level of virality. View quoted note →

As long as they train on our data, we could make AI completely useless, right? By writing posts that are never posted, inputting content that's nonsense, by asking questions we don't actually care about the answers to, etc. Just for fun. Feeding them a bunch of crap.

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via @Bitcoin News] That’s complete bullshit, what this guy is saying. “Self custody Bitcoin and you won’t have any problems with digital ID.” And this is right after he said that the face scan won’t just be needed for a bank account, but also for jobs, housing, healthcare and so on. How are you supposed to fix that with Bitcoin? Offer every landlord Bitcoin? Will the average NPC even accept that? And does everyone have enough saved up in Bitcoin anyway? How does new fiat come in if not through the fiat onramps that about 99 percent of Bitcoiners use before converting to BTC? How many Bitcoiners actually get paid in Bitcoin for their jobs? Is your health insurance suddenly going to accept Bitcoin payments for premiums? Grabbing a coffee for a few Sats every now and then on some sunny island or in some trendy city was never going to cut it. You wannabe influencers can keep cranking out proof of concept videos for your clueless followers all you want. Like I said, total bullshit, totally out of touch with reality. It’s not enough to just post nice slogans for years. That doesn’t cover up the failure of the Bitcoin community to actually use it for liberation instead of just treating it like some crappy investment asset. Time to admit it: the Bitcoin community has failed. Owning BTC doesn’t even protect you from digital IDs and face scans. That’s what happens when you don’t live up to Mr. Nakamoto’s philosophy. Head off into the valleys, forests, and mountains, far from civilization, with a small flock of sheep or goats and live in wooden houses you built yourself. That’s the only alternative to digital ID. If even that. Separation of state and money, my ass. It's too late.

They declared Nostr dead again. View article →

Awesome move. Ninety-nine percent of customers probably have no idea what it is or what to do with it, but it just happens to be pretty much the best cold storage you can get in a regular retail store. If one day in the future self-custody ever gets banned and made impossible, we’ll be telling our grandkids, “Back then you could even buy those things at REWE for 150 euros, right next to the meat counter,” and they’ll just think, “Yeah right, the old man’s lost it.” 😄 View quoted note →

Avoiding Discord wouldn’t really be a problem if it weren’t for those fiat-slave mentality companies that, for some reason, offer their services through Discord (i.e. customer support). I’ve been avoiding Discord from the very beginning. And if a company decides to connect part of its services to it, then I avoid that company too. I just think it should always be made clear in advance, for the sake of transparency and consumer protection, whenever a company works with another KYC company. View quoted note →

Why is everybody suddenly talking about multi-screen setups today? Did I miss something? Next upgrade I'm doing is holographic 3D projections straight into the middle of my home office. Like in Dune. Until then, I'm sticking with my single screen. View quoted note →

Yeah, that top one is also my setup when developing #CLIstr, the terminal-based Nostr client. View quoted note →

Yep, we could build a ton of cool apps on this if it actually worked reliably. View quoted note →