I've been spewing my musings on social media for over 20 years, so it's amusing whenever someone tries to tell me that I'm doing a poor job catering to my audience. Let me be clear: I have always posted whatever has suited my fancy without regard for any perceived audience. I did it when there were a hundred followers and when there were hundreds of thousands of followers. It should be obvious that I'm not on nostr for fame or fortune. I already achieved more fame than I'm interested in, and decline most media invitations these days. If you zap my profile, I don't receive those sats: they go directly to @HRF. I'm on nostr because I want to support censorship resistant tools. Follow me or don't. Whiners will get relegated to my mute list.

My X feed isn't bad because I've spent so much time curating it over the past decade. But if you really want to see how bad X is for normies, create a new account and look at what the default "for you" feed displays. So much AI slop and what I'd characterize as super softcore porn.

This is the kind of poor attention to detail that really grinds my gears. Staying at a $1,000+ per night hotel and the toilet paper is installed such that it hits your knees. They could have put it one tile higher or one tile further from the throne but no, they obstruct being able to sit normally. WTF

I both love and hate that LLMs are good at diagnosing and fixing CSS problems. View quoted note →

🚨The latest version of Bitcoin Knots now enables BIP-110 by default.🚨 Anyone who runs BIP-110 code will find their node stops working and gets forked off the network in August. As such, I've created a handy countdown timer for us to watch the disaster!

Knotzi Death March Countdown

A BIP-110 Countdown Clock.

Is this node rape? @Luke Dashjr

The latest Knots release includes BIP-110 so all Knotzis can more easily fork themselves into irrelevance. 😏 Since Knots is now an altcoin client, I'll be removing all references to it from my Bitcoin resources site.

Ate my first whale steak. So tender and juicy! Why does no one talk about this?

Fake citations in academic papers increased 10X in the past 3 years. I wonder how much of that is LLM hallucinations...

If you operate a train and decide to equip it with WiFi, but the train goes through tunnels every few minutes that completely kill the internet connection, you would have been better off not installing WiFi in the first place.

An interesting trend I've noticed in recent years in FIRE forums is an increasing number of people who include cryptocurrency in their portfolio breakdown. Prior to 2020 this would get you laughed out of the room...