Sound rehearsal before @Bitcoin je retro Three Bitchat users on the mesh. I am where I belong. ❤️

I miss her trolling...

True, to some extent, but we approach it directly. We are building parallel path, not fight the system. I've learned this for example from Dan Sullivan - his idea of Free Zone Frontier. People try to compete, but the best way to compete is to build something that is so different, that it does not even compete, it's a category by itself. Honestly, fighting the system seems like a total waste of time, the system is commiting suicide. We need something else when it crashes, focusing on fighting it is a distraction. But I agree in spirit! (How building of that parallel way looks like is in my novel @Tamers of Entropy BTW:

TAMERS OF ENTROPY

- a lunarpunk story).

Very good podcast. From multiple angles. I was expecting some nice geeky content about Linux distribution for sovereign computing, but it's much more and very aligned with my thinking. What's our purpose when AI will get better at literally everything? Should we despair, build? What side of history...? The meaning of sovereign computing. And when he gets to StartBot, that's brutal cool :) I am a Linux geek, so I discounted @Start9 because I can just do everything myself (or tell my AI agent to do it), but I think it is extremely important. In my book Cypherpunk Visions and Trends, I predicted we will need and build sovereign nodes. People like @Matt Hill are making it happen. Recommended listen, geek or not.

Bitcoin Audible • Chat_164 - Skating To Where The Puck Will Be with Matt Hill • Listen on Fountain

"We are trying to make it possible for people to use computers as simple of a statement as this: use computers, without intermediaries and custodia...

"Some things are just more fun to believe, in which cases I refuse to verify." Good strategy:)

V poslednom čase bolo zverejnených niekoľko „hacknutí" systému EU Age Control. Myslím si, že väčšina týchto ľudí vôbec nechápe, ako to skutočne funguje a čo vlastne hackovala. Pre tých z vás, ktorí o tom veľa nevedia – pravdepodobne si robíte nesprávne predstavy. Preto som sa do toho ponoril trochu hlbšie. Nie je to jednoduché – implementácie, návrhy architektúry a stovky strán byrokratického žargónu. Verím však, že vám to poskytne oveľa ucelenejší obraz než kusé „spustil som AI agenta proti verejnému repozitáru, neviem čo to znamená, ale tu je to, ako som to ‚ja' hackol". Bude vás EÚ trackovať na pornostránkach? Je "tá appka" skutočne deravá?

Juraj Bednar

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

Most people think EU Age Control apps are about identifying users. The sales pitch is all zero-knowledge proofs of age. You prove you're over ...

There have been recent "hacks" of EU Age Control. I think most of those people don't understand how it actually works and what they were hacking. For those of you that don't know much about it, you are probably assuming wrong things about it. I dug a bit deeper into it. It's hard - implementations, blueprints and hundreds of pages of bureaucratic-speak. But I believe this will give you a much more complete picture that bite-sized "I ran an AI agent against the public repo, don't know what it means, but here's how 'I' hacked it".

Juraj Bednar

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

Most people think EU Age Control apps are about identifying users. The sales pitch is all zero-knowledge proofs of age. You prove you're over ...

On Nostr, it will be the other way around. We will not scan eyes, we'll put purple lasers in them. View quoted note →

The best podcast I've heard lately. And not only for tech. He has very similar ideas to mine. Highly recommended, good guide for the present.

Bitcoin Audible • Chat_164 - Skating To Where The Puck Will Be with Matt Hill • Listen on Fountain

"We are trying to make it possible for people to use computers as simple of a statement as this: use computers, without intermediaries and custodia...

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Nerd tinder - keep your Bitchat on, let it drain the battery and when you see someone in the Bluetooth mesh, write them immediately. Tell your nerdy friends. See you in the mesh.

Everything is just a prompt away. For less creative people, this means they lose they job. For more creative people, it is a huge risk of burnout, because suddenly, everything they ever wanted to create is achievable. Corollary: If you fear for your job, be more creative, you'll have the opossite problem.

I don't make the rules... View quoted note →

Omg. This is one week! Nostriches with LLMs are going crazy! View article →

If you want to hear about cypherpunk dreams... by yours truly. View article →

There's a funny parallel happening right now with AI and software that rhymes with what happened to professional photography. When cameras became cheap and accessible (in everyone's pocket), suddenly anyone could shoot a wedding without hiring a professional. Beginners photographed concerts for free. Professionals complained about market disruption and mocked the quality. The real outcome... People who couldn't afford a pro, or simply needed decent family album shots, finally had beautiful memories. And yes — professional photographers still exist and thrive. The exact same story is playing out with software and AI. Everywhere online, people are rolling their eyes at the "terrible" code (AI slop) being written by random folks with no formal training or experience. The argument is always the same: they're ruining the market, the quality is garbage. But at the same time: software is becoming accessible to everyone. People who need to automate something no longer have to beg a grumpy senior developer or pay enterprise rates. Things get built. Things work. Tools reach people who were previously locked out entirely. And when the garbage stops working, fix is one prompt away. The democratization and demonetization of technology - whether it's cameras, or code - has always looked messy and "low quality" from the top. But the net result is more people with more capabilities, more memories captured, more problems solved. I find this genuinely exciting. And the grumpy senior devs are fun to watch 😀

Compute used to be downstream of software. Now software is downstream of compute.

The generation that clicks they are accepting cookies 4685 times a day. Refusing to accept cookies is simple, you just turn them off in the browser. Literally no one uses that setting. View quoted note →

Just for people who think how people are moving to the little country of Paraguay that noone knows about... @Liberation Travel

When do you think the normie land stops saying BREAKING and HOT TAKE before every post. BREAKING! GM!

An idea if someone wants to have fun. Components: 1.)

GitHub

GitHub - kessler/gemma-gem: Gemma Gem runs Google's Gemma 4 model entirely on-device via WebGPU — no API keys, no cloud, no data leaving your machine.

Gemma Gem runs Google's Gemma 4 model entirely on-device via WebGPU — no API keys, no cloud, no data leaving your machine. - kessler/gemma-gem

Gemma Gem runs Google's Gemma 4 model entirely on-device via WebGPU — no API keys, no cloud, no data leaving your machine. (not exactly this chrome extension) 2.)

Hyperclay | Frontend and done

Experience the Zen of making, hosting, and sharing great software in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file.

(or at least the open-source libraries - for self-editing web pages) Idea: Static HTML-based vibe-coding environment. People want a webpage for their yoga practice? Let gemma (or similar model) in their browser (without accounts) do the design and boilerplate, then edit in browser and sync static html to server.