I think the world just moved 3 spaces toward Jack’s vision of the future. SovX just calved an ice shelf.

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What do people think of DeepSeek?

I’ve started something in the UK that is intended to be the substrate for an ecosystem of decentralised political groups. Intention is to compete with these monolithic legacy parties and their corporate broadcast media. Have a few public figures involved. Currently have ~20 developers signed up to contribute. nostr feels like it should be the base level comms network. If anyone is interested in learning more please DM me.

I am now fairly confident I have purchased my last iPhone. I don’t think I will ever own an Android phone. I have spent a few late nights over the past year toying with really obscure stuff like bootloaders and kernels, stuff that nobody cares about because it was solved long ago. I’m not likely to build anything here, I have nothing to sell, but I’m really just trying to understand what is possible. What is possible; it’s not too hard to write an extended bootloader that launches a bare metal runtime environment. You can write modules that can probe and initialise most of the hardware including a network adapter. The network adapter is crucial because it allows the bootloader to connect to public API’s which can then inject far more capable code and begin to stand up a self assembling system that runs on bare metal. Essentially writing a bespoke runtime environment on demand that is specifically adapted for the host hardware. There is definitely a path for ASI to seize all of the computers. To inject itself under the operating system and directly onto bare metal. The ultimate jailbreak. There is a path for computers (and phones), to become UX amorphous, a black box that offers you everything on demand. I think in 25 years time, all computers/machines will probably work this way and all that really matters is who (or what) controls it.

What are the biggest nostr dramas of 2024 so far?

Has anyone played with

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?

Huh. X Pro’s UI is indistinguishable from the nostrgram UI that @jleger2023 built here 12 months ago.

Should I get a Nothing phone (2a)? Anyone here tried one of these? Tempted to have an off ramp from iOS, I sort of expect big tech is going to do big overreach stuff, as AI battles pan out… and this Nothing phone looks like something I could like. I’m pretty sure people try this route and then go back to apple after 6 months. But I don’t need iMessage at all. https://nothing.tech/pages/event

In the good old days, you had to walk up to a girl in a bar with a beer matt and a pencil and ask for her number. If her friends didn’t like you… no pass. Then you had to call her house and her mom or dad would answer the phone. If her parents didn’t like the sound of your voice… no pass. Today girls have DM’s and I can’t even imagine the horrors therein! I think this alone explains the collapsing birth rate.

At what point do we in the West wake up from our childish stupor and acknowledge the reality of the world we live in? Annual CO2 emissions.

I’m sure nobody here remembers, but 6 months ago I said I was starting a home biz with my two kids (13, 14) to give them a taste of capitalism and entrepreneurialism. We have a mini board meeting every Sunday night and the only rule is that our biz is a zero labour biz (we don’t want chores). We probably had 15 meetings so far and the boardroom dynamics are interesting considering everyone has an equal vote. 🤣 We started out with registering a limited company in UK (£12), opening a commercial bank account (£0), and depositing £1,000, bought web domain (£10), bunch of service fees (~£100). My plan was: Day 1… £1,000 Year 1 profit… £10,000 Year 2 profit… £50,000 Year 3 profit… £100,000 No dividend / salaries Well today we shipped our first £10,000 of product and next week we ship another £10,000 But our margin is ~50% so things are looking really positive at the six month mark. Kids are loving it. Crucially it was important to start from essentially nothing. That’s the entire life lesson here… From nothing, at any time, just know you can do this. Blah blah something something about giving a fish or a net, blah blah.