HERMETICVM

Not a Virtual Machine. Hermetic Heretic Hermit. Raw Dark Pure.

Teuto-Gnostic Rebel Extravaganza on a supersonic journey.

CTO of a boring tech consulting company. Founder at not-so boring circumspace.

Public Key

npub1rfw075gc6pc693w5v568xw4mnu7umlzpkfxmqye0cgxm7qw8tauqfck3t8

NIP-05 Address

hermeticvm@circum.space

Profile Code

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Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1rfw075gc6pc693w5v568xw4mnu7umlzpkfxmqye0cgxm7qw8tauqfck3t8

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Last Notes

2026-11-07 22:20:30 UTC

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I found most movies of that nature to depict the situation quite realistically. At first it always is ignored until it's almost too late.

2026-11-07 22:18:50 UTC

Had to prevent some potatoes from turning greenish soon.
https://blossom.circum.space/032f5e8d7dc13211c4676cc81ab6fdccfc28e79a2e595b96697321c4894d18ef.jpg
#dinnerstr #cookstr

2026-11-07 22:16:57 UTC

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I think Optane actually requires the Windows driver to do something to the storage device config so it can be addressed as a block storage device that can hold a partition table and filesystem.
Optane would've been so useful for local AI stuff. Intel, man.

2026-11-07 21:38:14 UTC

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Firmware update, huh?

2026-11-07 21:36:14 UTC

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Majestic beard my man!

2026-11-06 19:20:20 UTC

What does this do?
100 sats for the first correct response.
https://blossom.circum.space/4e97578cbf05902c196245d858c43952274041fd9847e4dd02f607fffbfaeb09.jpg
#coffeestr #coffeechain

2026-11-06 15:01:30 UTC

Starting to think that something divine is steering my life into a certain direction.
Whenever I get too comfortable despite knowing that I need to work on some aspect of myself, the comfort is being taken away in slices.

2026-11-01 18:03:48 UTC

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432!

2026-11-01 15:28:47 UTC

Fun fact: The Iraq war happened because German foreign intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) believed a fraudulent Iraqi "military source" they named
"Curveball" who told them he had seen biological weapons that only exist in the move The Rock.
#nevent1q…46sh

2026-11-01 15:13:38 UTC

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Kicked my TV into the bucket one day after 9/11. No idea.

2026-10-30 18:38:13 UTC

Physical work not involving computers can be great.
https://blossom.circum.space/d94b63ec1bf78431f12632d25f976ff5ed5e1a014fa9cc6b61c0a7cbf345c8a6.jpg
https://blossom.circum.space/ef67456982214f1d78f450b6b70e3b97b92fd5752979660882e6bcc829643004.jpg
https://blossom.circum.space/f069cc8b05ea197382b118086bd8fbe77e7233d27e5cbfa334d2b1fc80bf1eb2.jpg
https://blossom.circum.space/4f6f74d8fff7bcf2c4a1e32fda6f0521232ba28f9ef898070cc8285b94019889.jpg
#nevent1q…f4m3

2026-10-30 09:58:45 UTC

GM
https://blossom.circum.space/4a3689dde442813d4d2d3d1c0ece6261773420e18157c7c4475eb07046b19987.jpg

2026-10-30 01:17:32 UTC

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I matched to ask that question; you can't message without a match.

2026-10-29 18:22:07 UTC

Asking a ladyboy on a dating/hookup app about their reasons for deceiving men with the “woman” gender label when there’s a “trans” option is a sure way to get your account suspended quickly.
https://blossom.circum.space/986bec23094a04dc10d96ff44f63d43384182bc8d03611064603b653ac5f1858.gif

2026-10-29 14:20:30 UTC

Talked my mother out of getting some vaccines. Neither Flu shots nor COVID but I wouldn’t trust any needles since 2020.

2026-10-28 22:51:47 UTC

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AI communists?

2026-10-28 22:50:31 UTC

I presume this music is not to thy taste; yet long hath it been since I heard aught that so bewitched my spirit.
https://youtu.be/hdmw2NUm-xs?t=425

2026-10-28 20:09:09 UTC

Snagged 32GB RAM at a decent price.
My llm machine is now chugging through some representative benchmarks that the model wasn’t trained on.
Dual channel makes quite the difference if you have to offload experts to RAM.
Next is sniping a 7900 XTX. That should give me Qwen3.8 at current Qwen3.6 speeds with comparable precision.

2026-10-28 19:09:15 UTC

Repeat, repeat & repeat!
#nevent1q…5kp2

2026-10-28 16:17:21 UTC

Mighty titans of Hellenic Orthodox Black Metal are back with a 30th anniversary EP and I’m in awe again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdmw2NUm-xs
Will probably listen to this for days and weeks on end again.
#blackmetal

2026-10-27 21:30:26 UTC

Critter 1/2
https://blossom.circum.space/d376960448cf0c85bc408b9b70d0b992bfffc632b7b0f75ba5a22201045375f2.jpg

2026-10-27 15:46:50 UTC

My face whenever I wake up to a world with Israel still in it:
https://blossom.circum.space/7a44c22523c9c450ff6a99014e8b3aa8355176ad81fe11f69752440a82bda08e.jpg

2026-10-27 11:01:57 UTC

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Appreciate it!

2026-10-27 10:37:49 UTC

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Uh, I always assumed you were just reselling stuff on Hetzner hardware. (Nothing against that!)
Would love to know about your operations, if it’s your own datacenter or rented cages/colocation, etc. Just out of curiosity.

2026-10-26 23:26:34 UTC

I’ve been trying to be more in the now lately.
It sometimes feels like a rush, almost like some spiritual experience unknown to me. Then it fades away again. But it does something to me and leaves a lasting impression.
The less I focus on the negative, the more positive development I see around me.
Maybe we can still make it.

2026-10-26 22:35:38 UTC

> the story of the holocaust
lol
#nevent1q…f4u5

2026-10-26 22:29:00 UTC

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Nostr is peak 2020s IRC vibes for me.

2026-10-26 20:45:40 UTC

Looks like vaccine shedding is real: https://blossom.circum.space/115bad6b05a80a68b2c36abd596416968a5cd6d78f1a099121a088287f253d55.png

2026-10-26 20:44:28 UTC

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My theory is that these buildings were built to generate energies at specific ley lines or energy points that have some positive effect on humans. Burning those down allows more room to other frequencies dominating human behavior.

2026-10-26 20:41:28 UTC

Civil unrest is a good cover to burn down some old world buildings.

2026-10-26 20:22:56 UTC

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I can imagine some 30s engineer sitting in an ugly office somewhere in California, cigarette in mouth, telling his manager that they don't need to hire that designer after all!
:EZ:

2026-10-26 20:10:19 UTC

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The original files are from the fucking early 90s and they can still be used! I love it.

2026-10-26 19:58:21 UTC

The beauty of procedural generation:
https://blossom.circum.space/3a62009beb9a399608bcce51ef11b10fdd06dc480647dfce0962cee91a5eb4ea.png
https://blossom.circum.space/b8d8c9a41fc9012df9e431260241b98c0172b7181093fd8f9b58299e4f538635.png
https://blossom.circum.space/cf0662174e34e84ccd7ef5cc789a85702b2023bb20879ea60f591cf221b843be.png
https://blossom.circum.space/021793a62fa51b2266d0a81284cb2208892e1142cfeb30485df1621a5063463f.png
https://blossom.circum.space/92569554725f291831d711145e3e372291371c75ccd5716e5ad5156c537ea67c.png
https://blossom.circum.space/cad3779f0978daddb851e44dc889490879032d93299d257e24d99f4d9c351dca.png
https://blossom.circum.space/02e8246eb625d4f3250741eaab917a11e2ba607ba838bb5b9b9561cada5a578d.png

2026-10-26 19:35:26 UTC

Imagine working for a US defense contractor using a Chinese coding model and thinking: I should tell it to build me an app for a US defense contractor!
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/bias-in-qwen3-coder-model.html

2026-10-26 19:28:30 UTC

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Linguistic analysis + post timezone correlation should work.

2026-10-26 12:25:46 UTC

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Will look into it. Perhaps I'll even migrate my relay!

2026-10-26 10:02:29 UTC

Completely missed my anniversary of moving outside of the city 1 year ago by 4 days.
No way I’m going back.
https://blossom.circum.space/c4882054cc1e18002b5223c03039b8f2d2d923669159ebc328bcbb4692ee212a.jpg

2026-10-25 20:50:29 UTC

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I let ChatGPT Astra review most reasoning that explains why something wouldn’t work/apply and if in doubt, let my refusal-freed model double check (though on a more limited scope).
What’s your setup?

2026-10-25 17:00:13 UTC

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And I don’t thinks it’s a moderation issue but then again, I’m not even a big advocate for moderating platforms and prefer individuals to filter their own social graphs.
Lesson learned after a few years of being on Mastodon.

2026-10-25 16:59:03 UTC

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I’ve long given up on 99% of the Fediverse. I just found the bridge useful for searches and I probably follow up to 10 users there.
But whenever I get strange replies, spelling and avatars have me thinking it must be another brainrotted Mastodon user and so far I’m right 99% of the time.

2026-10-25 16:56:14 UTC

Claude, all the time:
> None of these optimisation paths exists for your GPU, give up.
Claude after I went through various Discords and Github searches, stumbling upon dozens of interesting llama.cpp branches, firmware documentation, reverse engineering fragments and POCs:
> [x, y, z] are real findings, and they change part of what I told you. Let me dive deeper and build a prototype.

2026-10-25 15:27:24 UTC

I guess I should just throw out that Mastodon bridge.
90% of all weird interactions I have on nostr come via that Mastodon/Fediverse bridge.

2026-10-25 10:47:15 UTC

Thanks to whomever donated 0,1XMR to me. That's already covering a month of the power feed for one of my colocated servers. Really appreciate it!

2026-10-22 20:26:39 UTC

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It's quite calm. I have a custom quality gate that doesn't let certain stuff into my stack that's famous for having security issues. I generally skip on most javascript and PHP stuff for example.

2026-10-22 20:07:30 UTC

Always thought collecting BOMs for your apps to get alerted whenever a CVE >x dependency got pulled into your infrastructure was enterprise-level security theatre but considering the new reality, it makes sense.
Getting ntfy notifications whenever one of my internet-facing apps on my cluster is at risk is quite nice.

2026-10-21 14:42:11 UTC

Gave the team of a previous employer some helpful information on mitigating the PHP attack until upstream shipped patches.
They took it, used it and even updated their status page mentioning it.
A “thanks” would’ve been great though. Wouldn’t even have to be public.
Don’t ever work for free for anyone.

2026-10-20 15:25:07 UTC

If you think Elon Musk is the good guy: https://nitter.meowing.monster/EscanorReloaded/status/2112564118347497657

2026-10-19 09:13:49 UTC

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The last guillotines in France were run by Freemasons. Not a good combination. Last time Freemasonry was outlawed there was between 1940-1944 for some reason.

2026-10-19 08:36:00 UTC

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Albanian protests are really fucking white the “muh Muslims are taking over the West” narrative.
(In parts they are of course but people forget that they’re just the most gullible and uneducated people from all the countries they came from and are being instrumentalized to cause havoc on demand. But who cares about nuance nowadays).

2026-10-18 23:46:47 UTC

Nostrich is such a good nostr client.

2026-10-18 22:58:53 UTC

Signed up for their alpha of SolOS. Let's see what they've been brewing all this time.
#nevent1q…l885

2026-10-18 10:00:41 UTC

GM
If you have a @npub1a00…9q3h and are logged into a Google account, always remember that the device itself won’t show up under that name in your logged in devices.
I mainly use mine in airplane mode to reduce distractions while reading. A couple of days ago, I noticed a Pixel 5 in my last remaining Google account that was strangely named inconsistently as either a Pixel 5 or Pixel 7 Pro in my account’s device manager. So of course I thought this to be suspicious and requested a remote deletion.
Well, I wanted to sync my local book collection just now by disabling airplane mode. And as soon as it was back online, it got remote wiped.
https://blossom.circum.space/51e67d1cd247c922b63297938cb261177fc48fae4b8c162e5e2a84070103f904.gif

2026-10-17 11:42:43 UTC

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I’ve definitely gotten more donations for my projects (Android apps, wallpaper collection, etc) via Monero than via Lightning/Bitcoin. Tops even the last ~18 months of inbound nostr zaps.

2026-10-16 16:41:20 UTC

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Would love to know more. Open for volunteering a few hours/week as well but I'm fine some sats/XMR to reinvest in nostr as well. 🫡

2026-10-16 12:06:04 UTC

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Did you customize your nostr auth for gitea? I’m running a private fork of it with support for external signers (only tested Amber though) and I’m quite happy with it.
Haven’t polished it yet but if you’re using the vanilla release that seems to be abandoned, I’m happy to make it public and let you try it.

2026-10-16 11:42:47 UTC

Never trust a machine. Imagine the time I would’ve wasted if I hadn’t noticed that the workstation was a bit too silent for too long and left for the café without checking in on the model benchmarks:
https://blossom.circum.space/e764eee1720a66b1b6912ef5cb9303763ad366a379e4b15e1cf54082a1d182f5.jpg

2026-10-16 11:36:53 UTC

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Nah, not necessarily. If someone feels more comfortable with Ubuntu, CashyOS or Linux Mint, I'm happy to assist. I'm not dogmatic here and tiling WMs aren't for everyone. Omarchy is more of a power user thing imho.

2026-10-16 09:48:10 UTC

Windows 11 users already have so many problems.
I will help you free yourself of Windows for a few sats. I’m quite patient. Reach out if you’re curious about leaving that mess behind.
#nevent1q…y766

2026-10-15 23:39:54 UTC

My mistake. Signing up means you want to show up at their event this Friday. The public alpha launches on Monday.
Should've read better but I got hyped for a second.
#nevent1q…086f

2026-10-15 23:19:50 UTC

My brother sent me a photo of the club where I asked not one but two girls (sisters) out to for a date in my early teens. I just approached one of them at the beach, had to ask her dad for permission and he just asked why wouldn't take both.
I was complete idiot so of course it didn't end as I imagined. 😂
Still a fun experience and a good memory.
https://blossom.circum.space/50917ac6032ecc37d41752cb668cdf1c036e38bc97b9500522c61bbfd4ec301d.jpg

2026-10-15 22:10:41 UTC

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Still laughing at that response whenever I open notifications. Keep it up, brother.
https://blossom.circum.space/fb2bb21bdba7cd7ced8dcf615af5a1fedd1f1c3364f621f13915c2979c4eb6ca.gif

2026-10-15 17:50:30 UTC

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But you’re wasting some tokens each time for something that a dedicated app would do for free.

2026-10-15 17:33:28 UTC

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Now migrate it to a static site generator like Hugo and you can author your stuff in Markdown, render to HTML, move your CSS into a custom Hugo theme and your agent writes a deployment script for you.

2026-10-15 12:49:18 UTC

https://blossom.circum.space/4c6f51264126f28dcfbc81949a30021d7b54946831715137fb6eab2d175c4dc4.mp4
If you have a @daylightco DC-1 and want to try out their solOS Alpha starting this Friday (tomorrow!), sign up here before slots are closed:
https://partiful.com/e/oWNxO4tCF5RzEuAHg6Je?

2026-10-15 10:12:29 UTC

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If Bitcoin isn’t for you anymore because you don’t like how people use it, there’s always Monero.
I’ve already swapped some of my holdings over.

2026-10-15 09:38:19 UTC

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Doesn’t work for me. I’m on RDNA2 with a 12GB VRAM constraint. 3.8 is a dense model. Would slow my token/s down to a third of what I have now with little gain in intelligence.
If I get my hands on a 7900 XTX at a tolerable price I’ll jump ship though.

2026-10-14 23:18:53 UTC

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It's so remarkable what's possible.
Even Qwen3.6 35b is capable as fuck. I'm saving so many tokens just offloading small shit to it.

2026-10-14 21:09:57 UTC

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Bad actors in both ways.

2026-10-14 21:01:31 UTC

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That looks like someone paid some b-tier actors from the early 2000s movies to go on stage and act like Bitcoiners.

2026-10-14 11:53:03 UTC

https://blossom.circum.space/10f0859124c8bb1c3d4642f20826fb302621d8cbbe3660614e206bb69c8bf634.gif
#nevent1q…4pq0

2026-10-14 10:08:16 UTC

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Europe?

2026-10-13 23:18:27 UTC

Was benchmarking some local models and noticed some running into OOMs for unknown reasons.
Well, I just setup prometheus metrics scraping in llama-swap - and of course it loads a model once it’s requested. So each scrape forced a reload of a recently unloaded 4b model while the benchmarked model took up most of the RAM and VRAM already.

2026-10-13 23:15:38 UTC

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Looking at all the annoyingly slopped self-advertisement everywhere on X, Instagram and the like, you’re just delivering amazing stuff and should shill your own stuff. It’s not like you’re hammering this into your follower’s timelines multiple times a day.
Keep at it.

2026-10-13 19:35:59 UTC

When someone you barely knew reaches out on LinkedIn after 5 years, they want something from you.

2026-10-13 18:55:57 UTC

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https://blossom.circum.space/1b1026f2e676fd4ef604c9d25b605813ac63054db246d6b340f0b2ec0fedd926.gif
Subscribed!

2026-10-13 18:13:03 UTC

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Yeah, was my first thought as well.

2026-10-13 18:09:43 UTC

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https://blossom.circum.space/bf931ab59232ea309f342bb248ea811487f578c848b9afd786ce858c2247a47c.gif

2026-10-13 18:07:21 UTC

What is that thing?
#nevent1q…lfl9

2026-10-13 14:48:35 UTC

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Isn’t that a dude? I couldn’t see anything regarding Epstein. Too pixelated.
You sure that’s what we’re seeing here?

2026-10-13 14:32:05 UTC

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Guess that’s what you get by growing up in an occupied country that isn’t sovereign.

2026-10-13 13:38:47 UTC

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I still don’t see the connection.
You mean AfD is controlled opposition or what? Because that still isn’t related.
(I don’t vote so I don’t care either way.)

2026-10-13 13:32:48 UTC

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Not sure I get what you’re saying. You believe what?

2026-10-13 11:39:28 UTC

The NAFO infestation on @npub1azw…59cu is real:
https://stacker.news/items/1594074
Must feel great to at least once stumble upon something that supports their brainrot narrative, even if it’s all fake.
Then again, some SN users keep on throwing sats in the direction of Peter Todd so I’m not surprised.
https://blossom.circum.space/5c9cbac6647879b7e3525e3ca75031b1199d3ae355a3877861d742cbd60a7346.gif

2026-10-12 21:16:08 UTC

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Got some of my landlord's. He used to own and run a few restaurants. Impressive how you saw the difference in craftsmanship. :PepeBruh:

2026-10-12 20:43:00 UTC

https://blossom.circum.space/9f6d66f3a4de45c61380f5fe7a9bd568ea3a8532a1380b304e06274e80b73ca2.jpg
#cookstr

2026-10-12 19:30:25 UTC

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That's quite lean. Love it.

2026-10-12 18:40:35 UTC

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I think this absolute non-absoluteism only works if you have room for the spiritual that allows for a) a creator smarter than humans and b) a reality that cannot be fully experienced or understood with our material senses.
I think something along the lines of this should be better to live by:
> “Try to stay away from absolutes and dogma but temporarily accept some paradigms to make sense of what you can measure and experience. Remain flexible enough to sacrifice even your golden cows if your perception of experienced reality changes.”

2026-10-12 18:24:02 UTC

> If one is very intelligent and experienced, one stops sorting by true/false. True/false are always a question of perspective. Every paradigm will always be wrong. Any model can only close in on a truth. Nothing is ever absolute.
- Harald Kautz (shortened translation by me.)
Sounds like a good approach to life. This resonates with me. In parts I’ve been trying to follow this view but of course I’m also fallibe as fuck.
https://youtu.be/_YW-hQMoAFE?t=825

2026-10-12 14:19:40 UTC

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I don’t know man.
You’re telling me you’re getting your annual flu vaccine shot, watch the evening news on TV, follow MrBeast and similar influencers on Youtube and you share your vacation photos in a facebook group?

2026-10-12 12:22:24 UTC

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My Jade Core weighs 23g. :monkaS:

2026-10-12 12:10:13 UTC

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Once the normies make up most of nostr, I’m probably gone.
I can live with nostr the way it is. If people don’t figure it out soon, it’ll be too late anyways.

2026-10-12 11:42:56 UTC

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True. I’m not counting on it.

2026-10-12 11:34:26 UTC

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I’m not into violence but I’m surprised no one lost so much of their future that they just gutted that fucker.

2026-10-12 11:25:21 UTC

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Better stay away from people who aren’t distancing themselves from this entire clownshow.
I couldn’t sleep if I knew some people lost their life savings because I gave credibility or even advertised for such a terrible product by such an incompetent and fraudulent juicebox.

2026-10-11 14:30:17 UTC

#weedstr https://blossom.circum.space/c33b11aeedb417cb90dfab8d17815e21357aa31caece9cb1bb1797d28d268e52.jpg https://blossom.circum.space/eb4154451e686c3f23edaf9f1d8eed621be2efb767f8b721f08423cf5866c72d.jpg

2026-10-11 00:36:12 UTC

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Looks absolutely dope man.

2026-10-10 11:19:35 UTC

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So you don't have a workshop in your bigger house? Always assumed it was the same place.

2026-10-10 10:07:57 UTC

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True.

2026-10-09 19:35:32 UTC

You can just tell your AI what you're specialized in and ask it to explain something completely new to you using analogies and terminology of whatever you're already good at.
Something as dry and complicated as financial markets suddenly starts to make sense.
(Not gonna become some trader, not touching my Bitcoin or Monero.)

2026-10-09 14:01:51 UTC

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I'm aware but apart from Monero, I don't see anything that some evil entity hasn't at least partially captured so even my Bitcoin is feeding a system I don't agree with.