Sam

Electrical Engineer, home brewer, tinkerer, creator of cypherlog.io and ERV (in Zapstore).

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2026-04-04 15:26:03 UTC

Running @nprofile…32nl 0.4.0. Very slick! Excited to use the clearnet port forwarding features.

2026-04-02 22:24:51 UTC

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But no need for a constant release schedule. Just throw them out there randomly when you have some shit to say.

2026-03-27 11:13:13 UTC

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I have a portion of my stack that has been allocated as a house fund for a while now. If I don't have to sell it and incur the tax hit but can instead utilize it as collateral for a down payment, then when it gets to be a high enough amount in fiat, sell the position and completely pay off the house, that sounds amazing. If bitcoin does its thing I could be mortgage free in under 10 years.

2026-03-26 16:32:56 UTC

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The only downside is you have to pledge 250% of the loan value, but even with this constraint I can't think of a reason you wouldn't use this product. If you believed bitcoin was going to go up in value, you were cash poor, had some coins and wanted a house this seems crazy to not use. Someone please tell me where this goes horribly wrong. If btc goes to zero you still get the house as long as you can pay the mortgage and you don't have to pay cap gains tax on the coins until you liquidate the collateral to pay off the house or you pay the mortgage off and you get your coins back. The only real risk is that the custodian is coinbase and those assholes suck. If River/Strike offered something like this I would do it 100%.

2026-03-21 17:20:34 UTC

@nprofile…kclk can't seem to find or populate a whole slew of my notes that both Wisp and Amethyst can. I go to my profile and tons arw missing. What's up with that?

2026-03-21 16:20:00 UTC

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btw, really like the notifications menu, awesome job

2026-03-21 14:10:25 UTC

@nprofile…jejf On Wisp when I unmute a video and there happens to multiple videos on the screen at the same time all the audio starts playing simultaneously so i can't hear the exact video I wanted to listen to

2026-03-21 12:56:14 UTC

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All the Biden numbers were fake. I don't know if the Trump numbers are true. Also most of the Biden numbers were govt jobs.

2026-03-21 00:34:47 UTC

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I've been building out cypherlog.io, which is very much a work in progress, but I think the foundation is solid. Its just website but I'm thinking about making an app tobpair with it.

2026-03-17 15:38:05 UTC

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Boomers are going to have to lower prices if they want to sell. Lots of interesting economic effects if that ends up being the case nationally.

2026-03-13 21:13:49 UTC

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Cursed Controls. The man has basement wiring akin to that of a sky scraper and it's glorious.

2026-03-11 19:35:13 UTC

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Better to just start accumulating hardware to selfhost an AI. Especially if NVIDIA starts releasing open source models.

2026-03-01 13:10:35 UTC

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Yeah. My previous views on China were to not mess with them because I thought they would retaliate, but it appears they are indeed a paper tiger. The only caution would be that they are letting us use all of our munitions and hardware and then when we're in a depleted state they launch their siege of Taiwan. I'm cautious but optimistic about continued US supremacy which is inherently good for US citizens.

2026-02-26 12:29:20 UTC

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It definitely seems to burn through less tokens for smaller tasks.

2026-02-15 22:28:36 UTC

I've been using an excel spreadsheet to track my personal finances for the last 5-6years and thanks to Cursor and nostr that is going by the wayside. This weekend I built the baseline for a personal finances tracking application that puts all my data into replaceable event kinds and stores them on a self hosted NIP42 auth with npub whitelisted relay. All data encrypted with NIP44. I built an android app and a Linux .deb app that both retrieve the data from the relay and present it to me and let me edit and add to it on either platform. Excel is great but you're trapped by Microsoft and stuck to a computer (also microsoft office tools are now another fucking subscription) and the Mint type tools don't handle bitcoin transactions and tracking. Im sick of having 80 fucking apps just to track my finances and I'm sick of letting companies mine my financial data to sell me ads. Nostr, AI, and self hosting is the future and the future is now. This shit is magical.

2026-02-15 18:05:03 UTC

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A land cruiser?

2026-02-06 20:13:43 UTC

I've been working on an application that uses nostr at its core called Cypher Log. It's not another social media site but rather a re-envisioned way to help manage all the complexities and tasks associated with running a home and storing information about your life. The goal of the site is to help track the more innocuous things that always get forgotten or lost. It stores info of when you bought furniture/applianaces/things and the documents associated with them, car maintenance and information, companies and services you use but put the contact details on sticky note you can't find, pet information and vet visit info, tracking warranties on products you bought, and planning/tracking small home DIY projects. I'm looking for feedback if anyone is interested in trying it out.
https://www.cypherlog.io/
Everything is open source and its encouraged to run your own relay and blossom server to host the data for privacy reasons but if you choose to host the data on public relays everything is NIP44 encrypted so no one can read your intimate details. Pdf/image uploads require a blossom server and do not guarantee privacy unless the server is personal. Access all your information on any device through a browser or a PWA that works pretty well (atleast on android, I dont have an iphone). I think it may even be possible to connect an open claw agent via a NIP26 delegatee key that can manage and add new data to the site without having to do it yourself. Which is batshit crazy and awesome and an avenue i may pursue.

2026-02-04 14:42:57 UTC

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Owen Benjamin loves the pedophiles that run the global banking system and make his gold "worth something"

2026-01-29 11:04:11 UTC

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I'm not learned enough in such things to know. Just thinking out loud. All I know is that anything is better than storing very private info with insecure centralized providers.

2026-01-29 10:51:34 UTC

Is there anyone who is working on a bit torrent style information storage method for nostr. Conceptually it would work by a user connecting to multiple relays, breaking up events into 3-5 encrypted blobs scattering those blobs among relays ( maybe even redundantly) and then when they fetch the data for a fresh browser state or new device, the blobs are reassembled and decrypted. Could you store very private information in a decentralized manner securely this way? Tbh I don't know if this a really stupid idea or if it already exists and I just don't know about it. #asknostr #privacy

2026-01-25 15:34:01 UTC

HYPE.
#nevent1q…u2sm

2026-01-21 01:31:32 UTC

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*War Department

2026-01-13 20:51:00 UTC

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@nprofile…nx6p another deranged role playing lib who fantasizes about being physically dominated by ICE

2026-01-13 20:03:57 UTC

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That would be amazing. They'll all pile back in at 150k, after they realize how wrong they were.

2026-01-10 11:53:51 UTC

There's a bunch of people who sold bitty to try and buy back at 60k. Let's see if that works out for them.
Hint: it usually doesn't.

2026-01-09 12:29:03 UTC

Its easy to be a doomer pessimist. Visualize a future worth getting to and attack each day to get to that future. Fuck blackpill doomerism.

2026-01-08 19:08:02 UTC

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Lol, this is retarded, Trump won't sign it and they won't get a two thirds vote to override a veto even if it passes the House. Performative garbage as always from our illustrious representatives.

2026-01-08 16:07:17 UTC

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I didn't realize Swallwell was so concerned with antifa.

2026-01-08 15:42:26 UTC

Experts saying that banning Blackstone won't help the housing crisis really makes me think that banning Blackstone will help the housing crisis.

2026-01-08 10:40:50 UTC

Defense contractors should not be able produce shitty products that are over budget and way behind schedule with taxpayer money, then turn around and buy back their shares and push out huge dividends, all while compensating their executives with 10's of millions of dollars. Any moron complaining that reigning in that tomfoolery is somehow aGaiNsT cApiTaLisM doesn't understand capitalism. If these companies were held to the same standard as most companies in the non governemental/private sector were they would have gone out of business many moons ago.

2026-01-07 16:47:13 UTC

I know the libs will find some way to freak out about this new food pyramid, and it ain't perfect, but it's way better than that lobbyist produced peice of shit that we've been using for the last 50+ years.
https://realfood.gov/

2026-01-06 17:28:53 UTC

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Thorne has high quality supplements. I use their creatine and many of their other products.

2026-01-06 09:41:00 UTC

Every high school senior in the United States of America should be required to read The Gulag Archipelago. This communist bullshit has to stop. Macarthyism 2.0.

2026-01-06 09:29:30 UTC

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Classic idiot lib. Blocking a roadway to protest the capture of a psychopathic communist dictator. According to the article she even met Maduro in Venezuela.

2026-01-05 17:09:21 UTC

The US should remove all military personnel and hardware from Europe. Those ungreatful pricks can fend for themselves.

2026-01-04 11:15:27 UTC

Leftists are so deranged that they would gladly welcome a Chinese invasion of the United States to "save" them from Trump.

2026-01-04 00:52:58 UTC

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Check out GLiNet routers

2026-01-03 16:21:01 UTC

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they also demoted her to a princess...or its Queen Frostines harlot daughter

2026-01-03 15:08:03 UTC

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2020 did that to me

2025-12-30 13:13:25 UTC

One thing I never see from the youtube "prepper" community is an emphasis on having your own tools.
Being able to build and fix things yourself is one of the most important life skills to have. Basic power, woodworking, plumbing and electrical tools along with books and general knowledge on those subjects will pay unbelievable dividends.
After growing up on a working farm that made barely enough money to get by most years, it's hard to emphasize how important basic DIY/fix-it skills are.

2025-12-30 01:19:06 UTC

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There will come a time when censorship resistant money will be appealing to a larger group of people than the current set of bitcoiners. Sadly that time is not right now, too many people still have faith in the system. I get the feeling that will change in the near future (~2-5 years). One more presidential election cycle should do the trick, lots of converging chaos with all the geopolitics, demographics, AI, and govt fraud.

2025-12-29 15:53:57 UTC

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Yup. Once you get the folder structure setup properly it works really well. Even pops up on android auto if you go into developer mode and enable it.

2025-12-28 23:13:11 UTC

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Try out Finamp for jellyfin music. Its excellent.

2025-12-27 11:31:58 UTC

All the gold and silver bugs should be wary of dancing on bitcoins grave, celebrating too early has been known to lead to disappointment.

2025-12-26 22:57:55 UTC

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Silver went up 11% today, and 50% the last month. No one would have predicted that 3 months ago. I would give little weight to prediction markets when it comes to market pricing. Better for social/political events.

2025-12-26 21:40:15 UTC

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The old saying applies "Being early often looks like being wrong".

2025-12-25 13:22:03 UTC

Merry Christmas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmLjq93Wds&t=1

2025-12-21 11:34:14 UTC

This is a joke of a bill. Hopefully entities like BPI will come out and strongly oppose it.
No capital gains tax on the best money. Period.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-lawmakers-propose-parity-act-101748222.html

2025-12-21 01:40:06 UTC

I actually really like the Claude by Anthropic TV commercial.
https://blossom.primal.net/05c7a68903a269f75747b38e6857c4614b863b905ffb8bfc4806ea51bd6b91ab.mp4

2025-12-15 10:30:31 UTC

All this quantum nonsense has picked up since big players have started to accumulate BTC in size. CRQC are a decade or more away, if it ever happens at all. This narrative is being used to scare the plebs out of holding BTC. People like Luke Grommen, who many "bitcoiners" trust, are spreading this fear for literally no reason.

2025-12-13 11:56:21 UTC

The reflexive reaction of older conservative influencers to call anyone who has questions about the Israeli gvt an antisemite is quite something to behold. Boomers are such good little robots for the state.

2025-12-11 12:37:54 UTC

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Aristotle on Chipotle?

2025-12-01 22:19:12 UTC

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All bitcoin liberals are welcome to exit stage left and sell their coins to the rest of us. I lost IQ points reading that nonsense.

2025-12-01 12:50:07 UTC

The bottom is most definitely not in lol. Stack time.

2025-11-28 21:01:06 UTC

Anyone bought any airtube headphones? Any brand suggestions?
#asknostr

2025-11-28 17:49:44 UTC

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@nprofile…jx8u

2025-11-28 12:03:06 UTC

Futures trading of stocks and commodities halted due to CME data center cooling issue.
Bitcoin still pumping out blocks.

2025-11-27 10:14:38 UTC

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King Kai's citadel

2025-11-22 23:09:58 UTC

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Understood. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something on the market or there wasn't a resource I didn't know about.

2025-11-22 22:10:37 UTC

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Nope. Its a relatively small room. Maybe 20x12. I was looking at the bitchimney and Avalon min 3. Was wondering if anyone had bought one

2025-11-22 21:14:45 UTC

Anyone had any luck with any of the btc miner space heaters? I have a room in a barn that needs a space heater and I'd rather be generating some hash than just sucking up electricity with no sats. Would be willing to build a space heater out of a miner if there's good instructions somewhere but would rather just buy something.
#asknostr #mining #homeheating #heatpunk

2025-11-21 21:44:05 UTC

Everybody wants a reason, but sometimes it just is. Accept it and move on.

2025-11-20 23:53:20 UTC

A lot of so-called "bitcoiners" haven't been very humble this year and it shows. Humble yo self, before you wreck yo self.
No loans
No leverage
No debt
boomer bucks -> sats

2025-11-17 13:05:06 UTC

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What do they stocks are?

2025-11-16 16:19:15 UTC

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yeah, prowlarr will search across media types, radarr for movies, sonarr for tv, readarr for ebooks, and lidarr for music.

2025-11-16 16:15:20 UTC

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a general search for something like "newsgroups .nzbs" should get you on the right track. I'm no expert on the topic, like not even close. Definitely not as straight forward as torrents. It may be more trouble than you want to get into but its cool that usenet and newsgroups are still around.

2025-11-16 15:49:57 UTC

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Usenet servers, joining a newsgroup isn't free (it is cheap tho) but the downloads are super fast and the selection is great. Torrents seem to be better for music. It's a fun rabbit hole to go down. Works great with the arr's.

2025-11-16 15:40:49 UTC

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Why not join a newsgroup? Why torrents?

2025-11-11 21:59:08 UTC

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Had the same feeling lol, listened to 85% of it and nothing struck me as interesting, a lot of the same tired talking points.

2025-11-07 13:35:47 UTC

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This is why you DCA instead of FOMOing a lump sum. Their gains went from a potential of 400%-500% to barely 100%.

2025-11-06 13:51:11 UTC

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Outside of a home to live in, ammo/firearms, and fitness/health there's no where else to put your money except for bitcoin. Chasing the AI stuff at this point seems really really dumb. Nuclear companies? Copper? electrical transformer manufacturers? Where else is there?

2025-10-30 17:43:39 UTC

It feels like a whole lotta people are cheering on a bear market...fuck the bears, up we go.

2025-10-20 13:04:03 UTC

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Robosats has worked well for me.

2025-10-10 17:48:59 UTC

Humbly all in.

2025-10-08 23:15:08 UTC

End of day chaser. Cheers.
https://youtu.be/6GUisuU6xzo

2025-10-04 14:29:39 UTC

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https://youtu.be/mS0iCTOXVag?si=ALqyvyVy_sAs_raA

2025-10-04 13:07:31 UTC

Not gonna lie. AI soul version of "Higher" kinda slaps.
Higher we go ladies and gents.
@nprofile…66av @nprofile…56d8
https://youtu.be/mS0iCTOXVag

2025-10-01 11:00:01 UTC

I should be able to provide blood tests and proof of workouts (PoW) voluntarily to my health insurance provider to lower my rate to minimal/$0.

2025-09-30 15:38:55 UTC

Something does feel off about the rise of Erika Kirk. Her speech at the memorial for her husband the late Charlie Kirk felt weird. Not sure exactly what it is but my spidey senses are tingling.

2025-09-26 13:58:46 UTC

This sideways price chop has got everyone a little on edge...

2025-09-20 17:47:53 UTC

We'll know society is starting to heal when all the musicians, actors, and athletes make waaaaaayyyyyy less money than they currently do. These careers are generally non productive and are a true showcase of the misallocation of capital in the current fiat system. None of these people should be millionaires. They're contributions to society are minimal at best.

2025-09-20 17:41:10 UTC

If you sell bitcoin for gold because one of these boomer economic doomers says "it's still too correlated to the NASDAQ, if the stock market falls at all, BTC will get crushed and gold will sky rocket" you're an idiot. Bitcoin may initially fall in the beginnings of a monetary crisis, but the rebound will be swift and aggressive. Buying lots of physical yellow rocks where you get shafted buying it (price marked up) and again trying to sell it (dealers fee) plus all the effort to make sure its actually pure gold, trusting the US mail system/gold dealer, and buying safes that are robust enough to secure it, is beyond stupid in the modern digital age.
Don't be the boomer gold bugs exit liquidity so they can buy a fifth vacation home and another set of fine china they'll put in a glass cabinet to look at and never use.
Ignore the boomers on all sides. They have no great financial wisdom. They're all a part of the theft generation.

2025-09-18 10:51:01 UTC

Watching the democratic party, left wing NGO establishment, and media implode.
https://media.tenor.com/5iNof9U3Z_wAAAAC/kessoku-hood.gif

2025-09-11 23:55:42 UTC

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It doesn't matter if they commit these acts in service of Satan knowingly/purposefully. It furthers the devil's cause nonetheless.

2025-09-11 23:52:24 UTC

https://youtu.be/sFIQgPAms88

2025-09-10 20:57:30 UTC

If you have leftists in and around your life that you share personal details with, that is a mistake. These people are lunatics. COVID showed their true colors. They want you dead for wanting to be left alone and free to make your own choices.
You should have left these people behind years ago, but the next best time is now.
Cut personal ties and avoid these people. For you and your family's safety.

2025-09-06 20:07:30 UTC

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6% reload fee seems kinda high

2025-08-30 03:13:39 UTC

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Wash out the morons. It's not about the money, it's about the principle.

2025-08-26 16:03:47 UTC

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I've been thinking a lot about this the last couple of months. Decided to pick very good/dependable firearms in 6 categories. Hunting small game rifle, hunting large game rifle, hunting shotgun, personal carry handgun, home defense shotgun, and home defense rifle. It might a little overkill but each is distinct enough to have their own purpose.

2025-08-23 01:50:08 UTC

The Peter Thiel, Paypal Mafia, Palantir gang pumping Ether is fantastic. Bitcoin will continue to do its thing while those idiots continue to try and make "fetch" happen. Newsflash..."fetch" isn't gonna happen. Stay Humble. Stack Sats.

2025-08-21 23:10:13 UTC

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Heres a classic for y'all.
"It's hotter than two rats screwing in a wool sock."

2025-08-21 16:20:52 UTC

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This is truly retarded. It's current market cap is $2+ trillion, with unlimited upside because of degen banker money printing. It's already succeeded by almost any measure.

2025-08-17 12:45:51 UTC

Fascinating interview about retooling K-12 education. I like a lot of what these Alpha schools are doing.
I think it would be amazing if we gave some kind of tax incentives for working professionals in different industries to take a few weeks every year to teach and mentor children and teens and local business /community hubs so that there is some real world application .
Education is so broken that unless more models like this pop up I'll be homeschooling my future children.
Modern Wisdom: #981 - MacKenzie Price - Alpha School: A New Approach To Education
Episode webpage: https://chriswillx.com/books/
Media file: https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/G454/prfx.byspotify.com/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/SIXMSB6888001790.mp3?updated=1755120827

2025-08-12 14:23:29 UTC

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😂. 🎧🪩🕺
#nevent1q…umlr

2025-08-08 12:05:00 UTC

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10g everyday

2025-08-06 11:21:21 UTC

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Having drinks with friends is more mental/psychological health than physical health, it helps build long lasting bonds between people. The anti-alcohol crowd needs to relax and have beer🍺.

2025-07-31 15:01:48 UTC

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Jellyfin and Finamp usage about to boom

2025-07-31 10:20:08 UTC

Has anyone used AI tools to create files that can be fed to 3D printers? It'd be pretty freaking sweet to just vibe physical objects into existence

2025-07-28 16:18:36 UTC

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Houses are over valued when compared with the median wage increase over the same time frame in the US. That's just a fact, doesn't really matter what you think.

2025-07-26 15:16:07 UTC

Nice. Another Solo CK Pool Block.
https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000012b46e1a7ce322e850afde12422c440ee19d9c1b6d74a