gary_woodfine
Gary Woodfine

human incarnation of marmite, builder of soft things, surreptitious dismantler of states. Opinions are all mine and as such will be completely different to yours, also serial wind up merchant

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2026-06-07 10:28:15 UTC

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Johannesburg?

2026-05-29 18:25:44 UTC

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I would disagree there most "professional grade" became too complex and sprawling because they were built by teams. The reality is most software systems are just multi one man projects cobbled together

2026-05-29 09:38:38 UTC

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Think I just doubled your daily user count

2026-05-22 13:36:24 UTC

Has the Zap craze officially died ? I'm not sure the onchain zap thing has much legs either

2026-05-22 12:29:02 UTC

What in your view/opinion is the major stumbling block to people onboarding and staying on nostr ?
I have a few suspicions but would be interested in hearing from others

2026-05-22 08:53:49 UTC

How have we got to the stage with nostr clients, that it seems every client needs to build a "Wallet" into the client?
It really makes no sense to me. It seems every client out there seems to want to completely implement every NIP and all functionality . It really doesn't make any sense to do so.
Pick a lane, excel in that lane, the core concept and ethos of nostr is that it is meant to be inter operable, freedom of choice, decentralised, and selective sovereignty.
It seems every nostr client developer, is trying to build their version of the "everything app". You don't need to do this.

2026-05-20 14:28:41 UTC

Sending a new note using the Quick Sign functionality in Diogel ...... coming soon in the next release of the Extension

2026-03-25 16:22:36 UTC

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yeah sometimes the kettles call the pots black

2026-03-24 18:35:44 UTC

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Nope, I think you'll find its more of a case of thank the BIS, EU and the Cartel of Central Banks. Trump, is nothing but a cog in that but brrrrring machine

2026-03-23 14:26:49 UTC

Bill Gates Calls for Digital ID "Systems & Behaviors" to Combat "Misinformation".
"The U.S. is a tough one because we have the notion of the First Amendment. And so what are the exceptions?...I do think over time...you're going to want to be in an environment where the people are truly identified...We're going to have to have systems and behaviors that we're more aware of who says that, who created this?"
This guy is pure evil! Digital ID is absolute insanity. Anyone who has read Edwin Black IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation. Would clearly understand why.
Never believe the words of a pedo

2026-03-18 11:35:24 UTC

It's really important to remember that in the day and age of today. It's vitally important to do whatever the fuck you want to do, and not what some 10 second video on mind numbing algorithm feed wants you to do.
Think for yourself, avoid the groupthink

2026-03-18 11:27:13 UTC

Just popping out to my not so local at all Deli, just to get a sandwich and wind up all the blue hairs
https://gails.com/

2026-03-18 08:30:22 UTC

Morning Plebs, What are we all experts in today?

2026-03-17 16:12:15 UTC

There is no such thing as "International Law"!........... pass it on

2026-03-17 12:30:09 UTC

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It annoys me you posted the light theme screenshot more than it should 😜
I have to agree, I'm not entirely sure what these graphs are actually telling me 🤥

2026-03-17 08:06:18 UTC

Have we gone from "Software is eating the world" to "AI is eating the world", fundamentally just saying Software is eating itself?

2026-03-16 21:13:57 UTC

Did the software industry just die in 2019?

2026-03-16 13:37:52 UTC

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welcome

2026-03-16 11:53:35 UTC

This is the absolute state of it. This is what happens when you let totally unimpressive people do a job that they are totally incapable of doing!
https://reclaimthenet.org/melanie-dawes-ofcom-lawsuit-online-safety-act-us

2026-03-16 09:31:38 UTC

Are all the cool kids still using Svelte? Or we just using what the LLM churns out?

2026-03-16 09:28:40 UTC

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I can't even memorize my shopping list! Always come back with things I didn't need and missing stuff I really need

2026-03-15 09:11:18 UTC

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Yes, the term Financial Markets, is a complete oxymoron, because the reality is that they really have nothing at all to do with Finances or Markets. They have just descended into a complete corruption of predictions, manipulations and deceptions

2026-03-15 09:07:14 UTC

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Nah 😛

2026-03-14 18:43:44 UTC

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He couldn’t tell the difference between a work function and a party.

2026-03-14 18:10:53 UTC

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😱

2026-03-14 17:28:27 UTC

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What decade was this message from?

2026-03-13 21:36:36 UTC

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Yeah i get your point, . The problem is that most points can be argued in both way and communities often get lost in nuance and argue which side has the most correct take.
You can get lost on point of what is and what isn’t spam from the perspective of every side.
In my opinion, I believe in the most ruthless point is , if it’s not a financial transaction it’s spam . There is no need for a block to contain anything other than record financial value passing from one entity to another in the simplest possible.

2026-03-13 21:14:17 UTC

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Could filtering be considered protecting free speech? A process of ensuring that communication channels are kept clean and clear for speech?

2026-03-13 12:34:34 UTC

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Make Autism Great Again

2026-03-13 11:09:45 UTC

This is a really interesting show, and really illuminating perspective
https://fountain.fm/episode/gtobDFEbScsHCeb1Mby5

2026-03-12 11:22:58 UTC

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Yes, they also banned prostitution, and yet it thrives. They banned drugs, yet they thrive. Banning anything never actually makes it disappear.

2026-03-12 11:17:32 UTC

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Yes, this is the psyop they really want you to believe in. They want to bury you in a mountain of irrelevance so you choose to ignore it completely. However, what is buried in the mountain of irrelevance are the very things that are important

2026-03-12 07:51:40 UTC

Is AI Fatigue a thing?

2026-03-11 13:44:41 UTC

How's that situation that everyone is monitoring.

2026-03-10 12:31:04 UTC

fuck AGI lets go for FUIS
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260310-french-ai-startup-ami-raises-1b-to-develop-universal-intelligent-systems

2026-03-10 11:51:38 UTC

I think the Bare Naked Ladies said it best:
I wear my my mind on my sleeve,
I have history of taking off my shirt
Don't know who needs to know this, but here it is

2026-03-10 11:45:15 UTC

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That is so funny!!
Writing and reading are too distinctly different practices aren't they.
practising one, doesn't necessarily mean you're practicing the other

2026-03-10 11:20:44 UTC

i used to be a software developer. Now i just generate multiple failed projects a day from brain farts!

2026-03-10 11:15:47 UTC

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You know, once upon a time, I enjoyed the bug hunting. Then i found out, the more bugs you fixed the more you would need too

2026-03-10 11:10:25 UTC

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I'll go to my grave knowing I wrote more bugs than a machine ever will

2026-03-10 10:56:03 UTC

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https://geocities.restorativland.org/Area51/Atlantis/1032/

2026-03-10 09:54:15 UTC

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That is also an observation.
The phrase "many a true word is said in jest" springs to mind.

2026-03-10 09:14:37 UTC

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that's an opinion! all jokes aside, I do understand where you're coming from.
Weirdly, I have been pondering over the last few days, that the UX, for actual "conversation" and "Discussion" on nostr, just isn't quite there yet!
Kind 1 clients don't seem to foster or engage true conversational interaction. Something just isn't quite there yet

2026-03-10 09:08:42 UTC

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that's an opinion

2026-03-10 07:49:49 UTC

The biggest use of AI by far, is people using it to justify their opinions or attempting to invalidate others

2026-03-10 07:33:24 UTC

the important thing to remember, is an opinion is opinion. It will exist whether you agree with it or not. it will continue to exist.
You may think, your opinion is more valid, but here's a thing, opinions will differ, people will clash over them, but they will always continue to exist.

2026-03-10 07:21:00 UTC

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They really want you to believe that international law is a thing

2026-03-10 07:09:53 UTC

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No One regime changes North Korea, because it literally got nothing else

2026-03-09 21:52:39 UTC

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Is it an ethical question? Morals in themselves are just vague principles , sympathies
Fundamentally you’re just picking a side on what you believe to right, there is no right answer, it’s just what you feel or perceive what the answer should be.
You may want to wrap this up into some intellectual waffle, but fundamentally it’s just emotions

2026-03-09 20:12:51 UTC

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I'll sell you 1 BTC for 100 Million Sats. Real Bargain

2026-03-09 18:33:14 UTC

I am old enough to remember when Silicon valley, promised us that the internet would help us find the cure for cancer within 10 years.
What we got:
* our privacy invaded
* society fragmentation isolation
* cheap shit delivered from China delivered straight to your front door
* hours of doomscrolling
* a mental health crisis
But yeah lets all swallow that AI will deliver the cure for cancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv1szY9rBro

2026-03-09 18:24:00 UTC

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Nope that very clearly nuance

2026-03-09 17:05:50 UTC

challenging narratives does not mean one disagrees or agrees, question everything!

2026-03-09 16:57:38 UTC

A major lesson being played out in real time.
If you keep continually threatening violence and death , you really shouldn’t be surprised when you start getting punched in the face.
There are no innocent parties involved

2026-03-09 16:15:39 UTC

Been pondering these statements today.
The question i have to ask, is what problems does he think he is solving by disrupting the software development industry ?
Was there some kind of problem within the industry that wasn't producing code fast enough?
don't get me wrong, i make use of AI daily. i get it to churn out code, and to be honest churning out code has never been a problem in the software industry per se. Software for intents and purposes has always fundamentally been worthless.
admittedly one of the biggest problems in software development, has always been predominantly focused around project management and unlocking the perceived value stream of software projects.
On average, 75% of software delivery projects fail, almost none of them due to the speed of code being delivered. Most software project fail for a myriad of different reasons, none of them really focused around the speed of coding.
i suppose in some sense, having AI generate the code quicker, we can reduce the speed at which we reach failure.
I'm really perplexed at what problem we're actually solving with this elimination. Do we have some bench mark we can use to measure what success actually looks like,
I accept Software Developers, may in many instances be nothing more than the Coach Builders before the motor car came about. However, its not exactly clear what defines success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxHWjYFLizA

2026-03-09 15:30:12 UTC

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Opsec should matter to everyone who talks about Bitcoin

2026-03-09 15:27:46 UTC

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$5 wrench attacks

2026-03-09 15:25:46 UTC

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First rule of Bitcoin:
Talk about Bitcoin, never talk about your Bitcoin

2026-03-09 15:06:58 UTC

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I am all to well aware of sanctions on unfavourable states, having experienced them directly. I grew up in a state that was considered unfavourable, and had sanctions imposed on it because it did not suit the narrative of the supposed do gooders.
There will always be Yin and Yang of policy, the only real outcome of any policy is ultimately failure, primarily because there will always be conflicting perceptions of what the final outcomes should be, or even could be.

2026-03-09 13:19:41 UTC

if you're into Bitcoin, and you're just waiting for that utopia of Hyper Bitcoinization to happen, so we can all just be super rich and the state has been separated from money.
i've got news for you, it simply isn't just going to happen. its going to take a lot of time, effort and hard work to make it happen. It is going to take a lot of work, that many of you will not want to do. its going to take a lot of effort put into doing a lot of uncomfortable things.
The cold hard simple fact is, its going to take an almighty political effort, because the current status quo is just way too powerful.
You can take the total weak position, and sit on the sidelines and moan, or you can roll up your sleeves, and decide to get stuck in and start changing the system from within.
Do the hard uncomfortable things, put in the proof of work. Be The Change, to make the change.
Failing that Bitcoin, will only ever be one of those curious curiosities of a forgotten age.

2026-03-09 12:57:26 UTC

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Its some what of a fallacy, to say that you can only participate in democracy every 4 years. In fact, I would say that is completely an incorrect perception.
The reality is true democratic participation requires more than just 1 vote every 4 years. You are more than free, to join and participate in any of your preferred political parties, working at a local level within your chosen political party to bring about and enthuse change, and actually participating within your own party elections, campaigns and functions in general.
You can be the change and just do things to bring about change.
Just sitting on the sidelines moaning about that nobody is implementing the change you want, forgive me, but that is just pure brain dead!

2026-03-09 12:31:56 UTC

I don’t want to be the guy that was right, that is nothing more than egotistical fallacy. However, being part of wider community or society that takes morally and ethically correct communal decisions and actions is far more beneficial to everyone

2026-03-09 12:03:49 UTC

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unconstrained and uncontrolled power is the problem. or rather allowing power to become unconstrained and uncontrolled

2026-03-09 11:38:09 UTC

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Allowing either side to actually gain power, by non participation results in this

2026-03-09 10:14:56 UTC

It is a basic premise of software engineering that you cannot allow memory allocation, ie state management, to grow , unchecked and unmonitored . It is also vitally important to ensure that all unnecessary processes or services are disposed of to ensure optimum execution of an application.
Yet some people tend to think this same discipline does not need to be applied to state.
A software system will only be as successful as its state management.
The same as any society or community will only be as successful as its state management

2026-03-09 09:34:58 UTC

To claim nobody voted for any action of the state, is often tacit acknowledgement that also nobody voted for the alternative at best, at worst that no other alternative was presented due to total lack of participation

2026-03-09 09:31:19 UTC

Your non-participation in the state, does not hamper or halt its growth, it only fuels it to grow beyond your .
It’s not rocket science

2026-03-09 09:13:21 UTC

It is not the state that is the problem, rather it is the size of the state that is the problem.
If left unchecked and uncontrolled the size of the state will grow to fill whatever void or vacuum you leave for it to grow.
Your non participation in a state, does not halt or contain its growth it will only grow beyond your non participation and ultimately it will control you whether you acknowledge its legitimacy or not.
Leaving decisions of others to whether the state will grow or not , is not galaxy brain material, in fact it is rather naive, because others will always elect to opt for state growth, merely because of the perceived benefits.
Democracy is far from perfect, on the whole it doesn’t seem to work, yet it is still the best out of the rest.

2026-03-09 07:48:17 UTC

It would seem it is perceived as the best way to convince someone of a fundamentally flawed argument, is to call them a retard and send a meme.
Seems this is the way we will usher in the brave new world.
not convinced it is the most cunning of plans

2026-03-08 23:09:30 UTC

Really looking forward to Monday , to find out what the internet experts on everything are going to be experts on

2026-03-08 22:09:16 UTC

If everything is a psyop , everything is a psyop

2026-03-08 20:15:10 UTC

Really looking forward to the day when my toaster has AI in it. Will never to understand whether the dial is based on minutes or heat!

2026-03-08 20:05:43 UTC

Another fundamental flaw of the big AI revolution is, where are these AI companies going to generate all this massive revenue required to pay back all this debt or even cover the costs of compute , if nobody is earning any money to pay for all the goods and services that are being produced.
No one has presented any plan or insight as to what the possibilities are, we’re just being told it’s coming.
As a software developer with heaps of experience of working on software projects . I’ve witness many fail, despite boundless enthusiasm for the technical capabilities
Just saying

2026-03-08 19:54:01 UTC

Is anybody else seeing the major flaw in AI taking all the jobs plan?
If AI takes all the jobs in companies that produce goods that are dependent on people with jobs to buy, how are companies going to sell goods that AI has produced?
All these subscription based services that require people with jobs to pay for, are going to go first.
Insurance premiums will be next, health care companies will go, despite AI doing all the jobs efficiently.
How are people gonna find the money to pay for mortgages?
Yeah I’m starting to think that all of this hasn’t been completely thought through yet.
But yeah my bot filtering my inbox has made me so much more efficient and productive

2026-03-08 19:28:48 UTC

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I work at home in a T-shirt, I’m probably super fucked

2026-03-08 19:27:08 UTC

Sometimes the burden of proof can be a real pain

2026-03-08 18:36:42 UTC

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So despite not believing in the legitimacy of the state, you claim you cannot live anywhere where the state does not exist. Continue to pay taxes to the state because of fear of repercussions from the state because of its monopoly on violence.
And I’m the retard??

2026-03-08 18:29:37 UTC

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Kind of proves you believe in legitimacy of a state.

2026-03-08 18:27:07 UTC

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So you want to live in a state then.

2026-03-08 18:24:29 UTC

Tomorrow I am going to work hard to earn ilking as a Zionist sympathiser, sounds cool

2026-03-08 17:45:18 UTC

Just because I choose to use the same form as money as you, it really doesn’t mean I have to agree with and adopt your opinion.
Just let that sink in

2026-03-08 17:36:12 UTC

Breaking: IRGC members are literally threatening to kill anyone who comes out to the streets.
They’re saying: “If anyone goes out on the street, we will treat them as Israeli soldiers and we have the right to kill them.”

2026-03-08 17:11:56 UTC

In hypothetical argument between a pots and a kettle which one wins?

2026-03-08 17:05:18 UTC

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At the end of the day, it does appear to be a matter of whatever perspective to justify any point of the argument.
Was it justified that a state used violence, or in your words, killed for peace, when earlier this year the people of Iran protested against the economic failure of the state?
The people of Iran, are calling out for change, It’s well documented that they have been doing so for a number of years, every time this has been met with yet more violence from the state, or rather more killing to achieve peace.
Do we need to accept this form totalitarian thinking as justified behaviour? Or is this just a cultural norm?

2026-03-08 16:47:17 UTC

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Not kill for peace, rather violence to achieve pacifism , the nuance is rather important

2026-03-08 16:45:01 UTC

I love looking up the definition of words and terms , to see how meaning and definitions change or more rather abstract over time.
My latest enquiry is on the word “state”. One definition that has changed is
The supreme public power within a sovereign political entity
Sounds catchy

2026-03-08 16:15:31 UTC

I don’t just walk into any house in my village and make myself a cup of tea and help myself to biscuits , not through fear of persecution by the state or the police or courts etc.
We do this from the learned behaviour of culture , and the perception of what is considered right or wrong.
My neighbour does not need to be protected by the state, but rather more on the reliance that I adopt and adhere to these cultural norms.
We would like to think that the state
Provides a barrier or a border around us to live within these cultural norms.
The problem is that there appears to be people who do not want to live within these confines of cultural norms and perhaps have differing perspectives of what these norms are

2026-03-08 16:04:31 UTC

The natural state of man is to be free, the downside is it is also the natural behaviour of man to curb others freedom

2026-03-08 15:48:53 UTC

It turns out my only identity is that I’m a fucking annoying cunt
Who knew

2026-03-08 15:44:10 UTC

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My only narrative is that I question everything all the time

2026-03-08 15:36:03 UTC

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Is it your judgement to pass it?

2026-03-08 15:34:29 UTC

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What is my narrative?

2026-03-08 15:33:38 UTC

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Did I make the “kill for peace”argument
All I’m really saying is that buried deep within these debates, is a lot of historical complex nuance .
There is a strong desire within Iran for people to identify as something other than fundamental Islamist
Extremists, there are many different cultures, beliefs, tribes , clans etc within Iran.
The IRGC legitimately only account for around 20% of the population
For sure there is greed, corruption and everything else in between buried deep in all sides of the arguments

2026-03-08 15:07:09 UTC

No memes are illegal on decentralised nostr events

2026-03-08 15:04:47 UTC

I’m finding it difficult to live up to expectations people put on me.
I don’t know wether I’m a far right racist fascist
A low IQ statist
Antichrist lunatic
Liberal lefttard
Intelligent high brow libartarian
Austrian economist
Nut job
Cunt
Fucking idiot
It’s exhausting having opinions

2026-03-08 14:58:45 UTC

“They can never take your Bitcoin”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70jw436n0yo

2026-03-08 14:50:39 UTC

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I might be too low IQ to answer that I’m afraid. Seems I have been ilked as a low IQ statist , so maybe the high IQ non statists can explain themselves?

2026-03-08 14:47:47 UTC

If only IRGC came up with better memes they could’ve foiled the invasion and persuaded people of their opinions!

2026-03-08 14:45:38 UTC

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Yeah, should ask all these people telling you to not live in states

2026-03-08 14:44:37 UTC

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It would appear so