jsm
Jonathan

Hacker, cypherpunk. All memes are my own.

Public Key

npub1uqeexjx2djkfwzxdnrnrrch5h2k4xn0uapcgsxm94ftaxrlhy5lqywjckg

NIP-05 Address

Profile Code

nprofile1qqswqvunfr9xetyhprxe3e33ut6t4t2nfh7wsuygrdj6547nplmj20spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0ds0cughv

Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1uqeexjx2djkfwzxdnrnrrch5h2k4xn0uapcgsxm94ftaxrlhy5lqywjckg

Show more details

Last Notes

2025-10-08 16:18:59 UTC

Updated to macOS Tahoe. Of course Apple broke a whole bunch of scripting APIs that I use. Apparently you just can't get the currently playing song title in Apple Music with Applescript because fuck you I guess.
Every update, I start to more seriously consider switching to Linux for my next laptop. I hate feeling like I'm a guest on my own computer begging for the ability to get access to the internal state of my own laptop.

2025-08-18 02:32:46 UTC

Note to self: never ask an LLM for flirting suggestions. It'll take a while for capabilities to improve enough to become useful.
Just wrote a Python script to extract messages from a conversation in iMessages, then fed it into an LLM to get feedback and suggestions as a test. After reading LLM flirting suggestions I think I might die of cringe. I have never felt such a strong urge to gag while reading non-NSFW text.

2025-06-25 20:34:29 UTC

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli
Google is releasing ANOTHER tool with a free tier. The insane amount of money they are burning letting everyone use their models for absolutely free is nuts.

2025-06-24 15:02:03 UTC

The whole pre-occupation with consciousness when people talk about AI seems confusing to me. It feels like people talk about whether AI is conscious like it’s an important or meaningful quality to have without ever explaining why consciousness is important in the first place.
My personal guess is that consciousness is a psychological quirk of how our minds evolved. I don’t see anything particularly necessary about it. Perhaps a conscious intelligence is useful in some contexts, but it seems possible to have non-conscious intelligence that are just as, or more, powerful than their conscious counterparts.

2025-06-18 15:24:06 UTC

- reply

Google just can't stop winning. New test run for the Aider Polyglot benchmark is out and Gemini 2.5 Pro with extra thinking turned on is actually so stupidly good now that it trounces o3 by itself AND o3 and GPT 4.1 working together, all while being much less expensive.
Not only that, but just yesterday Google brought the 2.5 update for its Gemini models out of preview and dropped the price at the same time, so the models are actually less expensive than what's listed on the benchmark leaderboard. Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro is now better than the top of the line models from Anthropic and OpenAI, Opus and o3, while costing less than Sonnet.
Google is winning and its not even close right now.
https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
#nevent1q…kwdp

2025-06-17 18:04:08 UTC

https://entropicthoughts.com/intuiting-monty-hall
Actually intuitive explanation of the Monty Hall problem. Most people who know the answer to the puzzle know precisely that: just the answer, but it’s famously hard to truly grok the problem.

2025-06-11 04:07:01 UTC

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/10/o3-price-drop/
OpenAI was able to optimize their inference for o3 by 80%. This is nuts. I wonder what they were doing before that was so inefficient. It’s now cheaper than Claude 4 Sonnet and Opus.

2025-06-01 23:01:35 UTC

- reply

I don’t know enough to have strong opinions on which is better for Syria. I would guess the new regime because of how horrible Assad was, but that’s little more than a prior. As for the claim about foreign born rebels, it’s difficult to find numbers on this but the best estimates I can find put that number as numbering in the few thousands.
https://observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20241220-syria-foreign-fighters-jihadism-extremism
All I’m claiming is that wailing about the poor Assad regime being slandered is flat out wrong. There’s mountains of evidence that the Assad regime did in fact commit lots of war crimes.

2025-05-23 15:24:34 UTC

The whole Bitcoin Core op_return fiasco has laid bare how horrifically centralized the Bitcoin ecosystem really is. Bitcoin Core is the only really viable implementation of Bitcoin. This may be the biggest threat to Bitcoin right now. We need different node implementations in different languages with different architectures made by totally different people.
The fact that the only real alternative to Bitcoin Core is Bitcoin Knots which is just a fork of Core except with one guy yoloing commits should be embarrassing.
This is the biggest threat to Bitcoin and the only solution I see is for companies which rely on Bitcoin to sponsor developers to work on different implementations.
That’s my rant for the day.

2025-04-17 15:30:00 UTC

https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back
Lots of good points here. One thing I hadn’t considered is that tariffs make it really difficult to establish manufacturing here. The cheaper option may simply be to do as little manufacturing in the US as possible and only import the finished product rather than deal with the complexity of an industrial supply chain and trying to import the intermediate products to do the manufacturing domestically.

2025-02-11 06:17:45 UTC

Forecasting tip, whenever Elon says something about xAI, immediately bet that it won’t happen. Literally every time they release a model everyone on twitter huddles up to hype it and then it comes out as the most bland model that was already outdated before the training run began.
Follow for more investing tips lol.

2025-02-10 02:08:39 UTC

- reply

Attitude by IVE

2024-10-15 15:12:56 UTC

Google is also joining the Nuclear party.
https://archive.is/2024.10.14-192552/https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/google-nuclear-power-artificial-intelligence-87966624
#note1khj…xqt3

2024-09-19 15:41:07 UTC

Currently trying out Lume on the desktop. Pretty solid client. There are a few things (like clicking on a profile in a reply that don't seem to be available yet but otherwise seeing multiple columns is a great layout.

2024-09-01 00:44:42 UTC

Me when I get sued thinking I’m pulling a 500 IQ move.
https://youtu.be/PZbqAMEwtOE

2024-08-31 14:14:01 UTC

https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024-08-13-crowds-vs-friends/
Interesting thought, our immune systems are mainly built to handle parasites because that’s all we really had to contend with for the vast majority of human history. Viruses weren’t common because they either killed everyone in your family group or everyone got immunity and the virus died.

2024-08-31 02:07:51 UTC

@npub12vk…pugg
https://m.primal.net/KWNq.jpg

2024-08-31 02:05:11 UTC

https://youtu.be/ZLyNWMI1rEk

2024-07-14 19:24:35 UTC

It’s 4chan. People can say whatever they want. Unless they provide strong evidence for their extraordinary claims there is zero reason to believe an Anon. #note1qjt…5ely

2023-06-19 14:14:16 UTC

- reply

No, but Lua is much more widespread. After skimming the Rhai book though they have a really nice interface. It doesn’t look like Rhai has pattern matching though so that’ll need to be built in.

2023-06-18 18:59:10 UTC

- reply

Reading it now. Thanks for the suggestion! https://nostr.build/i/e8a06bc39df5966a1469803ebd2e541aff71dead70981ce41042c464fb1b06fc.jpg

2023-06-18 14:39:41 UTC

- reply

Ha! Now imagine living in there for years when Nansen tried to float to the North Pole.
Or the moment when Amundsen announced to his crew that they were not in fact about to sail to the North Pole but the South to race against Scott.

2023-06-17 20:09:25 UTC

- reply

Men will literally talk with ChatGPT rather than go to therapy.
#nevent1q…ra2l

2023-06-16 15:13:54 UTC

Dear God, I thought I just broke the concept of Python virtual environments and had a little existential crisis because Python was randomly and inexplicably losing dependencies. I finally realized that because the code was in an iCloud folder on my Mac and I was low on storage it was being offloaded to iCloud Drive.

2023-06-16 04:04:55 UTC

- reply

I used it to outsource finding and ranking topic-related links for me to browse.

2023-06-16 03:53:21 UTC

Whenever I look at raw Nostr events I'm constantly amazed at how simple the basic building blocks of the protocol are.

2023-06-16 03:48:49 UTC

Happy Dark Side of the Moon month!

2023-06-16 02:55:51 UTC

- reply

I don't know. I know almost nothing about the world of domain hosting and DNS. All I know is that I bought a domain through Google Domains and now would like to get it out. If you have a better idea for where I should move my domains please tell me.

2023-06-16 02:48:45 UTC

- reply

If I transfer my domain to cloudflare, can I get it back out again?

2023-06-15 22:25:13 UTC

- reply

Wut

2023-06-15 21:26:33 UTC

- reply

That’s why it’s so great that filtering is now optional on Amethyst.

2023-06-15 21:12:12 UTC

- reply

I have no desire to and take no enjoyment in controlling your property. You can of course do whatever you want with your property inside the bounds of your rights. But if you do something like deleting or modifying notes based off your personal opinion the wonderful thing about private property is that I can take my property elsewhere. I kindly request that you keep your relay as dumb as possible in terms of filtering but that is the limit of the coercion I hope to ever use.

2023-06-13 16:06:15 UTC

- reply

Not first time hearing but first time installing.

2023-06-13 15:49:16 UTC

- reply

You can even add it to your Home Screen and it’ll look native.

2023-06-06 13:39:50 UTC

- reply

Lol, probably. They’ve invested pretty heavily in special secure chips so hopefully they can keep it secure. They’re definitely not perfect but they’re at least the most privacy focused of the big tech companies.

2023-06-04 15:06:09 UTC

- reply

Really? Have you tried Rust?

2023-05-31 14:57:48 UTC

I’ve finally been converted. Cold showers are actually amazing.

2023-05-25 01:08:07 UTC

- reply

Yikes man. What happened and why can’t it auto delete some of its crash reports?

2023-05-22 15:41:18 UTC

It has 2FA. Much decentralized, much wow. #note1jxn…ugp9

2023-05-18 15:15:46 UTC

Is there anyone on Nostr with a beefy enough computer to run LLaMA 65B and what was your experience?

2023-05-15 23:58:30 UTC

Someone please help me. I connected TapZap and I can’t stop.

2023-05-08 14:42:52 UTC

- reply

Yes, most people know he’s supported both protocols. The complaints about the architecture and design of Bluesky have nothing to do with who is funding the project.

2023-05-04 14:54:40 UTC

- reply

Very true. Just because something is open source doesn’t mean it’s good. What you may be missing is when you combine an extremely good free speech protocol and open source you get a killer product.

2023-03-29 02:45:44 UTC

- reply

Doesn’t matter if the other clients don’t recognize it.

2023-03-28 15:06:46 UTC

- reply

Could you explain more what you mean by surveillance services?

2023-03-26 11:35:48 UTC

The latest Lex Fridman podcast with Sam Altman is fascinating. He’s leading the field in AI and it’s interesting to hear his thoughts.
https://fountain.fm/episode/14390752401

2023-03-23 14:41:22 UTC

Will our kids or grandkids be confused by archaic sayings in the future?
“Penny for your thoughts?”
“Just my two cents.”

2023-03-10 00:15:02 UTC

Something about programming a text editor inside of a text editor feels very meta.

2023-03-08 20:49:26 UTC

- reply

😆. I wish we could just hook up the like button directly to zaps and not have to switch apps.

2023-02-10 16:05:33 UTC

At some point will bitcoin nodes just be preinstalled on computers? You’ll have a writing app, spreadsheet app, Bitcoin Core, and a slide deck app.

2023-02-03 03:29:19 UTC

- reply

From your personal relay? Just connect to it like you would any other.