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This is only accelerating the replication crisis that was already there. We're going to need a lot more traceability and reproducibility tech going forward

2024-07-22 05:01:23 UTC

what's the best #nostr CLI right now?

2024-07-22 01:17:11 UTC

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I wonder if one day,we'll actually see public-key cryptography used for this kind of thing, authenticating that decisions like this actually came from the principal. Seal rings for a modern age.

2023-12-28 05:06:40 UTC

stay paranoid, stay free
https://m.primal.net/HVdv.jpg

2023-12-28 04:31:20 UTC

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that's sick! how do you test something like that after you build it?

2023-12-28 04:30:08 UTC

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that's an incredibly impressive attack. it's a good reminder that no pure technical measures will ever be enough- got to have the tradecraft.

2023-12-27 06:12:36 UTC

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I think you can be realistic without being pessimistic. A post-bitcoin world won't be the city on the hill- it will have corruption, and rent-seeking, and powerful men using power for their own benefit.
and yet it will solve some problems, and things will improve. no rapture, no Utopia: just slowly solving problems, building capital, making things better

2023-12-27 05:53:31 UTC

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if you haven't practiced being weird in everyday life, how will you be ready to be weird when it counts?

2023-12-27 05:30:40 UTC

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It's one of my least favorite parts of the greater bitcoin sphere. When you have a sudden dislocation of meaning, and the things you were raised to believe in turn to sand, it creates fertile ground for new culty entities to move in selling purpose and belonging

2023-12-11 06:47:34 UTC

TQ check: how far away is your closest tourniquet?

2023-11-25 05:27:20 UTC

There are libertarians who see the state as a threat, and then there are libertarians that see the state as competition.

2023-11-25 01:55:27 UTC

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If this shocks you, you need to red team your stuff more.
#nevent1q…kn55

2023-10-11 05:49:13 UTC

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The way they made use of drones against fixed points and armor, as well as light mobility (motorcycles and paramotors), will be a very informative case study.

2023-10-10 22:00:57 UTC

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That's actually a really neat idea. One of the issues with OSM is completeness, especially when it comes to things like businesses (geographic features are really good). Even a small incentive system might fix that.

2023-10-10 07:59:53 UTC

https://github.com/kbre93/every-breath-you-take
Neat tool using a Polar H10 for heart rate variability biofeedback.

2023-10-08 06:33:25 UTC

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It sounds like you think what Mike wrote is disingenuous?

2023-10-08 06:12:32 UTC

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Deliberate killings of a bunch of civilians is dramatically escalatory. This also comes as part of a broader campaign by Iran to establish supremacy in the region.

2023-10-07 02:57:40 UTC

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Getting harder and harder to buy stuff that doesn't have that crap in it.
Feels like better network mgmt is going to be the next essential privacy/selfhost skill. Locking stuff down on VLANs, etc

2023-10-06 21:16:19 UTC

Project Kuiper's first birds are up!

2023-10-06 10:44:21 UTC

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of course, we eventually get to standing up to the government, but...
https://image.nostr.build/d8606798c1c6906fe19c3b26d952365ccda9e3d376abc55550b339ad3803409c.jpg

2023-10-06 10:44:06 UTC

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Yeah, it's stuck around- a bit annoying

2023-10-06 10:42:13 UTC

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they don't know how bad it can get, how weird people are, or just how many of them are out there
something I'm playing with atm is emphasizing the scale of the internet (and modern connected systems in general).
Tim Ferriss, of all people, has an interesting article on the downsides of scale- once you have an audience of hundreds of thousands of people, you inevitably get psychopaths, murderers, stalkers, and crack addicts.
so when I talk about adopting privacy I talk less about fighting the government or whatever, and more about how far data spreads when it leaks- "sure, you don't have anything to hide from most people, but..."

2023-10-06 10:36:03 UTC

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I think you misunderstand the context, GPT.

2023-10-06 10:29:59 UTC

Actually, while we're at it, how many people on Nostr train #bjj/#jiujitsu? Who's spending time on the mats?

2023-10-06 10:22:42 UTC

Read Stross's Accelerando, if you already haven't.
People like to describe sci-fi as prophetic, but Accelerando isn't how things will necessarily play out- the world's already changed a lot since 2008.
What it will give you a feel for just how deeply weird things are likely to get.

2023-08-14 05:05:45 UTC

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Any reason to not just spin up a second dev one? Run NixOS or something!

2023-08-08 08:24:21 UTC

The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.

2023-08-08 08:19:00 UTC

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Yeah, gratitude is one of those things that's almost annoyingly effective. It feels wishy-washy compared to stuff like exercise or ice baths or something, but it really does work

2023-08-08 08:15:31 UTC

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In general, it's a collection of strategies that make really strong assumptions about how stable the future is going to be.

2023-08-08 08:10:09 UTC

How good are current open source CGM options?

2023-08-06 09:49:45 UTC

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Wait, is this the same ninja choke he got some Logan Paul lookalike with on New Orleans street a while back? Dude likes that move

2023-08-05 12:10:21 UTC

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OSMAnd, the OpenStreetMaps client. The data isn't quite there yet to match Gmaps for looking up stores/restaurants, but its a much more powerful, offline maps tool overall.

2023-08-04 11:13:27 UTC

It's looking like the rocks do, in fact, float.

2023-08-03 12:28:03 UTC

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/e2a42309c2ad6752db1843c50e5e5d62f2c89e40840a574f07d4db837211da40.jpg
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/e2a42309c2ad6752db1843c50e5e5d62f2c89e40840a574f07d4db837211da40.jpg

2023-08-03 09:21:05 UTC

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I like Chris Voss's mirror/label technique here- he's mostly concerned with figuring out people's positions in a negotiation context, but it's a generally good way to encourage people to keep going and express themselves

2023-08-02 22:36:50 UTC

Yamana Sozen, the Red Monk. In 1466, with a succession struggle brewing within the shogunate, Yamana gathered his troops and marched to Kyoto: nominally to support the shogun's brother's claim to the throne, but fundamentally as part of an ongoing feud with his son in law, Hosokawa. After more than a year of tense, sometimes violent brinksmanship, with brawls in the streets and wood-and-paper Japanese buildings put to the torch, the conflict would finally erupt into the Onin War.
A decade of brutal urban conflict later would see Yamana and Hosokawa both dead, the Japanese Imperial capital laid in ruins, and the power of the shogunate over the provincial lords was broken. The event marked the start of the Sengokujidai, Japan's Warring States Period.https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_7990105376974605171691015799.webp

2023-08-01 07:53:22 UTC

Coding in the moonlight, beer in hand. Good evening. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=z4DQKo0xoB8

2023-08-01 07:49:23 UTC

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Having a plausible mechanism is incredibly hype. Even if LK-99 doesn't turn out to be super useful itself, the possibility space just opened up

2023-07-30 09:45:55 UTC

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Logseq is the closest thing, I think? https://github.com/logseq/logseq

2023-07-29 00:44:36 UTC

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Okay, interesting. I'm actually running OpenBoard for my keyboard at the moment, as opposed to the stock GrapheneOS one, but it may be a related issue. I'll try Florisboad at some stage. Thanks1

2023-07-28 12:48:15 UTC

Uh, general #nostr question- is there a good solution yet for mass-blocking shitcoiner bots? It's not that big a deal, but there's a minor infestation almaot every time I post.

2023-07-28 12:44:33 UTC

I'm a big fan of the folks at Integrated Skills Group, as they highlight some stuff that's often overlooked in the broader prepper community. One thing is in-field weather prediction, and broad weather awareness skills. Knowing a little bit about clouds and weather patterns can really let you understand a bit about the vast systems of temperature and pressure flow that surround you, which is majestic, fascinating. And occasionally, very useful.
https://integratedskillsgroup.com/2021/06/level-up-cloud-genera/

2023-07-28 12:31:53 UTC

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Agency is a hard thing to teach, but it sounds like you're doing an awesome job!

2023-07-28 12:30:24 UTC

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We haven't peaked yet! Modern minimalist architecture is an artifact of labor costs and energy/material efficiency, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. As we accelerate into reduced material scarcity, we'll have an expansion of creativity and neobaroque intricacies and detail.

2023-07-28 12:26:50 UTC

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Gm!

2023-07-28 12:24:45 UTC

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I was homeschooled, and I think it did a reasonably good job of preparing me for a chaotic world. Generalist skills and learning how to learn seem like they're only going to get more important.

2023-07-28 12:10:45 UTC

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Will check that out! Had it for a little while now, might just be some kind of edge case. Posting more from plebstr now, it's good to have both

2023-07-28 11:34:54 UTC

Time for the bancor #mandibles
More seriously, though, I'm skeptical- none of them except maybe China have shown the organization necessary to pull this off, and China has macro troubles of its own

2023-07-28 08:43:47 UTC

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v0.70.8-FDROID, on GrapheneOS- yeah, it's a bit weird, haven't seen much else about it

2023-07-28 05:47:18 UTC

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_7284464469617841041690523185.webp
Get out there and do something cool this weekend.

2023-07-28 05:33:32 UTC

Does anyone else have a weird bug on #amethyst where backspacing into a word deletes the previous space?

2023-07-27 23:18:02 UTC

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Super excited to read this!

2023-07-27 12:13:25 UTC

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That's a great thought- I've come across Invidious a bit before, but don't know why I didn't think to use it there. Will make sure to do that going forward. Thanks!

2023-07-27 12:12:26 UTC

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A few! I like having different books for different places: one in the study, one for commutes, one before bed. Some way of dealing with a short attention span, I guess.
I've been trying to read more history, so currently enjoying The Mongol Empire, by John Man. It's a very literary and narrative history, so sometimes you wish there was a little more detail, but it's an incredible story, especially Genghis' original rise to power.
A fun fiction pairing with that has been The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian, a collection of Howard's original short stories in publication order. Everyone knows the Milius film with Arnold (which is great!) but Howard's Conan has a little more complexity.
Finally (and maybe a more relevant to the #bookstr folks who like finance/econ themes), I'm a little ways into The Laws of Trading by Lebron. It's definitely themed around trading decision making, but uses that to discuss more general principles for good decisions under uncertainty. The first quarter or so is good, at least!

2023-07-26 04:42:01 UTC

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I've definitely been trying to grow my physical library again, after a few years of relying more on ebooks.
I know that encoding non-transaction data on chain is controversial, but this could be a valid use case: hashes for specific versions of important or controversial texts.
I don't really worry at this point about a future where Hayek or Nietzsche are inaccessible, but I do worry about a future where the space is polluted by subtly distorted versions, as everything is constantly dynamicaly rewritten to serve the status quo.

2023-07-25 12:39:51 UTC

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This is an awesome list- it's good to know the baseline 'nix tools, but some of the extensions are so good. ripgrep and fzf are part of my standard setup on every system now.

2023-07-25 11:30:19 UTC

trying to get a feel for how different messages and formats interlink on nostr:
https://blogstack.io/naddr1qqyrsv34xvurgvf5qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsygz5a44j5sn5s8gndppa2gv7qt5dshfepz5dsj8ryj8eakzl89qq25psgqqqw4rsgwet7t

2023-07-25 10:45:49 UTC

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I'd be curious to know how long the two projects took as, well. Cost disease, but also everything's so much slower

2023-07-25 10:41:46 UTC

IFAK check: how far away is your closest tourniquet, right now?

2023-07-25 10:39:50 UTC

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it's a desperately-needed bit of historical perspective. most people in the developed world just really have no idea how bad things can get.

2023-07-20 03:57:12 UTC

Yeah, this definitely feels smoother...

2023-07-20 03:14:18 UTC

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It seems mostly good, but I keep getting weird keyboard bugs. How is plebstr?

2023-07-20 02:00:26 UTC

https://www.changingminds.org/techniques/general/sequential/pace_lead.htm

2023-07-20 01:35:59 UTC

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That picture is insane!

2023-07-20 00:57:56 UTC

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Yeah, I've run some cycles of carnivore/keto in the past, and it works well.

2023-07-20 00:43:57 UTC

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It's going to be an interesting experiment: how much of that was the recommender algos, and how much was people chasing superstimulus?

2023-07-20 00:37:50 UTC

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Fair enough- the carnivore/ketone stuff is interesting, but something about 'em sets off my psyop flags
They should still be posting over here though

2023-07-20 00:10:48 UTC

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Didn't this acc turn out to be some granola internet marketer chick's alt?

2023-07-19 08:23:20 UTC

remember the auroch https://cdn.nostr.build/i/a338dc5cb619d7d4bf7550dedf9159cf3e0a0f0a7c054f243c81c5408e6524d0.jpg

2023-07-19 04:01:48 UTC

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It's amazing how insightful Origin still is after all this time.

2023-07-14 02:58:32 UTC

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Yeah, definitely. This kind of arbitrary tagging/HUD is something social media has needed for a while, now we might finally have it

2023-04-20 11:20:11 UTC

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We should start meming the idea of calling BRICS bucks bancors into existence

2023-04-18 12:51:44 UTC

daily reminder to carry an IFAK- bleeding out from a potentially treatable extremity wound is cringe, m'kay
not sure if nostr likes YouTube links, but this by PrepMedic is a real good build guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_--5fuM1Dc

2023-04-09 09:16:54 UTC

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Haha, will do. Still getting set up on nostr today!

2023-04-09 07:12:29 UTC

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Euler-Lagrange, I think- there are a few fundamental secrets of the universe, and least action really feels like one of them
https://i.imgur.com/MxH7Umc.jpg