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2026-02-02 04:53:10 UTC

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Diabetes in a bottle.

2026-01-31 08:07:35 UTC

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So are you its human?

2026-01-31 04:16:09 UTC

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It makes you *see* the Matrix in its entire ugliness and horror.
I have given up orange pilling people because 99% of the population simply doesn't have the strength to stomach reality.

2026-01-31 04:07:27 UTC

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I can't remember anything about it any more, but according to Goodreads I really liked it as well 😂
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8267197855

2026-01-30 00:16:24 UTC

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Yeap, you remember correctly, Plato is unreadable mental masturbation :)
I'm using the Great Books list from 1951 Encyclopaedia Britannica (and the same books are also listed in the Appendix of the book How To Read A Book).

2026-01-29 05:42:27 UTC

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This reads like AI slop...

2026-01-29 05:37:22 UTC

Highly recommended read!
This should be on the Hackernews frontpage...
#nevent1q…3qdl

2026-01-29 05:27:21 UTC

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Very nice! I recently got me a Kobo Libra Colour and my reading amount has gone up significantly, totally love that device (and am glad that Amazon will never earn a single cent from me for eBooks).
I do notice, though, that a really good page turner novel (I recently read A Deepness In The Sky and really loved it) has the same effect like videogames on me: I tend to devour the thing at every free minute to the detriment of other household tasks that I should be doing while my daughter is sleeping.
For hard books, I think the only way to get through them is to ACTUALLY want to LEARN what they have to say. And in order to learn something, you need to engage and THINK actively. And in order to think actively, you need to WRITE. I'm currently reading all Great Books of the Western World (done with everything up until Plato) and going forward, I will read everything Plato AGAIN, but this time with a pen and a (digital) notebook on the table.

2026-01-27 05:31:32 UTC

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Has anyone done similar analyses about the previous presidents?
I'm sure no one pursues that office and then intends to walk away empty handed.

2025-12-14 07:24:56 UTC

I donated $200:
https://news.nakamotoinstitute.org/p/help-us-build-the-library-of-bitcoin

2025-12-12 07:33:11 UTC

Once again, a banger essay on the undeniable biological decline of the Western world:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FNE6gTBOXGc
Highly recommend watch.

2025-12-10 16:01:08 UTC

Finished The Forgotten City:
https://backloggd.com/u/mbrochh/review/3725250/
Very cool little edutainment game.
#PS5 #gaming #philosophy

2025-12-10 13:59:41 UTC

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I don't think these things even try to be solutions to any real problem.
Unless you are an elite and your problem is that the maintenance of the enslavement of your population is getting more and more difficult with that pesky little internet thingy constantly putting wrongthink into your people's heads...

2025-12-09 04:02:54 UTC

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It won't stay 3GB. It will ballon into a terrabyte if Nostr goes mainstream.

2025-12-09 01:22:57 UTC

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No way. That will not scale if Nostr suddenly goes mainstream.

2025-12-08 14:19:03 UTC

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Eh, not having the X app on the phone is actually a tremendous lifehack.

2025-12-08 01:03:01 UTC

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And yet, we spread so fast and broadcast it all - already, nothing is new or fascinating any more.

2025-12-07 04:03:16 UTC

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80 makes sense and works very well. Even on large screens we need it because during code reviews you can have the div side by side and during coding you can have 2-4 files open next to each other.
47 sounds insane.
80 works perfectly for phones in landscape mode. Nobody should be reviewing code on the go anyways. Allow your brain to calm down. Work at your desk, not at your phone.

2025-12-05 23:59:14 UTC

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Zero issues with Brave for me.

2025-12-04 05:19:16 UTC

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As in, that's when you became a fan?

2025-12-04 05:15:26 UTC

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So far it seems that all of these services are extremely short lived.

2025-12-03 02:00:32 UTC

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We trusting BBC "journalism" suddenly?

2025-12-02 05:25:00 UTC

Good episode:
https://youtu.be/oVERYqJA41U

2025-12-01 12:36:02 UTC

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Found the bootlicker...

2025-12-01 04:49:13 UTC

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NPCs.

2025-12-01 04:48:48 UTC

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Now try a HIIT sprint workout. Same feeling but 100x.

2025-12-01 00:41:57 UTC

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🤢

2025-11-30 06:59:21 UTC

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Why would we want to blast what we are up to into the ether without any way of ever deleting it?
Nostr really is terrible as a social network. It just seems super duper dangerous.
Say anything nasty here, then your country suddenly turns into a authoritarian shithole, like the UK, Germany and France, and you get raided and thrown in jail for wrongthink.
Try to be anonymous or pseudonymous? Good look keeping that up for a year without ever accidentally posting something that doxxes your entire identity.

2025-11-30 06:53:46 UTC

Finally got around to playing Undertale.
Incredible game: https://backloggd.com/u/mbrochh/review/3682149/

2025-11-29 06:32:23 UTC

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I've been looking for incandescent lightbulps for over a year now and I can't find ANY shop that sells then with 220 Volts...

2025-11-28 04:16:29 UTC

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Why can't Nostr be the X alternative?

2025-11-28 04:12:50 UTC

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This hits hard. My terminal social media consumption for over 2 decades has definitely killed all my joy to experience the world.
There are no surprises any more, you think you have already seen everything and you think that 90% of everything is just god awful stupidity and misery.
Raising my daughter is what pulled me out of that mindset. Seeing the world through her eyes, almost like having a second chance at being a child again, saved me.

2025-11-27 22:46:59 UTC

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Start9 is better than Umbrel.

2025-11-27 10:17:49 UTC

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100% agree. Every single item on the Starbucks menu is utterly disgusting and most items are poisonous.

2025-11-27 10:17:05 UTC

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Sounds naive and dangerous.

2025-11-27 10:16:12 UTC

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I for one have my BTC node plugged into the Ethernet slots of my router, as should every serious Nostr user :)

2025-11-27 10:13:01 UTC

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I'm very happy with mine - I don't even care about the blue light nonsense - it simply has the *best* handwriting experience of any tablet I have ever tried (I tried them all).
Only the Kindle Scribe feels even better, but obviously the Kindle operating system is a steaming pile of shit, rendering the amazing hardware basically useless.
If you ever build a DC2, all I would ever want would be a better screen resolution. Reading text through the DC1 is always somewhat blurry, and I'm not even sure if better *resolution* is the key here - I have a suspicion that there is some ragged glass surfaces that creates the blurriness and it is probably that exact surface that creates the amazing paper-like feel when using the stylus.
So my questions are:
1) are you guys aware that the screen looks a bit blurry (I lack a better word, but it clearly is not as crisp as an iPad or real paper or any Kindle)
2) if yes, do you think there are ways to improve this without sacrificing the amazing handwriting feeling?
3) if yes to 2), is it on your roadmap for a future device?
4) bonus question: are you even working on a follow-up hardware or are you purely focused on software updates for the forseeable future?

2025-11-26 12:15:26 UTC

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You guys use filters?
I just curate my timeline by only following accounts that post good content, and not too frequently.
Like in the good old days of social media...

2025-11-26 04:51:32 UTC

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WTF. Did someone prompt Grok to create a Bitcoin related conspiracy theory post with bullshit bingo buzzwords cranked up to the max?

2025-11-25 07:39:07 UTC

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Not sure if Gigi's analogy holds. People definitely pay a lot of money so they can see car crashes.
Various videogames which are all about triggering spectacular crashes were big hits in the 90s.
People also love car chases in ever action movie ever made and the car scenes in MadMax are legendary.
I get what he means, though.

2025-11-24 15:34:09 UTC

Finished playing Cocoon. Very cool little puzzle game:
https://backloggd.com/u/mbrochh/review/3661460/
#PS5 #gaming #puzzle-games

2025-11-23 09:13:44 UTC

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True story: I had StackerNews on my homescreen for 2 or 3 years but never posted anything because I couldn't figure out how the fuck to signup/login.
With Keychat it was a nobrainer.
🤯

2025-11-23 09:11:43 UTC

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Are there any tradeoffs missing?
These sound like massive changes to me, I can't imagine that those few minor tradeoffs would be the only consequences??

2025-11-22 23:43:16 UTC

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Not sure why you say that.
Nostr is most definitely a hornets nest of devs who make it whatever they want it to be.
There are basicaly almost no users. Only devs.

2025-11-21 18:03:58 UTC

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Same is true for all generative AI slop.
Text, Music, Images, Video.
AI is the ultimate spam attack on all of content creation.

2025-11-21 04:02:42 UTC

I had the bad fortune of drinking coffee at Starbucks for the first time in years...
It is frankly quite unbelievable how disgusting their coffee tastes. How can a billion dollar company that is supposed to be *the* go to coffee place have no pride in their craft whatsoever...
Another one of those peak fiat problems, I guess...

2025-11-19 06:46:50 UTC

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Damn!! This is a good one. Crazy!!

2025-11-19 06:45:59 UTC

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The cost in a radically decentralized setup like this will be much higher than what a centralized entity can provide today.
That is always the case with decentralized systems. They are slower and more costly than centralized ones, but more robust.

2025-11-19 00:33:18 UTC

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Server and badwidth cost without CDN will be astronomic.
We have 100,000x more traffic nowadays vs the good old days.

2025-11-17 13:27:02 UTC

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crippling poverty and tough living conditions have never stopped people in the developing world to have children...

2025-11-17 13:19:19 UTC

Hey @npub1h0u…rwx8 , is editing messages a feature that is possible and if yes, is it on the roadmap?
In all messengers, editing away typos is something I do *constantly*.

2025-11-17 01:32:06 UTC

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Can anyone get @npub1sg6…f63m 's eyeballs on this thread? Pretty sure he would be interested to support this.

2025-11-16 13:59:12 UTC

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Where to?

2025-11-16 00:24:00 UTC

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How much of this time is glancing at the phone while
- sitting on the toilet
- sitting on public transport, commuting to work
- walking somewhere
- waiting somewhere
You can *easily* spend 4hrs with such activities. Basically, many people use their phone during activities that cannot be spent for anything else anyways.
What about people who drive to work and have the phone on for Google Maps? That drives up the screen time.
What about people who take tons of photos of their young children (like me). Drives up screen time.
Those screen time numbers sound unbelievably high - but there are many ways in which they might be inflated - and your suggestion that all that time could be used for something better is most likely wrong because most of the screen time happens during times when no other activity can be pursued.
Of course, during such idle time humans should be *actually idle* and allow the brain to rest instead of bombarding it with dopamine, so those screen time numbers are still horrible no matter what.

2025-11-15 04:08:44 UTC

Recently finished Ghost of Yotei.
I felt very satisfied and well entertained. Excellently paced game.
https://bckl.gg/pFuz

2025-11-15 03:20:58 UTC

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Who needs six second videos??
I thought everyone agreed that TikTok is absolute poison for the brain?

2025-11-15 02:32:02 UTC

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How to access it?

2025-11-13 12:20:55 UTC

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Maybe that's why mindfulness meditation can be a powerful tool.

2025-11-13 04:35:12 UTC

https://x.com/madhav1/status/1988648276837708165
Now this might actually tide me over to finally try Brave...

2025-11-13 00:51:01 UTC

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pretty sure the cookie banners were not made by valley VC Millenials but by Europoor Boomer Bureaucrats...

2025-11-13 00:48:51 UTC

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Seems very very limited in RAM.

2025-11-13 00:42:37 UTC

Valve announcing hardware now but for 2026 is gonna kill the Christmas season sales for an entire industry, huh?
What a dick move 😂

2025-11-12 01:13:02 UTC

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follow this guy: https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv24ssmmuh9zghg3vudld2ayrqdm7zae0mn266f5tl0y5h4ssl5qszyznl5dtmrhqhgu2hwhpls9g8e5u0npvr2yn9xxaytx59ghjjlv9kyqcyqqqqqqgpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnsagfl99

2025-11-11 08:51:23 UTC

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Oh wow, saw another post that mentioned indeed no processing fees. That's crazy.

2025-11-11 08:50:03 UTC

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How does taxation for this work in the US? In theory every BTC sale is a taxable event, right?

2025-11-11 08:49:03 UTC

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Why should I use Whitenoise over Keychat? These two seem to be the two major players amongst the Nostr crowd.

2025-11-11 08:46:55 UTC

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Wait... does Square not impose any processing fees???

2025-11-11 08:46:01 UTC

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Got a source for the last sentence?

2025-11-10 13:08:36 UTC

Mustwatch:
https://youtu.be/dVBIeMm7-CA

2025-11-09 04:24:46 UTC

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If every Gmail user paid $10 for their Gmail account, it would still just be a tiny insignificant drop in the bucket for Google and wouldn't change their overall culture and incentives in any way whatsoever.

2025-11-09 04:22:10 UTC

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Same for *any* service that now integrates AI for allegedly making something more convenient.

2025-11-07 03:58:20 UTC

I finally gave Keychat a try. I am pleasantly surprised. It does really seem like a killer app for Bitcoin/Nostr.

2025-11-07 03:12:43 UTC

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Nostur is even better.

2025-11-06 12:44:21 UTC

This should be shared far and wide.
Elon Musk is right. We need to make babies like there is no tomorrow or the Western Civilisation will disappear in a few short decades.
Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkingwest/p/how-to-save-the-west
https://image.nostr.build/a53570239423cb3399567b7e77975555b61c04f4a813c5c25508f064f244da4c.jpg

2025-11-04 08:44:00 UTC

https://youtu.be/fOoy8ADkUAY
Well well well... I recently reached my 40th, retired, and now am obsessed with acquiring wisdom.
Carl Jung would be proud.
😊

2025-11-04 07:03:41 UTC

https://ente.io/blog/cern-audit/
Great to see this. I'm very happy with having all my photos on Ente since over a year.

2025-11-04 02:01:43 UTC

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Not since 10 years.

2025-11-02 04:48:50 UTC

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You guys reply fast!
I guess I need to learn about Cashu ecash now...

2025-11-02 04:33:18 UTC

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A few stupid questions:
1) Is keychat fully open source?
2) How can it receive sats via LN but there is nothing about managing channels and liquidity? What LN server is it using under the hood?
3) What are the privacy implications? Does the Keychat team somehow see its users' cashflows?
4) what happens if the iOS App Store cracks down on this app and bans it? will all my data and balance be lost?

2025-11-02 04:04:45 UTC

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Signal does it well enough I think.

2025-11-01 06:22:53 UTC

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That seems like a major roadblock.
I doubt the mainstream will ever consider using a messenger app that doesn't sync across devices.
Is this on the roadmap?

2025-11-01 05:09:58 UTC

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present a multiple choice captcha where the correct answer is something that would make a leftist brain implode and where the wrong answer is what the woke bot cannkt resist to choose.

2025-10-29 05:24:29 UTC

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Sure it is a weird conversation, but "to end someone" and to predict that "something will be the end of someone" are two VERY DIFFERENT meanings, in my opinion.
Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not a native speaker, but I would interpret the first
"I will kill you"
and the second
"your opinion is so bad, it will end your career"

2025-10-28 07:20:39 UTC

I got myself “audiophile” quality over-ear headphones. Haven’t been using over-ear headphones in 20 years. I do spend good money on in-ear headphones and always thought that the sound quality of my headphones is very good (AirPod Pro, Sony WF-1000XM5).
Boy was I wrong. The Sennheiser HDB 630, EVEN THOUGH they are still wireless, sounds insanely good (a dongle allows for high bandwidth and low latency transmission for true Lossless streaming). In direct comparison, my daily driver Sony sound like shit now.
I have been listening to shitty sound quality for 20 years. Huge regrets.
So I went down the “Best 100 Albums of all Time” list on Apple Music. Of course I always knew that music in recent years was kinda shit, but I am SHOCKED by just how much better the music of the 60th, 70th and 80th was compared to today. Real humans playing real instruments, recorded by hard-core sound engineers just beats out today’s same-sounding, overproduced garbage by a mile.

2025-10-27 13:09:03 UTC

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Or play Ultimate Tic Tac Toe:
https://bejofo.com/ttt

2025-10-26 01:32:21 UTC

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I love the Bitcoin monastery idea :)

2025-10-21 08:44:47 UTC

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Podcasters last 😂

2025-10-20 08:50:53 UTC

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You offer two silly options when in reality there are infinitely more.
You paint bitcoin in the worst conceivable way and see shitcoinery through some utopian rose tinted glasses.

2025-10-19 23:59:15 UTC

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Incredible. Hard to believe that this is real 🫣

2025-10-19 04:26:44 UTC

As always with this channel, this is a very interesting watch:
https://youtu.be/-i_Q27WtMMM
Explains the current global insanity of feminization, the climate craze, depopulation agenda etc through the lens of psychology and mythology.
#psychology #mythology #terrible-mother #archetypes

2025-10-18 01:39:49 UTC

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Holy shit almost EVERY SINGLE person in that picture is fat.

2025-10-16 01:00:31 UTC

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Is this still the case? Didn't they recently roll out a feature whereby you can pick a username instead of a phone number?

2025-10-16 00:59:34 UTC

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And why does it need updates EVERY FUCKING DAY but nothing in the UI/UX ever changes?
Extremely suspect.

2025-10-16 00:54:38 UTC

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Now I'm going to install Omarchy on an old MiniPC that used to be a Bitcoin Node just because...

2025-10-14 01:18:54 UTC

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What "productivity" activities are there that are "non-dev"?
Anything that a normie (non-dev) would ever want to do, I'm quite sure Linux can do it just as well as a MacBook, no?
Except gaming, of course, but that sucks on a Mac as well.

2025-10-13 12:14:15 UTC

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Not on the side of shitcoiners, obviously.

2025-10-11 12:34:48 UTC

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100%
I figured this out over and over and over again during my years on Twitter and every other social network before and after...
At that amount you can read everyones posts in about half an hour every morning and that's it, no need to waste more time for the rest of the day.

2025-10-10 15:59:20 UTC

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The scientific method also leads us down utterly wrong and horrible paths, sometimes for decades or even centuries (ie the utterly flawed lipid-heart-hypothesis by Ancel Keys which became dogma and we stopped eating eggs because of LDL cholesterol)...
We cannot afford even one such miserable detour with bitcoin.

2025-10-10 03:51:56 UTC

https://x.com/lsanger/status/1976351976427598169

2025-10-09 07:15:53 UTC

So, I had issues with my Start9 always being super hot (88C) and fan spinning loudly 24/7…
Turns out this was the Mempool app. Raises CPU to constantly 25% and increases temp from 50C to 88C basically immediately.
What the hell is mempool.space doing (even when I’m not looking tat the UI) that is so CPU heavy?
#mempool #start9 #hardware #node