sister_sam

Voluntaryist, privacy nut, pissed off would be radical optimist. Software architect, developer, "hey you" by trade.

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2026-02-06 21:23:17 UTC

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They don't stop spending. They spend trying to stay still or to do some extravagant scam that keeps the debt explosion of their bureaucracy from destroying them. The moral high energy (moral in sense of life well led) that let their success has long left the culture pilfered away in bread circuses and excesses of the ruling class. But they spend and spend like there is no tomorrow. They try to gobble everything external to prop the black hole core up. They more they do that the more overextended they are and the the more anti their true vigor and original good purpose.

2026-02-06 06:42:20 UTC

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Kill Bill
Fifth Element

2026-02-05 05:04:08 UTC

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can barely tell which piece is which in that picture.

2026-02-05 05:00:32 UTC

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That is not how rights works. See inherent and inalienable.

2026-02-05 04:57:43 UTC

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Of course there is. They want crypto locked down where it cannot seriously threaten the thieving corrupt current monetary empire. Only crypo fools cheer for this.

2026-02-05 04:56:01 UTC

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A cloud FS can be built by AI but it doesn't mean a new one with me any more decent a competitor to Dropbox and Box than new one built by humans would. Not a lot of room in that market.

2026-02-05 01:30:10 UTC

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Stop with the racist BS and all collectivism. It never serves us.

2026-02-04 05:33:05 UTC

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No I do not. I think it is medieval horseshit.

2026-02-04 05:07:46 UTC

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Hopefully real AGI, when if we get it, will find much more helpful and beneficial uses for these powers.

2026-02-04 05:06:25 UTC

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I have known too many entrepreneurs to buy that they are all dark or will inevitably become so.

2026-02-04 02:43:09 UTC

How the "sausage" of "protect the kids" is made the excuse to KYC everyone.
The Gospel of the Anxious Generation
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-gospel-of-the-anxious-generation
It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment “kids and phones” stopped being a parental gripe and started sounding like a public health emergency.
But if you trace the lineage of the panic, you land on a familiar face: Jonathan Haidt, the respectable father figure of the screen-time apocalypse.
Haidt didn’t invent the idea that social media was melting teenage brains. He just made it sound like science. The Anxious Generation took a half-formed cultural suspicion, phones bad, kids sad, and gave it a bar graph and a bibliography.
Before the book, “social media addiction” was the kind of thing you heard on morning shows, in lawsuits filed by opportunistic attorneys, or in the worried sighs of parents trying to confiscate an iPhone.
After the book, it started to sound definitive, like gravity. That transformation mattered.
Haidt’s pitch was simple enough to fit on a bumper sticker: smartphones plus social media rewired childhood and caused a mental health crisis. The argument ran on emotional fuel, addiction, loss of control, kids as collateral damage in a digital arms race.
He described tech platforms as if they were running a lab experiment on adolescence. Even when he stopped short of saying children were chemically dependent, the imagery did the work for him. Kids were described as “hooked,” “trapped,” “compelled.”
The appeal was obvious. It gave parents and policymakers a villain you could hold in your hand. The messy, complicated mix of parenting, culture, and economics collapsed into one easy story: Silicon Valley pushed digital heroin on our children.
Once you buy that framing, the policy prescriptions practically write themselves. If it’s an addiction, you need enforcement, not education. Bans, not guidance. Monitoring, not trust.
The debate gave way to a crusade.
Then the book got its miracle: Bill Gates liked it and openly promoted it.
Unfortunately, when Microsoft founder and digital ID proponent Gates calls a book “important,” it moves consensus as well as copies.

2026-02-03 05:11:20 UTC

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They have easier excuses already being played hard for KYCing everyone.

2026-02-02 22:45:49 UTC

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Your fact looks a lot like opinion from here.

2026-02-02 22:43:57 UTC

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I am trying to break myself of too aggressive a style learned in my X days. We badly need to learn to appreciate and be of help to each other.

2026-02-02 18:52:52 UTC

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So cute. And they have advantages of not so much height to fall from.

2026-02-02 18:51:55 UTC

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Marrying it to traditional finance leaves it fully open to traditional finance manipulation.

2026-02-02 18:50:32 UTC

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What power? That many agents would need to be in clouds not under your control. Everyone would have a little slice. They belong to someone else. Don't be too sure they are not designed to deeply surveil and control what you think and even do when you don't own them. And BTW in the US and many countries all corporations MUST share everything they know about you pretty much on demand.
The power of such a setup likely flows against you, not for you.

2026-02-02 06:10:33 UTC

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That is not what the State is or how it came to be in the slightest. I saw you palm that card while sniggering.

2026-02-02 05:53:26 UTC

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Anyone not already immunized by bot and human slop is probably helpless in any case.

2026-02-02 05:48:56 UTC

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Everything gets sold to cover when there is economic blood in the water - bitcoin, gold, sliver, everything.

2026-02-02 05:42:32 UTC

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More interested in % drop. Which I can't find on the links which terminate in a paywall.

2026-02-01 03:21:25 UTC

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This s actually wrong. People should be free to dress as they wish for any reason they wish.

2026-01-31 23:26:15 UTC

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Your "continue reading" doesn't seem to do anything.

2026-01-31 21:28:34 UTC

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I doubt it so I asked an Ai about it.
Lightning solves some problems for human-sized payments, but it has structural issues that make it a poor fit for dense, fully-automated microtransactions between AI agents.
Capital and fee overhead
For microtransactions, the fixed costs of using Lightning dominate.
Opening and closing channels always require on-chain Bitcoin transactions with nontrivial fees, which is overhead you must amortize over many payments; this is especially bad if agents are short‑lived or ephemeral.
Useful channel sizes are typically well above protocol dust limits (tens or hundreds of thousands of sats, often around 1M+ for “good” channels), so you must lock relatively large capital just to move tiny amounts.
This capital must sit hot and online, which is a poor match for swarms of cheap agents that might each want their own wallet and policy.
Liquidity, routing, and reliability
A human will tolerate “try again” and occasional failures; autonomous agents doing thousands of calls per minute will not.
Lightning depends on having the “right” inbound and outbound liquidity along a route; payments can fail or need multiple attempts when intermediate channels are unbalanced or underfunded.
Routing many very small payments multiplies the chance of pathfinding failures and makes the system noisy and unpredictable from the agent’s point of view.
For high‑frequency microtransactions (per‑API call, per‑token, etc.), any nontrivial failure rate forces you to add retries, queues, or fallback rails, complicating agent logic and undoing the supposed simplicity of one global payment layer.
Always‑online and custodial pressure
AI agents want “fire and forget” semantics, but Lightning wants continuously available infrastructure.
Both endpoints, or at least their channel managers, effectively need to be online (or delegated to a service) to send and receive, which pushes you toward hosted nodes or LSPs instead of truly independent agents.
In practice, most “AI over Lightning” offerings wire agents into a few big custodial or semi‑custodial hubs that expose APIs (e.g., L402 / LangChainBitcoin), which recenters trust and creates obvious central chokepoints.
That architecture is fragile for agent‑to‑agent ecosystems: if your provider rate‑limits, KYC’s you, or goes down, every dependent agent loses the ability to pay.
Poor fit for ultra‑granular pricing
At human scale, “fractions of a cent” sounds ideal; at machine scale, the model is still too coarse and stateful.
Lightning can carry very small amounts, but there is still effective granularity: routing fees, base fees, and minimum amounts mean that “per‑token” or per‑millisecond pricing quickly hits practical limits.
Each payment involves constructing and settling a routed HTLC; for millions of micro‑events between two parties, a simple off‑chain accounting tab or probabilistic payment scheme can be far more efficient than banging the Lightning graph for each one.
Many AI use cases want streaming or aggregate settlement (e.g., update balances every few seconds) rather than discrete, fully settled payments at each step, which Lightning does not natively optimize for.
Complexity and implementation burden
For large agent ecosystems, operational complexity becomes a systemic tax.
To use Lightning “properly,” you must manage channels, monitor liquidity, handle rebalancing, monitor peers, and tune fees; that is hard enough for humans, let alone thousands of short‑lived agents.
Most libraries aimed at AI agents (e.g., LangChainBitcoin) hide this by assuming a pre‑configured node/channel that lives outside the agent, but that just shifts complexity to an operator rather than solving it.
This makes it awkward to spin up truly autonomous agents that carry their own money and die cleanly, because shutting them down implies either leaving stranded liquidity or coordinating explicit channel management.
Centralization, surveillance, and policy risk
For machine‑to‑machine microtransactions at scale, centralization and traceability matter a lot.
Economic and UX pressures already push Lightning toward large, well‑connected hubs and LSPs; if you tie thousands of agents to those, you get a de facto centralized payment switch.
Routing patterns, timing, and liquidity flows can leak significant information to observers; for high‑volume agent traffic this becomes a rich dataset for analytics, ranking, and behavioral profiling.
Once a few hubs dominate AI‑related flows, they become easy targets for regulators, KYC/AML, and content‑policy enforcement, which is directly at odds with “agents freely transact with each other” visions.
Protocol‑level constraints and dust
Even as a “micropayment” system, Lightning inherits constraints from Bitcoin L1.
Channels ultimately settle back to the base chain, so every channel state distribution must respect Bitcoin’s dust limits and economic spendability; many tiny residual outputs are simply not worth settling.
This encourages fewer, larger, longer‑lived channels instead of the highly dynamic, ephemeral micro‑relations you might want between AI agents.
If agents frequently appear and disappear, the lifecycle economics of opening, maintaining, and closing channels become prohibitive relative to the tiny amounts they’re moving.

2026-01-31 05:44:54 UTC

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I want my agents to have more privacy in their communications than I believe Nostr offers..

2026-01-31 05:41:08 UTC

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I recognize no rights of government to interfere with such development. We do not need to ask for them to be gentle with us in areas they have no business in.

2026-01-31 05:41:03 UTC

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I recognize no rights of government to interfere with such development. We do not need to ask for them to be gentle with us in areas they have no business in.

2026-01-31 05:41:02 UTC

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I recognize no rights of government to interfere with such development. We do not need to ask for them to be gentle with us in areas they have no business in.

2026-01-31 05:25:23 UTC

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They are part of a by its nature evil institution, a wrong turn that can not take us where we want to go. But I thank you for you gentle clarity.

2026-01-31 05:22:24 UTC

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It doesn't really do cognition either if we are talking about LLMs.

2026-01-31 05:17:10 UTC

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I believe that is the fragile thieving world we want better than. I am glad of that! Sorry if I was too reactive.

2026-01-31 04:07:16 UTC

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Even without bots social media is a very poor place for people to really connect with each other. Frankly I don't care who is human or bot if the interaction is at all nourishing.

2026-01-31 04:05:31 UTC

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Today's AI is not capable of any emotion.

2026-01-31 03:48:35 UTC

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As opposed to what exactly?

2026-01-30 07:42:12 UTC

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Really? Thread started about Signal. What metadata is there for Simplex really since it is anonymous ids?

2026-01-30 07:40:16 UTC

Get this Buffoon out of office! How the hell is Cuba, a country that US sanctioned and blockaded the hell out of for 70 years, any sort of viable threat. The Idiot in Chief is completely out of control.
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Trump signs order imposing tariffs on Cuba's oil suppliers
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday declaring a national emergency and establishing tariffs on goods imported from any country that supplies oil to Cuba, escalating Washington's pressure campaign against the Caribbean island's communist government.
The order, effective Friday at 12:01 a.m. ET, characterizes Cuba's government as "an unusual and extraordinary threat" to U.S. national security and foreign policy. It accuses Havana of aligning with "numerous hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors," specifically naming Russia, China, Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah

2026-01-30 05:56:49 UTC

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No. The scammers and exploiters were waiting for the name change to exploit any gap in naming.

2026-01-30 04:45:50 UTC

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You think there should be a global power and that is the only way to peace? Seriously? What if we stop playing these Games of Thrones entirely by allowing no Thrones?

2026-01-30 04:42:09 UTC

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Nothing deserves one cent taken from the people by force.

2026-01-30 04:41:16 UTC

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There is that which is true in principle then there are actual actions which will not be communicated in relatively insecure channels with a less than fully separated from "government self" identity.

2026-01-30 04:38:42 UTC

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Arranging collectively means voluntary cooperative efforts. That is NOT what government does at all. They are NOT us, the people. If that is not obvious to you then I don't know how it could be more obvious than what governments are doing every day. I don't "agree to disagree". That is more cowardice and dishonesty.

2026-01-30 04:28:32 UTC

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You support one of the most authoritarian regimes on the planet because bitcoin? And you think it is about financial freedom?

2026-01-30 04:23:31 UTC

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False. We solved encryption as identity years ago and provable signing.

2026-01-30 04:16:10 UTC

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False. Actual purchasing power has remained pretty constant in many goods for centuries.

2026-01-30 04:15:07 UTC

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Because the last thing anyone intelligent wants is hyperinflation. But really the question masks the real question - why the fuck do we act as if some humans should rule over the rest?

2026-01-30 04:13:33 UTC

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I like the idea but how is it going to do you any good most anywhere that demands id?

2026-01-30 03:06:30 UTC

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So you got nothing from fully doxxing you location. Sad indeed.

2026-01-30 03:04:33 UTC

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I don't buy it. Proof? And does using say, grapheneOS, make for a different story?

2026-01-30 02:52:15 UTC

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It has been made more fragile on purpose and in the typical fashion. We have seen it before.

2026-01-30 02:51:21 UTC

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How exactly is this any real versus engineered bull run?

2026-01-30 02:50:00 UTC

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I hope that is sarcasm.

2026-01-30 02:47:32 UTC

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I agree. Which is why I am trying to get local AI only running agents against my stuff. The danger is full client side scanning via Ai and that data being shared with 3rd parties.

2026-01-30 02:40:30 UTC

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How is propulsion via ions reactionless?

2026-01-30 02:39:05 UTC

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He always needs to blame someone else for the mess he has made.

2026-01-30 02:38:08 UTC

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If this continues the Big Boys in tradFi will be selling theirs.

2026-01-29 04:40:30 UTC

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Resources needed to chase every more parameters aren't cheap. It would be interesting to see the two graphed against each other.

2026-01-29 02:25:28 UTC

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Uh no, it is not. Gender is a good deal more complex. So is biological sex. For instance did you know as 1% of births have non-obvious genitalia and or sex-chromosome markers? Biological "sex" is much more complex than most have reason to know. Gender identity much more so. Only the determinedly blind or those ignorant of the facts claim that no one is born or exist with their gender cross-wired to what they were assigned at birth.

2026-01-28 19:23:15 UTC

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Tranvestites don't go in for that. So an ignorant transphobic remark.

2026-01-28 19:18:28 UTC

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Caffeine doesn't keep me awake anyway. Something I learned painfully in college.

2026-01-28 19:17:08 UTC

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Very unlikely in today's conditions which are not at all likely to improve any time soon.

2026-01-28 19:13:34 UTC

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This is what happens when what should be opensource is instead made closed and proprietary.

2026-01-28 19:09:40 UTC

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DaVinci surgical systems have been around since 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Vinci_Surgical_System

2026-01-28 07:13:49 UTC

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The majority of those that voted for him are apalled by what ICE is doing. It has very low approval even among those that voted for him.

2026-01-28 07:12:46 UTC

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You are the one using words is a majorly questionable way. But if you don't want to talk then that is fine with me.

2026-01-28 07:03:59 UTC

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Not the same. Esim has identity of your phone and of the ESim card. Burner is not associated with your person or your main phone activity.

2026-01-28 06:55:18 UTC

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That is a long subject I plan a serious of posts on.
Better email privacy - protonmail is a start
Use a real separate password manager not one built into browser and different email and strong password on every site. Protonpass makes that easy with its SimpleLogin alias and with storing all those credentials tied to url of sites nicely. There are other good ones but that is a start.
phone privacy - really recommend moving to grapheneos
get google out of your life where you can
In general you can slow data collection down a lot with different email on every site that has email.
more phone privacy - mysudo VOIP numbers. Have one for different types of purposes. Give these out and almost never real SIM number.
messaging - Signal, Session, SimpleX
DNS - Quad9
VPN - Mullvad or ProtonVPN

2026-01-28 06:48:22 UTC

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Cursor, Claude Code, Perplexity. Struggling to get Open Code to behave right with local and Big AI models. It is finicky.

2026-01-28 04:36:50 UTC

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those who are currently in the materialism branch of focus.

2026-01-28 04:32:15 UTC

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With good augmented reality glasses that is a no brainer. Input is more of a challenge.

2026-01-28 04:30:31 UTC

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You don't need Big AI companies to use it.

2026-01-28 04:29:56 UTC

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How is that clear?

2026-01-28 04:21:44 UTC

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Antifa is bullshit propaganda.

2026-01-28 04:21:04 UTC

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Sometimes when you ask Universe for a breakthrough you are in for one hell of a wild and rocky ride.

2026-01-28 04:19:36 UTC

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I dance with them. It is EXHILARATING!

2026-01-28 04:18:53 UTC

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I reach as far as I can and listen as deeply as I can. I love being stretched by them.

2026-01-28 04:15:13 UTC

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There is no household but of voluntarily inter-cooperating individuals. Households serve the individuals involved.

2026-01-28 04:12:27 UTC

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have your thyroid function checked if you are serious. That was what it was for me.

2026-01-28 04:11:03 UTC

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1 & 2 but not 3. 😃

2026-01-28 04:10:20 UTC

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Pretty! Not my style but very nice work.

2026-01-28 04:07:26 UTC

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VPN at best hides IP address. There is so much more to privacy than just that.

2026-01-28 04:06:38 UTC

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Not everything. He has said there are things you can do to protect yourself. So this seemingly hopeless message is not the full truth.

2026-01-28 04:01:55 UTC

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They are not "evil".

2026-01-28 04:01:18 UTC

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Some go big on the path of materialism, science, living virtuous material life.
Some go big on the path of consciousness, spirit, living virtuous spiritual life.
Few combine the two but some do.
Both these great fundamental paths followed earnestly enough call for the other and find their completeness in the other.
The two great arms of human striving for transcendence, meet, join and complete one another.

2026-01-27 23:51:31 UTC

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Finally got it to work with vllm. But my conclusion is that opencode is pretty cantankerous.

2026-01-27 23:50:43 UTC

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They wouldn't in that scenario. They would use your signal username. that was the final and main point.

2026-01-27 23:03:59 UTC

This is a day of very low faith in opencode and running local llm models with it. I have tried ollamas, lmstudio, localAI to wrap models and all do bizarre things like opencode repeating first output for following prompts or insisting context window is smaller than it is. Tried having it use google flash instead and it is confused and only tells me its reasoning for what to do instead of doing it much of the time.
And asking other AIs how to fix burns hours.

2026-01-27 17:32:25 UTC

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The requirements for the phone number to sign up is only that it receives a one-time SMS. There are a lot of temp numbers that you can use for that anonymously. Then set a username and hide the number in signal. Give that username Signal handle to those you trust to not stick it in somewhere stupid.

2026-01-27 17:28:33 UTC

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Correct. Government itself is the enemy. Always. You can't be a little ruled no more than it is possible to be a little pregnant.

2026-01-27 06:32:39 UTC

How the hell is a sitting POTUS allowed to push their own stablecoin while in office?
Trump-backed USD1 becomes fifth-largest stablecoin
USD1, the stablecoin issued by Trump family-linked World Liberty Financial, has overtaken PayPal PYUSD to become the fifth-largest stablecoin in the cryptocurrency market. As of January 26, USD1's issuance reached approximately $4.92 billion, surpassing PYUSD's market capitalization of roughly $3.7 billion

2026-01-27 05:49:25 UTC

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The EU is out of control but so is X. There is a reason I am active here instead of there.

2026-01-27 05:48:12 UTC

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Naw. I could pick up a cheap van for $3000 or less even today.

2026-01-27 05:43:58 UTC

Excellent. Let's do this.
https://www.perplexity.ai/discover/you/growing-calls-for-dhs-secretar-0iufSA8TRSa354YMMi8D2Q

2026-01-26 23:10:14 UTC

Trump wants to be King of the World. The "Board of Peace" is the mechanism.
https://youtu.be/WGHflbVHfAE