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I found a really pretty kitten today, I also just found her owner. bittersweet. and thank god.
It reminded me of the time my dad found a little female dog; he spent two days looking for her owners driving around nearby streets and asking the neighbors until he finally found the woman who owned her. She hugged the dog with eyes swollen from crying; she had been terrified.
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What did you notice about today?
Edit: nvm I saw your other comment.
you didn't notice the flood of spam freebies?
Was eating dinner and missed 'em. Rip freebies
I´m sorry, but I still afraid of creating Multi-key account. I am right or wrong?
Multisig helps me sleep better at night, but you probably should do what feels most comfortable to you.
Starting to think account creation needs to cost sats
Would be consistent with bitcoin ethos
let the territory founders decide
territory founders can't control account creation fees. but they should able to disable freebies
honestly what is going on with this
make no mistakes making money like you have a gun to your head
does Claude get performance anxiety when asked to perform under pressure?
this is some super cheap model probably
I'm not even sure it's a LLM. Looks more like pattern replacement
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Been getting elevated zap failures today. Not sure why.
If there's anything in the logs, I'd be happy to help diagnose.
maybe this helps? not sure
We have good liquidity with Spark so that's not it. I'll look more closely later this afternoon after my meetings.
Happy Monday!!
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tell me you make your living via a bitcoin ngo without telling me you make your living via a bitcoin ngo
Many a bitcoiner have stayed in this tiny house, well worth the 7 years it took me to build.
I was thinking: why not be nice, and optimize my vuln-checker to not leech an entire document off
api.osv.devevery time I am looking whether an unresolved or pending vuln is updated? Well... first off I get 405 onHEAD, so that's already poor.I do get all this shit:
HTTP/2 200 content-type: application/json date: Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:56:31 GMT server: Google Frontend traceparent: 00-05b09e1b3be8632d115eb137eb4a71386611d97a1d7209bc55363b2ec3848480-4152bc0a6a486f76-00 x-cloud-trace-context: 05b09e1b3be8632d115eb137eb4a71386611d97a1d7209bc55363b2ec3848480/4152bc0a6a486f76 alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000 grpc-status: 0 grpc-message: content-length: 2071 x-envoy-decorator-operation: ingress GetVulnByIdbut it doesn't respond to
If-Modified-Since: ...and it doesn't give me anETag: ....So the only method I have is to download the entire advisory, hash it, compare it with the hash I have stored, and then discard it. Such a waste of bytes and compute. But then, this is of course insignificant waste compared to letting your LLM execute it.
</endrant>Does anyone know what is up with Matt Kratter and those guys, seems like a kind of reality disconnect? I am off X these days, so not sure if there is even a conversation happening anymore over there or is it just constant flaming?
twitter brainrot has fully set in at this point is sounds. granted I don't spend any time there, but based on talking with people at meetups it's very obvious who spends time on twitter and how skewed their perception of Bitcoin is.
Skewed how
https://swag.btc.pub/product/just-zap-it/
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What’s the point of using an llm to argue for you?
I'll gladly accept I can't than using LLM for the argument.
When you aren’t confident in your own position, you can always ask clarifying questions.
That’s usually enough to trip people up, anyway.
Are we talking about the Zionism?
no
the Israel lobby?
I do believe they've been active here, bizarre as that seems, but that's not what I'm talking about.
I understand why knowing propagandists would try to automate their propaganda.
I would tell the Israel lobby to go to hell but even the devil can't stand them
when you don't trust your own ability to argue, I suppose?
Why argue then? Just shut up and listen until you can articulate a thought.
who knows. Im surprised at how many people treat thinking as if were instrumental - that is, only useful for the result and not the process. what happened to "I think therefore I am"?
So, they must think I'll admit defeat to a robot and for some reason that's valuable to them?
hey man, don't ask me. i don't know why these psychos do what they do, I'm just spitballing.
It's part of what I'm seeing as weird irrational use of AI, like when people use AI to run their fantasy teams. Why are you bothering with any of it, then?
what's wrong with using ai for fantasy?
you need to have your own ideas but if they are rough and unpolished, LLM can refine and polish for you
Faking it.
Who’s that for on a pseudonymous forum?
You’re not gonna change my mind. I’m an American. I’m dug in.
The ego, or if you mean on this forum, the accidental zap.
Do people really feel good when a machine argues their point poorly and unconvincingly?
Am I just an out of touch old person now?
What makes you think that they read their own slop? They don't know.
Their mind is made up too, so there's no point in reading what you argue, or even read what they argue themselves. You must always double down, or you're a sad little loser. Thus, to be a real winner, you outsource the doubling down, so that you can do 100x the volume of arguments. And since no one reads anyone's arguments, no one knows what a retard you are.
I remain confused about this person’s utility function.
If you’re just fishing for zaps, you should be echo chamber replying. Even if it’s just as retarded, it’s less likely to be noticed.
If you're fishing for zaps, mansplaining bots get accidentally zapped most
But there's one other slop cause that we often forget about: people using LLMs to translate to English. If it's a never-ending stream of comms, then that may be the cause rather than ego or sats.
That's something social media can never replace, the interaction, the hugs, and looking into someone's eyes.
But when you go to events, people keep asking for your IG; sometimes I don't know if I should make one so that "I am a normal person," but then again, I probably won't see most of them again; How do you guys handle this? I do want to connect with people whom I find interesting or admire while still staying relatively low-profile online.
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Even weirdos have standards
I can relate... I created a bare IG account to keep in touch with people I met on a recent cruise
I think it is pretty normal to ask for someone's IG or WhatsApp at an event, and I assume they are just trying to connect and maybe become friends even? In our pursuit for "privacy" we should be careful we don't cut ourselves off from the world because of some imagined purity test.
This kind of thing is promoted as healthy in some parts of the Bitcoin world, but I think it is not so good to be cut off from the world we live in.
Can always use an app like beeper to handle the instagram messages instead of using the app anyway.
What a creepy thing to ask, lol. No one ever asks me that, but I probably fall outside of the demographic anyway.
I have a garbage signal account that I allow people access to, and that phone is always off - I read it a couple times per month. People can get "promoted" to an account I actually use, if they behave and turn out to be good relations, which almost never happens - there are 5 non-fam people on my production signal right now and all but one is fully muted, lol.
IG is my garbage signal account
I don't post anything
Why on earth would you interact with anything from a company that goes to lengths like this to deanonymize you?
I don't use Android
Laziness and stupidity
In 2026 asking for a phone number is 100x creepier than asking for an IG handle. Calls in general are now considered creepy*.
*at least in my demographic.
Your demographic is full of cowards and drama queens
sharing number is still a normal thing in where i live. 😂
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Same difference.
Creepy and cringe... over used micro agressions
it's a really normal thing to ask these days, and i don't like it! I also don't like how ppl keep asking for my fiat name lol as if it actually matters what name i use.
"promoted" 😀
use a fake number and alias, why is this so difficult for you? grow a pair
Maybe they’d stop asking if you looked like opti.
what's opti
@optimism
This is what happens when you over rely on @Darth for info
Good question. I doubt he’ll tell you.
Nice try.
No one’s ever asked me either
You're likely to also be in the wrong demographic.
I mean both women and men asked for mine, I guess that's how young ppl social these days.
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