Its not that interesting. The models you're interacting with are text generation models. That is they take the context of what you provide it and tries to predict what the text that would come after would look like.

They aren't search engines and they make stuff up all the time

You self custody an IOU, the USD is in a bank. It's not self custody. Open shut.

Also for the love of Homni, this is too simple to go straight to general pre-trained models for answers goodness gracious

3 brothers take turns gathering food and protecting the house.

The first brother is protecting the house and there is a knock on the door. A little man brown man with black eyes (a gnome) is at the door and asks to come in. "Sure why not." Then the gnome asks for a piece of buttered bread. "Alright little guy here you go" Then, the gnome deliberately drops the bread on the ground butter side on the floor and says "oops I've dropped my bread, can you pick it up for me?" "Don't worry little guy I got you" As the brother is bent over, the gnome grabs his hair and smacks him on the head saying "idiot idiot idiot" and darts away.

Now the first brother was too embarrassed to tell the others what had happened to him. So when the second brother had his turn to guard the house, he was clueless as to who the gnome was when he knocked on the door. Again the gnome asked to come in, again, the gnome asked for bread that was buttered, and again the gnome deliberately dropped the bread as to ensure the butter hit the ground. Again the gnome asked, "Oops, I've dropped my bread. Can you pick it up for me?" The second brother did think it was a little strange, but saw no issue with picking up the bread. Again the gnome grabbed the second brother by the hair as he was stooped down and smacked him on the head holding nothing back and saying "Idiot idiot idiot" and ran off.

The second brother told the first brother what had happened. As the first and second brother thought that the youngest brother was always a bit of a fuck up to a point where among them he had earned the name "stupid hands" they agreed not to tell him about the gnome and laughed to themselves as they left him for his turn to watch the house.

So the gnome knocked on the door and politely asked to be let in. "Stupid hands" of course let him inside. Again the gnome asked for buttered bread, and the youngest brother thought it wasn't a problem to provide that hospitality to his guest. Again, the gnome turned over his hand and dropped the bread as to ensure the butter hit the floor first looking the brother directly in the eye.

"Oops, I've dropped my bread. Will you pick it up for me?" The younger brother said to him: "Bread is a matter of life and death! If you can't look after your own, do you expect me to do it for you?" Then he grabbed the gnome by the head and beat him beat him beat him beat him!!!

"Stop! You've passed the test! I'll tell you where the kings daughters are and you'll receive a handsome reward! Know this, your brothers are not to be trusted. Do not tell them what I've told you."

Well, I'm making an assumption

Everyday? Did you just dox yourself as living in Taiwan?

lmao. Customs authorities are so funny.

"Detain detain detain!!!!"

Hmm looks like nothing to me.

My inner troll wants to spam orders through every customs office in the world with cheap shit that has Bitcoin logos on it just to keep the people there very very busy.

This fits with some other things I understand about the Chinese. For one thing I understand that they are very adamant about paying back favors. They take it very seriously. They don't like to accept favors because they know they will need to pay them back.

Now that's something I learned in school, so I'm not sure how kept alive that mindset in modern Chinese is.

I'm keeping this post in my notes for something I'm working on.

Well she still said it as a joke so I think it's still meant as a slight against it...

Lightning network.

I only know who zaps me on nostr because people post to nostr that they zapped me.

I outright don't know who zaps me on SN (except if it's some specific amount thats unique to them) and SN only can figure out who is zapping whom based on the IP of the person visiting and the invoice it gave them, but visit SN via tor and its hard to say SN knows much at all.

With that all said, we can zap each other directly and who's to say we had a transaction at all? Later when we close channels people can say something happened at some point but exactly what remains unknown to people who have no need to know.

I use pheonix wallet and used pheonix wallet to login even when they pulled out of the US (I did close my channel with them though)

idk try it again. I got a 500 at first too. If anything just go to the root of the link and navigate there.

Still works

Tierra Bendta is pretty great.

No not really. I joined SN because I like interacting with lightning (fills me with nerdy glee) and then I liked the technical discussion aspect.

I don't know though. Its weird because even though my goal is to zap away all sats I earn, I still enjoy getting zapped. It fills me with nerdy glee too, but also I look at the sats I get zapped and go "wow people liked my post that much?"

I think zapping sats is like the only way to do "I liked this post so much I wish I could like it twice" without the single like losing its meaning.

I have absolutely no issue with my zap fingerprint.

I chose it because my goal with SN is to not earn sats.

That sort of has me thinking why? Why is my goal to not earn sats? Call it the bias of my recent musings (it probably is), but I think its because when someone zaps me, it feels like they've done me a favor, and much prefer to be owed favors, than to be the one owing favors to others.

Who knows though, maybe that reasoning will change with time.

Anyway. Its 300 because k00b would zap 100 and that was how much I needed to zap given the amount of people I typically zapped in an online session at the time, to drain my account's balance.

Throw in receiving straight to my wallet though and I lose track of exactly how many sats I'm getting anymore so I've become less sure of how many sats I need to be getting out.

I've seen the "true Scottsman" argument brought against any and every attempt to claim "Bitcoiner", but I reject it as do many others for a reason I'll try to explain simply.

Imagine if you will a marketeer who claims to be a sports fan because they sell merchandise of a sports team.

"But do you know who the quarterback is?" "Do you watch the game?" "Do you even know what the rules of the game are"

And that's not to say someone who doesn't watch the game, know the quarterback, or even the rules of football can't be a fan of the team.

So why bother with the purity questions?

Because it's a complete social rejection of the idea that a profiteering parasite can be a fan purely because of their profiteering.

Sure, a true Scottsman can run a business, but no true Scotsman is only a Scotsman because they profit off of Scottish people.

In other words, believe in SOMETHING dammit.

Bitcoiners vary wildly in their beliefs. There are true Bitcoiners who I kid you not believe in communism.

But someone to say they're a Bitcoiner purely because they profit from Bitcoin is not a Bitcoiner, but a profiteerer.

In the words of many of my commenters on my post about literature on favors: "Sounds like communism. You should have spent your Bitcoin with those friends"

I don't understand the assertion. If someone gives you a ride, do you not owe them a favor? If you owe them a favor in what way is that exchange communistic?

I'm not talking about "owing the community a favor" or anything like that afterall.