Along with the Hacker Manifesto

Wait I thought GPT5 was only free trial for a week, and assumed it'll be a paid model after and all the free users get back to 4o or wtv

Cool stuff coming out of Bitcoin++. Need to keep a closer eye on those, they don't seem to generate the same attention as other confs (less flashy for the Bitcoin influencers to showcase I suppose).

Saw a post fly by my feed about folks working on non custodial cashu tech too at the hackathon. Neat stuff.

I'm guessing "prompt engineering" was when people were very highly focused on just wording the prompt correctly, including the right keywords and using all kinds of text tricks to get better results from the AI answers.

And "context engineering" is less about wording and more about warming up the model before asking the main question e.g. uploading relevant files, setting up baseline facts, goals, etc. and then asking?

Edit: Remember "jailbreak prompts" ? lol

A "Fed" flavor of GPT version would be cheeky

I wanted to start (and possibly start documenting) my 6-month career change journey for the second half of the year but instead we've been dealing with basement flooding.

Next week maybe.

If you organize a game of holdem poker with friends are you a money transmitter

I'm not even gonna try beating the allegations: I fucking love pumpkin spice latte

Might be a basicbitch thing to say and I resisted for a long time to admit it but it hit me recently that I just fucking love Starbucks around here.

Not the best coffee by a mile, but a guaranteed minimum quality with good, polite, professional service. Only other place I've had friendly staff like that is crossing the border to go to Chick-Fil-A.

Then again when the competition is Tim Hortons etc. maybe that's more of a comment on how crap the other big chains have become from quality to service.

It's a shitcoin to the OG NFT: Black Lotus

Two big main quests for me in 2025 for me:

First half: House ✅ (was a long process since 2022ish)

Second half: Change job/field ⏳[in progress]

It's a bigger year of change than most, definitely. If all goes well, 2026 will be more chill and the main quests will be more.... of secondary nature / hobby-related?

GrapheneOS is the way to go imo. Calyx is a good alternative if you don't have a Pixel (especially when compared to other privacy OS or so called "privacy phones" - avoid those), but a few searches comparing the two should yield the reasoning.

Some GrapheneOS staff are a bit intense in defending the OS against myths and when measured up against CalyxOS. Might turn off some people, but putting that aside, they aren't necessarily wrong.

I have a nagging feeling that unless Trump and crypto keep getting as much press focus much longer (I sense it has already diminished from the trump coin/strategic reserve peak), it might feel like a distant fading memory by 2028.

Every Trump year feels like 5 years worth of news cycles.

And especially if a brutal bear market comes, I suspect a lot of fairweather politician advocates will become silent when it comes.

I think a lot of the outrage culture is manufacturer/astroturfed.

Be mad at pants and bathroom policy, don't pay attention to the men behind the curtain

Such a sinister, suspenseful reminder

Practically speaking, hold invoices were used in ZeusPay to be able to receive payments while the node/app was offline right?

What would a typical use case be for an alby Hub setup?

I noticed they default to "thinking" models now. Have to go in settings to re-enable the other one.

What's your experience been like between thinking and non-thinking Claude (if any)?

Haven't tried 4 yet, but with 3.5 & 3.7 I thought non-thinking was almost always better at doing stuff, except for planning purposes. This is based entirely on vibes and it bothers me to an unnecessary extent how I can't be totally sure if my vibes are true or I'm just hallucinating/placebo'ing it somehow.

Sadly, a lot of people like and want the cage.

A&W

Make stock market go up faster so govt can say "Look stock market up faster!"