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167 sats \ 4 replies \ @plebpoet 22h \ on: Stacker Saloon
I'm working on Stacker News Zine Issue #10 today!
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Happiness Journal 29/5/25
Final lesson with my form class. The bell rang. The students stood. In one voice, they bellowed “Thank you, Mr H” at the top of their lungs. A formulaic farewell turned into a poignant salutation. 1.5 years of togetherness culminating into an end.
I will miss them.
I think the worst case (but potentially realistic) I've seen expressed for AI right now was in Harari's "21 lessons for the 21st century" that basically says AI will make human labor obsolete to a very large extent because we're being beaten on both manual and cognitive labor now. It also - to my memory - predicts that there will be irrelevant plebs and gazillionaires. I think that it's amazing that this was written in 2018 and that we can recognize some of the patterns described play out in real time.
Unless you are Sam A or Elon behind your SN nym, you may need to harness your own AI tech, so that you don't become irrelevant. In the past I've personally always prided myself in relentless focus and productivity but if I want to keep up, I'm going to need help now. I won't be able to challenge companies that move 10000x faster than me using open source tools. But if I can combine a 100x speedup on my end with the existing relentlessness, I may be able to still beat them sometimes.
I had an interesting conversation over dinner last night related to this: how can we provide contra power to us, the plebs. We don't need a data center full of GPUs each: a Mac mini or equivalent should be plenty. And for specific tasks we can instruct / retrain smaller but modern models that may run on inference tuned hardware - hopefully devices like iMX-8 get better and cheaper rapidly. I'm considering setting something up to test this. Probably in software development first, because low hanging fruit, like re-train an AI on a single repo and see what can be done.
Bottom line, if that worst case scenario plays out, I think that the problem isn't politics in general, or any figurehead. Soon no one will care about a bunch of unemployed people. The real issue is closed source AIs. Luckily we have Zuck (lol) and technically Google too (double lol) disrupting all the other overlords with opened up models we can sovereignly run. I hope that there will be many more open source models released; then each of us has a shot at remaining relevant.
The bad news, as always, is that I don't know what the best fix for this is.
Fine-grained access tokens allow you to limit repositories to an explicit set:But that's not really enough because it lacks per-repo settings. Every 3rd party tool you give an access token to is potentially malicious, even when it's open-source and you run it locally only, like
gh. Remember supply chain attacks; can you really trust anyone else's software?The most secure way of using 3rd party apps on GitHub that I know of (other than "don't") is:
- Create a specific account for each linked application and lock it down using permissions RBAC in each repo's settings, and then
- Tightly managing access tokens for that account; short expiry.
Letting tools work under your account, especially since GH does awful things like pgp signing merge commits with their key on your behalf which then shows as "verified", is rather risky anyway.
Thanks for sharing.
Is there a stream from the Open Source Stage?
I'm a little over Stablecoins and "Crypto" speeches on the main stage.
I don't know how to feel about it tbh. Lack of the cypherpunk ethos, it's all so corporate-y and it all seemed so fake and forced. We had cows dancing on there and this woman I watched yesterday she blinked so many times it was so artificial and screamed grifter. no good vibes for me personally.
Thanks for sharing your notes and thoughts. Its appreciated. Here are some of mine in response for what its worth. Probably not much :)
Neha doubts that lightning is able to scale to a billion users because it’s difficult to fund channels as a brand new user and remain online if your use case is small payments.
I don't think lightning scales to billions either but I can't prove that. More importantly I don't think it needs to. It just needs to be able to support those that value sovereignty over convenience. I think most people will be perfectly fine using custodians. They do today and most people are more afraid of themselves than a third party with a decent rep. Also, we are talking about day to day spending not your egg. Most people don't carry their life savings around in the pocket. Even cards have limits. Debit cards are connected to checking accounts that are usually not massive.
For now I think lightning will meet our needs as we grow. The promising tech that while it is custodial protect privacy is eCash. I think this helps with small payments a ton. It is mile better than Strike or CashApp at least.
we can’t ignore the numbers of people using stablecoins.
I agree. I don't think stable coins are good just as I don't think fiat is good. I do use fiat though...
My opinion on stable coins on lightning is... I don't care. Same as my opinion on JPEGs on bitcoin. I don't care.
lightning is becoming corporate and this is a good thing.
That's interesting. Its different but the same man. I remember being involved in the early days with a technology community. When it started the conferences were very campy and organic. As the project grew in usage and popularity like the Internet it became more corporate. This is what I am seeing people say about the bitcoin conf. I think its just a part of the natural evolution of things. I don't like suits. I don't like corporate stuff but I'm pro freedom so if people like that I'm ok with it. Its just not for me. I doubt I'll ever go to the Bitcoin Conference. Not my kind of event.
haha that's a good excuse!
I mean I've seen some where they've tried to launch it as a paid product and then people find out the security of the app is total shit, with credentials to the databased exposed and everything.
54 sats \ 3 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 16h \ parent \ on: Lightning Lotto vibe coded by @rolznz lightning
I feel like people are gonna start labeling their own code as vibe code, so when someone inevitably says it’s shit, they can just blame it on AI
I wonder if this AI assisted LN channel management will become more of a thing. And if it will drive fees down as more participants start running business LN nodes.
Very interesting.
This was fascinating - the origin of the word "currency"
The Word, Currency, is in common Use in the Plantations . . . and signifies Silver passing current either by Weight or Tale. The same Name is also applicable as well to Tobacco in Virginia, Sugars in the West Indies &c. Every thing at the Market-Rate may be called a Currency; more especially that most general Commodity, for which Contracts are usually made. And according to that Rule, Paper-Currency must signify certain Pieces of Paper, passing current in the Market as Money. (emphasis in original)
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How you mention, it was once considered something that the upper class towards, and obvious everyone always wants to be or imitate the upper class, I suppose the years pass and it will be demonstrated that the tobacco companies manipulated that bias so that we all consummate tobacco and they enrich their pockets, and adding that now people are more aware of diseases out of tobacco.
I don't think the Mr. Philip Morris this content with that graph 📉
cigs have been uncool for over a decade, people vaping and giving themselvs popcorn lung is whats cool now lol