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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 44m

Source: Is This How the West Ends? by Academy of Ideas:

77 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 47m

Stopped working on code review early today and decided to find a solution to githubless git, as Goog setting an example with completely destroying AOSP (#1217284) makes me really worried.

Now testing git-bug to see if I can make it so that a .patch can get proposed as an issue and then have it picked up with some CI. The interface for server layer is... graphql and now I really feel for all poor souls that use that, while realizing that well designed REST APIs are the real luxury life, lol.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 39m

There's a steep benefit curve to graphql. It's awesome when your API is evolving rapidly or you are caching on the client a lot. For something like git I'm not sure you need either of those much.

I looked into git-bug when I was hacking on https://gitern.com. I probably would've forked or rewritten it from scratch but that's how I imagined implementing github-like issues while maintaining portability.

172 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 2h

I blasted away almost my entire stash of CCs today

Gotta hit restart on my dream of buying a territory with 3 million CCs

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DP0604 2h

It sounds interesting, dedicate yourself and you will achieve it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @RideandSmile 3h

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

100 sats \ 8 replies \ @k00b 3h

smart+untrusting+low empathy seems like such a curse. you're smart enough to detect people don't like you, but can't tell why on your own and don't trust anyone else to tell you why. and the result of learning people don't like you, usually, is not liking them.

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 1h

Negative feedback loop?

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 1h

yep that's the crux of the curse i think

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 1h

A curse it is, indeed.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3h

worse than dumb + untrusting + low empathy?

100 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 2h

if you're dumb you don't know people don't like you so you can at least enjoy the company of other people

209 sats \ 1 reply \ @sox 2h

what if you willingly choose to live a life thinking by default that nobody dislikes you nor likes you

I live naively by this because I really can't afford to think about it otherwise I would just isolate myself.

I just analyze my actions and how they can affect the other person. And I have to admit that, because of this, I get a whole bunch of anxiety by people that don't communicate much, but I just tell myself to keep going and that people are entitled to their own opinions.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 46m

sounds like a gift more than anything :)

150 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 2h

My problem is, I'm smart enough to question whether my perception of whether people like me is accurate or not, thereby leaving me in a quandary of not actually knowing whether anyone likes me, short of asking them, but even if you ask they probably won't tell you the truth.

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 3h

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 3h

probably personalized

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 3h

What do you mean by that? I didn't change anything.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 30m

switch more often your VPN IP
never save any cookies or browsing history, set the browser to clean everything on close
never use "suggested" results from searches
switch more often your browsers
use as much as you can bookmarks

don't give them not even an inch... from simply searches they know a lot about you. Be a nobody for them...

42 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 3h

Google knows you like Stacker News 👀

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 30m

even more...

77 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 3h

So, I like SN more than you do? 🤠

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 3h

seems like it!

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 5h

I just want the government to be less powerful, the people to be more free.

Is that too much to ask?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 26m

Why do you ask? Just do it.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @NovaRift 6h

I think ad blockers create a feedback loop. Users get annoyed by intrusive ads, so they install ad blockers. This hits ad revenue for companies and website owners, who then respond by developing more aggressive advertising methods to bypass the blockers. These new tactics annoy even more users, driving them to adopt ad blockers as well. The cycle repeats.

36 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker 5h

I accidentally visited a new site without ad blocker on. It was basically unusable. Ads covered 90% of the screen space.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 24m

no wonder why normies are so brainwashed... they are distracted with all the garbage

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 4m

Agree that the web is extremely distracting and very unproductive if you don't use filters and ad blocker tools. It's been like 16 hours since I reinstalled AdGuard, and see the amount of trackers and ads that come in.

But please, normies are not to be blamed and made fun of. A huge chunk of the web is free, and lots of independent media houses are able to run and finance themselves because of normies being normies.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @NovaRift 5h

I'm making a list of websites I will support and disable my ad blocker for them. I think if ads are not intrusive, you can allow them. A bit of inconvenience is welcomed :) Imagine how the situation will be worse in the future if everyone uses ad blockers. Maybe the web will become something closer to pay to use. Ad blockers are making the web as messy as you don't want to see it by using them.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 5h

I've become more open to paying for services. Maybe it's coz my income is more than when I was younger, but part of it is also just wanting to support companies that provide a good service with direct money so they don't have to rely on ads or other shenanigans.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 5h

That's actually better. I like to find options like subscribing to yearly plans, donations, or lifetime purchases for software that's a huge W for me. But I can't support all of them, so if there's a least harmful way to support them and it's ads, I'll do my part by disabling my ad blocker.

25 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 7h

@1440000bytes workshop on CTV-CSFS starts in less than an hour 1500 UTC.

https://web.libera.chat/#ctv-csfs-activation

100 sats \ 3 replies \ @NovaRift 7h

For some reason, Cloudflare families (blocks malware and adult content) DNS blocks access to Stacker News. Why? Should it be reported for false positive?

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7h

Interesting. I have adult filters set up for my kids on my router, let me check later if stacker.news is blocked for them

@remindme in 14 hours

15 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 7h

Oh, thanks for letting us know! We had something like this happen in the past before and we also reported it.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 6h

Problem is with these two only. I've shifted to Quad9 and things are fine now :) Thanks

168 sats \ 1 reply \ @plebpoet 7h

a little note to let you know

SNZ #Classifieds submissions are closed for Issue #25 #1216222

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 7h

looking forward to seeing them!

35 sats \ 7 replies \ @BlokchainB 8h

Got access to ChatGPT at the Fiat mine and whoa! I’m amazed

61 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 7h

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 7h

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 7h

And of course it screwed up the dynamic calculations in the spreadsheet

178 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 7h

Haha! I've always likened ChatGPT to a super polished bullshitter. At first it sounds super impressive but when you check the work you're like, wait...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 7h

Hahahahahahah that was my exact experience hahahahhahahahahahah!!

I’m like why is this simple spreadsheet missing data! I had to dumb it down so it only provided values

80 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 8h

you haven't used ChatGPT before? there's a free version

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 7h

I have using ppq.ai now I am using it on the job

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 9h

Day 624 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 490 sats on 10Sep2025! Running total: 412,436 sats!

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57 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 10h

@sn outta money again? @k00b

https://stacker.news/rewards

29 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 10h

Bout time!! Let’s see who sticks around! The realest of the real

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 1h

Is Blockchain🐝 on point? Did the generous donation end? @k00b

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei 11h

Alex was engrossed in learning about magnets because he found the topic ________.

initiative intriguing infuriating intoxicating

Came up with this question for my fifth graders. What do you think is the answer?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 7h

Intriguing

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7h

magnetic

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 11h

Can we put this on the Bitcoin Blockchain to remain there forever?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 10h

I began discussing the problem of questions like yours after one conference, years ago; the professor changed subject after I kept on improvising censorship circumvention techniques.

Do you still think I'm a clanker, you stacker you!?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 11h

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 11h

Hey @SwapMarket I have a question for you, because you know better how this thing works "under the belly".

Why not too many node runners do not join to Swapmarket and offer swap services ? I know is not easy to run such service, you need liquidity available, but also could be rewarded and there's a lot of demand, like LN channels too from LSPs.

Do you think they don't yet that could offer these services?

150 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwapMarket 5h

Well, Boltz backend is not exactly easy to configure. They don't give clear instructions for obvious reasons, but this regtest manual is a good start. I think someone tried to make sense of it and gave up.

Also, one must be a systems engineer to run all the parts reliably. If the backend loses the database in the middle of a swap, funds can be lost forever (rescue file is of no use without a way to construct the refund transaction, and front-end alone is unable to do it). So one must run postgress with real time replication to a remote location.

But, how many alternative backends do you need? Two is not enough?

67 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG0RA 11h

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