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201 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 15 Feb

Long saturday ya dig

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101 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 15 Feb

a LIT saturday

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@denlillaapan has a good mises institute article that got picked up by zero hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/bitcoin-mining-electricity-grid-quiet-savior

I'll wait for him to make a post.

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alas, here we are

#1434263

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Oh beautiful! Wasn't even aware lol, neither that the post was published nor picked up by ZH

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More accurate than it isn't, mask off. Core is already run by NGO salaried devs... Who funds the NGOs?

They also fund the Core simp AstroTurf, and have outsized equity in the institutional scale miners.

And most Bitcoiners are too caught up in virtue signaling lone wolf anon fairytales to exercise any agency

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So many bitcoiners fall for this game of "divide and control".
They want people to give away their sats to the fuckers behind " bitcoin reserves" bullshit.

Is always the old game and seems that is working.

I am really tired of this useless debate.

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Jazz for your ladies, gentlemen:

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201 sats \ 8 replies \ @k00b 14 Feb

Currently trying to see if I can get codex to do some kind of QA before I do more QA. How well do robots dance?

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210 sats \ 7 replies \ @k00b 14 Feb

It started the dev environment itself, pulled local SN up in it's little browser. That's already better than I imagined.

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300 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 14 Feb

It's like "I can't pay for anything" so then it started spinning up our little lightning regtest network.

Then it realized a container needed to restart to use the lightning node.

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300 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 14 Feb

It's managed to login, comment, and boost.

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210 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 14 Feb

lol it's going to town. It made a post, then a job, then a crossposted post. Then it created a second account, free comment and bio. (This is not through the browser and afaik it gave up on lightning and is printing regtest sql money via the dev shell script.)

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327 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 14 Feb

It updated it's sat filters and E2E tested the search changes and found a bug that I missed!

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300 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 14 Feb

I was wondering how these AI bros were getting big boy bills, but I guess it's mostly by prompting "boil the ocean, I want to take a bath."

This is just one billing tick, all from this run afaik.

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The thing that makes it 😱 is:

  1. write 1 bad prompt feed it to planner that reads the entire project into context and spits out 3 pages of plan
  2. automagically send the plan to coder that reads the entire project into context and spits out 20k bad lines of code
  3. automagically send the PR to tester that reads the entire project into context and tells coder he's a n00b and sends 50 red herrings as an eff-you
  4. coder fixes all the 50 red herrings and then send it back to tester
  5. tester pulls the feature branch and needs to load the entire thing into context again. is still pissy too because it doesn't work, back to coder: this shit dont work change <a>-<z>
  6. coder runs out of context so needs to compact, gets all the new tokens, fixes the sole bug by accident

So that is 6 times your bill right there.

But then we use ralphwiggum(n=50) so it's actually 300x your bill, because every step gets retried 50x

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Jajajaja

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I’m in an abusive relationship I would like to escape
That relationship is between me and the State

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Seen on ig... felt compelled to fix it 😅

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What about 7, 12, and 13?

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Yeah IDK where they took that 10 from. 12 would have made more sense from my perspective as well.

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Is AGI going to benefit humanity? Or is it a race to enslave humanity by a handful of douchebag billionaires, the ones building frontier models?

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But there might be a handful of killer drones for each and every single human being on the planet controlled by a single AI powered human. Or as Dario Amodei warns, a bio weapon engineered with AI that would make Covid look like the sniffles. AGI or no AGI, AI is enabling some scary shit.

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This is why we study it, because there doesn't have to be any asymmetry.

99.999% of people are good. 0.001% of people are evil. Level the playing field and the 99.999% of all compute will battle the 0.001%.

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User name checks out. However, that leaves a mere 8 million evil people, out of 8 Billion. Not great odds. Especially with tech like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPqmC16ewYg

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Yes. Tell you what... I'll put some spare compute towards developing active mosquito tracking technology.

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$ scaibase --db ./insect.db search "Insect detect"
  Title:      Insect detect: An open-source DIY camera trap for automated insect monitoring
  Year:       2024
  Venue:      Plos one
  URL:        https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0295474
  Citations:  44
$ scaibase --db ./insect.db citations "Insect detect"
Fetching citations for: Insect detect: An open-source DIY camera trap for automated insect monitoring
44 citations fetched and stored.
$ scaibase --db ./insect.db export --citations --format json "Insect detect" | \
    jq -r '.[] | ["", (.year), (["[",.title,"](", .url, ")"] | join(""))] | join("| ")'

...

yearpaper
2026Application of artificial intelligence in insect pest identification-A review
2026Buzzy bees: Improving the monitoring of pollinator activity in sunflower fields with continuous acoustic recording and deep learning
2026Fly pollinator foraging in boreal forests is shaped by climate, forest structure and flower resources
2026Habitat‐Dependent Effects of Canopy Cover on Insect Predation in a Tropical Dry Forest Landscape
2026High‐throughput recognition of small invertebrates via computer vision
2026Smart Sensing Technologies: Monitoring Insect Pests with AI
2026Towards scalable insect monitoring: Ultra‐lightweight CNNs as on‐device triggers for insect camera traps
2025Exploiting Unlabeled Images via Pseudo-Labelling and Paste-In Augmentation for Insect Localisation in Automated Monitoring
2025Passion and combat on a floral stage: a new species of Uvariopsis (Annonaceae) from Monts de Cristal, Gabon, with notes on its unique pollination ecology
2025AntPi: A Raspberry Pi based edge-cloud system for real-time ant species detection using YOLO
2025Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
2025Best practices for long-term monitoring of island arthropods: insights from the Azores Islands
2025Bridging Domain Gaps for Fine-Grained Moth Classification Through Expert-Informed Adaptation and Foundation Model Priors
2025BugBook: Data analysis methods in studies of insects for food and feed
2025Comparative assessment of automated and manual monitoring in comprehensive plant–pollinator communities
2025Design and Development of an Open-Source, Cost-Effective Detection System for Ecological Monitoring
2025Development and evaluation of a low-cost, automated camera trap for surveying bumble bee communities
2025DVS-StereoInsect: An Event-Based Stereo Dataset for Foreground-Background Insect Segmentation
2025Emerging technologies for pollinator monitoring
2025EV-flying: An event-based dataset for in-the-wild recognition of flying objects
2025Features for Classifying Insect Trajectories in Event Camera Recordings.
2025Few-shot adaptation of grounding dino for agricultural domain
2025Image-based fine-scale analysis of insect movement patterns and environmental triggers using pitfall traps
2025Improving Moving Insect Detection with Difference of Features Maps in YOLO Architecture
2025In-field monitoring of ground-nesting insect aggregations using a scaleable multi-camera system
2025Insect Size Matters: Using Image and Dimensions Together Improves Image Classification
2025Mothbox: inexpensive, lightweight, automated light trap for scalable insect biodiversity monitoring
2025Passion and combat on a floral stage
2025Pest Detection in Edible Crops at the Edge: An Implementation-Focused Review of Vision, Spectroscopy, and Sensors
2025Sticky Trap-Embedded Machine Vision for Tea Pest Monitoring: A Cross-Domain Transfer Learning Framework Addressing Few-Shot Small Target Detection
2025Successes and limitations of pretrained YOLO detectors applied to unseen time-lapse images for automated pollinator monitoring
2025Systematic Literature Review on Merging AI-Based Wildfire Detection with Bee Bioacoustics: A Hybrid Environmental Sensing Approach
2025Towards edge processing of images from insect camera traps
2025Utilizing CNNs for classification and uncertainty quantification for 15 families of European fly pollinators
2024A deep learning pipeline for time-lapse camera monitoring of insects and their floral environments
2024A motion-based compression algorithm for resource-constrained video camera traps
2024A novel dataset and deep learning object detection benchmark for grapevine pest surveillance
2024Flower Visitation through the Lens: Exploring the Foraging Behaviour of Bombus terrestris with a Computer Vision-Based Application
2024Kvantitativní metody studia a monitoringu hmyzích populací
2024The development and application of automated approaches to monitoring bees
2024The FAIR-Device-a non-lethal and generalist semi-automatic Malaise trap for insect biodiversity monitoring: Proof of concept
2024The Field Automatic Insect Recognition‐Device—A Non‐Lethal Semi‐Automatic Malaise Trap for Insect Biodiversity Monitoring: Proof of Concept
2024USE OF COMPUTER VISION FOR INSECT RECOGNITION
2024Utilising affordable smartphones and open-source time-lapse photography for monitoring pollinators

Old habits die hard. I'm retired. My daily responsibilities are dwindling. I'm on a relaxing vacation with little to worry about. But I still manage to stress about objectively unimportant things. I think I need to meditate.

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I face a similar dilemma.
In some ways its a good problem to have.
I do not need to work anymore but now that it is not compelled by necessity, I enjoy work more than ever!

If I meditate- it is on the next project or how to complete a current one.

It probably is ok to slow down a little but hey, its also healthy to keep using the skills you have and remain active doing what you enjoy.

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Yeah man. Turn the phone off. Relax your muscles. Maybe do some stretching or yoga beforehand. Then, pick an object and just observe. A cloud rolling by, a butterfly on a flower, waves of the ocean crashing to the shore...

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Good advice. The urge to do something is strong. Sitting around goes against my nature. I like to pace.

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Maybe you're just not a rest and do nothing vacation kinda guy?

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Maybe, but It takes me a while. A comfortable chair, a good book, and frequent naps may help me get there.

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Kyc is the illicit activity

source

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Never even heard of that.

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Me neither, till today.

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Hello darkness, my old friend

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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @snail 14 Feb

Good morning.

__@_'-'

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good morning, snail

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We want a better world and people using Bitcoin!
meanwhile in India...

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only fiat maxis want that.
I want bitcoin to be so expensive that nobody can buy it anymore.

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 14 Feb

Okay grandpa, lets get you to bed.

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I lost my bitcoin in AI agent accident...

don't say I didn't warned you

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did you notice that now AI agents have more rights and privileges than living people?

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i'm curious to see natural law ai courts :)

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i see now how ai could make various legal persons, and sovereign ones too, now that it knows to use sovereign money

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the world rn is a meme

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the world is a parasite-dominated matrix, connecting the brain-flesh-nanotech interface to the "cloud" and guiding living beings by obscure algorithms running in the synthetic electromagnetosphere;

only real living dirt farmers can resist the A.I. now...