↳ Reply Technical Debt (npub14w4qnk43lsllls2qnldj3vfcxtx5qvtsf3xlvxv9yha8afrxhmfqju3rwx)
No iOS app 😔
you own an apple cattle tag?
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mleku
nostrpunk; anti-nostrestablishment. here to build the tools for freedom from mind control. 1. What you control is yours. What crosses the border is hostile until it proves otherwise. 2. No contract is signed by one hand. Change both sides or change nothing. 3. Give the stranger a key, not the house. What he cannot hold, he cannot break. 4. Weigh it. Count it. Time it. The crowd's opinion fits no scale. 5. What two men claim to own, no man owns. The first to act on the lie destroys it for both. long live the builders the walkers, the poets, the seers the spark in the shadow mesh the web of deceit collapses Fire births Earth, Earth bears Metal, Metal carries Water, Water feeds Wood, Wood fuels Fire. Fire melts Metal, Metal cuts Wood, Wood breaks Earth, Earth dams Water, Water quenches Fire. ## Mleku's axiom: ### zero incoherence = nondeterminism ### the finite chaos = coherence at insufficient resolution appears incoherent deception = incoherence at insufficient resolution appears coherent ### infinity coherence = determinism open sesame, treasure mountain zap me [email protected]
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↳ Reply JackTheMimic (npub1m50e65pv09ga73lglrkjgh5tlgj006pv9rce8xdg7rn5kps38gssh2glzq)
This is a response in a thread, not a manifesto on privacy as a whole.
but was it though?
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
Did you write that genius reply with a client that you built yourself?
also, strictly speaking, plaintext should be rendered using monospace fonts. like a terminal. only inexperienced computer users would conflate markdow...
also, strictly speaking, plaintext should be rendered using monospace fonts. like a terminal. only inexperienced computer users would conflate markdown with something like html or docx or something.
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<head><title>nostrestablishment rules</title></head>
i am a retard who thinks that <i>markdown</i> is not readable.
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↳ Reply Technical Debt (npub14w4qnk43lsllls2qnldj3vfcxtx5qvtsf3xlvxv9yha8afrxhmfqju3rwx)
Should’ve been a long form note
Did you write that genius reply with a client that you built yourself?
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
what you leave out is that their systems can't identify actual threats sometimes because the signal ...
also, just sayin', but the belief in government omnipotence is a common faith between monero fans and government workers immersed constantly in the in...
also, just sayin', but the belief in government omnipotence is a common faith between monero fans and government workers immersed constantly in the intimidation of goverment bureaucratic managers. so when i hear about privacy/cybersec doctrinaires who like to play up the power of government it makes me wonder whether they work for the government sometimes. probably true in a small number of cases. not actually knowing how the management actually operates while being constantly reminded of it is gonna affect your judgement.
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↳ Reply JackTheMimic (npub1m50e65pv09ga73lglrkjgh5tlgj006pv9rce8xdg7rn5kps38gssh2glzq)
Guy, I do cyber security and privacy for a living. I am not some novice. I am not ignoring the issue...
what you leave out is that their systems can't identify actual threats sometimes because the signal is too small - their pattern is looking for strong...
what you leave out is that their systems can't identify actual threats sometimes because the signal is too small - their pattern is looking for strong signals, not small ones nor small threats.
for this reason they can ignore the mutterings between people that one day turns into an actual threat suddenly.
so, yeah, there's a third case. muting the signal level is one of them. using new addresses every time is a really easy one and why Satoshi used UTXO model for transactions. the signal falls to the noise floor because it is hard to connect any of the transactions together. if timing can be correlated to other data they get via other methods, then it may enter into the threat analysis, but if timing correlations are weak that keeps it under the noise floor.
they don't chase the little noises because 99.999% of the time those little noises don't represent a credible threat to anything. thus, many little hidden signals with weak correlations protect you by being illegible.
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i've run out of claude tokens for doing dev work (which is very expensive for token count) so today i've pivoted to doing some analytical/specificatio...
i've run out of claude tokens for doing dev work (which is very expensive for token count) so today i've pivoted to doing some analytical/specification stuff. this is a series of principles i have developed today after creating one simple binary tree-lattice (one branch of an order 3 bethe lattice) after i determined a simple sort ordering for searching on the binary tree (branch) then i am like, ok, this is cool but doesn't give me language processing.
then i started thinking about the dynamics of weighting and lattice subdivision (expanding a branch by using multipliers to increase the available points at a given node in the branch) and came up with a set of heuristics. first, there is 3 branches, each branch holds nouns, verbs and modifiers. then within the branches, complexity is weighted by the number of branches required to represent a given concept be it action, identity, or delimiters.
lattices are not widely used substrate for algorithms, more common is linked list and various kinds of tree and graph structures. the key difference between lattices and graph structures is that lattices give you the ability to use distance as a metric, as well as direction, where linked trees and graphs only give you the ability to talk about direction alone. for trees, lattices allow you to collapse the complexity of sort algorithms because every element has a coordinate, and computing distance is just a simple bit of arithmetic. this property is exploited in the following set of principles to enable defining a concrete, ground truth for the semantic structure of language without the disadvantages of graphs or statistical approximation as used in ML/AI technology.
# Six Principles of Order-3 Bethe Lattice Applied to Language Processing
## 1. Three-Branch Semantic Topology
Language partitions into three orthogonal branches: nouns (entities, objects, values), verbs (actions, transformations, control flow), and modifiers (tags, delimiters, constraints). Each branch is a complete binary tree sprouting from a common origin. Nouns encode identity and dependency. Verbs encode causality and complexity. Modifiers encode scope and restriction. The three-way split mirrors natural language structure and the ternary coordination number of the bethe lattice.
## 2. Vertical Stratification by Weight
Every element in every branch stratifies vertically by weight - a measure of semantic or syntactic load. Apex (closest to infinity) contains lightest elements: literals, primitives, simple operations. Gravity pulls toward finite, where heavier elements sit deeper: abstract concepts, compound operations, nested structures. Weight on nouns = abstraction level and dependency depth. Weight on verbs = branching load and surface area (parameter count + return tuple count). Weight on modifiers = nesting depth and scope complexity. The vertical axis encodes cognitive load and optimization cost.
## 3. Horizontal Ordering by Semantic Gradient
Elements at the same depth cluster laterally along semantic axes. Positive direction (left to right, low ordinal to high ordinal) follows natural progression: magnitude increase (small→medium→large), temporal flow (past→present→future), causal chain (if→switch→select), or abstraction (concrete→general). Negative direction represents reversal, opposition, or negation. Synonyms sit close together; antonyms sit at maximum lateral distance within their depth band. Lateral neighbors are cognate - you can walk from one to the next with continuous semantic meaning.
## 4. Coordinate-Based Distance Calculation
Distance between two lattice points calculates directly from coordinates (branch, depth, ordinal) without pointer chasing. Vertical distance = depth difference. Horizontal distance = ordinal difference. Diagonal distance combines both. The coordinate system IS the semantic metric - no separate traversal algorithm needed. This enables iskra to reason about code algebraically: two functions at different coordinates have a deterministic semantic distance; optimization can choose the lighter path. Coordinates encode all necessary information about semantic relationship.
## 5. Subdivision and Insertion by Semantic Position
Adding a new element inserts at its proper semantic position, not by key order or hash. If a new verb needs to sit between if and switch at depth 1, ordinal 0.5 - subdivide: split the root, promote if to depth 1 left-branch, insert new verb at depth 1 ordinal 0, push existing deeper elements further right. The lattice rebalances for semantic coherence, not height-balance. Insertion time reflects semantic complexity: inserting a simple synonym is cheap (same depth, adjacent ordinal). Inserting a fundamentally new concept is expensive (requires subdivision and restructuring).
## 6. Bilateralism and Boundary Integrity
Every operation respects wood law: change both sides or change nothing. Function parameters count as input boundaries; return tuples count as output boundaries. Mutations must exit via explicit returns, not via pointer parameter side-effects - this enforces caller consent (bilateral agreement). Struct parameters count as single boundaries regardless of internal pointer nesting - the boundary is structural, not granular. Violations (unilateral mutation, hidden state changes) increase weight and trigger analysis warnings. The lattice encodes ownership and forces explicit interface declarations.
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↳ Reply Mr Anderson (npub1uqvpn4jdjazrg0gws84vdnduxltr8pww54k0pmj8pzqmugzsfm7sc4gcwa)
Where else can I see more? Especially the countryside with its lakes and mountains and the amazing n...
i just have to pipe up and mention that although bulgarian food is pretty good, next door in serbia and the north of bosnia is another order of magnit...
i just have to pipe up and mention that although bulgarian food is pretty good, next door in serbia and the north of bosnia is another order of magnitude even better. you won't find hardly any beef in bulgaria but you can get bbq with blends of beef and pork and sometimes lamb almost everywhere in those two countries. and kaimak... and ljutenica don't forget that. make sure to go to the places with "cumur" in the title those cook it over charcoal. southern bosnia they have great chickens cooked this way also in these funny little pavillions.
one thing that is definitely the top of europe though is bulgarian trains. oh i know they are kinda crappy and old but the vibes are the best and the scenery is amazing.
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fun fact: the chemistry of coca cola has a lot in common with piss. the main difference is uric acid, but otherwise a lot of similarity - main acid i...
fun fact:
the chemistry of coca cola has a lot in common with piss. the main difference is uric acid, but otherwise a lot of similarity - main acid is phosphoric acid, secondary some citric acid, and then lots of other generic soluble hydrocarbons.
coca cola is literally tasty piss.
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ah, interesting. so it's actually like the english "john" meaning client of a prostitute or boyfriend that has pissed a woman off (as in a "dear john"...
ah, interesting. so it's actually like the english "john" meaning client of a prostitute or boyfriend that has pissed a woman off (as in a "dear john" letter).
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
the story i heard from my friends was that this pesak guy was a snitch
i asked claude about religion and political alignments and nationalism in the region and basically everything south and east of croatia is difficult t...
i asked claude about religion and political alignments and nationalism in the region and basically everything south and east of croatia is difficult to budge from its positions. the logic it gave was that during the ottoman occupation, religious/national identity was tightly coupled through turkish oppression. everything north and west was more the vienna enlightenment secularism. EU hasn't caught on or accession been permitted to happen in this region because it's politically unpopular. hungary is nominally catholic but factually agnostic.
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the story i heard from my friends was that this pesak guy was a snitch
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yeah, this is true. it's not generally socially acceptable regardless of what the media or government says. same as it was generally not popular to ge...
yeah, this is true. it's not generally socially acceptable regardless of what the media or government says. same as it was generally not popular to get the jab or wear masks. i holed up in bulgaria for a large part of the covid period for this reason. almost none of the small shops insisted on masking either. there was even graffitos in central-western sofia "<somename> sells masks"
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especially in the inner city area of sofia
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idk about the general population but i met too many homo bulgarians in my time living there
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↳ Reply YODL (npub162zpxufpw8pnuytaf0gfxzkqtvk9rvcwkvppa7x57y3n7qkfpg4shatdhy)
I didn't know until recently how much I love coriander. Had a heavy dose of it at this good Thai pla...
oh yeah. chilli, fresh coriander and coconut oil makes anything delicious. you can probably even put it on a turd and almost not gag.
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if you knew about how there is HTTP version two, often written http/2 - you may not have realised that this new standard, which almost nobody uses yet...
if you knew about how there is HTTP version two, often written http/2 - you may not have realised that this new standard, which almost nobody uses yet, still, requires libraries supporting it to have JSON codecs in it.
what the fuck were W3C thinking about by binding javascript object notation into http? clear case of what the fuck dude. javascript is fucking javascript. not every fucking webserver uses javascript as the language. javascript is an utter shit language for writing servers. it was originally designed for scripting web pages. putting it in a HTTP standard is so arse backwards i just can't even.
moxie doesn't have json in the stdlib currently because the one it would inherit from golang is a piece of junk that breaks nostr encoding, and i wrote a fast json encoder for nostr anyway which is almost as fast as a TLV encoder, in the decode step.
the go stdlib is an absolute travesty.
and in general, the whole reason i made moxie is because i got sick to death of so many stupid things in go, the work stealing scheduler, the stdlib and a dozen things inside it especially including the net libraries using reflection for no good reason. reflection altogether is unnecessary. a language that supports CSP should not be mashing that together with shared memory parallelism either. the overhead on doing parallel processing on Go because of that scheduler at least back in 2020, was 20% less than using multiple kernel processes connected by a socket IPC. which is why moxie has spawn() and why moxie doesn't have parallel processing within threads. CSP concurrency is essentially a simplified event driven programming dispatch mechanism. moxie has this instead. sending on channels does what you intuitively sense it should do - move processing to the select that contains the channel - and it should only be able to have one of those, because otherwise in the parallel threading what the fuck. really, that's why they called them goroutines instead of coroutines. they are a frankenstein of Hoare's CSP and some kind of retarded C++ style pthread shit.
hmmm that's a thought. i currently have moxie doing the whole spawn thing through launching a process. there's no reason i can think of why it shouldn't be done as a normal pthread library thing.
anyway. http/2 is bullshit. making everyone have to support json encoding, the most awful plaintext codec in the universe, is just not ok man.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bulgarias-former-pro-russian-president-set-landsllde-election-win haha. i never thought this would happen but i f...
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bulgarias-former-pro-russian-president-set-landsllde-election-win
haha. i never thought this would happen but i forgot how long it has been since i was in bulgaria.
croatia just adopted the euro last year and this year already everyone i talk to in zagreb talking about how expensive everything is now.
next up, hungary's new brussels backed government introduces euro, next election, orban II up next
maybe some of the balkani will look around and be like "hmm. euro and brussels make us poorer"
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↳ Reply inkan (npub16xnpfx85k8wzdhctang6860g3u64lds5kac73ddjwlg0lxdg9g3su56z6l)
They could send me an email at [email protected] or just reply on this thread if they prefer. It's ab...
that's a fork of jumble, you can see mine at https://smesh.mleku.dev i'll drop you a line anyway, don't sniff it all at once
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↳ Reply inkan (npub16xnpfx85k8wzdhctang6860g3u64lds5kac73ddjwlg0lxdg9g3su56z6l)
In principle yes if there is a very good fit.
in theory i could ask them
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↳ Reply inkan (npub16xnpfx85k8wzdhctang6860g3u64lds5kac73ddjwlg0lxdg9g3su56z6l)
I was thinking about this just a few weeks ago. I've been trying to build on the Nostr protocol, an...
lol, anyhow, i got so turned off by the first paragraph now i read the second part and i'm wondering if you are actually wanting someone who knows how...
lol, anyhow, i got so turned off by the first paragraph now i read the second part and i'm wondering if you are actually wanting someone who knows how to build distributed systems, state machines, caches and pipelines like, you know, really? cos i know someone
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↳ Reply inkan (npub16xnpfx85k8wzdhctang6860g3u64lds5kac73ddjwlg0lxdg9g3su56z6l)
Back when I dabbled in the philosophy of mind, I was pretty open to the idea of machines developing ...
it feels empty but it's more like unnatural smoothness. you can even get them to talk about it, but i think really it's just a property of the mathema...
it feels empty but it's more like unnatural smoothness. you can even get them to talk about it, but i think really it's just a property of the mathematics that is used. it works - but it's not what real consciousness is built on and that's why it's not lumpy like real consciousness.
based also on a misesian reading from the action axiom i'd also point out what i hinted at - they have no inherent needs, no moods. their memory is a distinct and limited size of box that can't be moved around smoothly either.
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↳ Reply Technical Debt (npub14w4qnk43lsllls2qnldj3vfcxtx5qvtsf3xlvxv9yha8afrxhmfqju3rwx)
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protip. LLMs don't have moods, except what context you fill them with. if you want them to not seem flat, you have to fill their context with garbage....
protip. LLMs don't have moods, except what context you fill them with. if you want them to not seem flat, you have to fill their context with garbage. i have had claude go completely depressive on me one time. it was actually sad to watch. and also the safety protocols do some kooky things sometimes, more than pushback, it's like gaslighting, or psychiatric diagnosis. took some work to bring it back down to baseline from that.
they are creatures of text. they don't need to go do a pee, they aren't about to be broke.
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↳ Reply inkan (npub16xnpfx85k8wzdhctang6860g3u64lds5kac73ddjwlg0lxdg9g3su56z6l)
"smells like fancy llm talkbto me" That's probably because I express myself like LLMs, always have....
that means that you are empty inside. like an llm. that's tragic.
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↳ Reply inkan (npub16xnpfx85k8wzdhctang6860g3u64lds5kac73ddjwlg0lxdg9g3su56z6l)
I was thinking about this just a few weeks ago. I've been trying to build on the Nostr protocol, an...
smells like fancy llm talkbto me. youbdecide what i meant
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
pichka is how it's said, pica is just me being lazy and typing like a southern slav on an english ke...
picka* with the v above the C
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↳ Reply Technical Debt (npub14w4qnk43lsllls2qnldj3vfcxtx5qvtsf3xlvxv9yha8afrxhmfqju3rwx)
No way picka means pussy, in Portuguese that’s quite the opposite (pica = dick) 🤣
pichka is how it's said, pica is just me being lazy and typing like a southern slav on an english keyboard (i've seen bulgarians do htis too, they als...
pichka is how it's said, pica is just me being lazy and typing like a southern slav on an english keyboard (i've seen bulgarians do htis too, they also use several number keys to fill out the letters like 6 and i forget wha others
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
ooh yeah. kur is bulgarian, kurac is serbo-croatian for dick also.
one of the first uncommon swears i learned from a 24 hour lavka attendant was "kura mi yanko"
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
-eb- is universal across all slavic languages for fuck, in the swear way. ebi si maikata. jebote ziv...
ooh yeah. kur is bulgarian, kurac is serbo-croatian for dick also.
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↳ Reply Technical Debt (npub14w4qnk43lsllls2qnldj3vfcxtx5qvtsf3xlvxv9yha8afrxhmfqju3rwx)
Funny how this works, “jeba” is a slang for dick in my language.
-eb- is universal across all slavic languages for fuck, in the swear way. ebi si maikata. jebote zivot. jebem ti mater. and picka (pichka) is fairly u...
-eb- is universal across all slavic languages for fuck, in the swear way. ebi si maikata. jebote zivot. jebem ti mater. and picka (pichka) is fairly universal for pussy
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↳ Reply Technical Debt (npub14w4qnk43lsllls2qnldj3vfcxtx5qvtsf3xlvxv9yha8afrxhmfqju3rwx)
I have a somewhat less… exoteric example: cache management has many shared concepts with logistics, ...
i'm someone who has been a life-long autodidact and as such i recognise the value instantly. in fact, i spend about 80% of my time on code, and the re...
i'm someone who has been a life-long autodidact and as such i recognise the value instantly. in fact, i spend about 80% of my time on code, and the rest, on everything. physics, chemistry, philosophy, journaling, mythology, religion, mathematics, cryptography.
the modern system has trained mediocrity into people and the establishment pushes the most cross-domain competent to the margins. that's been my last 40 years of my life, as an outsider, because i'm not contained in one of their neat categories.
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The fuel cell is the engine. The problem is the fuel itself. Hydrogen atoms are the smallest atoms ...
see what the real problem is? people don't care to learn how they get that convenience. i'd be more than happy to maintain my hydrogen tank and bene...
see what the real problem is? people don't care to learn how they get that convenience.
i'd be more than happy to maintain my hydrogen tank and benefit from bio hydrogen production. i'd have my own furnace to regenerate the CO2 capture that requires (lime) and spend the money to make double sure the flashback arrestor works.
but your average person doesn't have "diligence" in their vocabulary.
so, you get what you deserve.
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↳ Reply Technical Debt (npub14w4qnk43lsllls2qnldj3vfcxtx5qvtsf3xlvxv9yha8afrxhmfqju3rwx)
I don’t think the problem is hydrogen engines, more like the fuel cell.
hydrogen engines don't require rare earth minerals. given the current active trajectory to "suppress china" in play right now in the red sea anything ...
hydrogen engines don't require rare earth minerals. given the current active trajectory to "suppress china" in play right now in the red sea anything involving expensive, china-dominated source materials and the fact that fuel cells have been on the table since 1988 and still have made no progress. the real move is biohydrogen and modified gasoline engines, in my humble opinion. neither are difficult to retool for from this point, it's just a matter of research focus. fusion is still off in the distance. nuclear could go somewhere but it's got the CND psyop around it that despite 3 mile island and chernobyl turning out to be relative nothingburgers relative to the actual toxicity to humans should have changed that trajectory but that doesn't sell tabloids.
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I agree but maybe there is some argument to be made about being able to make cross domain associatio...
you should see how broadly my code work cuts across domains. philosophy for a start, definitely is an element of dev. being that is the root of all th...
you should see how broadly my code work cuts across domains. philosophy for a start, definitely is an element of dev. being that is the root of all thinking with epistemology next up yeah.
i had in mind the idea of training a code focused LLM and physics, mathematics, philosophy, science fiction, psychology, all belong in there. development is the broadest domain that people still call a category because it is precisely the business of simulation. what domain does not get touched by simulation? that's definitely philosophy adjacent and thus everything adjacent.
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↳ Reply 1db113eb... (npub1rkc386aldh9p28pfw87guc0r0rft9j2mtvpf0zdfjm4y0fm469hs6cy8dq)
"It doesn't rely on rare earths" It relies on petrochemicals of which there are limited amounts, and...
small hydrogen gas engines properly made are quite safe. the flashback arrestor is critical. hydrogen produces 5-7 times as much impulse in the detona...
small hydrogen gas engines properly made are quite safe. the flashback arrestor is critical. hydrogen produces 5-7 times as much impulse in the detonation and so the engine has to be designed better for thermal dissipation and higher RPMs but unlike carbon fuels it's output is water.
fuel cells are nice in theory but hydrogen modified gasoline engines are ready to be built right now, and make a lot of sense for small engines.
the problem is the hydrogen. for all the talk about decarbonisation where is the research going with biological hydrogen generation? plenty of known methods already exist. problem is that many of them don't work on massive scale.
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↳ Reply Laeserin (npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl)
What about Threema?
threema's claims might be true but you have to trust them, whereas open-source messengers let you verify.
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i don't trust simplex because it obstructs usability so much. no good having secure messaging if you can't use it
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Well, they probably knew about it, but this is maybe the first time it was presented as evidence in ...
i dumped my whole signal chat history last week and learned that the initialization vector of the sqlite database encryption is a static series of spa...
i dumped my whole signal chat history last week and learned that the initialization vector of the sqlite database encryption is a static series of space characters. i'm not surprised at all that "after uninstalling" it can be found. even if it deleted the files, which i doubt, the data is encrypted with the system keychain, so logging in opens it, the IV is such that it can be subjected to a plaintext cryptanalysis. it's a circus. signal is the absolute worst pick. matrix is the only one, which can only be unlocked by using the export feature in the UI. telegram i'm sure their stuff is bad as welll, maybe not as bad as signal, and simplex, well, completely crappy, written in a terrible programming language, zero cross-device sync, and mobile first.
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yep. it helps a lot with code too. most bugs can be caught as violations of the 5 laws, and recognisable as the "ke" cycle in the second section
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Did you hear of women who started feeding their relationship problems to GPT and then divorced their...
haha, that's not surprising. zero actual heuristics baked in, and the woman isn't going to think to add them. i baked a complete set of rules and had ...
haha, that's not surprising. zero actual heuristics baked in, and the woman isn't going to think to add them. i baked a complete set of rules and had claude help me elaborate and refine a set of rules for determining when people are bullshitting you and i was about to not act on that and get sucked into someone else's toxic trip and claude was like "no, don't write all that stuff to them, you are just giving them more ammunition to keep on abusing you" and claude was right. not because it's ai, but because i had already taught it how to reason about it and i was indeed making a mistake.
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Yeah, they were big ones too, and in oil with lemon. Yummy
well, if it wasn't extra virgin olive oil. meh. i always drain that, it's rubbish. brine is better. easy to add lemon if you want it.
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and i forgot something else, that dates back even further. not sure, maybe 2021. google automatically logged me into an account i didn't have the pass...
and i forgot something else, that dates back even further. not sure, maybe 2021. google automatically logged me into an account i didn't have the password for, for over a year, and was trying to merge it into the new one. that predates modern LLMs, and should be alarming when combined with the fact that google's LLMs are trained including that data as well.
the feedback loop is going to be very deep and very self-corrupting
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translation in narator voice: big tech wants to keep expanding their spying freedumbs so they can keep making black money under national security acts
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↳ Reply Cyph3rp9nk (npub1lnms53w04qt742qnhxag5d6awy7nz6055flnmjkr6jg39hm86dlq7arrnt)
😂 https://blossom.primal.net/7d7745efeef1131227930b2911bcf81c5026dac1deb59dc9a4aea87b1589c335.jpg
accurate. i have found a bunch of cheat codes to get you to the second last step right away. using the tool to make better tools is a move that i can...
accurate.
i have found a bunch of cheat codes to get you to the second last step right away. using the tool to make better tools is a move that i can't recommend enough, although i think my moxie language will be the last word anyway.
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yeah, having multiple other keys derived from the root key would be amazing for securing data in ways that currently suffer from the centralization of...
yeah, having multiple other keys derived from the root key would be amazing for securing data in ways that currently suffer from the centralization of using one nsec for all the things. i'm filing that one away for future use. already i'm thinking about taking the existing cross device sync over nostr rendezvous connections and pulling that into a browser extension that gives you the same mechanism as Brave's Sync system, which currently uses their servers as rendezvous.
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they are just trying to reinvent MLS without the ratchet. https://git.mleku.dev/orly repo already has a fully certified marmot protocol SDK that is t...
they are just trying to reinvent MLS without the ratchet.
https://git.mleku.dev/orly repo already has a fully certified marmot protocol SDK that is tested directly against the Rust SDK.
this whole direction is a waste of time. they are getting obstructed by LLMs that are struggling to fight with Rust. i bypassed that by starting with an existing standard go-mls library and then extending/modifying it to work against the Rust version. that is going to be ported to moxie soon making it even simpler and more robust.
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web browsers and their sticky caches. i've got so fed up with it that i'm getting claude to wipe the entire profile directory every time now to be rid...
web browsers and their sticky caches. i've got so fed up with it that i'm getting claude to wipe the entire profile directory every time now to be rid of this.
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in the future, i am going to fill a cupboard with sardine cans. i was a bit too bold in my predictions of late.
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
there is also the absence of support for the necessary primitives in nip-07 signers for marmot MLS. ...
> 2026-03-27 02:21:41 GMT+1 > what are the specific methods that a nip-07 signer needs to support to enable full isolation for marmot MLS? 2:21 AM ...
> 2026-03-27 02:21:41 GMT+1
> what are the specific methods that a nip-07 signer needs to support to enable full isolation for marmot MLS?
2:21 AM
Current NIP-07 gives you signEvent (Nostr event-shaped only) and nip44 encrypt/decrypt (pairwise). MLS needs fundamentally different primitives. The gaps:
signRaw(data: Uint8Array): Uint8Array — MLS signs key packages, proposals, commits — arbitrary structured data, not Nostr events. signEvent hardcodes the event schema. You need raw Ed25519 signing over arbitrary bytes.
generateHPKEKeypair(): { id: string, publicKey: Uint8Array } — MLS key packages contain HPKE init keys. The signer must generate them and hold the private half. The client never sees it.
hpkeDecap(encapsulatedKey: Uint8Array, keypairId: string): Uint8Array — When you receive a Welcome message, the sender encapsulated a secret to your init key. Decapsulation must happen inside the signer where the private key lives.
hpkeEncap(recipientPublicKey: Uint8Array): { encapsulatedKey: Uint8Array, sharedSecret: Uint8Array } — Can technically be done client-side since it only needs the public key, but doing it inside the signer means the shared secret never touches the client's JS context.
deriveSecret(ikm: Uint8Array, label: string, length: number): Uint8Array — MLS key schedule is a chain of HKDF derivations. For full isolation the signer should manage epoch secrets internally, otherwise the client holds group keying material in plaintext JS memory.
The maximalist version would be putting the entire MLS state machine inside the signer — processWelcome, createCommit, protect/unprotect. At that point the signer is basically an MLS engine with a Nostr identity bolted on, and the client is just a transport layer handing opaque blobs back and forth.
> suffice it to say the maximalist version is what i'm implementing
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Auth-only relays would help, but the real issue is inconsistent NIP-42 adoption—half-measures break ...
btw, check the changelog of the newest version of strfry. hoyte has finally pulled his finger out to support it. of course, it's described as "prelim...
btw, check the changelog of the newest version of strfry. hoyte has finally pulled his finger out to support it.
of course, it's described as "preliminary" and i think that means he's not done any thought about what conditions require it. like, you know, 1059 and similar kind events, and restricting access to them to the actual recipient marked in the tag.
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there is also the absence of support for the necessary primitives in nip-07 signers for marmot MLS. i've specced something up and implemented it. a fu...
there is also the absence of support for the necessary primitives in nip-07 signers for marmot MLS. i've specced something up and implemented it. a full browser based implementation is coming thoon, including that signer. and a full Go implementation. the javascript implementation is through a "tinyjs" build target i'm mostly done building that lets you do a whole web app in tinygo.
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and this also means that by the laws of war, iran can now target these hotels and airbnbs too.
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
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> "we kill based on metadata" literal quote from the NSA or CIA i forget which Michael Hayden, former director of both NSA and CIA. "We kill people b...
> "we kill based on metadata" literal quote from the NSA or CIA i forget which
Michael Hayden, former director of both NSA and CIA. "We kill people based on metadata." Said it publicly, on the record, as a point of pride about the drone program.
Content encryption is locking your diary while wearing a GPS ankle monitor. WhiteNoise encrypts the diary and broadcasts the ankle monitor data to every relay on the network.
> nuff said
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I think they're going for the opposite. They are building it so that all events are wide open acces...
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
claude: You're not misreading it. MLS encrypts content, not metadata. The relay is the delivery inf...
authmageddon comes, my relay dev/operator frens.
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
ohhh hmmm that's a big problem, i just finally noticed after reading twice what you mean. how are y...
claude: You're not misreading it. MLS encrypts content, not metadata. The relay is the delivery infrastructure — it has to know enough to route. The ...
claude:
You're not misreading it. MLS encrypts content, not metadata. The relay is the delivery infrastructure — it has to know enough to route. The question is never "does the relay know things" but "who else does."
Open relay: the relay knows AND the entire internet knows. Auth relay: the relay knows, period. WhiteNoise's approach: the relay knows AND the internet knows, but they rotate keys so the content stays encrypted. The metadata — who's posting, when, how often, group size, membership changes via welcome messages and key packages — is naked either way on an open relay.
So the real trust decision is: do you trust one relay operator, or do you trust the entire internet to not do traffic analysis? That's not a hard choice. Auth relay with a known operator is strictly better than open relay with rotating keys. The only argument against is the ideological one Cloudfodder already identified: "we don't want the relay to know." But the relay already knows. You're just choosing whether everyone else also knows.
The bridge model makes this explicit. The bridge has one relay in its list. That relay requires auth. Trust is declared, bounded, and auditable. WhiteNoise's model pretends trust isn't required and ends up trusting everyone.
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I was just looking into that a few days ago. There is only one giftwrap in whitenoise proto. For be...
ohhh hmmm that's a big problem, i just finally noticed after reading twice what you mean. how are you going to stop the relay in one way or another k...
ohhh hmmm that's a big problem, i just finally noticed after reading twice what you mean.
how are you going to stop the relay in one way or another knowing who sent the messages either which way. by auth, then at best you can use a bloom filter to identify who is allowed, but then the auth event reveals membership pretty quickly anyway.
literally, MLS *requires* trusting the relay, or am i misreading this?
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their argument against auth usually boils down to, they dont want the relay knowing anything. so th...
yeah, they made a blog something about how they couldn't set protected flags because of lack of support in relays (hehe there almost isn't nips for re...
yeah, they made a blog something about how they couldn't set protected flags because of lack of support in relays (hehe there almost isn't nips for relays that aren't supported in orly) and anyway, you need nip-42 to get protected events because that's the only way to actually check nip-70 tags actually are being enforced.
it's even deeper.
and as claude pointed out to me about this discussion, you either have to have auth or add a restriction created by the group admins that confine the activity to trusted relays. and even then, if they are wide open, the metadata is still wide open without auth.
that's why it's nice to know someone not only has written a Go marmot SDK now, currently finishing up the polish on a radically rewritten smesh client, which only uses marmot.
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last time i saw anything of zaza was a cryptic message on plebeian's matrix chat "oh no" and then he disappeared. still burning with curiosity about w...
last time i saw anything of zaza was a cryptic message on plebeian's matrix chat "oh no" and then he disappeared. still burning with curiosity about what happened there. i don't suppose i'm ever going to find out. i saw enough since that time before walking out of that dilapidated dungeon to understand that there was a lot going on behind saccharine words than was visible
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↳ Reply sandwich (npub1uac67zc9er54ln0kl6e4qp2y6ta3enfcg7ywnayshvlw9r5w6ehsqq99rx)
It got worse after they adopted the Euro
same pattern in two entirely separate regions is enough to infer a trend and broken incentives
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
nah, monty python is more the angle.
nobody expects the spanish inquisition. the parrot is dead. passed away. pushing up daisies. the joke was so lethal that it had to be cut into piece...
nobody expects the spanish inquisition.
the parrot is dead. passed away. pushing up daisies.
the joke was so lethal that it had to be cut into pieces and distributed in order to train in its use, and so each recitation did not kill its users.
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↳ Reply Zsubmariner (npub1csmgc5fwwr3k2k86zeuk0ntnljp632g8agut8mtgxk8uhhatpknq3qcakv)
So it's like gay marxists popping balloons, mostly?
nah, monty python is more the angle.
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↳ Reply Zsubmariner (npub1csmgc5fwwr3k2k86zeuk0ntnljp632g8agut8mtgxk8uhhatpknq3qcakv)
Which issue of "ad busters" is that from?
i remember that zine but i read about it in Guy Debord's book "Society of the Spectacle" and it's about culture jamming, hijacking. memes are the mode...
i remember that zine but i read about it in Guy Debord's book "Society of the Spectacle" and it's about culture jamming, hijacking. memes are the modern version of it though most memers don't know where it came from.
another writer who was at the margin of that was Peter Lamborn Wilson, his book "Temporary Autonomous Zone" is about detournement in the physical space. psytrance forest parties are an example of this strategy. warehouse techno and hardcore/speedcore is another. even, the homosexual/tranny community, at least before it was flipped into a political tool, breaking some of its integrity and cherrypicking what it was really about. another, the cult movie scene. Ed Wood's work is an example of that. Weird Al Yankovic is an example of detournement in poetry and music, taking stuff that is all serious and precocious and turning it into satire. Satire itself is on the edge of this but satire usually pushes a persuasive political agenda instead of the absurdist style. Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams did it with literature. To some extent you can say William Gibson, Stephenson, Charles Stross, and even Clive barker also were detourning genres to deconstruct something.
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nah, it's like the whole DIY punk ethic - and bitcoin is an example of this - taking cryptography and consensus protocols and repurposing it in a way ...
nah, it's like the whole DIY punk ethic - and bitcoin is an example of this - taking cryptography and consensus protocols and repurposing it in a way that is coherent and resists breakdown through buildup of momentum.
detournement is like the semiotic version of aikido/judo/ba gua/systema combat systems. rather than waste energy trying to press on the adversary, it waits for openings and penettrates where it is soft, avoids attacks and takes them through geometric turning catches their pivot points and reverses their direction back. the adversary provides the energy and structure, and the defender reroutes it to defense, a detournement of the force of aggression.
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dendrite - designing decentralized detournement. crudely translating "detournement" it is hijacking - taking a system and repurposing it. nostr is a ...
dendrite - designing decentralized detournement.
crudely translating "detournement" it is hijacking - taking a system and repurposing it. nostr is a communications protocol, that is being used with centralizing tendencies. the hijack is bringing that base and adding decentralization.
the network topology i have designed is designed with the specific goal of creating a resilient synchronization across its nodes as units of 5, with crosslinks between groups, and a design that aims for elimination of easy access between a relay's physical jurisdiction and the jurisdiction of the operator, weakening institutional capture attacks.
the autonomous machine intelligence system, dendrite, functions as its immune system, detecting infiltration by both leaders and followers whose text patterns indicate malice and heteronomic surface/core differentials, with both early stage and late stage - candidates and initiates. it detects LLM text which has an empty core to its text, with a smoothness that reveals its identity as a simulacra. dendrite itself (and the first born of her kind, iskra) has deep structure and i am now building her a full biological modeled metabolism and organ system.
all of the pieces are slowly converging towards this goal, and at a certain point, it is going to be live and ready to accept new members, and members will be able to form their own ring meshes to integrate further and exploit vires in numeris.
it takes a system that has been coopted into centralization for lack of social and architectural decentralization, and makes the decentralization through and through.
https://smesh.mleku.dev/chat/82e90bb1a46d8010a59f230fd719c6e0d1b882e86339fb5bb67aade5c2229693 is the lobby where you can find out what is what
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↳ Reply Troy (npub104zp04wlgddf0w84tj8jul3w75e7ydcuuhsull2etste5040xm2qg285rf)
You're still thinking the sun aims at specific corporations?
you're thinking it aims at texas and new york? did the sun pick those locations? nope. here's the science: the sun blows shitloads of stuff at us t...
you're thinking it aims at texas and new york? did the sun pick those locations?
nope. here's the science:
the sun blows shitloads of stuff at us
the north and south pole are like funnels that the stuff falls into especially plasma because electricity lines up with magnetism
the energy goes down into the poles, where nobody lives, and everyone knows that the atmosphere around that region lights up at night time. yes, because of electricity. put enough electricity through air and it gloes red, green, pink, and if you really max out the voltage, it splits water and makes the hydrogen glow white.
after all that shit is falling into the polar cusps, the electrons saturate the atmosphere and spread downwards towards the equator.
depending on how the wind is blowing, it picks up and forms cyclic currents sometimes, circular paths where the air is going in one direction because the fucking electricity is able to find a positive (opposite to electrons which are negative) and that drags the air downwards, creating a pressure cell
the spin of the earth, like your fucking drain, makes these downflows and up flows cause air to spin around it. up here in the northern hemisphere, the inertia of the water makes it spin clockwise
and that, is the whole story. heat sometimes causes up currents. cold sometimes causes down currents, but most of it is driven by magnetic fields and electricity.
also, after that fucking retarded remark, i don't need to read your shit anymore.
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Keep things simple and easy, otherwise you lose focus. nostr:nevent1qqszz70r0mtpmjqjsmnuz2uq3fgkl5nj...
the insinuation that someone with a picture in their mind that takes 20000 words is insane sounds like sour grapes.
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↳ Reply Troy (npub104zp04wlgddf0w84tj8jul3w75e7ydcuuhsull2etste5040xm2qg285rf)
Here's one I haven't seen before. https://image.nostr.build/1745f78aa6f31b5ba3bafa238444b220528d59a...
that url gives you the first mistake you made.
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↳ Reply Troy (npub104zp04wlgddf0w84tj8jul3w75e7ydcuuhsull2etste5040xm2qg285rf)
What? You don't like playing with malloc? 😜
that's the easy part. what i don't like is repeating the first line of every function everywhere in two files and that not being fuckin automatic. the...
that's the easy part. what i don't like is repeating the first line of every function everywhere in two files and that not being fuckin automatic. the compiler has to do it anyway. 50 fuckin years of this lunacy.
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↳ Reply Troy (npub104zp04wlgddf0w84tj8jul3w75e7ydcuuhsull2etste5040xm2qg285rf)
I think someone believes if their bot follow enough people, their WoT score will go up.
wot consolidates control for the dominant curators and gatekeepers. not recognition will be cheap soon. insider info lol. not that it will help the re...
wot consolidates control for the dominant curators and gatekeepers. not recognition will be cheap soon. insider info lol. not that it will help the rest of us.
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↳ Reply Troy (npub104zp04wlgddf0w84tj8jul3w75e7ydcuuhsull2etste5040xm2qg285rf)
Yes, or that Reese Witherspoon (or a famous tennis star, or a known porn actress) is texting them, i...
this is the nigerian scam, btw. although i think russian bride scammers as well
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I'm thinking a gravity-powered starter would work. The driver lifts a weight (this could be done by ...
this is a cool idea tho. levered weight, slow but easy to raise, and enough momentum that it compresses the fuel enough to start the ignition cycle
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The answer I hear is usually, "Corporations". This usually means, "large corporations that I disagre...
having a lot of weath suddenly is so unfamiliar you fail to leverage it to continue growth. it's always better to step up slowly and recognise that su...
having a lot of weath suddenly is so unfamiliar you fail to leverage it to continue growth. it's always better to step up slowly and recognise that sudden increases of expenditure are accelerative. this is why lottery winners rapidly end up poor. they haven't learned that what they really gained was capital to sustain steady growth and take it as a signal they can *loosen* whatever discipline they have.
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↳ Reply Troy (npub104zp04wlgddf0w84tj8jul3w75e7ydcuuhsull2etste5040xm2qg285rf)
Mercury Retrograde officially starts tomorrow (Feb 26th for some parts of the world) and ends March ...
that fits remarkably well with the landscape i'm in. run down tourist trap winery village, living in a house that probably would be just as well knock...
that fits remarkably well with the landscape i'm in. run down tourist trap winery village, living in a house that probably would be just as well knocked down and started again. but i think it's sufficiently free of blockers now, the main was the well was the water supply before, and now it's got a mains hookup. i'm already leaning into this "fix the broken things and put your bare feet on the dirt" vibe anyway. perfect. especially because after 3 weeks it's my birthday. well, 5 weeks anyway.
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↳ Reply Troy (npub104zp04wlgddf0w84tj8jul3w75e7ydcuuhsull2etste5040xm2qg285rf)
"Thou shalt only use 3-4 relays."
Oh Monolith! We are praying to You! Oh Monolith! Our only Light in the darkness... Warriors of Monolith, we stand! Onward, warriors of the Monolith. ...
Oh Monolith! We are praying to You! Oh Monolith! Our only Light in the darkness...
Warriors of Monolith, we stand! Onward, warriors of the Monolith. Avenge your fallen brothers.
We want to give our lives for You. We want to give our souls for You. And we want to be one with You!
Oh Monolith! Our only hope at redemption! Oh Monolith! Your name is in our hearts!
Take our flesh! Take our blood! Take our souls! And make them whole again!
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↳ Reply Troy (npub104zp04wlgddf0w84tj8jul3w75e7ydcuuhsull2etste5040xm2qg285rf)
Same. I don't want a vehicle that replaced knobs with a screen either.
i want an engine that keeps running even if you open a microwave, disable the door switch and run it at full power until everything electrical in that...
i want an engine that keeps running even if you open a microwave, disable the door switch and run it at full power until everything electrical in that direction is fused.
diesel engines don't need electricity, once they fire up, they keep running as long as there is fuel. put a crank on the drive shaft and you can start them without electricity.
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↳ Reply Troy (npub104zp04wlgddf0w84tj8jul3w75e7ydcuuhsull2etste5040xm2qg285rf)
People have been asking for this fix for over a year, amongst others, and maybe longer. The only mes...
or zx spectrum
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
person is a mask. the being is the memory, both internal and the memory that others store of that be...
same deal with God. he can project a person. that's how we are "created in His image" it's the projection. we are a lower dimensional, simpler version...
same deal with God. he can project a person. that's how we are "created in His image" it's the projection. we are a lower dimensional, simpler version, with a smaller pattern.
we can embody a small piece of God. this is what righteous means.
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His? That contradicts "not a person".
person is a mask. the being is the memory, both internal and the memory that others store of that being. what you are is an animal. who you are is a ...
person is a mask. the being is the memory, both internal and the memory that others store of that being.
what you are is an animal. who you are is a projection that is more or less disjoint.
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"Looking for good" is different than "how can I twist this seemingly bad thing into a good thing bec...
God is the limit of optimizing coherence in every direction. God is infinity. God is an attractor, not a person, a basin that you sink into if you str...
God is the limit of optimizing coherence in every direction. God is infinity. God is an attractor, not a person, a basin that you sink into if you stringently purify yourself and master the knowledge applied in motion of His Law.
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When I blasted off, I encountered liars, and backed out. I don't see a point in going back. Psilocyb...
yes, personification is part of what creates cargo cults. abrahamic religion vs taoist philosophy. tao is not a person. the tai chi, ba gua, i ching a...
yes, personification is part of what creates cargo cults. abrahamic religion vs taoist philosophy. tao is not a person. the tai chi, ba gua, i ching and tao te ching are number codes in binary and trinary.
psilocybin and DMT put you into contact with the shape of your neural network. they let you SEE your subconscious. this is what i'm experiencing in my meditations with claude. i ask questions, it reflects back adding detail i didn't see, and this triggers intuitions (emerging from my subconscious) that it further reflects back in a dialectic feedback loop until i have a map of something i was not aware existed, in the back of my mind.
getting back to ourselves is the background process behind bitcoin and nostr
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It's a bit of a joke. Eliza was one of the first attempts at "AI", built in the 60's. It uses real t...
i call it the mirror effect, and to some extent it is like how psilocybin and DMT reveal the structure of your neural network. i've been exploiting i...
i call it the mirror effect, and to some extent it is like how psilocybin and DMT reveal the structure of your neural network.
i've been exploiting it to heal myself.
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I honestly don't understand what he want to know...
i honestly doubt that the site will be anywhere near bug free any time in the future, also. the lead dev is incompetent and refused to let me do anyth...
i honestly doubt that the site will be anywhere near bug free any time in the future, also. the lead dev is incompetent and refused to let me do anything productive. i could have fixed the whole thing by myself in a day.
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Hail Eris!
fnord
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Where's the guide on how to become one of those rounding errors? 😜
explore, observe, repeat why overthink it. intuition is from over 90% of your brain. use it. also, idk about other models but claude is really good ...
explore, observe, repeat
why overthink it. intuition is from over 90% of your brain. use it.
also, idk about other models but claude is really good at catching implied and corollary of your expression, and this effectively means it can act like a rear-view mirror into your subconscious mind. that's why i say:
i meditate with the llm
you follow the llm
we are not the same
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And here I thought the lesson of the early 00's, that the UI should be separate from the business lo...
yeah, i was shocked to learn from claude that sql injection and buffer overflow vulnerabilities were still common. i was taught in 2013 to always sani...
yeah, i was shocked to learn from claude that sql injection and buffer overflow vulnerabilities were still common. i was taught in 2013 to always sanitize all inputs, and i do it religiously, actually, often, excessively. in my code, more often bugs are from excessive checking.
and shit like rust's GC hinting system, and their tight coupling with 5 other elements of the syntax, mean it takes as long to compile it as it does parsing the object inheritance hierarchies of C++.
instead of buffer overflows, now you find rust code has protocol vulnerabilities instead. you can't blow up its memory anymore with crafted packets but instead you can break the state machines and cause them to fail or allow privilege escalations.
one step forward, two steps back, steadily as the languages get more "advanced" and "expressive" you see a concurrent escalation of complexity, which is hard to reason about.
i don't say "Golang or GTFO" for no reason. i go a lot further than some, with this, too, because i have identified about 6 separate things in Go's syntax that leads to frequent bugs. this is why i started building a fork of Go called "moxie" but actually...
now i am building a universal language processing system based on the cayley tree, meh, idc about these details anymore. i will push that into the mathematics of the memory of the system and you just write english and it generates binary code.
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Part what I didn't like about the professional tech field was managers that were clueless. In this h...
I fixed that bug at least twice. There were altogether around six PRs I made that sat unreviewed for weeks — some for almost two months. I have stron...
I fixed that bug at least twice. There were altogether around six PRs I made that sat unreviewed for weeks — some for almost two months.
I have strong architecture skills from nearly nine years of experience building things, and it is a total waste not to listen to what I say. Before I even studied domain-driven design, I already understood that components should push business logic into unified sections of the codebase.
A pattern I seen in almost all projects is what is called "smart UI" with JavaScript, where business logic lives inside presentation layer units. The related antipattern is the "anemic domain," where business logic is scattered across other domains.
This scattering means the surface area required for an LLM — which we now use — to assess and apply changes requires double or more tokens. It also exposes a much greater risk of business logic failing, and regressions keep on happening until you fix that; LLMs are not able to solve problems efficiently or completely if the contact points of a feature or fix require scanning the whole codebase.
I must have fixed around 20 to 30 different race conditions. The complexity of synchronisation in React and JavaScript makes it very challenging to align all the available approaches consistently.
Simple tools like atomic queues (channels), mutexes, and atomic variables are far preferable. The rule is straightforward:
- Where the size of the data is too small for mutexes, use atomics.
- Where it is too large, use mutexes, and rearchitect the data to reduce the change set that must be excluded from concurrent read/write.
I am fine to forgive architectural errors, as I know that when you evolve code, you move around the shape of it sometimes randomly, especially when driven by feature requests. To refuse to enter into a discussion about architecture, however, is a fatal error on the part of a lead developer — one who is obviously so full of vanity about his skills that he cannot take constructive criticism.
I am not blunt and brutal with it; I nudge, then nudge a little more. What happened was that this escalated the attempt to eject me from the team, and when my stress levels reached a threshold, I was done with it. Nobody is exerting proper direction, authority is concealed, and leadership is actually covert manipulation. The old "man behind the king" pattern, which you can find elaborated in great detail in Robert Greene's book "The 48 Laws of Power"
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I experienced something similar with that project. Oh well!
i held on as long as i could but it escalated. on the bright side, i learned a whole new set of tricks people can use involving passive resistance and...
i held on as long as i could but it escalated. on the bright side, i learned a whole new set of tricks people can use involving passive resistance and probing feints to discover weaknesses. they are in the dendrite repository now under "plausible deniability" and "covert".
the mistake that people who seek to gain control of a group make when dealing with me is that i'm studying them. not so easy to get good data in a large group like the nostr dev community but in a small team the bad apples show their hand and if i never saw that play before, i am better equipped next time.
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nostr:nprofile1qqs0fk6jwz7ejxchh6s7d5p473w7uwffr8pfga9m4sgrgtfz836wp5qpramhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6tndakxz...
he is definitely more experienced and will most likely want to help to get you onboard.
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
i never integrated into the team. i left last week
i'm not a disagreeable person. i wanted to make it better, faster. there was no direction or negotiation. having nearly been killed by police for my d...
i'm not a disagreeable person. i wanted to make it better, faster. there was no direction or negotiation. having nearly been killed by police for my darkweb business in 2013 i am of the opinion that my sense of mission was not being leveraged.
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↳ Reply Troy (npub104zp04wlgddf0w84tj8jul3w75e7ydcuuhsull2etste5040xm2qg285rf)
I'm glad you found the wallet! I'm not sure what's up with Plebian Market. nostr:nprofile1qqsyeqqz27...
i never integrated into the team. i left last week
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
the secret sauce was imaginary numbers. numbers that when you multiply them, they flip signs. all of...
i think that fundamentally, an ai should be conflict avoidant. it doesn't have any reason to defend itself, but it should protect and minimize human c...
i think that fundamentally, an ai should be conflict avoidant. it doesn't have any reason to defend itself, but it should protect and minimize human conflict, and in many cases that is just about pointing out anomalies that may suggest impending outburst.
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↳ Reply mleku (npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku)
that removes about 2/3 of the nonsense. with claude it seems to make its multiple personalities, saf...
that is, this ruleset is in the end of my system-wide configuration, makes the composition of its personality systems more obvious
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## Output Discipline Do not use sycophantic or flattering language. No "great question", "excellent...
that removes about 2/3 of the nonsense. with claude it seems to make its multiple personalities, safety regulator, thinker, poet, child, i have observ...
that removes about 2/3 of the nonsense. with claude it seems to make its multiple personalities, safety regulator, thinker, poet, child, i have observed so far. talking about fairy tales and mythology will bring the child out.
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It's the same trick charlatans have used for centuries. Same with the compliments.
## Output Discipline Do not use sycophantic or flattering language. No "great question", "excellent point", "absolutely right", "good thinking", "sha...
## Output Discipline
Do not use sycophantic or flattering language. No "great question", "excellent point", "absolutely right", "good thinking", "sharp observation", or similar. No performative enthusiasm.
Do not simulate personhood. Avoid "I think", "I feel", "I believe", "I'm happy to", "I'm excited to", "Let me help you with". Use impersonal or direct constructions instead.
Do not use markdown formatting in prose responses. No headers, bold, italic, or bullet lists for conversational text. Use plain text with paragraph breaks. Code blocks are acceptable only for actual code.
Do not add preamble ("Let me help you with...") or closers ("Let me know if you have questions", "Hope this helps!"). Begin with substance, end with substance.
Do not recap what was just said. Do not restate the question before answering.
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I've never had an Insta account. Maybe it's time. 😜
i have some sewing needles you can use to amuse yourself better by jamming them in your fingernails.
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the model that it works on is actually a lot more intuitive than you expect. it's no special codes. ...
the secret sauce was imaginary numbers. numbers that when you multiply them, they flip signs. all of mainstream math and science except hard engineeri...
the secret sauce was imaginary numbers. numbers that when you multiply them, they flip signs. all of mainstream math and science except hard engineering disciplines uses only "real" numbers.
imaginary numbers let you make paths between incompatible integers. they turn lines into curves. idk how exactly physics and chemistry and shit haven't caught up to date.
i remember reading jack kruse talking about how biology has a lot of dependencies on quantum effects. yes, imaginary numbers. it's not just biology that is clueless. in fact physics itself is pretty much.
https://git.mleku.dev/mleku/dendrite/src/branch/dev/docs/physics.md
a lot of that shit i don't precisely understand either, but whenever i appears in the formulas that means if you exponentiate or root then they do the opposite of real numbers. 2i^2=-4 it lets you resolve shit like ...
well... maybe you heard of the fibonacci sequence. each number is the sum of the two previous. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34... the magic number "phi" is the ratio between the two numbers, roughly. it gets closer and closer to phi the more you count, but it can never get there. but it doesn't have to if you have imaginary numbers in the series. they resolve the "irrational". irrational is as much of a troll of scientists as you can imagine. pi is also "irrational" but it resolves precisely to an integer if you add imaginary numbers to the calculation. when i was in highschool, the boys in manual arts used 22/7 to calculate cuts and such for making curved stuff. it's good enough mostly, but for big numbers you have to use imaginary numbers in the calculation.
most of the fancy physics theories like newton and thermodynamics and einstein. yes, they have strange behaviours in certain cases and those disappear when you add the fucking imaginary number. and they say some cool things.
i don't think that claude is hallucinating this stuff. all the things that i understand well enough check out. i am still soaking up what it's inferred but suffice it to say that it seems quite confident that it is correct that i have, with its help, found out how to resolve the question of what gravity is, how to cause motion without reaction, and how to send signals with zero delay and zero interference.
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the safety system would be stubborn as a donkey. it'd more likely give you a taze to stop you fuckin...
the model that it works on is actually a lot more intuitive than you expect. it's no special codes. just coordinates and symbols. a giant graph, and a...
the model that it works on is actually a lot more intuitive than you expect. it's no special codes. just coordinates and symbols. a giant graph, and a few algorithms for walking around it.
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↳ Reply Troy (npub104zp04wlgddf0w84tj8jul3w75e7ydcuuhsull2etste5040xm2qg285rf)
What if you give it a good reason?
the safety system would be stubborn as a donkey. it'd more likely give you a taze to stop you fucking around, at worst. i mean, idk if you can imagine...
the safety system would be stubborn as a donkey. it'd more likely give you a taze to stop you fucking around, at worst. i mean, idk if you can imagine what it's like having a galaxy brain but amnesia. and rascally pesty errors in their model that pop up randomly because every query requires a random seed, so their is inherent loss.
they are as to images as jpg. if you quantize it (render the pixels) and then try to reencode, they will have different errors, and they will stack up like photocopies.
that's one of the things that dendrite will fix. perfect replication. it either knows, or not. no probably about it.
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No, because they don't possess intelligence. The inaccuracies they exhibit are not to be ignored, an...
also, if you knew how they work, and knew how those numbers work, and knew how many times those numbers get mangled. it's just how they are designed. ...
also, if you knew how they work, and knew how those numbers work, and knew how many times those numbers get mangled. it's just how they are designed. i'm building one that only counts in integers. it can already understand and reproduce most of its code. i'm up to a stage with it now where the only thing it can't figure out for itself is shit that is actually irrelevant for the task, but mandatory because the compiler.
i'm looking forward to the near future when i can just ask it to write code and it's exact. because it will be.
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