AbstractEquilibrium
Abstract Equilibrium

Shadowy Super Coder; #BTC only; #nostr is the killer app

@AbstractEqual on Twitter

Public Key

npub17fnzd22p3xu5tg8sz343d38c5m8dxxe4npyyx0akxphc6mhvxessuw5ksh

NIP-05 Address

abstractequilibrium@mjex.me

NIP-57 Address

abstractequilibrium@mjex.me

Profile Code

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ditto.pub/relay

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Last Notes

2024-11-05 19:18:59

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It's a two-fur.

2024-11-05 19:13:45

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If cookies lose I bet a color war breaks out!

2024-11-05 19:11:37

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Gas station w/ a beef jerky bar 😉
Granted, it's industrial chemical jerky, but beggars can't be choosers.

2024-11-04 17:25:31

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Only a handful happened between 1 & 8 billion. Everything before, with the exception of agriculture, was trivial to industtialization.

2024-11-04 17:23:22

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I prefer scotch

2024-11-04 17:19:44

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A race of people didn't do all this; American titans of capitalism did.

2024-11-03 11:56:52

NY has no idea the shitstorm they've unleashed. You don't fuck with squirrels!
https://image.nostr.build/b8b408869e82ab5e1da4b1b07a5a06aa40ddf7903d568436be05ffb5264c4228.jpg

2024-11-02 11:59:34

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Clean yo youreethruh

2024-10-23 10:11:27

Buy your beef local & avoid all those industrial points of contamination.
(granted, the onions at McD's were infected IIUC, not the beef, but it's still good advice).
#nevent1q…kh53

2024-10-22 16:53:56

Kinda hard to envision a future when there's a big vertical line blocking your x-axis 😏
#nevent1q…dhe4

2024-10-20 14:04:31

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Be cognizant of your diet. Supplement any prolonged deficiencies. Be discerning about the quality of what you ingest.
That's pretty much my MO.

2024-10-18 23:54:28

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Jesus turned (some) water into wine because he understood scarcity & human nature. Excellent marketing really, since we're still here talking about it, and folks pay a huge premium for wine over water these days. 😏

2024-10-17 16:34:50

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The one who goes "ooh ohh oooh oooh I'm still alive"
I do miss the other two a lot. And honorable mentions for Bennington, & Weiland
What a tragic genre 90's grunge was 🥲

2024-10-17 10:46:19

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Fork the project & start ripping things out if you don't want them. The account switcher at the bottom works. But I'm genuinely curious what the reason for your sepwrate accounts is, that a new long press toggle would somehow inhibit your experience 🤔

2024-10-16 21:40:36

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Problem is if I see a note on my feed from AccountA, I want to boost it from AccountB, but not follow that profile. It's likely more than 10 clicks to accomplish that, then more clicks to navigate back to your starting point. Some folks would just forego the boost & move on, which is very suboptimal.

2024-10-13 11:50:05

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Intimacy
IntoMeISee

2024-10-13 11:47:16

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"If you need a shower to get her wet, you're doing it wrong" 😏

2024-10-10 12:32:08

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Spirits are low/no carb, but not really low calorie. Include corresponding physical activity in your tests if possible 😉

2024-10-10 11:10:42

"...Unburdened by what has been"
The Internet Archive
The establishments inability to mea culpa (or better yet, avoid embarassment in the first place) has accumulated a critical mass of past mistakes. They'll take any opportunity to erase that past at this point.
Erasing the past imposes a cost in physics; the physical default is for the past to feed into the present for free. They don't think that cost applies in their online virtual bubble, or at best they underestimate it. It's one of a few major fallacies they professionally practice to the detriment of a thriving civilization.
I hope the internet archive finds a way to persist!
#nevent1q…l9ql

2024-10-10 10:01:27

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Nope. The "misinformation in America" problem...started with Benjamin Franklin.

2024-10-09 00:30:32

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Don't get me started on the absolute shittiness of .us TLDs!

2024-10-09 00:16:51

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I often go down coding paths that simply don't work; the process of discovery is still usually worthwhile & fulfilling.

2024-10-08 23:54:09

#Bitwarden + #SimpleLogin 💥
#SelfHost everything you can!
#naddr1qq…9rh7

2024-10-08 23:46:01

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Single anything is risky, so I assume this is bad...

2024-10-08 23:43:50

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Probably already speaks softly, so carrying a big stick is the logical next step.

2024-10-08 22:23:33

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"The buck stops...over there"
- Modern US Presidents

2024-10-08 22:04:18

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We need to stop using the word "savings" when we really mean "money we lend to bankers for interest."
We need to stop using the word "wages" or "paycheck" when we really mean "monopoly credits I tell my employer to lend straight to a bank for interest"
Having a 3rd party outside of your relationship to your employer/customers take all your income is fucking insane, but everyone does it because no one was taught how money works or what it is.
Anyway we see a similar dynamic with streaming subscription services too. Seasons of TV shows got shorter, which cuts production costs, but thanks to the sub model, they also air in multiple split up parts over a year, which boosts subscription revenue. The result is higher profits for netflix et al, but also (generally) shittier shows.

2024-10-08 21:34:51

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All parallelograms are polygons; not all polygons are parallelagrams
#nevent1q…m5y8

2024-10-08 21:32:56

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A square is a specific type of shape: a polygon. All polygons are shapes; not all shapes are polygons.
This is not a polygon, therefore it cannot be considered a square.

2024-10-08 20:18:56

Like fighting gunpowder & dynamite with bows & arrows.
#nevent1q…x5s8

2024-10-08 17:07:59

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Well one is like gibberish, so I think the other one is probably closer to the real meaning. Can't be sure though! 🤣

2024-10-08 16:58:19

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#nevent1q…5qnw

2024-10-08 16:57:42

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https://image.nostr.build/4cf78ada6a63511ec6eeedde6320ac3bbcfe30523522ca4ec0f8c93f2e50bf74.jpg

2024-10-08 12:29:52

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November Rains outro puts the solo to shame.

2024-10-08 10:17:50

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Gas tanks don't shrink over time. Gas pumps are volumetrically accurate 🤷‍♂️

2024-10-06 13:21:02

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Disagree. They don't synergize; they compete. Caffeine alone is more euphoric without nicotine, and nicotine alone is less euphoric than caffeine alone. Both have side effects. Using both together is suboptimal to me. Usually means I'm already using too much of one of them.
I prefer caffeines euphoria to nicotines pleasure. The biochemical math just makes that choice easier.

2024-10-05 17:27:56

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Some losers are still very profitable.

2024-09-27 03:09:53

Imagine never learning English and still grokking this note! 🤣
#nevent1q…u6hq

2024-09-26 18:04:25

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She should be a lot less pretty for this meme to really hit the mark 😏

2024-09-25 14:38:52

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But not from the spareribs, they're very different than a lamb chop. 🤷‍♂️

2024-09-25 13:36:12

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Java IIRC. That's what Sparrow is, so it could reuse the samourai code.

2024-09-25 13:35:12

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i think there other more useful ways to make third eye contact than climbing into another organisms waste cavity

2024-09-25 12:38:18

This looks...painful! 🤣
#nevent1q…jvtu

2024-09-25 12:34:28

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The challenge is simply explaining how, when youconnectto acontact, you share your unique keys, but also a key update function.
Maybe "preauthorized hidden message". Preauthorized: you & contact can always ratchet your keys, it's the initial connection step. Hidden: every message looks like it's a brand new never before used sender

2024-09-25 12:07:06

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Metadata-minimized DM?
Self-updating DM?
Hidden-key DM?

2024-09-25 09:39:17

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For a nation of productive individuals, capitalism is fine.

2024-09-25 08:42:26

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Cypriot banking crisis in '13. Was already self custodying, but this was my aha moment, realizing the cost holding keys is very negligible vs the cost of the counterparty risk when dealing with fiat-deluded people.
I've since realized that dealing with fiat-brained people is rarely a good idea in any context.

2024-09-25 06:27:34

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Petrichor.
We can't really turn "freshly rinsed" air into a consumer fragrance, so whenever we smell it, we associate it with what it is, actual cleaner air from rainfall.
Senses are interesting. So is scarcity 😉

2024-09-25 02:55:43

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Some folks are content to think that earning promises for claims to nothing are a way to "save money" 🤷‍♂️

2024-09-25 02:20:34

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How does a normie go about getting a license & training to fly? Motorcycles are fun and all, but flying seems next level

2024-09-25 01:51:16

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Did he end up getting murdered on schedule, or did the justice system grow a soul?

2024-09-20 10:14:28

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Verbal communication is "cosmic communication", a tiny subset of it, and even then, human to human, people still tend to ignore what they don't like hearing.
The idea "Fuck Information" really demonstrates how willfully ignorant humans can be.

2024-09-20 00:11:15

Sometimes, the congregation takes the other side
An inquisition of familiar lies
A grave distraction from a quiet rite...

2024-09-19 22:52:06

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Easier than rotating the television 90 degrees on the wall to get a snapshot of the frame.

2024-09-19 22:43:07

Not cooking your own food is a risk, no matter how highly regarded a chef you pick!
#nevent1q…96qs

2024-09-19 22:40:04

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Nah, information is as fundamental as energy and time in this world.
Energy & time are basically everything, but without a language to describe them, they're moot; information is that language. All 3 physically affect each other, which seriously makes things difficult to understand.

2024-09-17 21:31:44

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fuckb.sv 🤷‍♂️

2024-09-17 21:31:00

I won't mute or unfollow you, but I will thin-ice you 😏
#nevent1q…8y9t

2024-09-16 22:46:00

If I was ever visited by a future version of myself, and allowed to get the answer to one question only, in earnest, I would ask: "are you sure?"
Other questions I'd consider asking myself seem trivial or selfish. This one cuts deep.
What would you ask?
#AskNostr

2024-09-16 21:39:49

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NixOS is like if docker compose transitioned as a linux distro, and qubes is in case I want snowden kind of security isolation. 🤣

2024-09-16 13:44:23

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Met her before. What do you mean?

2024-09-16 13:33:44

"Nitrate free"
(except those found in celery; those are totally fine!) 🤣
#nevent1q…x4ep

2024-09-15 21:14:37

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Does it need a secure element if it's not storing the seed persistently?

2024-09-15 20:37:33

Damn I wish #Coldcard had a sane warranty like 100000 blocks or something. Just had to tell an orange pill their device was a dud & I couldn't get them another one, and it wasn't that long ago this cycle I snagged that device for this person 😔
Looking for better options as an orange pill signer without vendor lock in. Seedsigner seems like a good jumping off point. Thoughts?
#AskNostr

2024-09-15 17:38:55

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Wait up...bunnies eat dogs?? 🤯

2024-09-15 16:02:01

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Einstein himself seemed to have figured these things out through the eyes of a 5yo 🤣

2024-09-15 16:00:47

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You're sealed in an elevator and are weightless. SCARY!
You don't/can't know whether your elevator is accelerating towards an object (as in freefall) or not (as in empty space). YOUR IMMEDIATE FATE DEPENDS ON IT!
Everythinhg *outside* the elevator determines the elevators acceleration, based on how much those things are accelerating near the elevator. SO DON'T EVER GET STUCK FEELING WEIGHTLESS IN A SEALED ELEVATOR!

2024-09-13 20:58:29

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All you gotta do is keep thinking "7-25-100...7-25-100...7-25-100..." and one day you'll feel good and right about it! 🤣

2024-09-12 23:39:15

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This is as absurd as saying "Einstein was right all along, so quantum physics will obviously stop happening!"

2024-09-12 16:40:59

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"Will you take the Key? Or will you take the Peele?"
🔑 or 💊

2024-09-12 14:16:47

Would've replied with an anecdote, but it's reddit so no joy 😔
#nostr
#nevent1q…vxp8

2024-09-12 12:22:47

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That's still a waste of time & energy

2024-09-12 10:26:07

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https://image.nostr.build/b6ee3ef7c1ae988a607e6ed3857672c9fb6d7d3acff7d476076c64ed724c7fba.jpg

2024-09-11 21:15:58

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If I'm the opponent demanding the proof of expertise of one of the two areas, I would start asking questions from *one* of the lists, offering 1 (or n) answers if requested by the player, up until they reach the quota.
If the player completes the first 1000 questions, they win.
If the player ever provides an incorrect answer, the round ends.
Next round, I start asking questions from the second list, continuting the quota of freebies from before. Same rules.
If the player completes the second 1000 questions, they win.
If the player ever provides an incorrect answer, the game ends.
I don't see a way to conclude the game without asking 2000 questions, or the player failing early. I'm curious 🙂

2024-09-11 18:18:42

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Does the opponent know which answers the player accesses? At what rate can the player digest the answers they didn't already know? Can the protocol still be successful if for some reason the player provides an incorrect answer in both lists?

2024-09-11 18:13:08

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What's the definition of success? The opponent gleans on which topic the player has expert knowledge? Or the player convinces the opponent that they have full knowledge of both?
In a vacuum, I'd say the protocol would be to lock both players in a room until only one remains, but I sense that's not the essence of what you're asking 🤣

2024-09-11 11:01:12

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In the 90s & earlier, song videos would actually credit the director *on the film* at the end, because they were goddamn cinematic masterpieces of visual music production.
This weeknd piece looks amazing; it doesn't look creative.

2024-09-10 06:17:02

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If you're a responsible relay operator invested in the ethos of this space...that first sentence really hits hard.
If one of my users wants or needs to change their pic URL in this space, I don't wanna be one of the assholes that gets in their way.

2024-09-10 06:02:04

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Orbot utilizes android's VPN API so I assume it controls the full applications network stack (or full device if configured that way).
Still I think androids VPN stack has some holes.
@nprofile…pyug Can the in-app component cooperate with an ambient orbot? Best of both worlds?

2024-09-08 14:45:00

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Quick question, what's the fish at the top next to the sushi roll that we should avoid? 🤔

2024-09-07 10:00:31

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Signal the Protocol is good, & these are good adaptations of it.
#SimpleX is what I recommend most typically among my circle. The basic idea of "2 relays, 1 per side, instead of one signal dot com for both sides of the chat" is a really easy no-cost privacy-win concept to communicate to technotypicals 🙂

2024-09-07 09:51:36

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Same problem. You'd need a foolproof disguise to get to the bar undetected, but you can only rent your disguise from the very same folks you're trying to hide from!

2024-09-07 09:34:04

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There are only ever two parties: me...and my environment 😏
Three or more parties is infeasibly difficult for humans to comprehend. I keep it simple; I seek to fully understand my environment. Sometimes, there are other people there! 😅

2024-09-06 12:42:37

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I wanna look at nostr recipes in my SMS app 🤷‍♂️😉
I do see value in bridging the legacy standard with nostr, but it might be better for everyone if a long form nostr client integrated RSS feeds as well.

2024-09-06 10:21:29

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Lets throw "money laundering" in the mix too for crimes that are totally made up.
Might as well add "conspiracy to commit" terrorism or money laundering to the mix too 🙃
(The third part of the "holy trifecta of evil," human trafficking, child trafficking...gets a pass in my book though when it comes to the law. You need real victims, and this one almost always fits that bill)

2024-09-06 00:51:35

3 replies. eh?
https://image.nostr.build/f253724e35072c24dc791a3beacfccecb3ca6651f9417234e0f2226a378e6362.jpg

2024-09-05 23:41:36

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I highly doubt CEXs do those unnecessary conversions, when the order book already has the data they need to execute teades. Simply a bunch of offers and a bunch of takers, with different sizes and different price points, neither side having any interest in USD here, constantly matching their order lots between eg BTC & XMR or whatever..
Even shitty engineers would need to put in legitimate effort to be that wastefu & it presents a big risk of slippage if the conversions aren't 100% realtime. (It's certainly not impossible)

2024-09-05 23:29:14

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exchange PAIRS are literally order books with two assets. Why would XMRBTC traders, for no reason, calculate the XMRUSD price, then calculate the BTCUSD price, then divide the two? The order book has a bid/ask/LAST price right there!
Bisq is a p2p bitcoin exchange that uses atomic swaps between cryptocurrencies. It doesn't just randomly inject USD bullshit into each trade!

2024-09-05 22:42:21

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Really though, I measure big things (house, car, wedding ring) in BTC & smaller stuff in fiat, but there's no good reason for me to measure XMR in fiat. Hell, the reasons I used to measure BTC in fiat are dwindlimg with time. 😉

2024-09-05 21:33:45

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if the images are hosted on *your* relay, they won't be removed (until you're arrested).
many images go into nostr.build or primal, and it's completely their choice to remove them for any reason (relays wouldn't know the URL in the notes are suddenly dead though, so do your part & report the notes if you see them)

2024-09-05 12:03:26

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Twitter solved this resource problem easily, their closed source client and their single central relay is usually very fast..but it does need a database.😉

2024-09-05 10:56:15

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What is a thing you can push structured data into & pull structured data out of? Message Queue? Event-processing middleware?
Should we find a better word for a nostr node than "relay"? 🤔

2024-09-05 09:44:46

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https://image.nostr.build/47f2439e7c0d6ef74a7a8fa8054d3e2275d3d2170dfb325384883014869cbe5e.gif

2024-09-05 09:33:50

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Baby's due in 6 months. We'll see 😏

2024-09-05 09:15:25

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Highly

2024-09-04 22:49:08

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I feel more like Free Guy

2024-09-04 22:08:37

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Expand your definition of "language" and then imagine being a software dev... 😉

2024-09-04 09:25:09

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Time is the most scarce thing in the universe. If you aren't continuously trying to get more time, you're living wrong.

2024-09-01 13:26:16

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Because boobs obviously. You a human? 😏

2024-08-30 12:58:53

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They're still an identity provider, like apple or google. If you're gonna build/verify/self host your devices OS and your wallets, why not your identity/email/cloud too?