jcorgan
Johnathan Corgan

Currently a machine learning/AI and DSP engineer and consultant by profession, I fly small airplanes for fun, and was previously a submarine nuclear engineer and volunteer EMT. Spent some time as a bitcoin core developer way back in the day. 35 countries. EN/ES ☸️

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2024-11-06 14:42:09

🎶 Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss 🎶

2024-11-05 20:21:16

When presented with a choice between cancer of the left lung or cancer of the right lung, choose health instead.

2024-10-18 20:50:00

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Many engineers do this with other endeavors, such as politics and law. Their biggest sin is assuming humans are a "system" to be "optimized", using force if necessary.

2024-10-10 01:22:45

Unless it fell out of the sky into your open hands, every good you value in life is the result of the efforts of some other person or group of persons collaborating to produce it from where it did not exist before, and has been offered to you in trade for some other thing of value.
It is this way that people can come together, voluntarily, to produce abundance greater than the sum of their individual abilities.
To claim you are *entitled* to the product of the labor of anyone else is to claim he or she is your slave, and you must act with deception or force to take what is not offered to you.
The difference between wealth and poverty in a society largely depends on the willingness of people to respect these boundaries, to learn how to collaborate and build, and to peacefully go separate ways when this is not possible.

2024-09-26 01:38:17

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o.O?

2024-09-25 02:44:18

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I spend large amounts of time, either for professional reasons or personal interest, reading non-fiction. But my reading "for fun" is typically science fiction short stories, usually finishing in one go.

2024-09-24 19:33:12

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Here in the US there are several available now that do not require a prescription. I think this is the norm in the EU and UK.

2024-09-24 16:43:47

I am not diabetic nor do I have any out-of-normal blood chemistry (no high cholesterol, etc.), and exercise frequently.
But I *am* overweight, and not by a little.
A few weeks ago I started a strict ketogenic diet. In support of this, I started using a continuous glucose monitor that provides a reading every 15 minutes.
This is a complete game changer!
The ability to see how food, sleep, stress, alcohol, and workouts all affect blood sugar levels makes fine tuning one's diet and daily activities very easy.
It's not just for diabetics (except in the eyes of health insurers, who don't cover it otherwise.)

2024-09-24 01:13:13

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I did enjoy the "This day in WW2" feed that tweeted headlines and daily dispatches from the front.

2024-09-23 01:44:17

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I left the military (Navy) decades ago, but still occasionally have dreams that I'm back in (but at my present age) and about to go out to sea on my ship and I don't have any uniforms, supplies, or anything else I'm supposed to have. 😆

2024-09-22 01:44:17

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I got a hundred problems, bitcoin ain't one of them 😏

2024-09-20 02:08:20

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Business that facilitate the creation and operation of protocols and software to allow individuals and businesses to do things peer-to-peer with only the Bitcoin blockchain as the final arbiter.
Bisq is an OG example of this.
Lightning was a huge step forward.
Nostr as a base layer for distributed application state via notes and relays took this further.
It would be nice to see bitcoin developing its own peer-to-peer complex transaction models that might be facilitated by a third party arbiter or oracle, instead of enmeshing itself more deeply with a flawed "tradfi" system.

2024-09-16 23:19:42

Ketosis feels like a God mode life hack. I forgot how nice this is, especially during workouts.

2024-09-16 19:59:54

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Read an article the other day that mentioned people who have medical implants as part of a clinical trial, then the company doing the trial goes bankrupt, and they are left with useless hardware. Not too different.

2024-09-16 19:56:43

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I wish Per was over here in Nostrland, he usually has insightful things to say.

2024-09-09 14:14:54

GM ☕

2024-09-09 02:37:30

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Going outside and practicing "present moment" meditation is very powerful.
It's quite simple--if you notice yourself thinking about anything that is not currently in sight or hearing, gently bring your focus back to anything that is.

2024-09-07 13:54:12

GM ☕
Nothing like the feeling of a morning coffee, a fresh editor window, and a new idea.

2024-09-07 13:08:16

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The Culture books have great stories but were ultimately disappointing to me; the author makes the classic "post-scarcity" mistake of assuming infinite abundance of goods and services without ever actually explaining how they come to be. "Benevolent AIs run everything" is a cop out.

2024-09-03 16:14:27

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Follow people you are interested in, reply to their notes, occasionally post your own original stuff--your reach is what you make it, not what the "algorithm" does.

2024-09-03 13:51:12

GM ☕ May your notes be relayed in peace.

2024-08-31 20:52:22

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6M: Am I a joke to you?

2024-08-31 18:40:23

Recent Nostr'ing events and seeing the fresh accounts here has made me less grumpy about all the political simping and general noise from the US election season.
The Nostr community is rocking the early bitcoin vibes I miss from those days!

2024-08-28 02:22:37

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Make the content you "miss" on Twitter.

2024-08-28 02:13:52

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Welcome home my friend. It has been a long time.

2024-08-15 13:57:45

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Are these "wallets" in the room with you right now?

2024-07-19 13:02:03

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This note is peak Nostr.

2024-07-11 01:24:09

If whether a former or a current US president attends a bitcoin conference has any impact on bitcoin or the "community" around it, we have strayed far, far away from the path my friends.

2024-07-09 01:56:13

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But when you do use them to talk to other hams, all you talk about is ham radio 🤣

2024-07-06 01:36:05

Pro tip: When the comet arrives, be the mammal, not the dinosaur.

2024-06-13 18:30:30

https://image.nostr.build/187178712c47aaf29bc05193eeed5d5496d175d662b86b7014f4564ed93d082b.jpg

2024-06-13 17:28:35

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https://asshole.fyi/

2024-06-12 23:30:25

Voting is deliberate consent to the outcome, explicitly granting your sanction to the status quo and the system of threats and force against you and others that back it up.
It is difficult to argue against the injustices stemming from the people ruling over you when you have participated in and perpetuated the very thing that gives them oxygen.

2024-06-12 14:54:52

GM ☕
Why Bitcoin works:
The laws of physics and mathematics don't care one whit about the laws of kings, politicians, or bureaucrats.

2024-06-11 18:51:25

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"How can my Linux server and bitcoind compete against the Federal Reserve?"

2024-06-11 13:31:04

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Same here--it's all WD Red Pro drives.

2024-06-11 13:27:47

GM ☕
Bitcoin is a doocracy--only those who collaborate and contribute shape its future. Anyone else can only vote with their feet.

2024-06-05 14:22:36

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Not a book, but Veritasium has a good youtube video on the subject. (Though I hesitate to recommend him now as he's gotten a bit cringe lately.)

2024-06-05 12:52:45

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Smokin' those brakes is always fun...

2024-06-04 15:32:27

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"chancellor on the brink of a second bailout"

2024-06-04 14:38:44

Is the #nos2x extension for Firefox browser legit? I use it on Chrome browser but the Firefox one looks like a different developer and extension with the same name.

2024-05-22 20:14:12

If the success of Bitcoin and its ecosystem is still dependent on or even just affected by which politician or bureaucrat is in office, cypherpunks must write more code.

2024-05-14 13:12:55

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"These sludge of kleptocratic gerontocracy" added to my vocab 😂

2024-05-12 15:35:04

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I just miss running applications on my computer instead of running a browser that runs a framework that runs the front end of an application that perceptibly lags because it has to consult a backend run elsewhere by a company that requires an account and sells your data.

2024-05-05 21:36:21

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I'm often asked what the first step out of this insanity is, and that is to stop pretending politicians are leaders and representatives instead of rulers and thugs.
Denying them this oxygen of legitimacy, even if only in your own mind, clears the way for everything else.

2024-04-21 19:42:25

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I don't think most consider themselves intellectuals, rather, they just consider us livestock for harvest.

2024-04-10 03:09:33

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This one's got ZFS raid and dual 10Gbe ports. Snappy.

2024-04-10 01:59:55

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That's all usable. It began life as 160T before raid and cache/log drives 😏

2024-04-09 22:18:38

Ah, that new NAS smell...
https://m.primal.net/HtAy.png

2024-04-08 18:58:08

Old school
https://m.primal.net/HsfG.png

2024-04-08 14:33:24

Anyone else getting certificate errors with the orangepill.dev relay?
npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft

2024-04-04 02:16:18

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yogurt in the style of middle eastern doogh is a daily staple

2024-03-31 16:56:21

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It's really a matter of how much BTC you entrust to it vs. the convenience it brings. Right now, for me, that's not much, but it is a very slick product and has an UX suited or non-technical people. I expect that will change in the future.

2024-03-20 19:35:27

Coldcard™ Q and BitKey -- it's like having an entire Swiss bank in your pocket!
https://m.primal.net/HmpE.png

2024-03-14 14:25:34

CRAIG WRIGHT IS A FRAUD

2024-02-08 16:36:26

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"be nice but carry a big stick" is a great philosophy in life

2024-01-04 14:11:45

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This is a weird take. Aside from being a sweeping statement generalizing over many individuals with different motivations to regarding the evolution of bitcoin, it is attempting to inject class warfare style argumentation over simple facts and evidence.

2023-12-16 21:09:25

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💯

2023-12-13 13:34:14

GM ☕ Maybe the GM posts should be treated like warrant canaries, when you don't see them from someone you wonder if they are OK 😄

2023-12-08 05:30:29

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Luke is Luke. We disagree on a vast array of things. However, his knowledge of, experience with, and contributions to the Bitcoin software ecosystem are equally vast, and in the end, that's all that matters.

2023-12-04 21:25:56

Poor choices make good stories.

2023-12-02 14:22:36

GM ☕ Another day in the stream

2023-11-27 18:42:11

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Shinobi is awesome, wish he was on here

2023-11-23 04:11:21

Ate some asphalt today on my bike ride. Somebody dumped some mattresses and a couch on the side of the highway, and instead of going around them by going on the highway, I thought I could squeeze between them and the curb. It didn't work out.
Was able to get back up after a bit only a little worse for the wear and finish 25 miles, but not looking forward to getting out of bed in the morning 😏

2023-11-22 17:02:24

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Very much agree. I've only been active a few weeks, but it feels very much like bootstrapping the Bitcoin community circa 2012. Eventually you talk about something else. 😏

2023-11-22 16:40:04

I'm finding the #Ccoracle #nostr client quite nice, with the exception of a few freeze-up bugs. I think my favorite feature so far is the ability to filter based on WoT score. Just setting it a notch or two above the minimum cuts out a huge amount of BS.
Don't know if this is a common feature with other clients, as I've only used it and Damus, but the concept is great.

2023-11-20 02:38:03

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There are no liberty minded politicians. Their entire purpose for existence is to impose their will upon people who would otherwise choose their own way.
If it weren't for the police, politicians would just be revolting people with terrible ideas you could ignore.

2023-11-20 02:29:53

Unpopular opinion: Bitcoin does not need politicians, state entities, or legal tender mechanisms to succeed.
It only needs for them to get out of the way.

2023-09-22 21:34:20

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There is a subtle but crucial difference between self-sufficiency and self-responsibility.
Being responsible for one’s own happiness, well-being, and material confort, however you define it, does *not* imply that you must be some “rugged individualist” who provides everything for themselves, yet that is a stereotype that is often invoked when discussing voluntaryism.
You of course can, if you want, but more practical is developing strong, positive, voluntary relationships with your family, neighbors, and chosen others so you can coordinate and collaborate to produce more abundance than you could alone.
You’re still responsible for your own way in life, but you can usually do better by specialization and division of labor than you can on your own.

2023-09-20 15:09:23

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Your not the first to feel this way 😏

2023-09-13 21:25:04

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I haven’t followed it closely but apparently Tor folks recently implemented a change that prevents the DoS attack the network has been under.