BenGWeeks
₿en Weeks ⚡

https://www.robotechy.com

Dev | @Damus Contributor | @LightningPiggy | Zapp.ie | Help kids run @RobotechyShop (3D printing shop)

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ben@bengweeks.github.io

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superstarfish2@primal.net

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2025-03-30 17:29:14

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👀

2025-03-30 15:37:32

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I think it was Joan who also said “I wrote to know what I think”, which I think is also very true (including code).

2025-03-28 10:24:54

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Not seen it - but not great by all accounts?!

2025-03-26 22:21:40

Finally got round to watching Atlas Shrugged. I know, I’m a pleb, but I tried to read the book but I’m not a fan of long fiction - prefer to just to get to the point :-) Ideas are very applicable to the current west though. But what nuance and I missing from the books?
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2025-03-21 14:50:56

Testing fit data sharing formats. FYI @npub1qvu…m3rx
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2025-03-05 13:20:47

GM x Picked this up from @npub17cy…4ml3 https://i.nostr.build/lyr5tEcsYVNQslPb.jpg

2025-03-04 20:41:00

Still some orange gaps. @npub17cy…4ml3 #sansalvador #bitcoin https://i.nostr.build/STxy2DFPE0crkoiW.jpg

2025-02-22 00:12:01

Toucan. Uvita, Costa Rica. February 2025. @npub14f2…v7lu #Uvita https://i.nostr.build/QWeSK4FdJN6FfJY6.jpg

2025-01-22 12:22:03

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What tool(s) are you using for this?

2025-01-14 17:16:31

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Reminded me. You were looking into this stuff @npub1cn6…wt8a ?

2025-01-14 13:56:37

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Having a look thanks. Minimum Gen?

2025-01-14 13:33:01

Best dev laptop these days? Lenovo X1 Carbon with Ubuntu KDE?

2025-01-14 13:01:59

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Awesome thank you.

2025-01-14 13:00:24

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Ouch.

2025-01-14 12:59:34

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Public repo?

2025-01-14 12:53:49

What’s the latest with MLS @npub1zuu…c2uc ?

2025-01-12 20:27:01

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Spotted :-)

2025-01-12 19:55:25

Autosport International Show 2025, Birmingham NEC, UK.
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2025-01-11 13:40:01

Planning a trip to Costa Rica (@npub14f2…v7lu) & El Salvador in Feb/March. Any other countries people would recommend whilst I’m there. No direct flights back from El Salvador so considering stopping in at Jamaica / Columbia / Brazil. Any recommendations? Do I know any Bitcoiners in the region?! :-)

2025-01-08 19:09:01

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What do you mean? Haven’t you heard - all is fine and dandy ;-)

2025-01-07 14:50:56

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https://m.primal.net/NWQs.png
Can you check the link?

2025-01-05 19:40:19

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I have similar hesitation about ecash (maybe could be convinced otherwise, although I do like offline / liquidity issues it sounds like it solves).
We’re now using zapp.ie internally for our incentive system. We use LNbits the the “Evil Corp Bucks” :-) Essential corps just need an internal accounting system.
https://github.com/BenGWeeks/Zapp.ie

2025-01-03 18:29:17

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🤦🏻‍♂️

2025-01-02 10:50:37

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Very cool. Once worked on some concepts for "GitDam" that had ZapRaisers for Feature development (and dark mode) and perhaps could go nicely into what you've built. https://m.primal.net/NOod.png

2025-01-02 09:59:20

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Cool cake :-)

2025-01-02 09:58:13

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😝

2025-01-01 18:11:05

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Cool. What client do you see zaps sent?

2025-01-01 17:08:21

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Wasn’t a great user flow though, and quirky to setup.

2025-01-01 16:09:19

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Have you watched the Colin Furze series on building his bunker? Looked into it myself, but pretty costly. Even looked into robotics to digging out. Could re-use technology for first settlers on Mars I recon. Should also look into aquaponics for a source of fresh fruit and protein in your bunker for extensive stays :-)

2025-01-01 15:59:48

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Happy New Year.

2025-01-01 15:55:35

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Happy New Year Elsat!

2025-01-01 15:52:19

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Could presumably get naturally occurring directed breeding such as a planet that looses its atmosphere over time for example.

2025-01-01 15:50:30

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Just finished Entangled Life which touches on this (not specifically directed). Seems organisms are pretty harder. If you consider selective breeding life could get pretty darn hardy.

2025-01-01 15:45:24

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One day we will value our privacy more.

2025-01-01 15:44:08

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👀

2025-01-01 15:40:38

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Thanks, read and switched off.

2025-01-01 13:55:22

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LDK seems a logical choice. But I haven’t tried to work with that yet.

2025-01-01 13:22:24

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Inbuilt wallet / Nostr market place @npub1xts…kk5s ?! :-)

2024-12-31 23:12:29

Boldog új évet

2024-12-31 22:42:26

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Fuck the Fucking Fuckers

2024-12-31 22:37:11

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2025 makes a new page :-)

2024-12-31 20:45:26

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🤘

2024-12-31 20:28:59

In 2025: Vote harder … or realise every £/$/€ you hold is a vote to keep the system that hates you going.

2024-12-29 20:58:39

Any audiobook recommendations? Big road-trip coming up! #note1gqc…kxpy

2024-12-29 20:57:44

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52668915
The book was read by the author which I always prefer.
The book fundamentally asks whether nature is fundamentally adversarial or actually collaborative. Fungi and lichen being symbiotic.
An interesting questions presents: To what benefit does a fungi produce psilocybin? For humans to act in a more collaborative way with nature? Or just by fluke to produce a chemical that produces such a profound impact on its consumption.
Finishes with a nice story that involves the apple tree at Cambridge Botanical Gardens, that is a cutting of a tree from Isaac Newtons family estate. That makes it a clone. He made cider from the tree, and rather than using yeast from a packet, brewed it with the natural yeast that exists on the apples. This doesn’t always go well as it can go rotten if the wrong bacteria takes hold.

2024-12-28 11:28:05

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Interesting. But don’t you think this can be explained by an inflationary money supply?

2024-12-28 10:26:46

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Stamping words into steel?!

2024-12-28 10:24:08

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Agreed.

2024-12-24 17:24:56

What faces would you want to see on this clock? #note1vng…2ugu

2024-12-23 19:22:01

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Just connected as a screen to my PC and put a web browser on it for now.

2024-12-23 18:21:03

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He must have gone to an awful lot of effort for this video :-)

2024-12-23 17:52:57

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https://m.primal.net/NEVf.mov

2024-12-23 17:14:22

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I just built mine with a chassis that stacks with my hifi stuff (ATX). Has a 3060 in there for local AI.

2024-12-23 17:11:28

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Or @npub1y2q…affq / @npub10ef…aeh3 visualisation.

2024-12-23 17:10:46

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Could also do some pretty cool thinking linking it up to flash when you get zapped and alike.

2024-12-23 17:09:40

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https://www.waveshare.com/5inch-1080x1080-lcd.htm

2024-12-23 17:08:52

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*Waveshare - my bad before.

2024-12-23 17:08:22

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Was thinking different variations like https://bits.monospace.live/ or the works of Kitchen Mishap http://kitchenmishap.art/ or a regular clock face.

2024-12-23 17:02:45

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*Waveshare

2024-12-23 17:01:42

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It a round Wavelink screen that you can power from a Raspberry Pi. Could put some cool block visualisations on there I think.

2024-12-23 16:56:04

Lots of talk recently about BlockClock and BTClock and got me thinking that there could be quite a cool new design implemented that’s a little different. Powered by a Raspberry Pi.
#note1a70…0ngs

2024-12-23 16:48:14

Hardware for next project just arrived!
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2024-12-20 09:16:03

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The hair is the least of my concerns ;-)

2024-12-20 00:12:41

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Put us on the waiting list :-)

2024-12-19 20:00:08

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Would be a pretty cool feed for a Linux home media center :-)

2024-12-19 19:59:06

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Do you have (remote) courses suitable for 9 year olds? :-)

2024-12-19 19:58:27

How does an anarchic society deal with situations like this?
https://x.com/bgatesisapyscho/status/1869723532202295394

2024-12-11 17:11:15

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Welcome aboard :-) 💜🧡

2024-12-09 13:09:20

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In all honesty, from what I’ve read (news articles, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, etc.) I actually think the less involvement with the IMF the better.

2024-12-09 13:00:57

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Congrats :-)

2024-12-09 12:59:43

BREAKING: El Salvador purchases $1.3 billion of Bitcoin
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2024-12-09 11:29:53

Built this little beauty for myself today.
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2024-12-06 19:01:58

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Nice work

2024-12-06 13:24:22

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You don’t think if you go to buy a house with Bitcoin they will run chain analysis on the utxo’s and reject coins that have been mixed? I think they would in the UK at least ;-)

2024-12-06 13:04:27

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I could see a future where institutions won’t accept certain transaction histories. That is a problem that needs to be addressed if Bitcoin is to become a universal medium of exchange. Bitcoin isn’t fungible enough atm imho.

2024-12-06 10:57:27

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“Exciting” because you get eaten?! :-)

2024-12-06 10:56:07

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Who moi?!

2024-12-05 10:07:08

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@npub1c87…8avm is truly decentralised

2024-12-04 22:57:17

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Likewise :)

2024-12-04 22:27:32

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Merry Xmas to me :-) https://i.nostr.build/L7Tfkwow1QhyPyFB.jpg

2024-12-04 22:18:51

Building a bit if a media (Jellyfin) / node (Lightning) / AI beast. Best OS? I’m think Ubuntu / Kubuntu / KDE Plasma rather than say Start9. Linux gurus?

2024-11-27 13:36:04

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If all the @npub1c87…8avm ‘s united they would be a force to be behold :-P

2024-11-24 22:37:26

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You Sir have a good eye :-)

2024-11-24 21:14:11

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By “one way to steer it” I presume you mean defund it by not using their money?
“Compulsory taxation means everywhere the persistent probability of a war made by the ambitions or passions of politicians”

2024-11-24 21:07:37

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I was with you on @npub14mc…frlx ‘s podcast until you said join the conservative party ;-) I feel you need to justify that somewhat more. From what I have read of Herbert that you spoke of, it seems even the Conservatives are still a long way from his writings (whom I presume you concur with).

2024-11-24 21:03:45

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- Improved search (incl. user search)
- Improved performance
- Return feed from all relays
- Resolve disappearing images after upload
- Notifications
- Nostr Marketplace

2024-11-24 20:56:37

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Honest feedback and lifting the lid is fine. Proposing solutions (even if somewhat radical and contrarian) is even better.

2024-11-24 20:52:38

nostr:npub1z74dj8y9xgq3lmz3eyvarzmwxwllhuzewz2exwz5j57tf6jssmss9pd4yxlIng
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2024-11-24 20:49:18

From a gallery in Cambridge by Mr Brainwash. Seems rather fitting. https://i.nostr.build/EUgvS3PUl5lsPKeQ.jpg

2024-11-24 20:46:40

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You use Hugging Face to try them out?

2024-11-24 20:42:03

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Just shows how far government is away from the wishes of the people.
Better to force by-elections and get them out 1-by-1?
Of course, this is playing the voting game [with the illusion of choice], assuming that true change can be made through a system that seems to be defunct.

2024-11-24 18:31:16

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Just took delivery of an Asus GeForce 12GB 3060. Not sure if I’ll swap it with my daughters 3070 yet :-)

2024-11-24 18:20:48

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What models are you running? Am building my own machine running running local LLMs too (AMD/nVidia based).

2024-11-24 17:57:09

Call a General Election (UK)
1.2 million signatures and climbing around 1,000 every 20-30 seconds. But … do we have a viable alternative? @npub1z74…d4yx @npub13k8…uf2d @npub1wl3…znlx
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143

2024-11-23 19:12:37

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I could see that playing out in our populist times. He couldn’t do worse than those in power now.

2024-11-19 13:11:03

I hear it’s your birthday @npub1sg6…f63m . Happy Birthday!

2024-11-17 22:00:45

https://i.nostr.build/LbgsbAE6gmRkwHJ9.jpg

2024-11-16 23:07:05

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Nice truck :-)

2024-11-15 17:35:36

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Bit Clock - Bitock :-)

2024-11-15 00:36:48

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Ah, we met briefly in Madeira :-) Thought about coming up with a more unique design? Could be fun to 3D model a housing if you want some help :-)