WonteetZebugs
Wonteet Zebugs

Freedom-loving Bitcoin and Nostr pleb. No bugs, no pods.

Public Key

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NIP-05 Address

wonteetzebugs@nostrplebs.com

NIP-57 Address

wonteetzebugs@getalby.com

Profile Code

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2023-10-21 22:34:04

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Yes, good point, Mullvad VPN. I would install the software and make sure to use the "kill switch" and "lockdown mode" options in the settings to make sure nothing leaves the computer without going through the VPN. I would also suggest using its multihop setting so you can choose different entry and exit servers.
Here are some privacy friendly browsers :
Brave
Librewolf
Tor Browser
Mullvad Browser

2023-10-21 16:22:39

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I haven't seen the claim that it is a backdoor. Could you please point me to where you read that?
My understanding is that he has found out about a potential way of attacking the lightning network which the current mitigation strategies that have been implemented recently don't fully cover.
I don't know how much of a problem those attacks really are.

2023-10-21 14:40:43

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I believe they are discussing that option. (However, I've personally had a spotty experience with simplex with some messages never coming through. It's still pretty new.)
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/discussions/658

2023-10-21 11:41:15

Well said!
#nevent1q…dvqa

2023-10-21 11:31:16

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Finally, fewer masks in Japan!

2023-10-21 01:57:38

https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-world-leaders
"An Open Letter To World Leaders :
December 1, 2023 is the deadline to REJECT the amendments that were adopted on May 27, 2022. "
This guy (James Roguski) is really fighting hard against the WHO changes (Amendments to the International Health Regulations that were adopted at the 75th World Health Assembly on May 27, 2022.).
Incredible patience.
http://StopTheAmendments.com
http://ExitTheWHO.org (worldwide)
http://ExitTheWHO.com (USA)
http://ThePeoplesDeclaration.com
http://ScrewTheWHO.com
http://JamesRoguski.substack.com/archive
He even invited people to reach out to him directly at this phone number : +1 310-619-3055
( I'm not doxxing him. He specifically said we could reach out to him by phone in this video : https://youtu.be/UScNk39xUTk )

2023-10-09 17:26:52

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I wish I had something to recommend.
I use proton for some things, my own mail server (with gpg) for some other things, signal for some things, simplex for others...
I haven't found the silver bullet yet, unfortunately.

2023-10-04 16:01:12

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Also, do you think you could do this :
- Have a direct http link for a particular agent?
I have people I'd like to mention this website to but who might object to having the full list of available agents visible (either for religious reasons or because they have young children).

2023-10-02 14:54:19

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It's great! I've been hoping for something like this for a long time and didn't have the technical chops to do it :-) Thank you!
Do you know if we have an equivalent, in the open-source LLM world, of the closed source LLMs that can do current searches? For example, I hear the new version of ChatGPT can do that and I see that perplexity.ai can do it as well. Perplexity also gives the links to their search sources so we can verify. But I don't want to use those tools because they are closed-source. And I only want to use bitcoin for payments. If those already exist, I'd love to be able to use them on your website.
Really hoping we can get current searches in the open source world soon.
In the meantime, I love what you've built. Been looking at the resources you mention on the home page as well.
By the way, it's a just a vague impression but I get the feeling that LLaMa 13b is more woke than the 7b and 70b.
I'll be using your website going forward for sure.

2023-09-05 18:20:52

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I doubt it! The fries are probably made with pork fat (or olive oil). They seem like a good family, so I'm not worried! ;-)

2023-09-05 14:28:40

Does anybody know of a bitcoin-accepting VoIP service provider (DID numbers + call origination and termination) ?

2023-09-01 21:33:56

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Freedom tech is what keeps me hopeful for the world/future. Maybe lead them into a discussion about that? It might help them feel better :-)

2023-08-31 09:56:46

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Oh, looking forward to listening to it!
Do you also address how non-portuguese can join? Trying to look into it online right now, I see Madeira seems to want to hold on to its Golden visa program while the central government wants to end it?

2023-08-31 09:46:46

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I couldn't get it to load yesterday and right now it's working for me. I alternate between snort.social and coracle.social because some things work better for me on one and other things work better on the other.

2023-08-31 09:39:20

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I like 5 and 6, they're more stylish. Probably like 5 the most. 3 and 4 look too much like dollar signs for my taste.

2023-08-29 23:21:29

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If you're interested in a long term relationship, you can certainly try other countries as well. An international relationship can be very intellectually stimulating if you have an interest in foreign languages/cultures.

2023-08-29 16:13:18

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I've just started playing on Nostr a few weeks ago myself, so I started with a simple option : getalby.com You download an extension for your browser and can then zap from your PC. However, getalby is custodial.
My next step is to go self-sovereign for this as well. I think there's Nostr Wallet Connect which you can use with your personal LND node.
I don't yet know if there's an equivalent for Core-lightning nodes.

2023-08-29 14:18:30

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Absolutely will not trust it. The only AI I'm interested in is the open sourced kind. The kind I can install myself on a computer I at least trust a little bit.

2023-08-29 13:47:00

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Has anybody found a cloud service provider that rents GPUs and accepts bitcoin?
I like the idea of installing it myself but I don't have the local power to use the more advanced models. So GPU rental seems the way to go.
Obviously I prefer to use Bitcoin for many reasons but one is for privacy. I could probably try using a prepaid credit card but I also know many providers refuse those. Or they may be usable only in some countries.
Lunanode is well known for accepting bitcoin but they don't offer GPU rentals.
The closest I've come is bitlaunch.io for a vultr.com instance (they do GPUs) but we can't freeze/shelve the instance between uses. Neither can we take a snapshot between uses to faciliate the next instance creation. I guess there's the option of leaving the instance on, but that would be in the thousands per month...
#AI
#opensource
#LLM

2023-08-28 15:59:08

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You're right!

2023-08-28 15:50:19

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Fascinating. I'm so out of my depth. How does this article square with the one a few months back (with one of those two authors) ? : https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
"Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI"
"While our models still hold a slight edge in terms of quality, the gap is closing astonishingly quickly. Open-source models are faster, more customizable, more private, and pound-for-pound more capable. They are doing things with $100 and 13B params that we struggle with at $10M and 540B. And they are doing so in weeks, not months. This has profound implications for us:We have no secret sauce. Our
best hope is to learn from and collaborate with what others are doing
outside Google. We should prioritize enabling 3P integrations.People will not pay for a restricted model when free, unrestricted alternatives are comparable in quality. We should consider where our value add really is.Giant models are slowing us down. In the long run, the best models are the ones which
can be iterated upon quickly. We should make small variants more than
an afterthought, now that we know what is possible in the <20B
parameter regime."

2023-08-26 14:19:13

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I think you summarized the situation very well. It's very hard to know which countries are going in the right direction.
So many criteria to consider :
- general civil rights and freedoms
- no forced jabs or medical tests
- no conscription
- no war
- homeschooling rights
- protection of parental rights
- low level of criminal violence (the State, gangs, mafia, cartels, thefts, etc)
- Bitcoin acceptance or at least non-criminalization
- no forced revealing of passwords
- low level of endemic diseases and parasites
- low level of pollution
- low level of natural disasters
Still looking...
Just for fun, I tried to ask an AI (Llama 2, 70b) what it thought were good countries for a second passport. Countries that protected their citizens' and residents' freedoms and civil rights during the covid plan-demic.
Unfortunately, the answers were ridiculous. Did you know that Canada had a "relatively open approach" during the plan-demic??? It was good to learn that because the forced quarantines, masking, jabs and vaccine passports certainly could have fooled me!! hahaha

2023-08-25 23:48:24

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If I were any kind of good financial advisor, I would have bought bitcoin when I first heard of it in 2010... (I didn't...). Biggest mistake ever!!! hahaha
Back then, I thought it was just a wonderful project but the gobermints would crush it and I gave up without even buying/mining any...
Took me many YEARS to finally jump in....
So... yeah.... ;-(

2023-08-25 23:40:39

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Yes, but myself I wouldn't hedge with the BRICS. I would hedge with different countries. But I don't mean to tell other people what to do.
For my taste :
- Brazil under Lula is too Jab-friendly,
- Russia under Putin had the Vaxx cards in many parts of the country and had conscription for a while,
- China has a social credit system and is very death jab-friendly (or mandatory covid testing-friendly),
- many in South African political parties seem to want to kill a different demographic (!) and
- India also had a very forced death jab-friendly attitude with the poor in some parts of the country (plus it pretty much woke up one day and demonetized their then-current rupee bills overnight) and unfortunately it has an incredible amount of diseases and parasites (I know many who came back from a simple trip to India and had parasites the doctors couldn't treat for years).
Obviously India has great history and great traditions, etc. I'm also fascinated with many things from China. I also love Indian and Chinese food. Brazil is also a very big country and it has many freedom-lover. So I could understand the appeal.
I'm sure you'll find great people in any of those countries but... I would hedge with other countries, personally.
I haven't been able to find anything better than where I currently am so I haven't moved but, if I were to hedge I think it would be more likely to be with Guatelama / Nicaragua / Mexico / Japan / El Salvador / Romania, or perhaps with an island passport somewhere (although I wouldn't choose Saint Kitts or Saint Vincent, I forget which one, because one of those two had a natural disaster (volcano eruption?) a while back and the gubermint told their people that only the death-jabbed could go on the rescue boats! (So they won't be getting my money).
Just my two sats :-)

2023-08-25 23:19:32

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I wouldn't advise you to do that but if you really want to do that, you might like the Nomad Capitalist channel on yewtu.be (an invidious instance for youtube)

2023-08-25 03:40:10

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I'm looking at the differences between the models (7B, 13B and 70B). This page has a video comparing the outputs : https://replicate.com/blog/all-the-llamas The 13B seems incredibly "woke" and basically asks the guy to change the question... , which, weirdly enough, the 7B and the 70B don't seem to do. Have you found the 13B model to be useful or is this video a good reflection of what it does on your computer?

2023-08-25 03:26:04

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Typo : I meant we *can't* just freeze it.

2023-08-25 03:17:37

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I'm still looking for GPU cloud providers that take bitcoin and so far vultr.com is the only I can find that takes bitcoin (though through bitpay, which is definitely not my first choice). But with vultr we have to destroy the instance between uses, we can just freeze it.

2023-08-25 02:31:12

Anybody know of a GPU cloud provider we can use with bitcoin to run open-source AI instances (like Llama 2) ?
I tried with a fairly good general purpose instance and it's slow. I now understand why people are using strong GPUs.
Lots of cloud providers but I'm not seeing anything I can pay with bitcoin. Any thoughts?

2023-08-25 00:51:59

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"Are COVID-19 Vaccines Causing the Surge in Red Meat Allergies?" : https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-08-18/are-covid-19-vaccines-causing-surge-red-meat-allergies

2023-08-24 15:22:15

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Maybe this on linux?
"Use oathtool Linux command line for 2 step verification (2FA)" https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/use-oathtool-linux-command-line-for-2-step-verification-2fa/

2023-08-24 13:16:09

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Covid authoritarian.

2023-08-24 12:59:38

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From memory, when they started : they were closed source for a while and they also even used a web blockchain explorer for their app without telling us (not exactly privacy friendly). Someone else had to figure it out. I remember that Greg Maxwell said on reddit at the time that he wouldn't use that project. So I don't use it.
I also don't want to use Wasabi since they use a chain surveillance company.
So it's down to joinmarket for coinjoins.
But onchain tx fees being what they are, it's tempting to play around with lightning, liquid, payjoin, etc, I'm also bullish on e-cash token applications like minibits, cashu, etc. I think it may help for privacy going forward.

2023-08-23 05:49:12

#nevent1q…r926

2023-08-22 13:59:52

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Hmmm, come to think of it, it's true that the formatting is not always perfect when coming from Word files, etc. I didn't even know Onlyoffice existed.
Looking at their github, I don't see a gpg public key file and a checksum file which I usually prefer to have before putting anything on my computer. Apt-cache on xubuntu doesn't seem to show that it's part of the repositories.
I'll try to find the verification files somewhere. If you know where I can find them, please let me know.

2023-08-22 13:46:21

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Oh? I've been using that suite exclusively for as long as I can remember. Although admittedly my needs are simple. The text editor, the spreadsheet and the presentation applications do everything I need them to do. What do you feel are the missing features?

2023-08-22 13:30:38

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@npub1h50…rqev
@npub1xts…kk5s
In the past, I tried twice to create twitter accounts. Both times, I got my account blocked by twitter as soon as I tried to follow you (Will), Matt Odell @npub1qny…95gx and Francis Pouliot. To unblock, I would have had to give them my phone number. That wasn't going to happen so I never had an account.
I then kept on following people whose opinions I cared about using an rss feed reader with different nitter instances (that read twitter for us). Those have now been blocked as far as I know.
So, from personal experience, it seems like Nostr just has to exist. Twitter and all the other centralized services will do the Nostr promotion for us. It just takes time. We're like what, 14 years in for Bitcoin? And many bitcoin-accepting merchant lists are still thin, even though it is really constantly getting easier to live on a Bitcoin standard in our daily lives. It just takes times. It's growing well.
Furthermore, people who are still ok with a centralized system at this point, ... well, to be frank, I don't what to know their opinions on other topics. My life is already pretty full. So I'm more than happy to have them stay over there. It's the Great Bifurcation 😀

2023-08-21 17:10:19

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If only more FBI people could be like Ted Gunderson.

2023-08-21 16:39:43

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Would love to be able to use Markdown here.

2023-08-21 16:32:29

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I often feel such nostalgia for the time (maybe 25 years ago?) when I believed the FBI was actually a force for good.

2023-08-21 16:09:41

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Careful with Namecheap, Marty. They seem to believe that domain name registrars should be able to censor without even waiting for court orders :
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/eff-icanns-registrars-dont-pick-censors-pen

2023-08-20 17:41:00

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I appreciate your stance on bitcoin and all the work you've done against jab mandates.
However, if you want to help people with the cost of living, especially housing :
1. end the fed,
2. allow the free market to determine the price of money (interest rates) and
3. relax zoning/building rules. Let people choose how they use their land. Allow people to live how they choose to (for example: secondary dwellings on land) and allow people to build their own homes, of various sizes, with different materials, etc.
There's a lot of good technology out there, lots of good solutions for cheaper housing. **Regulation is the problem**.
Artificially changing the price of money is not the answer.

2023-08-19 16:30:29

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Hadn't even heard of that. Had to read the comments here to learn what it was about... I guess the Parasites' propaganda just isn't what it used to be!

2023-08-18 20:31:05

'Rich Men North of Richmond' Artist Turns Down $8 Million From Stunned Music Execs, Says "Nothing Special About Me" : https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rich-men-north-richmond-artist-turns-down-8-million-stunned-music-execs-says-nothing
"People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers. I don't want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don't want to play stadium shows, I don't want to be in the spotlight. I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression. These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung. No editing, no agent, no bullshit. Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place."

2023-08-18 20:07:24

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Also : for now, I'm using it all through the getalby extension. I'll ideally move away from that in the future to be more nostr sovereign but for now I appreciate the ease of use tremendously.

2023-08-18 20:04:41

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First, I switched to iris.to but didn't like it how it runs. Then tried snort.social. I like it but I'm not sure if they're better on the censoring issue. I'll try coracle.social to see. If all else fails, I'll use Lume or Gossip on the desktop.

2023-08-18 00:58:03

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You're absolutely right. I'll now stop using Primal since it censors. Posting this from another client. Nostr is great!