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2026-08-21 01:56:53 UTC

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That's super smart! How long does it take to rehydrate ?

2026-08-21 01:55:47 UTC

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Infrared. Ultrasonic has wider beam, temp sensitive and I am not sure how it reflects with all the bubblies. Also this sensor is wired underneath the lid so expect a lot of condensation with CO2 buildup. Other than the IR chip, everything else is coated with clear nail polish to prevent condensation damage. But for the long run need a proper clear cover for it

2026-08-21 01:52:27 UTC

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At the yeast phase, doubling consistently & hitting peak means ready for use. Triple is better. Often people use rubber bands to track. Great that the 24-hour cycle works, mine peaks and falls in just 8 hours without temp control! At the peak rise, wild yeast reaches max activity. When it falls, food is gone and lactic acid bacteria keep building up acidity. If starving for too long after falling, it can weaken the yeast. I try to feed at that transition when the drop happens and yeast is most active.
I started with 1:1:1 but now I use a 1:3:3 ratio for a more yeast-dominant starter, and later will split some off to make low-hydration stiff starters.

2026-08-19 05:20:55 UTC

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Thank you 🧡

2026-08-13 07:46:30 UTC

The Core vs. Knots dispute from OP_RETURN policy change (Core v30's - 2025) to BIP-110's failed consensus proposal days ago consumed an enormous amount of community attention and goodwill over what started as a relay policy disagreement and escalated into a fight over who sets those rules.
Both sides saw themselves as defending Bitcoin's infrastructure, one against data bloat and node costs, the other against censorship and precedent-setting restrictions. These are important concerns and the people who spent a year on them weren't being petty or frivolous.
For the people watching from outside, they witnessed the robustness of Bitcoin's consensus in real time. BIP-110 needed 55% miner support to lock in early, but it only got 2.5%.
Despite it all, I can't help but think that the energy spent on this governance fight with a two-block splinter chain and heated debates came at the cost of attention that would have otherwise gone into building the financial ecosystems Bitcoin was designed to enable.
I doubt we have even tapped into 1% of Taproot's potential for building financial infrastructure that can empower people, enable global trade, and benefit billions worldwide. It's easy to get caught up fighting but we should never lose sight of what matters.
Keep building. We have so much work ahead of us.

2026-08-06 16:11:59 UTC

After a failed sourdough starter attempt, building a kit to measure temperature + track its rise, with a bot to ping me when its time to feed (when it peaks). I’ve got ESP32 + ToF distance + temp/humidity + Telegram bot. Also testing buzz.xyz with goose harness + anthropic API to build the web dashboard. Buzz is fun. All in about $10 (hardware + api). My serendipitous kinda projects.
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A starter is ready when it reliably doubles within a predictable window. But it goes through a phase. The first few days, bacteria rules and it stinks so bad. Then it has its moment of silence; you'll think it died. Finally the wild yeast wakes up and the smell shifts from sour to bready. Temperature, humidity, how much you feed all makes a diff.
Testing this, I was quite excited when it started pinging me but I was out all day and v1 fermented so hard it overflowed and coated the sensor. v2 sensor incoming with lessons learnt!

2026-08-01 07:34:40 UTC

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Congratulations Walker, big big hugs for Carla. This sweet little girl is gonna grow up knowing what a strong and loving momma she's got ♥️ what a journey!

2026-07-29 09:41:45 UTC

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It's beautiful. Happy anniversary, Derek ♥️ Big hugs for Katie. Here’s to a lifetime journey of love, joy, peace and adventures!

2026-07-28 09:21:52 UTC

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dang those dumbbells are big. how heavy are those? i like the outdoor punching bag against bamboo fence, banana and coconut trees and mountain view. very zen

2026-07-24 07:44:06 UTC

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Its absolutely beautiful

2026-07-24 07:18:01 UTC

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Love this ♥️

2026-07-24 07:15:57 UTC

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Agreed! And dang that's awesome! I Mine was Slash/Myles Kennedy. Told them I will take them to a GnR concert when they are older. They are learning November Rain now.

2026-07-24 07:09:20 UTC

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this is super cute, love it! I think the heavy woodwork projects I learnt the most was building kitchen cabinet doors and an island. biggest learning is to not cut corners! any mistake early on will come back esp when alignment is concerned. I still haven't gotten that wood cutter yet, i just get them pre-cut. How's your workshop coming along?

2026-07-24 07:03:45 UTC

This girl needed some strength training alongside pilates and upgraded from pink dumbbells to pink kettlebells and whoa the burn. So good.
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2026-07-24 07:00:28 UTC

My young twin nephews are at an age where they enjoy chess (and winning) and jamming to Sweet Child of Mine and Come as You Are, Smells Like Teen Spirit. Both are also grade 8 pianists. Fortunately, me attending Slash's concert in the past has made me a cool aunt now (though they have updated my playlist =) ). Told them I'll take them for their first Rock concert when they're older. My sister has done a fantastic job with them. Not easy homeschooling, so many sacrifices involved, but they have a fairly balanced life and turning out to be incredible humans ♥️
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2026-07-24 06:53:24 UTC

Troubled by the state of the world. By what is happening to Iran. The deepening military ties between US and Israel - does this mean US commits genocide in Palestine if the Senate passes it? By the many global, transparent and public corruptions. By the downward economic trend. By super El Niño (I added a huge water tank for my mom's place 2 weeks back, just in case).
But with all things bad, there will also be healing. That's just the way of the world. And I look forward to that day.

2026-07-24 06:52:01 UTC

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So Malaysia decided to kick Balaji out, but now the US congress (a few pro Israel senates) is after Malaysia. Malaysia has not recognised Israel since 1966 and big proponents of Palestine nationwide. And as much as this seems like an Israel-Palestine thing, the real issue is that Malaysia alongside Indonesia and Singapore are caretakers of the Straits of Malacca that sees 40% of global import export through. And despite playing the neutral card, it has always been an attraction to both giants US and China, more so now.

2026-07-20 04:07:41 UTC

I love the idea of the libertarian movement. But like all ideologies when taken to an extreme, it tends to destroy more than it liberates. Network School by Balaji is built on the network state idea. On the surface it looks like bringing smart people in through startup cities that benefit the host country. But underneath, the real goal is to gather a group of ideologically aligned people, buy up land, and eventually create their own sovereign country and government.
Where it gets dirty is they don't do this in their own countries. They go to other countries and attempt to, for lack of a better word, colonise.
Malaysia is one of the prominent real-world experiments in the network state movement, sold as a “startup city”. At the present moment, Balaji is arrogantly threatening to pull out his $20M investment if he doesn't get what he wants, not realising that Malaysia is fairly rich and an established country. The controversy has sparked significant public backlash and Malaysians are more than happy to see him go. Nobody wants foreigners colonising their land.
We see the same playbook in Greenland where the same investors backing network states push "freedom cities" only to pave the way for Trump to want to own it. Plenty of others in this category like Honduras and Praxis.
At the end of the day, any ideology taken to the extreme backfires. Same goes for democracy and communism. What bums me out is that because these new age colonisers tie themselves to the libertarian movement, Bitcoin's reputation takes a hit too.

2026-07-15 22:04:58 UTC

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a good find! Every girl needs her little red dress

2026-07-15 21:45:49 UTC

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love it! I'd totally wear that too, so cute!

2026-07-15 21:39:40 UTC

Looks like it's gonna be an Israel-Palestine matchup for the World Cup finals!

2026-07-13 02:43:16 UTC

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GPS is just a passive listener. But its BFFs, the cell tower, satellite uplinks (for dead zones), and your modem over LTE, Wi-Fi, or LoRa, are all absolute snitches.

2026-07-12 05:15:48 UTC

Bitcoin folks, what Bitcoin wallets do you use? Be it custodial, self-custodial, sw or hw. And why?

2026-07-12 05:08:00 UTC

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ahh the American in you. football, Kat. football

2026-06-24 09:36:04 UTC

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Nice app. I did one as workout timer but kept it as pwa. Glute bridge is great for core, and mix it up for that perky arse benefit. What do you do for strengthening core ? i added flutter kicks and dead bug to planks and the pilates hundred. Surprisingly dead bug was more effective than i anticipated

2026-06-16 15:47:55 UTC

I love that Nostr can be as simple as using 2-3 relays. It makes getting started easy, and honestly it has made my life easier. I have been a large relay girl from the get go.
But the more I think about building on Nostr, I also see the challenges of big relays. Without careful design, both users and conversations tend to centralize around the largest and most convenient relays. That feels like the opposite of what Nostr was meant to be. How much will client defaults and user inertia end up influencing the network?
The downside is what keeps me thinking. If I build on this, what are my users going to see? Porn? Political views they strongly disagree with? Is that the image I want associated with my brand? Do I then start censoring things? If I do, where do I draw the line? Am I suddenly deciding what people should and shouldn't see, and based on what, my own judgement? That doesn't feel right either.
I believe users should be able to choose for themselves. But right now the only real option is to mute or block after they've already seen it, not actually design their own ecosystem around their interests. Are users going to end up muting 500 content providers they don't like, or just leave Nostr altogether after the first 10? That pushes the onus back onto the client.
But without some form of filtering on the client side, do we end up back at an all-or-nothing centralized platform? I myself have been annoyed from time to time by the infighting and gender degradation. Do I want other people seeing that all the time?
And somehow I end up going around in circles on this.
But then there is also an incredibly attractive upside. Large relays make it viable to build serverless apps without needing to run your own infrastructure, which is a huge deal. These guys have been carrying a lot of the load for a long time now, for which I am grateful for. So there is a real trade off.
Then there is the UX hurdle. The cryptographic key based identity system is incredibly attractive (secp256k1 keys underneath, same curve as Bitcoin), but login is still a major barrier for non tech users. It is a problem we all know needs solving.
On the technical side, I am really excited about the possibilities of FROST for key security and projects like Pomegranate. It is great to see fiatjaf and other devs exploring tools in this space, even if they are still early. My only hope is that momentum holds and these early projects don’t lose steam before they mature.
Discovery is still a big open question, but that is also what makes this space exciting. The potential for building and solving these problems is what keeps a whole bunch of problem solvers coming back.
Honestly I was not thinking about building on Nostr until recently. But the more conversations I have been having with @nprofile…4tgc over the past few weeks, the more tempted I am to migrate what I have been building ("the other stuff" related). Some people see problems and complain. I have always believed that identifying problems is the first step toward finding solutions. To me, the bigger problem is not knowing what the problem is. And I may not know enough.
But the more I think about it, the more I see vast opportunities here.

2026-06-16 11:17:04 UTC

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that's awesome, congratulations to your wife! Back to my weekly swimming these days, there's is just something about the water that feels so good. Boracay has been on my mind, I'll keep you'll posted if it materializes

2026-06-16 10:55:32 UTC

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good reminder to take up that diving license, your undersea pics are great

2026-06-16 10:03:43 UTC

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do you not have your American citizenship anymore ?

2026-06-01 14:29:38 UTC

We are the outcome of the choices we make

2026-06-01 05:41:20 UTC

Testing a $4 ceramic patch antenna + receiver at 1.575GHz. In under 30 seconds it locked 8 satellites for a solid location fix. Makes you wonder how many thousands of satellites are out there. And if you have an antenna on you, how easily you could be tracked. This captures signals down to -160dBm
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2026-06-01 05:30:25 UTC

Got a collection of Orwell to read. I've only read 1984 and Animal farm all these years. I learned that for Down and Out in Paris and London, he voluntarily lived as a tramp to fully experience poverty for the book. But what I find most ironic is that Orwell went to Eton. Who would have thought
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2026-05-26 02:18:13 UTC

In love we find out who we want to be
In war we find out who we are
- Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale

2026-04-08 10:54:56 UTC

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Big hugs to Carla and the little one. That must have been absolutely terrifying. I’m so relieved to hear they’re both safe. Sending you and your boy lots of strength. Hang in there ❤️

2026-04-07 00:43:14 UTC

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Well, ironically privacy is a protected right (PIPL - 2021) but historical heavy censorship is also a no brainer. And censorship will get worse, even globally. That’s not my point. The capability of bitchat as infrastructure covers a wider surface of use cases and innovation, including many encrypted tools that could be used within own products, internal groups that need privacy, etc or the products it exports. Right now it's seen as an activism tool that limits its tech growth opportunity. Also, understanding why Beijing is extremely sensitive towards how the world has treated it wouldn't hurt.

2026-04-06 04:48:28 UTC

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It might also help to differentiate between infra tools and foreign public opinion tools. Maybe if they viewed bitchat as a neutral infra like Linux or TCP/IP it might be fine. But they likely saw it as a US-aligned opinion tool.
A good 99% of replies from Nostr and twitter are quick to judge, vilify, and rarely question why or what led to it. Having a vantage point of seeing both east and west, terms like 'freedom of speech’, ‘liberation’, ‘democracy’ ,while incredibly necessary, have been heavily weaponized by orgs that act as extensions of Western intelligence - and it might explain the severe distrust.
I believe its important to actively differentiate between giving people agency vs. having ulterior motives, and being pro-people instead of pro-opposition.

2026-04-05 23:32:50 UTC

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this is where "national security" vs freedom of speech is at a constant battle. Not sure if timing is coincidence, but KMT and CCP are meeting this week for the first high-level talks in many years, where the stated policy goal of both sides (in principle) is a possible reunification. Its a big week for China, and heightened security is likely. That said, China and its developers are deeply involved in open source, so it would be interesting to see if a China fork of this project emerges.

2026-03-03 00:30:06 UTC

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Trying to blur political alliances with bitcoin is an even worse angle than human rights. It's pretty much saying “We'll give you agency - but only if you agree with our politics first”
Mocking me or a position I didn't even claim is a straw man. It should be normal for a human rights org to be transparent.
You have every right to do what you want to do. I hope whoever is funding is fully aware of this political alliance's first policy, or maybe that's why they are funding you, I don't know. Good luck

2026-03-01 07:38:02 UTC

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Hard to hear, but true. Governments run on our silence and our taxes.
But the problem might also be how people label "evil" and the narratives we're told. Till today, nobody has openly thanked Russia for being the biggest contributor to fighting WWII. People literally get a fit just mentioning Russia.
It's Russia and China that are helping the Sahel states build up, and we don't talk about this because "oooo tyranny." We don't talk enough about how safe and advanced China is because "oooo evil."
It's Russia and China that are fighting for human rights while western propaganda runs deep. And honestly, I think you are the only one here who has these conversations openly.
And then there is the Greater Israel mission and taking down the eight fronts. Unfortunately, one too many Sunni Muslim countries are proxies for the US for personal financial gains.
But here's the problem with Iran. Shi'a political theology is structured around martyrdom. Given emotions are so high, there is no reason why they won't go full nuclear and kamikaze. It's also a country with 97% literacy - so they are both ridiculously intelligent and have nothing to lose. WW3 might actually start now, and I think that is what Trump and Netanyahu wanted from the get go.

2026-03-01 03:21:40 UTC

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Man, it's sickening. None of them - EU leaders, Canada (for all that bullshit of being remorseful just a month ago), Australia, have the basic dignity to be honest about who started this war. They make it seem Iran has gone rogue. Worse, Iran actually conceded to all the agreements, but US bombed anyway.
Same rhetoric as the first Gulf War. US asked Shias and Kurds to rise up against Saddam. And when they did, US quickly left the scene. But not before giving Saddam some choppers that would help him massacre the Kurds. And after that, US came riding in like a hero to save the day in those " Islamic terrorist" countries.
Same playbook in Libya. Afghanistan. Pakistan. Syria. Lebanon. Oh man, such heartbreak.
The entire Hague, where the International Criminal Court sits, was built from looting out of Indonesia. None of this is ok.

2026-03-01 02:41:30 UTC

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Maybe ask why the countries with the most resources - oil, gas, minerals, keep getting bombed, invaded, and sanctioned by western powers. Most of those "backwards" countries were stable until western powers carved them up, installed dictators, took their resources, and left. Hard to build infrastructures when they keep getting blown up by US and Europe.

2026-02-28 22:12:33 UTC

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Trying to sideline Russia, China and Iran and positioning them in the bucket of evil without talking about US and Europe government surveillance tactics makes me think HRF is one sided. Not openly talking about how the flaws of western democracy as it colonises and keeps the global south poor makes me wonder if this is a human rights organisation or a narrative arm for the American and Western world.
It also makes me wonder who's funding HRF. And whether it has ever penetrated countries and flipped governing bodies in ways that benefited America, all in the name of "human rights."
Big fan of your Bitcoin essays, Alex @nprofile…xncl but something doesn't feel right here.

2026-02-28 21:31:41 UTC

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take a walk outside your house, turn on your GPS, look up the sky and wave at its owners. Have a nice day

2026-02-28 15:12:04 UTC

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Its would have yielded the same outcome. You may not understand enough to get that.

2026-02-28 08:05:38 UTC

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The son of the guy US installed to ensure it had full supply of oil, after the CIA and MI6 took down a democratically elected leader Mossadegh, because he nationalised Iran's oil instead of letting BP control it. And who is actively pursuing US military intervention, one that can kill millions of innocent Iranian lives

2026-02-28 07:27:36 UTC

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heart breaking to see the war has begun. Iran did not have a chance. Innocent people will be killed so that US can loot, Israel can pursue it's "Greater Israel" plan, and Trump and Netanhanyu will continue their terms under "extraordinary" circumstances.
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2026-02-28 07:18:32 UTC

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What's really bizarre is that a multi-trillion dollar military industrial complex, from the greatest country in the world, is desperately and publicly strong-arming a startup. And so late in the game. Why did development fall behind? What were they doing ? Where did all the money go ? Or rather who has been pocketing it ? Even the tariff deals between countries were a ploy to force countries to buy more US military stuff, multi-billion dollar deals per country. Something doesn’t add up here. Gotta follow the money.

2026-02-28 02:29:23 UTC

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well, you are a classic example of someone trapped in an "us vs them" jar. The fact that you're obsessed with keywords and deeply believe that your government will protect your "path" by surveilling the shit out of you, proves my point.

2026-02-28 02:07:14 UTC

Forcing companies to run surveillance on the American people (and the world) is not a left vs. right problem. It is an American problem.
This is how they try to divide you, distract you and take away your freedom - by putting you in "us vs them" jars. Don't fall for this. Forget labels, look into the policies and question it.
Americans left and right have to come together to build America again. America belongs to the American people - not the government, not the military, and definitely not the oligarchs.
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2027497719678255148