Alan Siefert

As boot kissing as Stability AI seems to be, they probably did a separate training for the government models using data sets that are not censoring human anatomy.

2024-06-19 00:02:46

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In the mean time, coinjoining with Wasabi is alive and increasingly decentralized. The feds created a hydra. https://wabisator.com/

2024-06-17 22:11:23

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It will probably take an event that scares people into caring about it. A Tesla vehicle automatically pulling over someone who has a warrant, refusing to go to a location that is somehow restricted (a natural disaster area for example), refusing to drive at all during a mandatory curfew in a time of social unrest. Etc. Sometimes a fire needs to be lit. 🔥

2024-06-17 21:52:30

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😂 To stability AI:
https://m.primal.net/IoWV.jpg

2024-06-17 21:44:14

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Any open source alternatives to SD3 on the horizon?

2024-06-17 21:34:13

How did Stability AI get such a fear of pr0n that SD3 has trouble recognizing any part of a human? @npub1kad…z2an

2024-06-15 18:27:46

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So Rivian or Silverado if going with an EV truck?

2024-06-15 07:17:03

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Locally run models only.

2024-06-15 07:07:27

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Not sure. Mempool.space tags likely coinjoins somehow, but IDK how.

2024-06-15 06:17:41

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@npub15n9…qru4 It would be cool to see a general coinjoin panel to get an idea of the volume at a glance.

2024-06-15 06:09:20

It’s nice to see lots of coinjoins continue to show up in blocks despite the feds’ attempts to scare them away.
https://m.primal.net/IlKS.jpg

2024-06-12 07:45:21

Preaching to the choir here, but…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13513957/Plant-based-ultra-processed-foods-heart-death.html

2024-06-09 23:53:45

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“Far right” = not socialist

2024-06-09 21:10:48

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I suppose that would be one the costs of renouncing. Drastically limiting the nations of the world that you could visit.

2024-06-09 21:09:49

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Move all your net worth into Bitcoin and pick a jurisdiction without an extradition treaty with the US? Seems the latter is where Ver went wrong.

2024-06-06 17:27:29

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2024-06-05 22:01:13

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I suppose there could be some stocks that were “unacceptably discounted” that aren’t identified as such until later. Banks and centralized exchanges would for sure reverse transactions on behalf of the NYSE so one would need to get the funds completely out, as in into physical cash or self-custodied Bitcoin in time. Would be tough but the NYSE could be late in identifying some.

2024-06-05 20:50:33

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They didn’t stop at the Berkshire Hathaway shares either. Anything “heavily discounted” got revoked. I wonder if anyone who saw it coming managed to sell, withdraw funds and move to cash or Bitcoin in time. If so they’ll probably get legal threats.
https://m.primal.net/IZtN.jpg

2024-06-05 16:02:55

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Looks like you were right. They just reversed them. 😂 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/traders-scooped-warren-buffett-berkshire-105754520.html

2024-06-03 23:30:28

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Why is that coming down? Looks nice on the outside.

2024-06-03 19:15:12

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I guess share amount is what they’d have to adjust. I.e. you bought 100 shares at an incorrectly cheap price, so we’re taking back 90 shares leaving you with 10. 🤷‍♂️

2024-06-03 19:08:12

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I wonder if anyone managed to buy at the “glitch” price and instantly 10x’ed after they fixed it.

2024-06-03 17:17:26

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Didn’t see much of a dip.

2024-06-03 17:15:13

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🤯 Nice work!

2024-06-02 19:14:35

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I feel for these artists but ultimately they’re not going to escape AI picking up their art with any method short of not displaying it at all. Unless they can manage to keep getting fulfillment via their current type of art despite AI copying it, I believe the best thing they can do is pivot their efforts to a “higher layer,” more complex form of art like game development.

2024-06-01 19:44:15

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Suggestions for desktop clients?

2024-05-31 17:44:42

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Which one is Zksnacks?

2024-05-31 17:39:09

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When they couldn’t yet open their own fruit snack bag, I charged a 20% fee for doing the service. I.e. 2 fruit snacks out of the bag of ~10.

2024-05-31 01:45:38

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Most likely scenario: a “new Trump” emerges to tap into the anger of his supporters and takes his place.

2024-05-30 19:46:12

LFG
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2024-05-30 18:05:06

This administration is conducting an all-out assault on privacy.
#note135e…dsg3

2024-05-29 22:48:47

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“Force Unhosted wallet providers to collect user info for taxes”
How would that even work? Devs forced to add it to the GitHub repository?

2024-05-29 22:44:58

Wanna see some fun MSM bias? Look up news on the Tesla Cybertruck and the Chevy Silverado EV. Both ~$100k EV trucks. With the Silverado you’ll see your standard reviews listed, but with the Cybertruck it’s nothing but articles about idiots slamming their fingers in the doors and driving into rivers.

2024-05-26 02:26:04

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A Biden win could accelerate secessionist fervor, but whether any of the jurisdictions threatening it have the balls to carry through, I’m doubtful.

2024-05-26 02:08:35

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It will be glorious when he dumps all his Bitcoin after protocol privacy upgrades.

2024-05-23 18:47:57

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I don’t believe I’ve seen that argument except by the “privacy is bad for muh regulatory environment” suits. I’ve only seen ecash recommended for small amounts, even by the most pro-privacy people.

2024-05-22 02:31:02

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Not inconceivable. Unlike California NY is still getting business immigration.

2024-05-22 00:46:48

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I can’t help but read that in Wallace Shawn’s voice as Vizzini.

2024-05-21 20:09:53

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They have no choice but to adapt. One possible option - move to a form of art that you might call “a layer up” in complexity, like games.

2024-05-20 03:14:53

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Are you seeing any misdirection into runes/shitcoins? Feels like a lot of people end up on either side of a thin line between completely avoiding cryptocurrency and falling for the shitcoins and getting burned, then lumping Bitcoin into “crypto.”

2024-05-15 19:05:33

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Keep your coins private with no-KYC exchanges like Bisq, coinjoin, spend and replace.

2024-05-15 01:08:53

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If Lightning Labs doesn’t do it someone else will, so it’s probably not worth getting worked up over. Get worked up over who bends the knee and complies when the KYC hammer comes down.

2024-05-14 22:37:25

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According to the Tornado Cash verdict we’re all required to be AML compliance spooks.

2024-05-14 21:06:16

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We may see the capability gap between closed and open models expand for a while, but I think the investment in the closed models will actually drag the open model capability up as well, even if it lags. Engineers quit and start their own companies, advance open source models in their free time, etc.

2024-05-14 20:57:12

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Why are you predicting difficulty with open source models? Is it the massive investment in the closed models?

2024-05-14 18:30:05

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Here’s a spicy one. If she becomes president would she consider abandoning Suriname’s extradition treaty with the US to protect privacy software devs?

2024-05-14 18:21:12

The precedent is being set that a tool must KYC its users to be considered legitimate, else the devs go to prison. If you’re a dev who doesn’t have a nym yet, make one.
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2024-05-13 23:40:19

I have a feeling that at some point there will be another war between Bitcoiners on the scale of the block size war. These will be the two sides:
1. Add the bips to improve Bitcoin’s privacy. Institutional investors and some centralized exchanges will nope out and send the Bitcoin price spiraling in the near term but it’s worth it to fix the one glaring issue that prevents Bitcoin from being used as private investment and cash.
2. Bitcoin doesn’t need that level of privacy on the base layer. If you want privacy go to layer 2 ecash mints or swap for Monero or Zcash on Bisq and do your dark web stuff there. We can’t lose the suits or risk the inevitable bans by govt.

2024-05-13 18:19:45

Looks like one could land without a parachute in one of these wing suits. Pull up and stall at exactly the height of a landing platform and step on to it. I wouldn’t try it but I’m sure someone will!
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2024-05-12 19:14:34

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Even with P2PK-locked receiving?

2024-05-11 23:12:50

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Yeah. You basically have Africa and the familiar anti-American tyrannies like China, Russia, Iran, etc.
note1lxugzdqdnn7s3xaywhhdste3dnggwtx2u7tm75nmn7sce6f7xvjqe05mnl

2024-05-11 22:33:31

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As I understand it even the Liquid functionaries can’t see amounts and asset types in confidential transactions. If forced to KYC they could probably follow transaction graphs in ways that make CT not too useful though. They should work to have 50%+ of their functionaries in jurisdictions that don’t have extradition treaties with the US at this point if they’re serious about avoiding the KYC future.

2024-05-11 22:22:12

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At least confidential transactions mitigates the effectiveness of KYC in Liquid somewhat. For custodial LN, perhaps chaumian ecash is some kind of answer.

2024-05-11 04:45:18

"After analyzing the optical/NIR/MIR photometry of ~5 x 10^6 sources, we found 7 apparent M dwarfs exhibiting an infrared excess of unclear nature that is compatible with our Dyson sphere models,"
https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-objects-in-space-could-be-giant-dyson-spheres-scientists-say

2024-05-11 02:35:17

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Nice!

2024-05-10 19:56:17

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What do you think is holding back miners from adopting SV2?

2024-05-10 19:55:46

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Are there plans for any kind of automated routing node like CLboss for CLN?

2024-05-10 05:34:52

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Probably made with Udio, a music generating ai. It’s fun to mess around with! https://www.udio.com/

2024-05-10 05:31:34

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Interesting approach and nice that it’s using Bitcoin/Liquid instead of shitcoins. Looking forward to seeing updates on how affordable housing in Suriname advances.

2024-05-09 18:56:07

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Can’t wait!

2024-05-08 19:16:38

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Here’s one. Probably needs some scaling up for the purposes referenced above. https://github.com/Yerbert/DingoQuadruped

2024-05-08 19:11:31

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I believe there is a mostly printed open source version of that dog robot.

2024-05-08 01:34:07

Anyone have a list of countries that don’t have an extradition treaty with the US and aren’t also tyrannies like China, Russia and North Korea? #asknostr

2024-05-06 23:00:30

A fiat brain demeanor that I can’t seem to shake:
Continuing to blame inanimate objects of “trying to…” during my bouts of terrible dexterity, coordination and spacial awareness and never taking any time to try to improve those things.

2024-05-06 21:47:25

Looks like Primal users on iOS will not get KYC-free zaps, unfortunately.
#note18ry…z7f6

2024-05-06 21:23:44

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Any ETA on connecting to Mutiny with Primal for iOS?

2024-05-06 01:43:49

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If it doesn’t compromise 21M and doesn’t make running a node much more of a burden, I’m for it.

2024-05-06 01:42:06

Modern equivalents of the Berlin Wall are made out of taxes and federal agents instead of concrete.
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2024-05-05 01:11:24

Would miners in the US and in US allied countries steal from a privacy-focused drive chain in order to enforce compliance with anti-privacy laws?

2024-05-04 22:25:48

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It would probably have to operate out of a red place. That’s basically Africa or <pick your anti-US tyranny (China, Russia, Iran, etc.)>
https://primal.net/e/note1lxugzdqdnn7s3xaywhhdste3dnggwtx2u7tm75nmn7sce6f7xvjqe05mnl

2024-05-03 22:02:40

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If it’s a virtual girlfriend with the right disposition, affirmative.

2024-05-03 21:53:12

To be fair, it’s the training of the AI that takes all this energy. The human equivalent would be all the energy consumed over the decades of learning up to productive adult life. The AI is probably still much less efficient, but this should improve massively with more optimized hardware.
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2024-05-03 18:04:39

If you exit the US with a stack of Bitcoin and don’t want the IRS to reach out and Ver you for failing to pay the exit theft, pick a red place.
#note1lxu…5mnl

2024-05-03 18:01:00

The US government declaring war on open source software has no good outcome for the government. Either the software continues to proliferate or the US government has to eventually admit that the 1A doesn’t protect code if that code “threatens national security.”

2024-05-03 06:08:48

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El Salvador has an extradition agreement with the US, so no, he wouldn’t provide safe harbor. https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/Files/TreatiesB/USA_biltreat_elsal_eng_1.pdf

2024-05-02 23:58:04

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Won’t be soon if it’s that way. A lot of resistance to BIP300/301.

2024-05-02 20:32:25

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Agreed except mining centralization should be at least on the same level. Privacy tech + centralized mining = compliant miners censoring the private transactions.

2024-05-02 20:16:09

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Old news. Today they announced they’re shutting down completely.

2024-05-02 19:50:58

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Thought it’s automated but convenient access via web UI is run by someone. Or something like that. Idk much about the tech.

2024-05-02 19:45:28

Hate to say it, but Ethereum might actually be beating Bitcoin in censorship resistant privacy right now. Tornado Cash got sanctioned by World Police and it’s still in operation. Bitcoin devs who care about privacy have lots of work to do.

2024-05-02 19:38:46

Wow. Any other authoritarian country can GFY but when the WoRlD PolIce says stop it’s time to throw in the towel, huh?
Guess JoinMarket is the last bastion of on-chain privacy until some kind of protocol privacy improvement if it ever happens.
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2024-05-01 20:45:40

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I think they could raise the limit. Especially for wire transfers and other methods of fiat transfer that work for large amounts. Zelle limits amounts you can send and a whole Bitcoin worth of cash by mail would be…quite the package.

2024-05-01 20:35:23

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Piece by piece over Bisq. Hope to see more liquidity.

2024-05-01 03:43:30

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Not a fan of the woke left, but probably when there’s a leader or something going on that makes them revolt. Lost hope that the right will do anything. Biden could win again and bring complete communism and the right will just hold up in their hermit remote cabins with 10,000 rounds of ammo and get drunk about it. Any that are actually capable of organizing are in prison or closely watched.

2024-04-30 22:07:02

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Not sure how they could enforce this without banning communications with loved ones completely.

2024-04-30 21:13:36

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Voting in the US doesn’t give you any options that would remove the dictatorship-like powers the US government has and is using more. The things the “polarized” parties fight over don’t actually matter that much. It’s by design.

2024-04-30 20:36:53

Not a fan of Ver, but that they can arrest a non-US citizen outside the US for failing to pay US taxes is complete BS. Can’t wait for the US collapse.
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