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2024-11-17 05:43:29 GMT

Apples to apples
Dust to dust

2024-10-17 23:59:27 GMT

It's so lost on me, but I can't stop thinking about Urbit. Its deliberately idiosyncratic design decisions (0 = true, difficult to understand for anyone not technically competent, planets being named such that it's difficult to tell what their galaxy is) means that I don't think it'll ever take over the world, certainly not anytime soon.
But think about what technologies will still exist in 100 years.
- The internet? Most likely. Most large companies on it? Probably not so much.
- Big, established networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum? Yeah. Smaller ones like Monero and Litecoin? Hmm, less of a chance.
- Fundamental protocols like TCP/UDP/IP/HTTP? Probably. Smaller ones like Nostr? There are reasons I'm here, but overall I have my doubts.
- Ubiquitous programming languages like C and JavaScript? Of course, they're everywhere. Smaller ones like Go/Lua/Rust? A few might still be around.
Clearly the more a technology is used, the more likely it is to seem like it'll stick around. If a system is designed to stand the test of time, then that obviously helps. Try extending the time to what will still exist in, say, 200 years. It's a fun thought experiment.
Is Urbit on this list? Ehh, I have no idea, but it seems to have potential. In physics, lots of quantities for electricity need their own specific units because they're so unintuitive, unlike other quantities. Urbit, with its gigantic glossary of terms, is similar in this way.
I don't have a way to end this post, Urbit has just been on my mind recently. It's mesmerising hierarchy much reflects the mind of its creator as a hierarchical thinker, which I find more difficult to grok as a someone on the other end of the thought spectrum.

2024-10-17 08:51:14 GMT

Pretty-printing of an array had me searching for a bug that didn't exist for a solid hour because I assumed the keys were sequential (note [5])...
https://files.heliodex.cf/attachments/pretty-printing.png

2024-10-15 20:48:34 GMT

Github really has been recommending AOSP-based projects to me recently. "hey wanna try this hot new android distro?" No thanks, I just installed /e/OS

2024-10-14 17:59:15 GMT

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- Use a follow button
- Use a block button
- Customise your relay list
- Remove content you dislike from your feed
- Browse profiles instead of public feeds
the possibilities are endless

2024-10-10 18:15:23 GMT

Deno's "Announcing Deno 2" video is amazing, I was not expecting this style/production quality, nor was I expecting a full action-packed 36 whole seconds of Ryan waiting on npm install
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d35SlRgVxT8

2024-10-10 17:17:44 GMT

Verifiability > Truth

2024-10-08 11:01:01 GMT

New drama in the Nobel prize community today

2024-10-08 11:00:37 GMT

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I've been eating one or two sprinkles every day out of the jar for several years for no reason, it's almost empty now

2024-10-08 07:37:39 GMT

The yellow sprinkles in my really old jar of hundreds and thousands have faded more than the other colours (not likely exposed to much natural light though)

2024-10-07 00:15:48 GMT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio Fascinating read

2024-10-06 07:17:02 GMT

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"i don't have any cash on me at the moment"
"that's alright, we take bitcoin"
and
"do you take card?"
"no but we take bitcoin"
were 2 real interactions I had

2024-10-06 07:15:07 GMT

Honey is one of the great beasts that modern capitalism has yet to vanquish. It just seems inherently not economically viable to produce.
And yesterday, we accepted Bitcoin for it (alongside a discount of 15%)

2024-10-03 22:13:10 GMT

Had a random dental appointment for a wobbly tooth, turns out it's fine but also I need 2 fillings somewhere else entirely. Unrelated advice follows:
- Get a dental checkup if you haven't in like 4 years (probably goes for opticians as well), before 2 fillings turns into 5 or 6
- Make sure to get those pesky fuckers at the back which you have to contort the toothbrush at weird angles to hit
- If the dentist offers to yank out a tooth for you, it's probably a good idea; they'll give you some anaesthetic spray and you won't have to deal with eating only with one side of your mouth for another week
- They aren't fooled if you just brush your teeth reeeaally well right before an appointment lmao
- If your water isn't already fluorinated, join a local campaign for it to be

2024-10-03 14:08:16 GMT

ViteConf 2024!!

2024-10-02 15:30:07 GMT

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Minor spelling mistake aaaaa
not sure what felt can cure though

2024-10-02 15:28:53 GMT

Felt cure, might NIP-09 later idk

2024-10-02 02:25:44 GMT

Fun fact: Most duvets instantly become non-euclidean upon turning off the lights in the room they inhabit. This is called the Lobachevsky Long-Edge Effect and has perplexed and puzzled sleepers for millenia.

2024-10-02 02:19:42 GMT

Seemingly every HN thread has someone knowledgeable/experienced at the top of it. The only platform where "experts in the comments section" might not be sarcastic

2024-10-01 23:55:12 GMT

Can we have a moment to praise LibreTexts? Thanks

2024-09-30 09:59:45 GMT

"It's important to remember that bootstrap is a *CSS framework*. It is not, as many people seem to think, a religion."
- Me, 9 months ago lmao

2024-09-29 21:27:06 GMT

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Same people who believe the WEF actually holds any power?

2024-09-29 21:19:08 GMT

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Buidl 🛠️

2024-09-28 23:14:36 GMT

GOOGLE DOT COM HOW TO UNSTUB TOE

2024-09-28 11:04:40 GMT

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CODE == LAW

2024-09-27 09:57:16 GMT

The meta-essays have got to be by far the best part of Wikipedia, even if they make it seem like all Wikimedians are 5-year-olds.
Here's a few, don't check them out, they are a massive rabbit hole.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BLUE
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BEANS
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CITEBITE
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PLSBITE
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BRRR
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:IDIOT
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:FUCK

2024-09-27 01:05:47 GMT

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Sup

2024-09-27 01:03:17 GMT

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World says hello back! 👋

2024-09-26 00:17:24 GMT

If the eyes are the Windows to the soul, then which body part is the Linux?

2024-09-24 00:26:52 GMT

Anyone know if Bitcoin is ever mentioned in the bible?

2024-09-23 21:56:37 GMT

carly -> 177013 reference
https://files.heliodex.cf/attachments/177013.png

2024-09-21 19:14:14 GMT

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Went waay too slow, moved to a different PC with an actual SSD. ETA 4 months -> 8 hours

2024-09-21 05:22:23 GMT

Monero full node IBD commencing...

2024-09-19 23:26:42 GMT

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and I've finally found it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_g3uAv4C40

2024-09-19 16:51:53 GMT

Fun Thursday exercise:
- Take a reasonably large text document of your choice (eg. scientific paper, poetry, financial report, technical documentation)
- Replace all instances of a common word (eg. 'The') with a swear word of your choice (eg. 'Fuck')
- Give it a read lmfao

2024-09-18 15:40:35 GMT

We're gonna fight oracle lol
https://javascript.tm sign it

2024-09-16 23:38:25 GMT

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Sturgeon's Law

2024-09-15 02:49:10 GMT

Antinatalism is the final great filter. Once a society is sufficiently advanced, they slowly collectively begin to realise it's not worth it to "be".

2024-09-12 03:44:39 GMT

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Welcome!

2024-09-11 18:04:18 GMT

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I'm a diehard Vivaldi user but it would still be far better if it was fully open source, and the company still gains most of their funding from pushing sponsored websites in speed dial, bookmarks, and search recommendations. Calling them "AI free" is a little rich considering they changed their UA in an update to allow their users to access copilot a while back.
I tried my hardest to love Brave and it has some awesome features but just doesn't have Vivaldi's customisation.
For vanilla Firefox/Chrome/Edge/Opera? I have very few opinions as I personally don't think I could daily drive any of them. I test my sites with them regularly though.

2024-09-10 22:15:55 GMT

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would jack really

2024-09-09 23:46:03 GMT

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Obligatory "when is safari getting WebTransport" note

2024-09-09 23:44:15 GMT

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don't use browsers, just wget the raw HTML for whatever URL you want and load it directly into Blink.

2024-09-09 23:40:35 GMT

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But damnnn, my gazillion tabs, sidebars, keybinds, and custom CSS themes have me in too deep. Maybe once I find another browser that lets me put my tabs bar on the bottom like a freak as well as having an interface less buggy than Vivaldi's.
Fair enough though, their odd mastodon/email/social stuff and strange cryptocurrency stances still perplex me.

2024-09-09 23:33:04 GMT

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Okay, maybe generative AI does actually make the internet better

2024-09-09 23:27:24 GMT

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Yet decentralisation is also key. RIP cohost, another one down.

2024-09-05 21:53:52 GMT

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Bridge from Nostr to Mastodon so I can reply to stuff like this

2024-09-05 21:53:18 GMT

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We're here forevaarrr

2024-09-05 21:49:01 GMT

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Uh, GM to yourself as well

2024-09-05 21:47:41 GMT

TINA (there is no algorithm)

2024-09-04 22:13:39 GMT

Today I learned that GitLab has a GitHub account, and also that GitHub has a GitLab account. Insane and awesome

2024-09-04 08:25:03 GMT

"Solve P = NP."
- divide each side by P
- rearrange
- N = 1
What on earth are computer scientists on about? This stuff is easy.

2024-09-02 16:56:53 GMT

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Oh my CLI, it actually works

2024-09-02 16:49:35 GMT

Time for the twice-yearly depressing five-minute roll back into the social media platforms I used to scroll, to remind me why I'm still here

2024-08-29 23:55:48 GMT

Keep seeing the same cached page of Hacker News from 18 days ago whenever I suddenly disconnect from WiFi. Damn I love caching, but not like this

2024-08-27 22:21:24 GMT

Need to get myself a Razor/Law/Principle named after myself so someone will look my name up in a book once every 300 years for the rest of eternity

2024-08-25 04:02:04 GMT

The clothing style I'm most interested in at the moment is Github merch. Like whatever about stanning a multi-billion centralised software development company, the octocat logo is too much of a vibe

2024-08-24 22:13:26 GMT

Does oat milk really go off faster than almond milk does? I only started to notice this after I stopped drinking oat milk religiously.
Neither goes off as quickly or as terribly as cows milk does though. Soya milk I don't care for apart from in some recipes.

2024-08-20 06:35:36 GMT

🔥 Photography PRO tip 🔥
Photography PRO tip. To quickly and easily add extra atmosphere and depth to your photos, try removing the lens cap

2024-08-19 11:31:25 GMT

1 for sorrow
2 for joy
3 for girl
4 for boy
5 for silver
6 for gold
7 for a Bitcoin, never to be sold

2024-08-15 13:48:45 GMT

List of miracles
- Jesus turning water into wine through the most astounding act of action-at-a-distance
- Stanislav Petrov preventing the world from being destroyed in September 1983
- There's never been a miracle like the airport up at Knock

2024-08-13 01:59:41 GMT

105 keys on the board
105 keys on the board
clean it down, lose one somewhere around
104 fucking keys on the board
(F11 is the missing one today)

2024-08-07 00:34:17 GMT

The best defence against conspiracy theories is strong and actually good anti-corruption legislation
Or maybe it's just not having a government to corrupt in the first place. Idk I'm still learning

2024-08-06 22:25:47 GMT

5 days without internet was whatever, pretty easy
5 days without nostr was tough bruh

2024-08-01 00:29:47 GMT

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First good meme on my feed in forever, never knew me_irl made it here

2024-08-01 00:17:06 GMT

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Oh nice, will consider Morocco for my next cool-oldschool-style train journey then

2024-07-31 13:11:04 GMT

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And yet sleek and futuristic at the same time...

2024-07-31 13:09:40 GMT

8 billion people is, uh, plenty

2024-07-31 13:07:50 GMT

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Trying to resist calling this the least chronically technologically dependent post on my feed today

2024-07-31 12:58:04 GMT

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Ecks Em Arr

2024-07-31 12:54:29 GMT

- Take your fiat
- Smash it
- Now you have bits of coins. Sell for 100 million sats apiece
- Profit!

2024-07-30 13:04:41 GMT

If Satoshi Nakamoto ever returned, they would probably have to spend the rest of their life screaming "Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah!"

2024-07-28 09:28:10 GMT

We need IPv6 for everyone!! Democratise the internet, just a little more

2024-07-28 00:09:12 GMT

Want a fun Russian-roulette style game to wake you up on slow mornings? Try browsing the nostr global feed in public, I dare you

2024-07-27 23:57:03 GMT

There's actually a chance I've never breathed air below 350ppm CO₂. Only 90s kids (and before) will remember this
350.org

2024-07-27 23:21:01 GMT

Nostah

2024-07-27 07:19:47 GMT

Every time I'm on a train it reminds me that hell yeah, I love rail infrastructure

2024-07-26 21:53:57 GMT

Natural Ignorance is more dangerous than Artificial Intelligence could ever dream of being

2024-07-24 14:14:08 GMT

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Wait till Curtis Yarvin hears that bees exist bruh, the question is whether Urbit will scale to all ~2 trillion of them

2024-07-23 09:37:16 GMT

Have bees tried any governmental system other than monarchy, or have they just settled on it after however many millions of years of evolution? I feel like communism would work really well for bees.

2024-07-20 04:53:23 GMT

Hmm, maybe we should decentralise more stuff. Just a thought

2024-07-18 01:23:23 GMT

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Yesss, Developer Voices!!

2024-07-18 01:21:38 GMT

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If we want to solve (read: reverse and return to normal levels) the climate crisis, geoengineering is here and works. If we don't want the current level of destruction to continue, then planting trees, carbon capture, and ending fossil fuels are all very nice but aren't going to cut it in the long run.

2024-07-16 15:13:59 GMT

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👋🌊👋

2024-07-16 00:18:01 GMT

Violence only favours authoritarianism

2024-07-14 01:40:45 GMT

Today's one year since I made this very slow nostr keygen (immediately after discovering nostr) and started mining my current vanity pubkey, w00t happy nostrversary
https://github.com/Heliodex/nostr-keygen

2024-07-13 16:44:45 GMT

Openvibe doing god's work for integration with basically everything

2024-07-12 01:56:22 GMT

PHP 8.4 adds support for Version 5 of HTML https://wiki.php.net/rfc/domdocument_html5_parser

2024-07-09 19:10:26 GMT

People's assemblies >>>>>>>>>>> Referenda

2024-07-09 15:58:51 GMT

Feel like pure shit, just want Chaos with Ed Miliband

2024-07-09 03:37:44 GMT

Who needs drugs when you can be high af off your own emotions?
..well, I guess people with alexithymia

2024-07-09 03:27:29 GMT

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Lmao what's up comments, this is peak

2024-07-09 01:50:29 GMT

You know it's a bull day when the top loser on https://coinmarketcap.com/gainers-losers/ is XAUt

2024-07-05 22:59:53 GMT

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12 hours until we *start* the second recount...
https://files.heliodex.cf/attachments/wen%20declaration.png

2024-07-05 11:41:54 GMT

I wake up and 648/650 seats declared, we might actually be the final constituency to declare results bruh

2024-07-05 05:14:50 GMT

- Ohhh shit, the Highland Council have panned their election livestream camera over to the lectern, come onn where's the readings
- We did it, four Green seats (i've been spelling Pavilion wrong this whole time)
- SF is now the largest party in the north of Ireland w00t
- 600/650 seats done and are coming much slower now
- "We are now live with Douglas Ross from Aberdeen" who doesn't look happy

2024-07-05 04:44:12 GMT

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They barely fucking toppled Dross, welp nsec1234567890234567890234567890234567890

2024-07-05 04:35:39 GMT

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Did I note about Herefordshire North or not? Been spotty connection cuz wifi things, whatever, we have that as well

2024-07-05 04:33:06 GMT

WE HAVE WAVENEY VALLEY
up next, Brighton Pavillion babyyyy

2024-07-05 04:30:18 GMT

- Jfc if Plaid gets more seats than the SNP I will shit someone's pants
- Three con hold reports in a row wtf
- No wait, FOUR con hold reports in a row wtf
- 83% bruh cmon
- The nerds on every single election night stream look so fucking sleep deprived