unixmonks

https://taskwarriorsync.com
https://dracotel.com - global kyc-free data esim, 200+ countries

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2026-06-09 04:21:43 GMT

the founder of zig is based af

2026-06-09 04:19:26 GMT

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I remember how fresh mcdonalds tasted in those styrofoam containers - now its just a soggy mess.

2026-06-09 04:13:33 GMT

running a sale over at https://dracotel.com for $5 off our global data esim with 200+ supported countries. Use code STACK5.

2026-04-16 21:23:21 GMT

freebsd on thinkpad x1 extreme gen 1 works well. no issues with drivers. wifi, power saving, sleep, etc all good.

2026-04-10 04:26:36 GMT

im getting back into FreeBSD. I used it a lot in the late 90s in my home labs but some how drifted away from it. my firewall runs pfsense (freebsd) and it has been rock solid for many years now. I have started reading through the freebsd handbook, which is quite refreshing how well structured it is. im excited about the potential of the combination of jails, jail networking and zfs.
who knows I might even start contributing to the project if I can find the time. im looking for more connection with my tooling and a deeper understanding of the fundamentals. so much so that ive started to go deeper on c programming.

2026-04-10 04:07:09 GMT

https://blossom.primal.net/f7d58c340bb10afbabb036c6bad04207dcf9fbdb8847dd46063fda4e08e088bd.mp4

2026-04-09 00:47:33 GMT

https://blossom.primal.net/8da43b79c9c54dd7847dde675025fdbc0903bfc566c8ccce4256c51bd3cce5aa.mp4

2026-04-08 21:59:43 GMT

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how much vram you running?

2026-04-08 05:21:49 GMT

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gemma4 is pretty good, you enjoying?

2026-03-22 01:10:31 GMT

Another business launched - https://opsfleet.site/.

2026-03-16 15:06:26 GMT

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for https://dracotel.com im using plausible, proxied on the backend without any cookies. We are a privacy respecting company and just want to find out how many people are landing on our home pages.

2026-03-12 16:12:58 GMT

https://dracotel.com transactions are rolling in. very satisfying. bitcoiners and normies seem to be excited about the product. i built this for myself as i wasn't quite satisfied with the other offerings out there.

2026-03-11 22:10:47 GMT

made our first esim sale on dracotel.com to a bitcoiner. STACKER50 for 50% off the yearly subscription fee.

2026-03-11 01:59:45 GMT

dracotel.com back up - bring it scammers!

2026-03-09 18:55:47 GMT

so i launched dracotel.com, fired off an ad campaign and immediately got a pakistani fraudster buying and toping up esims as fast as they could using stolen cards from a bank in argentina. i shut the site down temporarily to put in some fraud controls. i can see this is going to be a bit of a wack-a-mole. first control is putting top up limits on accounts less than 7 days old. more will be added. its all coming from stripe. bitcoin doesn't have this problem.

2026-03-05 01:50:42 GMT

no kyc, no bs esim. launching very soon..
https://dracotel.com/

2026-03-03 18:16:47 GMT

the gap between the rich engineer and poor engineer is growing

2026-03-03 17:27:05 GMT

ai this ai that stfu!

2026-03-03 17:22:16 GMT

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big news

2026-03-02 19:04:51 GMT

i frickin hate being tied to these proprietary AI model providers, even the so called anonymous ones. my goal is 100% local inference with open models by 2027.

2026-03-02 19:00:07 GMT

finally got my 32gb v100 online.

2026-03-02 03:32:59 GMT

https://pi.dev/ is better than opencode or claude code or whatever else is out there. hardcore customizable. keep token use to a minimum. works with small local models.

2026-01-21 02:26:28 GMT

a script for fetching passwords from pass with dmenu
#linux #pass #dmenu #suckless #dwm
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2026-01-16 17:34:49 GMT

i manage my passwords on #linux with the CLI application "pass". it's built into most distributions. the hierarchical layout allows you to nest your passwords, for example:
stripe.com/[email protected]
stripe.com/[email protected]/api-key
stripe.com/[email protected]
stripe.com/[email protected]/api-key

2026-01-16 00:35:35 GMT

distilled my go sqlite usage patterns into this library
https://github.com/unixmonks/go-sqlite

2026-01-15 21:00:36 GMT

GM
https://blossom.primal.net/eb7f000fdbf6e9f5d4a29a40dc7d1c3b0a7463d51314bafccfcca7c1aef8d576.jpg

2026-01-09 21:54:14 GMT

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2026-01-09 21:52:41 GMT

when developing with #ai, i find it important to "ground" it with real code or real examples. for example, if i want it to follow a particular development style, i will have a sample project on disk and point it to that project to kick things off.

2026-01-09 21:51:37 GMT

coming soon
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2026-01-09 18:51:19 GMT

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the quantum wave function is collapsing

2026-01-09 18:50:38 GMT

GM
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2026-01-07 18:56:10 GMT

i build #bitcoinlightning into my products because it is superior to the alternatives:
- near instant settlement
- very low fees
- micro transactions that open up new business models
- no charge back fraud
- answering to no one
- self sovereignty
- privacy for my customers

2026-01-07 18:47:02 GMT

everything i build i use myself

2026-01-07 17:59:44 GMT

screenshot selection, beautification and copy to clipboard with maim and imagemagik
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2026-01-06 05:10:59 GMT

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2026-01-06 05:10:02 GMT

here's what your account dashboard looks like on https://webhooker.site
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2026-01-06 04:58:12 GMT

and we're live. a bitcoin powered webhook proxy. 5 sats per event - https://webhooker.site

2026-01-06 04:54:34 GMT

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checked out "Bugonia"?

2026-01-06 00:56:02 GMT

Coming soon.. webhooker.
https://github.com/unixmonks/webhooker-cli
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2026-01-05 19:30:47 GMT

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Good times. My 3rd due in 4 weeks.

2026-01-05 19:30:09 GMT

GM
https://blossom.primal.net/2ed0d94e13203c9816ca461fcb5fe88fb2395db8e68e3b990d51ee1fb26fa17f.mp4

2026-01-05 01:37:51 GMT

movie recommendation - Bugonia

2026-01-04 22:18:41 GMT

a simple dmenu-based wifi network switcher for wpa_supplicant.
https://github.com/unixmonks/dmenuwifi

2026-01-04 07:27:15 GMT

GM
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2026-01-03 08:58:29 GMT

an experimental pluggable signal bot
https://github.com/unixmonks/tron

2026-01-03 05:35:39 GMT

GM
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2025-12-30 22:58:14 GMT

GM
https://blossom.primal.net/27f842bb3927d36ab0238fe22cfb3deb8815d17da397fdd03321d9367e7b3757.png

2025-12-30 22:51:38 GMT

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health, wealth and liberty

2025-12-30 22:43:56 GMT

been grinding hard on the new esim business.. not far away now. bitcoin lightning support from the get go. KYC free.

2025-12-24 03:56:28 GMT

our family tradition is to watch "Die Hard" every christmas eve

2025-12-24 03:54:48 GMT

convert a datetime with timezone to local system time
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2025-12-24 03:41:01 GMT

using sqlite as a sql interface to csv files
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2025-12-10 08:08:13 GMT

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I’m building a V100 cluster.

2025-12-09 22:22:05 GMT

Social media ban has just gone into effect for under 16s in Australia. Will nostr become the new cool platform for kids?

2025-12-09 22:06:30 GMT

Tesla V100 32GB in hand from China. Should be able to run 30B models locally with this. Goal is to have 2 of these so we can run 70B models.
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2025-12-08 10:47:14 GMT

Coming up with a business name is harder than creating the business

2025-12-07 21:21:46 GMT

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I choose my little friend
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2025-12-07 21:15:30 GMT

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Is that Malcolm in the middle?

2025-12-07 20:50:29 GMT

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And a VPN profile

2025-12-07 20:50:05 GMT

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Browser profiles to go along with an identity would be cool as well

2025-12-07 10:58:51 GMT

Introducing "Jackal". What do you think of the interface? I'd like to add integration to email alias services so you can generate a legit email alias. Also need to add the option to generate a login and gpg keys along with an identity.
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2025-12-06 09:50:18 GMT

Been playing with gpt-oss:32B on a friends 16GB Tesla V100. Quite usable actually. We've got another 32GB V100 on the way, will be interesting to see how good of a model we can run.

2025-12-06 09:42:23 GMT

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great ideas.. motivating me to code this up!

2025-12-06 09:38:30 GMT

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and also email address aliases

2025-12-06 09:37:36 GMT

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I have been thinking of coding up an CLI app called "jackal", that lets you generate fake names, addresses, logins, etc for entry into websites and other places. You could select your locale for the identity, and it would generate locale correct addresses and even names (eg. indian names, english names, etc). This would also be a good use case!

2025-12-06 04:44:04 GMT

vibe right now
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2025-12-06 01:40:43 GMT

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Elton has a lot of songs that could rank as best songs of all time. Legend musically.

2025-12-05 21:08:04 GMT

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Claude code on the proprietary front

2025-12-05 21:05:30 GMT

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Good read: https://mises.org/library/book/mystery-banking

2025-12-05 20:55:52 GMT

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https://blossom.primal.net/8d8147626eca4248afb0d2415d47ec5c54fcbba29f376145dc1188bf62aea68b.jpg

2025-12-05 10:20:09 GMT

Those of us that like to tune our open operating systems, our open desktops, our open IDE's, our software, are many steps ahead of those running proprietary operating systems and tools.
The same will happen with AI. Once we start tuning our own models on our own clusters to suit the types of work we are doing, we will be many steps ahead of those using proprietary systems.

2025-12-05 10:08:51 GMT

I'm seeing a lot of potential for developing bespoke software for small, medium and even large businesses. No longer do they have to pay $60k/year for a piece of generic software that doesn't quite fulfil their needs and leaves inefficiences in their business processes. Now a custom piece of software can be developed rapidly to close the gaps.

2025-12-05 10:01:56 GMT

If you're a dev or engineer with any sort of pre-AI coding experience, business experience, and any entrepreneurial drive, you are well positioned to take advantage of this paradigm shift that has come with these AI models and tools. I'm getting late 1990's, early 2000s vibes where it felt like endless possibilities.

2025-12-05 09:48:41 GMT

I vibe coded a Signal Messenger LLM bot a few months ago. I used a sqlite database to remember chat history (and respect dissapearing messages), and a vector database for searching the chat history. Basically a RAG bot for chat history. It's quite good how it is, but could use some work. It can also recognise images that users post and comment on them. It is used by me and my friends in our chat groups and ads a comedic element. It's also handy for summarizing chat history if you missed out on discussions.
I was going to clean up the code before I open source it, but I think I'm just going to put it out there. Stay tuned.

2025-12-05 09:39:28 GMT

When I can get one of these for $5k USD - IM ALL IN.
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2025-12-05 09:30:22 GMT

I built a job management system for a cable location and vac truck company in 8 hours with claude code for $7k USD. It's 80% of the way there. I haven't touched a line of code. The code it generated is quite good as I have learned to ground it with preferred architecture patterns (I just point it to an existing repo on disk). I build up the project starting with frontend mockups. I keep those mockups in the repo. Then I build out small pieces of the data model, and layer piece by piece on top. Unit tests are also generated as we go and I am careful to look at the tests to make sure it's got decent coverage, giving me more confidence in the code it has built.
It can get a little sticky with complicated frontend or backend logic and structure, however it excels at boilerplate. It seems every month it gets better and better.
A job that would take 4-6 weeks, now takes under 1 week. This is why we are seeing a boom in AI related stocks. They might be overvalued, but there is some value there and it is significant.
One final thought - I don't like proprietary AI due to the privacy aspect. Unfortunately they are one step ahead of the open source models, and that one step results in better code, which is hard to pass up. However, I see a near future where the open source models will be very close, or on par. I'm sure there are people out there already that are doing amazing things with open source models. I for one am looking to build a 8 x nvidia v100 cluster of 32GB cards, which can be obtained from China for decent prices. More on this in the future!
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2025-12-05 09:08:32 GMT

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rare earth minerals
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2025-12-04 20:49:43 GMT

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We ride
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2025-12-03 20:40:21 GMT

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https://blossom.primal.net/055399e0d96b1ab1c66b0e5d202e868269413b47f5197996ed0833eae9f0b061.jpg

2025-12-03 09:39:17 GMT

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Human wants and desires are unlimited. There will always be work. AI is just a tool that increases productivity, freeing resources to work on other things.

2025-12-03 09:06:45 GMT

Cardputer adv in hand. Now to find the time to build some apps.
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2025-12-03 04:31:22 GMT

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Peace be with you 🙏

2025-12-02 21:12:58 GMT

My telco is offering 10gbe symmetric fiber upgrades (from1gbe). I’ve applied. Think I just cost myself a grand in network upgrades!

2025-12-02 21:11:21 GMT

I’ve become a massive fan of gitea. Such a nice piece of software. And it just feels good to be self hosting your own code repos.

2025-12-01 20:05:56 GMT

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pass also does this

2025-12-01 04:27:51 GMT

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Setup your lightning wallet so we can zap!

2025-11-30 03:11:38 GMT

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I like it

2025-11-30 02:57:40 GMT

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What kind of automation?

2025-11-27 23:27:39 GMT

Pumping down under
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2025-11-27 19:30:30 GMT

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Impressive

2025-11-27 00:35:41 GMT

Every time I fly into Melbourne I’m blown away by how big the city skyline has expanded. Great city.
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2025-11-27 00:00:16 GMT

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#merica

2025-11-25 05:05:47 GMT

Nostr was quiet there for a bit but it’s really picked up lately.

2025-11-23 22:21:03 GMT

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One of my favorites just for the vibe. I watch it once a year.

2025-11-23 17:58:29 GMT

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We must increase our bust

2025-11-23 16:23:27 GMT

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void Linux + dwm + st is all one needs in life

2025-11-22 22:43:47 GMT

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The Sherpas are amazing. I had one carry my bag for 2 days of my 3 week trek up to gokyo lakes in Nepal after my knee gave way. Small guy, calves like a house.

2025-11-22 18:59:35 GMT

script that allows me to hit a hotkey to bring up my music library, filter and select tracks that are loaded and played in mpd. https://blossom.primal.net/00dff4131ae99c2e5b15dbb5632d361fde4c37833ae1718b985661b40c843320.png https://blossom.primal.net/86737164f32f3115d19ae3c56993895bb590ff0894b9fbd91d07683d2b4b86a2.mp4

2025-11-22 01:40:26 GMT

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I just run luks

2025-11-20 22:08:51 GMT

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Article is auth-walled