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mleku · 3w
#vibecoder is a label that doesn't apply to me. i use #claude almost exclusively. my shit isn't buggy vibecoding means retards improperly specifying software and then wondering why it is garbage. i...
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I have found a bug in orly that makes the database go fubar - relay brain dead. Happened by accident since I use a shitload of orlys as lightweight sandboxed relays for agents to run integration tests. So yeah, be humbler buddy, I may hand a report/fix over to you when I got the time to do it
HoloKat · 13w
Are the credit card charges really as big of an issue as people claim? I ask because when I freelanced, it was just the cost of doing business. I wrote it all off as expense and in some cases just ba...
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The issue is the monopoly. You can pay weekly to your local mobster for protection and it doesn't mean you are happy with it.

Back when systems were not online, there was risk and the fees kinda made sense - insurance. Nowadays, most systems are online, making risk way lower while fees are not.

No worries, alternatives are already a thing and their hand will be forced.
mleku · 14w
ɪ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇꜱ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴍᴏꜱᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴍʏ ʟɪꜰᴇ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀꜱᴛ, ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ɪ ʙᴀʀᴇᴅ ᴍʏ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴛᴏ ...
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Buddy, I don't know you and you don't know me yet here we are.

I am an empath and it hurts me to see you hurting.

You can never have full control of whatever happens around you but you do have the power to control how you feel about it.

Don't rationalize. Assimilate, introspect, feel - but, in conscience with clarity. Practice, work hard, on yourself - like you do with your trade already.

We're about the same age and not long ago this book changed my life: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

I believe it can change your life too, if you read it the right way.

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L0la L33tz · 15w
My guy, I spend all day educating people on stuff. Give a girl a break. Contrary to the stuff I write about as part of my job, none of the things discussed in this thread, such as the violence of the state, are hard to research for anyone actually interested in these issues.
L0la L33tz · 15w
Oh so not needing to see someones intellectual diarrhea in my replies is where the self determination ends eh?
Laeserin · 15w
I think the current right-wing is fighting yesterday's battles because they underestimate how much the Internet, AI, automation, and advancements in energy production and storage (like Bitcoin) are ab...
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The left-right itself is a battle of yesterday already. The extreme polarization is a symptom of its decay. Populism on steroids driven by social media in tandem with a decrepit journalism class are the tools of the trade.

At this rate, all I see retiring before the next 60 is democracy.
Shawn · 18w
I tried. That UI made my eyes bleed.
jack · 38w
i have, but i'm not sure yet how to implement LoRa.
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Hacking bits and pieces from meshtastic's firmware is most probably the fastest way.

Meshtastic is currently using cheap esp32 which act as interface between end device and the LoRa radios. The meshtastic app uses the radio via the esp32's bluetooth or wifi. Serial over usb also works. Some people use card radios like the t1000 magsafe'd to their phones, which is cool. I am sure these things will become smaller and smaller in the coming years.

If the transport layer for bitchat becomes fully agnostic, this can be easily prototyped. Logically, making this work over LoRa, which has a very low bitrate and hourly frequency utilization limits, would pose some interesting challenges.

Let me know if you find this interesting, I'll gladly help hacking the firmware and testing it with the radios
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jack · 38w
my weekend project to learn more about bluetooth mesh networks, relays, store and forward models, encryption models, and a few other things: https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat nostr-only TestFli...
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This is great! Ever heard of LoRa radio and/or meshtastic? Bitchat's protocol looks vastly superior, especially because of cache/announce/tx by design - really cool.

Unfortunately meshtastic is too tied to mqtt but even still, there are huge meshes running worldwide. Would be cool to have this working over LoRa just for the kicks
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jack · 38w
i have, but i'm not sure yet how to implement LoRa.
Master Taipan · 38w
Burning Man as an examples uses LoRa Meshtastic networks...though Reticulum may hold greater promise/alignment