Alexandria Catalogue - Highlights

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Two weeks ago, Rich had posted a video on installing Windows 11 25H2 with a local account. YouTube removed it, saying that it was "encouraging dangerous or illegal activities that risk serious physical harm or death." Days later, Rich posted another video showing how to bypass Windows 11's hardware requirements to install the OS on unsupported systems. YouTube took that down too.

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The world's making music all the time.

We drift between institutions that no longer command trust and systems that no longer cohere. The question presses: *what is freedom for, and how can it live in harmony with order?*

In diesem argumentiert die Fraktion, dass Bitcoin als „dezentrales, nicht manipulierbares und begrenzt verfügbares digitales Asset“ grundlegend von anderen Krypto-Assets unterscheide. Nach Auffassung der AfD sollte es daher nicht unter die EU-Verordnung 2023/1114 „Markets in Crypto-Assets“ (MiCA, Märkte für Kryptowerte) fallen. „Eine Überregulierung von Bitcoin-Dienstleistern und Nutzern im Zuge nationaler MiCA-Umsetzung gefährdet den Innovationsstandort, die Finanzfreiheit und die digitale Souv

Nostr developers are building differently. Not because they’re better people, but because the incentive structure is fundamentally different. There’s no platform to capture. You can’t do an exit scam when there’s no company. You can’t get bought by a larger corporation because there’s nothing to buy. Your work either stands on its merit or it doesn’t. Reputation becomes currency. Your npub (Nostr public key) becomes your identity across all clients. Your reputation follows you. Bad code? Every

I love my LLMs, and am never mean to them. Large language models are a beautiful thing, and if they ever reach sentience… well, let’s just say that I’m not taking chances.

If you’ve ever listened to No Solutions (aka the most high-fidelity recordings of wind, bus stops, sledge hammers, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and heavy traffic known to man), you’ll know that writing code by hand is something that boomers do. And since I self-identify as generation alpha, the first order of business was to switch my vibe machine to YOLO mode.

Castr.me, for example, was basically created in one prompt. All it took was to feed it the Podcasting 2.0 spec, and tell it to build a thing that translates a nostr feed into a Podcasting 2.0 compatible RSS feed

If you've ever listened to No Solutions (aka the most high-fidelity recordings of wind, bus stops, sledge hammers, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and heavy traffic known to man)

Once you're online again, all the events you created should just broadcast to other relays. From your perspective, you were never really offline—everyone else was.

One of the most difficult things in life is to know when to stop. To know when to step away, to just let it be.

I quickly realized that I have a problem and what I'm doing is incredibly unhealthy, so I did what any sensible person would do: I doubled down. I

We need significantly more zaps and more zappers!

Love unites and evolves. Fear divides and destroys.

Taking psychedelics has had a huge impact on me. It opened me up to the realization that true understanding comes from within - not from what’s “out there.” You don’t need to take much of it to learn something meaningful, but it does expose you to perspectives and experiences you’ve likely never encountered or even considered before, especially if no one’s ever shared those ideas with you.

Imagine a future where $5 a year gets you access to blazingly fast, incredibly private, and feature rich Nostr interactions. Your apps are always updated. Your data syncs instantly. There's never spam or ads in your feed.

Notice what these share with Bitcoin and Nostr: they all reject relativism. They all claim to be measuring against a standard you didn’t create and can’t change.

When you remove the cost, when you can print money infinitely, ban accounts instantly, or redefine morality democratically, you don’t get freedom. You get tyranny wearing the mask of tolerance.

The State hates Bitcoin because it can’t print it. The Cathedral hates Nostr because it can’t ban you.

Bitcoin says your central bank is lying to you about value. Nostr says your platform is lying to you about truth.

I believe Nostr is the foundation of a more open internet.

"Sometimes things work out the way we intended. Sometimes you study accounting and become an accountant. Or maybe you play basketball as a kid and make it onto the varsity team. But the great successes, the ones that come crashing out of nowhere and shake up the system, they don’t usually follow this kind of script. You don’t enroll in Superstar 101 to become a superstar. There’s no magic formula for changing the world. In other words, the greatest victories are not written into the initial plans. They happen despite the plans." — Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective by Kenneth O. Stanley & Joel Lehman (2015)

Life finds a way.

Amidst the chaos of the world, there is a great amount of tranquility to be found once you realize this. Change is here, it's accelerating and there's very little, if anything, any person, organization, company or government can do about it.

It's beautiful to see. We are witnessing the exponential growth of the bedrock of the bitcoin network before our eyes, and it doesn't seem like many people are appreciating what is happening. Bitcoin is melding the physical and digital worlds together via the process of proof-of-work mining.

Well, I was perusing [mempool.space](http://mempool.space) yesterday and noticed that the one week moving average of the hashrate on the network had reached 1.12ZH/s, which means that over 100 exahash has joined the network since the middle of September. That seemed pretty material to me, so I opened up the historical chart of hashrate and difficulty growth going back to the launch of the network and was a bit shocked at what I found.

On September 15th, we wrote [a newsletter](https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-network-zettahash/) acknowledging the fact that the bitcoin network had surpassed 1 zettahash. Meaning that miners around the world had reached the point where they are collectively producing more than one sextillion hashes PER SECOND in an attempt to find a hash below the difficulty target that will allow them to add a block of transactions to the ledger and get paid the block reward. This is an event that many in the bitcoin space were anticipating for the better part of a year.

Pixnapping is a new class of attacks that allows a malicious Android app to stealthily leak information displayed by other Android apps or arbitrary websites. Pixnapping exploits Android APIs and a hardware side channel that affects nearly all modern Android devices.

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This is functional satire its what happens when you combine creative writing, bio horror with software documentation

Create to create. Bring joy. Proceed with ease, grace, and kindness.

How I produce, publish, and promote the podcast will be revamped. Crucially there’s no rush, I’ll give myself time.

I do not comply. I will not feed your attention focused surveillance capitalism platforms, I opt out, and choose to follow freedom tech, truth, and a vision that once existed for a totally decentralised internet.

This would be the low time preference option. Audience size is of no interest to me if I am able to fill my creative cup. Revenue is of no interest to me right now if this is simply to scratch a creative itch.

I know the companies that control Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X et al, are censoring, open to the highest advertising bidder, in lock-step with authoritarian globalists, and very much practicing: “freedom of speech does not mean freedom of reach”. So if this is just a creative itch, why not go all-in on Nostr? F#ck all the others off.

If this is just a creative outlet, why post on every platform available? I don’t need to try and maximise reach. This is what has tripped me up before, and scooped up too many resources.

I love long-form podcasts, the multi-hour conversations. There’s nowhere to hide. They’re raw. They’re real.

But how does it do that in practice? Well a deflationary savings technology opens up our time, our mind, our attention, to focus on other forms of capital, in this case humanistic. What difference would a balanced, present, and attentive father make to a family?

This last week is proof of that. Jake, you don’t need to run a successful business right now to be valuable… Actually, the real flex, is to focus inwards, on yourself, your wife, your children, and lean into the humanistic investment.

I don’t need to do anything for anybody. I am the master of my time.

This is the benefit of a deflationary savings technology, my friend Bitcoin. I no longer have to sell my time for money.

Energy allocation. Why am I doing what I am doing?

defining a real-world dystopia depends on whether a government is using coercion to protect its citizens or to control them.