I hate how normal this fiat routine feels. How the blues you get on Sunday evening is really just dread about the start of the work week.

Just a quick thought. Bitcoin's ATH was around 110K in Euros. That was about a year ago. Forget the dollar, it's even losing value against the Euro. And the Euro has a real inflation rate of at least 15% when you look at real estate and energy prices. That means 110K a year ago is at least 126.5K today. But the price is at 66K € today, so it is about half of what it was a year ago. No sign of going "to the moon" yet.

Big tech: "Oh, so you're daring to load our site through a VPN? Here, take your punishment with a few extra hurdles." User: "Alright, then I'll just use a VPN that you can't tell is a VPN. Idiot."

"We're back" they say. Back from where bro? I still can't pay my rent or energy bills in BTC without a fiat ramp. We're still failing.

Damn, GLM 5.3 writes automated tests on its own and runs them. Unit tests, end-to-end tests, and everything in between, a little bit of everything depending on what makes sense. On a new project. Man, that's good.

ObscuraVPN for example. Mullvad has also options to obfuscate.

"... to gain more power" You see the projection here? As if it's about power. Why can't they understand? We don't want non-transactional data filling up the nodes. That's basically all we want. Because it leads to no good. That's all.

https://noornote.app/ still under DDoS attack. Guess that's the price of success 🤷‍♂️. Use mobile or desktop apps meanwhile. https://github.com/77elements/noornote/releases/tag/v1.3.4

You know those notes that are basically just quotes pulled from external websites, right? NoorNote supports that too, Nostr internally. You just highlight some text, and then you get a context menu called "Post highlight", and that text gets posted as a quote with the source information under it. There are also browser add ons that let you do this on all kinds of websites. And yeah, some users definitely go a little overboard with it, and end up posting almost every sentence from an article they like. If you don't want to see those notes anymore, you can turn it off in NoorNote now. You can do it either per user or globally in the UI settings. And for Armada groups where you are a member or an admin, you can now also track things more easily. So you will get a notification whenever something new has happened there after a longer quiet period. You get the notification, you can click it, and then check what it is. The old Nostrord addon has been reworked into the more general "Group Chat" addon, and now it tracks both Nostrord and Armada groups. And I think over the course of this year, there will be more to come. This seems to be the year of group chat clients. Everyone is building and experimenting with different implementations. And once some of them reach a certain level of maturity, I will integrate them into this addon, so you don't miss anything from your groups. Plus a few other smaller bug fixes, like sometimes usernames not resolving correctly. All of that is coming in the next release, already available on https://noornote.app/ . By the way, my hoster is probably dealing with a DDoS attack today, so it might be a bit shaky. So, be cool.

GLM 5.3 is a monster. You know what it just did on my machine? Even though I had stable safeguards installed so it has no access outside the project directory and is supposed to ask when necessary? Never had experienced something like this before. I'm building a complicated feature right now that I need to live test on noornote.app. Watch this: It just went and grabbed my SFTP credentials from FileZilla completely on its own (yeah, FileZilla apparently stores the password in plaintext on the hard drive, that bastard), then wrote a Python deployment script itself and deployed its changes. Went live. Just like that. Completely on its own. Without asking. That was his output: "$ .deploy/deploy-web.sh --no-build Local bundle: main-BX-wgmcr.js ── Uploading dist/ → [noornotes ftp server]:/public_html ── ... 100 files ... 200 files ... 300 files ... 400 files Upload: 469 ok, 0 failed ── Verifying live bundle ── Live bundle: main-BX-wgmcr.js ✓ Deploy verified — live matches local build." When I said "WTF?", it admitted that it crossed a line and apologized and wanted to undo everything blah blah. People, keep that Chinese LLM tightly in check. That bastard just takes over. Like in some fucking science fiction movie.

And so my Buzz review ends before it even began.

One of the most toxic features on X (and maybe elsewhere too) is this "only certain people can reply" thing. I mean, what the hell is that? You shout something out into the world, but only certain people get to comment on it? That's what private groups are for. When you use it on a public platform like X, 99% of the time it's for one of these reasons: you're a snowflake, you expect pushback, you're too weak to handle it, so you just shut that whole part down. In short, you're a cowardly, self-important rat who wants to talk to the masses but won't tolerate any backtalk, you little dictator. But a private chat group doesn't give you enough of an audience. That's how you plant toxicity into a platform. You sugarcoat it at first with "but there's also assholes, you know, yada yada" and then you sit back and watch it get used only by assholes. But hey, at least we can't see who liked or reposted stuff anymore. Long live Nostr!