"Ur-Nammu, the founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur, promulgated his law code, which lists in its prologue some of his ethical achievements: he did away with a number of prevalent bureaucratic abuses, regulated weights and measures to ensure honesty in the market place, and saw to it that the widow, the orphan, and the poor were protected from ill treatment and abuse." Humans have been thinking of economic justice since the time of the Mesopotamians, our oldest known civilization.

I think its pretty interesting. It has a cool 80s/90s vibe to it.

Stole this. Great post

Self hosting (home lab) rabit hole ruminations: Start9, umbrel, these are great options to dip your toes into self hosting. It makes the experience digestible and if you are only interested in running the tools that the bitcoin community has labeled as necessary to be "self-soveriegn" it works out of the box and that has a world of value in of it self. But if your are curious one. Seeking knowledge and always looking to break the next link in the long shackle that holds you from sovereignty, these options are simply not enough. If you want to run any open source program or os when your heart desires you need access to docker. In many cases you can easily download production ready software with a two line command you can copy paste... While start9 and umbrel have great teams working hard to bring what the people want to their systems they need sidelined options to everything and are always a few versions behind. This is the nature of the beast unfortunately. But in this ever changing world where some of the most important tools like ai have open-source options that can't fully be utilized with what these guys offer Its more important than ever to truly understand what you are trying to achieve with these systems. Running a bitcoin node can be done on almost anything, having your own private chat server is a nice party trick, but some of the truely powerful self hosted solutions aren't native to these ecosystems. Im open to hear everyone's opinions but I feel I've way too quickly put grown my start 9. I may just wipe it and set a new Ubuntu or other linux image on the hardware. Anyone else go through something similar?

Lol now. Too many 1/2 cups of straight rum in my 20s....

There was a short glimmer of hope at the beginning of all this when the talk if cutting cost and tightening to pay back some of the debt was part of the narrative.

A few YouTube vids about transhumanism and ai worshiping have been popping up on my feeds. I actively ignore it, not trying to tempt the psychosis, lol

It did read like an Onion article, crazy

Many may argue we are still a very long way from agi even though these llm company ceos might make you believe otherwise. In either case, there will always be a new technology we have to learn to leverage for fear of getting left behind. The only antidote to that would be to stop seeking "progress" and be content with what we can do now, seeking to make our existence more sustainable. I mean what's to stop us from just saying hey this is pretty good as it is and everyone seek to have a self-sustainable or community sustained existence.... na that prob won't happen....

Interesting read. I haven't seen much word on the use of fedimints either. I wonder where ecash will go. I think both cashu and fedimint are cool approaches but until it's used more (i imagine us nostriches would have to be the champions, and even then I've seen huge calls to action for cashu but not much use) What do you think?

Anyone self hosting llms here? What kinds of things are you doing with it and why, if you dont mind me asking?