I had a horrible experience with Amazon (and thus Audible) a while back, they closed my account and I lost access to all books that I have not backed up (which were not many fortunately). Since I listen to audiobooks a lot (driving, loading dishwasher, walking, ...) and I prefer to backup and be DRM-free, I was looking for an alternative. I settled up with libro a while back already, but yesterday I realized I am buying so many audiobooks that the $14.95/month membership makes more sense than paying per book. The books come in m4b format a mp3 in zip format. I use Smart Audiobook Player on GrapeheneOS and have previously used MP3books on iOS. You can also use their app if you want. If you want to free yourself from overly controlling corporations and be able to listen to audiobooks you paid for without permission, I highly recommend it: https://libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm651844

Wow, this looks amazing: https://ollama.com/library/gemma3n 2B and 4B model (but the 2B in q8 is over 4GB, so I’m not sure exactly what they mean by that). Anyway, it’s a multimodal model for end-user devices like mobile phones. It understands images, text, audio, and video! If you have little RAM and you only want text, then you don’t load the vision and audio parameters. And you can keep those PLE parameters outside of RAM on fast storage. Meaning, on the phone’s flash storage. (Thanks to for explanation).

Pro-tip on fighting illegal immigration: - Make all immigration legal - Do not hand out welfare to any immigrants ever Problem solved. Fiscally positive. For more political hints, follow, like, boost, subscribe and zap. In this order 😉

There was one book that was audible only. Otherwise I found everything I wanted.

Very cool Btw: any way to display a few of the latest Nostr posts on a WordPress side, perhaps with server side caching?

Now it lives at https://anypay.today/

Money isn't wealth—it's just a claim ticket for wealth. Like a clothespin isn't clothes. People living paycheck to paycheck immediately cash in their tickets, consuming scarce resources as fast as they earn them. They are the most wasteful, they spend as much as they produce, leaving no surplus for others. The wealthy? They're sitting on stacks of uncashed tickets. By NOT spending, they leave actual resources—food, fuel, materials—available for others to use. When they invest those tickets in productive assets, they're choosing to expand the economy's ability to create MORE resources instead of consuming what exists today. The billionaire with $10B in stock isn't hoarding 10 billion loaves of bread in a vault. They're holding IOUs while the bread stays on shelves for others. Saying "billionaires hoard resources" is like saying someone with a library card hoards all the books. The card gives access, but until they check out a book, it's available for everyone else. Economic flat earthism at its finest.

Pepper and olive oil are not a proper carnivore, you are getting downgraded to plant eater 😁

I was always annoyed by the non-existence of a wallet that can simply pay any QR code. Someone wants Monero, Litecoin, Zcash and I don't have it. But I have a lightning wallet, which has instant finality, so we can use a swap service for payment. Instructions: go (on mobile, or desktop) to the page: https://cypherpunk.today/anypay/index.html If you want, you can add to home screen and it will install as an app (PWA) on mobile. But for now use it from the browser, there will be changes, so you don't have to clear cache. Click Scan QR Code and scan the payment code (I haven't tried Ethereum tokens yet, BTC, LTC and XMR work, ZEC should too). If there's no amount in the QR code, the app will ask for it (in target currency), but the point is rather to pay QR codes on various terminals that already include the amount. After creating a trade (note: the amount must be around $10 or more, otherwise Trocador API can't find the relevant trade route, as most exchanges have minimum amounts that they can swap, so it won't work for one flat white) a payment option will appear in your installed wallet (you can also copy the invoice or display a QR code). The list of recent trades is saved (locally in your browser). The server doesn't log anything - although Trocador might log, see privacy policy. So the process: Scan (or paste) payment code, pay with lightning wallet, deal done. All support is handled by Trocador, in the trades list you'll find all info needed for the trade. The algorithm for searching the exchange - rule out all D level KYC exchanges first (per trocador definition, but currently they don't have any anyway), cut out anything more expensive than 101% of the cheapest and then pick the one that is the fastest to complete the trade. Don't be reckless, small amounts only, it might not work.

I've listened to quite a few podcasts with him already, I might check this one out too. One thing to point out: " The light environment is the most important" <- this is not first principles. It is an opinion. And it for sure does not hold universally - many people have good light environment, but their diet / microbiome / ... is shit. It is an opinion that he has probably good theory about, but you can't say these things about complex systems (and we are complex systems) and still pretend you are first-principles based (in complex systems, there's computational irreducibility, so you simply can't say statements like these in any logically defensible way). I am not saying his arguments are not valid, but he does not understand limits of what can be said. He does not show we don't have adaptations - example: to say that light is most important, because we have developed in a particular way and have biology to work with the light does not mean there are not other mechanisms that we use when required in a different environment. Like we have primary and secondary (and tertiary) metabolic pathways for vitamins - it's simply so important that you can't rely on the environment to be the certain way. I still believe it is safest to go to paleo environments. But for example forests were common - yes, savannas and open woodlands were more common, but there were significant populations, especially in middle and late paleolithic that were based in forests (especially in Europe and in the rainforests). It's very unlikely we wouldn't have adaptation for that environment. Nature does not make mistakes 😉 It is quite common that a guru comes, says something is more important, people super-optimize one factor, a decade passes and they realize, it was not it. Microbiome, sleep, carnivore/paleo diet, light, "fat is bad", ... For me, it is more low-level heuristic. He just sounds very angry, always exposing conspiracies, always criticizing others in very unconstructive way, etc. I wouldn't like to be like that, so I need either a different role-model or a messenger. It's not a mindset I want to adapt. So if his first principle theories lead to that, I'd rather look elsewhere, I don't want to be constantly angry about the world. I think chronic stress reduction is more important than light 😉 Much more important. It's also environment based.

Bitcoin fixes this. I know both categories - cantilionaires and real entrepreneurs. I know more real entrepreneurs than cantilionaires (but that might be due to my social circle). What is interesting, cantilionaires often can't sustainably build wealth - even using the effect. They often spend more than they earn. And often it is very unstable, one regime change and they lose their income.

What the governments of the west do really well is creating these microdosed dystopias. For most people most of the time, they don't give you trouble. Then you do something or say something and with still low probability, you get into total shit, courts, fines, jailtime, frozen wealth, cancellation, ... No one is immune, not even people who are politically aligned with them. This has the effect of silent censorship, background fear and preemptive compliance with even unwritten rules. If you can get two years jailtime for criticizing politicians using the wrong phrase, you'll just tone it down. Of course, it has side effects. One of them is that if you want to break the rules, it is often better to break them big and in a safer way. Another example: people think that SEPA or other bank payments just work. Most people never experienced account or transaction freezing. Yet the banks have reporting and freezing quotas, so sometimes an account is frozen when you send 250€ to a family member. And it can easily take weeks until you can use your bank account again. Most people never experienced it, so they think it just works. But then you start hearing about it and change your behavior. With CBDCs we'll get much more of it. The banks at least try to be pro customer, but with CBDCs, you can get in some catch 22 loop, unable to function in the society. Again, most people won't experience it, but when they do, it can literally mean losing your home, etc. I can continue - people think healthcare works, we have good doctors (yes, we do!), but they are unavailable for months. Solving this is easy - get in international insurance and fly to wherever healthcare works. But you need to get it before you need it. But as most people believe healthcare works until they really need it, most won't. So we're stuck with low probability high negative impact events. The problem is that both the probability and downside impact is getting worse. And when many low probability events can happen, the probability of one of them happening is very high. I don't have a solution for the whole society, but individually you can rely on state captured "services" as little as possible. The parallel services might cause small constant friction, but high impact events are usually handled much better. As for the society, the vector is clear. This is how I know western world is declining. As opposed to many who have identified the pattern, my prediction is not some brutal crash that will reset everything, but decades of enshitification. Enjoy the decline!

Shorting fiat is available to all. That should be considered the baseline position, we should assume everyone with two brain cells do it. The billionaires had to do something else right. Yes, it's often taxes, essentially re-stealing stolen loot. But unpopular opinion - the money is better off with the billionaires than with the state anyway. We should also consider the honest billionaires and centimillionaires that are actually the majority. I know a few and very few would even go near state funds.

Very cool!

My talk "going to the digital hills" will take us through the ancient 2000 year old strategy of being ungovernable with cool cypherpunk tech. At Cypherpunk meetup. I will talk about Reticulum mesh networking, but also how it relates to cypherpunk tech and cryptoanarchy strategy. And I promise I won't talk long. Cypherpunk meetup in Prague before BTCPrague as an official side event. And we have many more things than me speaking prepared for you. Tickets and more info here: https://pay.cypherpunk.today/apps/2XpjQGab73AHiuHq1KNEEyFFKSZx/crowdfund

Just came from Tallinn, Estonia. A few things that are very interesting to me: - ex-soviet republic, less economically developed during communism than (Czecho)Slovakia, but now way more developed - digital transformation - nice that you can apply for the eID remotely, but otherwise the systems are not too ahead to Slovakia's e-government. - The accounting practices and principles for running a company are basically EU-standard, if you have run a company in EU, you know how it works (VAT, etc.) - On the other hand, no bullshit - no transaction taxes, micromanagement of social / health insurance, VAT rates changing year to year. Very stable, easy, no bullshit - file invoices, tax return, you're good to go, no one bothers you - no tax on reinvested income - basically, you only tax what you pay out as dividend on company level too. This promotes investment and development. The only other country in EU that has this is Poland, but with much stricter conditions (not for digital nomad projects). - attracts immigrants (both people and companies) from Finland and abroad - proximity, huge tax benefits, you can basically be ~22% income taxed, many athletes or other companies (Hololife center) moving from Finland to Estonia. Cheap and high quality access to EU markets - High quality - Tallinn has several Michelin-rated restaurants (Bratislava none), hipster specialty coffee shops (at least as good as Bratislava), sauna culture (although Bratislava is getting better) - people are friendly, they speak many languages (common for an Estonian to speak Estonian, Russian, Finnish and English - at the same time!) Downsides: - weather especially in winter (no sunlight) Meanwhile in Slovakia - entrepreneurs fed up, moving abroad, too much bullshit

Same... https://hackyourself.io/2025/06/24/tinkering-vibe-coding-and-the-long-tail-of-open-source/

It's cool that you create opportunities for fasting for the carnivore BTC maxis :)