Deceit implies intent, which I didn't. You could instead have said I was inaccurate. Thanks for the facts, though. You seem very knowledgeable. I wasn't aware of the gap from CPU to GPU mining in Bitcoin, only from GPU to ASIC way after I played with it. I might as well have mined on CPU. That old rig had the Radeon HD4870 paired with a hellish hot AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE. Although as you said not in 2009, since I was definitely on a pool.

It's not fictional, this happened. But you're right, it probably happened in 2010, not 2009. I didn't solo mine, but on a pool. 2009 was when I created the wallet. I know this because it was when I received the first email on my current e-mail address. This e-mail superseded the one I saved the wallet keys on. And chill, dude, I'm not claiming to be a seasoned Bitcoin enthusiast. I played with it in the very beginning, forgot about it, LOLed when people started hyping in 2017, then got into Monero around 2019.

Holy shit! The #WebApp I'm building with #Monero integration apparently runs quite well even in a smartwatch mini browser! Incredible compatibility considering I put zero effort for this, apart from typing the web address on that small screen :D Feels good to imagine if it ever goes live, people with all kind of devices will be able to use it. It will not be gatekeeped by corporations.

#Grok on Cursor just triggered three SELinux alerts on my machine. This is just too suspicious, coming after the massive data exfiltration they just did with their harness recently. Moving all my dev workspace to a VM now.

In 2009 I started mining #Bitcoin with a brand new Radeon HD4870. I barely knew what Bitcoin actually was and had absolutely no idea what it would become. I was just a teenager gamer with a high-end GPU, trying to make good use of it in spare time. Then after a few months I questioned myself: am I getting something out of this or just wasting electricity? I made the math and realized "it was not profitable", the cost of mining was higher than the value of Bitcoin I was receiving. So I decided to stop mining to save my Dad a few bucks of electricity by the end of the month. I mined total around 0.6 BTC, which at that time was maybe less than 100 USD. Also lost that wallet that is now worth thousands because I stored the keys in an inactive email. Had I kept on mining despite being not profitable, I would be a crypto millionaire today. I learned my lesson. That's why I keep mining Monero even though on paper it is not profitable.

Jokes on them, I control my source code versions the old way: mv, rsync and diff. It's just me though. If man needs a proper toolset, he can always #selfhost gitea.

Thanks. Your prints made me realize I haven't updated amethyst since version 1.0.6! D:

Grok 4.5 on Cursor is proving itself way more effective in debugging code than GPT 5.5. Very frequently GPT suggests changes that doesn't even pass the compiler, then asking it to fix the errors caused by itself, it forgets the goal of the original prompt and starts chasing its tail until complete hallucination.

My brain usually begins being productive after 8 pm. If by 10 pm I feel that progress is being made I can go all night. You blink and it's 4 am and there is... This comfy feeling, being there doing your thing in the middle of the night when it's all quiet and everyone is sleeping, you're listening old nostalgic songs and being like 8000% more productive while remaining 100% chill and contempt.

Setting up #ComfyUI for Linux with Radeon GPU ended being way easier than anticipated. 1. Install latest version of ROCm. 2. With pip, install a pyTorch build for that ROCm version. 3. Clone ComfyUI repo. 4. Create a Python virtual environment and activate it. 5. Install the Python packages from requirements. Then if everything was done right, you'll be able to bring up ComfyUI server without errors. The interface can be reached via browser from localhost port 8188.

The incredible #twitter phenomenon which they hide your posts and likes even from yourself. I'm so shadow banned on that platform, I can't even see some of my own posts. Try it yourself: in the app, delete all your posts, replies and likes, you might not be able to zero the counter even after you delete everything. Then, request that an archive with all your data be sent to you. It will arrive in your e-mail days later. You can open the archive in a browser and see all your posts and likes, including the hidden ones. The hidden posts are still there, if you copy the direct link to it from the archive, you can still load them in a browser. It's just not normally visible to anyone. My KYCed profile I used to tweet since 2009 has 21 posts and over 8000 likes hidden. One thing I noticed is that the hidden content started from mid 2020, shortly after the pandemic started. It also coincided with the time when impressions and engagement to my posts plummeted. My posts used to get thousand of views and at least dozens of likes, then tanked to 0 to 20 views and 0 to 2 likes (from the profiles tagged in the post). If no one is reading my posts, then at least I will be posting them on #Nostr.

I LOLed at the face of my manager when he said I should be more proactive and communicative. The guy even said I could be fired if I don't improve it. Bitch, try it, I will be doing the exact same work to the same customers but making more in a day than the company pays me in a month. It's funny how clueless managers are. They don't even know what they are managing, but somehow they always have this "boss" attitude. It may scare someone younger, more naive or someone who desperately needs the money, but it will not work with me. Why not just talk like adults who belong to the same team? Talking too much doesn't solve a problem. Acting too fast hurts assertivity. If you want an instant response, you can always use GPT, I just can't guarantee it will solve the customer's problem. Unfortunately, at least on my field, AI haven't reached that level yet, otherwise my job would be way easier!

#Monero mining performance of my rig's new CPU: Stock: 20,5 kH/s +EXPO: 21,5 kH/s +PBO+CO: 22,5 kH/s Simply turning EXPO profile on the memory added 5% to hashrate without any increase in temperature or power draw. PBO added another 5%, at the cost of drawing more power. I haven't measured it, therefore it's unclear if the difference in energy consumption is worth the additional hashrate. More power naturally leads to higher temperatures. At 24°C ambient, temps while mining were ~77°C before PBO, then ~88°C after PBO and Curve Optimizer at -15 mV. At operational system level, power profile at Balance and Performance were similar, while Economy dropped hashrate to stock levels, while keeping temps at 60°C and noise at near silent levels.