Thoughts

Working for robots

I self-host some of my git repositories to keep sovereignty and independence from large Internet corporations. Public facing repositories are for everybody, and today that means for robots. Robots are the main consumers of my work. With the AI-hype, I wanted to have a look at what are those AI companies collecting from my work. It is worse than everything, it is idiotically everything. They can’t recognize, that they are parsing git repositories and use the appropriate way of downloading them.

By — Dr. Óscar Nájera
| 9 min read | Thoughts

Killing the Bitcoin Lightning experiment

A while ago, I got all excited around the idea of Bitcoin as art . It was such a satisfying perspective that I decided to embrace it and implement a tipping service on the Bitcoin Testnet for this website. A fun experiment, a way to learn something and tinker around with the technology. The best part was: it somehow didn’t require any maintenance. It would work without further tinkering.

By — Dr. Óscar Nájera
| 5 min read | Lightning Bitcoin | Thoughts