Dimitris Tsapakidis

@LukeDashjr I love Dr Pepper and now that it is finally available where I live, I am not having any because I switched to water. It turned out I did not need the sweet drinks I was having daily with food.

I quit Dr. Pepper a few weeks ago, to reduce my sugar levels. But the alternatives I've tried (Zevia and Liquid Death) taste terrible. Any real solutions? 😕 (Dr Pepper Diet and Zero have aspartame, which is apparently poison)

1/12 I've been meaning to write a bit about @iang_fc 's book The Identity Cycle for a while now. For the impatient here's the oligitory My Little Pony infographic. For the Claude Notes summary read on 👎

11/ This is not progress on quantum cryptanalysis. It's a classical brute-force search with an expensive random number generator bolted on.

The Year 2026 – Shopping Without Browsing: I wanted to make a cup of coffee today. The coffee maker displayed a message indicating it needed cleaning and asked me to insert a cleaning disc and a tablet into the lever. I couldn't find the cleaning disc (see attachment). I opened Signal and sent the attached photo to my Signal AI with the following message: /ai Find out what this cleaning filter is called, where it's cheapest in Slovakia/Czech Republic, and order 2 pieces right away for our company (Nethemba s.r.o.). Use my card in my name for payment, card number XYZ (I provided it with a one-time Revolut card). If it requires two-factor authentication, let me know. Five minutes later, I received an email notification that the order and payment for 2 Sage cleaning discs, 53/54, had been successfully completed (see attachment). Everything went flawlessly, on the first try! AI Agent: 1. Identified the exact type of cleaning filter from the photo. 2. Found out where in Slovakia/the Czech Republic it was available at the lowest price. 3. Looked up our company's billing information. 4. Analyzed what the order and registration forms for that e-shop looked like. 5. Completely filled them out, including all necessary information. 6. Paid and ordered the goods. I didn't open a web browser the entire time! Using a browser to place orders is starting to feel pretty obsolete :-) I just sent one message on Signal. Technical background—if you want to set up a magic agent that will do almost everything for you: My Signal bot processed my message via signal-cli and forwarded it through my Signal-Hermes bridge to my Hermes agent. The Hermes agent runs on its own server and, via my Venice.AI API, is connected to Claude Sonnet 4.6 (a commercial, low-cost model) or Kimi 2.6 with a fallback to GLM 5.1 / Gwen 3.6 Plus (these are currently the best open-source LLM models). Security: 1. Commercial models (GPT, OPUS, Sonnet) will normally refuse to accept and use a credit card number (everything is logged, and it really isn't a good idea). You should therefore use open-source models (Gwen 3.6 Plus is even uncensored and easy to set up). 2. You can run open-source models entirely on your own machine or server and completely avoid using third parties (Gwen 3.6, Gemma 4, and GLM 5.1 work without issues—if you have a powerful GPU; as for Kimi 2.6, forget about it—it requires 2 TB of disk space and 500 GB of RAM). 3. If you don't have your own server, you can also run the Hermes agent on your desktop. However, if you want your agent to work nonstop, you must keep it running nonstop (for example, my Hermes agent analyzes current changes in offshore legislation worldwide and sends me a summary email every morning). 4. If you don't have the hardware for this, you can use services like Venice.AI or Routstr.com. Many open-source models can be run with end-to-end encryption (TEE-E2EE), so the service provider (Venice.AI) cannot access your data (!) You don't need to run them on your own machine. 5. For payments, use single-use Revolut cards or virtual Revolut cards with a defined transaction limit or monthly limit, thereby completely minimizing the risk of misuse. Don’t do things that AI can already do for you.

@TheBitcoinLayer @ChrisMasterjohn I am curious about the image of Saint Porphyrios, inscribed in Greek, sitting on the shelf.

🚨 NEW VIDEO 🚨 How to Live Longer: Austrian Economics for Your Body with Chris Masterjohn, PhD @ChrisMasterjohn on why your body is a market economy, drugs distort it like central banks distort the dollar, and mitochondria sit at the root of everything.

#GLP1 drugs (#Ozempic, #Wegovy, etc.) were supposed to be about weight loss and diabetes. They’re turning into something much bigger. Here's a thread about what I've learned reporting this story for @nytopinion for over a year: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

🚨 BREAKING: The FBI has successfully extracted deleted Signal messages from a suspect's iPhone via notification storage, the place where all your notifications are stored for up to one month. Notification storage stores data from all messaging apps, it's a big flaw in iOS. But there's a way to turn it off...

I beg everyone in crypto to read this in full. I expected this to be another case of social engineering, likely some recruiter/job offer shit. I was very wrong. And the depth of the operation and personas makes me think they already have multiple other teams on lock. 😳

2 years after Turkey’s landmark 2024 vote, 85 municipalities no longer in elected hands turkishminute.com/2026/03/31/2-y…

There is also a strategic opportunity that Europe has yet to fully grasp. Russia's strength depends heavily on its human capital. Creating structured pathways for highly skilled Russians — engineers, programmers, technical specialists — to relocate to Europe would strengthen European economies and weaken the Kremlin's long-term capacity. [5/7]

If ETFs and Bitcoin Treasury companies get better tax treatment than BTC -> centralization -> price will be discounted

In this 8th Debunk of the Day, we’ll discuss complaints about US financing of NATO, in particular how the US allegedly pays for European defense, leading to calls for a US withdrawal from the Alliance — which would only make it easier for Putin to invade more countries. 1/7

Good question to ask those who support chat control.

@jurbed Just replaced some 6500K bulbs with 3000K.

If you know, you know. If you don't know, your health suffers. Light matters.

Next Athens BitDevs is on Bitcoin on-chain privacy on Tuesday: meetup.com/blockchaingree…

Τα Δημοτικά Συμβούλια συζητούν θέματα για την καθημερινότητα μας. Το OpenCouncil τα παρακολουθεί και τα κάνει απλά (με ✨ ΑΙ ✨), σε 10 δήμους στην Ελλάδα.

Bitcoin meetup in Limassol on Sunday on the 13th anniversary of the bank deposit haircut in Cyprus: meetup.com/bitcoin-meet-u…

Realized today that not only AWS lightsail offers a ready to run OpenClaw instance but it's also the pre-selected instance to launch! Starting at $12 / month.