Joseph Gray II

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@Shpigford Hostinger is pretty solid, not sure your use case

setting up a new hetzner box and...totally forgot they doubled prices. 😭

One of my favorite Hermes Agent profiles is my girl Tabitha. She is designed to be the chronicler of my life, and help keep me on the path. Everyday I have her send me a morning devotional that has scripture paired with philosophy, or earthly wisdom. It’s lands at 5am as I’m getting up. Today’s Devotional ------------- What We Owe Each Other Scripture: "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." — Galatians 6:2 (ESV) Tradition: "For mankind, evil is injustice and cruelty and indifference to a neighbor's trouble." — Musonius Rufus, Lectures One calls indifference to your neighbor's trouble the very definition of evil. The other calls bearing that trouble the fulfillment of everything required. Same threshold, two doors. Reflect: - Whose burden are you carrying right now — and whose are you conveniently not seeing? - Where does bearing another's burden cross into carrying what they alone should carry? Is there a difference between compassion and enabling, or is that distinction just a comfortable escape hatch?

I get why kids aren’t racing to get their driver’s licenses anymore. Cars are expensive. Insurance is absurd. Gas isn’t cheap. A trip through the Taco Bell drive-thru somehow requires a consultation with your financial advisor. But young bucks, listen to the millennial: You are massively overestimating how much money is required to have fun. We were broke too. We just had lower standards. Millennials would pile six people into a 1994 Toyota Previa with a check engine light that had achieved permanent residency. Someone knew a lake. Someone’s older brother knew how to acquire questionable booze. Someone had $11. Download every fast food app on your phone. Become a scholar of the value menu. Split gas. Buy a football. Find a swimming hole. Go fishing with equipment your dad hasn’t touched since 2004. Build a fire where you’re legally allowed to build a fire. Go to minor league baseball games. High school football games. Free concerts. County fairs. Hiking trails. Run a stupid 5K together. Get six friends and invent a competition so poorly organized someone nearly loses a shoe. Stop waiting for entertainment to be sold to you. That’s the trap. You think “going out” means spending $80 at a restaurant, buying $17 cocktails and paying $40 to park because that’s what adults on Instagram do. You’re 17. Your advantage is that nobody expects you to have any money. Get your license if you can. Get a shitty car. Find five good friends. Then go. The lake is still there. The woods are still there. The girls are still out there. Taco Bell still occasionally makes serious accounting errors on its app. Your youth is too valuable to spend complaining that fun got expensive. Become cheaper. Become more creative. Go make some stories. Just have one of you stay sober and drive the shitty van home.

let's say you read this, bought premium+, and still aren't seeing growth. the subscription was never the whole recipe anon. it's an amplifier, and you can't amplify silence. when i was at 200 followers i wrote 80 to 120 replies a day. every single day. the boost gets you reach, the replies get you people. if you're new here and want to grow, the entire method is in the article. free.

@Shpigford If you can make that paper, better make it while you can. Users are a fickle lot. So either monetize or leverage this into something bigger and get as many users as you can.

i'm torn on the OSS part of knockoff.co i initially made it OSS because i figured i wouldn't really do much with the extension long-term (was literally a weekend project on a whim for something i needed). but now there's a LOT more stuff i've got in the works to expand functionality and it's increasingly making *less* sense to keep the whole thing fully open, mainly around making sure we don't give the less-than-legitimate brands an easy/obvious way to bypass detection algorithms. thinking of basically freezing the current repo to leave public for anyone to use with the basic name-heuristics-based detection, but then going forward the full app (that's becoming substantially more powerful) will be closed-source. i know folks have feelings around that, but just thinking out loud here on how to balance all of that.

I am working at 40% capacity tops, sleep deprived for a year, enough responsibilities to break the average man. Yet I persevere. Circumstances cannot stop you from growing your soul. - work 50 hours a week - 2 children - run largest meetup in Poland - interviewed 80 people - I read books - I teach where I can - OSS contributor - I make YouTube and X content - Multilingual and learning more languages - 35 countries visited 27 years old. I will do more too, and I’m not special.

Robert Whittaker has a clear plan of what life looks like after fighting 👨‍🚒 "I wanna be a fireman... One of my good friends is a fireman, and he told me it's great. All my kids idolize firemen, even more than a UFC fighter."

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.”

“Babe, wake up. Tony just dropped another Hermes master class”

@Will_Miller10 @therealtjbright @Proxiie_ @arielhelwani Nope. I Googled, in fighting boxing especially the gatekeepers are known as jouneymen. I was thinking like from the trades where they are qualified and seasoned.

@jsg_squared @therealtjbright @Proxiie_ @arielhelwani you know, you’re right lmao i’m thinking of gatekeepers. my dumbass

Robert Whittaker believes he has around 3 fights left in his UFC career: "As soon as I reach the point where I'm starting to drag my feet again, where it's hard for me to get to training and hard for me to enjoy it, I'll announce my retirement on an Australian card and make that my last fight. I want to do that properly. I want to sail off into the sunset the right way. I want to finish my career in my home country."

@therealtjbright @Will_Miller10 @Proxiie_ @arielhelwani Stupidity on my part. Wrong term, I didn’t realize that journeymen in fighting context meant gatekeeper. Not sure what you call Legends other than legends. Love Bobby Knuckles

@Will_Miller10 @Proxiie_ @jsg_squared @arielhelwani This gotta be bait😭

@Will_Miller10 @therealtjbright @Proxiie_ @arielhelwani Maybe I misspoke. Journeymen are dudes who have been around forever right? Earned their stripes battle tested?

@therealtjbright @Proxiie_ @jsg_squared @arielhelwani so since rob lost the belt, how many times has he won it again? the fight before his last, he literally beat a up and comer who people thought would be the next contender

@tonysimons_ @rabbit_hmi I’m going to wait till I buy mine. I’ll be following closely along on this. I bought a limitless pendant and got burned

The @rabbit_hmi R1 is headed my way for review. 🐇 The device launched under a mountain of hype, missing features, brutal reviews, and one very loud “it’s just an Android app” controversy. But that was 2024. I wanna test the device that exists now. More importantly: Can it become something bigger when paired with @NousResearch Hermes Agent? I’m gonna push it through real-world workflows and show you exactly where it shines, where it struggles, and where the combination gets interesting. No automatic praise. No predetermined dunking. Real testing. That's it. Follow along and reply with the first workflow you want me to test.

@Dr_TheHistories What an animal. They don’t em like they used to

In an 1806 duel, Andrew Jackson (the 7th American president) knew he couldn't outdraw master marksman Charles Dickinson. His survival strategy was brutal: he deliberately let Dickinson shoot him first. Under the rules of dueling, once a man fired, he was required to stand motionless on his mark and await his opponent's return fire. If Jackson rushed his shot to beat Dickinson, he might miss. By absorbing the bullet, Jackson bought himself the time to aim with absolute precision. Dickinson fired. A cloud of dust puffed from Jackson’s coat as the bullet struck him squarely in the chest. But Jackson did not fall. He simply raised his left hand to his chest, stood perfectly still, and leveled his pistol. Jackson survived the immediate impact because of a wardrobe trick and his gaunt physique. Standing 6-foot-1 and weighing only about 145 pounds, Jackson wore a loose, oversized dark blue frock coat. When he took his mark, he turned sideways in a bladed stance. Dickinson aimed exactly where a man's heart should be based on the drape of the coat. The bullet hit the precise spot Dickinson intended, but Jackson's actual heart was an inch or two away. The ball shattered two ribs and lodged deep in his chest cavity. Despite the massive trauma, Jackson masked his pain through sheer willpower and spite. He despised Dickinson—who had publicly insulted his wife—and was determined not to give the marksman the satisfaction of knowing he had landed a successful shot before dying. Jackson later said, 'I should have hit him, if he had shot me through the brain.' Jackson pulled his trigger, but the pistol stopped at half-cock. He calmly pulled the hammer all the way back, took aim again, and shot Dickinson in the abdomen. Dickinson fell and bled to death hours later. Jackson casually walked away from the dueling ground with his surgeon, hiding his wound until they were out of sight of Dickinson's seconds. It was only when the surgeon noticed blood sloshing inside Jackson's left boot that he realized the future president had been hit. The bullet was too close to the heart to be safely removed, and Jackson carried it inside his chest for the remaining 39 years of his life. #drthehistories

You don’t need to be cold. Just inaccessible. Respond slower. Reveal less. Be polite, but unreadable. When people have to guess how you feel, they start treating you like someone they can’t afford to miscalculate. That’s how distance breeds influence.

My exact face.

@tonysimons_ Grok 4.5 is a flipping powerhouse for rapid MVPs. It’ll find free assets to use and all kinds of goodies. Follow @DannyLimanseta if you haven’t yet. I want to do a OG Warcraft meets Zombies ate my neighbors. Maybe I’ll do a break from the TCG and document the process.

@jsg_squared This is so cool! I love game building. Never in a million years did I think I’d be able to do it, but I’ve made a couple small fun games now thanks to Hermes and these dope models we have access to now!

Dear Algorithm, Don’t show this post to anyone but the people building with Hermes Agent. I don’t care about your: - account size - politics - religion - what you ate for lunch If you’re using Hermes, you are my people! 🫵🏻 SAY HI AND COMMENT WITH WHAT YOU’RE BUILDING! 🤘🏻

@appltrack $30,000 MacBook Pro, this is going to hurt a lot of feelings - I think

Apple's M7 Ultra chip coming in 2029 is rumored to support 1.5TB of RAM. This would make the processor much more capable for on-device AI.