Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / OurBigBook.com vs X Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Wikipedia:
  • notability guidelines too stringent
  • Encyclopedic content requirements too stringent, we need tutorials
  • contributors get no clear indication of their contribution
  • your changes can be reverted at any time losing you hours of work
Figure 1. Source.
Stack Exchange: can't write a book/have table of contents, only Q&A
Figure 2. Source.
Other personal knowledge bases (Obsidian, static site generators, etc.), blogs, PDFs:
  • no way to merge brains of multiple users
  • some of them are not focused on publishing, only personal/internal company usage
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / Edit and publish Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / Topics: the best version of an article by other users (the killer feature) Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Figure 1.
The topics feature allows you to find the best version of a subject written by other users user
. Live demo: derivative.
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / What you get Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / An anonymous donor gave me 1000 Monero (~126,000 USD) on March 2024 to work on this for one year Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Figure 1.
Screenshot of Ciro Santilli's Monero wallet with 1000 Monero in it just after the donation
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Figure 2.
Still of the reaction video after finding out about the big donation around about midnight
. Source.
Figure 3.
It's a role given to me by the Internet people
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / Motivation: university sucks real bad right now Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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The ultimate goal: create an university:
The technical goal:
Get university students to write what they learn. All university material should be amazing and free!
The how:
Create the ultimate personal knowledge base software with multi-user mind-melding features.
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / I'm not a professional hacker, I did some very occasional OSINT just for fun Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / Creative Commons CC By-SA Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / Ordinal ruleset inscription (2022): the end of the line: Eternal September arrives Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Figure 1.
Ordinal #0
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Figure 2.
Bitcoin ordinal ruleset inscription frequency with time
. Source.
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / How illegal does something in the Bitcoin blockchain have to be to make it illegal? Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / Help wanted! Some sites were almost certainly missed. Contributions will be acknowledged. Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / Methodology Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / My article trended on Hacker News, that's how I met Boitatech people who called me for this talk Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / Coolest findings Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / The issue tracker is quite cute, because Chinese people actually use GitHub search in addition to search engines Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / Collateral freedom: HTTPS: the censor doesn't know which path you access Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / Xi Jinping, sadomasochist in leather suit Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Figure 1.
Xi Jinping, ruler of China, wearing leather sadomasochist outfit
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / Xi Jinping, ruler of China Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Figure 1.
Xi Jinping, ruler of China
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Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / Introduction Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-06
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Lancelet Updated 2025-06-17 +Created 2024-09-04
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