Jeroen Ubbink

https://blackbyte.nl

Software developer, bitcoin enthusiast

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npub1wetqn3lvuj562f32ecccsq0y0xpeffvssu37cl2tfruyrdyg505sdej2dp

NIP-05 Address

jeroen@blackbyte.nl

NIP-57 Address

angelicspike21@walletofsatoshi.com

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relay.nostr.band

relay.damus.io

relay.snort.social

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2024-11-01 14:30:44

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What's up with these ultra small square "checkboxes" that people need to tap with their fingertips that are like 3-4x bigger than the checkbox? Can you not just tap the rectangle that envelopes both the tiny square and the candidate's name? And if so, why are there these distracting tiny squares? If you want people to have the experience of voting like on a paper ballot give them a stylus so they can tap the tiny square.
I utterly fail at any kind of UI/UX but even i can see that this makes no sense whatsoever.

2024-10-04 05:06:54

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Gad Saad is pretty based. Would you recommend the book? I've only listened to (a lot of) podcasts where he was a guest.

2024-10-02 08:43:02

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I am actually shocked people come up with these kind of measures.
How can you ever justify going through millions or maybe billions of photos and text messages to find a single occurrence of a bad actor while this is as easily circumvented as installing the next e2e encrypted app, or, if it's on OS level, another device that let's you bypass these measures entirely.
The encryption cat has been out of the bag for decades so we should really stop trying to capture it on the endpoints. If it was possible they would monopolize encryption just like they already monopolize violence.

2024-09-24 19:44:56

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Shut up and take my sats!

2024-09-24 05:33:44

GM!
Where can i read about the solution to the spam bots (reply guys and impersonators) and how they were blocked? #asknostr

2024-09-24 05:31:28

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This mostly boils down to the ancient thin server/thin client discussion.
If you look at it from a trust perspective however a thin relay makes more sense because how does a relay know what i, as the end-user, considers worthy of my attention. Specifically if the relays filter stuff that i am not aware of.
It's a bit the same like email. While most servers actively filter spam emails it's still embedded into most clients as well. However that also lead us to the point where running your own email server becomes a problem as it is now centralized around the big 3 cloud providers that will just actively block half the ip-address space on the internet because those mostly generated spam.
Looking at it from a real-life perspective, social interactions are always p2p so i think striving towards that goal seems to make the most sense.

2024-09-22 11:24:54

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Hard to tell but it could be something as simple as just checking the name. So we just all rename ourselves to Reply Guy to see if that stops the spam.
Could also be that they run on a centralized database which stores the npub from which they send the reply to ignore any events from that npub.

2024-09-13 05:20:53

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Also take note that the stuff that causes the highest types of inflammation are actually the worst types of food. Processed foods and refined sugars. This could be a total coincidence of course but i think that's a highly unlikely scenario.

2024-09-13 05:18:14

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I was confused by your suggestion stating it is to support inflammation, but even good old webmd says that this is not the case. It is the food that causes the inflammation because your body partially rejects it.
https://www.webmd.com/diet/anti-inflammatory-diet-road-to-good-health

2024-09-08 18:24:07

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You must be one of those big breakfast, medium lunch and light dinner guys.

2024-09-05 20:18:47

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I dunno what you've been hearing but feel free to ask and i can verify it for you.

2024-09-05 05:29:18

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Or pull a Hanlon's Razor. Power always blinds and corrupts.

2024-09-05 05:11:51

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You had me there for a second because of the order in which i read these things. 😅

2024-09-05 05:09:20

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I'll see you tonight! Stay humble and eat Indonesian delicacies! 😋

2024-09-04 15:30:42

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I am always baffled at the fact that all solutions for all problems must be solved at the citizen level.

2024-09-04 15:29:02

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I'd just take 3 bags and throw whatever is left in front of city hall.

2024-08-30 20:30:00

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So say your couple A gets $100. But that $100 had to come from the bureaucratic machine that is the government. They had to hire extra people to deal with that incentive. This $100 that you get probably costed taxpayers $200 so if you scale that up somewhere people fall below a reasonable treshold where they were pondering to have children but decided to not do it because even though they get $100, they are charged $200 extra in taxes so they are still $100 short.
Taxes always weigh heaviest on people just entering the job market for minimum wages and these are the people that have to make the children.
Even with a 1:1 relation where you get taxed $100 and somebody else receives that exact amount without intermediaries taking cuts it would still make no sense. You are quite literally destroying capitalism and the free market right there.

2024-08-29 11:04:26

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Afraid to ask about the pro-level pack.
Does it start with creating your own universe? ☕

2024-08-23 17:28:18

The day after an intense legday with sandbag squats.
https://media4.giphy.com/media/vNBNypcpAaZjy/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952fp6rbw7im5dhl9avvnun7wtrklmf2yck9bokh8pj&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

2024-08-23 12:15:24

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I too found the name very confusing. When i first tried to dip my toes into it i started reading about protocol and then it really felt like somebody came up with a fancy json scheme.

2024-08-21 20:03:46

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I think i'm even further ahead already and have it down to five.
It really helps once you can stop taking all these freaking accessories with you like food, diapers, strollers, carts, extra clothes.
Now i'm starting to worry that soon they can stay at home alone and then they can go out alone and then, before you know it, they are gone and only come to visit you every now and then.

2024-08-21 17:24:03

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You sure? I see it on https://dtan.xyz/

2024-08-14 05:28:23

GM!
During one of our last hikes in Austria last week we went up the "Klammsteig". In contrast to the "Wolfsklamm" this is much less touristic and we only saw one other couple hiking up the steig.
https://image.nostr.build/d7a71ff06b839128ed8397552900b366b01ff8fa0ba3e381c06fa9b468db1b19.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/dd5246e1d8c928fc5dfe2b544ea54610f6c7acbf91cfeb3fdac377e37e0d9225.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/abfcdf9c0d498b0ee79e5e86f8d53450264f46d16b33645a4e4a321ac227ce54.jpg

2024-08-13 06:02:41

Gm!
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2024-08-12 16:42:53

Start working out! Make no excuses about something else being more important.
Your future self will thank you!
It's never too late!
#nevent1q…wk83

2024-08-12 16:40:13

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Great to hear. For me it took almost 10 years from starting to visit the gym until like about 2 years ago when it started clicking with me and since then i have been stepping it up and almost every new day is my fittest day yet while also being in my fourties.

2024-08-11 07:54:22

GM!
What's this new thing i've been hEARing about?
https://media1.giphy.com/media/Mgs7NWPOdsj9m/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952uxu8yv6uqc4ip4ug7uk4p5gj3a3qglr256ahek0g&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

2024-08-09 08:11:53

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echo "PONG"? 🤨

2024-08-08 19:56:51

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I heard that 20 years ago already. It's probably like nuclear fusion, always a shifting moment into the future..

2024-08-08 16:59:08

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Which episode was this taken from?

2024-08-08 14:49:24

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Oh i thought it was python, i don't think i can or want to touch cpp :/

2024-08-08 14:46:44

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I can have a look at strfry and its issuetracker since python is my native tongue. Maybe there are some small thing i can fix.

2024-08-08 14:35:33

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Wait i don't quite understand it. Do we need more relay codebases? Are they outdated? Or do we need more relays? Or faster/bigger relays?
I used to run a relay on my but once i noticed there was stuff on i did not want on it and that could actually get me in trouble with the law as well i simply destroyed it.
I am a backend dev but since i am still doing a normie full-time job as well to provide for my family so my time is pretty limited.

2024-08-08 11:37:56

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I do not envy the chicken that lay that monster. Is she ok?

2024-08-07 15:06:24

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I'm generally inflexible but my shoulders and back are by far the worst problematic.
I want to be able to keep my hands straight above my head, but in general i am working towards doing (a) muscle-up(s).
Nothing is really stopping me. I have my fysio exercises that start to slowly improve things. I mostly have to just stick to them and do them at least every other day (most of the time i exercise different muscle groups every day).

2024-08-07 05:35:32

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Why not both? :)

2024-08-06 20:30:59

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Just like ye olde light bulb that was used for light, this is actually a white noise generator that produces 99.9% heat.

2024-08-06 20:19:18

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I spedn whenever i can and i stack whenever i can. Spedn is always lightning through and i still stack faster than i can spedn.

2024-08-06 20:14:54

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I'm so happy i found the solution to making infinite money that i would like to share it with you for a fee
- nobody ever

2024-08-06 20:12:53

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If it was like betamax vs vhs i'd know the solution

2024-08-05 20:08:34

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Hi! How did you hear about nostr and what platform did you come from?

2024-08-05 17:25:06

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Now what payment method can we come up with that works with "hawk tuah"? 🤔

2024-08-04 19:00:27

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Where did the awesome steaks go? Feeling too healthy? 🫣

2024-08-04 18:54:49

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I feel like, since we're paying taxes, it is good to have everybody do this without exceptions.
However to me it stops making sense the moment you spend more money on AML and enforcing it than the money collected from it.
Recently i heard that in the US for every $200 spend on AML they collect $1. Pardon me if this is false, i currently have no source for it.
What other motives can there be that allows spending more than receiving? Who is benefitting here?

2024-08-03 19:08:26

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It is! I have been there on holiday for 6 times now. I keep going to different countries and most of the time i'm like: "This is really nice, but it's not Norway."
Last year during the summer i visited about 12 waterfalls, only 3 of them i had seen before, for some i was there for half an hour with zero other people. I went to the snow, i swam in a fjord, in a mountain lake and some really odd pools with natural slides up in the mountains. I hiked for hours while never seeing a person.
For me it's the best country for a great holiday. So much stuff to do and 99% is free.

2024-08-01 19:57:21

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Looks interesting. I'm almost through the gulag archipelago. Took quite long because i really can't read it for more than an hour most of the time.

2024-07-31 21:10:53

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Why not a rePoWcha while we're at it?

2024-07-29 19:42:18

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Do you put a long hose on your bidet if you want to tp someone's house?

2024-07-14 05:06:51

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I agree that this works now, but when scaling up you will get to a point where it will become impossible for people to open up a channel because evey channel required an on-chain transaction and we will run out of transaction space way before onboarding every person on the planet.
This is realistically still very far off and maybe lightning is not the end game at all, but ecash does give you some options in terms of further scaling up the lightning network for now.
We have to keep inventing here even if the outcome is not the perfect one.

2024-06-26 20:35:02

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Tasty steak! Rib eye? Enjoy!

2024-06-21 05:35:47

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Can confirm! It should look like this:
https://image.nostr.build/64a85ccf1693c16c78a43704d9ce40fe7110a5e4842be23236621c260d38a139.jpg

2024-06-20 16:00:25

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I'd like to try!

2024-06-18 13:40:25

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Also, whoever ran that bot stopped doing so or all developers simultaneously stopped swearing in there commits exactly at the end of last year. 🤔

2024-05-25 13:01:06

@npub1s6z…wk4c and @npub13aj…2yd9 having all the right questions, statements and thought experiments for the bankers and the european parliament. Amazing panel discussion at Adopting Bitcoin Arnhem. #bitcoincity

2024-05-14 13:26:50

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Maybe we should then also hold all ethereum developers and nodes responsible for facilitating this.
While we're at it let's also arrest every shopowner that ever accepted any cash. They too have been doing money laundring on massive scales.
It's cool if you're a bank though. They are the guardians and trusted entities here. There's nobody actually checking them and if any money laundring meets the light of day nobody goes to jail and they get fined a small percentage of the money that was actually laundered.

2024-05-12 09:24:07

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⚡⚡🏃🏃

2024-05-08 05:00:38

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Should make a poll and let the sats decide!

2024-04-27 06:35:49

People that know me well know i have been warning against the use of seedoils for a couple of years now. Usually people think it's not so bad and i'm totally over exaggerating, yet more and more evidence keeps popping up that confirms that i am not exaggerating that much.
Do not forget that seedoils have not been around that long and we have been eating butter for many centuries.
Like with many things, supposedly trustworthy institutions can be bought to promote products or product categories that turn out to be not so good for you at all.
If something seems to good to be true, it probably is...
#nevent1q…ewz0

2024-04-26 18:32:36

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That's a shame! Care to elaborate a bit more? Does this gave anything to do with the charges against Samourai wallet?

2024-04-25 18:55:37

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I reckon you made a typo in your email address. 🙈

2024-04-19 05:01:00

Tis soon upon us!
#nevent1q…sjg5

2024-04-10 05:13:38

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Could you tell the difference if i installed it through obtainium or got the apk directly from github releases? (Like with a browser or cURL)

2024-04-05 19:33:33

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So at best i confirmed the bug? :/

2024-04-05 08:36:30

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came for the memes, stayed for the zaps

2024-04-03 09:29:33

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This is the case with many people. I often hear you cannot get addicted to weed yet i can't find a better term to describe it if you use it on a near-daily basis.
Something starts nagging at you to do something, then you smoke and that feeling disappears, escaping that nagging feeling for the day. The next day it will be there again probably.
I'm happy to hear you overcame your barrier!

2024-04-03 09:24:51

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There's pro's and cons like with everything. What for some people is a downside is an upside for other people, depending from person to person. I don't think there's a single general benefit that fits every person.
However:
- Because your thought patterns change you can become more creative or it can help you relax.
- It can either remove (social) anxiety but also induce it.
- It can give you an overall better appreciation for things.
- It can increase your appetite, which can be either good or bad again, depending on the situation.
Like with most things moderation is key here if your intentions are to try to improve your life and not escape (the problems in) your life.

2024-04-03 05:18:04

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Do the rpi's actually malfunction or is it maybe just the sd-card that breaks down? I know (from experience) that sd-cards are notoriously bad if you write to them often. I've had an rpi setup that lasted only about 9 months because i was capturing my (electricity) meter every 10 seconds and writing a small file (~100 bytes) to the card.
After i changed it to write that file to a memory disk it ran fine for about 6 years and all i did was occasionally install some OS updates.
However i think for your setup it might be wise to upgrade it anyway. The bare boards are relatively cheap but that is only if you don't count all the peripherals you have to additionally buy to make them actually work, like adapters, sd cards, maybe some kind of enclosure..

2024-03-22 13:50:41

Thanks to @npub1jqs…r247 for sending and thanks @npub1art…m0w5 for writing!
https://image.nostr.build/7d089b9d23ad0fd7406b7e93390e012885fe318d1086c00ec20a8e8957d672fd.jpg

2024-03-19 17:53:28

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I would argue that it comes down to how the most popular clients will set their relays. Right now most clients do not actively engage you to set your own relays or choose some from a list. Instead they mostly seem to use some predefined list. If they don't change this then inherently the relays defined by the most popular clients will see the biggest engagement and therefore become the biggest centralized hot spots.
On the other hand i can also understand that the experience may not be really awesome if you pick some (random) relays that people are just testing out for a couple of days or weeks just to see them disappear shortly thereafter.

2024-03-16 18:02:42

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And then they deprecate one method that was ideal or improve upon another. Or you find some weird edge case in which one of them turns out to be slower with lists > n.
It's always so many trade-offs and decisions to make on whether to improve X, fix deprecation Y now or make new feature Z..