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Sjors Provoost

https://sprovoost.nl

Physicist turned bitcoin developer aka "shadowy super-coder", author of Bitcoin: A Work In Progress

Public Key

npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c

NIP-05 Address

sjors@sprovoost.nl

NIP-57 Address

sjors@sprovoost.nl

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsgdp0taan9xwxadyc79nxl8svanu895yr8eyv0ytnss8p9tru047qppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5q3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny42w3ze

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nostr.mom

relay.nostr.band

relay.damus.io

Author Public Key

npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c

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Last Notes

2024-11-11 02:08:11

Wonderfully dystopian scenario, let's hope it's like most predictions...
https://youtu.be/040ejWnFkj0

2024-11-10 23:22:06

A bit tedious having to type ".jpg" after every Blossom image URL in noStrudel. #note1qqr…wwfz

2024-11-09 00:53:03

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Though the ordering in my link seems nonsensical.

2024-11-09 00:49:46

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What's the query for this? I get very different results here: https://1ml.com/node?order=oldest&active=true

2024-11-08 03:06:47

Ad for @npub168e…9uaw in #Boston subway, nice! https://image.nostr.build/2502ea9f6db48f20a9ba690557c837dd0f7947a1b5db970d5c58aacac146731f.jpg

2024-11-08 03:00:14

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Thanks mom.

2024-11-07 21:42:46

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Nice! It doesn't seem to fetch the image associated with my post though.
#note1l46…vvxt

2024-11-07 17:46:11

When you can't the TV off, but you find a nice therapeutic gold sales channel... now I can read my book undistracted. https://image.nostr.build/5008f9b6b01cfd4df2319e9891345c827ed220482c0d8b1947b28bfaecd21293.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a90fd08312bb6a544bc0ff809af178569554095c5bece6776eb84ae2090c4f66.jpg

2024-10-31 15:06:56

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Isn't the idea of a "follower" that they follow you? To Nostr.

2024-10-29 17:18:37

Een hoop dingen die je waarschijnlijk nog niet wist over Noord Korea.
https://fountain.fm/episode/FHo3E7OLHaOdpVlgHSIn

2024-10-28 17:00:33

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And nothing involving network drives?

2024-10-27 13:07:44

Ah so that's how the robot dogs work... #note1wz4…2vp2

2024-10-25 22:26:03

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Setting your language to North Korean might do the trick, haven't tried :-)

2024-10-25 22:25:27

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Just get it flagged for some reason and they'll automatically close it!

2024-10-25 00:16:13

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A couple years after Nixon dropped the gold standard.

2024-10-23 22:40:26

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They've been around for decades in my experience.

2024-10-23 13:10:22

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Well at least I recognize the last two characters.

2024-10-23 00:26:41

It's time for #TABConf https://image.nostr.build/41d232a01b3c779aab349afe6dcbfeb571486059e14085152dfabfc9a9096965.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3a2adbaae81e533b8d6959620d9a50431848e043ba573d25479d0f9e46521bd8.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e3d7a044762d1ea0c11243b2a50eed864a0c1392060664f57026d4321c0a5f71.jpg

2024-10-22 09:01:16

Vodafone gets €2.25 million fine because their wiretap backdoor was insecure. Good, but it shouldn't exist at all.
https://www.rdi.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/10/22/aftapvoorziening-vodafone-niet-voldoende-beveiligd

2024-10-21 17:29:28

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And you have a profile pic!

2024-10-21 17:11:29

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Well...
#note1uyf…e79y

2024-10-21 14:55:56

After two years! 🎉 #note10ss…zu4l

2024-10-21 13:38:30

Dutch government was to raise penalties for drug related crimes. I guess the current coalition enjoys the War on Drugs because it gets them votes for being tough on crime.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2541592-kabinet-maximumstraffen-voor-drugsdelicten-gaan-omhoog

2024-10-21 13:17:42

Yet another victim of the EU's relentless fight against European companies:
https://bl3p.eu/nl/news/92/Belangrijke+mededeling%253A+BL3P+sluit+per+20+december+%E2%80%93+Overstap+naar+Bitonic

2024-10-21 10:00:45

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Good idea, can the bot do that?

2024-10-21 09:55:55

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"If you meet some people from the offboarding team you can give them a hug" - Rabobank chief for financial and economic crime Philipe Vollot.
https://youtu.be/mtl7clX3-EM

2024-10-21 09:14:18

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That said, if you want to try the defamation / libel angle, it might be easier to find an English company that Chainalysis marked as a scam. The US has a high bar for this, mostly for good reasons.

2024-10-21 08:15:36

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Also I think banks should offer a savings product that you cannot withdraw from online at all. You have to pick a physical branch in advance and go there in person to withdraw.
Right now anyone in the world can call you and take your fiat net worth in an hour of effort. Those folks might still be able to convince you to walk to this branch, withdraw and send it to them, but at least someone at the bank could try and talk you out of it.
Fundamentally though, the fact that any scammer in the world can choose their victim from the entire world population is a fundamental problem which Bitcoin doesn't solve either.

2024-10-21 07:57:43

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But anyway, when people tell you fiat in your bank is superior to Bitcoin because the bank will protect you, point them to these court rulings. There's an upper limit to that protection.

2024-10-21 07:52:42

Multiple Dutch judges confirm: not your bank password, not your fiat. It puts on a limit on how much banks have to protect customers from their own recklessness, e.g. installing AnyDesk and giving your password to someone on the phone.
IIUC they're getting 85% back from Bunq bank, but they wanted more.
Sadly this is a numbers game. Most people most of the time might not fall for this scam, but they just need to hit some people at a bad time when they're less alert. That makes them look reckless in retrospect, but I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that you would never make that mistake. You have to defend against these attack all the time, they only need to succeed once.
https://fd.nl/bedrijfsleven/1534496/gedupeerde-klanten-van-bunq-vangen-bot-in-de-rechtbank

2024-10-20 08:42:52

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The documentary review even made it to the physical weekend edition, nice! Here's another quote:
Hoback: so what is it about then?
Todd: to make Bitcoin the global currency while people like you are distracted by nonsense.
https://img.sprovoost.nl/48d2a5c230015e6606fb15cb795d7bc7027097c54f179f41effa3ebf480ccf8c.jpg

2024-10-19 21:27:04

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> There were produced two different music videos for "Run Away". The first version, made for the European market and directed by Swedish-based director Matt Broadley,[23] features singer Patricia "Patsy" Petersen walking in a desert-like setting while miming the vocals of studio singer Karin Kasar.
I think I remember that one, but this version is new to me:
> The American version, directed by British music video and film director Nigel Dick, is set in a factory with many exhausted "slave-like" workers, while rapper Olaf "O-Jay" Jeglitza plays the role of "Big Brother", monitoring the workers' progress and demanding maximum productivity from them. It was never released for public broadcasting, since Arista felt that the image of the video was too dark and negative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Away_(Real_McCoy_song)

2024-10-19 19:37:06

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Indeed, if it already renders server side then it just needs to add images.

2024-10-19 17:11:34

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Yes but not the images.

2024-10-19 12:36:55

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Strange, whatsapp gives me nothing here: https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqqqq8lu5cpmgrdc5m5y0vy83g5st4wvusenkulgs5dnzznx45d6qprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuumswfhhvmm0wd6zumnvqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hszrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqspqnuj https://image.nostr.build/87173073c7febfeaa971e3426b4238b52df0f7282a1e7bb643fcd5448b3a45b3.jpg

2024-10-19 12:24:07

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Seems doable to trace them based on cell phone data and then identify them based on their moving style. But that's assuming the cops care about property rights and harassment. Better get one of those remote controlled machine guns, afaik in some states it's perfectly legal to use lethal force in these circumstances.

2024-10-19 11:30:33

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Unfortunately not (yet?).

2024-10-19 10:02:54

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I think it's all client side javascript rendering, which doesn't play well with social media previews. It probably also doesn't have a database, so nowhere to store short url to long url mapping.

2024-10-19 09:01:54

Met een stukje uitleg over Europese besluitvorming, hoe nieuwe voorzitters elk half jaar deze zombie doen wederopstaan op ontransparante en onvoorspelbare wijze. En hoe @npub1m4e…hshr als non-profit dat moeilijk kan monitoren, vaak alleen dankzij lekken.
https://fountain.fm/episode/6VwJ4gjONCdCwHbA20SJ

2024-10-19 08:42:08

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It's infuriating how undemocratic the EU is with all its secret decision making mechanisms.

2024-10-19 08:26:29

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Shortening could be done by e.g.:
/e/ for nevent, /p/ for nprofile, etc
Followed by just enough first letters that it's unique.
This works especially well for self hosting because the number of events would be limited (e.g. a whitelist of npubs of yourself and some alt accounts).
A public service could offer this as a SAAS: you get a short URL and (static) server side rendered page for any event/profile you visit, with a cookie to track your balance, NWC or something nuts.

2024-10-19 08:21:30

Ok, so I'd like something like a self-hosted njump but with server side rendered pages and much shorter URLs. Both make it easier to share via e.g. whatsapp and get nice previews.

2024-10-19 06:09:42

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He might literally get bombarded.

2024-10-19 06:09:07

@damus wen nuts for renewal? Can't find route.

2024-10-18 20:41:25

🤣
https://youtu.be/IIx6mio-Jvk

2024-10-18 20:07:55

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Closing their accounts yes. More specifically, doing so to save money on compliance cost and fines, as opposed to actually caring about preventing money laundering. Which makes total business sense.
Even the #FATF acknowledges this:
https://www.coe.int/en/web/moneyval/implementation/de-risking

2024-10-18 20:04:05

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Goed plan! En als je tijd over hebt, probeer ook eens Nostr :-)

2024-10-18 19:57:40

Rabobank has been de-risking 10,000 customers per month (out of 8 million). They have 8,000 employees pissing away €840 million per year for this task.
For comparison: the Stasi had 90,000, which is 5x more per head of population. So it's not too bad really.
The Dutch police budget is €6 billion, a tiny fraction of that is spent on dealing with deluge of surveillance reports pushed by the bankers. With zero proven effectiveness.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2541247-Rabobank-stuurde-elke-maand-10-000-klanten-weg-na-strenger-witwasbeleid

2024-10-18 19:19:51

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Oh wacht, ik vergeet soms dat Mastodon quote posts niet werken. Dat was inderdaad het artikel dat ik deelde.

2024-10-18 19:18:03

@npub18m7…q955 is universal lookup guaranteed to check every configured relay if you give it an npub?
If not: please make it so, otherwise it's hard to find some Mostr bridged users for me.

2024-10-18 19:14:01

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Eerst link in het artikel wijst naar: https://berthub.eu/tkconv/document.html?nummer=2024D38837

2024-10-18 18:52:39

Idiot move of the year: The Netherlands surrenders all IT sovereignty to Microsoft cloud. Have fun learning the hard way...
#nevent1q…95v9

2024-10-17 23:36:24

They don't promise you fall asleep on this one... and I still don't know what a DVM is, or whatever the acronym was, that did something cool...
https://fountain.fm/episode/rrZNKoROI34ccbuWesrW
#nevent1q…eh2s

2024-10-17 23:33:18

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There is some great food out there though.

2024-10-17 21:41:49

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No.

2024-10-17 10:20:34

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Walkie talkies?

2024-10-17 07:47:38

Closed source at it best, in which Apple congratulates me because thousands of people encountered the same bug that they still haven't fixed or even acknowledged. https://image.nostr.build/82c807496b7aa0da56e34f721da6922b4cc41bd3f0b75752d26fd1f6628a26e8.jpg

2024-10-16 20:19:29

> Spoiler alert: the filmmaker is laughed at right in his face at the end of his film by the man he identifies as the bitcoin inventor in a Wie is de Mol-like scene. And I felt that urge too.
(Dutch newspaper, paywalled)
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/16/zoektocht-naar-uitvinder-van-bitcoin-eindigt-in-hoongelach-a4869535

2024-10-16 20:02:45

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Oh actually @npub18m7…q955 let's you click on the ActivityPub icon which opens the original URL in a browser.

2024-10-16 20:01:25

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It's bridged by Mostr. NIP-05 let's you verify the bridge domain but that's all. The post itself should have a tag linking to the original mastodon server, but at least Damus doesn't render that so it's tedious to check. europa.eu is presumably real. https://image.nostr.build/24b9f780314dc802669a4e22e3d88fbbd69bb27afcd1ea3497907896bcb3e8b5.jpg

2024-10-16 19:06:41

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I think the EU is saying that X is basically already dead :-)

2024-10-16 19:06:15

TIL scaring away advertisers is a great way to escape DSA scrutiny. #note1tjl…r9c2

2024-10-16 19:02:21

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Don't forget to file a complaint against those neo nazi assholes.

2024-10-16 11:29:01

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https://media.tenor.com/cctEjjXmSBsAAAAC/always-has-been-always-has-been-gif.gif

2024-10-15 15:31:51

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Bullish, I should figure out what to do with my expired 200 NOK notes... https://www.norges-bank.no/en/topics/notes-and-coins/exchanging-withdrawn-banknotes-and-coins/

2024-10-14 20:40:38

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But you caught it just in time for step 6??

2024-10-13 14:52:25

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They also still have twelfth century equipment where you have to take your laptop and liquids out of the bag.

2024-10-13 14:51:15

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To continue my rant about dysfunctional airports... they have this really handy list of waiting times. But absolutely no map or signs to figure out which one is where. #BER https://image.nostr.build/cd014f4e424c6bcf7b757eb0f921cc9e8fd9eb66a4ea5054726fde15e83a8c3e.jpg

2024-10-13 13:20:24

Fun AND interesting @npub1dwa…7c52, keep building! #note1r5z…8sc4

2024-10-12 20:09:32

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There's still a chicken-egg problem of getting something from that mint. But either someone might already have ecash from a previous time they were online, or maybe we'll have 7-Eleven ecash one day? Perfect use case for physical scratch cards.

2024-10-12 15:22:59

Definitely not a Bitcoin wallet...
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/police-discover-drugs-in-bag-labelled-definitely-not-a-bag-full-of-drugs-13232352

2024-10-12 13:55:40

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"We're good on the number of nerds" - @npub12rv…85vg

2024-10-12 13:50:06

A panel...
https://www.youtube.com/live/uCyRffPdsaU https://image.nostr.build/ea7830511c2cd1af6b67b98a67d2994181c49006224ce2c52482606b96cf5ea6.jpg

2024-10-12 11:34:57

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Clue was in the spelling.
https://x.com/bitnorbert/status/1844973478165852588

2024-10-12 09:50:00

Rumour has it he's back...

2024-10-12 07:39:12

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I hope so, there's a Black Mirror episode with exactly this premise.

2024-10-11 15:35:04

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I agree with you that PR is unusually important in this war. For comparison, the Nazis exploited civilian casualties (in occupied territories) of allied bombing in their propaganda. But that didn't have much effect in the scheme of things. In this conflict you see it has an effect on arms deliveries, etc, though not as substantial as Iran might have hoped.
But even is preventing bad UN reports is a covert war goal, bombing UN facilities is predictably counterproductive - it draws more attention than the reports themselves. So I'm skeptical that the IDF would bother spending the (reconnaissance) resources.

2024-10-11 15:06:05

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This is where proportionality comes in. Military action has to be proportional to the goal.
Attacking a UN camera risks death and injury. Now consider two goals:
1. Prevent negative reports
2. Prevent the death of IDF soldiers from leaked operational information
(2) seems proportional, at least defendable. (1) absolutely not.
And that's where priors come in: if you believe the IDF is fundamentally unethical and just a tool for Netanyalu shenanigans, you might think (1) is the most plausible explanation. I don't think they are, so I find (2) more plausible. Until more information comes in.

2024-10-11 14:52:12

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Sheltering Hezbollah or giving intel to Hezbollah are not that different. Both completely justify force and collateral damage, they asked nicely in 2006.
The reason I shifted my hypothesis is that they are hitting observation towers in combination with what happened in 2006.

2024-10-11 14:47:34

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All three intel gathering instruments.
#note1zgg…kl9m

2024-10-11 14:42:49

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The Unifill website says they mainly attacked their camera's. That suggests another possible motive, to prevent Unifill from sharing or leaking intel about IDF troop movements.
> UNIFIL also came under criticism during the 2006 Lebanon War for broadcasting detailed reports of Israeli troop movements, numbers, and positions on their website which "could have exposed Israeli soldiers to grave danger", while making no such reports about Hezbollah.
I find that somewhat plausible.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Interim_Force_in_Lebanon

2024-10-11 14:32:42

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The UN only says they were "affected by explosions", afaik they're not denying Hezbollah was (ab)using their facilities. https://image.nostr.build/00b9a234c56b4dddc9a44066d05da7171cc076d3a05d891553023c3c791eac2f.jpg

2024-10-11 13:42:00

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The IDF rarely comments on things, so that's really not evidence for your hypothesis that they attacked the UN deliberately to chase them away. My default assumption is that they're doing what say the war goal is, or at least trying to: get rid of Hezbollah. There's just no evidence showing otherwise here, yet.

2024-10-11 09:50:54

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Yes, the Mostr has a bunch of:
// Prevent roundtrip
if (hopefully the right check) return;
cc @npub1q3s…d26p

2024-10-11 09:49:56

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Damus shows an ActivityPub tag for bridged posts. https://image.nostr.build/dc08f34d4378b113a4a232b5fb96a94622b917b253bf174ebe7e5eedc0d0a641.jpg

2024-10-11 09:30:53

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Where things really get confusing is that nostr users are identified by pubkey, fediverse users by URL. When there's multiple bridges you get an infinite number of permutations, e.g. bridge1.com/npubabc, bridge2.com/npubabc are the same nostr user, and each fediverse user has one npub per bridge. And all can follow and interact:-)

2024-10-11 09:23:25

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Philosophically all of Nostr is part of the Fediverse, just like Mastodon instances are.

2024-10-11 09:21:56

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Mostr is a piece of software that bridges between ActivityPub (e.g. Mastodon) and Nostr.
There's a public instance at mostr . pub, but it tends to get blocked by Mastodon admins. I run a private instance on my own domain too, but only my own replies on Nostr can cross that bridge.
https://soapbox.pub/blog/mostr-fediverse-nostr-bridge/

2024-10-11 07:30:59

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There are multiple meanings of "deliberate". All this says is that they hit the building intentionally, that they aimed at it and it wasn't a stray. The relevant question is why they did that. To bully the UN or because Hezbollah was handing out there and the UN didn't bother sending them away? Remember that for more than a decade now the UN has allowed Hezbollah to operate there.

2024-10-11 07:14:09

GM!
And no Apple, this wasn't a workout. https://image.nostr.build/b0c5cfbba16da91f9a3c190a8752b9748e1ceffd768e5ff8f71782c2f7efb34b.jpg

2024-10-10 20:57:31

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I agree there can be all sorts of reasons for the attack, but I was responding to the claim / suggestion that it was a deliberate attack on the UN by Israel. That's not a reasonable default assumption. Bad intel or some other misunderstanding is a good default assumption, until evidence shows up to suggest otherwise.
As for IDF investigations: the Dutch air-force accidentally killed 70 civilians in Iraq in 2015. It took almost a decade for that to come out. And because of a whistleblower. It was hidden from Parliament too. Militaries around the world are not known for transparency. So we may indeed never know. But stuff leaks, and whisleblowes are out there.
https://www.amnesty.nl/de-aanval-op-hawija

2024-10-10 15:52:56

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Press coverage of this war between Israel and various Iran proxies is extremely high, e.g. compared to Saudi Arabia vs. Jemen (also Iran). The fact that a bunch of mortars fired at a UN compound even makes the news is absurd. These things happen in all wars (though usually there's no UN or journalist around to get shot in the first place).
Nobody is complaining that Mexican drug cartels don't allow enough journalists on the battlefield. Of course it's fair to hold a democratic county to the highest possible standard.
I'm sure there's both good and malicious reasons why journalists are not given free
and safe access to this war zone. From the other side I'm skeptical that Hamas and Hezbollah will protect every journalist no matter how critical their reporting.
This creates an asymmetry where anytime Israel allows a journalist in, they will only report on bad things done by Israel because otherwise they're killed. Or they get killed by accident by the IDF. There's no upside. But denying them access also looks bad, and isn't how democracies should behave. Embedded journalists in the IDF would be safe and might reveal bad behavior from the other side, but it would be seen as propaganda. Which it is, but so is Al Jazeera coverage. There's no winning strategy here.
And then of course Netanyahu and/or his zealot buddies will find a way to make things even worse. And because this is the middle east, it's always even more complicated.
From a news consumer point of view the best thing is to probably just wait.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts

2024-10-10 14:46:45

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Presumably they have to reason to believe Hezbollah is using those locations. I don't know how accurate their intel is of course, but neither do most people who comment on this sort of stuff.
Perhaps a more important question is why on Earth the UN is still there. They never stopped Hezbollah. They can't stop Israel either. Seems they're just in the way? But maybe I'm too cynical.

2024-10-10 14:16:03

I love how Apple thinks every walk of more ten minutes must be a workout. It says a lot about where that company is based.

2024-10-10 12:36:51

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I often do that as well, but sometimes these mailinglists are run by non-technical folks who just use some marketing SAAS, not knowing how obnoxious it is.

2024-10-10 12:21:54

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ht #note1pl9…sugm

2024-10-10 12:15:34

#GDPR adventure of the day: mailinglist that I don't really remember signing up for - but maybe I was a nice mood - has an unsubscribe link at the bottom.
The page asks me to confirm my request to unsubscribe, but before I can click on OK, a cookie wall popup appears with the usual dark pattern that makes rejection of cookies almost impossible.
Once I figured that out it redirected to the main page, so I had to go back to my email and try to unsubscribe again. Which worked this time.

2024-10-10 10:14:49

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We'll just have to figure out how to apply that to a twelve year old. Juvenile crimes against humanity law is underdeveloped:-)

2024-10-10 10:13:29

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Golm sounds like Middle Earth, so perhaps that's the hint? I've been to Berlin plenty of times and even I felt uneasy until more station names scrolled by.
Bitcoin doesn't fix this :-) https://image.nostr.build/e58caa65bf63effa795ca47eee752c3a920964488df806692b81d399fa28f65e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/84a64514c178b9533e16c262043d394a285acf28ddfee4628cd34cc5b4ac6294.jpg

2024-10-10 10:09:29

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The sign above the platform doesn't say the next train to the central station will be there. Only the screen will trains lists it. Hidden between a million obscure stations.
And yes there it is in the distance. For absolutely no good reason. There isn't a second set of escalators on that side of the platform. The train itself only shows the obscure final destination. https://image.nostr.build/83396761a0cd0b34a019c4cfbaf0448132601a92443b3e3fbbdacb6e97618121.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4d94529ba01d74c6d830e96dcfaa898031434d18dadb4ff29154e7aec21e9a30.jpg