CappyNate🍁

Tech, money, startups, free-markets. Sidelined by undiagnosed neurological issues since 2020.

Re-spawned from here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanlabbe/

Public Key

npub1rr7vzwv4p2wvu0lwtmj0far08clsuvuzwlwv30xkj2euur55pp8qr9wudh

NIP-05 Address

cappynate@nostrplebs.com

NIP-57 Address

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Publishing to

relay.snort.social

nostr.wine

nos.lol

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Last Notes

2024-09-28 23:38:57

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Censorship resistance is the ONLY selling point of Nostr.
Without it. Fuck Nostr. Might as well be Instagram.

2024-09-05 15:28:11

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Elon's gaslighting is outrageous. Saving free speech, one limited visibility post at a time.
The dude is the king of narrative control.
He sued Jeremy Clarkson TWICE because he didn't like Clarkson's review of the Tesla Roadster on Top Gear. To suppress the bad press.
All of a sudden he's against lawfare, hush suits, censorship, and government subsidies.... Even though he rode each of these things all the way to the top. Insanity.
https://m.primal.net/KfdO.png

2024-09-05 15:12:00

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The owner of the client. For example, you, in relation to Damus.
Just like they did with Pavel Durov. They'll say, "Will, shut Damus down or we're putting you in a cage".
As a client operator, you need to prepare for that. Because eventually, it's a very likely scenario if Nostr takes off. This is a war.

2024-08-12 17:13:55

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We literally expose bot users on LI. 🤦

2024-08-12 16:43:52

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I want Nostr to succeed. I'm not slamming it to shit on it. I'm pointing out critical issues preventing its mainstream adaptation. To fix them. So it can adopt quicker!
Nostr has the nuts and bolts to do so. And still may eventually.
I'd much rather move to Nostr now, rather than risk bans on LI.
But I'm also not going to post into the void while the growing pains are worked out. Especially when devs show no intention of fixing them.

2024-08-12 16:27:52

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What client has push notifications?
Not in-app notifications. PUSH notifications.

2024-08-12 16:07:21

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Think it was just a glitch. But things got a little rowdy over there.

2024-08-12 16:06:13

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False. All real.
https://m.primal.net/JxQJ.png

2024-08-12 15:49:03

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Laugh all you want. LinkedIn gets distribution.
Without distribution (an algo), you might as well be shadow-banned. Because the effect is the same.
https://m.primal.net/JxPe.png

2024-08-12 15:37:36

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Truth hurts.

2024-08-12 15:37:03

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And this attitude is why Nostr is still under 20k DAU's after 2yr+.
Until it perishes, Nostr will remain smaller than a Reddit Sub. The nuts and bolts exist here to be mainstream though.

2024-08-12 14:50:43

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Devs won't listen. So Nostr is only backup worthy until they do.
A social network only needs 2 functions:
-An Algo. (For Post distribution + Feed curation)
-Notifications.
Nostr has neither.
It doesn't need all this useless bullshit that Nostr devs seem distracted building. All while the 2 most critical functions remain unbuilt. So back to LI until devs wake up. Or get wiped out.

2024-07-31 23:18:05

Only 3 months away from Nostr and I already got a possible LinkedIn ban. I still have access, but they may nuke me.
If they do. I'll be back here.
If not, on LI we stay. For now. (LI has been great other than this)
Drop any major Nostr developments I missed in the last 3 months.
https://m.primal.net/JkgN.png

2024-05-29 23:30:23

Peter Thiel has backed the Dope Olympics. No drug testing.
https://m.primal.net/IRxT.png

2024-05-29 05:28:17

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This is how you do it. Small deliberate teams.

2024-05-27 06:13:34

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Easy. Two wallets, two accounts. Zap publicly, funnel back privately. Rinse, repeat.

2024-05-27 03:01:03

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Are you talking a follower/follow backup tool? Any other contact mgmt I have no idea lol
https://follows.nostr.com/

2024-05-27 02:36:24

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Yup. Exactly. VPN's have effectively already been banned by the internet.

2024-05-27 02:19:31

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They weren't kidding they trained it off Reddit. 🤣 🤦‍♂️

2024-05-26 01:29:01

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Holy fuck that was an impact. The horse got nipped too though. Wow.

2024-05-25 16:57:01

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Could a user not take a public "bad actor" list, and mute it privately?
Leaving no way for outsiders to audit the extent that batch muting is occurring, on a protocol-wide basis?

2024-05-25 16:43:57

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Are you serious? You don't see the problem with hiding mute lists on an "open" and "censor-resistant" protocol?
Hiding mutes is literally opening the door to shadow-banning. At a user level OR a client level.
A bad actor list forms, everyone adds it to their private mutes, weaponizing the function and shadowbanning a swath of users.
Encrypting mutes is terrible function, bordering catastrophic to the purpose of the entire protocol.
I would much rather see an aggregation service that publicly shows how many people have muted each user. To verify batch muting isn't occurring. This is really bad stuff.

2024-05-25 16:32:46

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What is an encrypted mute list and what is its use case?

2024-05-25 16:31:34

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But the architecture is still filtering notifications App-Side, no?
If so, that's the wrong architecture.
Filter them relay-side so no app-side discarding/suppressing needs to occur.

2024-05-25 14:09:08

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Elaborate?
In your feed, they're still showing you people you've muted.
Or, by you or I muting someone, clients are suppressing that person in everyone else's feed?

2024-05-25 13:56:24

Is NostrBand fudging stats?
Screenshot 2 weeks ago shows declining trend, in the range of 10-12k DAU's.
Now, the exact same dates show 12-14k DAU, showing an uptrend.
Note Apr 8 specifically. The same date magically changed from 10k to 13k+. Are rewriting history here to #grownostr? Something is fishy.
https://m.primal.net/IMep.png

2024-05-25 12:25:16

Friendly reminder: The Yield Curve is STILL inverted, 2yrs later.
That's deeper and longer than any inversion in the last 40yrs.
Recessions come after yield curve inversions. And we still haven't had ours yet.
https://m.primal.net/IMIz.png

2024-05-25 02:27:01

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Entitlement seems only be for critical notifications (emergency alerts, alarms, overriding ringer silencers, etc).
Are you triggering the notify service directly from Damus Relay? If so I would work on "filtering" the notifies Relay-side.
In the same way that you would filter Relay-side that Bob only gets notifies on events for Bob's posts (and not Sally's).... A similar Relay-side filter should be able to filter out events from muted parties too.
Then use Apple Notify service under "Active" level, without need for entitlement.
https://m.primal.net/IMBJ.png

2024-05-25 01:23:26

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Sound like Apple. What are they preventing?

2024-05-25 01:03:02

Censorship surging on Tittler.
https://m.primal.net/ILxj.png

2024-05-24 19:10:33

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Yup @npub1a2u…32qc is right.
Demand for BTC comes from 2 things: 1) Inflation resistance 2) Censorship resistance.
Stop inflating via currency debasement and you remove 1 demand prong for BTC. Of course that's not just 1 country, that's all countries. Will never happen with idiot lying politicians in charge.
And if/once BTC reaches critical mass, something we're approaching, it becomes much harder to put the rabbit back in the hat.

2024-05-24 16:29:13

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Govs stop printing money.

2024-05-22 19:57:13

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It's a self-serve feed. Build an algo.
Nostr doesn't need more self-serve garbage. Going from a legacy social feed to a Nostr feed is like going from an 8k HD LED TV to a Black and White TV sound.
Users don't want to do work. They want an algo do to the work for them.

2024-05-22 19:48:50

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lol Engineer led development fails almost every time.

2024-05-21 00:04:42

Bitcoin showing life. Will it finally exit this decision zone since March?
An upside break looks more likely.
But bull counts don't deploy UNTIL an ATH break. Not before. Since these can still be fakeout moves.
https://m.primal.net/IJDU.png

2024-05-18 04:54:44

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You don't even know what you're looking at do you? 🤣

2024-05-18 04:52:40

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That's true. But there's a lot who think it's the second coming too. Especially in the Nostr echo chamber.
Not all tops are euphoric blowoffs either.
Regardless, we break above $74k I'll ride it bull side without any qualms. Not until then though.

2024-05-18 04:40:04

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This is true. Which is concerning. When everyone believes something, including an indicator, market does the opposite.
Same happens for EW.
The more people hate it, the better it works.
It's when Elliott Wave starts trending that I get nervous because a groupthink could be occurring.

2024-05-18 04:37:06

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That's quite the Wendys.
Sometimes in markets, we don't know. That is demonstrated on the chart. Let me spell it out: When we don't know, we don't go.
We wait until a clear setup forms in either direction.
Above $74k I'm bullish to the range of $150k.
Below $47k I'm bearish to $12-15k.
It's. Pretty. Fucking. Simple.

2024-05-18 04:22:41

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Never once did I say $10k any day now. You can knock that lying shit off right now.
Look in the big blue box. Decision zone. Anything that happens within it is just that: Market deciding it's direction.
Until it breaks above or below that box it's nothing but noise.
Have we broke above that box? No. So no call has been made.
https://m.primal.net/IBmW.png

2024-05-18 04:20:49

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Halving doesn't matter.

2024-05-18 04:19:16

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Am I now?
https://m.primal.net/ICpu.png

2024-05-18 04:18:17

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Depends. It has potential 5 wave completion since Nov 2022, which would mean 5 wave completion since 2019 low.
All macro charts have some ugliness to them right now. SPX included. To what depth and when is TBD. Sit and wait mode for now.

2024-05-18 04:14:34

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Not predicting. It's coin toss right now. Below $47k yes. Above $74k no. Anything between is just noise.
Either way 80% crash is coming. Just dunno yet if it's from the $74k high. Or after a run to $150k.

2024-05-18 03:34:06

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Yikes. Sad part is how many shmucks believe it. ☹️

2024-05-14 15:58:35

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Agree very much. The nuts and bolts are here. And even though some iffy "layers" exist on top, they can flake away and new ones can build properly on top.
The basics are there though. Chances are still good I think.

2024-05-14 15:13:21

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That'd add a lot of weight though.

2024-05-14 05:29:13

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Why not?

2024-05-14 05:28:20

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I would like to see a plug n play relay setup. Dummy proof.
I download EXE. Install it on my comp. Tweak a couple settings. And I'm now a relay.
No tech, no coding, no cloud services.

2024-05-13 21:34:56

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Could be anyone. Energize the cable though and no one does it again lol ⚡⚡👷⚠️

2024-05-13 21:00:01

Thieves stealing Tesla Charger cables.
Solution? Energize cable to 300kw while unused. Cutting stops.
https://m.primal.net/IGUq.mp4

2024-05-13 05:42:50

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Yes. But with this, clients need to make money. Subscriptions and donations are not a viable business model.
The only one that works is ads.
But a client that is not greedy with ad insertions, and shares that ad revenue with creators AND RELAYS, will both grow their bottom line and Nostr's userbase too. So so so important.

2024-05-12 04:31:36

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Ya if Cloudflare gets attacked there's plenty of decentralization to pick up the slack. Great work man.

2024-05-11 18:57:03

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#AskNostr What's the name of the follower/following backup tool(s), in case our lists get nuked?

2024-05-11 18:27:58

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Heard of this happening a few times. Either following, or followER.
Does a backup tool exist yet?

2024-05-10 23:31:19

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She worked! Is Mutiny easy? I stick to the ol' faithful centralized WoS. Ease of use trumps the 6 speed manual transmission these days.🤣

2024-05-10 23:19:38

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Won't let me zap you. Giving me error with your lightning address or something. Double check. Ping me when fixed.

2024-05-10 22:56:38

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This DELIGHTFUL GOAT address shows on your wallet. Maybe a crossover issues between clients? That looks maybe like a WoS address? https://image.nostr.build/32151709e16473e7da29f5435eecd231d6191cc84e7b21e537c94ebee08d0c0d.jpg

2024-05-10 22:08:17

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Nah. Followed

2024-05-10 21:50:46

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Bitcoin is potentially putting in a top, for a 2yr run back to $12-15k.
Bout a 70% chance, but not confirmed yet.
I tracked it all the way up from $16k and will track all the way back down. Careful in here.

2024-05-10 01:53:22

250 sats to every comment on this post.
Limit: 1 zap per user.
Cap: 10,000 sats total. May extend.
Nostr seems broken, abandoned, woke, or it's turning into a big account echo chamber. I'm shaking shit up to understand why.

2024-05-04 15:01:26

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Currency debasement has occurred for thousands of years.

2024-05-02 00:43:58

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Damn, that's toughness. Those tear ducts must be going insane.

2024-04-28 18:40:37

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Blocking is not the answer. Endorsing is.
Endorsing is OPT-IN. Blocking is FILTER-OUT.
Blocking catches good people in the filter and creates the same censorship issues as legacy platforms.
Endorsing requires someone on the inside to vet and allow a new person into the trust circle. Like a FB group, Reddit sub, etc. Endorsing is the key to solving spam.

2024-04-11 15:08:23

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No you don't need to track UTXO's because UTXO's are stupid. Them and blockchain are the constraint of the whole system.
The distributed ledger is all that matters. You don't need to know "who sent what". You only need to know "who owns what". That's it. The ledger.
The logic is simple: Has key? Has balance? Send approved.

2024-04-11 14:55:45

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They scale if you don't keep all transaction history back to inception. Anything longer than 30days isn't needed.
Beef the size, shrink the time, scrap the unneeded excess.

2024-04-02 02:13:34

PERMIT: Pay a fee to be allowed to do something.
BRIBE: Pay a fee to be allowed to do something.
Permit = Legalized Bribe.

2024-03-16 21:55:18

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I know 1 word, and a 50% chance of the second word. Bringing total words (not combinations), but word options remaining down to 50 or 82. That's still MANY combinations.
If the 2nd word (not in proper order) is "jump" then there's 50 remaining words. If it's "join" then there's 82 remaining words.

2024-03-16 19:57:22

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It's still a fuckload of combinations though. 🤣 That's why I think using the "key" of characters is the way to really narrow it down into a bite sized piece.
https://m.primal.net/Hlhy.png

2024-03-16 19:06:48

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Sorry, asking it to fit together the following logic tree:
Words from 325 word list
-THAT-
Use each letter from the 46 character string only once
-AND-
Equal exactly 12 words.
That should narrow it down greatly. Not the order, but some fitting combos at least. But I can't get it to iterate with scripts and can't find online tools to do it.

2024-03-16 17:22:54

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If you think you're too small to make an impact, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.

2024-03-16 16:15:46

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@npub1hag…c8kx I tried GPT to start also. First asked it to count the number of letters, it gave me this. Abandoned that strategy very quickly. 🤣 🤣 🤣
I have it narrowed down to 325 words. Having trouble spitting out combos that add to 46 from there.
https://m.primal.net/Hlel.png

2024-03-16 05:50:03

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He doesn't need your $60 anymore he just found $3,500. 🤣🤣

2024-03-15 13:44:05

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He kinda did, kinda didn't. Bait and switch with this "halving" stuff. Missed some comments.
Moral of the story here is don't make promises you can't keep.

2024-03-12 16:19:42

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Build a decentralized emoji set. That anyone can add and build onto. Bitcoin for emoji's.

2024-03-12 16:18:08

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Nice work. FYI the biggest bug I notice on Primal is "update reliability".
Primal misses some event notifications (likes, comments, follows, follow counts) that other clients like Amethyst or Snort picks up.
But Primal is the fastest and most usable client by far. Tradeoff, I know. But something to work on.

2024-03-11 15:38:42

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Yup you're right. Can add others after. One step at a time. Also some other programs are offered online (EdX, Coursera, Udemy), but Med is not. Focus first on building what doesn't exist.
The programs that are offered online are via traditional legacy universities (even on these platforms). So their costs are astronomical vs an automated on-demand program.
IE: A comp-sci degree should cost $500 to $1000, not $20,000. The whole degree, not just courses.

2024-03-10 00:00:09

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💯💯 Nostr should be self hosted IMO. Largely at least.

2024-03-09 20:46:32

Data: relays.xport.top/
Follow: @npub1kyh…0v85
Not my data! I just visualized it. Thought it'd be helpful to see the distribution of relay hosts. To see how host outages or censorship would affect Nostr. Hope that's ok Xport.top! 🙏
https://m.primal.net/HjLw.png

2024-03-09 15:58:46

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The only risk is if large incumbents build in push notify first. They seem totally uninterested though.
My words were bad above. This L2 push app triggers a push banner to the user. When user clicks push banner, it opens the event in the user's selected default client (Primal, Damus, Amethyst, etc). Comments, likes, etc. Interactions.
Because all current notifications are currently in-app. 👎 👎
You don't actually build a feed or any other components of a client. Push service only.
Only aggregate events from relays, and trigger the push to user when they happen. Existing clients handle all activity after the push banner click.
Firebase is awesome for this if you're familiar. (I'm not a coder, PM/vision/founder/problem finder guy)

2024-03-08 23:25:48

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I don't trust this kid. Why is Strike's execution plan so all over the map?
Jack is the first person I ever saw use Lightning years ago. Yet the app is only available in like 1/3 of countries worldwide. No Canada, virtually no Europe. Big ones. Meanwhile many other Lightning wallets are available in 90% of countries. How is he so far behind? Launch first. Ask permission later.
And then, how can someone so bullish on Bitcoin be so focused sending fiat. Not just onramps, but actually sending fiat via lightning? It's like a vegan butcher. I just don't get it.
Add in the hyper marketing focus, it feels very shitcoin puffy hypey. Talk talk talk. Maybe I'm 100% wrong. Maybe it's because I can't even download the app here in Canada to explore barebone functionality. But something just hasn't smelled right about this kid or Strike for a while.

2024-03-08 18:35:31

HONNNNK HONNNKKK 🍁 🚜 🚚
Convoy 2024
Rimouski Quebec March 8 2024
We got numbers.
#FuckTrudeau 🖕
https://m.primal.net/Hiuh.mp4

2024-03-07 20:54:48

Wanna know how bad Apple is? We built a location based app on iOS.
Our GPS location functions were 100% app-side. Meaning when our app needed the user's location for a function, that location was never sent to our servers. On-device code handled that location. We never saw it. Ever.
We also never logged locations anywhere. Not even on user's device. Any GPS positions were deleted the second the function finished using it.
What does Apple do? They start showing our users the screen below.
A screen with all logged location pings, like we were spying on users. Except we weren't even logging past location usage. We couldn't produce this logged data if a gun was put to our head. The only way for those pings to have been logged is if APPLE logged them. Either on device, or even worse, on APPLE's servers.
So we build the most responsible location handling we know possible.
And Apple sends our users a scary alarm, smearing us, posing as some safeguard of GPS data. All while APPLE was the one logging this location data, and therefore putting it at risk. Or using it for who knows what else.
We never built another iOS app after that.
https://m.primal.net/HihG.png

2024-03-05 20:38:15

I sounded alarms yesterday. Buncha noobs came shit talking TA.
Whuddya figure? Are the charts still fake? Still astrology? 🤣
https://m.primal.net/Hhzw.jpg

2024-03-04 20:51:28

I repeat: HEED CAUTION AT $75-80K!
#note1xda…prkd

2024-03-04 20:04:21

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Welcome. Are those AB foothills I see in the banner?

2024-03-03 18:31:29

Profit is good. It's a motivator to create. So profit isn't the problem. The capital market is.
Right now, IPO's are used as an exit strategy only. Why? The entire point of issuing stock is to RAISE money. To build!
But an IPO can cost $100m due to regulation, reporting, and insider fees. Therefore it's only feasibly used as an exit strategy. It's fucked. Going public should cost pennies, and be doable by anyone.
A $5m venture startup should be able to issue stock/coin/etc to instantly raise money for their venture. No regs. The market can do its own DD. Even an average Joe's Electrician company should be able to issue $100k.
Raising capital shouldn't be limited to backroom VC's or banks. It should be open and cheap. Full democracy and openness.
So to me, a fully democratizing the capital market can achieve more than anything to do with open source. No matter how noble OS may be.
#note1670…8036

2024-03-02 03:51:28

Amazing how many soft cunts there are on Nostr.
It's a free speech app. If you're blocking users en masse, you don't deserve Nostr or free speech. Shut your Nostr account down and go back to the padded cells of Zuckerbook, Shitter, InstaScam, and the Reddit beta boy club.
Grow a pair of balls.
The last thing a free speech movement needs is a bunch of cowardly block happy little snowflakes.

2023-11-29 15:01:06

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Get that phone-to-phone NFC tapping built now, so we can skip the QR codes.

2023-11-18 14:37:43

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94-97% of nuclear waste is recyclable. (See :Orango La Hague)
The leftover waste you vitrify. Stable, vastly shorter half life.

2023-11-18 14:08:07

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I go vertical in deeper drawer. Fits more into less space. Less drawers to remember too.
https://image.nostr.build/db5e18eda1dbcfdb6f2b271fa2bf4e597b6269080af0f2864d6f406376932d3c.jpg

2023-11-01 06:08:49

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A couple years back, the Silver Stackers sent a bunch of butt plugs to Jamie Dimon's office at JPM to literally #FuckTheBanks. 🤣
https://m.primal.net/HPCB.png

2023-11-01 04:11:12

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Great tune. Been on my repeat.

2023-10-27 16:49:57

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If some clients get too large, and ban like incumbents, and no one smaller disrupts them by eliminating censorship...
Then Nostr dies. Very simple.

2023-10-27 13:38:03

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Make what rules? It's not binary. There's no overlord.
Whichever client distributes posts the best (along with other UX) is the one I use.

2023-10-27 06:17:59

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I left LinkedIn because my posts were throttled. I left Twitter because of shadow bans.
I didn't come here to speak into a vacuum too.
Build algos and distribute posts.

2023-10-22 15:46:56

If Bitcoin mining stabilizes the energy supply.
Then fat people stabilize the food supply.
#BitcoinMyth
#ConsumptionIsNotSupply

2023-10-20 19:19:47

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Agree. I think the bounce was Wave 1 higher, and we're completing the Wave 2 correction. Prepping for a W3 ripper.
Which pairs excellent with the imminent Wave 3 in Bitcoin, AND the imminent DX dump. Perfect macro synchronization, giving us strong conviction.

2023-10-20 19:09:26

Interesting S&P 500 development. See the blue circle, showing 3 waves down off the high.
In Elliott Wave 3 waves indicate correction, 5 waves indicate trend. Thus, if we break 4,200 the move becomes 5 waves. Indicating trend and strongly suggesting the red scenario.
My gut says 4,200 will hold, and a rip higher is imminent for the green scenario. Pairs well with a BTC blastoff. But the charts will tell us. Let's see.
https://void.cat/d/A3zoCgpjdLRDXLTZwTnr7N.webp

2023-10-17 21:44:07

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My best recommendation is Android. 😆