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2024-08-08 23:29:04

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Hol up, maybe my app isnt up to date, havent looked in a while, but my WOS still works, and I run graphene, I dont have google play services.

2023-10-05 13:50:19

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I was initially very skeptical of opctv, I didnt like the way jeremy rubin went about pushing it. Since, clearly we need a covenant implementation, im neutral on whats best.

2023-09-23 18:58:04

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You *dont* send yout kids to work in the coal mines, as society became rich, people sent their kids to school instead, laws about child labor didnt come for decades after kids left the workforce.
How about a mutually accepted boundary that I have my house and you have yours, I dont tell you how to live and you dont tell me how to live? See, anything else REQUIRES violence, so you arent saying "mutually agree", you are saying "do what I say ot else".

2023-09-19 09:29:07

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Ive always known aspects of it were an inside job, but I assumed it was also a "never let a good tragedy go to waste", it now seems clear it was fully orchastrated from the top down.

2023-09-19 08:54:36

So I finished watching september - 11 the new pearl harbor (its 5 hours worth watching). My honest takeaway was "was bin laden in on 9-11?". Seems kind of silly to say, we have the writings of bin laden saying why they attacked the towers, we have the al queda declaration of war, yet something doesnt seem right. The movie lays out a compelling enough case that not only was a controlled demolition possible, not only probable, but that it would have been seemingly impossible to have happened any other way.
Bin laden had a lot of creepy family connections that I cant speak much too, and he was trained by the CIA. But theres more, Scott Horton has repeatedly detailed how the US basically let Bin Laden escape to Pakistan, and how the Taliban was ready to give up Bin Laden and help combat Al Queda, the natural conclusion I originally came to was they wanted a war in Afghanistan for other purposes; what if its deeper than that?
Maybe, its a thought, Bin Laden was our asset and on board with the CIA to carry out 9-11, and we let him escape because his survival justified the war. At some point he became politically inconvenient so we had him killed to tie up loose ends.

2023-09-17 20:05:28

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So, would this make posts anonymous unless revealed by an xpub?

2023-09-13 05:52:16

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Whats fediblock and why does it return so much degenerate content when i search it on nostr?

2023-09-11 08:50:00

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Its a layer, it has different persumptions and provides different features. It is a final settlement, given the assumptions of lightning the bitcoin in the channel is owned by whoever has it in their balance, theres no need for a layer 1 transaction to take custody of it because its not in your counterparties vault, its in a channel with an enforceable claim; layer 1 transactions will be relegated to shifting liquidity, not final settlement. Maybe that doesnt provide the space for 8 billion lightning nodes, which most people are never going to run anyways, but it does provide room for millions/tens of millions of lightning nodes. I know you want a perfect digital bearer asset that can be sent like a text message without counterparty risk or scaling issues, with perfect security and privacy, that is absolutely scarce like bitcoin with google level UI, and I know you want it yesterday, but 1. Monero provide that either and never will, and 2. this is a problem thats plagued humanity for millenia and we are going about as fast as we can, so strap in.

2023-09-10 05:23:43

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You would, because lightning channels allow you to connect with almost anyone on the market, send and receive with low fees. Of course lightning itself wont scale to billions of people in its current state either, its like the double entry ledger to the physical movement of gold (on chain transactions).

2023-09-05 23:44:22

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https://image.nostr.build/dd24329e2ece74c7f967dcaa0a67ee399a782a9ccb3cdf3397e850620ca9e677.jpg

2023-08-28 16:06:32

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I have a high degree of trust that a video us real if I took it, slightly less is a family or friend took it and vouches for it, less if its on social media etc.

2023-08-28 02:54:18

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Hmm, yes it seems like this is one of those questions people have asked for forever and never settled on. The varying degrees of abstractness and what makes something obvious still leads me back to subjective experience and degrees of trust. More tomorrow if you want to add, time for bed, GN.

2023-08-28 02:24:22

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I think its real, you think its real, but I am searching for a universizable definition for real. Its easy to assume something is real when you can touch it, but you can't touch bitcoin. I could say bitcoin is real based on assumptions about the node software, the block hash, the fixed supply etc., but that is a different set of requirements at first glance than how you would normally determine if a physical object is real, collectors items aside.
Any elaboration on the "relationship" between the subjective and the objective?

2023-08-28 01:22:12

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Hmmm, well many eastern religions would dispute a distinction between the self and the non-self, I think it has to do with either of those being undefinable without the other. I don't know how to plug realness into that, but its worth bearing in mind.

2023-08-28 01:00:01

Zap reward, I'd like to find a universizable definition of "real". Let's set aside our bias of bitcoin being real for a minute. I'll zap anyone with an actual response or thoughts on , and I'll boost it en Mañana so I can collect as much insight as possible.
In the physical realm, you know something is real because you can touch it, but is that inadequate? You could say this is Tiger woods PGA winning golf club, but that requires some context in which you know that its real; a famous painting might be based off a chain of custody, appraisers, certificates of authenticity which are equally flawed; I know that this is wine, but is it really a Wenzlau pinot noir 2017, or a forgery; this looks like a golf club, it feels like a golf club, but when I hit a ball the head snaps off, that's not real right? Its not impossible perse, but it might depend on degrees of trust and your subjective experience.
In the digital realm, I could say this movie is real because I can watch it; I could say this video of matt Odell is real; I can know a picture of a politician with 17 fingers getting arrested is fake; a pirated copy of a movie is still the real movie. So what's the defining characteristic? Again maybe the degrees of trust and subjective experience are what makes a thing real.
Maybe I'm mixing up some metaphysical layers, committing a logical fallacy, or linguistic mess. It seems like a universizable definition of realness at least depends on degrees of trust and subjective experience, what do you guys think?

2023-08-27 22:50:11

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Bitcoins utility is in your ability to receive and transact with it without a trusted third party, regardless of amount or geographic distance, and store it in a secure medium like a sheet of steel or even your own memory. Its fair to point out it has no industrial use case, of course, we hope that its superior monetary qualities are the utility in it of itself.

2023-08-15 23:31:56

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Can you elaborate? Capitalism to me (its not the definition, I'm extrapolating from linguistics) is an evolution of price coordinated markets; in a price coordinated market individuals respond to the price signals they receive to perform economic calculation (at every level) to acquire value (subjectively), since all transactions are voluntary every individual necessarily increases their own subjective value with every transaction, and behavior self coordinates around the prices available to them; capitalism stretches this concept into the realm of finance, unlocking the role of capitalists who perform these calculations at scale and provide advanced financial instruments like lending and futures.
Communism is premised on the labor theory of value, where the effort involved (mindfully tasked, a point overlooked by critics but also equally easy to refute) determines the value of a good. Of course, who measures this? If you stopped there, you could say its not that different from praxeological economics (aka Austrian) but Marx did not stop, he described the 10 tenents of communism to include things like central banking; so its fairly clear that Marx felt centralized institutions should determine the value of a good (price controls), which is how it turned out anyways without the basis of subjective value theorem to allow individual participants to negotiate prices. If you start with the number of discrete goods (~25 million in the USSR), multiply that by the quantity desired (do you want 1 loaf of bread or 1000), the medium (delivery van or cargo ship), packaging (individually wrapped or in a box) etc., you get an incalculable number of prices. Every price control will cause either a surplus (floor price too high) or shortage (roof price too low), of which the USSR had many. Calculating the near infinite number of prices proved too difficult for a few thousand bureaucrats in Moscow.

2023-08-15 07:06:42

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Eh, maybe, I like to keep my feed relatively mild, I scroll at work.

2023-08-14 07:08:16

OK, so when I pull the json data from nostr.band its coming in as an httpResponse, I can convert it to a string indicie, but then I can only print data if I know what integer it starts at, I can't print the data like its a dictionary. Allegedly when python loads() a json it gets recorded as a dictionary but I keep getting invalid key value errors if I try to reference that data directly. 😤

2023-08-14 05:44:57

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Uhhh, odds are it rolled off the memory pool by now, do you see it in the mempools?

2023-08-12 10:18:15

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What's the nuclear option for avoiding this? Dice rolls?

2023-08-03 16:12:57

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I'd like to point out that amazon was the only major cloud company that never had a vaccine mandate. Fuck Microsoft and fuck google

2023-08-02 21:34:27

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I've never understood the point, how does it protect you if your identity is attached to a service provider or your own home server? Are you just bouncing your phones internet connection off your home VPN setup?

2023-08-02 20:00:35

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Also curious about whether this means "obfuscation servers"

2023-07-31 08:30:37

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No, I think you are right, and that's an opinion that will get you flamed by basically everyone for saying. If Putin wanted Ukraine he'd have turned Kiev to rubble and shot a hypersonic missile up zelinskies ass. I think he wants Ukraine to remain relatively stable and not get completely subsumed by insane radicals, and if that means the war has to go on for a couple/few years at least it doesn't end looking like Libya, and that might mean leaving zelinsky in charge and waiting for the Ukrainians to strike themselves out. Its fucking stupid that we have responded by telling them to throw more bodies at a meat grinder to turn back an agreement everyone there wanted, we have some sick people in charge.

2023-07-29 09:59:30

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I think trying to become a nostr influencer is probably not the way to go, if it doesn't cost you anything have at it, but I wouldn't expect a return. Immigration sounds like a good move, providing any kind of services direct to wealthy people like home cooked meals, cleaning services, being a nanny, translator. Are there other skills you could pick up like being a nurse?

2023-07-27 01:09:18

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Is anyone trying to run their own simplex server here? I've got it installed on my start9 but can only connect to it when I'm using orbot, whereas I'd like to use it with proton VPN over tor. I'm not sure what the hangup is, but it looks like the protonvpn tor setup has all clearnet exit nodes, anyone have any info on this?

2023-07-25 08:50:26

Major security issue found on several processors from the last few generations of AMD CPUs. Look at the details on zenbleed to see if you are at risk, this isn't another "requires physical access" or probing the back of your motherboard trick. This is a JavaScript based attack that can steal sensitive data like passwords straight out of your processor, and updates to consumer grade hardware aren't due until November or December.
In terms of mitigation, it looks like if you are logging in anywhere you should close any tabs that aren't for a website you trust implicitly isn't going to attack you. Take note, I have to enable scripts for almost every website I try to use, including seemingly every nostr related website. Nostr is the only social media I use, but I would not trust a single one of the great people on here to not be skimming passwords. This code could be anywhere and will royally fuck you up.

2023-07-25 02:43:50

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I don't even know what the public is into anymore, maybe its a fault of mine, but I don't really have any clue what the news is on about these days or what the average person is interested in. I would say though, that without friction there is also no traction.

2023-07-25 02:11:49

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Yea I mean, I don't have any technical details, but based on who's running it and their marketing, it seems its supposed to scan the iris of your eyes as a method of authentication, and then its probably either proof of stake or a central issuer for tokens (ie. UBI + they can control your funds at a whim)

2023-07-25 01:20:21

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Its supposed to separate you from your money and give the highest bidder an index to stupid people.

2023-07-23 19:09:08

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I like this crowdwall idea, it seems like the best way so far for transcending intellectual property laws for serious outlets.

2023-07-04 04:08:15

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Of course, maybe that changes with waves of adoption when phone addicted people are left with nothing better to do next time twitter has an outage or rate limits, maybe not, time will tell. I have a day job, it pays well enough, I'm just happy to be able to interact with people on the front lines of decentralized code, like calle, fiatjaf, will and vitor. I can help people switch to graphene OS and Linux, sharpen peoples economic understanding, provide nuance to culturally conservative and anarchist views, and like memes that might make the platform more fun.
I've had the urge to be an influencer several times, I've had mild success on twitter a couple times in that regard, but its not worth the heartache and I fail to have a positive impact. I don't want to be reliant on social media for supporting me financially, so it doesn't make sense for me to engage in farming engagement if it just leaves me angry and tense.

2023-07-04 03:25:22

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I mean, it could certainly be applied that way, using private relays for instance. Its a protocol that provides a lot of options though, like a more reddit style interface that I'm looking forward to, civkit as a decentralized marketplace sounds awesome. There isn't a defined financial incentive for developing here though, so developers are working as a passion project. It doesn't have the network effect that other platforms have, but all I get out of going to twitter is like 3 cute cat pics then a steady stream of anger.

2023-07-04 03:14:06

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I don't really care that much about my follower count, I get a reasonable amount of engagement with people I want to talk to, and sometimes I get a nice zap that I can forward to developers and newbies.

2023-07-04 02:36:43

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It looks like nostr is still working to me, timely client updates, zero outages, no rate limits, free, all things I've watched twitter and other centralized services fail at over recent months.

2023-07-03 20:18:46

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Okay, have a nice day then.

2023-07-03 20:10:34

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OK...I mean the most widely accepted idea is that peak oil is a conspiracy theory, but I guess if you believe in peak oil then that doesn't mean anything to you. Its a straightforward question, do you believe in peak oil?

2023-07-03 19:56:17

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Any questions? Apps have gotten a bit tricky due to rate limits, aurora store and obtanium will help, youll need to look at the workaround steps for opening google play links from your browser in aurora store.

2023-07-03 19:46:15

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Are you saying you believe in peak oil?

2023-07-02 08:52:24

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Mmmm, its not something that could be practically done by a user. There have been some discussions about changing the format, but that's happening at the client or protocol level. Someone smarter than me could probably make a "seed phrase" out of it that's easier to remember or write down, like how bitcoin seed phrases work, but it wouldn't be shorter. The length of the key is important so that it can't be physically hacked by a strong computer.

2023-07-02 08:30:26

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Yes, you are correct. I am talking to you from amethyst, others are using plebstr, there are desktop clients too. You could also copy your secret key to another client and your user profile should load right up, just don't post that secret key to any of us.

2023-07-02 08:18:36

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I don't have a video, sorry
In essence, there is a protocol called nostr, think of almost anything you use relying on a protocol; when you plug a mouse into your computer you are using the USB protocol to plug it in, its open, anyone can develop or implement USB if they have the technical know-how. Bitcoin is a protocol, anyone can build their own software to mine it, to verify it, to transact with it, so long as they follow the rules of the protocol. Nostr is a protocol, anyone can post or view nostr as long as they obey the rules of the protocol.
As such, anyone can build their own software that interfaces with nostr, you can build your own client, you can build your own relay, you can build bots and all types of stuff as long as you follow the rules of the protocol.
The protocol itself works by allowing anyone to generate a profile (your public/private keys) simply through some math, you could do that with a pen and paper if you had enough time. Once you have that profile, you can use it to write a post, what's happening on the back end is that you signed that post with your private key and sent it to a network of relays, everyone can see that you signed it with your private key (which only you have), simply by their clients checking it against your public key (which we all get).
The relays are anyone with a computer that installs the software (which anyone can create themselves too). Those relays receive the messages you post, store them, share them amongst each other, and send them out to the rest of us.
Since no one could stop all the relays, nostr can't be censored. Since anyone can create a user profile without anyone else's permission (like you did, when you created your profile here) , you can't be stopped from posting here.

2023-07-02 05:46:58

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Oh, I misread that one. I'm still not too worried, time will tell but I don't think nostr is going anywhere.

2023-07-02 05:38:44

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And I for one, appreciate your concern. This is only 5 months of data, and big events like twitter breaking are great opportunities, just like inflation or bank failures are a great time for orange pilling.
Stats lie all the time, its just about how they are being presented, what is being corrected for, and in what context the data is being gathered in. I recycled several accounts before settling here, and I even thought about rerolling again (I don't think I will); that behavior could be skewing the data. That purple line is from the early days of nostr, before trusted accounts were even a thing, but a lot of us were still here using the platform; the next month you see a huge spike in trusted accounts, as in all the people that were already using nostr regularly who just hadn't become trusted yet.

2023-07-01 21:20:57

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The ones on top that glow green are the nerd miners or?

2023-06-30 20:15:34

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What's that power supply? Why so many devices, does it help keep things simple when running multiple services?

2023-06-19 20:15:18

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That's what's happened to bitcoin hardforks, they split off and it creates precedent for the next split.

2023-06-14 06:51:57

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Nice, I couldn't get Dave to tag himself before. Be careful though, if the recursion goes too far relays will start blocking the bots LOL.

2023-06-05 08:02:33

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What about using a user configurable script that can be kept up to date from a repo? Like, I can subscribe to a bothunter list, if I ever feel like I'm not getting the right content then I can toggle that list off.

2023-05-29 06:07:51

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Its dangerous to go alone, take this!

2023-05-23 08:37:47

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There is always scarcity, even if the cost of goods goes down over time it can never be zero.

2023-05-22 02:10:32

'There's no such thing as private property, that's just something that you are loaning from the government, who you have to pay taxes to so people like me can defend you' Jason Lowery 2023. I hope the toxic maxi culture wakes from its slumber and realizes that we can't be nice to shitheads like this.

2023-05-20 23:28:15

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I only really use fdroid to keep aurora store up to date, which I use for the bulk of my apps.

2023-05-18 07:23:10

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Don't get your hopes up, j&j found themselves outside the favor of the club, the rest will be phased out with a nice "it was only ever meant to handle the first strain". You'd think this would beg the question, "why didn't it?", or maybe " why wasn't that thought about ahead of time when we pushed it all the way through delta and omicron?", but its naive to expect this level of skepticism.

2023-05-16 05:47:02

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Still not sure why keet isn't being developed as a layer for nostr clients. It seems to me nostr is a good handshake and open speech protocol, once you find someone you want to talk to privately or via video or share files with then keet should take over to take the load off relays.

2023-05-03 21:51:31

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Wouldn't this effectively just be a VPN?

2023-05-02 23:10:44

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Probably just the distribution of block times, sometimes blocks get mined so fast there isn't even time to include transactions waiting in the mempool.

2023-04-28 04:27:44

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Challenge accepted
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl6BRvEJ-auZ5aYPHj1B3pKJ_pLjg9qNU
In a years time I expect you to be in service to the emporer, heretic.

2023-04-26 13:14:18

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Hard no, you are fortunate to find someone who has such convictions.

2023-04-26 09:09:33

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Do you make this yourself?

2023-04-24 10:02:09

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Well, gl. My transportation costs are locked in for basically the rest of my life, because I can charge my car on solar that I own. You may find gas prices prohibitive to your strategy, but I really do wish you all the best, I mean I like gas too, I just anticipate its not going to practical in the near to mid term with all the crazy environmentalism.

2023-04-23 19:36:24

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Oof, into the abyss it goes, I tried copying my token, wipeing my browser and receiving them to demonstrate it and it never showed up, the better half is surprisingly concerned where < 1 cent went

2023-04-23 06:41:21

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I honestly don't know what to do with this, it isn't cashing out for sats