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i understand that QRs work basically on every phone minus the few dumb phones in existence while nfc enabled phones are somewhat more rare. then again apple/google pay is fairly widely spread

2025-01-27 17:50:12

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i understand that part, my point is more that QRs as a format are not great for outside use cases, nfc is superior

2025-01-27 12:49:33

another thing to add to my list of why qr codes suck irl: merchants have cracked screens
completely usable for human eye, not so much for qr

2025-01-27 09:00:33

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Hum thnx @npub1aeh…4nwx will check what happend to github, this should not be the case

2025-01-26 14:24:44

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its the ultimate orange pill - build something people want and charge bitcoin for it.

2025-01-26 12:39:38

it finally happened! nostr.net got a facelift + search.
thanks to @nprofile…p95g for actually doing the work and for @nprofile…npqx to spearheading the initiative and bullying me to merge all the PRs on my vacation 😅 🤣 ❤️
as with all art projects this one will be evolving too. Timeline undefined, roadmap unclear, promises unkept.
#nevent1q…2y7d

2025-01-25 20:34:10

#meme
https://m.primal.net/OADM.jpg

2025-01-25 11:56:05

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boobies have been awesome for much longer than bitcoin tho

2025-01-24 23:13:06

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@npub18pu…a699 it has been on my todo list for longer than I care to admit

2025-01-23 20:09:23

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its very unsustainable for most ppl, I know more than a few who left bitcoin space cuz their lives just required bigger and more steadier income

2025-01-23 13:44:05

shitposting (intern) saves the day
https://m.primal.net/NwNk.jpg

2025-01-22 13:35:13

the only limitation for building freedom tech should be our imagination, not laws.

2025-01-21 12:06:02

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its not, but I havent spent time elsewhere.
obviously prices for Ticos are not the same.

2025-01-21 10:56:39

Everything in Uvita is priced as a robbery. Clearly constructed to extract every last sat from visitors. Rents and groceries are cheaper in Switzerland.

2025-01-16 18:11:47

on the road again https://youtu.be/M6Ggp3TJjuE

2025-01-16 14:08:39

i think you have some wrong links in the episode description with John @npub1h8n…rpev

2025-01-16 10:38:15

SEC-01 was by far the best thing I did last year. Possibly longer. I strongly urge anyone building in freedom tech to apply!
#nevent1q…tl4z

2025-01-15 14:33:28

https://m.primal.net/Nhop.jpg do what you love...

2025-01-14 18:20:17

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I get where you are coming from but this can be a double edged sword on many fronts
one is being locked inside a basement and building something without the input of the world tends to produce mixed results at best
the other is maybe your idea inspires someone to actually build it instead of you. I have an endless list of ideas and thoughts but I struggle to find the time to work on them. And for majority of them I just want them to exist, I don't need to be the one to build them. I'd love to, but I dont' NEED to.
and being able to deliver on things you commited to (announced) is also a very strong positive signal
I'm all for monk mode but at the same time I think @nprofile…g200 was a spectacular example of why the contrary might also be good

2025-01-14 06:22:07

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that would be a bit complicated flow - you'd generally want DVMs to run isolated, not with your user session. unless a dvm is a wrapper for X api of course

2025-01-14 06:11:34

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i think @nprofile…6vjy is a great example of how good can it be

2025-01-13 14:03:42

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i'm not exactly sure what you mean with acting as user

2025-01-13 13:36:36

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local nas + encrypted backup on some cheap storage like s3/backblaze/something. cycle encrypted backup of nas in safety deposit boxes.
add more points if necessary.

2025-01-13 09:24:18

I've been having this idea gestating in my brain for a while, its part of something bigger that I'm trying to conceptualize but the gist of it is:
DVMs can make passive income from residential internet connections.
More and more websites are trying hard to penalize non-residential traffic with tons of catchas or straight up blocking the requests. Which means that you cannot just roll your own vps somewhere and use it as vpn as easily as it used to be.
Or try downloading a youtube video from it. But you would pay couple sats for it. Which means that any pleb that has a raspi or something else running somewhere at home could run a simple DVM that would download the video for the user and send it to them.
This is only the start, there are a lot more things we could do in a distributed way to basically provide a solution to a problem that many have, specially now in the days of AI where scrapping as much data as possible is something people are paying for.
Forget about trying to run LN nodes to earn an income. Just install a package on your umbrel, start9 or whatever platform you are using and start offering services.
And its not just about serving the people on nostr. We can build websites and abstract the DVMs away. We can use the normie world to fuel our parallel economy, using distributed compute to provide services that people want and are willing to pay for them.
And it actually is easier to do it this way than trying to engineer your way around the restrictions. Why pay for 1000s of proxies if you can have 1000s of people participating in your pool of compute?
I'm building this in Q1 if all goes well, but I'm sharing the idea with the world because the important part is it gets built. If anyone wants to take the lead, participate or just brainstorm hit me up!

2025-01-13 08:53:29

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coming there next week to put some more sats in the circulation 🥳

2025-01-12 19:27:12

fun read https://labs.watchtowr.com/more-governments-backdoors-in-your-backdoors/ #cybersecurity #security

2025-01-12 11:24:54

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hows the tooling availability?

2025-01-12 11:23:26

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no, only chai

2025-01-12 06:48:38

#meme
https://m.primal.net/Ncys.png

2025-01-11 21:10:21

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That is actually not necessarily great advice because you put yourself on a list of clients and get fucked when they get hacked. If you get it from a random elctronics store instead the likelyhood of them getting hacked and someone digging through their data to identify the 5 customers who bought a hww there is tiny.
Or buy it for cash at a confernce, ship to a PO box etc. But putting your name on the most obvipus list of ppl who likely have substiantal amount of assets is not something that should be suggested so carelessly

2025-01-10 13:21:59

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on the other hand people were also aware of this going on (at least i was when i clicked the link) so maybe you had people clicking out of "support" more than interest which would skew the results

2025-01-10 12:53:53

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I'd say that given the nostr crowd probably skews much more towards technical on average the amount of adblockers and other privacy extensions that would taint your results is above average so the results might actually better than that

2025-01-10 07:59:42

when its not your first bear market
https://m.primal.net/NaIf.mp4

2025-01-09 13:34:07

#music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7FKc1JQe4

2025-01-09 10:04:27

https://m.primal.net/NYuo.png

2025-01-09 05:25:36

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I used to be a huge fan of CCC and would consider myself part of the hacking community back in the day but both have lost its ways long time ago.
it became completely overtaken by the woke agenda, communists and social justice warriors. For a bunch of people that used to be the most counter culture and fuck the government crowd it sure turned out to be a communist commune for the confused people in need of therapy

2025-01-08 18:10:38

Celebrating expansionist ideas of the current biggest empire just because the orange man has managed to say bitcoin twice is disappointing to say the least.
Its always interesting to see how quickly bitcoiners show their true statist tendency as long as their state is the one coming out on top.

2025-01-08 09:52:33

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if chatgpt is to be trusted with the math that is 1.37 bottle of whiskey per person which is a respectable number.

2025-01-08 09:10:58

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/telegram-hands-over-data-on-thousands-of-users-to-us-law-enforcement/

2025-01-08 08:47:24

its the best and the worst feature at the same time. Its super useful but it only exist because we have broken clients.
https://m.primal.net/NXSt.png

2025-01-08 08:45:23

i wanted to check something on twitter today and i wrote primal.net in my url bar.

2025-01-07 17:41:07

@nprofile…3ttr i've emailed support@primal.net 2weeks ago and still no reply for a billing issue

2025-01-07 17:22:38

#music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KAGq1R8frY

2025-01-07 17:22:23

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sounds like he won't be your boss for much longer

2025-01-05 13:11:05

#meme
https://m.primal.net/NTFk.png

2025-01-04 12:52:02

https://m.primal.net/NRep.png

2025-01-04 10:13:05

does anyone ever work when going to costa rica or is everyone just posting nice photos?
because theres maybe 1-2 listings on airbnb i found that have something that could remotely be called a workspace

2025-01-03 20:08:06

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You guys wear underwear?

2025-01-03 07:14:21

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hopefully the society heals a bit and "looking pretty on the internet" is not a goal of the younger generation anymore. And then using that attention to peddle the worst of consumerist crap.
Maybe instead we can use nostr as a place to exchange ideas, have meaningful conversations, coordinate humanity around new initiatives and distribute new advancements in technology.

2025-01-01 13:35:16

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steam room + cold plunge is the life.
i feel like a proper steam room is my natural habitat

2025-01-01 12:58:15

travel rule is an abomination, but so is every other rule concerning financial activity.
Limits on cash payments? KYC requirements? And all other AML bullshit.
We should just use all of it as fuel to build more black market technologies, get more people to start participating in free economies and generally become more free.
Their need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. It requires constant effort and expansion. Their authority is brittle, they are tightening the grip because they are afraid.
First gift of cryptography was privacy. Second gift of cryptography was bitcoin. And with those two we can break the shackles of tyranny and free ourselves for good.
#nevent1q…fdqw

2025-01-01 10:48:50

I don't consider myself a particularly big individual but the lack of king beds in airbnbs bothers me endlessly.

2024-12-31 08:26:05

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Yeah similar vibes here, not that I've tried to built a following anywhere but according to various clients I have about 2.5x amount of people willingly exposing to my shitposting here vs on X despite this npub being much younger

2024-12-31 05:42:26

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I agree with the sentiment but disagree on the point that only the government can decide what a company is. If any project provides value and makes money is just as legitimate as any "legitimate company" that has been approved by your favorite jurisdiction.
The pudding is in the value provided not amount of paperwork submitted.
We need to separate productive ventures of humans from theater of governmental permissions to do essential activity of any civilization - commerce.

2024-12-30 20:07:31

i wish it was #meme, its just the #truth https://m.primal.net/NLpy.png

2024-12-30 16:46:09

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a lot of funding info can be found from https://opensats.org/blog/2024-year-in-review
even "for profit" companies are to some extent subsidies with grants, which is good as at least some things get built but its also killing signal/noise ratio since grants don't really provide market signals as to what makes sense to build and what just exists because people have cashflow to do it
a lot of time and resources is being donate to the cause but sooner or later we need to figure out how to get ppl to pay for stuff and how to monetize things and the longer we supplement this with grants the longer we postpone the real world test of is there a market for this.
then again, freedom tech never pays so maybe we're just frontrunning this and silently admitting it to ourselves?

2024-12-30 08:26:18

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Well container images are by definition immutable since you know what hash you are running on, if you pair that with remote attestation you get crypographically provable environment which is also the fundamental part of confidential computing

2024-12-29 11:10:58

Anything that gets collected will eventually be exposed and/or abused.
Modern cars are not cars, they are data collection machines that accidentially occasionally drive ypu around.
https://www.carscoops.com/2024/12/vw-group-data-breach-exposed-location-info-for-800000-evs/

2024-12-28 08:25:51

Its time to stop building cucked companies and start building black market infrastructure
#nevent1q…jyex

2024-12-27 14:18:46

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i feel like 3d printers are like boats - the happiest days are the day you buy it and the day you sell it

2024-12-27 13:51:06

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i guess depends on the design.
it is an annoying problem, i've tried now to figure out a simple way but you're right, everything works against you for small amounts

2024-12-27 12:53:17

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i think the dvm would have a free option problem, @npub1psm…8970 use to support this iirc (tho i dont think it was on tron) but they dont anymore

2024-12-26 18:19:16

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i guess your best bet is egpu enclosure

2024-12-26 14:32:42

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clearly we've seen different armpits in our life.

2024-12-26 14:20:37

If you feel like you're falling into a bottomless pit, remember a bottomless pit is the safest kind of pit to fall into.

2024-12-26 13:50:50

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using zaps to make more zap worthy things

2024-12-26 13:50:04

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Yes, we have the building blocks to make internet connection and spare compute cycles a productive asset - that is the hyperbitcoinization play
But even more importantly given current outlook access to compute (currently predominantly gpu) is a major centralizing factor and point of control, so the sooner we make running a small server at home an investment that can recuperate its cost and become a source of revenu the better chance we stand at having some meaningful amount of compute in our territory of freedom

2024-12-26 07:54:43

I think its imperative that we figure out how to make decentralized compute profitable

2024-12-25 04:06:17

Veritas, non auctoritas facit legem

2024-12-24 20:39:45

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Their nitrokey products do, i doubt they would do a bigger box without it

2024-12-24 16:36:17

#meme
https://m.primal.net/NFTv.png

2024-12-24 13:19:44

GM!
https://m.primal.net/NFKF.mp4

2024-12-23 19:04:07

Great clip from Airbnb founder Brian Chesky about founders and VCs https://m.primal.net/NEZA.mp4

2024-12-23 09:29:31

#balkan #exyu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n9xxA3QY8M

2024-12-22 08:01:29

https://eumostwanted.eu/#/schueler-richard-james

2024-12-21 14:26:53

#meme
https://m.primal.net/NCZp.png

2024-12-19 05:15:41

Eminem is the real #Satoshi
https://m.primal.net/NASL.mp4

2024-12-18 14:47:39

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on the other hand - humanity always excelled with creating issues for itself!

2024-12-18 14:45:35

its all in the data! #meme
https://m.primal.net/Mzov.mp4

2024-12-16 04:03:04

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@nprofile…qmxe is by far the best long form experience, @nprofile…e69h seems very clunky and buggy
https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qqw4g6r994pkzmr8v9e8jt2nv96z6ntpwf4k2apdx9j8v6enwsq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet59upzqxvfqd89dw8kqmrjfaz6zt8gfggcg93p4tm3s2slv4jrszuugfmtqvzqqqr4gu8lfjk6

2024-12-15 13:08:18

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Possibly try them with throwaway pubkeys*

2024-12-15 05:36:04

https://m.primal.net/MwZw.png #meme

2024-12-12 08:28:33

clearly i jinxed myself since some app clearly did.
#note1ud7…wx6n

2024-12-11 08:41:33

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@npub1tlv…7fdm i've been exploring this idea space for a while, you might get some ideas at https://sovereignagents.ai/

2024-12-11 08:34:07

Who benefits from inflation?
https://video.nostr.build/5734c9a96665938a4d3ed9ac44a9e83dd3881525cd693e359d5cb0a1918c1f86.mp4