RebelOfBabylon

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2024-09-12 10:07:51

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Where are you getting that you can no longer criticize the government from? Doesn't the law only target visual depictions of abhorrent content like terrorist acts? Don't get me wrong the law is dumb but I'm not seeing how this means they can't criticize the government.

2024-08-29 16:07:37

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Because it's really not that interesting a topic. It's just money. The first few convos sure but after a while, it gets old.

2024-08-28 02:50:59

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How?

2024-08-14 20:19:42

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The first article you shared says this:
"The model calculated the monthly change in Earth’s energy balance caused by the eruption and showed that water vapor could increase the average global temperature by up to 0.035°C over the next 5 years. That’s a large anomaly for a single event, but it’s not outside the usual level of noise in the climate system, Jenkins said."
The second article says this:
"The study says that, before the eruption, there was a 50-50 chance that global temperatures would exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels at least once by 2026. In its aftermath, the likelihood of exceeding this threshold has increased by seven percentage points – making “imminent 1.5C exceedance” more likely than not."
So although it has temporarily warmed the planet further, the major underlying cause is still because of the major excess of GHGs. So sure, maybe once all the water vapour cycles out of the stratosphere, global temperatures will cool slightly, but then again the amount of warming the water vapour may have caused is within the usual level of noise in the climate system. So even if we assume the last two winters are exceptionally mild because of the volcano, more winters like it are likely to come as the planet continues to warm.

2024-08-14 20:02:52

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Sorry contradicts your claim that the last 2 years are warm because of the volcano*

2024-08-14 20:02:06

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The NASA source you shared directly contradicts your claim that the last 2 years have been unusually warm.
"In contrast, the Tonga volcano didn’t inject large amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere, and the huge amounts of water vapor from the eruption may have a small, temporary warming effect, since water vapor traps heat. The effect would dissipate when the extra water vapor cycles out of the stratosphere and would not be enough to noticeably exacerbate climate change effects."

2024-08-14 19:11:18

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CO2 levels should be a concern though since it's causing global average temperatures to rise too quickly.
The boreal forest in north america has evolved to expect significant snowfall over the winter which melts in the spring and feeds rivers, lakes and the soil keeping the forest moist. The last two winters have been absolutely mild with little snowfall. It's actually insane. I grew up in Northern Ontario where snow begins to fall/accumulate in early November and stays until late May. At the peak of winter we have 8ft snow banks. Snow mobile season usually lasts from early December to April. The last two years, its been a few weeks. There was so little in winter 2022 and so little rain in spring 2023 that we had major forest fires throughout northern Ontario and Quebec with smoke affecting daily life all the way to New York City! I know forest fires are normal but those very mild winters (that I have never seen in my life, nor has my father or his father) are causing forests to dry up which impacts so many things. And then warmer air means warmer oceans and that greatly affects ocean currents and marine life... You see where I'm going with this?

2024-08-14 17:57:53

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Species are 100% collapsing: check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGjCB0Up3U4

2024-08-14 17:55:47

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I don't think that is omitted from the conversation especially because compared to previous warmer eras with no ice at the poles, the change in temperature occurred over millions of years so life had a chance to slowly adapt. Which is not at all the same as what's happening now.

2024-08-11 20:17:29

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Interesting. So I suppose we definitely want to use proper sources of randomness and hope there aren't any bugs that can cause a pattern to emerge. Any thoughts on EdDSA and how it deterministically generates the nonce? Can this sort of thing be implemented in Bitcoin/nostr libraries (assuming it's good and solves the issue)?

2024-08-11 19:42:25

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If I understand correctly, you want to make sure that whenever you generate a nonce for your ECDSA signatures, they should be as random as possible and should never be reused because it's simple to derive the secret key from the signature and the nonce.
I imagine that in both nostr and bitcoin, this is known and applications are designed with this in mind? Is ensuring random, non-reused nonces that hard to do?

2024-07-25 13:47:37

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Oh if I understand what you're saying, if you have multiple values in the single letter tag
```json
{
"#t": ["gm", " bloom"]
}
```
The relay should interpret that as "events with the "gm" OR "bloom" as values for the "t" tag? And this proposal using "&t" would make "events with "gm" AND "bloom"?

2024-07-25 13:05:13

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This helped! Thanks. So I guess single letter tag filters just look like this?
```json
{
"#t": [
" gm"
]
}
```

2024-07-25 02:33:44

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Really random question: what do nostr tag filters actually look like? NIP-1 describes it but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Is there a sample tag filter somewhere?

2024-07-17 12:33:51

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How is navigation? Better thanOsmAnd?

2024-07-09 17:20:08

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wait, aren't you the one who runs coinkite?

2024-07-05 19:24:36

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Lol I know what it's for. I don't think you're following this convo.

2024-07-05 19:23:14

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Refresh token so you don't need to log in every 15 minutes (because session token should not be long lived). There isn't much trusting to do with the ID provider. You have to trust that the software works. It's like using the "login with Google" or "login with Facebook" buttons. They also use OIDC. In those cases, you have to trust them with your personal info. With this nostr ID provider, you hold the personal info on your device. We can maybe have some sort of encryption scheme between the nostr app and your phone app to make sure the info doesn't leak in transit. And tbh so far nostr apps have asked for your name, username, maybe an email. You can always enter fake or burner info in your device app so that nostr ID provider gets nothing. Its a very low trust system IMO.

2024-07-05 19:12:51

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Why would it defeat the point entirely? The nostr ID provider gives the nostr app a session token, refresh token and ID token so that you don't continuously have to log in everytime you click a button on the page.

2024-07-05 19:02:20

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What if we use OIDC. You're building your app and you want to allow nostr login. Your app uses OIDC via a nostr ID provider. This nostr ID provider connects with an app you have on your phone which is where your nsec is. Whenever you click "login with nostr" the nostr app uses OIDC and pings the nostr ID provider. Nostr ID provider then provides a NIP-97 auth URI back to the nostr app. Nostr app displays this URI as a QR code. Using the app on your phone, you scan this QR code. This will then prompt you to confirm you want to log into this site, and even what info you'd like to share with this site. All your personal info is stored only locally on device in the app and you could even create different profiles for different sites. Once you confirm, your app sends that in the form of NIP-97 auth message to nostr ID provider. Nostr ID provider then creates session token, refresh token and ID token and gives it back to nostr app. Voila you're logged in and you never had to enter your nsec anywhere.

2024-07-03 20:25:17

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It's starting!

2024-07-01 22:55:03

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Wow that's incredible. That is how Canadian bureaucracy works as well though I'm not sure if one decision allows this or if it's just constitutional. Regardless politicians defer to bureaucrats to do the heavy lifting and there's no accountability.

2024-06-17 11:40:51

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This doesn't work on amethyst. Is the idea that it should just work or would I need to manually add the relay where this note is stored to my list of relays?

2024-06-14 10:30:19

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If it can't even perform simple tasks then why should we assume it can be used to push some agenda?

2024-06-09 10:46:37

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Fuck, you beat me to it! I was gonna build this

2024-06-06 20:32:59

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Works in Amethyst :)

2024-05-21 13:11:07

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Hey I just recently got rid of my 97 sierra! Loved that truck. Only reason I let it go was because the frame was starting to rot and the dealer offered me 1000$ for it (scrap value)

2024-05-21 12:17:00

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What happens when your personal served gets DDoS attack?

2024-05-07 15:27:37

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Any consideration for streaming video over websockets? I found the latency to be super low this way.

2024-05-01 11:31:16

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What about countries with multiple timezones?

2024-04-28 20:50:47

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Cast iron 100%. All those going off about Teflon, y'all need to look into PFAS.

2024-04-26 20:14:54

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I like to think I'm pretty smart. I've had a very hard time running my own LN node. Starting with raspibolt.org my node froze up without me noticing and all my channels were force closed.
Tried again with a small lenovo thinkstation, my ssd Mount didn't persist after restarts, didn't notice for almost a year, again channels are force closed.
I can hear the "skill issue" in the distance. But the truth is running a LN node is hard. Even without the sys admin problems, I never figured out who I should open channels to, how much in those channels to be a good peer on the network. Tbh, I just don't have the time or interest in running a routing node. I much prefer the LSP model.

2024-04-24 21:43:18

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You're probably gonna get a lot flack from people for complying but I applaud you for thinking ahead on this issue. Easy to say don't comply when you're not the one facing a lawsuit.

2024-04-24 12:38:28

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Where is this (country, no need to dox yourself :))? :o

2024-04-22 16:16:33

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People are actually using testnet for real projects????

2024-04-21 14:05:21

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-_- we have gitlab issues, JIRA, email, teams dms, teams channels, also microsoft word comments. Jira is the worst one though, absolutely hate that tool.

2024-04-21 12:58:46

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Lowkey, this is a banger

2024-04-05 22:23:34

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May be too early but it would be cool if Amethyst could be used in NIP-97 logins. Like if I use amethyst to scan a NIP-97 QRcode to log into some service.

2024-04-05 03:12:27

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My vote is on NIP-97

2024-04-02 14:58:23

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Looks dope!

2024-03-28 16:08:14

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What don't you like about it?

2024-03-27 18:27:33

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Yeah that's true. Though we can probably get a ballpark figure based on doctor journals describing skin cancer lesions on patients and extrapolate. It's not accurate but the best we can get.

2024-03-27 17:40:57

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That's actually incorrect, the average life expectancy of people before modern medicine was low because of the high amount of infant mortality (bringing down the average). But if you survived childhood, you could easily live into your 50s, 60s even 70s for some.Its's obviously way more common today but it wasn't unheard of in the past.

2024-03-27 17:06:28

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I get where you're coming from, I've also felt this way about a lot of topics but I think he has honest intentions with his video. Like I've also wondered if before the last 100-200 years we spent most of our lives outdoors, why is sun exposure only now a concern? Especially considering that they didn't have sunscreen before. I'm not saying let's just never wear sunscreen and stare into the sun but I think this topic is worthy of some healthy skepticism.

2024-03-27 15:55:27

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Good video! I just have a few critcisms:
- I appreciate the effort to show both sides and seem unbiased but I couldn't help but feel like you had a bias towards sun lover from the get go.
- It also felt like you didn't steelman the sun hater very well. You picked someone with a pretty fringe opinion (wear sunscreen indoors everyday).
- I think this video could've benefited from a bit more detail, getting into more of the science behind what the sun does, the history of the research that lead us to our modern beliefs around sun exposure, etc.
- maybe this is a topic for another video but I would've loved to learn about if sunscreen can impact your health at all

2024-03-23 13:06:31

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Considering the vastness of the universe, there's likely other forms of life somewhere. Did the Creator make them too? Or does each planet with life on it have its own Creator?

2024-03-15 03:28:30

This is another test from obsidian
## Test Header
| Table | Test |
| ----- | ---- |
| 1 | 2 |

2024-03-15 03:04:36

# Test
## Sub Test
```json
{
"hail": "satan"
}
```
### meow
| Simple | Table |
| ---------- | ----- |
| x | 123 |
Some text
[Link](https://example.com)

2024-03-12 17:50:35

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By chance are you open sourcing your quantum resistant lib?

2024-02-23 19:50:54

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I thought the same thing. His mannerisms strike me as very North American English. Yet another nail in the coffin for Craig.

2024-02-22 02:53:16

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RIP green

2024-02-17 15:16:23

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Great write up! Thanks for doing this

2024-02-14 12:33:25

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Really feels like they're trying to cram in as much stupid shit in these last two years as possible. Did you also see the hacker toy ban?

2024-02-11 15:46:20

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I'm probably gonna get some flack for this but when basil isn't an option, oregano pesto is pree fucking good. Where my oregano fam at?

2024-02-11 14:23:44

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I don't get it, nostr uses websockets under the hood. Why do we neee webrtc?

2024-02-10 19:04:50

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Dude this is so dope. Can't wait to see discussions on wikipedia pages or code blogs, etc.

2024-02-10 19:01:30

This game is filed with bangers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWjiVfUypJY

2024-01-30 00:07:21

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I don't think it should be illegal. I think overall, we need to start tolerating some level of bullying in schools again though. Social shaming so that only the weirdos will do this (behind closed doors) and it doesn't become common.

2024-01-21 14:50:16

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Fascinating

2024-01-19 01:09:19

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Something about this looks off. It looks like AI made it.

2024-01-08 13:12:52

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Very cool!

2024-01-06 19:23:43

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Is this supposed to be French? Jfc

2023-12-17 16:19:18

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Though I agree with you, I think we are simultaneously downplaying LLMs. Google's AlphaCode2 can apparently score in the 90th percentile on a software problem solving test, one that requires humans to think and strategize about a problem before solving it. And not because LLMs are intelligent but because they can attempt many different solutions incredibly fast and converge on the optimal one. Similarly, many AI researchers are confident that LLMs will likely postulate a new mathematical theorem in the coming years.

2023-12-15 01:04:27

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Oh egui!! What made you decide on egui? I'm experimenting with using Bevy to make a GUI.

2023-12-13 02:11:31

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How would this work? Could it be a future nostr event?

2023-11-27 14:10:31

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For search, isn't the solution really similar to building a search engine? A "note-crawler" to try and index notes on nostr? Or maybe search will be done on a specific relay, no need to index all notes across nostr

2023-10-26 13:32:45

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This is a 10 IQ take. The vast majority of the countries urban centres and population live on or below the 49th parallel because most of what's north of that line is swamp. Also just because European cities are at higher latitudes doesn't mean the Canadian experience the same weather. Ever hear of oceanic currents?
I agree that we tend to favour politicians who make the problem worse. It's a really difficult and long process to get building permits and that's a huge problem. But just telling people to go build in the swamp, away from where their families and jobs are is dumb.

2023-10-12 15:53:24

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Honestly, I think social media in general is the reason for the acceleration of polarization. People don't talk to each other in person anymore. This leads to people forming opinions about the world based on their online interactions, where people are more hostile. And that leads people to be more xenophobic. I think if people spent more time talking to their neighbours than they did on social media, we'd be less divided.

2023-10-04 01:56:31

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What's NWC?

2023-09-16 20:09:22

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Ah man, and you visited our worst city IMO. Montreal is much nicer. But glad you enjoyed it!

2023-08-18 13:35:28

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Ah nvm he answered!

2023-08-18 03:54:59

@npub1xts…kk5s random question: there's no license on https://github.com/rustyrussell/runes
Think RustyRussel would mind if I made a version of this in Go with MIT license? I tried emailing him but no response

2023-08-17 20:58:16

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Hate to hold your feet to the fire but I believe it's safe to say at this point that you're very wrong about LK-99.

2023-07-22 12:17:49

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For Wilson, are you suggesting direct election of senators is a bad thing? I'd like to understand that one because here in Canada, I'd very much like if we had direct election of senators instead of them being appointed by the PM.