KaliYuga

https://getalby.com/p/kaliyuga

No one is coming to save you. Nostrich since 768952.

Public Key

npub1a6gj7dkl04lsd4t2ny9rzmpwtrtme9rm26xlprj3j0gz9e50k0vsc6u28f

NIP-05 Address

kaliyuga@nostrplebs.com

NIP-57 Address

rapidwalrus1@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqswayf0xm0h6lcx644fjz33dsh934auj3a4dr0s3ege85pzu68m8kgqn00q7

Author Public Key

npub1a6gj7dkl04lsd4t2ny9rzmpwtrtme9rm26xlprj3j0gz9e50k0vsc6u28f

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2025-06-01 07:28:59

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Testing their pricing power

2025-05-28 05:48:10

Being in Las Vegas rn seems so unappealing. Cultist gathering is definitely not my thing.

2025-05-25 16:30:46

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Out of curiosity, how is Ente photos better than Proton drive photos ? I don’t use the latter bc it doesn’t sync photo deletion.

2025-05-23 12:17:18

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I need to clean my eyes after having watched this

2025-05-23 12:16:31

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I need to clean my eyes after having watched this

2025-05-12 17:27:40

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Lacks pepper

2025-05-12 08:32:45

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Oui, je suis d'accord, c'est ce que je fais avec des gens que je connais et qui ont un minimum confiance en moi. Mais avec un groupe de 30 écolos qui ont un apriori assez négatif, je veux d'abord essayer de casser la glace et de leur faire remettre leurs dogmes en question. Il faut d'abord que je lave bitcoin idéologiquement et ensuite j'espère que je pourrai passer à de la pratique.

2025-05-12 05:35:57

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Bien joué ! Je termine de préparer une présentation pour orange-pill un groupe d’une trentaine de militants écologistes disposés à m’écouter parler sur le sujet 😄

2025-05-09 14:14:05

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He seems to have read Oswald Spengler’s « Prussianism and Socialism » and decided to put a positive spin on it

2025-04-24 05:48:28

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Yeah, mine is too smart for me, I’ve become her toy
https://m.primal.net/QbOP.jpg

2025-02-10 17:00:50

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Surely you meant Belgian chocolate ;)

2025-02-10 07:18:53

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Vraiment? La description idéologique du narratif transparaît dans le titre du podcast. Difficile d'attendre de France Inter et de Radio France un traitement équitable sur un sujet pareil.

2025-02-03 15:11:07

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That's not really Deepseek R1, it's a distilled version of Alibaba's Qwen-32B architecture, enhanced using synthetic outputs from the larger DeepSeek R1 model.
Quite useful but not hte same thing.

2024-11-26 06:22:32

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Space:1999

2024-11-25 10:32:16

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I've also had several support lunchs these last days with friends.
I find it more difficult now that we're at an age when there won't be a career turnaround anymore. These friends have now to cope with the fact that they won't "make it" anymore professionally, that they need to damage control for retirement, and that they didn't listen to me all the times I told them to buy btc.

2024-11-14 12:13:14

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I'll make a separate stack of "expensive" sats so they don't contaminate too much my currently optimized average price. That's just for moral support.

2024-11-14 09:16:23

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jajaja acabo de terminar el ultimo pod de @npub1yn3…mzt0 y me dijé que iba a volver a leer los textos fundamentales de Nick Szabo. El orange-pilling profundo para mi occurió cuando leí sobre social scalability por primera vez en sus textos.

2024-11-11 07:37:03

Unpopular opinion: I prefer the sound of the bitcoin accumulation phase than the noise of the bull.
It has barely started and I already feel like I've had enough.
Equanimity is just more healthy for the mind and body.

2024-11-10 15:45:34

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scale invariance is almost magical

2024-11-05 10:31:12

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Congrats!
Same here, today is my 100,000 blocks anniversary on Nostr.

2024-10-24 09:35:12

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the axiological realm has taken over the metaphysical one

2024-10-22 15:45:21

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Over the past 4 years, it has slowly become impossible to have a conversation with my normie friends. The gap has widened so much that it has become too difficult to have a common ground.
I am giving up on them and it's not fun because we used to be friends.

2024-10-21 06:47:17

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In hatha yoga, where you tend to remain and breathe in physically challenging postures, we say that the posture begins the moment you want to get out of it.

2024-10-19 17:17:30

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Other-worldly Klaus Kinski in Fitzcarraldo

2024-10-19 17:15:07

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I'd like to think that's true but beyond what's possible for small communities, it seems the first agricultural societies were likely under the authoritarian rule of a clique that had control over water/irrigation access and defended against invasions.

2024-10-19 06:51:59

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There have been many tether-based designs to bring stuff to LEO. It looks feasible on paper but it's an open question whether it would work in practice. It's certainly a lot of fun to imagine a world with these gigantic tethers.
There are many unsolved challenges:
a) to build it
b) to make it work,
c) to make it cost-effective
And you can't only consider the costs of mass-to-orbit by starting from 30km altitude. You first need to bring your payload from the ground to that platform. All in all, it looks cool but the starship design is really at the frontier of what is currently possible.
Reaching 4% for SpaceX is not just having 1 killer feature that changes everything, it's rather the accumulation of a very significant number of small improvements regarding materials, strucutre, fuel, engines.

2024-10-18 12:27:19

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I love the energy of the sticker fight!

2024-10-18 12:24:47

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To understand how close we are to have too much gravity, just look at the payload-to-total-mass ratio.
Except for SpaceX, the ratio is between 1% and 2%, meaning the useful stuff you can bring to orbit is only 1 to 2% of the total mass. 98-99% of the mass of a rocket is its structure and its fuel. This is due to what's known as the curse of Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation. A tiny bit more gravity and the 1-2% becomes 0%.
SpaceX Falcons are around 4% payload mass. Saturn V was 4% too.
Catching Super Heavy booster with the chopsticks means the booster doesn't need legs, which would be pretty heavy given that it's tall. By removing legs the payload-to-total mass ration improves quite a bit.

2024-10-17 17:07:55

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I look at all your photos with attention in order to extract some wisdom to improve my photos. I take decent amateur photos in environments that have obvious interesting features. But I have a lot to learn to take good photos of seemingly mundane environements.

2024-10-17 07:54:01

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GM
brake to witness beauty

2024-10-15 09:02:06

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I've gone through that experience multiple times. Very frustrating.
Now I only concentrate my orange-pilling energy on a few individuals for whom I think the probability is reasonably good.
For other people, I let them come to me when they're ready (very few have).
There's no real shortcut to walk on this road. They need to accept to reframe their view of the world and leave their bags on the way, it's a lengthy process.

2024-10-12 12:00:15

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This could be interesting if Professor Dave Farina was not so politically biased.
For someone claiming to root for science and calling himself Professor, he doesn't seem to have learned the basic premise of the scientific method, ie suspending judgment while investigating.

2024-10-11 08:15:24

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alternatively, private DMs could get nostr apps banned from app stores once stuff like EU ChatControl is finally voted and implemented.

2024-10-04 09:33:36

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that's a great post! I wanted so hard to zap it, but it's not possible, it seems your zap setting is not working.

2024-10-01 05:16:26

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Great initiative, but we need to set up a European version that is not in the middle of the night.

2024-09-29 07:33:19

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this had me remembering Ebo Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkHzk07vb_w&pp=ygUZZWJvIHRheWxvciBsb3ZlIGFuZCBkZWF0aA%3D%3D

2024-09-24 05:38:02

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Hola 👋 hay q buscar un poco pero hay bastante hispanohablantes por aquí

2024-09-23 14:09:24

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I've stopped having these conversations altogether. I dig a bit more only if I feel the person is very very open-minded and curious, otherwise it's just a loss of time.

2024-09-22 12:42:52

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tu m'avais dit que t'utilises printoclock pour imprimer tes stickers. Je vois que ça marche pour les stickers rectangulaires de #bitcoinrocks. Par contre je ne vois pas la possibilité sur leur site d'imprimer des formats libres comme le sticker "fix the money fix the world" par exemple. J'ai mal regardé ou tu imprimes ailleurs?

2024-09-22 06:23:44

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Congrats! I learned paragliding in Chile as well in the 90s. It was truly exhilarating, but I saw irl some very bad accidents and became scared.

2024-09-22 06:16:42

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$58k victim

2024-09-16 07:50:38

GM
Touch grass
https://m.primal.net/KrbV.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KrbZ.jpg

2024-09-13 13:21:31

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solo starts at 6:30

2024-09-13 13:18:30

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Same vibes as Mdou Moctar, but Mdou's hands are unique and pure magic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZvPoE0EH1o
@npub1mpz…0pxm

2024-09-12 08:03:45

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and yet, imho Seneca is overrated. He writes beautifully and his advices are gems. But actually he comes from a rich family and never had to go through real hardship.
This contrasts a lot with Epictetus, who was a slave, and with Marcus Aurelius, who had to show up every day to rule an empire. Their lives were consistent with their talk.

2024-09-12 07:43:32

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you first gather a lot of data about a topic that matters to you. And then by training a neural network on this data, you're compressing all the information that is embedded in the data. The output of the training is a much smaller set of numbers (weights). By inserting these numbers in a math function, you can now ask questions related to your set of data. The answers won't necessarily be perfect since the data was compressed.
Training a neural network is a 2-step mathematical process where the 1st step is preparing the data (80% of the overall effort) and the 2nd step is going through an iterative process that intents reducing the error rate when compressing the data up to an optimal point.
There are many applications and LLMs like chatGPT are only an example. I was lucky enough to make credit default prediction models with neural networks in a big bank in the early 90s.

2024-09-11 06:43:31

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It's a good strategy as a rite of passage to enter a WoT

2024-09-10 14:40:40

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Is there a how-to somewhere?
I've been trying to better understand relays lately but it's hard to find a good source.

2024-09-09 06:51:35

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

2024-09-08 06:14:16

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I watched it 15 years ago and I keep thinking about it very often. Truly like a nightmare.
Every time my over-privileged children complain about bit too much, I tell them to go watch this movie.

2024-09-07 15:46:28

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Cngratulations, awesome project!
Here is my spot a tiny bit North of Patagonia. I've owned it for many years but haven't developed the homestead yet.
https://m.primal.net/KiLg.png

2024-09-06 06:12:33

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Te envié esto ayer
https://njump.me/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpm539umd7ltlqm2k4xg2x9kzukxhhj28k45d7z89ry7sytnglv7eqqsxjecfg6kaxdvggdg9mpfmnd9qfnvsgh32r9rt9cfadvp03gp93vcpm0yrp

2024-09-05 20:58:48

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- getting fees lower on Relai: yes it's possible, but that's not the baseline situation.
- I knew Relai a few years back too and recommended it to many newcoiners. I discovered bittr only recently and I'm pretty happy with their service so far. Now I'm recommending ProtonWallet and Bittr, not Relai anymore.
- Sure, Bittr is only KYC-light bc of bank transfers, not fully KYC-free. Not ideal but nevertheless better than full KYC imo. And I'm still not sure why Relai now has to KYC everyone.

2024-09-05 19:20:28

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2.5% on relai
On Bittr, there's no KYC and I pay 1.5%
On kraken, KYC but fees are only about 0.25%

2024-09-05 19:06:53

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imho Relai has lost attractiveness: KYC + high fees

2024-09-05 05:49:08

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Sigue siendo util enterarme de las barbaridades para ajustar el modelo bayesiano del mundo que llevo en la cabeza, pero se puede hacer con mucho menor frecuencia sin perder predictibilidad.

2024-09-03 15:57:49

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@npub1sqz…vk7v why exactly do you need KYC when Swiss competitors of you don't?

2024-09-01 15:42:30

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no, when you set it up, the lightning address is part of your profile and all nostr clients access the same profile with the same data.

2024-09-01 14:42:34

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oh, that's bc they're discontinuing the system they had since when zaps started and are now implementing Alby Hub, which actually gives them a business model to live on. I've not made the switch yet and don't have invites.
Maybe check your strike lightning address to see if there's anything obviously wrong bc I think it should work. Otherwise maybe walletofsatoshi is the easiest solution.

2024-09-01 14:29:16

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I've also tried to zap your profile instead of the note from Primal, noStrudel and Damus and it doesn't work. I imagine there's something wrong in your config with colincz@strike.me. Damus says 'invalid lightning address'.
It's weird though since I can see the note has been successfully zapped by someone else. I'm not a strike user, idk what are the config requirements.

2024-09-01 14:20:01

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On Primal web, it lets me click the zap sign and doesn't show any bug but the zap does not ask for confirmation and does not register.
On noStrudel, the zap sign is unclickable.

2024-09-01 14:14:42

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pics are really great, love it!
but there's something wrong, zapping doesn't work on your note.

2024-09-01 14:08:50

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Thank you.
They've been trying for some time to get #ChatControl approved. It looks like this could be their moment given that the few people who care about privacy and were abstaining or against the law might find this version acceptable in comparison with what's going on in UK and Brazil.
One option will be to move away from EU because there's really no sign that anything is going in the right direction at this time.
Another option will be to stop using the centralized platforms and move towards p2p and decentralized whenever possible. That will mean stopping to communicate with many people who see no issue in what's happening.
All in all, it will mean spending more time on Nostr.

2024-09-01 06:54:09

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Welcome! Show your doggos 😁

2024-08-28 15:47:54

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Mine can’t convince herself to eat blueberries
https://m.primal.net/JliT.jpg

2024-08-28 14:23:26

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I have no doubt that at least some Nostr client will cater to the needs of those who don't want to see all the microzaps-for-attention. If they don't, I'll build one for myself.

2024-08-27 19:50:31

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Nostr doesn't need as much relay decentralization as it needs relay replication and resilience. It's a real challenge but it looks achievable.
More work is needed to make relays easy to run and manage, and much more work is needed to make relay management in clients much easier (default+advanced modes).

2024-08-25 15:16:51

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ok, thank you for the details.
I'll check first how to run a personal relay (not Android).
But I'd like also to understand how public relay management works in general and what are the challenges. I want to understand how much of a help it is for nostr in general if I just start a new public relay.
I'm not looking at this to build a business. It's a war effort.

2024-08-25 14:44:03

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where do I start if I want to run a relay?
is there a handy how-to somewhere?

2024-08-24 09:48:37

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Agreed.
Beautifully said!

2024-08-20 07:22:05

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No one is coming to save you

2024-08-20 06:00:43

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The New-Yorker example makes sense and I fully agree with the general idea of deflationary technology, but it can't be extended to every product and service. Technology by itself will not make everything cheaper.
Just look at a car made in the 60s and compare it to a current car. Sure, there's a tremendous amount of productivity stolen by inflation. But there're also safety improvements (ABS, airbags, structural design,..), regulatory changes ("safety", fuel efficiency,...), and hedonistic enhancements (AC, better seating, multimedia,...).
The same goes for houses.
The function has not changed though: drive from A to B for a car and shelter for a house.
Eventually, even if salaries had followed inflation, cars and houses have become less affordable for the average family.
https://image.nostr.build/a2757bf618f07d19658fa075a7c2bcb2e90f9f2939f800e8b741d91ef98239a3.jpg

2024-08-19 11:59:05

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Young children are an immense joy but later you might have moments of doubt when your children are in their teenage years.
By then, you're not their source of truth anymore. They'll rather rely on that guy on Tiktok, or on their buddy who dropped out of school or on their girlfriend's uncle. In the vicious culture environment we live in, you can quickly see your children spiraling out of control. It can be tough as a parent because you often feel powerless and you can never be happier than your unhappiest child.
I feel lucky because one of my children has now vigourously bounced back and is doing great as a young adult. But I have several friends not as lucky as me. And my second child has not made it yet to the other side, the jury is out.
All in all, I don't regret a single second having children, it's an incredible adventure, but it can be a very bumpy road.

2024-08-18 16:24:34

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spectacular!

2024-08-18 16:22:11

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it's a harvestman, aka daddy longlegs ;)

2024-08-16 13:24:40

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regardless of being disrespectful or not in the present, such a situation can only lead to trouble down the road.

2024-08-16 12:12:41

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The brain does not process stimuli; it processes
prediction errors.

2024-08-16 04:35:13

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Your brain doesn’t work by receiving stimuli from the senses and then analyzing it and reacting as is widely believed.
It acts according to an internal apriori built over time and only use data to validate the model.
A top tennis player wouldn’t be able to return a tennis serve if the model was stimuli > analysis > reaction.

2024-08-14 15:56:19

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yup, unfortunately we now have scientists and economists more driven by ideology than their craft, and then politician taking advantage of these publications for their own benefit.
Btw, in France it's still possible to buy one of the few remaining new Jimny on the market, but while the car will cost you approx €28k, the new special French CO2 tax will be around €30k on top of purchase price. We've entered crazy territory.

2024-08-14 15:12:05

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yup, no go for me.
I don't want yet another wallet with fiat rails.
Alby was great so far, but I'm not clear how the experience will be modified with Alby Hub. Let's be realistic though, they do need a business model to pay their expenses and keep building. They've really done a lot of great work over the past 2 years.

2024-08-14 11:52:41

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Jimny was in such demand in recent years in EU that there was almost a year of delay between order and delivery. Also, it was not possible to choose a color. It would just arrive and if you don't like the color, the car is for the next person in queue.
Earlier this year, Suzuki has stopped selling them in EU because it was too damaging for the EU CO2 rating given that there's no hybrid version.
I guess 2nd hand prices are bound to increase. Mine is certainly not for sale.

2024-08-14 07:47:13

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I've not tried that and I don't really want to be tinkering with browsers everywhere (I use 2 desktops, 2 laptops and 1 smartphone). I need something easy enough.
I initially hoped that ProtonMail = Gmail + privacy but in its current state and with a big archive, it's ProtonMail = Gmail + privacy - searchability, which is frankly less compelling.
So far, I've moved all communications with banks, shopping sites and private conversations to Proton, but Gmail remains important for the rest and I don't find it handy to need managing both.

2024-08-14 07:06:06

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thanks. yes, I've already tried that. It works with a reasonably small collection of emails, but with an archive over 5Gb it's not really a workable solution.

2024-08-13 13:23:43

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the tradeoff seems obvious at first in favor of privacy. But when I consider that I need to search quite regularly (sometimes on mobile) in thousands of emails of at least the last decade, the tradeoff is not easy anymore.

2024-08-13 12:56:13

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I have an account and I love the product.
But the big drawback is that you can't really search full-text in the body of emails because of encryption on server side. And searching in the subject is most often not enough.
I really wonder how people deal with that.
If you don't have many emails in your archive, you can use their web storage full-text search, but that's not scalable.
You can also use Proton Bridge with Thunderbird to import your emails locally and search full-text, but that's not handy through multiple desktops and mobile.
So you're left with over-engineering your email subjects, labeling and folders, which is not manageable.
I'd love to give up on Gmail and go 100% ProtonMail but I need to solve that problem first.

2024-08-13 06:04:14

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That’s what Proton Wallet is doing

2024-08-12 12:55:39

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Understanding breathing is a master skill. It has transformed my life over the past 25 years with holotropic breathwork, pranayama, wim hof and others.

2024-08-12 12:31:53

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Thank you, that's exactly what it is, my freedom car! It's the perfect 1-person car to travel around. There's room for my dog tough 😉

2024-08-11 12:51:46

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I don't know whether Bittr works with an id.
What I said was actually a comment that the Bittr founder wrote me in an exchange to explain that his system is not KYC-free per se because my name and bank account is still captured by the bank (and maybe by them for the conversion).

2024-08-11 12:47:57

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I haven't configured a wallet belonging to an app, like Primal, because I thought it would come with strings attached and complications to use with other apps. NWC arguably removes that hurdle but anyway, I find Alby to be by far the easiest and more logical home for a Nostr wallet that I use with all apps on desktop and mobile.

2024-08-11 09:39:22

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Bittr is arguably easier, does not require KYC and is substantially cheaper.
Keep in mind they get your name and bank account nbr given that you need to wire to their account.

2024-08-11 09:32:12

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I'm not using #nos but I imagine that in the app settings you should find a way to connect your Primal wallet through NWC.
I guess it would require you to go to Primal where you would ask to create a new connection for your wallet, it would give you a QR code and you'd scan that QR code from #nos.
I don't have a Primal account but that's the flow that works through Alby to connect Alby wallet to a new nostr app.

2024-08-11 07:57:45

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this is quite certainly not obvious

2024-08-11 07:57:00

the freedom to be inoffensive is no freedom at all

2024-08-11 07:46:22

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this is quite certainly not obvious

2024-08-11 07:45:01

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this is quite certainly not obvious

2024-08-11 07:44:48

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this is quite certainly not obvious

2024-08-11 07:04:32

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Thank you, she's my faithful companion, always ready for an adventure!

2024-08-10 09:58:08

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Hate speech is clearly not specific enough.
What must be prohibited is speech that jeopardizes the physical integrity of others. There must be a clear incitation to physical violence for it to not benefit the free speech label. Think Radio Mille Collines in Rwanda in 1994 for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Libre_des_Mille_Collines

2024-08-09 07:59:40

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Bruce Lee is the GOAT
https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/02/22/in-my-own-process-bruce-lee/