mbrochh
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2024-09-15 09:33:42

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Yea I thought so, so I was giving you feedback that there is a little typo :)

2024-09-13 12:40:08

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Very cool. Love these splashes of art in my timeline :)

2024-09-10 14:00:55

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I just read Herodotus' Histories and learned that one reason why the Greek prevailed against Xerxes and his 2.5 million Persian invaders was because the Greek were free men and Athens was a Democracy, so these men fought for their own freedom and their own personal rights. Xerxes men were slaves and fought for nothing.

2024-09-06 09:20:38

That ReplyGuy is turning into a real problem now. Is anyone working on a solution??

2024-09-05 19:45:02

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We didn't demonize elites - they did that to themselves...

2024-09-05 07:16:50

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Alby only gives you channels via KYCed methods, like a SEPA bank transfer, isn't it?

2024-09-04 13:00:26

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Yea it's online and I can also use it in Primal and Damus...

2024-09-03 13:51:40

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I did the same a months ago. I still look at the first 10 tweets or so once a day and it just reaffirms that this is the right move.
Twitter is ULTRA toxic. Every single post has a negative sentiment about something. It's a giant cesspool where everyone fights against everyone. This just can't be good for the human brain. It's a cortisol and adrenaline vending machine.
Here? Every post is "hey look guys, I build a cool thing, whaddaya think?"

2024-09-03 13:47:49

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Have a look at the people who I follow.

2024-08-31 12:35:31

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How is privacy protected better? This is probably the most important aspect to me.

2024-08-31 10:06:46

Anyone here who has used #Umbrel and #Start9 ?
Which one would you recommend and why?
#asknostr

2024-08-31 07:29:31

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The fact that we can't get shadow banned here is liberating.
I strongly assume that I have been shadow banned on Twitter ever since the pandemic (didn't gain a single follower in four years, the same ten people interacting with my posts but no one else)...
Once you know that something like that can happen to you, and you have no way of seeing when it is happening, the entire user experience is forever spoilt, since you will constantly ask yourself if you might be shadow banned once again.

2024-08-31 01:37:49

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Governments are past that stage. They have understood that banning the tech is not possible.
They now just throw you in jail if you use that tech.

2024-08-30 07:42:34

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I feel like that makes life even more unbearably frustrating, because it would mean that the most limited people somehow magically also become the most powerful and successful.

2024-08-29 10:49:46

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Thank you! Just ordered all their books :)

2024-08-29 10:35:36

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where can I buy this?

2024-08-26 11:40:56

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@npub13rm…2jgh might have one...

2024-08-26 05:09:03

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That depends on what you want to do with your time.

2024-08-23 03:13:37

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Wow, I had no idea that private follows are becoming a thing. That kinda sucks. I thought this web-of-trust to unfuck online reviews (and bot spam) sounded like such a great idea.

2024-08-20 14:53:40

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So what you are saying is, this Nostr thing has zero chances of ever going mainstream? 🤔

2024-08-19 02:18:26

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Isn't Reddit basically *the* forum?

2024-08-17 01:24:42

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All these Korean dramas that I see my mother in law watching on TV all day long...
They are basically nothing more than fashion shows... every scene is just two people standing at some location and talking to each other, with some silly piano music in the background...
This can basically be produced by a single person now, with incredibly beautiful looking people and outrageous fashion.
The script can be written by AI as well and would probably be better than the real dramas.
Crazy times ahead.

2024-08-16 02:25:51

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Hmm. I can't name any recent action movies that are as fun, so I would say it is actually a good movie series.
It's James Bond but without the wokeness.

2024-08-14 05:37:17

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"Google and Meta collect vast troves of personal information on their users and receive hundreds of thousands of requests every year from governments around the world to access that data"
Nothing stops the big boys to sync all data from all relays and then get deep insights into every Nostr user (and de-anonymize them) as well, right?
Nostr doesn't actually solve the "data ownership" problem. It makes it worse, because there is no delete, what you post here will truly haunt your for the rest of human existence.

2024-08-13 09:42:14

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I still often wonder why this company is allowed to exist.
Sounds too good to be true.
I assume that the big boys just assume that literally everyone will eventually make a mistake and doxx themselves, so they are fine to let people use this service.

2024-08-13 09:38:14

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how do you kill those trackers? that looks like some Android app?

2024-08-13 08:11:38

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I don't see notable battery drainage from Primal on iOS... I think Twitter actually drains it more when used equal amount of time.

2024-08-12 05:12:36

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Why would that feel like "an effort".
Just do it :)

2024-08-10 13:48:34

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Being on Nostr doesn't really help if they can still identify you and throw you in jail.
People would have to post anonymously, and in ways so that they can't be doxxed, which can be hard especially when they report about things happening on the ground, citizen journalism style.

2024-08-10 11:34:09

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Is your friend actually Singaporean? It's quite tough to get the "license" to homeschool here, at least for locals.
I will start a group on meetup.com next month to build my network here.
There was an article on CNA recently about homeschooling in Singapore:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/homeschooling-not-faint-hearted-family-parents-children-education-big-read-4379321

2024-08-10 08:41:26

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-and

2024-08-10 08:40:24

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Not a mum, but and a dad who retired in order to homeschool my daughter in Singapore. Hoping to get some insights and inspiration from you :)

2024-08-10 05:51:02

Very interesting debate.
Thinking about this: We will never build something the scale of Twitter with the relay structure that we have right now. Twitter generates 12 Terabytes of data per day. There is no way that relay operators will store all of this for all of time for free. This is natural. A decentralised system will always be more expensive and wasteful than a centralised system.
I am actually PAYING MONEY for a SaaS that deletes my tweets after a week (although I have no doubt that the NSA stores it all for eternity anyways).
It seems, we need to rethink what "social media" is supposed to do: It is supposed to be a network to spread information quickly around the globe. Something like a digital neural network.
It is maybe NOT supposed to be long term memory as well. Maybe if we want to create a lasting legacy of content, we need to find other systems. A self hosted personal blog would be the obvious way - if we can circumvent the need for the centralized and censorable DNS system (Tor etc), that would be good enough for censorship resistant long form content.
So I think, if Nostr relays by default only store events of the last 30 days, that would be good enough - AND EVEN THAT would still be infeasible for all but the largest and well funded relays if we would reach Twitter scale.
#note17ye…gx0a

2024-08-08 10:45:48

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How do you do that as a client developer? You would have to make a new release with a hardcoded blacklist? Your client already makes requests to some central server of yours to retrieve the blacklist?

2024-08-08 10:07:18

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How?

2024-08-08 06:10:04

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Are clients really relevant for censorship resistance? It is the relays that can censor, not the clients.

2024-08-08 02:35:39

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To gain mastery through repetition.

2024-08-07 04:05:43

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See? Almost there.

2024-08-07 01:40:57

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AI can already do that as well...

2024-08-06 21:10:48

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Volatility is trending down: https://www.theblock.co/data/crypto-markets/prices/annualized-btc-volatility-30d

2024-08-06 15:13:17

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Correct, I was thinking to use Nostr with Tor.

2024-08-06 13:47:12

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He probably means that he got doxxed.

2024-08-06 12:57:02

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It will though? You can post under an anonymous account.

2024-08-06 02:43:05

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Do states import immigrants because they want to make the world a better place, ir because they want to fix their own broken birth rates and prevent the country from dying out?
I think no state takes in immigrants for humanitarian reasons. They all do it because some spreadsheet warrior has calculated that each dollar invested into an immigrant, the immigrant will eventually bet the state many more dollars in tax money.
Of course those calculations are hugely flawed, similar to our climate models or Keynesian economic models.

2024-08-05 23:19:11

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Are you homeschooling?

2024-08-05 18:00:11

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The Three Body Problem is amazing (must read all three books!). And there is even a pretty decent Netflix series now.

2024-08-03 11:51:00

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I realise there are probably many here who don't want to click on a Youtube link, so here's the summary:
- The conversation involves Elon Musk, DJ Sa, Matthew McDougall, Bliss Chapman, and Nolan Arbaugh discussing Neuralink and its implications for humanity.
- Nolan Arbaugh is the first human to have a Neuralink device implanted in his brain.
- Elon Musk mentions that the second implant has gone extremely well, with over 400 electrodes providing signals.
- The team aims to have 10 human participants by the end of the year, learning from each implant to improve the technology.
- Elon Musk predicts that in the coming years, the number of electrodes will increase dramatically, improving signal processing and potentially reaching communication speeds of up to a megabit per second.
- The conversation touches on the potential for new ways of interacting with computers and other humans, provided they also have Neuralink devices.
- Elon Musk discusses the possibility of improving intellectual discourse by increasing communication speed, comparing it to the current experience of listening to podcasts at faster speeds.
- The team discusses the concept of memes as data compression, conveying complex ideas quickly through symbols and shared understanding.
- Elon Musk speculates on the number of electrodes needed to significantly alter human experience, suggesting that 10,000 or more electrodes per second could vastly exceed current human communication capabilities.
- The conversation explores the idea of modeling the mind state of the person you're communicating with, compressing concepts into syllables, and the potential for more verbose communication with increased data rates.
- Elon Musk mentions the long-term aspiration of Neuralink to improve AI-human symbiosis by increasing communication bandwidth, even in benign AI scenarios.
- The discussion touches on the role of humans as a source of will and purpose, with the cortex serving the limbic system's desires.
- Elon Musk describes humans as already being cyborgs, with our phones and computers acting as a tertiary compute layer.
- The conversation delves into the potential for merging with AI to expand human compute capabilities, and the fundamental question of the meaning of life and the role of AI in making the human limbic system happy.
- Elon Musk shares his thoughts on the importance of adhering to truth in AI development, warning against programming AI to lie for political correctness or other reasons.
- The team discusses the potential dangers of ideological bias in AI, using examples like misgendering and the importance of rigorous adherence to truth.
- Elon Musk emphasizes the need for AI to align with collective human will, increasing data rates to improve communication and understanding between humans and AI.
- The conversation touches on the potential for hundreds of millions of people to have Neuralink devices in the future, with superhuman abilities and memory upload capabilities.
- Elon Musk discusses the challenges of scaling AI training compute and the importance of having the most powerful training compute to win in AI development.
- The team explores the potential for Tesla's real-time video data and Optimus robots to provide valuable data for AI training.
- Elon Musk shares his thoughts on the importance of reducing government size and spending, and the need for a government efficiency commission.
- The conversation touches on the challenges of maintaining civilization, including birth rates, avoiding massive wars, and managing the accumulation of laws and regulations.
- Elon Musk emphasizes the importance of having enough children to sustain civilization and the potential for population collapse if birth rates continue to decline.
- The team discusses the potential for Neuralink to help people with neurological issues, such as spinal cord injuries, schizophrenia, seizures, and memory loss.
- Elon Musk shares his thoughts on the potential for Neuralink to restore vision for blind people by directly stimulating the visual cortex.
- The conversation explores the potential for AI to improve human capabilities, such as communication speed, memory, and understanding the universe.
- Elon Musk discusses the importance of AI safety and the potential for Neuralink to help align AI with human values.
- The team touches on the potential for Neuralink to improve human-computer interaction, with applications in programming, communication, and more.
- Main message: Neuralink aims to revolutionize human capabilities and AI-human symbiosis by increasing communication bandwidth, improving neurological health, and exploring new ways of interacting with technology.
- The brain's electrical activity is responsible for everything we see, love, and find beautiful.
- Bliss Chapman, brain interface software lead at Neuralink, is motivated by helping people with spinal cord injuries or ALS gain independence.
- Independence for people with severe disabilities can mean different things, such as the ability to communicate, work, or respond to their children.
- The problem of providing independence through technology is an engineering challenge that can be addressed with the right resources and team.
- Bliss supports various assistive technologies beyond BCIs, such as eye tracking systems and speech detection systems.
- BCIs offer unique advantages, especially for people with spinal cord injuries or paralysis, by providing a level of independence and autonomy.
- Bliss was part of the team that interviewed and selected the first human participant (P1) for Neuralink's clinical trial and was present during the first human surgery.
- The brain moves significantly during surgery due to breathing and heartbeat, which was a surprising observation for Bliss.
- The Neuralink implant is active during surgery, allowing real-time monitoring of brain signals.
- Bliss describes the excitement of seeing live brain data and neuron spikes during the first human surgery.
- The Neuralink system samples brain signals at 20,000 times per second across 1024 electrodes to detect neuron action potentials.
- Different methods, such as convolutional filters and spike band power, are used to process and detect neuron spikes efficiently.
- The Bluetooth communication protocol and screen refresh rates are current bottlenecks in reducing latency for BCI control.
- Bliss aims to build the best mouse in the world, envisioning a future where people with paralysis dominate esports due to superior BCI technology.
- Decoding brain activity involves a training step where users imagine movements and an inference step where the system maps brain data to computer control.
- The calibration process for BCIs is crucial and involves both open loop (following a cursor) and closed loop (user control) tasks.
- Nolan Arbaugh, the first human participant with a Neuralink implant, has achieved significant progress in controlling a computer cursor and playing games like Webgrid.
- Nolan's journey with the Neuralink implant has involved overcoming challenges such as thread retraction and adapting to new methods of spike detection.
- Nolan's performance in Webgrid, a game used to measure BCI effectiveness, has set new records, demonstrating the potential of the technology.
- Nolan's feedback and collaboration with the Neuralink team have been instrumental in improving the app and overall user experience.
- Main message: Neuralink's BCI technology has the potential to significantly improve the independence and quality of life for people with severe disabilities, and continuous collaboration and innovation are key to unlocking its full potential.

2024-08-03 11:18:06

If you don't have time to watch 8 hours of two autists mumbling at each other, I have posted a summary of the recent Lex Fridman - Elon Musk podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbk9BiPhm7o&lc=UgzHMX6VToSk7hOCpMB4AaABAg
(see linked comment in the comments section)

2024-08-03 07:49:06

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It's the same lesson applied over and over again to all kinds of domains.

2024-08-02 20:21:43

Can @Primal or Nostr in general support something like Twitter's lists?
Having one big chronological timeline gets too much to read once you follow around 200 people. Sorting them into lists and then reading about a specific topic is one way to manage information overload (and to remember why I followed someone).
#asknostr

2024-08-01 04:55:40

Highly recommend to watch this (and support the channel on Patreon):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_e2Zx7RHQ0&lc=UgwunSxRx-P8hPcwT4V4AaABAg
(linked to a summary in the comments, in case you don't have time to watch)

2024-07-30 00:07:20

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I have literally 100% of my family and friends and coworkers on Signal (I'm based in Germany and Singapore).

2024-07-29 00:43:37

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Umbrel + AdGuard == Bliss.
Mind blowing how fast sites load all of a sudden.

2024-07-28 23:07:32

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Sounds very socialist, though...

2024-07-28 07:38:15

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Why do you prefer @npub126n…e9ll over @npub1agh…mhct ?
I had a brief look at both and Umbrel seems to have far more apps?
I am running Umbrel and already am pissed that there is no easy way to mount additional external drives, so using something like Jellyfin or Immich is basically a no-go since the disk will already be full just with bitcoin/lightning stuff.

2024-07-28 07:33:30

I see zero buzz around #holepunch /#pear - despite big Nostr users like @npub1a2c…w83a often name dropping it.
They released keat.io years ago and to this day have nothing else in their showcase.
What's going on? Was it vapourware after all? Are there nasty constraints with the "Pear stack" that make developers shy away from it?
Is keet, a remote control app and Holesail exhausting all usecases for this framework?
Are there hidden cost?
Why isn't there an explosion of Pear apps yet?
Would be curious to hear from people who have dabbled with it. On paper, the whole thing sounds too good to be true, so I can't help but wonder why there are no apps...

2024-07-28 07:26:29

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I keep thinking about this a lot:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-143905948
A web of trust / social graph on Nostr could be the piece of the puzzle we needed to unfuck the internet and finally selarate signal from noise again.

2024-07-27 02:17:24

Been using Nostr heavily for a week now.
The difference in tone and attitude is striking.
Virtually every post on X is negative, aggressive, insulting.
Almost all posts on Nostr are positive, respectful, motivating.
This is how Twitter used to be when I was knee deep in web-dev.
Using Nostr instead of X is definitely healing for the brain. No brain can withstand the 24/7/365 barrage of doom and gloom on Twitter without getting its chemistry out of whack.

2024-07-27 02:13:00

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Sadly, it requires an Alby Account and I'm ~#4000 on the waitlist :/

2024-07-26 14:48:43

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Will this ever be available on Umbrel?

2024-07-26 12:30:39

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I just installed it on Umbrel and I got 1.3.3

2024-07-26 03:15:17

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I feel like these cards would always be outdated half a year later as bigger and bigger models come along.

2024-07-25 21:09:59

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There is no way you will ever run the 405bn parameter model on consumer hardware.
For all the smaller models, a M3 MacBook pro with maxed out RAM works incredibly well. The M3 chip architecture makes it so that all the RAM is available to the GPUs as well, so you can get up to 96GB of RAM.
I can run all the models with ollama with crazy speed.

2024-07-25 17:26:13

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Ah, found it: https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/v/alby-account-and-browser-extension/alby-hub/alby-hub-flavors/umbrel-start9-etc. - the dot at the end is important but Primal client did use it as a full stop after the link and not as part of the link

2024-07-25 17:24:09

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Strange. I'm getting a page not found for that link?!

2024-07-25 15:06:06

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Are you gonna bring it to Umbrel?

2024-07-24 14:08:05

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You can't get a truly anonymous Proton account. They require a fallback email during signup and don't accept shady email providers.

2024-07-24 10:27:04

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It's a psyop. He is actively re-branding himself.

2024-07-23 02:56:10

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This sounds incredibly exciting.
My first thought: What if someone tries to DDoS attack a web service?
Wouldn't that then in turn also DDoS many Nostr relays?

2024-07-22 01:11:28

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Doubtful. Bitcoin does its own thing and doesn't care about the news - otherwise we wouldn't have halving based cycles but news based cycles.

2024-07-21 13:57:06

Excellent article. Gets me even more hyped about Nostr and made me aware of Primal client.
#note1z9z…3kr6

2024-03-10 04:08:53

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Before we should worry to defend ourselves against the military, might still be worth arming up against small scale gangsters and assassins.

2024-03-10 04:07:50

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Buy guns that shoot nets?
Train some eagles?

2024-02-03 05:46:09

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Sorry to hear that.

2024-01-31 01:01:19

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We desperately need better tech for privacy, though. Especially in Bitcoin.

2023-12-30 16:14:43

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we will never see the Epstein client list.

2023-12-30 16:09:35

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how does it compare against Damus? Would it make sense for me to switch?

2023-12-25 23:12:31

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He looks exactly like you!! 🤯

2023-09-24 06:54:38

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why? they report about all big nostr developments, don't they?

2023-08-11 11:17:43

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Highly doubt that's the real Bezos.

2023-07-01 03:45:06

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This looks great. What happens when a page goes offline or when the content is changed so that the highlighted paragraph no longer exists?

2023-06-02 08:17:17

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I followed you because of this post https://twitter.com/erikcason/status/1664511563154489345 and I am not disappointed.
You are on to something. I feel exactly the same way.
Just: Who would have the long term determination and global reach to even plan something like this and then pull it off for a hundred years?
I think there probably isn't a grand conspiracy, just incentives and organic trends and people who see the big picture and embrace the opportunities.

2023-05-04 16:03:07

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I like them because the most relevant information is at the top. It's an efficient way of ingesting information quickly.

2023-05-02 06:54:40

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It's pretty meh over there. Overall vibe is too woke, development is very slow, signal to noise ratio is abysmal (just people posting trivial nonsense and patting each other on the back on how nice and welcoming the community is and how they wish it will always stay like this).
I strongly think that blsky is dead on arrival. Nostr already won.

2023-04-15 07:50:04

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In both cases I die within the next 40 years or so, so it really doesn't matter.

2023-03-26 11:34:03

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There is zero chance that hundreds of thousands of people trying to figure the endless rabbit hole that is "self-hosting" have any chance whatsoever to fortify their systems against AI hackers and then keep then secure by constantly applying security patches.

2023-03-23 00:08:27

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Sadly, COVID has shown very clearly that people are indeed stupid and do indeed comply with anything the government says.
Furthermore, people do not think that Bitcoin is easy and many don't think that it is a viable alternative.

2023-03-17 07:56:14

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Far worse. It would be an evolution of fiat that makes already disgusting fiat a thousand times worse.

2023-03-13 10:20:18

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*mood

2023-03-13 10:19:23

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I'm on Nostr and Bluesky... use both daily. I can say with confidence that at least from the quality of messages and the general vibrancy and nood, Nostr is far, far, far better. Nostr will win and be the sole contender for a truly uncensorable decentralized social network.

2023-03-13 03:51:47

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On the other hand, two cops beating on a dude who is just standing there is one of the main reasons why we need to build something like Nostr.
It's as if the algo wants people to get hyped up for Nostr development.

2023-03-11 22:53:00

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So what you are saying is, we have zero security and privacy with you guys when we buy a silent.link esim, is that correct?

2023-03-10 16:15:52

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Exactly.

2023-03-10 16:05:20

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I assume its more because of the 30% tax on mining electricity in the US. But then again, it might just be the full moon. Who knows... who cares.

2023-03-10 00:48:15

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Nice and clear. I'm curious, why did you chose 2^85?

2023-03-09 07:33:21

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This sounds great. So now I'm asking myself: How can Cyberspace like envisioned here help us do things better in the real world? What does it allow us to do that we can't already do?

2023-03-08 13:45:57

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This much was already clear to me. So isn't it the same as a PGP key? What is new and special about DIDs?

2023-03-08 05:20:06

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*has
does the Nostr protocol support editing messages?

2023-03-08 04:51:28

Bluesky as 2000+ users now. Is there any way to know how many Nostr and/or Damus users there are?

2023-03-08 04:19:06

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I've been using Feedly for a decade and I don't have any complaints.