Michael Ep

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2023-08-16 18:32:11

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Asked from time to time in some chat groups if people consider Elon Musk to be closer to the John Galt or closer to the James Taggart character.
Many newcomers don't know those characters of course. :)

2023-08-14 14:08:50

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nostr, obviously

2023-08-08 17:47:02

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Manchmal kamen die Initiativen von den reichen Händlern und Industriellen selber (früher schon etwa Fuggerei in Augsburg). "Zwar richteten viele größere Gewerbebetriebe Unterstützungskassen für Notfälle ein, deren Vorstände von Arbeitern gebildet wurden. Aus ihnen gingen, besonders nach der Reichsgründung 1871, freiwillige Arbeiterausschüsse hervor"
https://www.boeckler.de/de/magazin-mitbestimmung-2744-geschichte-der-mitbestimmung-1848-1916-wie-die-gewerkschaften-zur-mitbestimmung-kamen-11255.htm
Aber zugegeben, absolute Garantien für jeden Menschen auf irgendwelche Hilfen gab's bei dezentraler Organisation wohl keine. Kirchen haben vielleicht auch manchmal weitergeholfen, aber ein Mensch musste wohl einen gewissen Hintergrund haben oder mal gearbeitet haben, um Mitglied von irgendwas zu sein.

2023-08-08 17:46:44

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Proudhons Ansatz ist halt leider auch in Vergessenheit geraten. "Doch im Krieg der Ideologien des 20. Jahrhunderts fand der Anarchosydikalismus keinen Platz."
https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/169567/das-individuum-und-die-proletarische-kollektivitaet-unversoehnliche-gegensaetze/

2023-08-08 17:46:30

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Konkret wusst ich schon immer dass sich die Eisenbahner selbst geholfen haben.
https://www.ihk-nuernberg.de/de/IHK-Magazin-WiM/WiM-Archiv/WIM-Daten/2019-01/unternehmen/versicherung-mit-eisenbahner-wurzeln
Und das war ja in der Tat nichts anderes als die Vorläufer heutiger Versicherungen.
Viele solcher Ansätze waren noch verwurzelt in einer Art Gilden-Mentalität, denk ich.

2023-07-31 23:33:51

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@npub180c…h6w6 @npub1xts…kk5s wen #nostr -based short url service (using bech32 of course)

2023-07-29 22:03:20

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yah some fediverse things also do it like that, people can use #nsfw tag

2023-07-29 22:01:39

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol

2023-07-29 22:01:02

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not only #nostr, the whole internet is #gossip all the way down

2023-07-27 14:55:32

Kleine Geschichtskunde, weil ich es zusammengeschrieben habe für eine bestimmte Telegram-Gruppe:
- Schema links / rechts stammt von der Sitzordnung des Parlaments während / nach der französischen Revolution. Rechts waren die Monarchisten, die wollten, dass alles so bleibt wie es ist. Links quasi alles andere. Auch ein Bastiat, Vorreiter der österreichischen Schule, saß links. Das Wort "liberal" ist wohl deswegen doppelt belegt, weil man ursprünglich sowohl die sozialen als auch wirtschaftlichen Aspekte anders und freier gestalten wollte als unter der streng authoritären und religiösen Monarchie. Die Finanzen und das Lenken der Wirtschaft war in der Monarchie halt auch ziemlich zentralisiert, auch wenn Saif und co da noch so viel drüber romantisieren.
- Beim Sozialismus ging's ursprünglich um die Frage über die Kontrolle über die Produktionsmittel. Arbeiter wollten diese von den "Kapitalisten" befreien und ihre Waren selbst herstellen, eigentlich quasi als Kollektiv von Kleinunternehmern. Ob diese Bestrebungen nun immer gerechtfertigt waren, da die "Kapitalisten" an ihre Produktionsmittel nicht ganz so "ehrlich" und mit Hilfe des Staates gekommen seien, sei dahingestellt, aber das war oft der Vorwurf.
- Wenn überhaupt dann war die "sozialistische Zentralbank" eine Idee von Marx (aber auch das wird meines Erachtens oft missverstanden, ich glaube Marx wollte einfach *irgendeine* Alternative zu dem was es damals gab, und Bitcoin gab's ja noch nicht, ich glaub er wär heute großer "Blockchain"- (aber nicht Bitcoin-) Fan). Viele "Ur-" Sozialisten und Anarchisten wie Proudhon kamen mit Marx gar nicht klar eben wegen dessen authoritären Tendenzen.
- Selbst Marx hielt übrigens nicht viel vom "Lumpenproletariat". So Dinge wie Umverteilung, was man heute unter "Sozialismus" größtenteils versteht, kam erst viel später mit Bismarck, der bis dahin eher dezentral organisierte Wohlfahrt dann staatlich zentralisiert hat, um mehr Geld zu haben und damit auch Kriege finanzieren zu können.
- Proudhon bezeichnete sich und seine Philosophie übrigens auch als "Mutualismus", ein Wort das finde ich sehr schön ausdrückt, dass man damals durchaus auch der Ansicht sein konnte, dass sich die Leute schon ganz gut gegenseitig und selbst helfen können ganz ohne Staat.
#Geschichte #Politik #Staat #Anarchie #Anarchismus #Kapitalismus #Sozialismus #Revolution #rechts #links #Monarchie #Proudhon #Marx

2023-07-27 14:00:22

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Then why the lightning PFP? 😉
> Cryptocurrency will most likely be the life blood of the mark of the beast
Ah, that's where you're coming from. Nah, has nothing to do with that. Chinese WeChat/AliPay that the Western world draws inspiration from existed already before Bitcoin (2008).
It's rather that the cypherpunks already saw this development in the 1990s and tried to come up with an alternative, a sovereign form of money also for the digital world. But the double-spending problem long seemed not solvable, until Bitcoin arrived.

2023-07-27 13:53:57

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I'm not so sure about Telegram, aren't dead groups more about the projects themselves?

2023-07-25 23:37:43

A great feature on one of the fediverse thingies I remember was the ability to follow hashtags.
Leads to like-minded people coming together more easily.
It's just hard to implement I guess because hashtags are expected to be quite "global", something that nostr has no concept of.

2023-07-25 23:32:45

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There are already non-bitcoin nostr users.
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2023-07-25 23:31:02

Nice #nostr review by a #fediverse person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mSyMCJlSwA
He's not interested in the orange coin and successfully maintains non-bitcoiner stream, would you believe it.

2023-07-25 12:08:49

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Mein Kontakt dort: https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1-2&smp=smp%3A%2F%2F1OwYGt-yqOfe2IyVHhxz3ohqo3aCCMjtB-8wn4X_aoY%3D%40smp11.simplex.im%2FLpjmg37WYi8X0g7b8ELIgLntI_YuorkK%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAykFm9-Y28xCuUYjRuuLHArLJ0EI5jB9EZFeSWq5tAwM%253D%26srv%3D6ioorbm6i3yxmuoezrhjk6f6qgkc4syabh7m3so74xunb5nzr4pwgfqd.onion

2023-07-25 12:08:28

SimpleX sieht interessant aus.
Endlich ein privater Messenger, der im Prinzip alle wichtigen Anforderungen erfüllt.
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/simplex-eindruecke-vom-messenger-ohne-identifier/

2023-07-23 12:34:25

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Real Poe's Law moment here 😛

2023-07-16 15:37:43

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Depends on what "global view" means.
I think if you know an id, any post should be retrievable, bittorrent-style. It's fine if "distant" posts take longer to show up, although of course there can't be any guarantee retrieval will be successful.
For opening random posts of someone they already have in their stream, users don't actually expect "global view", as the big commercial networks also filter and prioritize, so "delayed" aggregation is fine.
For hashtags and random search terms though, the expectation is really high to find any posts for them "globally", because that's when users may want to find and connect total strangers from far away around the world about whatever niche topics they're interested in.

2023-07-13 13:56:17

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Bitcoin too, one of my pet peeves that there are some proponents that say "Bitcoin had 99,9something % uptime", not 100 because there were a few bugs and "incidents". But these never caused a "downtime", everyone could continue to use Bitcoin. Even if there's a major rollback, it's not like a 404 or 503, it's more like PayPal having an issue in their database that users don't even notice, and even if users are affected (don't have the money from a tx they thought they had received anymore), it's a logic/application error that a support ticket will handle, not a 404 or 503.

2023-07-02 16:44:46

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Question is, nostr is only a niche, how can a platform like this achieve network effect and win the normies?
Celebs like you adopting a platform are one possibility to potentially make normies to adopt it too, so kudos.

2023-06-29 15:47:15

There were plans by the big tech corporations floating around a few years ago to make operating systems really dumb and put everything in the "cloud".
Logging into your computer would mean the same as logging into the "cloud" where all your programs and data are hosted.
I feel one of the big reasons why we're not slipping into this dystopian nightmare all too soon is competitive gaming.
They continue to create high demand for otherwise unnecessary highly sophisticated end-user hardware and ultra low latency network communication.

2023-06-21 23:25:52

Blackrock the new volatility provider

2023-06-18 12:46:39

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burn the witches at the stake!
(proof-of-burn and proof-of-stake; proof-of-work wasn't invented yet)
so much in common with bitcoin, the inquisition would ban and kill us just alike

2023-06-18 12:43:04

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that is not dead which can eternally lie

2023-06-18 12:41:08

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volvo plz fix

2023-06-10 12:21:24

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man what year is it
haven't used pidgin in years

2023-06-08 17:48:44

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whynotboth-dot-jpeg

2023-06-05 16:20:11

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yeah, explain them, not me. 😋
just found it funny how they view nostr.
i had been using those networks years ago and had appreciated these communities for their rationalism, idealism and balanced views.
but when it comes to bitcoin, they throw all that out of the window.

2023-06-03 16:07:36

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I think the term was/is (also) an attempt by Peter Todd to formalize that concept in a broader and more general/abstract context (independent from the finance aspect and from a specific "blockchain" implementation) and to establish it as common computer science terminology.

2023-06-01 18:43:03

**A look at the #fediverse view on #nostr:**
"It’s boring, all about crypto and it’s not really decentralized."
"I just looked at #nostr. What a #shitshow."
"It basically looks like a collection of people who are still holding onto their Bitcoin and DeFi investments."
"Do Bitcoin transactions still take a year and a day to process?"
"Public key crypto is also great and all, but will utterly fail in general use. If people can’t even keep track of their passwords they’re sure as hell going to lose their private key."
"Sounds almost like a scam by design."
"As I read more and more about Nostr and their huge marketing push being that it is censorship resistant I can’t help but think it will be like the flourishing of toxic content on Pleroma but even orders of magnitude worse, like Chan level. "
https://nerdpol.ch/tags/nostr

2023-05-01 18:34:12

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might just be a bug with some implementations, I also made the experience it didn't work with some other account.

2023-04-20 16:04:06

lmfao
> Die Abgeordneten verabschiedeten eine Verordnung, die Ausgeber von Kryptowerten wie etwa Bitcoin verpflichtet, Kunden detaillierte Informationen zu übermitteln.
Unterschied zwischen Bitcoin und Shittokens immer noch nicht verstanden.
https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/geldanlage/2023-04/kryptowaehrungen-kryptomarkt-eu-parlament-regulierung

2023-04-20 15:24:06

"Sail all day through the storm and thunder
To fill our chests with bitcoin and gold"
Pirate Metal, Bitcoin, Monkey Island citations, what more can you ask for.
#nanowarofsteel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXYD6PlQD2s

2023-04-16 17:23:23

Bitcoin fixes this mal so wie es nicht sein sollte. 🥴
> Tatmotiv der Bitcoin-Erpressung: soziale Notlage
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> Vor Gericht führte er an, dass er in seinem Beruf als Pfleger nach einem wiederholten Burnout durch zahlreiche Nachtdienste nicht mehr arbeiten konnte. Somit wollte er sich durch die Erpressung bis hin zur Rente ein Auskommen sichern. Er beteuerte:
>
> “Ich wusste nicht mehr, was ich machen sollte. […] Ich wollte keinen Menschen schädigen.”
https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/rechtssachen/bitcoin-erpressung-peruecke-und-bitcoin-spuren-fuehrten-zu-taeter-273041.html

2023-03-11 15:28:26

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"Dezentraler Aufbau könnte Regulierer befrieden"
Das ist dann doch ein neuer Spin auf Orwell-schen Neusprech.

2023-03-11 15:26:36

lol
"Facebook-Konzern arbeitet an dezentraler Twitter-Alternative"
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/facebook-konzern-arbeitet-an-dezentraler-twitter-alternative-a-68b3def0-2359-4d68-bc4e-a643167d6df4

2023-03-03 18:03:16

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I use ublock-origin (also has some settings for those) and "consent blocker" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-consent/
I haven't seen any of those cookie banners in ages.

2023-02-27 17:15:24

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deRose and #[4] explained this issue over and over many years ago 🤪

2023-02-18 13:35:10

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#[2] did you know you're a "third-wave bitcoiner"

2023-02-18 13:34:20

Oh no!
https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/11565jn/a_lot_of_blockstream_core_people_are_now_using_a/

2023-02-18 13:32:24

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Can't see why it shouldn't be possible. Just message passing like everything else on nostr. Doesn't need a "blockchain". Only when it becomes very critical that some specific polls aren't easily sybil-attacked, some deeper considerations would be required, but most polls are pretty "casual", so no need for over-engineering.

2023-02-08 17:24:37

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"losing" followers that way is counterintuitive behavior though, don't blame the user. This feature wouldn't even need relay-to-relay interaction (some relays already do that afaik btw), just local storage. The information who follows you is stored locally and isn't changed unless you get a definite message that someone unfollowed you.

2023-02-03 14:32:10

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instead of private messaging I guess.
Nothing here is encrypted, only signed.
Except for the private message feature, but I'd strongly suggest to treat this as a play thing for now.
Privacy on the internet is not a trivial thing, it depends very much on an individual's threat model how far (and inconvenient) you want to take it.
Even Tor is far from perfect, de-anonymization attacks are merely a question of resources.
Mixnets try to mitigate this, but no-one uses them, so...

2023-01-31 16:42:37

having a cacophony in my global stream now of dozens of videos playing at the same time lol
wondering why #invidious / #yewtube (#youtube url in posts modified via #privacyredirect plugin) doesn't adhere to the browser's "no autoplay" setting.

2023-01-29 14:46:46

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what do you want to express with the .eth in your handle then?

2023-01-29 14:14:03

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Interesting to mention perhaps would also be Project Xanadu from the 1960s, by the inventor of hypertext, Ted Nelson. In some aspects already a precursor to the nostr architecture, i.e. also distributed, content-agnostic servers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
(He furthermore thinks the WWW is a poor implementation of his hypertext vision.)

2023-01-29 14:07:37

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just really and actually *all* posts the relay can gather, but I guess it's a feature that won't scale long-term. But until then, it's a feature also the other "fediverse" "decentralized social networks" (diaspora, friendica, mastodon,...) have or used to have (they also don't reach critical mainstream adoption).

2023-01-26 14:10:41

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the irony is that git itself already could have become the original nostr. it's a shame how people always choose convenience, so github became the dominant way to use git in an almost embrace-extend-extinguish fashion