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Matt Warren

Objectivism🔸Computer Science🔸Emergency Medicine🔸Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Czar

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2024-11-15 06:40:02

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Is there a specific reason you recommend considering this approach? I tend to prefer this approach as well, but there's a lot to keep up with.

2024-11-14 21:31:11

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She is lost in that sauce! Not a noodle in sight.

2024-11-09 17:31:38

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I just send people a text file with links now. I don't have time to waste failing to convince people who don't understand fundamental economics, philosophy, technology, etc.
In the text file I tell them right off that the links are basically their under grad studies. Do it or don't, but I have no time for them until they do the self-study to get to a basic level of knowledge. And I can always tell who actually does the work by the questions they ask.

2024-11-09 16:32:57

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Fuck, I have had people help me test similar things but only so I could test my potential blindspots. I zapped them back though 😂 Now I feel like a grifter

2024-11-07 19:26:45

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In what sense? Commution of his sentence has been a public Trump campaign promise for months. As to whether it will really happen remains to be seen after the inauguration on January 20. The promise was "on day one," I've made the allowance for January 21 in my own expectations. Processing can take time (I'm not sure of the amount), but I expect the order to be made on day one and for the release to happen soon after.
If not, the entire Trump family line is dead to me. The entire name lives or dies with this promise. Maybe that's unfair but I don't give a fuck.

2024-11-07 16:54:08

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What a pathetic way to live, but progress?

2024-11-06 14:47:34

Switching back to day shift after 2.5 years of night shift really sucks (I never flipped back and forth, even during my off time). It's amazing how many systems are affected by sleep patterns. My digestive system is even chaotic.
The feeling reminds me of quickly reversing the stir direction in a pot of water.

2024-11-05 13:21:53

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I find your work very interesting. It's one of my favorite in the space and I hope I'll be skilled enough to contribute some day.

2024-11-04 18:06:16

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Their brains can't handle the contradictions.

2024-11-03 04:36:57

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You will need even more help if it doesn't. It has to happen at some point.

2024-10-31 18:09:01

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I'm not sure what would be left other than porn and spam.

2024-10-29 09:10:40

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Intended by whom? That's exactly my point. WE don't have to accept it. Hopelessness and unwillingness to demand change definitely isn't going to fix anything. I think the average American voter is what's broken. You can't let bad philosophy and low standards run rampant and then take none of the blame. We are the system.

2024-10-29 06:41:12

Policing in America is fucked.
My proposal:
-BS/BA education minimum
-Some number of hours in a higher responsibility position (EMT, nursing assistant, etc - something that requires skill and an ability to make decisions under pressure and without abusing power)
-THEN a psych and physical fitness eval, and whatever other requirements of acceptance into a 2 year minimum police specific training program.
-Lastly, starting out in either a lower level position (parking enforcement, community assistance, etc) or partnering with a senior officer and demonstrating excellence for an amount of time before going solo or becoming a non-probationary officer.
Plus continuing education, and mental and physical fitness requirements to keep the job.
This would require a lot more money and career potential to attract the best, but I think it's better than: completed high school, completed a six month course, and reached 21 years of age. It's really no wonder we have so many horrible people in LE. The standards are super low.
Being a cop should be incredibly rewarding and a privilege given to the most moral among us, not a career any asshole can drop into with little effort.
Falling through the cracks as an unfit police officer should be incredibly difficult, and I think it would be a lot more difficult with these standards.
Ending the drug war and other stupid laws would help even more.

2024-10-26 09:55:42

The Global feed on Amethyst is like going through a wood chipper feet first. 😂
Probably never clicking that again.

2024-10-24 10:20:16

The best way to understand recursion is to understand recursion.

2024-10-24 00:51:09

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I don't see how taking free contributions from Russian contributors is supporting Russia's political aggression. Unless they were being paid or there's some other law not being mentioned here...
I believe there are some export laws that cover certain types of software, but it isn't as clear to me as he implies it should be.

2024-10-23 01:03:00

Yeti engineering is on point.

2024-10-17 09:56:27

I suspect bot and other automation technologies will virtually end some of the degenerate and largely fruitless things happening in human economies.
For example, what will be the point of financial trading once most of it is done by bots that are so optimized that almost no trades are being made? Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see the value in traders. It just seems like a useless grift to me.

2024-10-17 04:33:18

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Making such a thing easy would be suboptimal for me because of my reasons for having a separate account. That's my point. A good middle-ground would be to just have account switcher settings. I say 'just' without understanding the complexity of doing such a thing.

2024-10-16 14:18:53

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Me too, but I still slip occasionally. Far less often that I used to though. It was essentially constant before I went Nostr only.

2024-10-16 09:22:38

I have a dream of an educational institution for those who want to explore anything and question everything.
I know that sounds radical today, but I feel that's the true purpose of education. The dominant philosophy of academia today (in my experience) seems to be that the student is supposed to accept at face value anything presented to him.
There is no time for questioning the underlying assumptions or statements of the curriculum. Things are as they are and that is that!
Read this 1300 page textbook and let me know if you have any questions so I can tell you to read pages 100-156 again.
Now give us 50-100k+ and shut the fuck up.
********************************************
Trust the science!
You are wrong because you don't have _insert degree_.
You can't say that here!
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Interestingly, I used to think I would hate to be a teacher; I would in schools as they are today.
But I am deeply excited by the idea of teaching when I experiment in my mind with what a proper institution of exploration looks like for me. I can actually picture myself engaging with young (or older) minds and loving the process of education.
Pretty much everything touched by government and the fiat system is destroyed, including the passion of those within the affected systems.
Looking back, my state education after about the half way point (grade 6) was a total waste of my time. In fact, I think I became an adult worse off than I would have been if I had spent half the amount of time studying what I wanted to at the time, and the other half just being a kid or working a job when I was old enough.
Sitting in a hard plastic chair for nearly 8 hours per day, 5 days per week (with work to do on the weekends) felt more like prison than education.
Peace.

2024-10-16 01:04:39

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I don't want my accounts to be so easily intermingled. That's why I have separate accounts. I think the way Amethyst handles it, for example, is my ideal way of handling account switching.
Of course, having settings that allow one to customize account switching would be nice so people can have a tailored experience.

2024-10-14 10:13:10

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I have no idea what I'm even looking at. I could be missing some context and may not be your target demo though.

2024-10-13 01:31:21

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I've used it for years. It is good for all my fiat subscriptions. I haven't had to deal with annoying cancellation processes in years. I smack that close card button the moment I even get a whiff of fucking around. Haven't dealt with a compromised card and the headache of switching a bunch of services over either. It's a good life.

2024-10-12 13:07:09

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I suppose an all or nothing update policy isn't technically an 'auto update', but it also isn't as simple as you frame it. It wasn't just that they made it easy to update my node or "press 'yes' ", it was that all the updates were tied to a single update button. I did say that I tired of trying to figure it out, meaning that I may just have missed something. Either way, I think the entire design incentivized what *I* consider bad behavior for a Bitcoin node.
I'm also leaning more toward a Bitcoin node being a single use machine, but that isn't for everyone. Do whatever you want.

2024-10-12 09:20:05

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My primary issue with Umbrel was its approach to updates. It defaulted to automatic updates for everything and I tired of trying to change that. That approach may be fine for most apps, but I don't think Bitcoin full nodes should be updated automatically. We need most people on the network being actively involved with node management, in my opinion. Each update is effectively a vote, and a policy of automatic voting for the majority of voters seems like a recipe for disaster with something like Bitcoin.
None of that is to say that you shouldn't run a node if you're unwilling to research each update. It could be the case that having a portion of nodes be completely patched and updated is a good thing. I just think having too many is a potential attack vector.
I use the Start9 OS for now, but plan to switch to Parmanode next year.
You may also like @nprofile…6h76 Parmanode

2024-10-12 05:15:43

Virtually every predator on the planet has 24/7 access to your child if they have unrestricted access to internet connected devices.
I remember being taught to not trust strangers in parks, stores, etc as a child. Most predators relied on chance, being close to a victim, or executing specific plans.
How do you even begin to protect a child when every predator is in their pocket?
Of course, predators aren't the only danger, which makes the topic even more concerning.
Technology has many positive benefits, but I don't think most people are taking the negative consequences seriously enough.

2024-10-10 04:32:22

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I just don't understand why it's there then. We still have to elect the "failsafes" and define what a fail even is. It's just a more complicated version of what we already have. Having an AI make decisions that government shouldn't be involved with anyway isn't going to fix the resulting problems that come from having government involved. Government can't possibly optimize life for everyone. All it can do is pick who it wants to win and eliminate the rest. The only real solution I see is to remove government entirely from anything that isn't regulating force against citizens and property. Having an AI decide the most optimal winner doesn't fix the underlying flaws.
People should be left free to optimize for themselves (as long as they don't violate the property rights of others), not have government do it for them, AI or otherwise.
My issue is with what you think government should be doing. Having AI involved doesn't fix that for me. It probably just makes it worse.

2024-10-10 04:14:40

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Who defines radical? Who decides the representatives? You're slow boating your way back to human governance of humans. Humans using AI as a tool to help them make decisions seems like a more useful approach than the addition of an extra step and piece of government to monitor (AI). What happens when the AI determines that the optimal situation is for it to have free agency without human involvement? And if it's wrong or radical in one area, why is it any more trustworthy in any other area? This just seems like a more complicated form of government to me with an even greater potential for abuse of rights. It seems a lot like having a government made up entirely of scientists and pragmatists. We'd end up right back at Hitler before long. Philosophy is important for 'optimizing' human life on earth, and having something like AI as it stands isn't going to necessarily appreciate that.

2024-10-10 04:05:19

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The problem is and will always be definitions.
Desired outcome (for who?)
Optimal (what does this mean exactly? By what standard is something optimal?)
Free markets are largely the answer to these questions. Government is meant to protect property rights, not optimize things for us.
A fundamental disagreement on what government even should be is another big definition issue that won't just go away by introducing AI to the problem.

2024-10-10 03:47:12

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It identifies as 80

2024-10-09 03:42:33

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But yes, a unique random password would limit any potential damage they could do either way.

2024-10-09 03:38:33

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Yes, but that doesn't prevent the person you share it with from accessing the shared password. I may have misunderstood your point.

2024-10-09 03:15:43

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I'm just wondering how someone could login to an account without being exposed to a password. The password has to go into a web page field to submit a login request.

2024-10-09 00:27:14

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How would a password manager help?

2024-10-08 07:11:17

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Unfortunately, the people I see are usually not happy to see me, so dark humor is a coping mechanism. I get to see pretty much every type of person and bizarre situation. Foreign bodies that people like to stick up their butts. One of the funniest encounters was a dementia patient that clearly must have been a pimp or something at some point. He would tell us about how he had to beat the shit out of people for getting rough with his girls.
There's also a lot of really sad shit mostly. Lots of drug use, homelessness, and mental illness (usually at the same time). I've been called every bad name there is, and have been explosed to almost every fluid in the human body. I once had a gun shot victim thrown over the counter of my waiting room after which his masked "friends" took off. Gangs are getting worse. CPR on a baby while the parents scream and cry was the worst experience so far, but you always know there can be worse.
I get to see a lot of the effects of fiat, actually. Degrading food, care, and increasing shortages in healthcare.
It's been a wild, interesting, fun, miserable, enlightening, and dark experience that I am somehow thankful and not thankful for. I've had several "defining moments" as Dr. Phil calls them.
I get to meet really old people too, which has been mostly nice. Learn lots. I had a conversation about calculus with a dementia patient a while back who was what we call pleasantly confused. Turns out he was a Math professor and he lit up when I started talking about my love and hatred of mathematics. It's a joy to see people briefly come back to reality.

2024-10-08 05:06:33

Watching someone die and then loading their body into a bag has really changed my perspective on life. Life is full of little moments like that.
Most of the things I worry about won't matter in 100 years. Most of them don't matter today.
I guess the takeaway is to not worry quite so much. None of your worries go into the bag with you.

2024-10-06 22:50:13

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I dig it.

2024-10-05 08:26:28

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He rugged himself by buying Twitter. Imagine if he'd instead built an alternative on Nostr with @nprofile…hcpn . Fucking opportunity missed.

2024-10-04 04:25:42

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Yeah, I they're missing a great opportunity within the Bitcoin and Nostr ecosystem. They are already one of the very few VPNs I have any amount of trust for.

2024-10-04 04:20:00

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I actually did email them several months ago and they told me it was in their plans.

2024-10-03 14:17:53

Port workers are offering themselves up as sacrificial scape goats. RIP.

2024-10-03 11:13:44

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Do they have a Bitcoin/Lightning donation address?

2024-10-02 09:48:49

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Yeah, I don't consider what is essentially a guaranteed default to be an asset lol
I'm also not convinced that Fiat and debt are actually all that different, but that's a minor point I guess.

2024-10-02 09:31:52

I'm having an issue in #Obtainium that I'm not sure how to solve.
Example:
Tuta releases their app binaries under their git repo releases section.
I have that link in Obtainium and install their email app for Android. Cool. Updates and everything work well.
Today, Tuta decides to throw the binary for their new Tuta calendar app in the same releases section.
Obtainium thinks there is a new update for my email app, but figures out that there is a problem once I click to update. The error was actually quite helpful. It only took me a few minutes to figure out what was going on.
Where I'm stuck now is that there isn't really anything I know to do as a user.
I see a lot of settings related to the app title and regular expressions, but I have no idea what to put in that would include only the app I want from the release section.
On a side note, I wish release sections were used for single applications only. It gets confusing when repos start having a lot of different app binaries in a single release section. At least for me. Maybe I'm the problem and have been using Obtainium incorrectly. I have no idea.

2024-10-02 06:30:55

I've had discussions with people about Bitcoin and the environmental impact it has. My opponents have always been misinformed on the particulars in general, but I noticed a subtle tendency toward energy use itself being bad in their arguments.
"Bitcoin is a waste of energy."
"We could use that energy on something else."
"We should be using less energy."
Their primary focus is usually on the amount of energy used rather than the source. Granted, these people are average people in my real life, so they aren't super knowledgeable on Bitcoin or probably energy in general.
But I find it interesting that people don't make the connection that the ultimate difference between us and cave people is the amount of energy we use.
People who want human life to get better should be looking for ways to use more energy in general (making things more efficient without degrading output is fine), not less.
I can at least understand wanting to use better energy sources (although many of them aren't in favor of the better options we have either), but to want to use less energy for its own sake is bizarre to me, especially when we don't have to and all the evidence suggests that doing so would make life worse for humans.

2024-10-02 06:03:51

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The idea looks awesome.
But I'm really digging the branding for some reason.

2024-10-02 05:13:58

I wonder if people will be quoting npubs 200 years from now.

2024-10-02 02:38:35

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just.
Terrible, but just.
#note1qt2…snch

2024-10-02 02:31:00

My government has a duty to protect me, not the people in enemy countries.

2024-10-02 01:54:28

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I wonder how many people's votes are actually swayed by a vice-presidential debate.
Well, I guess for Trump it matters a little more lol

2024-10-02 01:48:54

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Fuck it all.
#Binary

2024-10-02 01:46:06

Do nothing...
#note1gp4…rmn0

2024-10-02 01:44:15

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I would expect a photo to look better than that with nothing done to it lol

2024-10-01 05:13:03

I trade some of my KYC Bitcoin to someone who isn't KYC'ed. Cool. They now have KYC free Bitcoin.
What happens if they fund terrorists or something with it?
How do I prove I wasn't actually the one who sent it when the KYC trail ends at me?

2024-10-01 04:11:55

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I can only imagine that the ground wire would somehow be energized to be getting shocked from touching metal on the car. Wouldn't GFCI stop this if it was his outlet?
Assuming it's modern and not some redneck shit lol

2024-10-01 03:51:26

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I would remove the emoji button if you made it an option. I use zaps as a 'like' button anyway. Boost and zap is all I need.

2024-10-01 00:00:50

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Are you actually leaving major carriers though?

2024-09-30 13:07:17

Cool, but you are still a thief and seem to be proud of it.
#nevent1q…puxa

2024-09-30 09:02:43

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How do they ever know? Audits. I am not interested in breaking the law and finding out how they know at trial before being thrown into a cage. Especially for capital gains of all things. The tracking is just annoying, but I'm not risking prison for this.

2024-09-30 04:00:30

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Bitcoin being treated as a currency without capital gains taxes. I hate having to keep track of it and it makes actually using Bitcoin quite a nightmare.

2024-09-30 03:57:46

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Why?

2024-09-29 10:48:57

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Tribalism also tends to centralize anyway, just as it did to give us the two major parties we have now.
The incentive will always be for the smaller gangs to consolidate to gain more power. Four will just become two again once people realize that winning on the big issues is more important than losing for the minor differences between a given set of smaller gangs. Purity tests return, as they always do with tribalists, and we are right back to trying to have more gangs to fix the problem.
Parties and collectivism are the actual problems in my opinion.

2024-09-29 10:44:19

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There is nothing explicitly preventing more than two parties from existing in the US (they do).
The problem is that people tend to become tribal because of collectivist philosophy (most don't even know they're afflicted with the disease, which makes it even more lethal).
Having more parties isn't really going to fix anything if people are still tribalists.
In fact, parties wouldn't matter all that much in a rational society. Many of the US Founders were actually against the concept of parties because they feared what the collectivism and tribalism would lead to (they were right).
Having more of the cancer doesn't seem like a good solution to me. You'll still be ruled by gang warfare. There will just be more smaller gangs. So maybe tyrannical rule by 31% instead of 51%. That isn't much of an improvement.

2024-09-29 07:16:09

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I don't think participation is always going to lead to me getting my way. It can't. I vote every election and still voice my disgust for the political environment. My point is that I'm at least throwing a wrench in whenever and wherever I can instead of just letting the lowest common denominator rule without resistance of any kind. I've accepted that I'm most likely just going to be a very small wrench, a spec of sand really, in the gears of the machine. But enough grains of sand can really start locking shit up, even if the machine doesn't fully stop.
More people not voting will only make it easier for an ever smaller group of people to have total control. I'd rather keep government fighting than have that.

2024-09-29 07:09:42

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You can also strategically vote. I'm in the US, so for me that means voting in such a way that gridlock is encouraged. It's often much better to have a government that does little than one that does much, even if you happen to agree with it for the moment. There is almost always a candidate that is strategically better in my experience, even if I hate them.
Using the US as an example, that could be Kamala, Trump, or someone else on the ballot depending upon what your desired strategy is.
I agree that Trump is definitely not going to right the ship though. He may sink it slower, but some may want it to sink quicker.
Thinking and participating is better than doing nothing at all. Resistance of any sort is always better than none.

2024-09-29 07:00:08

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Voting doesn't solve every problem but just standing idly by and not even trying to steer the political environment (if only in a less bad direction) is a great way to get fucked harder.
Politics do matter greatly, even if the options are all shit by your own standards.

2024-09-29 03:32:59

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Sounds like you just created a new boutique coffee brand.

2024-09-28 06:32:59

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That's just absurd. People historically vote for these people. Regimes don't just gain unlimited power without broken cultures that enable them.

2024-09-28 04:38:51

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I agree, but a nation's politics is generally a reflection of its culture. One can't have a state and then expect to be completely separated from the deeds of that state. Unfortunately, it is the case that bad culture (mostly collectivism from what I see) leads to even worse states over time that become incredibly difficult for people to change.

2024-09-27 07:44:58

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I think his point is that we may be able to go ten by ten instead of one by one if marketing efforts are optimized. Sure, we could change the world in twenty years, but I'd rather do it in 5 or 10 if possible. My time on earth is limited. One by one is almost never the optimal solution.

2024-09-27 06:53:49

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Having it mentioned in podcasts not exclusively dedicated to Nostr is probably more impactful.
"That Elon Musk isn't really defending free speech all that well. Have you heard of Nostr?"
At least that's how I tend to learn about stuff like this. I've never been to a conference.

2024-09-24 08:38:11

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I don't know if it's because I'm getting older, but I'm leaning more toward wanting an extremely minimal client where I can just read and leave. the ultimate lurker.

2024-09-24 08:24:46

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Wondering this too. I was looking for the git repo to see if there were any binaries for Obtainium

2024-09-24 03:37:29

Interesting.
#note1ga2…82mx

2024-09-23 10:54:45

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This is where I have landed. It just isn't worth it.

2024-09-19 12:59:57

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Whatever age you think about it and decide that's what you want. I'm not so arrogant that I think I know what everyone else should do and by what age, nor do I pressure them one way or the other. I just have the opinion that one should understand why they want to do something and not just do things because they've been pressured to. Especially when that thing is another human being depending on you for survival or being legally bound to another person and the choices they make.
Some people should absolutely not have children, can't care for them anyway, and certainly should not be pressured into doing so. It's just an overly broad and careless take that has massive consequences. What's true for you isn't necessarily true for everyone. Having a 'hop in, think about it later' attitude gets some people in a mess that other people have to clean up.

2024-09-19 12:42:45

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I didn't say you needed a lifetime of study. Having kids and getting married out of pressure before figuring out if it is what you actually want is retarded.

2024-09-19 12:28:25

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158k gang?

2024-09-19 12:27:21

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No it isn't. People should only get married and have children because they want to, not because they've been pressured to. In fact, we should be pressuring people to be sure they're ready for the responsibilities of both before doing either. People should fully understand what they are getting into before taking on an existing human and/or creating a new one. Far too many people just do these things because they've been conditioned to.
That's a recipe for disaster that frequently ends in divorce or people like me supporting someone else's kids through the welfare state.

2024-09-19 12:21:03

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Thanks! I came across Citrine yesterday as part of this quest.

2024-09-19 11:08:52

Is it possible or practical to have a #Nostr relay that:
-Runs on a phone or whatever and relays only the relay owner's notes?
-Is added and removed automatically by a client when someone follows the owner?
I'm still trying to figure out the technical aspects of Nostr, so there are many things I don't understand about how it actually works.
I'm imagining a scenario where each person relays and backs up their own notes and "follow" (or whatever term) means that the client is adding that relay to their list of relays and that info to their own relay so clients can know follow data automatically.
My whole goal here is to have the option of being as sovereign as possible without relying on other people for my relay needs. Currently, I don't have any control over any of it and I'm trying to figure out how to be in control as much as possible.

2024-09-19 10:52:29

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Interestingly, I have the exact same default relays in Primal and see none of the spam I see in Amethyst. Is there an ideological or technical reason why?

2024-09-19 10:38:12

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I'm one of those weirdos who still buys and downloads MP3 files when available. Granted, I do use YouTube to find music I want to buy, but they're putting their music there.
Wouldn't it be their fault for choosing a career with such an allegedly small market? They're the ones giving into the DRM shit and streaming services. And if they're only doing it because it's the only way to get paid to make music then what is the complaint exactly? If there is no alternative really then I don't see how that makes anyone servicing the industry a dick.
There is an alternative though. People used to value music more because they actually had to go buy it I think. Now, I have to go out of my way to find people who will actually sell me their music instead of whatever streaming platform they're on.
But I'm not interested in "buying" music on some platform that can just take it back either. I think DRM is part of the problem. I don't want to go and buy stuff I may not actually be able to keep. So renting it is the next logical option for me, and that sort of model lends itself to something like Spotify. In my case, YouTube Premium to avoid ads, but I use it for stuff other than music.
You can't lock your music down and then tell people they're rent seeking for getting your music the way you've incentivized them to get it.

2024-09-18 23:02:01

Why would I be seeing Reply Guy on Amethyst but not Primal when both apps are using the exact same relays?
What don't I understand?

2024-09-18 19:26:38

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Maybe not, but it could at least help fund relays that may otherwise go offline due to the extra cost of spam. There's a similar advantage to all the one sat spam transactions I get on Lightning. Sure, it sucks, but at least fees are being paid and even I'm getting wealthier by some micro amount. That's certainly better than getting absolutely nothing from spam like now. It would also be cool if users could set a fee for interacting on their notes. I doubt anyone who can't afford a few sats are or whatever the amount is are going to say anything I really care about anyway. It's probably just going to distract me and add no value.

2024-09-18 17:54:31

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Maybe, but they aren't laughing when they end up in my emergency department nearly dead from an infection or other illness they likely could have easily prevented with antibiotics or other meds. They're getting even more meds in the end and are usually a lot closer to death or disability than they would have been otherwise.
Everything has pros and cons. I'm sure there are many missed opportunities associated with rejecting tech absolutely too.

2024-09-18 17:48:42

I do respect Larry Fink for admitting that his opinion was wrong and that it has changed with new information.
Like him or not, this is the attitude of a good leader and at minimum a smart person. Having the alternative attitude just makes you stupid and a lot of people do.

2024-09-18 16:48:01

The exploding device game is not really worth it in my opinion. I'm imagining some country doing this with Apple (Google, etc) devices. That would be an attack (brand damage, theft, etc) on US companies and, in my opinion, would warrant a response from our government.
It's just too messy and I think we should all agree to put it into the bad actor category of attacks. I don't see an overall gain coming from this sort of thing, especially when explosives are involved. Even the addition of spyware is too messy for my taste.
On the flip, it probably is less damaging overall compared to just bombing the entire area, but I still think the overall global damage is too high in the long run. It will get out of control.

2024-09-18 16:34:12

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I think it was Family Guy or Bill Maher, but I'm not sure. I remember some skit or joke about a suicide bomber dying and getting to heaven only to find 72 male virgins. Killed me

2024-09-18 16:31:59

I hadn't thought about it before, but it's quite hilarious to think that I'd rather just gamble at a slot machine and pay with Bitcoin than fuck with shitcoins. It would be simpler and more fun if I actually enjoyed gambling.
And if I didn't have a strategy for being a pump and dump scammer, I'd be far better off just saving my fiat.
This is why my blossoming Bitcoin mind originally went Bitcoin only, I just didn't realize it fully at the time.
It's not hard to imagine that others will have a similar experience and flock to sound money, even without fully understanding why. In the short term, it's just easier to breathe. I lost so much stress when I went Bitcoin only. It was a massive weight lifted. I chose Bitcoin because it was the only one of any real value in my limited knowledge based opinion at the time.
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2024-09-18 16:12:36

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Didn't they add an explosive?

2024-09-18 15:17:24

I usually keep my work pager clipped to the scrub pocket right over my heart.
Call me paranoid, but it's going on my lower leg pocket from now on. 😬

2024-09-18 15:08:57

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I often get a good little laugh when people tell me that aliens don't exist in a mocking way. (I've never said they do, only that I think it's highly possible)
An intelligent being in the universe mocking me for thinking that intelligent life could exist somewhere else in the universe. It's quite fascinating. We are literally evidence that it already exists and is possible. The argument really is whether it exists again, and to think it might seems totally reasonable.
That's a long winded way of saying that your approach is probably the most logical one.

2024-09-18 14:49:16

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If you want absolutely no ability to filter any content whatsoever (censorship) to exist for users and relay owners, then you by extension do want to subject people to child porn and other unwanted content. That is literally what you are saying. Your argument is faulty. You can't have freedom and also tell others what they must allow on their relays, networks, and devices. I am not "silencing" your viewpoint. I'm simply laying out what your point of view is and disagreeing with it.
You can run your own relay and so can the spammers. That's the historical difference that you're leaving out. You guys can have it! That doesn't mean the rest of us want to be involved and it certainly doesn't mean we must sink our ships just so you can be on it.
I even stated in my post that different relays and clients would disagree on where the lines are drawn and people would thus need to be somewhere else. You're not off the network under that model. You just may not be on my screen, where you seem to think you have an inherent right to be. You don't.

2024-09-18 14:22:51

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This reminds me of something I wrote recently.
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2024-09-17 03:08:39

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Trumpcoin incoming? It's over. Pack it up.

2024-09-17 01:51:40

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I'm seeing none in Primal.

2024-09-17 00:41:21

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No.

2024-09-17 00:08:02

Supporting FOSS development is pretty annoying...outside of Nostr. Nostr makes it sooooooo easy that I'm even more annoyed now when I try to support projects outside of this sphere.
I remember trying to donate to Debian once and got so annoyed that I just gave up. There have been FOSS projects that attempted to solve this problem and those annoyed the shit out of me too.
Zapping has made me LESS patient than I already was, and I think that's a great sign. Plus, it's easier than ever to donate anonymously if one takes care and really wants to.
I remember the first time I was zapped like 10-20k sats one day for some posts I'd made and having a holy shit moment where my brain was flooded with all the possibilities of how this one thing could change so many things. I later learned that was just scratching the surface with Nostr, but it's a massive scratch.
I'm also getting annoyed when I pay for groceries now. Just give me a fucking QR code. I think the future is bright.