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2023-08-05 15:09:08

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Here here! I second this!

2023-08-05 15:07:38

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No, you don’t.
I will admit that Elon on Twitter is a 🤡. I fully agree that Doge is a shitcoin and Elon is currently doing anti-freedom things on the network he bought.
But Elon, when it comes to 🚀, is a visionary genius giga-brain 🧠 who has changed the course of space flight forever through the power of first principles thinking.
The fact that he can be so brilliant in some areas and so moronic in other areas fucks with a lot of people who just want a simple narrative where he’s all 🧠 or all 🤡, all the time.
Reality is more complicated.
Get over your preconceptions about Elon and educate yourself about the magnitude, impact, and difficulty of what SpaceX has already accomplished and what they are on the road to accomplishing, and why it matters.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html
https://www.youtube.com/@EverydayAstronaut
https://m.youtube.com/@scottmanley

2023-07-30 19:30:35

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I was just discussing this with a close friend yesterday, and he didn’t get it. So I forwarded this to him. I hope it sinks in. Thanks for the share!

2023-07-27 12:57:17

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*mass market devices
Basically the vision is that you have cheap all-in-one devices that you unbox and plug in and voila you’re running a node.
But this is an absolutely TERRIBLE idea if the user cannot independently prove that the desired software, and ONLY the desired software is (and forever will be) on the device.

2023-07-27 12:54:48

Thought experiment:
How can we 10X the number of bitcoin nodes running in a distributed, trustless way?
Turnkey software solutions make it easy for people to set up a node but the hardware is often overpriced and overhyped, while the software provides a central point of capture (What do you do if your Raspbery Pi Node Software Provider goes rogue and auto-updates all their users to an evil fork?)
So I’m toying with the idea of mad market devices with the bitcoin software burned into the hardware in a write-once way. Nodes can’t be upgraded remotely since it’s basically an ASIC for a particular version of the consensus model.
But how can you trust the hardware to truly be write-once and/or not have a backdoor? How can you allow updates for auxiliary software like Tor and Electrum?
Thoughts?
Or is it just a solution in search of a problem?

2023-07-25 23:08:28

😂😂😂 #note1w8n…kcuy

2023-07-25 01:49:55

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Dear Google: Kindly fuck right off

2023-07-23 23:06:45

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😂😂

2023-07-23 21:35:40

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This was something that was mentioned near the end of the hearing and briefly discussed. I didn’t just pull this out of thin air.

2023-07-23 21:34:27

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But also: The ACLU used to defend Nazi’s right to free [hate] speech while simultaneously decrying their speech as abhorrent, because the 1st Amendment was that important to that organization at the time. I think it would be good to get back to that. To be super clear: Nazis are narrow-minded bigots. I don’t support them at all. I think they should all se the error of their ways and reform like a few have.
But the idea of the ACLU supporting the rights of even that sort of speech should be held up as the golden standard of free speech.
We have to protect the free speech of even the outliers at either extreme of the bell curve. As soon as we start truncating the tails of that curve, where does it stop?

2023-07-23 20:46:22

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Let the record show I’m also very impressed with what Mr. Connolly said during his initial time speaking on camera around the three hour mark.

2023-07-23 19:12:14

This was my first time actually hearing RFK Jr. speak.
His voice was jarring at first because I had never heard it before, but after only a couple’s minutes of listening, his voice fell away as I continued to listen to his words.
I went on to watch several more clips from the hearings, and I’ll go on to watch more after I post this, but I have to say: I want to hear more that RFKJR has to say, even if I’ll likely disagree strongly with some of it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GEAm21alji0

2023-07-22 23:15:40

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Does anyone know if it’s possible under UK law to counter-sue him (possibly as some kind of pseudonymous class action lawsuit) for wasting everyone’s time and resources once he inevitably fails to prove his claims?
I feel like that would be poetic.

2023-07-22 23:08:55

I’m tempted to redirect my incoming weekly DCA sats (or a percentage of them) to the Bitcoin Defense Fund for a while, because this Craig Wr*ght circus has gone on far too long.
It’s bad enough that I’m embarrassed of his behavior from well over a thousand miles away while having nothing to do with him besides also being a member of the Homo sapiens species, but the whole situation is bad for open source software in general.
https://bitcoindefense.org/bitcoin-legal-defense-fund-statement-on-uk-appellate-court-ruling/

2023-07-19 21:12:45

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I’d like to see a crowdfunded rebuttal along the lines of “Greenpeace, Stop ignoring Bitcoin’s built-in incentive to build and use renewable and excess (otherwise wasted) energy”

2023-07-18 03:37:33

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Several problems: audio calls wouldn’t connect or ring, and video calls were… glitchy especially during the initial connection, and never did connect properly for me. I also had trouble authorizing the app to use microphone or camera for the first time in response to an incoming call. Although I DID authorize it, on both devices, so that wasn’t the problem. Things like that made me think SimpleX wasn’t ready yet. I don’t want to scare anyone away from it, definitely try it, maybe it will work for you. But it didn’t for me, to my great disappointment.🙁

2023-07-18 03:29:55

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I had a lot of trouble getting audio/video calls to work in SimplX on iOS, compared to Signal. Enough that I and a family member gave up on replacing Signal with it because calls were worse. I’d rather use SimpleX because the security model seems better, but I need reliable audio calls, at least.

2023-07-18 03:23:14

😂😂😂 #note1wfc…ny5m

2023-07-18 03:21:36

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👀

2023-07-18 02:41:43

Option 1: Crushing alternatives maliciously
Option 2: bad pattern recognition heuristics zeroed in on letter and word combinations (S(impl)EX-CHAT)
Why ascribe to malice what can be fully explained by incompetence?😂 #note1psn…h5lq

2023-07-18 02:32:01

My two sats: neither is fully right. Tell your son “spend and replace” is the way. I hypothesize Bitcoiners as a group become more productive when we transfer value amongst ourselves using bitcoin, the monetary superconductor. Tell your daughter to get the desired medium of exchange in writing beforehand to avoid being bait and switched with Monopoly money.😂 #note1cme…kj62

2023-07-18 02:21:33

😂😂😂 #note1n87…uw66

2023-07-13 23:31:26

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If inflation is a memory leak, the bug that’s causing it is people in government having the ability to initiate money creation on demand at zero marginal cost

2023-07-13 23:28:21

“Inflation is a memory leak in our civilization process”
Has anyone explored this metaphor before? It certainly isn’t for every audience, but I think anyone who knows what a memory leak is will find this a meaningful, memorable comparison that hints at both the danger and severity of the problem of left unchecked.

2023-07-13 01:10:03

Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism
https://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/simplified

2023-07-13 01:02:15

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That’s rough, buddy!😂

2023-07-13 00:34:39

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One of my best friends was gay (sadly he passed due to heart disease) and another very close friend of mine is in a queerplatonic relationship with her roommate/best friend, who herself has a boyfriend, so I understand and accept that sort of thing. I’m a
a sci-fi enthusiast, and philosophically a trans-humanist. I’ve read enough science fiction where both gender and sex (and even body plan) are malleable through technology or engineered biology to normalize that sort of thing in my mind.
I like to think most egalitarian society is the one where everyone is a shapeshifter, so appearance means nothing and is totally malleable, the only thing that makes you “you” is your mind.

2023-07-13 00:28:19

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Thanks for replying. I’m a bitcoiner and I want you to feel accepted and welcomed here.

2023-07-12 22:58:31

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Mostly because it’s just easier to let someone else maintain an email server than to do it yourself, isn’t it? Theoretically there’s nothing stopping you from spinning up your own email server at your own domain, but it relies on DNS registrations and there’s little incentive to do it individually. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
Hopefully paid relays will fix the incentive aspect for nostr. Also, who knows? I’m feeling a little inspired to run my own email server all of a sudden. Maybe nostr will inspire a resurgence now that it’s a lot easier to host one’s own server these days.

2023-07-12 22:58:31

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2023-07-12 22:52:27

I grew up a strait-laced, mild mannered rule follower. I even believed in asking permission rather than seeking forgiveness. As I’ve gotten older, I find I’m becoming more of a rebel as I see the consequences of following the rules, mainly ceding power that shouldn’t be ceded, and losing freedoms that shouldn’t be lost.
I recently made the decision to jump ship over Apple’s handling of zap payments and move to android. I was actually browsing phones in the store today, although I didn’t buy one (yet). So it comes as quite an unwelcome surprise to hear that Google is about to try / is trying the same bullshit on their side of the fence in their own App Store. It all comes down to enforcement but it certainly sounds the same to me.
I say that as background to explain my current headspace.
I don’t have any interest in following rules that suit only the rulers. Fuck that.
Like he said, Android is open. They can’t enforce shit (if we sideload).
It just pisses me off that so many people are going to get frozen out of using zaps (like me currently) because of arbitrary platform rules. It also seems like a slippery slope. We’re already on nostr because we don’t like the control on other platforms, and now they want to control us here?
Fuck that. #note1wdv…drfa

2023-07-12 17:24:27

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Wow! I got about halfway through it before my lunch break ended, I’ll definitely watch the rest later tonight. Excellent so far!

2023-07-11 23:20:03

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Just so you know, I’m switching to Android with my next phone because of Apple’s policies forcing the removal of Zaps, with Damus in particular and nostr clients in general.
To mix metaphors, it was the straw that broke the walled garden’s back.

2023-07-09 15:11:43

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As someone who grew immersed up in American Christian culture (and I do think “American Christianity” should be considered meaningfully distinct from global Christianity, but I digress) I can confirm that this is pretty much what it is from the inside.
I can only speak to the culture I was raised in, and it may not be representative of broader American Christianity, but I feel like it’s fairly representative of those who view “being a Christian” as a big part of their identity or sense of self. My experience involved religious private schooling from 4th-12th grade, so there was very little exposure to outside views. On one hand this makes my experience non-representative, on the other hand I feel like it let me see what the undiluted worldview looks like from the inside with very little noise to distort the signal.
The culture I was raised In indoctrinated the following ideas as facts, plain and simple, without nuance and largely unquestioned:
1. America has only flourished with God’s blessing because the majority of founding fathers and American culture historically has been predominantly Christian, despite separation of Church and State. IE, American can (and in their view, should) be “A Christian Nation” via most people being Christian, without it necessarily being a state religion
2. The devil hates this and is constantly trying to tear down the Christian culture that exists today. So I’m a real sense, they genuinely view any inroads or progress by any non-Christian faction as an actual attack, since they attribute ANY view or set of values that denies or ignores the moral norms of modern American Christianity as ENEMY ACTION by the literal devil and/or demons.
3. This leads to a mindset of American Christians being in a walled city, defending against a siege of attackers from all sides, both secular and non-Christian religious in origin.
There’s also a large degree of “purity test” mentality about what one believes and how fervently and deeply one believes it, and how much they are willing to passively/independently deviate from and/or resist wider cultural norms because of it. “Love your neighbor as yourself” gets distorted into “Convince your neighbor of the error of their ways so they can join you on the Christian lifeboat and not go to hell”.

2023-07-09 15:11:36

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2023-07-08 12:29:46

@npub1xts…kk5s Is there any chance of Damus (and Nostr clients in general) using something with RFID like a Yubikey to store private the one’s Nostr private key and sign messages? AFAIK Yubikey only does 2FA, but it would be nice to have something like that or a Satsigner to keep the key off the mobile device while still keeping it handy. I’m still waiting for my Nostr Signing Device from LNBits (https://shop.lnbits.com/product/nostr-signing-device) to arrive before I really try to establish a long-term identity, but it sounds like I’ll only be able to use that with desktop or web based Nostr clients.

2023-07-08 12:18:36

This podcast episode caused me to re-evaluate the narrative context (i.e., the story I told myself about what was happening in the world) of the entire time I’ve been alive. I heard someone on another podcast call it “probably the best podcast episode of the year”, and after listening to it, I have to agree it’s at least a strong contender for that title.
Eye opening. Highly recommend.
Worth the time (it’s loooong, I broke it up over several days)
https://fountain.fm/episode/4Lc2f0RvADmnHbtfIBiK