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2023-11-04 21:08:37

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Aptoide might be closer to an app market than F-Droid is.

2023-10-30 20:29:22

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> people keep bringing these points as if they posed some fatal blow to our supposedly naïve ideals or something like that
Not at all. I think people neglect to mention it. I sometimes see people saying they won't try Nostr because they believe it is full of illegal stuff. So I try to make sure that people know that relay server operators have to be responsible about such things just like any website would.

2023-10-30 19:42:03

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Oh, I didn't mean that as any sort of personal thing.

2023-10-30 19:26:51

> the duty of curation rests upon the individual account-holder
But from a numbers growth perspective, we're going to need options in clients to automatically screen and block posts. On by default, but easily turned off.
When Joe Normie comes to Nostr, he doesn't want to see gore or porn or illegal activities on the timeline ... not even once.

2023-10-30 19:20:43

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Or that "free speech" implies that there's generally no regulator who will step in and prevent you from encountering the ugliness that others choose to spew. Instead the duty of curation rests upon the individual account-holder.
Even so, in most countries there are some legal requirements that relay operators are going to have to live by. We're not going to live in libertarian fantasy world.

2023-10-27 18:42:17

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Yeah, we're not all here at the same time, and it only takes a couple of visits where no one you know is around to think it is empty.

2023-10-16 16:54:46

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Addendum:
The way it hurts banks is that as interest rates in general rise, their depositors start moving their money to places that pay better interest rates. As with Silicon Valley Bank, this results in the bank having to sell assets for less than book value (such that the purchaser can obtain current market interest from them) and accept a loss on their accounting books. Once this happens a couple of times, banking regulators notice that the bank's capital position is starting to weaken.
Essentially, the losses start eating into the shareholders' equity and the bank's operating funds. Investors start selling the stock and depositors who may have more than the FDIC protected amount in that bank start trying to move their excess funds. This in turn requires more asset sales.
Banks could push Certificates of Deposit with tough lockup clauses, but no one is going to do that for 1-2% APR.

2023-10-16 16:43:01

Bankers begging for TARP 2.0 ... trillions of dollars of aid from taxpayers, the same people they've been cheating and screwing ever since the last bailout. https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/u-s-banks-need-tarp-2-0-a-trapped-asset-relief-program [www americanbanker com]
Their assets aren't really "troubled", the bankers are just getting lower interest rates on them than they could if they could reissue those loans. If they can just hold them until maturity, they'll be fine.
The real issue is that the FED is trying to punish you and me with the interest rate increases (FED chair Jerome Powell said this repeatedly, so it is without question), but banks borrow short-term and often lend long-term. Rapid interest rate increases will hurt them because of that business model.
Instead of begging for taxpayer money to line the pockets of banking execs, call out the FED's Open Market Committee for being out of touch and for intentionally harming the people they're meant to protect.

2023-10-04 02:46:52

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*hugs*

2023-10-04 02:42:45

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Not a heathen, but I do prefer "visible mode" to "invisible (dark) mode".

2023-10-04 02:39:57

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I took three nephews and a son to the Pokemon movie. I fell asleep. As a measure of how long ago that was, all but one of them are in their thirties now.
I saw a few minutes of the movie and a few minutes of the show ... enough to recognize some names: Ash, Pikachu, Charazard, Squirtle ... and enough to know the phrase "<pokemon name> I choose you!" and that's about it.

2023-08-09 21:30:52

https://www.insider.com/texas-couple-dies-in-their-home-after-air-conditioning-breaks-2023-8
This sort of thing bothers me, because it did not have to happen.
Maybe they could have stayed with relatives. Maybe their town has a cooling center that they could have gone to during daytime hours. Maybe they could have gotten a smaller window unit to help tide them over until their main air condtioner was repaired.
Lots of maybes, but I feel like _something_ could have been done differently.

2023-08-05 20:45:57

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I just searched through Amethyst on Android and did not see a way to add a NIP--05. I don't have one to begin with, so it doesn't affect me.

2023-08-05 19:28:36

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Mitch, this is Mrs Thompson, your 5th grade teacher. You just failed that test, so we're revoking all of your diplomas and degrees and making you repeat 5th grade. Classes start August 10th. See you there!
(Joking, of course.)

2023-08-04 04:42:41

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https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/governance
They have some lofty goals there, but that's a long way off. There are lots of other reasons to avoid #Worldcoin and this isn't yet at a state where it could count as the lone positive aspect.

2023-08-03 05:49:28

> the iris code needs to be compared against all other iris codes of humans who have verified before
https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/technical-implementation
There are many valid objections to #Worldcoin, but this one is foundational. They have to store the data of _everyone_ who ever does an iris scan forever.
This, then is where many other objectionable things come from:
* storing that much SPII data makes them an attractive target
* "all information that you collect, you will eventually store; all data that you store will eventually be misused" -- my old information systems instructor
* "Hi, I'm $EMPLOYEE from $SECRET_GOVT_AGENCY. We're issuing a secret order to turn over iris scan and other data about $PERSON by tomorrow at 8AM."
* did I mention "trust us, we will only use this for good"?
Yeah. No matter what, don't fall for #Worldcoin. Avoid it forever.

2023-07-06 19:16:18

"Use another relay" confers *a little* censorship resistance until you face a coordinated campaign. "Make your own relay" then becomes the final option, but one must do so *before* the campaign cuts them off from other relays and ensure that their contacts know about it, or they still lose connection with their contacts.
And depending on where the censorship is coming from (some sort of #nostrblock campaign versus a national government), hosting one's own relay may provide the censors ability to silence someone for a longer time.
Which is why I say that Nostr's censorship resistance is way overhyped. It is not subject to centralized admins' censorship (like Twitter or MetaFaceBook) or to instance admins' censorship (like the Fediverse with its #fediblock and other #blockwars campaigns), but depending on outrunning censors' pressure against relay operators is not something people should depend upon.

2023-07-06 19:05:44

> Voice lends itself to "many to many" (not broadcast like video), yet solves the toxicity / flame war issue found in text only.
Not so. Voice conferences are sometimes just as toxic. You may not notice, because some people wait for others to finish before they speak. But if you talk to the participants afterward, it was there.

2023-07-03 03:53:00

> The main idea behind #fediverse is identity politics cast in software.
Well, it isn't the software that has the IDPol, but many instances (the servers that people use) do. It's been a while since I read the NIPs, so maybe there are some newer ones that address this, but last I looked, #Nostr did not really have an answer to something like #fediblock coming here.
"Just create a new relay after you get dumped from all others due to #nostrblock" still leaves you disconnected from all your contacts unless you have an out-of-band way to notify them.

2023-06-22 03:45:29

**Follower Counts**
On a network such as #Nostr, I'm not even sure it is possible to give accurate follower counts. But even if it is, they matter mostly for "social media marketing" types than for you and I.
SMM folks depend on their "reach" figures as part of their measure of success, despite the built-in inaccuracy. (I'm not constantly watching my feed, so even those I'm subscribed to aren't reaching me 100% of the time.) For the rest of us, we just want to talk to some cool folks and share the thoughts and events that are part of our lives, so it does not make a whole lot of difference whether there are 20 people or 200.

2023-06-12 17:28:18

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Yes, that's #Fediblock. So far, there's not a #Nostrblock that I know of. Hopefully, the censorship resistance story has evolved beyond "just use another relay" by the time such a thing arrives.

2023-06-12 04:52:18

I think it is time to buy new shoes again. The current pair is aggravating an old injury.

2023-06-12 04:46:32

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There's also something called Lemmy that is supposed to be a decentralized Reddit on the Fediverse. I have not used either of them (Reddit or Lemmy), so I do not know how well it fills the need.
I'm also sure someone will figure out a Nostr based Reddit clone soon.

2023-05-26 05:05:30

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Did you get to try Session yet? It might also provide some competition for Signal.

2023-05-08 16:31:41

In case you haven't seen it, https://fiatjaf.com/ab1127fb.html has inspired some discussion about #Bluesky and #ATProtocol both on #Nostr and in the #Fediverse.

2023-05-08 00:14:28

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Yes. Right after the incident and the Twitter suspension.

2023-05-08 00:05:36

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The elonjet tracker posts those locations after a delay of a few hours. If someone wanted to use its posts to hunt him down, they'd always be behind the curve. At least that's what their Twitter account does.
As a few others have already mentioned, the plane's flight information is public. If someone was really interested in stalking him, they can see near-real-time information on one of those plane tracker sites.
Anyway, that's not really a Nostr issue, as the exact same info gets posted to Twitter and the Fediverse.

2023-05-07 22:23:53

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I'm sure there will be at least one bridge between AT protocol (Bluesky) and Nostr, just like there's one between the Fediverse and Nostr.

2023-05-01 20:44:15

I'm of the opinion that Nostr can "succeed" (whatever that means) even if Bluesky and the Fediverse also succeed. There's still lots to figure out about decentralized networks, and we can learn from each other while we also learn to kick the centralized corporate networks' donkeys.

2023-04-16 16:39:56

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If Lens was any good, you wouldn't have to spam it.

2023-04-09 17:35:23

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I think Apple's lawyers would smack him down hard. He's had years to prove his claims and has not done so. But maybe that's what you're hoping for. In that case, I agree.

2023-03-19 16:36:23

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Now that you're aware of this, you can work to find ways to speed up your decisions in time-sensitive situations.

2023-03-13 23:39:15

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It is indeed good. I'm wondering how much is due to hype and how much is people who intend to ride this into the future.

2023-03-11 23:11:45

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I'm definitely not a libertarian (in either 'small L' or 'large L' sense of the word), but I think you're seeing the impact of all our news sources being captured by extremists and of the efforts of various national governments to control the narrative.
Just as an example, I see people in the US and UK saying that "we could house all the homeless if we had as much money as we've sent to Ukraine". Most of them are the same people who oppose spending money on programs that help re-house homeless people, so they're making that argument because it is convenient, not because they'd ever support doing it.

2023-03-11 17:49:41

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Facebook's current business model relies upon centralization and data collection. I would not trust any Facebook "app", even if it claims to be decentralized and encrypted and private.

2023-03-11 17:47:09

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> Right. Stablecoins are only as good as the underlying assets. If those assets go away, like they just did 😂 then this is the result.
Their assets were in Silicon Valley Bank? I've barely read anything about SVB's failure, but I did see that most of its deposits were not covered by FDIC deposit insurance.

2023-03-05 20:40:34

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Yeah, it'll also eat up your RAM.

2023-03-05 02:06:32

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When you get a chance, can you explain what you mean by "permissionless"? As far as I'm aware, every active project that uses GitHub has one or more people who approve or deny someone's contributions, so it seems to be permissioned to me.

2023-03-04 18:47:58

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Maybe once or twice.

2023-02-28 03:30:23

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At least one.

2023-02-12 19:57:55

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AFAIK, DDG gets most of its results from Bing. They even display in the same order.

2023-02-11 22:00:33

I know. Replying to a spambot.

2023-02-11 21:56:50

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https://pinetwork-official.medium.com/pi-whitepaper-chapters-mainnet-token-model-mining-and-roadmap-19f4a6774e71 ... are you sure you meet their standard?

2023-02-11 15:12:34

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555-5225 (555-JACK)

2023-02-11 15:10:31

yosup.app and other web-based nostr clients need to implement some sort of blocking or filtering. The public timelines are overrun with bots and spam ( thanks to people like @f9074000a5865431b037b3b760d10129a53167b50e90e5b116a1aebb14d0099b ). Ideally, the filters should be under users' control, but a simple "don't display posts when an identical post came through within ten minutes" would also help.

2023-01-26 03:52:54

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I heard everyone all the way through. I suspect it was probably network issues at some participants' locations. I don't think it was a problem at the server end at all.

2023-01-26 03:30:51

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@3f770d65d3a764a9c5cb503ae123e62ec7598ad035d836e2a810f3877a745b24 Also, I heard you and the others during tonight's chat. I don't think it was a server-end issue. Probably their own Internet.

2023-01-26 02:26:54

@3f770d65d3a764a9c5cb503ae123e62ec7598ad035d836e2a810f3877a745b24 Do you think the Jam folks behind your spaces / nests would consider adding text chat? I never used Twitter spaces, so I don't know whether this would be more functionality than Twitter has.

2023-01-03 23:06:33

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I suppose they are trying to teach kids that wishes and desires are unlimited, even when supplies and resources are limited. But I don't see how they expect kids to figure out the "moral of the story".

2023-01-02 23:25:32

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That behavior is shamed on the Fediverse also, including most Mastodon instances.

2023-01-02 05:20:12

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@ce27a99356f19c3bc0f9f44605628c834b7b98a95b84840bccd6bb461d7ede6 Trying again.

2023-01-02 05:16:15

@ce27a99356f19c3bc0f9f44605628c834b7b98a95b84840bccd6bb461d7ede66 Does this reach you?

2023-01-02 05:12:44

First post!