mister_monster

I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need.

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2024-11-13 00:50:19

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OK so you don't understand. Its not about supporting miners. I mean kind of, but not really. It's about what miners are, and who receives the benefit of their service and who pays for it.
Youre right, a capped supply supports holders. But who pays for securing the network? The people moving it, spending it, using it. Holders get their wealth secured, which is the only reason the bitcoin itself has value, that it is secure, a currency that can disappear in the night is worthless no matter how few there are in the world, without having to cover the cost of the security they receive, their cost is subsidized by daily users. In game theory we call this the free rider problem, something everyone benefits from but only a subset pays for. The game theory in systems like this is that everyone tries to become one of the people that doesn't pay and then eventually there's not enough people paying for the thing to keep existing to benefit people. There is no other outcome.
So there's an incentive in bitcoin to not spend, to only hodl. But if people don't spend, security goes down. And I've already establishes that security is the primary sales pitch that bitcoin offers. So ultimately, bitcoin's value is only its security level, and it's security is covered by a decreasing percentage of the userbase. This means security *must* decrease beyond some point, whicheans the value must decrease, which means the price must decrease.
So, how do you resolve this free rider problem, and get everyone to cover the cost of securing their assets without one person having an outsized unfair cost of doing so, without tinkering with peoples funds and having the the cost apply proportional to the benefit they receive? Well, the answer is of course, an emission. I can go into the different emission schemes with different benefits and problems, but those are kind of out of scope, if you're interested I'll go into it. Suffice to say, a capped supply coin, any capped supply coin, no matter what, will suffer from the free rider problem and eventually go to 0.

2024-11-12 14:36:43

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Then you don't understand it.

2024-11-07 19:05:24

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But they're not united by choice.

2024-11-07 01:41:37

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I'm a dude.
100% friendly good faith. I've got a reputation to keep with this handle, if I lose I'm paying. I do expect the same of course.

2024-11-07 00:28:42

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100% positive.
I don't usually do the political thing, I doubt you've ever even seen me say the words "trump" or "election" or anything resembling any of that, but I'll say I lived through 4 years of Trump, and you might not like him, he might be a statist or whatever, but that fucker does what he says. I'm the one taking candy from a baby here.
Pardon or commute the sentence, first 100 days. 5 XMR.

2024-11-07 00:18:17

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Let's do first 100 days. 5 xmr, either he commutes his sentence or pardons him.

2024-11-07 00:02:20

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That's cool. I'm gonna be in the market for a small place in some amount of time soon 😉, about the only thing I'd like on it is a well. Trees too, of those count as infrastructure.

2024-10-31 18:45:29

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I usually just say "show me your butthole." Everyone has something to hide, and it's usually innocent.

2024-10-29 21:17:00

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I just want client side only, custom feeds. I'd like to be able to slap together a feed that's RSS bots, a separate feed that's my friends, one to keep up with nostr development, one that's hashtags etc. What's with this focus on one feed, is it because that's what xitter does? Nostr can do so much more!

2024-10-29 02:28:23

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I think it's a cool idea. I I think nostr performs the functionality that a user wants from RSS much better than RSS does. And it comes with a comments section, you can't really beat it.
Try talking to the feeder guys, they might be receptive, https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder

2024-10-28 04:31:29

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Dude... I need the details on that stove.
And the strip lights. And just generally how you built this or what premade structure you bought lol.

2024-10-27 17:41:30

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Well, it's not that it's bad. Just some interesting decision making in how the client works, user experience, and some quirks. I'll give you some examples.
When replying to someone, unless the note you're replying to is short, you can't see the whole thing when replying. Even pushing "show more" won't actually show you all of the note if it is long enough, and there's no way to scroll down.
There's also the issue of the block list. Everyone knows about this with Amethyst, there's a block list for spammers that gets passed around and updated as people report spam, but you can't see it. The user should be able to see it if they want to unblock someone just for themselves.
Every time you open the application, their kind 0 which is their "about me" and avatar URL and all that gets fetched, as well as the actual avatat. Every. Single. Time. There's no caching. There should be caching, at least of follows, that's a lot of data, on low bandwidth connections this makes it unusable. It even fetches your own information! The sane way would be to cache this information and then update if it pulls it and it's different.
It saves drafts as draft kinds to the relay automatically, so if you're typing a reply and you go do something else for a second, the draft goes out, there's no way to turn this off. I don't want my half written notes sent to the relay!
That's not exhaustive, just what I can remember right now off the top of my head.
There are a lot of options that seem like basic user friendly functionality that just aren't there. I can't think of many off the top of my head, and going into that would turn this into a feature request ramble, but generally speaking client developers in every corner of tech have begun to make decisions for the user and restrict their options instead of empowering them, it's a trend I've noticed and is getting worse, and amethyst does some of that, but almost every nostr client I've used does something like this.
I have my ideas for an ideal client, and I don't expect that without building it myself, but there are some things that are so standard or self evident that you've got to ask, why is it done this way?

2024-10-27 00:19:22

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Amethyst, but I don't really think any of them are that great (yet).

2024-10-26 23:45:44

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There's a 4th solution: a client can make itself configurable to display any kinds the user wants, warning them that if the client doesn't support the kind it will display the raw message.
Option a is the topic of discussion here and you don't even want to talk about it at all?
I think you're probably right about the ideal solutions. But I'll share a story with you so you can understand the frustration.
I'm currently developing a tool that uses nostr and torrents. I have read all the nips (which are changing very fast) and I came across nip-35. It is a torrent specification. The kind is 2003. I'm sure you're familiar with it.
It only supports v1 hashes. These are sha1 hashes. These are insecure. Of course, there's nothing preventing a user from sticking a sha256 hash in there, that's up to the client. Side point here: why is there a separate spec for a type for this that can and will simply be ignored by clients? Digression aside, this is not a very well thought out spec.
So, there's a part of the specification for "i" tags, that include website specific tags for imdb and myanimelist among others. What kind of silly shenanigans is this? A generic torrent spec for a decentralized protocol has a carve out in it's design for imdb? That's fucking silly.
Is this a generic torrent spec or a piracy specific spec? Is this a general type or designed by someone with a specific client in mind that they are building? It is very badly thought out. Looks to me like more of a "decentralized popcorntime" NIP than a torrent specification. Useful, definitely, but not suitable for general use with torrents.
So as a result of all that (and a few other considerations) I'm publishing magnet links in what I'm building as kind 1 by default. I will also code in the option to select kind 2003 so that users who want to use this kind can.
And a lot of event types and nips are like this, just badly thought out, that have been merged. I know, you don't want to artificially restrict development, you want to let this evolve how the userbase needs it to, you don't want it to be a generic transport protocol and all that. But a lot of this stuff is client specific, or not well thought out. There's going to be a lot of fragmentation, legacy support for deprecated nips, and things like that if this continues it's going to get away from you and the rest of us, just like how it is harder to build a web browser from scratch than to land a spacecraft on the moon. A little foresight would go a long way here.

2024-10-26 23:18:17

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Why? That's wonderful. The more the merrier. You need less plants this way.

2024-10-25 21:25:46

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> None of what your saying is objective fact. Again, I don't think abortion is wrong, but defining it at the moment of fertilization is not objective because personhood is not a scientific fact, it's subjective philosophy.
I do thing abortion is wrong. I did not define personhood as the moment of fertilization.
The goal of subjective philosophy is to get closer to objective reality, saying that can never be achieved means saying that philosophy and morality are irrelevant. We can just define person hood however we want, throw pur hands up and say "welp, subjective!" and treat whoever we want however we want. That is obviously not our goal here. We are trying to find that place where it's immoral to snuff the zygote. I say, that place is when it's probably not going to spontaneously snuff itself.
> And your point about uninterrupted process, is basically just a short hand for viability. Which has changing goalposts every decade.
No, it's not. "Moment of viability" is the point when the fetus could survive on it's own outside the womb. This is of course constantly changing with medical technology, and the moving goalposts are not just that, but things like "detectable heartbeat", "can it feel pain" etc, not just with viability, and usually by pro abortion people. I'm not talking about any of that, I'm talking simply, if left undisturbed, does this thing become a baby by itself. An egg, no. A sperm, no. A fertilized embryo, also no. So when? That's the answer to this question, "is it murder to stop the process of development?" Because that's what we are doing, we are trying to find an objective point when it does, you're saying it doesn't exist, but then you can objectively tell me that smothering a newborn is murder, I would guess you think that aborting the day before the due date is murder, those are objective facts, but at what point does it become murder, you say there's no objective measure of that. I'm saying that's not true, and not only that but that it is absurd, if you can claim that killing a human at any age is murder objectively then you can pinpoint when in the life cycle that becomes the case, and further I'm offering a coherent argument for a specific moment, a specific part of the process, not reliant on time or any of that, reasoning why I think that, if your only argument is "no that can't be it because there isn't one" youre arguing with the wind.
>You dismissed my point about living inside of another organism because of circular logic btw
Living inside another organism is part of our natural life cycle. To say it isn't a human being in that part of the life cycle is the actual inconsistent thing here. Humans are dependent as babies on their mothers for survival for quite a while, so should the mother be able to just not feed it? See, that's entirely inconsistent. As organisms, we live inside our mothers for a while. We are still organisms, and a specific type of organism, a human being.

2024-10-25 20:45:27

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> ...I do not think pre-meditated murder by uneffected agents acting on behalf of the state is proportionate.
I'm 100% with you. The way it's done in our society is unjust. But what I'm trying to get at is, if putting people to death is fundamentally unjust. Most people I've talked to that are opposed to it tie the two inseparably and it clouds the morality of the fundamental question.
As far as your other points, I disagree entirely. Any credible threat of violence can be met with whatever preventative measures the potential victims warrant appropriate. I don't have to wait til I'm about to be killed to protect myself, if I know an attempt on my life is impending I can justifiably act.

2024-10-25 20:38:13

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There is a possibility that humans die by accident, from disease, we don't say that that means we can't objectively call them human or that because of this fact it is OK to kill them. Same with one developing in the womb. Nobody holds anyone responsible for an accident happening to somebody unless it's the result of negligence. I don't see any inconsistency here whatsoever.
By "uninterrupted" I mean deliberately interrupted.
> It doesn't live inside of another organism
This is irrelevant. Living inside another person is part of our natural life cycle. It's part of the nature of the human being, just as a butterfly spends time in a cocoon.
All the other details that you say make a baby human are the same as my examples earlier, it talks, it walks, they aren't the reason we call it a human. A baby on a feeding tube is still a human. If you use these as the criteria then of course it's going to be murky to you. Find the fundamental differentiator, not a list of most-of-the-time criteria with tons of corner cases and caveats and you'll see my point.
> If you don't think a baby's humanity is different than that of an unborn one and you think that that belief is objective, then how is a sperm or an egg not an unborn baby even before they meet?
I've told you already, the criteria that is most objective is, at what point in development does it occur that, if the process is not *deliberately* interrupted, more than likely it will result in a baby. That's the point you can call it a person. This precludes sperm, eggs, even fertilized embryos, most of which go unnoticed.

2024-10-25 17:15:31

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Well, I think imprisonment is cruel and unjust, but aside that, you and I have already agreed that killing someone in self defense is just, and you haven't actually responded to my reasoning at all. You're reiterating your position, which is fine but doesn't lend itself well to fruitful discussion.
A jury, the state, all that I can agree with. That doesn't mean though that a group putting someone to death is always unjust, just that our mechanisms for doing it are.
I'd argue that me and my buddy deciding to go grab someone and kill them for, say for example, killing my cousin or raping my nephew or threatening to do so is entirely just.

2024-10-25 06:42:12

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Okay, are we still talking about the same things?

2024-10-25 06:39:50

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You can't just call it murder and make it murder. "Murder" has a definition: it is the deliberate unjust killing of another human being. You can argue that the death penalty is unjust, but you can't just say "it's unjust because it's murder" because that's circular reasoning, you have to demonstrate how it is unjust in order to call it murder in the first place.

2024-10-25 06:37:51

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That's construing it as murder though.
It is moral for an individual to *kill*, for various reasons, and so it is moral for a group to kill for analogous reasons. A person may kill in defense of itself for example, and so a group may do the same. There's no logical inconsistency whatsoever.

2024-10-25 06:35:50

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I think that an objective line would be "the point at which, if the process is allowed to go on uninterrupted, it will be overwhelmingly likely to result in a baby." Gestation is a process, there are points in the process that occur all the time that don't result in a baby. Most fertilized eggs don't result in a baby for example. But there are points where it almost always does, and all of them fall after the fertilized egg attatches to the wall of the uterus. If you consider the process as one that exists to result in a baby, then the point in the process which, if left uninterrupted from that point on, it almost always will would be the point it becomes a human being. Just like a baby, if left to grow, will become an old person eventually, so we consider a baby as human as a working age adult. Because otherwise, we cant make either claim, a baby has no agency, it is not objective that it is human except by that same criteria.

2024-10-25 06:29:46

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I was being understanding of your point, until
> Anyone advocating the death penalty is probably a psychopath
I'm certainly not a psychopath. Neither are the billions of people who support it. Maybe misled. Your hyperbole works against you, and if it isn't hyperbole, you're disconnected from reality.
I could agree with you that the way it is administered by the state is not the best it could be or something like that.
There is a certain percentage of the population that, no matter what you do, what deterrent you set, they'll harm those around them because either they can't control their outbursts or they like it. Those people must be removed.
Besides that, I firmly believe that people have a right to revenge, that that subset of people I talked about is only deterred from praying on you if they fear retaliation.
The death penalty is killing. It is not murder.

2024-10-25 04:50:56

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I didn't drink milk for years. I started, never going back. I also make my own yogurt, it's fantastic.

2024-10-25 04:47:04

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What does it do man

2024-10-25 04:42:52

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I agree, but fact is lightning is what we have, especially around nostr. And any system of social interaction requires incentive structures a protocols. While you can take away blind trust with our technology, for an actual exchange of 2 things, a service or product and payment, you always need some agreed upon rules and an incentive to behave honestly.

2024-10-25 04:39:43

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You really are using your mind to create libertarian business ideas man, this one deserves applause. We have trustlessness and trust reducing incentive structures and we aren't using them properly, but you are.

2024-10-24 04:41:49

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I mean, there's BSD...
I heard about this earlier. It sucks. But inertia, network effects, all that, it's simply not going to happen. I know I'm not about to replace my desktop systems, VPS providers won't replace their images, most maintainers won't ditch Linux for a contentious fork, and enterprise is not about to retool all their data centers over this.
I do intend to run BSD in VMs though to mess around and see if I can use it. I might, but I doubt it. We shall see.

2024-10-23 22:00:25

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Yeah, like we have things such as md5 which were thought secure but have since been shown to be insecure, plenty of that will happen as the technology gets developed, but I think it's understood enough that we can get where we are with classical computers pretty quickly, and probably stay ahead of their capabilities as they develop.

2024-10-23 14:40:41

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Well, that's not entirely true. There is such a thing as a type of cryptography that is resistant to attack with quantum computers. It's just, what's the best way to do that? It's just math.
Well, we know what sorts of math we use for encryption now, primarily all cryptography is based on the prime factorization problem, and we know that an algorithm, Shor's algorithm, can do that in less than exponential time on a quantum computer. We know what class of problems that is, and we know that any algorithm that can solve a problem in that class can be modified to solve all problems in that class and then more. So we know what classes of problems cannot be solved using a solution to one of those, and we know enough about the math with quantum computers and those problems that we can say probably some set of math problems cannot be solved efficiently on a quantum computer. So we pick those math problems, develop cryptography based on them and test it out.
Some more information to help you understand it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-completeness
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory

2024-10-22 21:50:31

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2024-10-22 00:48:51

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Well the theory goes that Israel developed nukes and keeps it a secret because the US will stop all military aid as per the international non proliferation agreement.
Either is entirely plausible, which is what Israel wants, whatever the truth is about it. Do we have nukes? You decide. It's scary to enemies, on the one hand they get the deterrent without developing them, on the other they have them but still get US aid.

2024-10-21 03:04:19

I've got a gripe.
If you use tools that automatically emoji react all your replies, I'm not gonna follow you. You're follower chasing and it's off putting. I don't care how interesting the things you say are. I don't want to interact with bots pretending to be people.
If your account is a promotional bot, and it automatically emoji reacts random accounts to gain reach, I'm not just gonna block you, I'm gonna filter your name. I'll never see a thing you say, from any npub you have. I don't care how interesting your product is.
Don't spam my notifications with garbage.

2024-10-21 00:35:02

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Oh OK. Some community member Thats not pokkst (or me, or you 😉)
Well that's good. I quite like mysu, I hope this fork continues to be maintained.
I wonder if the maintainer would be interested in implementing a transaction signing API, much like Amber does for nostr events or lightning wallets do, but for xmr transactions. That would greatly simplify creating a mobile nostr client that allows for Monero tipping, you wouldn't have to integrate a wallet like garnet does. The problem is of course, rogue apps trying to request payments and tapjacking, so such a feature should have tapjacking protection and also shouldn't have a "approve all from this application" option for security reasons, but should have a "deny all from this application" list of apps that keep making unsolicited requests. I dunno, just a thought.
I remember I used mysu before and it didn't have hardware wallet support, I talked to pokkst about it and he said that would violate the "no nonsense" clause in the charter lol, paraphrasing. I dig his style, ghost guns ghost money, I wish he was around here.

2024-10-20 21:25:15

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Now that's living.

2024-10-20 21:20:47

Nostr clients are really not well suited to low quality network connections. I've been stuck with a very low quality connection for a couple of weeks and have been basically unable to use it.
Why are avatars and type 3 events not cached by clients? Particularly amethyst, but generally speaking, everything gets fetched every time. It's quite cumbersome.

2024-10-10 02:12:41

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I've got one for you. Find you some key lime marmalade, make some toast, some bacon, and some poached eggs. Put the marmalade on the toast. Dip it in the egg yolk, take a bite then a bite of bacon. The key lime marmalade is of course the crucial part, the rest is just a normal breakfast.
You ever seen a cat eating something it killed? Like, it's zoned out, it has no idea what's going on around it, it is in a trance eating it's kill, not a thought going through its head until it is done eating? You'll understand that feeling if you eat what I've just described.

2024-10-08 18:17:57

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Yup. Pay someone to mow your grass. Pay someone to clean your house. Pay someone to shop for your groceries, cook your food, go to the drive through for you. Pay people to live life for you. If you could pay someone to take a shit for you billions of people would do it.
And what do you get? Fat, dying people who aren't in charge of their own lives, people who don't understand the world around them because they're not engaged in it, a once useful metric called GDP that is now useless.

2024-10-07 00:41:56

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+1 for Hugo. It's fantastic.

2024-10-06 15:20:11

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Alright sure, I didn't go to Syria and ensure that ISIS was destroyed, same thing in Afghanistan. I've seen the border wall myself so I've got a pretty good piece of evidence for myself on that one. Sure, allegory of the cave, but I don't think the earth is flat because I've never been to space myself. I highly doubt the wall is a hoax.
As far as who did it, these things weren't done despite popular support, he became president promising to do them, they happened. I can only deduce that they happened because he did them.
I don't really want to have this ridiculous conversation. These things happened, they were done by the executive branch when he was the executive, at some point you've got to ask yourself if you're denying reality to justify your worldview. You can say they were bad, you don't like them, but to say that you've not seen a guy do one thing he said he'd do and then, when presented with examples, say that those things don't actually exist or that they happened by themselves, youre just being ridiculous now.

2024-10-06 05:05:22

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Are you implying that what I've said is incorrect?

2024-10-06 01:32:34

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For one, the giant border wall everyone complained about as being racist his whole term. For two, Isis destroyed and Afghanistan ended. Just off the top of my head.
I am not trying to do the pro trump anti Trump thing, I don't go for that. You don't have to be for trump to see reality. Honest people give credit where credit is due.

2024-10-04 20:06:20

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I would generally agree with you, except that this dude, for all his faults, often does what he says hes going to do. I'm pretty sure it's going to happen, this one is easy as far as campaign promises go.

2024-09-26 16:35:30

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What's the premise?

2024-09-21 02:11:54

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Is it using some type of tag like garnet did?

2024-09-21 01:19:51

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How's the Monero related stuff work? Some type of browser extension I'm guessing?

2024-09-18 21:48:14

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Why'd you change your name man that name was fantastic.

2024-09-15 22:40:22

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1) one data point is not a trend
2) this scenario is as much speculation as your previous claim.

2024-09-14 03:50:04

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I have begun to reach that point, I remember the froyo days, I'd over clock my middling button riddled low resolution android until I could cook an egg on it. I'd be surprised if the battery lasted 3 hours. I remember when xposed came out, I remember being excited for a new android version (KitKat was the last version of Android that improved things for the user), custom kernels, it used to be fun.
Now, I don't upgrade every year, never have, so I set it and forget it. I do the custom ROM patching the default DNS server microg all of it, once, and then I just use the thing. No more tinkering. Every time I do, something has changed, because I get a phone every 3-5 years. Last time I soft bricked my device because something something can't write to the system partition and if you delete something it shrinks and you can't put it back. These things have gotten so user hostile.
But yeah, even though I'm sick of it, spending an afternoon doing the work to set my device up my way once every few years isn't really a huge pain in the ass. The constant tinkering I'm over.

2024-09-14 03:40:53

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You're not adding noise. It's like adding noise to a random number by "randomly" changing digits. You're reducing randomness. You're adding to your fingerprint.

2024-09-14 03:39:44

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Oh, forgot my main point, typos release metadata about the user and can be used for fingerprinting people.

2024-09-14 03:38:31

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I've been thinking on this recently.
I don't know if you remember when mobile keyboards worked properly. They didn't recommend words when you typed correct words, they didn't correct your words to silly words nobody uses like Tue. It seems everything that was build between 2010 and 2016 is crumbling under it's own complexity or being sabotaged to drive us nuts.
An important UX element for typing on a phone is underlining not just typos but autocorrected words and phrases. Maybe a different color. Yellow perhaps. It doesn't matter the color or method but this is something we need.

2024-09-13 17:03:38

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I'm working on something that automatically does this, as a way to censorship proof user created content among other things. I'm not working on a nostr GUI client, so auto seeding or in built torrent streaming aren't something I'm going to do, and I honestly don't like the idea of torrent streaming inside a nostr app, I prefer composability, but if client developers decide to roll that kind of functionality in that might make some users happy.

2024-09-12 21:30:51

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What's the point of marriage and if it is something other than a legally binding contract with the government, why is the core distinction between being married and unmarried the existence of a contract with the government?

2024-09-12 21:28:35

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You can just change your name for a fee any time you want, no marriage license necessary.
A marriage license has very little if anything to do with the ceremony.

2024-09-12 21:25:48

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If it means nothing to you, why'd you get it?

2024-09-12 21:23:43

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Seeing all these replies from people that appear to be morally off put by prenups...
A marriage as it occurs in our time is not a contract between two people, not a contract with God. It is a contract between two people and the state. If a prenup is something that is abhorrent in some way, then why is a marriage license not also abhorrent? If it's about love and trust, then why not just be "married" in your hearts, in the eyes of God, however you see it, and forego the contract entirely? I'll answer: because it is, always, about the contract.
I'm "married" like that, pair bonded, the commitment is between us, the love is as iron clad as with anyone that is legally married. But there's no contract between us and the state. It is about trust for us, we trust each other so much that we don't need that legal agreement.
Why would we? Tax benefits for one. Inheritance, structuring or property ownership, that stuff. We will enter into agreement with the state insofar as our pairing when it makes financial sense for us to do so. It will change nothing between us emotionally or as a matter of trust in one another, all of that is already eestablished between us. And when doing that, we will probably draw up that contract on our own terms rather than those of the state, what you'd call a prenup, to both our liking.
On your question, you need the advice of a lawyer, not advice from random people here, and you need to discuss between you and your wife what is fair to both of you beforehand.

2024-09-12 04:38:42

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That's wild man. I'm curious how hard it is to get a particular IP. I'm thinking, it wouldn't change much with or without DNS is they're getting their hands on the same IP addresses as shuttered nodes.
It is a huge security flaw that records just sit there unless they're updated, and it is a bit sophisticated for an actor to leverage that fact for such an attack.
I don't think nostr and Monero rely explicitly on DNS, you can use them inside the Tor network as an example, but that DNS lookup of IP addresses is just a "user friendly" feature baked into clients and relays for nostr and Monero wallet apps for remote node connections.

2024-09-11 19:49:37

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I've seen videos of senators and white house staffers from the time saying that they'd had the patriot act on the shelf since the mid 90s but could never get it passed until after 9/11. Having trouble finding them now, but if you're interested I'm sure you'll find them.

2024-09-11 06:32:58

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Question, I'm not familiar with this language (although it looks pretty self explanatory), is it possible to use regex to DENY or MUTE similar to the offensive people example there?

2024-09-11 06:30:49

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This is a pretty cool idea for a portable user definable filter. I hope this catches on in other clients so that we can get rid of all these client specific ways of doing so filtering. I'm guessing it shouldn't be difficult to add npubs to a list in there, and for clients who already have inbuilt blocklist functionality to read from and write to it so that for casual users the experience doesn't change but for advanced users they can modify the file. Cool work man.

2024-09-10 23:17:11

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This is interesting but wouldn't the final solution be PoW? Relays requiring some small PoW, even clients requiring it for non follows? Ofc it would need to be easy to toggle for when youre in the mood to discover. What do you think?

2024-09-10 21:17:23

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SV and the "industry" have been doing this for years. They brought us YouTube, smartphones, a bunch of business cases most of us don't even know about, and then it existed and they needed to find more reasons to exist to justify their valuations, almost all of which is VC money pouring in. The whole tech industry is a bubble.
So they do this. A new hype cycle every couple of years. Some new thing that's supposedly going to change the world. But the truth is they haven't really revolutionized jack shit since Facebook and YouTube and the iPod touch came out. A decade or so they iterated improvement, which is valuable, but they've been trying to convince us that VR and AI and whatever else is going to change how we live and it's all a giant scam now.

2024-09-10 03:12:13

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Alright cool, thanks man. As soon as this wallet is funded I'm gonna find an excuse to send you some sats.

2024-09-10 03:02:05

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I don't mess with closed source software unfortunately.

2024-09-10 02:27:36

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Cool, checking it out now.
What are some good mints to add?

2024-09-10 02:00:50

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How would I go about setting up custodial ecash with nostr?

2024-09-10 01:20:39

Goodbye garnet, I barely knew ye.
It really is a shame. At least we have a proof of concept and a seed to start work from in the event someone wants to take up the mantle. It won't be me, I have enough on my plate already and Android development isn't something I'm experienced in, but I hope to see someone pick up the project down the road. I'll probably run it alongside amethyst I'm the future if the recent pull request for changing the app label is implemented on anotyer release.
Today I picked between Monero tipping and better experience on nostr. Having to make such a choice makes me a little sad.
#XMR #Monero

2024-09-09 23:40:38

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This is actually a really great idea. A NIP that has a kind which is a list of pubkeys, that any user can publish, and anyone can pull any of this kind of note from anyone and incorporate it into their spam filter. So you could say that you trust my spam filter list, or someone else's, or 5 people's, and then your client will just use it (giving you the option to not block certain keys of course) and your client might even optionally update yours so that others can use yours.
I can think of a problem with it, which is auto updating these lists will make them trend towards uniformity across the network, there's a lot of redundancy as well.
Another idea is to let relays put it in their relay information note, it updates it every time the relay blacklists a spam pub key, but the issue with that is that relays will then over time trend towards censoring people. A relay adds me to it's list because it doesn't like some opinion of mine, too many people use it and now I become undiscoverable on the network. This is dangerous, you see a similar thing happening across the fediverse.
The user blocklist idea will also enable trusted users to censor a little, but usually this will be ideologues who's followers choose to use their list because they're also ideologues, it's much more resistant to network wide censorship and network fragmentation. The danger here is that relays begin doing the blocking on behalf of users, which would probably happen to some degree anyway.

2024-09-09 20:22:43

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Really... What headway did you make on that endeavor? What was tricky about it? This is a topic that interests me greatly.

2024-09-09 08:05:00

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https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/13.md
PoW is all you need

2024-09-09 02:04:43

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What custodial ones are there (that work with your software ofc)?

2024-09-08 21:40:33

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Could be ecash too either way is fine.

2024-09-08 21:40:04

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OK.
What wallet app out there that doesn't need me to run an LN node can be used for zaps on nostr?

2024-09-08 18:56:09

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I know it would be a custodian.
After samourai the alby people stopped their remote node service, lots of people doing custodial LN dropped it. I'm curious if anyone is left so I can use their services.

2024-09-08 04:37:47

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Let me ask you, everything I've seen about LN in a way where I don't have to run a node has been shut down since samourai. Is there anything left?

2024-09-07 22:49:22

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I'm still using it, but I want to test out remote signing with Amber in Amethyst. If I switch, I'm abandoning garnet and therefore Monero tipping on nostr for the time being. We literally had it, this is frustrating.

2024-09-07 22:45:59

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He's never going to do it.
And as great as his software is, he's not the best guy to do it. Amethyst has some very opinionated design decisions which aren't conducive to our ethos. It has a little bit of censorship baked in. That needs to be fixed in whatever client has Monero integrated, it's fine to pass around a list of spammers but people need to be able to see who is blocked and unblock them if they choose.

2024-09-07 22:19:11

Is garnet dead? The excitement with which we all started tipping each other seems to have died down significantly.
#XMR #Monero

2024-09-06 12:36:14

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Gambling is for stupid people.

2024-09-06 04:58:54

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My thoughts: UI don't really care about my follower count. On a censorship resistant network you have no way to know how many of them are unique people that actually see what you say. And if what I have to say is interesting to a dozen people, I'm happy.
Follow counts though... If someone follows more people than they could possibly read, it means them following me means nothing. They're probably never going to see anything I say, and it means they don't really care to. Following me isn't about seeing what I say to those people, it's about me thinking they like me for some reason. If you follow so many people that you can't possibly read what they all said on the last 24 hours on, say, 30 minutes, you're either terminally online or you don't actually read what they say. Best case scenario your signal to noise ratio is probably horrible. I like people with low follow counts.

2024-09-05 19:10:56

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Well boom busts are impossible to avoid, because you can't stop people from lending to each other. But Keynesians think that by creating money during the bust they can smooth it out, which works but it causes even worse problems that accumulate as we can all see.
Fractional reserve lending exacerbates it a lot, because *everyone's* money is being lent out, whereas without it it would just be people that want to lend creating the cycle, you have to have capital earmarked for lending normally but when everyone's money is controlled by a bank that lends it out now you have all liquid capital contributing to the problem.

2024-09-05 00:25:46

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These debt-austerity boom bust cycles happen no matter what money you use and are impossible to control. They happen because fundamentally, when you borrow something, you're not borrowing from someone else, you're borrowing from your future using them as a facilitator. You're transferring value back in time, which you then won't have in the future when you would've had it. But in the moment you do have it, you have more than you've created. The only way to stop them is to entirely end lending, and even outlawing it wouldn't stop it, there's no way to do so.

2024-09-04 16:32:14

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That's because you're a small child.

2024-09-02 20:44:51

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Says not found. I find amber but I can't find this?

2024-09-02 16:59:47

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Yes, it does become a bandwidth problem, but that problem is much less restrictive than long term storage of ancient irrelevant data. In the bitcoin block size debate, that was the problem for which it was argued that larger blocks lead to centralization. So it's not theoretical, the issue stemming from perpetual storage of all historical data has real world impacts today, bitcoin had to choose between decentralization and transaction throughput, and ironically choosing decentralization has led to choosing LN which has a network topology such that it trends to centralization. Ecash, an old technology that had problems nakamoto consensus solved, is now being necromanced to side step these problems also.
You have to solve the theoretical problems before adoption, or you find yourself looking for band aids and workarounds hastily when the time comes. Also as we have seen with bitcoin and the internet in general, distributed networks ossify with adoption, so its a race against that to solve them as well. You want to get to the natural limit imposed by your technology before you start employing external add ons to improve it, we aren't there with either bitcoin or Monero.

2024-09-02 05:38:57

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Yeah but if all you need to keep is the UTXO set, then the blockchain doesn't really grow, it fluctuates on size, and approximates a steady state size over time. It only really grows with the size of the userbase. That's how mimblewimble worked on the original paper. With such a scheme transaction size is not really a factor, the overwhelmomg majority of the blockchain storage requirements is historical data.

2024-09-02 05:02:22

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Minimum UTXO size is not a very consequential problem if you don't have to store them in perpetuity even when they're spent.

2024-09-02 04:43:48

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Why will Monero need ecash? Ultimately what any long term viable cryptocurrency needs is the ability to purge all historical data (everything except the set of unspent outputs), but until then, Monero has adaptive block size, so for now everything is fine.

2024-09-02 04:38:25

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Does fountain let you use external NIP-46 signing devices for logging in? Because I'm not giving my nsec to a piece of closed source software.

2024-09-01 18:12:15

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I see the labels on the second image. Where's the causation? What does the model itself tell us? Why is pi there? All I see is a meaningless intographic.
And the first image... I know what the business cycle is. What are the numbers along the graph? What are each of theperiods? They appear to be labelled in another language.

2024-09-01 01:23:04

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Yeah so subaddresses function like the wallets in BIP39 seeds, where they're deterministically generated from a seed key and that seed key is your private key. For a wallet to know about a transaction sent to one it has to know it, and usually wallets will auto generate a bunch of them and check, but if you've created thousands of them then it won't know to look that far ahead and you have to tell it to.

2024-09-01 01:13:56

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Yeah it is mostly feature complete which is why this is a silly problem. You update your IPFS version, your software that relies on it says it needs an older version, the software needs to be updated to change the IPFS version even though it can already probably worm with it.

2024-09-01 01:11:46

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Well it's the only way for the monerujo side of garnet to connect note IDs with transactions, it's not really a problem but there have been problems where a wallet has trouble syncing subaddresses that are really far ahead and it doesn't look far enough to see them. So you import your seed elsewhere, a transaction doesn't show and you have to manually set it to look further ahead for it.

2024-08-31 20:06:41

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That's because they refuse to understand economics. Not that they don't understand, but they actively refuse.
You show them this, show them they were wrong. They'll scratch their heads. You then explain to them why this happened, do you think they're going to update their mental model of how things work? No, because they don't want to believe your reasoning. They'll be making predictions based on their old model tomorrow, be wrong again, still pretending this is some unexplainable strange quirk and not a failing of their model about how the world works, not updating their model. There's nothing scientific about how they approach understanding the world.

2024-08-31 18:35:16

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If someone were to build a relay that required payment to fetch messages you could monetize that way.

2024-08-31 18:19:34

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Here's a pretty good example of a really silly problem that is common with IPFS https://github.com/mrusme/superhighway84/issues/38 if you integrate IPFS into your software you run into all kinds of silly compatibility issues when IPFS updates that really a library shouldn't have, that one issue is interesting but if you look at the other issues for that project, closed and opened, you'll find a bunch that are just caused by IPFS doing silly shit.
Just go to their website and look https://protocol.ai/ it's a bunch of hype buzzwords, AI, neurocomputing... it seems they're just following the noise of the day.

2024-08-31 18:06:22

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If they want to do that yes.

2024-08-31 05:32:18

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What's there to think about it? There's not enough information in the graphics to tell me anything about what they say.