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2025-01-08 11:50:40

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there's nothing for me here—i didn't escape so much as drifted away

2024-12-19 20:35:00

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then they hire some expensive consulting firm to do something about the "Russians exploiting 0days in AI" "problem", who laze around for a few months until the hype passes over and the project is canned, and then they're back where they started

2024-12-19 19:20:10

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best of luck, it really seems things are turning insane over there

2024-12-19 10:43:45

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maybe a strict UI standard and/or lots of shared components, or some kind of plugin framework could alleviate this, i dunno

2024-12-19 10:26:44

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i also think a lot of users don't really like having to use a zillion specialty clients
it's confusing; too many different UIs for interfacing with more or less the same thing, displaying things slightly differently, having the same settings (relays etc) handled differently, and so on
> For some reason, developing specialty clients is harder than developing the same features inside of Amethyst.
this makes sense too, lots of shared infrastructure

2024-12-18 22:00:06

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definitely Snowden, thanks to his whistleblowing we have a entirely https internet and decent E2E encrypted chat apps, he took an enormous personal risk to do so, and will probably never be able to live a normal life again
(see https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2019/09/24/looking-back-at-the-snowden-revelations/)
Saylor borrows money and buys bitcoin. a simple business model, that anyone could replicate, if not for his particular closeness to the money printer
only one of them deserves the "hero" designation

2024-12-18 14:50:56

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can't fly under the radar forever, i guess, but wouldn't it be ironic if we went right from CSW pressuring us to the US government 😅 can't wait to have the CIA breathing down my neck !

2024-12-16 16:53:18

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if it's non-commercial FOSS projects, maybe because the users of web apps are more fun to work with ?
it's a bit like "why do FOSS developers prefer to focus on linux", in the past, where windows users hardly ever contribute anything back nor file comprehensible bug reports

2024-12-16 00:50:05

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i need this
"please take me with u i wanna see the stars"

2024-12-15 17:31:29

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there are definitely conservative religious groups that classify everyone with boobs as porn automatically, i didn't say catholics so much, but it's a problem for game developers because the mere suggestion makes the game 18+ (or even forbidden in some countries) and thus selling to a much smaller audience
as for trans people, wanting representation, too, doesn't mean removing anyone else
it's just a configuration slider in a game it doesn't need to be zero-sum

2024-12-15 10:28:43

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i vaguely remember that this principle was used in Reynolds' Revelation Space books, one of the factions had computers that would reduce entropy and temperature while performing computations, and this was used for some kind of FTL shenigans

2024-12-13 09:16:49

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ye wolves and foxes have been optimized by nature for that kind of thing, just let the ecosystem take care of itself

2024-12-12 20:07:29

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being able to print money and determine who gets it is pretty much the most powerful position in the world, you literally get to pick the winners and losers, and it's not beholden to any kind of democratic process
always been the reason i really like bitcoin's fixed issuance scheme, distributed based on proof-of-work

2024-12-11 12:19:43

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personally i think it's fine, i couldn't see it ever become a big problem
zapping, though a lot cheaper than on-chain transactions, is too expensive to do in large volumes and on large scale
still, it should be possible to opt out, maybe standardizing an advisory "no_zapvertising" flag on profiles might make sense; given the expense, advertisers might be more likely to heed it

2024-12-11 09:53:37

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having been hit over the head with the threat of WW3 pretty much continuously since early childhood with the cold war, i at least have WW3 fatigue

2024-12-10 21:28:05

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tried playing fs2open for a bit on one of the linux hosts, and can't say i notice any difference in latency compared to the local sound card
(i suppose having wired LAN helps here)

2024-12-10 15:20:04

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the reason i don't give interviews is because there's no good outcome
either it's taken to be core's opinion and gets "centralization!" "dictator!" "core devs suck!", or worse
on the other hand i'm also not interested in forming a parasocial cult "laanwj's vision" or such (and actually bad for decentralization 🙂 )
i have to be so careful what i say
i'm deeply interested in some of the technical stuff, and happy to discuss things off the record with people that are interested in them, but also i just want to live my life and be left alone, which is, difficult enough sometimes

2024-12-09 22:25:50

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"personhood" proves nothing really, "im a person you can trust me!!!" said no one ever

2024-12-09 15:51:27

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"don't stray there, it's where the baaad people are"

2024-12-09 15:10:39

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i don't know, in general, i'd say interoperability is good !
i'm already on both bluesky and nostr so a bridge doesn't add much for me, though it'd be interesting to be able to retweet posts across both i guess

2024-12-09 14:57:42

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dids are atproto's "decentralized identifiers"
did:web is one of the identifier schemes, the other (more commonly used for accounts) is did:plc (see https://atproto.com/specs/did)
did:web uses a DNS address to provide an identity; it looks like someone is registering tons of subdomains under eclipse.pub named after nostr pubkeys as atproto identities, probably to be used to publish bridged messages from nostr through a custom PDS implementation

2024-12-09 14:07:50

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right; the parallels between energy in physics and currency in economics are pretty clear, but it's unclear how to actually achieve that
the problem being that energy is expensive to store and transport, and a lossy currency isn't practical
so you end up with something (like the petrodollar) that's based on contracts and treaties; if anything it caused more wars than it prevented, it's not neutral in the way energy is
bitcoin is more directly physically linked to energy, though likely not in any way Ford imagined 😀

2024-12-09 12:41:55

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i mean if bitcoin is still "rat poison squared" then they're definitely swallowing a large poison pill

2024-12-08 15:06:35

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i mean for part i agree that focusing just on the leaders doesn't work, they have a network of people that makes things possible, there's always a rat next in line
but i'm disconcerted how you manage to spin this into another "let's kill as many people as possible" thing

2024-12-08 14:49:38

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there might be, though i'd guess most devs don't use a public mute list ?
(at least i don't, seems like a feature that just creates drama, like bsky's blocking olympics)

2024-12-08 12:05:37

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yes, i get that part, there are sometimes things we need to defend ourselves and that's sometimes not pretty
but there also seems to be this overly glorified heroic fantasy component, and i don't subscribe to that

2024-12-08 10:44:03

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hah, i saw some graph recently (unfortunately, can't find it right now), it was historically <5% of deposed tyrants that actually face justice
i guess it would have been one way to make history

2024-12-08 10:21:25

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imo deposed dictators should just own that it's over and shoot themselves instead of doing the chicken run

2024-12-07 20:46:34

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i agree, no one should "wait for my approval", that... wasn't the point i was trying to make
i was directly asked for my opinion about it and gave it, probably a bad idea

2024-12-07 10:02:54

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this is from https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

2024-12-07 09:49:13

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the rest didn't get bridged to nostr somehow-you can find the original thread here:
https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/113606898880486330

2024-12-07 09:04:12

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even for bluesky it was a bit too on-the-nose
@npub12rv…85vg we need one that says No Bitcoin 😀

2024-12-07 08:59:23

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model citizen!
remember, see a troll, block a troll
thank you for keeping things harmonious
enjoy another day of peace and cooperation under a blue sky

2024-12-06 18:04:12

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not always ! sometimes it's a good option, python is a great glue language, but imo in this case it would be
the power of python compared to say, shell script, is that you can implement all kinds of things in native python if you want, and avoid dependencies on other things installed on the system
(such as rust and whatnot)

2024-12-06 16:13:26

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zapped...as instructed...

2024-12-06 13:54:36

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the toxicity between people liking different genres/artists can hold a candle to that of people liking different coins 🙂

2024-12-06 13:52:25

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it's true 😀
though to be fair 'music' and 'memes' are very difficult categories because people tend to have very different tastes in them

2024-12-06 11:29:08

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thank u ! 😳

2024-12-06 10:15:56

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yes that was it ! there were various packages, but they tended to be either unmaintained, or severely under-documented (sometimes with examples that just didn't work! that's one of the most terrible sins of documentation)
rust-nostr is great and i would use it for a rust project, in python i found it a bit circuitous with the ffi binding stuff
with stock pip websocket-client and secp256k1 modules what i wanted to do is ~30 lines, and it helped me learn how nostr worked internally too 😀

2024-12-05 21:40:42

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another practical problem with on-chain zap would be that it's bad to re-use addresses, so instead of putting the bitcoin address in your profile directly, there would need to be some solution to generate a new address interactively
BIP 353 DNS payment instructions (to get user@host.tld to put in your profile) + silent payments address could work for this, but not many wallets implement this yet

2024-12-05 21:31:05

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yes, it's such a simple protocol, and most libraries tend to be kinda over-designed-which is useful if you really want to make a full client, or a bot that's interactive, it depends on what you're trying to do
but i found that wrangling python-nostr to be compatible with the current version of python and making it just connect to relays and drop a message without having to spin up and tear down asyncio loops and what not, was more work than writing it from scratch, in this case 😀

2024-12-05 12:07:20

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yes ! they didn't use AI image generation, but they used some automation here and there (many combination follow similar templates). but still, yea it must have been an insane amount of manual work :penguin_exploding_head:

2024-12-05 11:53:14

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i hardly use spotify and was disappointed to find cmus.github.io/wrapped doesnt exist 😄

2024-12-05 10:49:15

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it's simply a large emoji set that google created for gboard at some point, a subset of all combinations of two emoji
some clients (like nostter) have built-in support for it in their picker
this uses NIP-30 custom emoji, so it should display in most clients

2024-12-05 10:34:01

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it's so much fun

2024-12-05 10:10:50

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sounds like someone who is in it for the technology ! 😅

2024-12-05 10:02:10

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PGP, but over what?
not e-mail i hope, that's absolutely the worst choice if you're worried about metadata, with collection systems spanning back to the 80's at least
> If it’s too convenient, I don’t trust it anymore
i think that's reasonable intuition in some cases, bigcorps tend to make over-gamified, completely captured, experiences
but a degree of convenience can also improve security if it reduces that scope for possible mistakes; for example it's very easy to slip up with PGP and all its configuration and command line options

2024-12-05 09:53:37

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yes people tend to suffer from "either this thing is the most perfect thing ever, for every use-case imaginable, or it's garbage" syndrome, especially in the context of software
while it's very possible to be skeptical about something, admit its limitations, and still regard it as the best option
but nuance never sells

2024-12-05 08:04:44

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how to post them, then?
there's no way to define custom short codes in the settings, at least that i found, nor to add them in reacts

2024-12-04 16:23:42

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fwiw, the "matrix chat" of the recent crackdown is not the matrix as we know it, it was some "private chat for criminals" kind of scam app no one else had heard of

2024-12-04 15:04:28

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yess as Albert Einstein famously said, "nuclear physics sucks, let's go to the beach"

2024-12-04 13:27:34

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mastodon: instance wars
nostr: client wars

2024-12-04 13:22:04

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yes, this
at least signal has a large anonymity set; it's commonly used, and using it in the first place doesn't make you suspicious
be careful with FUD that directs you to something experimental or less proven
e.g. at some point telegram launched a anti-signal FUD campaign, hoping people'd fall back to that (a much worse tool)
also be careful installing "anonymous crime messenger for criminals" and clear fed honeypots 😀

2024-12-04 12:49:39

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i was trying to see the positive there ! we're all very aware of nostr's usability problems

2024-12-04 12:47:22

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if it's not soon it would be good to remind them, it's not RCE but some of the DoS problems are quite nasty

2024-12-04 12:46:52

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if it's not soon you it would be good to remind them, it's not RCE but some of the DoS problems are quite nasty

2024-12-04 12:44:05

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Video games:
@npub17y5…ngwj
@nprofile…r806
there's some more that post (retro) gaming stuff, but as typical half my "reacts" timeline events are already lost

2024-12-03 22:50:49

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terms like "nazi" "misogynist" etc- were definitely overused at some point (2014 was the peak of that, kinda); but lately, there are more and more people that the terms apply to without any ambiguity

2024-12-03 22:03:37

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pretty sure people already said that back in the day ? sidechains aren't a way to scale, but can be used to experiment with features that aren't on the main chain (and may never be)

2024-12-03 18:17:58

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forget flying cars, this is the burrowing car 😀

2024-12-03 18:02:43

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a computer on wheels that looks like a computer on wheels

2024-12-03 15:49:03

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it's baffling that somehow they choose to use some "crimechat for criminals app" that no one else knows, over one of the proven applications (with some plausible deniability) every time
but yes, it sets dangerous precedent

2024-12-03 15:20:40

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i strongly doubt they cracked any serious encryption too
either it wasn't really E2E encrypted (just "encrypted" as in TLS to the server), it was very weak/silly encryption algo, or they pushed a software update that gives them access to the endpoints

2024-12-03 15:14:07

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i am so confused by that report
so the criminals called their service "matrix", but didn't actually use matrix ? or was there one matrix server used by criminals, that was taken down
fwiw, my matrix server is still up and running 🙂

2024-12-03 13:16:32

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even if you're not in a directly affected area, the radioactive dust will get to you, also crops will no longer grow
it's like how one meteorite could kill all the dinosaurs worldwide, even though it didn't have enough surface area to flatten all of them; it's the secondary effects
nuclear winter could be considered a kind of "climate change" though a lot more sudden and thus harder to adapt to

2024-12-02 19:35:19

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hmm i could easily expose nostrudel.x0f.org as onion, is anyone actually using these ?

2024-12-02 19:16:31

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does reading my screen by candlelight count 😀

2024-12-02 13:17:36

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yea to be honest, nostrudel hasn't shown me anything in the "messages" tab for a few versions, just, empty, even though i know i have some NIP-04 messages
i have the text in my profile about not sending me nostr DMs there for good reason 😀

2024-12-02 13:01:02

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yes i kind of like what bluesky's labelers do-you can subscribe to them and you'll see the labels they put on accounts, in the timeline as well as when visiting a profile
it's completely voluntary, if you don't want to see them, don't subscribe to that labeler

2024-12-02 12:30:48

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same, i completely understand the need for blocking in a potentially toxic and abusive open internet environment, but the culture of celebrating it is kind of abusive itself, and tends to creep from bad to worse "oh this person talked about bitcoin! block!"
no one seems to have found a sensible way to do decentralized/voluntary moderation yet that doesn't involve some really mean kind of instance politics

2024-12-02 12:08:59

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i'm not aware of any !
secp256k1 verification could pretty straightforwardly be forked out to a GPU, it's sufficiently parallel, and this might give a speedup
however the practical issue with GPUs is, and has always been, that customer GPUs are super unreliable: compiler bugs, bit errors, overheating, many incompatible APIs with slightly different behaviors, and so on
this is not just true for GPUs; even the current verification process is already straining to a lot of computers—see the number of complaints of hardware corruption bugs triggered by bitcoind sync—but it's especially bad for GPUs as they're built for gaming, AI, and other 'imprecise' logic
as someone who worked on GPGPU stuff in the past i don't think it's worth persuing

2024-12-02 10:31:44

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using a centralized registry web service is a cop-out, but there's not really an obvious solution either
DHT and blockchain are basically the opposite extremes in this case, blockchain can provide a bad user experience because it can never forget (no way to delete private information), DHT can provide a bad user experience because it's potentially lossy (same frustrations as say, IPFS)
nostr takes the "roll with the chaos" approach by not having any kind of guaranteed global identifiers, which is, another kind of compromise

2024-12-02 10:01:32

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hahaha "rp decentralization with me 😳 "

2024-12-02 10:00:00

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yes but as i understand, all these are harnesses to run the daemon, with lots of moving parts, similar to the hack Vitor is talking about that they had to do for Tor

2024-12-02 08:45:20

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only authoritarian politics "counts", somehow
if you have certain goals but don't agree that violence and bureaucracy is a good means of accomplishing them, you're basically forever politically homeless

2024-12-01 23:19:23

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nostrudel doesn't support custom emoji, so i guess we'll have to wait for the next unicode version 😀
https://cdn3.emoji.gg/emojis/6618-guillotine.png

2024-12-01 23:08:36

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ohhh i get you now! yes, absolutely, you'd need nostr relays on i2p, and probably blossom servers as well to host media

2024-12-01 22:07:50

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over

2024-12-01 21:57:40

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i don't understand why you're tagging me 🙂
but yes ofcourse !!! building my queendom as we speak

2024-12-01 20:40:00

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*sigh* lol that github is the most 2014 thing possible

2024-12-01 18:49:30

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you'd also only want the setting to be exclusive to .i2p addresses as I2P doesn't have the concept of exit nodes, no way to connect to the wider internet through it
i don't know anything about android I2P implementations, but not sure SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy helps in the case of I2P, they tend to recommend using their own protocol (SAMv3) for connecting
as for integration, there's IIRC no library like Arti for Tor to integrate I2P into applications, so that would be difficult

2024-12-01 11:54:14

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https://www.msx.org/wiki/Philips_VG-8235
it had 256kB RAM = 128kB CPU + 128kB VDP (GPU)

2024-12-01 10:46:22

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i tried to do this in my reply:
#nevent1q…9etd
"bitcoin cash" is a fork of bitcoin that claims to be more like cash, but it's simply a fork with larger block size, and never caught on
arguably the most important property of cash is that it's fungible, it shouldn't matter where it comes from; monero, even though the compromises it took can be disputed, achieves some of this by being less obviously traceable than bitcoin, without extra measures like coinjoin or payment channels
(as for the "unspoken" part, it also means people talk about it less; there's a large incentive to talk about your investments, but not about what you use for transactions outside the bureaucratic state, because it's dangerous to bring attention to that
also, admitting that an altcoin has any use whatsoever is very unpopular in bitcoin spheres 🙂 )

2024-12-01 08:52:36

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our actual star kills the AI star with a solar flare.,.

2024-12-01 08:47:36

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emoji reacts are the best thing here, no way i'll stop using them

2024-11-30 21:26:11

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happy to open a channel, but 5 000 000 minimum channel size is a bit steep 🙂

2024-11-30 21:07:51

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i too prefer just sleeping on the floor nowadays, with only a yoga mat and blanket under me
but the floor never gets very cold here ymmv

2024-11-30 16:59:42

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thank you !

2024-11-30 15:13:56

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yes, exactly ! 😀
i'm generally very happy to help devs but i also don't like being taken advantage of under false pretenses, and that just sounds like bullshit to me

2024-11-30 15:09:32

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i mean, you can consider my question part of investigating 🙂
i looked at the account and they had no previous activity, which is usually an indication of something fishy

2024-11-30 13:37:28

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i would guess:
a combination of software maturity, which is way easier if you can "cheat" with centralized solutions (nostr isn't ready to add that many users), and marketing
most people don't have censorship resistance that high in their list of priorities for a social media, or it even sounds scary to them, they just want a fun community with "fair" moderation
bluesky also cashes in heavily on nostalgia, it feels like the old twitter

2024-11-30 13:25:33

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Is de bluesky implementatie dusdanig open source dat dit kan? De PDS is open, maar veel calls zijn een proxy naar proprietary, gecentraliseerde services, bijvoorbeeld voor DMs en moderatie.
Zie bijv. https://bsky.app/profile/laanwj.x0f.org/post/3lc3cl4khyc2k

2024-11-30 11:02:40

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yes that's all for yourself to decide, i was trying to be objective about it

2024-11-30 10:05:43

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that's disappointing !
usually what one'd do in that case is fork the last FOSS version, and keep developing on that

2024-11-30 09:34:12

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lolll jwz, he's always been like that, tbh, even before mastodon, in the hacker news days, twitter
average tech person: ohh this is vaguely interesting, creative at the least
jwz: nooo it's bad it shouldn't exist it's dumb (still goes viral)
he's like the archduke of bitter tech people

2024-11-30 08:22:04

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i think this is often left unspoken for several reasons but
monero is the real "bitcoin cash"

2024-11-30 08:03:25

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yes exactly, it's a better solution than fediverse, but no it can't guarantee that your message won't be moderated away if really no one wants to see it
there's heinous enough stuff out there that that's a good thing

2024-11-30 07:52:42

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i'm sure nostr will get some form of mastodon instance politics as it grows, but i expect it to be less mean because neither relays nor clients 'own' your identity
- you post your notes to multiple relays (some may keep it around)
- if you don't like the client's filtering, you can switch to another client and keep the same npub
hopefully relay and client software will stay open source so that there's always enough choice and the possibility to fork

2024-11-30 07:45:49

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this is pretty much how i had expected the story of Libra to go before they had even started, that it would be endlessly watered down by having overcompliance on every regulation demanded from them, and then probably still killed by competing interests
corporations aren't placed to repeat bitcoin's success
there was a brief moment in which we could build outside the bureaucracy

2024-11-29 16:19:33

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i'm definitely not promising zero moderation on my relay
the only reason we don't have instance politics here like on mastodon is that people can send their posts to multiple relays, and some will probably keep it around, it's more like a kind of regulatory arbitrage