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2024-03-15 13:51:54

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Welcome! Yes you will find good discussions here. You need to curate your feed more, no "algorithm" but I prefer it here.

2024-02-03 13:37:21

In the future, everyone will want to be anonymous for fifteen minutes.
#privacy
https://image.nostr.build/d6be89e834f6354154d444385ce178077a9ace9210f024213bb90b177449708a.jpg

2024-01-29 21:36:43

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I agree. If it was just the relay/key model that was holding Nostr back, the Fediverse would be massive now. But people tried Mastodon instead of Twitter / Kbin instead of Reddit and very few people stayed.
Having to manually curate your feed means it's just less compelling.
I love Mastodon and check it once a day lol. My Facebook buddies have it open in a tab all day. It's addictive by design.

2024-01-24 12:55:38

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Totally agree on TG. I wish more groups would use Matrix. I know not everyone likes the federated model but in terms of ease of use Vs privacy and control etc it's a good balance and a huge step up from TG/WhatsApp/whatever

2024-01-23 19:59:28

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Or just don't use Umbrel, etc and learn how to roll your own. Otherwise you're just trusting someone else anyway, just a different someone...

2024-01-13 23:26:18

For fun I'm reviving a 32 bit machine. Any good cli nostr clients? #asknostr

2023-12-31 00:55:38

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Planned obsolescence:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1953639/western-digital-drives-ask-to-be-replaced-after-3-years-even-without-hardware-problems.html
Also, and this is just anecdotes, but I personally know three people who have had WD drives fail on them this year.
One of my lightning nodes is on a machine running platter drives and it serves its purpose well enough (it's not a routing node, just a wallet for bitrefill etc). I'm more comfortable with it than a raspi anyway :) but I wouldn't trust WD drives for anything important.

2023-12-30 23:07:38

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Can I add Western Digital platter drives to that list?

2023-12-27 20:20:45

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Agreed there. I remember back in the early bitcoin days it was being promoted as an option for micropayments.
Shame that sort of thing hasn't taken off :(

2023-12-27 18:17:47

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The "problem" isn't that the LLM creators don't know how to make micropayments. They just don't want to.
Much easier to pretend there are unsolved problems with payment processing and with identifying "who said it first" to know who to pay.
I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more good content behind paywalls as people try to recoup lost ad revenue

2023-12-23 12:43:46

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/22/britons-increasingly-turning-to-food-black-market-experts-say?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Kids with rickets and scurvy and adults buying stolen food. What's happening in my country :/

2023-12-21 12:46:46

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Welcome!

2023-11-19 19:26:11

Ok, late to the part with this one but wow I hate Netplan. Sure, for large networks it might be handy but I just found myself having to fix networking on a machine with no ifupdown for the first time.
Thanks. I hate it.

2023-09-06 11:07:20

PV 🌄

2023-09-03 13:46:44

Nice to see CBDC protestors. Not too sure about some of the other stuff though.
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/fd6289c993055221ed7258610608166296ca746fa121d7e43c7a12aa1643dfb0.jpg

2023-08-29 18:26:59

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Abortion laws affect everyone. So does the climate change stuff. 15 minute cities, low emission zones, taxes on vehicles and fuels.... In my country we are being nudged to not heat our homes or do washing at certain times of day. That could become penalties instead of incentives easily enough.
I think people need to consider politics more, not less.

2023-08-28 21:09:13

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Some of the sources linked aren't exactly high quality. But a lot of the claims are things I've either seen elsewhere or noticed myself from digging into what Google gets up to.
I don't need much encouraging to degoogle myself even more than I am already trying to.

2023-08-28 20:54:30

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Bore them to death 🤔

2023-08-28 20:53:17

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I guess a white hand isn't "representative" 🤔🙄

2023-08-25 22:37:32

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Change for changes sake isn't good though. Sometimes it is ok to build on what came before, and those terms do describe what is happening accurately and intuitively IMO.

2023-08-24 21:03:18

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The quality of real food in my local supermarkets has really gone down lately. Food deserts are becoming a thing everywhere

2023-08-24 20:29:40

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Go broke

2023-08-24 17:04:14

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Terrifying

2023-08-24 17:04:02

One for the python Devs ... Is dtale still the go-to for a web UI for pandas?

2023-08-23 09:20:05

PV 🌄

2023-08-21 19:43:52

These airdrop spammers are annoying. Would love to be able to filter out posts with certain keywords.

2023-08-21 18:48:16

Lol I just had a blueskies invite come through.

2023-08-21 18:02:57

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History repeating itself
#nevent1q…0mnk

2023-08-18 12:21:41

Hmm Pret's wifi is even worse...I might start making a list of places that don't have filters on their WiFi #censorship #filtering

2023-08-18 10:19:44

Trying to work on the train. Took a different laptop with no VPN. It's terrifying to see how many sites are blocked. #censorship

2023-08-18 09:56:03

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I tend to be off social media Mondays and Tuesdays due to work, but check in most other days, including on weekends.

2023-08-18 08:47:39

Mission for the day, see what's changed with btcpay in the last year or so. Been a while!

2023-07-29 19:41:06

https://twitter.com/IncogNetLLC/status/1685359845505957888
Whatever you think about #kiwifarms #freespeech is important. Round of applause for these guys

2023-07-21 11:47:17

Every time I order online I get a reminder of how Yodel sucks.
(Sure UK Nostriches will understand!)

2023-07-17 06:32:07

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Half the humans online wouldn't pass the Turing test anyway. Not much difference 🤣

2023-07-09 08:44:40

Been off the scene for a while... Which relay server is seeing the most active development these days?

2023-07-08 19:59:04

For those who are interested in fedi platforms...
https://kbin.melroy.org/m/updates/t/5756/Update-your-Kbin-instance-now

2023-07-08 17:57:42

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It's great in communities like this, but in bigger communities it just becomes noise again. Look at LinkedIn with its "super networkers" :(
I think invite only federated instances/nostr relays might be a good compromise, maintaining quality and the town square feel without creating perverse incentives about friend counts.

2023-07-08 13:38:22

Just had someone in my non-tech social circle express shock that I won't be using threads and that my minimal presence on social media in general is deliberate. I'm not completely offline, but I certainly make no effort to promote myself and I'm selective about what I post.
"I thought you knew about all that techy stuff"
Aww honey... Why do you think I avoid it 🥺

2023-06-30 15:12:58

https://nostr.build/i/1a09fbe10f69c5bd84d9ee187dafdec3fe841509b04d7cc464f266f9c24728e7.jpg

2023-06-21 11:03:24

Truth 🤔🤣
https://nostr.build/i/1942ca8dcf37753ea3d6436ddcbc4cca9cc77e31cc6e050802ad4a6dbf975c97.jpg

2023-06-18 13:01:36

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Just before the pandemic I lost an "easy" job. I was scared. Turned out that easy job had been holding me back from some good opportunities.
It's awesome when things start working for you, isn't it!

2023-06-10 19:24:53

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Good.
That's Bitwarden on my avoid list.

2023-06-09 16:28:31

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I wonder how many of those new subs will stick around long term.

2023-06-01 19:58:22

Missing a charity event due to rail strikes... Trying not to be angry with the strikers but this sucks.

2023-05-25 19:42:08

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Pull-ups. I injured my elbow last year and strength vanishes depressingly fast :(

2023-05-24 07:36:00

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Looking forward to tons of false positives 🙄

2023-05-20 20:42:02

https://mashable.com/article/apple-chatgpt-employee-ban-report

2023-05-20 20:06:18

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Welcome to Nostr!

2023-05-20 20:00:36

It's going to be interesting watching prompt injection play out in the AI space. I wonder what the first really big breach will be...

2023-05-19 14:47:15

I'm curious... Is there a NIP for setting the language your posts are in/showing only posts in a specific language?

2023-05-12 16:14:40

So, Grammarly has gone woke. Anyone got any suggestions for a decent alternative? Happy to pay for a tool that works and doesn't push propaganda.

2023-03-19 17:14:10

I'm reinstalling my PiHole. Briefly had to just surf without it. Wow, I don't know how people can be bothered to use the web without decent tracker and add blocking

2023-03-18 23:34:18

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Can you receive yet 😇⚡

2023-03-18 21:45:29

So far my "nostr on Linux phones" experiment isn't going well. Yeah you can run android clients with Waydroid but if I wanted to do that I'd be using an Android phone.... But none of the Linux desktop ones will compile for me on PostMarketOS.
Guess that's an idea for a new project...

2023-03-15 11:22:54

Not crypto but self hosting.... Anyone use Emby? I run Plex. Keep trying to leave but Jellyfin isn't quite mature enough in my opinion. Too many stability issues and it seems to not get on with a lot of encoding formats. Curious if Emby is better (or there's something else I am overlooking)

2023-03-15 10:34:29

PV ☀️

2023-03-14 16:43:16

Just had a Rust developer take my using the words "low level" to be an insult.
What are they teaching people these days 🤯😬

2023-03-13 22:49:31

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Yeah I prefer square. Rounded just feels like wasted space.

2023-03-13 17:52:23

https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2023/03/07/no-clarity-on-revolut-safeguarding/

2023-03-11 22:31:03

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🤣💸🤯😈🙄

2023-03-11 11:05:57

Anyone here use Rocky Linux? I used to be a huge CentOS fan. I'm on Ubuntu Server these days and finally snapped (pun half-intended). Kinda don't mind having to build everything yourself (usually do that anyway), but I do want a reliable and stable ecosystem.

2023-03-09 22:16:10

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I normally use Snort in my browser. But it's dying from the hellthread so thought I'd swap for the day.

2023-03-09 22:10:50

Hmm.. nostrgram.co can't decode my DMs?

2023-03-09 21:53:06

Ok... This is kinda entertaining.
https://www.garlicgpt.com/

2023-03-03 18:15:09

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I'm not exactly a Bitcoin maxi (please don't hate me!) but I'm on here for the freedom and decentralisation.
I'm talking about Nostr with other open source / privacy people. Most aren't interested because it's too "coiner-ish", but as one or two come over the network will grow.