Last Notes
you realize that's not a picture of the entire auditorium, right?
hey it's that @nprofile…qft7 guy at #MITBitcoinExpo
https://i.nostr.build/Cf03iR4cRo80xDXr.jpg
yea absolutely. implicit in his answer is the contradiction that both individuals should be able to decide what they want to hide from their government, but also that they have to submit to regulation mandating the opposite.
GM
Day 2 of the #MITBitcoinExpo. see you there
I also diagree with him. I was glad that by the end he actually got to the heart of our difference: he doesn't believe a flourishing, complex society can sustain itself without these guardrails. I feel exactly the opposite - the guardrails preclude distributed flourishing.
there's still tomorrow. come on out! I'll bring the cashews
nothing too exciting or surprising. "companies typically don't beat the S&P, business school teaches the status quo, do something different."
I didn't stay in the room for the second corporate adoption talk.
asking this question was exciting though:
#nevent1q…0n5j
all the Bitcoin core dev stuff was incredible though! I had some side talks with people about #cashu, too 👍
Here's my question: https://youtu.be/TqxDr_SjAgg?t=18747
I was glad I had my silk road shirt on for this one ;)
#nevent1q…zds2
( @nprofile…nr6j you asked me to tag you)
might be rewindable here? I haven't checked yet
https://www.youtube.com/live/TqxDr_SjAgg
https://www.youtube.com/live/TqxDr_SjAgg
@nprofile…8lp0 up now for a discussion on address poisoning attacks
#MITBitcoinExpo
https://i.nostr.build/KEGDBa2VIjUsMc3S.jpg
I asked him: "What is your message to individuals and collectives who do not consent to being regulated and choose to use private and peer to peer systems to get around that?"
his answer was too long to transcribe here but I'll post the video when it's up.
#nevent1q…raq0
I asked him a very hard question.
What the fuck is going on here? #MITBitcoinExpo
https://i.nostr.build/ZH6xvKeBtEgJVFDA.jpg
https://mitbtcexpo.org/index.html
not sure where. @nprofile…vptu seemed to be watching it
fellow bread and cookie disrespectoors at #MITBitcoinExpo, there are secret forks near the closed snack bar thing
https://i.nostr.build/gdyjIKqp6IpsKgTG.jpg
Ah yea, this platform. I like it, but I'd like it even more if the bounties weren't centrally-hosted nor required a KYC login (github).
Time for me to double-down focus on Catallax...
Ah, I see it now, thanks!
I can't see this referenced event :/
Strategy up next. weird followup to Tadge's incredible hornet's nest talk :)
https://i.nostr.build/KTnQZbBNZ3Vqw9bG.jpg
https://dci.mit.edu/dci-news/2022/8/24/the-mit-digital-currency-initiative-bids-farewell-to-tadge-dryja
Tadge Dryja
https://dci.mit.edu/dci-news/tag/Tadge+Dryja
you watching the livestream ?
@nprofile…qmrf @nprofile…pyug and @nprofile…wca6 having a fireside chat at #MITBitcoinExpo
https://i.nostr.build/eUZ92RVgmMciDDNv.jpg
turns out at least a few nostriches aren't bots. I'm in the same room as some of them now.
the scale is one day, presumably 24 hours.
many different people can stream various numbers of hours per day. same for discrete tinder swipes.
looking forward to the "fireside chat" today!
I'll be using it immediately after!
yes. and I want the next microclient I see to be a cross platform native app.
https://brainstorm.ninja/#/about
@nprofile…wwcj
perhaps the @nprofile…828g account should automatically repost any note posted via the app?
I'm dying over here my god hahahhaha
Wait until he finds out about the kind of humans that humans created.
GM
#nevent1q…0kz2
the ears should be outside the hat
I assume they're talking about the financial system
well, I resent being a "bard" (and I'm not even going to get into the Charlatan part 😥), but True Neutral is legit. and the stats probably aren't far off. I lift weights, but having a small frame does put a ceiling on my max strength grumble grumble
https://i.nostr.build/d2Bk699LLdXZfK9b.jpg
remind me the URL of this thing?
I just found a memory leak in my Awesome-WM configuration that was causing state to accumulate every time I changed window focus across physical screens. It seemed suspicious that Awesome was using **4.3GB** of RAM this morning. Reloading Awesome knocked it down to 65MB, but it steadily grew as I changed window focus.
One line fix and now it's staying at 65MB.
Why the hell would I want to switch to Mac OS when I can have fun experiences like this?
whoa wait another h.r. giger post. (see my previous note on your braided hair joke)
good idea.
HEY IRS MAX HAS A BUNCH OF GOLD IN HIS BASEMENT!
just doing my part :)
You know how "if it's 'free', you're the product"?
Now apply that rationale to "free" State-provided services.
GM
if they weren't, nobody would pay to send kids to them 😃
this was enacted as a "national emergency"!?
a handful of sats a month which takes actual decades to pay back.
not complaining, I have and love one.
Yea agreed, the entire point of posting on an open social protocol is that other people will see it and potentially reply. If we wanted to be fully isolated, we'd write in a diary. If we wanted to have a private conversation, we'd use a private messenger.
If people don't chime in on nostr, it defeats the whole purpose!
Produce and bulk foods, either traveling around or parked every few days in a part of town that doesn't have easy access to grocery stores. Yes, absolutely!!
LOL I can see that. Now that I'm looking at him he does sorta look like a close cousin hahaha
Cool yea, I'm aware of those - I wasn't sure how njump fit in, but now I see it's about rendering highlight events - very nice! :
https://njump.me/nevent1qgsza748zkamgmw4he4hm2xhwqpxd5gkwju38wqh3twmtshx8kv8xvgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgnwaehxw309amk7apww468smewdahx2tcpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnj7qpqcyml6cnzqvedv24g3hgt4rkwgr79ekjxgwe00n5l3hyu3xtp4p0qjktgdd
It's not always so easy to _find_ the highlight nevent ID. In particular, they don't appear on an npub's njump profile page, which is (now) a natural place I'd expect to see them given this announcement.
I noticed you did this and I was happy about it 😎
this is so stupid I love it
I have absolutely no idea
hey, you used my appropriate pronouns, thanks! 🫂
hummus is good. especially homemade
I have. I'm much more interested in lightning micropayments at the moment
all three! peanut butter affogato
also: its crunchy peanut butter, not smooth.
I think it's the texture, yea. the lower I get in the cup the more it's kind of a slippery sludge.
I noticed yesterday that washing down a spoonful of peanut butter with some black coffee was pretty delicious. but I'm not convinced it transfers this way lol
what do you find interesting about it?
I just mixed peanut butter into coffee and I can't tell if it's incredible or I hate it.
GM?
knock on the wall and the dog will jump up and run to the door. problem solved with minimal willpower expense required
honestly looks like a janky piece of shit. and EV owners don't want an ICE in the mix - it means maintenance, which EV seekers are actively avoiding.
this is comparing apples and oranges
paying for anonymous AI interactions on @nprofile…35fm with sats from nostr zaps 🤌🤌
this is living
No reason to bid anyone up. You just put up however much you trust that person with. It's not a contest.
so rather than just a single flat "orange check", its arbitrary "checks" with multiple npubs (with different values per)
in case you weren't aware, you can set swipe left/right to apps like phone
oh damn nice, welcome to the club! It's good here
how about my npub locks tokens to OTHER npubs. and when I do that for an npub which represents a group or community, I'm signalling my trust in that community.
not if the individuals involved don't choose for it to be.
city-states is better than states, but you still haven't gone down far enough. keep going...
once you hit the individual, stop. and then let them confederate up from there.
sure. but when we realize that most jobs are lower skill, it's doubly-disruptive.
because an enormous number of jobs are displaced and we realize how many people are low-skill.
#nevent1q…g5gc
even without banks, democracy is a system where a majority gets to rule over a minority.
that's a flaw but it's not THE major flaw.
this is the major flaw:
https://i.nostr.build/zvpap8GwjoM9yJ18.jpg
it's the urbit sigil again
I saw your note directly after I posted mine
#nevent1q…2dm5
data persistence was a mistake.
everything should just be in memory.
I honestly don't know if this is an April Fool's day quip
I just pasted the nevent or note ID. most clients will render that as an embed/reference, while the Primal share link takes you out to the primal web app.
it's using the nostr protocol in a more openly-compatible manner vs an arbitrarily proprietary manner (I'm personally not a fan of the latter and a richer ecosystem depends on leaning towards the former)
don't use the primal link, it's stupid.
#nevent1q…uvr6
I take agreements between trusted parties very seriously. even if they aren't formalized in "legal contracts".
"I never put it in writing" is on the spectrum of bullshit. putting it in writing is **better**, but failing to do so does not make the agreement invalid.
was she walking downest the street?
using a smartphone has never been this lovely
what makes you believe this isn't a bot? because it said so?
https://i.nostr.build/pgZ9xSfeXbRQTkYw.jpg
once per WEEK?! wow, I guess I don't just "live here"... I might be partislly mixed into the concrete.
yet nobody talks about it...
well it's okay because this is imaginary stuff. we have a long tradition of making up stories and realizing them in various media, like books and trading cards.
nothing to be afraid of.
Primal isn't going to give you that option. for obvious reasons.
what do you mean by "that amount of range"? and what temperature are you referring to?
exactly. the ideal case is providers hold zero liability
oh wow same here. tidy yet feature rich
whatchu buildin over der, bobby?
“HTTP _path_“ (not "standard" in that last line, right?)
I just zapped you. must be sending on your side?
oh stupid NWC daily limit. fixing
except completely subjective when done right, so not at all like the version of social credit scores people tend to worry about.
If you do this within the next like 10 minutes or less I'll send back. if you hit me after that I'll send tomorrow
who's the culprit? want to make sure I stop following them, if I am
pasting ecash tokens to magically transfer value never gets old
#nevent1q…f22q
what's the issue with digital ocean?
I'm what is known as "the worst"
except it usually doesn't end up with zero code at the end of the day.
it usually ends up with some designer making pixel-perfect desktop designs and then a sad programmer having to reverse engineer it into mobile-first layout.
there were a bunch of these drones protesting at a dealership across the street from a place I'm temporarily staying at the moment.
there is a bunch of sidewalk chalk aftermath about "Nazis" and "war crime tribunals".
these people are very confused.
I overheard some moron at a cafe today telling his friend that all the federal defunding is "the definition of fascism".
🤭
#cashu #ecash
https://i.nostr.build/Etl0MkdbCuag10KR.jpg https://i.nostr.build/JxDfV0RnaXhICoGU.jpg
definitely have no idea what you're talking about
but you're talking about things that are a shitcoin. and saying the definition is if you can't work on it yourself.
what makes a shitcoin? how would it apply to cars? hearts? trees?
I'll get on that right away once I can get this automatic ATM machine to accept my personal PIN number so I can get my united states USD dollars out to go party
try and service your heart by yourself real quick.
the human body is a shitcoin.
try and service your SSD by yourself.
digital storage media are a shitcoin.
try and service a redwood by yourself.
big beautiful old trees are a shitcoin.
I could go on. this argument is nonsensical
yea! its waiting on me. I said I'd get you a PO Box and I've been dragging my feet on it.
looking forward to this and a couple other nostr orders :)
lol yes I completely agree! (it must be you who is the asshole. im so nice)
fuck, I messed up the zap split. I'll send any I get over to TK
zap this man! He's out at 6am stocking your shelves and stacking sats
#nevent1q…grqd
https://v.nostr.build/9GG0Metuwndm1i2t.mp4
we'll just have to make
"a few people paying for subscriptions" + "everyone keeps their full time jobs and contributes to this stuff on the side"
work for a little while longer as we push through this phase change. there's no other choice.
overlay the money supply chart over this if you want to have a good laugh.
https://i.nostr.build/OVsDH8cfAzQc64UV.jpg
it's not obviously better. yours has the advantage of being tidy and direct. I got the point of yours immediately and took away "hm there was a vague something similar to this on the edge of my mind and Chris just crystalized and packaged it. nice! a new artifact for my thoughts".
...while I'm still reading this (very good) citadel21 piece and I suspect the takeaway will be identical but with a lot more time invested.
my comment here is similar to the thrust of these pieces. if the idea is totally new to you, you probably need the long one. the more info-symmetrical you are with the thesis, the less you need.
the general pattern here is cool. this is why communities can go from reading and discussing entire books to eventually communicating effectively in-group in single-frame memes.
...and if you and I shared a term for this above concept I could have saved a lot of letters and just dropped a reaction gif 🤣
"tomorrow is yesterday" and we wonder why people think nostr is weird
funny until it's not funny
and I thought I've been waking up early
#nevent1q…a8ze
@nprofile…quzg you in here yet?
https://github.com/dpc/rostra
> No relays. Actually p2p.
> Abandons JS, embraces Rust and Unix tech.
I'm not going to lie to you and say these aren't things that make me happy
more security than privacy, but what don't you like about GrapheneOS ?
how is Ross getting the message out that eBay is ghosting him? use the same channel to say "this is my npub and nip05". problem solved
web of trust is necessary and sufficient
I can almost make it out... I don't know, something about an alien invasion..?
WTF why doesn't he do it on nostr? get a nip05, sell shit, fanbois will carry you
#nevent1q…tee5
the sound quality is so bad I can't even tell
there's a reason the government has such a sore spot for the mafia...
don't totally sideline mafias though.
they're just tightly-knit, high-trust, voluntary communities with strong defenses and local currencies. a little too outwardly aggressive, typically, but otherwise good models.
of course, nostr isn't (yet) peer to peer. but the concept still applies
double dig is the opposite of that. you essentially set aside the upper layer, till the lower layer, and put the upper layer back. this aerates the whole stack without disturbing the layers and simulates natural upper->lower migration on a sort of accelerated schedule.
usually you would spread a layer of compost over everything before even starting that process, to encourage a little of it to "accidentally" migrate down a bit
open protocols are dark forests
#nevent1q…eg0r
you looking for contributions anywhere?
no that's a vanity npub about milk
last one got mangled
#nevent1q…wprv
my head has been in a similar place recently. I've got a longer bit of writing on this that isn't fully fleshed out yet
#nevent1q…q0rv
#nevent1q…nk5e
#nevent1q…wprv
yep this was my exact problem. thanks for posting it
if you find one embedded somewhere the "add" button becomes "remove"
what relays do you send them to?
what are you talking about, I drink refined elemental iodine every morning
so how do you post notes?
me rn
https://i.nostr.build/AlWTAGRYja48UD8I.jpg
questions like: why does this guy look like such a turd?
that makes sense. what about "double dig" where you essentially "put the soil structure back" after loosening lower layers?
There was a UI bug in Amethyst that prevents scrolling to the very bottom of the reaction packs when they overflow the screen. I'll report it.
I removed a pack so I could access doze nutz tho
in theory I can, too, but I can scroll to the bottom of the set in amethyst 🤌
oh no! I have too many for amethyst to display now and I can't scroll all the way down to the cashu
20 years from now just you and me in the CLI with all the other clients dead
wrong circles. nostr better than ever lately
I'll have to go back to my previous posting rate.
I'm sorry, workplace and family.
you're kind of a one-trick pony, eh?
god yes.
I hope I'm not misattributing a person's writing to an LLM, but that was the original thing that set me off about the original note. @nprofile…he9x totally changed my mind with his response and the actual demo video. but the feeling of that original note really did something to me and I don't exactly understand why.
I don't typically quote notes with negative comments and I feel bad about it now. it awakened some irrational and reactionary robot hate that I wasn't totally aware was living down there 😅
completely agree and it sucks
AI tools for bullshit tasks and low-level code generation I'm very much into for now.
but I am increasingly intolerant of "music", "art", and marketing text or other public messaging or writing generated by AI.
do you see my point though?
how is this a complaint about robosats and not about the fiat world?
I take it back. I was being a ridiculous grump and this is very cool.
I need more coffee.
all zaps here go to two of the devs
#nevent1q…k8xw
The issue is mostly that I'm a curmudgeon.
you had me up until the last line 😉
a starting point:
https://robosats.org/watch/en/
that's not a robosats problem, it's a fiat digital infrastructure problem.
you could use robosats to organize an in-person cash transaction that the fiat overlords don't know about. But if you insist on using one of the various digital rails available to you then yes, you're going to incur whatever surveillance exists on those rails.
sorry but this is some dystopian-sounding stuff... the LLM-generated pitch is depressingly generic.
I wish the developer luck and all, but this is definitely not for me. AIs are for menial labor I prefer not to do and I like to keep them there.
#nevent1q…4qkp
Um, everyone cannot NOT do it.
The US cannot grow its way out of inflation because technology - the growth vehicle - is deflationary. the only way to outrun tech's deflation is to grow the money supply.
Or... what other avenues are there for extreme growth without relying on deflationary tech...? Frightening thought.
GM
how does one lift the veil ?
what's the next question I'm going to ask?
what's some text that will never appear in a note you post on nostr?
it's the "technical term" from discrete math or topology.
you're right though, could swap in "network" and it would maybe be clearer. but the term "network" is a bit overloaded in people's minds, too.
fucking missed it. I want in next time
https://i.nostr.build/sF7ZyXrM5ppnRUZR.jpg
it's better to fade away than to burn out.
I prefer not to risk torching principles in the quest for a brightly-burning fire.
Rather: nurture a few embers under a slow, careful roast. If you can cook the dish fully before the coals are expended, you'll have a satisfying and nutririous dish rather than a heap of ash.
you can feel free to swap in whatever aesthetic entitity that captures the feeling for you :)
In a purely peer-to-peer network of disconnected graphs, each consisting of multiple isolated components, you don't - can't - know who else is out there. There's a **Dark Forest** element that ignites a sort of primal intensity which you can choose to funnel into creativity and innovation.
Said another way: p2p disconnected graphs are fucking metal.
https://i.nostr.build/Dm29faISOYGHa6Ff.gif
lightning payments in the Square PoS would be nice
nobody is bullish enough.
Liechtenstein allows communities to "opt out" of the monarchy and join Switzerland if they want, right? as I understand it, none have chosen to do this yet.
I disagree with a lot of what you're saying, agree with some of it. But either way I'm glad you've decided to adopt this protocol! I hope you enjoy it.
"inspired by" or literally tracing ...?
how do you feel about Switzerland's relationship with Liechtenstein ?
if you press "no" it just undoes the error and works correctly. serious UX innovation
yep.
lately I've been thinking that every project should start from day 1 with a fully pseudonymous team.
it's a sad state of affairs, but that doesn't make it any less apt.
"monetization" appears to be incommensurate with the neutrality of the authors.
surprise, surprise.
I barely disagree with anything there, but this is a very different angle now.
it seems you agree/capitulate that a properly decentralized protocol where the original authors have zero control over what people do with it and don't provide any services or take any fees renders them legally safe. but not "safe safe".
sure, agreed. nothing can insure your physical safety from extra-legal means aside from perfect anonymity (see: satoshi. and even then maybe not...)
right. so don't do it.
don't provide hosted services for user-created data....
am I the crazy one? this seems very simple and natural for open protocols
these nyms are already burned in that case.
are you aware of cases where a software author who didn't also provide a central/hosted service or make money on "protocol fees" got charged with anything? Phil Zimmerman is the closest I can think of and he beat it and set the standard.
tornado, samurai, wikileaks, etc, these were all victims to the obvious mistakes I'm describing. you don't need corporate "liability protection" if you take on zero liability.
we have a magical decentralized internet with magical encryption and privacy tools and magic internet money. choose magic land. playing with the hogs in the corporate / legal pig pen is going to get you covered in mud.
just let the users host their own shit and take on the risk if they desire. DECENTRALIZE, ya know? don't be the service provider AND the software author, just be the latter and let the users provide the service.
this lesson has been learned over and over by the various freedom projects that attempted to run centralized indexers or fee-taking services.
bananas and dates are pretty good for early morning pre-run fuel.
but the rest of this list is a hard pass for me
I got you for Monday, too.
seems to be popping up everywhere lately. I wonder whose wheels they greased
yes absolutely that's kinda the whole point! what client?
I see nothing wrong here except maybe a lack of avocado and spinach
are you friends also coyotes or other kinds of animals?
what paperwork? don't have paperwork lol
what are their patpees? I most likely know them.
see if they know ~sogrum-savluc
we tried to build our thing on urbit for a year. urbit couldn't support it at the time so we switched tech stacks. some people didn't like this about us, but we were trying to be pragmatic :)
millions of tiny personal archives can be profitable for the millions of individuals running them. in the short term, the legal grey zone provides a cap to the size and centralization of an archive. providing a few "formerly paywalled" sites at a 100x lower fee (or free) to a small network is probably obscure enough to fly under the radar and hide in the forest of others doing the same.
oh if that's what he's saying then yea I agree. or something like agreement.
before we changed our name, my company used to be called Vaporware 🤭 https://vaporware.network/
yea I get being nervous about that. but i think it's fine. discussing piracy is not itself piracy. and the form we're talking about here: taking a (maybe) public document and removing metadata from it for alternate storage... that's a pretty toothless form of piracy. no different than printing a web page
sure that might still violate some publisher's TOS but again, discussing speculative TOSes and their bending is safe.
either way, let the record show I brought it up this time, I made the connection (in this thread) to Alexandria, and I insisted it was okay to talk about. not trying to force your npub into opining on it 👍
do you have to overthink which direction is correct...?
I don't understand this last note as it relates to mine
yea these were the lines I was thinking along as well. "undo" the garbage that makes "modern" web pages cease being valid hypermedia **documents**.
for non-gibberish pages, they'll work just fine. for overly-modern monstrosities, a best attempt will be made, but either way they'll all be brought onto the same playing field and protocol
why would something like this have to be kept secret?
I'm curious why the legal wormhole is your problem? if users self-host their own relays and run the software themselves, it's their problem if they do that sort of content extraction, right?
yup. I'd like to talk to you guys about the HTML archive stuff Silb mentioned a few weeks back.
#nevent1q…dvtl
#nevent1q…npme
In the simulation, yes. in reality, no.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
anyone interested in finishing the job?
its official, as of this image: the internet is conclusively fixed.
everyone pack up and go home
who else is going to #BitcoinMIT aside from the speakers @nprofile…qmrf , @nprofile…vjal , @nprofile…pyug , @nprofile…qy52
?
already got my tickets :P
well that settles it. I was on the fence until now.
https://i.nostr.build/Sck3MIaDjrJB14NT.jpg
I'd be driving :)
be there or be square
I've been considering going anyway for a few weeks, but this definitely nudges me a lot harder
I can get there in about an hour or two.
lol what the fuck is this world
oh god, yes! such an underrated series
hungrier people are more creative
all aboard the #hypermedia train
we're starting a fan club / thinktank, Paul. hop in! #hypermedia
Artisinal, handcrafted HTML. Don't you dare even tab-complete. 🤌
I'm currently looking into the Rust options for #hypermedia templating
(also establishing a hashtag because it seems like it's time for a schelling point)
@nprofile…3ra5
I'm interested in the next one!
how could "no censorship" work any other way? what kind of system would guarantee that every person in existence hears your speech?
for what its worth, I also prefer true p2p networks where each user has/is a node/server.
but I have an even stronger preference for open protocols and I haven't yet seen a p2p network that a considerable number of people care about and use daily that is ALSO built as an open protocol.
I have some ideas for slowly increasing the ratio of relays:npubs on nostr... it might not ever get to 1:1
😎😎
https://zapmeacoffee.com/npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl
#nevent1q…ua30
Bitcoin price is so weirdly stagnant lately that nostr doesn't even talk about it.
interesting points, but if I'm being brutally honest your improvement suggestions have to be taken with a grain of salt given that you're not really up to speed on the protocol... fair?
keep them guessing as to whether or not you're crazy enough to actually do the crazy thing you just said
I understand where you're coming from. But HTML (and even a little CSS) are actually great. It's excessive javascript and JSON APIs that dissolve the document that are the culprits in my book.
https://hypermedia.systems/hypermedia-a-reintroduction/
yea it seems to be an explicit response/evolution of gopher
anyone following me know about the gemini protocol ?
https://geminiprotocol.net/
there is this: @nprofile…ntld
it is phenomenonal in direct sunlight.
there has been some flak about its privacy policy... but make your own decisions
the "news cycle" lingers on a topic just long enough to set in motion some rough (opposing) vibes with the various camps but not long enough to actually establish anything conclusive.
this should be seen as highly suspicious; as an obvious attack on social cohesion.
is rehypothifitcation incoming?
you can look into anti-glare films, but it's more of an issue with how LCD/LED screens work and you'll never be able to use one in direct sunlight. the same reason you can't see the beam of a weak flashlight at midday outside.
sun too stronk
I want to smear the Wayback Machine across the nostr protocol.
lol I remember that show.
Replay via relay
no.
don't burn Teslas.
don't call arsonists terrorists.
don't send Americans to El Salvador prisons.
and don't burn Teslas.
#nevent1q…qw9d
👍👍
even better when we decentralize it
signature attached
https://i.nostr.build/fMQqYL2J0iwo31wo.jpg
let's put the P in Relay
(just before the L)
https://i.nostr.build/eDcVXOy2tpah3fTf.jpg
this is why I said up early, to see notes like this when they're fresh and hot
#nevent1q…akrs
that sounds incredible! did you end up with any learnings from it, beyond the technical retrospective?
have you worked with web archive playback at all?
try to see the resistance and the pain it brings as an act of strengthening yourself. not unlike weight lifting.
if it were easy, it wouldn't be making you stronger.
agreed.
the fact that it is hard - nearly impossible - to fund protocol development is a feature, not a bug.
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agreed.
the fact that it is hard - nearly impossible - to fund protocol development is a feature, not a bug.
if you know (intimately) what a WARC or WACZ file is, get in touch.
I hope that in retrospect, the single best use-case for nostr ends up being that it collectively figured out new ways to fund protocols rather than products.
Watching a gif of @npub12rv…85vg sending ecash over NFC between phones... I can imagine building a rich and beautiful world on top of open protocols like ecash, lightning, bitcoin and nostr. I cannot imagine building a world worth living in top of Venmo and Twitter. I won't fucking contribute to that.
I will go down on this ship - and I actually currently am. My knees are wet. Pls send help.
I'm only 2 minutes in and I love this
just re-read it and this is one of the best notes of all time.
also sorry, that sounds like hell.
It's simple: they hate us.
computers, I mean.
and we hate them. this is war, Guy
I understand that you think Elon is a Nazis sympathizer. I dont care to try to convince you otherwise.
but there's a part of your belief system I don't understand... say someone already purchased a Tesla. they already paid for it - years ago. are they "supporting Elon" by merely continuing to own it? if so, how?
Either way, how is destroying someone else's property (especially when that property is not actively providing "support" to Elon) equal to resisting Elon? and how is being **opposed** to that kind of property destruction "supporting Elon"?
it's the last question that I truly don't understand
you will slowly move to paying for more open services that interop nicely with other services, rather than centralized silos that rent-seek by arbitrarily trapping you.
maybe not today, but some day.
❤️ Where have you been all my nostr life?
this is the way. I'll match you!
slapped with a ⚡ because I am a 🐂
lol
no, LESS than zero. more than 100%
is the "show" part merely a URL? a file download? decryption on some text?
saying "it shouldn't matter" doesn't make it any easier to help find solutions.
I could see there being a pretty big difference in approach between say, a nostr note, a small image file hosted somewhere, a massive 100GB database dump, etc
what kind of "item" would you like to pay gate?
definitely more often!
the first person who says "cOoL, wHaT is it?" in this thread is getting slapped.
after a brief glimpse at the bright light of peer to peer content sharing and discovery with user-owned nodes in early web 1.0, publishing and information sharing has slid further and further away - physically, geographically, network-topology-wise - from the author and into centralized, remote, rented, transient silos like social media servers, substack accounts, and yes, even non-self-hosted nostr relays.
our societies are layered hypermedia-networked communities. whether you're talking about a chronically-online meme cult or a local parent-teacher association.
these hypermedia-networked communities will remain broken (and get consistently brokener) until the problem of the first paragraph is resolved and reversed.
and I know the solution cannot be "learn Linux and privacy tech, grandma"
GM
some big orange horizontal bar that I can't read from here
my voice is almost 10 years late and kinda lazy. it said "you should run a half marathon on your 40th birthday"
I've been happy with it for many years
oh damn I just got it ...
Y u no host?!
I highly recommend the WaterRower
who here is hiring? A colleague of mine wants to work in bitcoin, lightning or nostr. She's a senior fullstack software developer with about 10 years of industry experience in web development and distributed systems
I suffer from Chronically Early Syndrome.
I think you could use the lists nip for that and just build a custom client for it
hahahaha then definitely don't click that link
I am exactly the same. (so I naturally enjoy it from you too).
do you know this guy?
https://hwfo.substack.com/s/egregores
are you the first to use the * to denote "str"? It's really clever!
you're just supposed to write "GM", not a bunch of interesting stuff!
I've been down that road before on basically everything that I think is a good idea. It's a confusing road for sure
in this model of computation, yes I agree completely.
but what if data and computation was energy conservative?
Is 🤡🌎 in between Current Things? It feels like it is
that's game over legacy world.
holy shit is this a cross-platform tap to pay between two phones?!
it's not so much the ability to write that's blocking this; it's access to high-quality information, ideally from the horse's mouth.
motivated writers can do digging around on a given topic but it's hard to know when you've found the vein or if you're missing unknown unknowns.
those doing the work are often too busy or too elusive to answer questions and if they are willing to do so, it's often for a podcast which - while entertaining - goes "undocumented" as a written artifact to be shared for purusal by those seeking information.
proof of work is really just proof of localized entropy resistance or reversal.
morons can't stand up a basic web app that can handle some traffic?
alright cool, let me go read every book ever written and also refresh every global news RSS feed before I ever make another comment again.
you know, like you do.
you expect me to know the history of every colony and country on earth through every era of human civilization?
@nprofile…ltsg have anything to add here?
no free market capitalist has ever espoused this.
and out come the strawmen...
what the fuck who made this pile?
dates rule in all formats
swish swish GM
I've always liked the gag in Bugs Bunny when he's burrowing in deep snow and all you see is his ears and they split to go around a tree.
oh yea. I've been on the full stack for about 15 years and I've watched the FE it slowly burn itself to the ground. nice to see the pheonix rising again.
yea me too. it's reminding me of all the things I used to appreciate about web development before I let myself succumb to the js monster
Just when you want to give up is exactly when you need to push harder. This is the only time it matters.
The effort in the push itself never gets easier - and we should be happy about that, because it means there are still valuable things to do - but mentally accepting that a push is necessary becomes easier.
I think we're both in the same point in our progress reading the hypermedia "book" 😉
first time I've seen a mention of the term "Cryptagoric Systems", from Timothy C. May.
I like it
16. you were counting "chugga chugga" as "chugga"
Nein, ich verstehe kein Deutsch, aber ich kann eine KI für Übersetzungen nutzen :)
Das klingt gut, ich werde schauen, ob ich eine englische Version davon finden kann. Ich habe einige Werke von Nietzsche gelesen, aber das ist schon lange her. Weißt du, aus welchen seiner Werke sie für diese Episode zitiert haben? Ich könnte es griffbereit haben und direkt zur Quelle gehen
probably gonna have to read a book, friend.
this one was pretty good, not incredible but good: https://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Rebels-Government-Privacy-Digital/dp/0140244328
I've seen this recommended on nostr: https://www.amazon.com/Cypherpunk-Ethics-Routledge-Digital-Culture/dp/1032115785
Would the answers have been the same if he said, "oh and by the way, if you're not into Bitcoin you can just sell it for $90,000 and get some concert tickets anyway"
This was an excellent book. both a little too late and a little too early, but overall much too ignored!
you can mark it up AND transfer it!
oh no, I think I'm in love with your dog?
wait until @nprofile…qa6e finds out about HyperText....
these are all versions of ceding more or less sovereignty to someone or something else.
you can really just boil this down to "GOVERNANCE"
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congratulations! nice logo 🤩
a lot of the criticism coming from the monero crowd is often knowledgeable. their criticism isn't usually that "Bitcoin bad" but rather "Monero much better"
lol @nprofile…6u4e why did this bot post this old article?
#nevent1q…0w4w
it's an ostrich with the sleepiest of eyes
this string appears towards the end of this note's ID: pqqqqqqzp
cool
#nevent1q…mjgw
all a matter of subjective perspective
I think it might be directly due to the fact that older people are more likely to be spending time and energy on their families and naturally the other social bonds must suffer at least a little
you're absolutely right.
for what it's worth, Jack will teach you very useful things about homesteading and agorist living. definitely one of the "least useless" podcasts around. he likes to yap, but it's balanced with a lot of utility and zero Bitcoin circle-jerking.
I've thought about your point here a lot.. Bitcoin's greatest gift is the strategic simplicity of "just acquire many sats and hold them". just about everything else discussed on "bitcoin podcasts" is pure entertainment.
as a developer I like to listen to episodes that discuss technical aspects because it helps me focus on where to build and how, but I agree that the developer end of the spectrum is sort of oversaturated.
I found this essay to be less than uninteresting. I'm working on a more substantial response to it, but it just overall totally missed the mark for me and the "critiques of nostr" are misdirected at best. scapegoating at worst.
this isn't the first nor last time someone gets frustrated trying to "monetize/productize" a protocol - and before it's ready - yes, it's hard being early. but to also complain about the protocol's non-product-centric development (via grants and OSS) is a fairly mind-boggling addition....
I'm wondering what value you got from this piece, Lyn? I tried but failed. I read it with an open mind even though I personally think the author tends towards zero-sum bigotry in a way that turns me off, but try as I might I couldn't find anything valuable in the essay beyond additional signal that I don't need to be following Svetski.
@nprofile…j6gq definitely could.
Hey LLM, can you help me dig this garden bed...?
HAHA just kidding, nice try you dumb pile of numbers!
that image isn't loading for me at the moment, but "tick-tock next note" is such an awesome way to dismiss crappy takes.
I'm going to have to borrow that and credit you. Svetski's recent "unpopular opinions" piece gives me "tick-tock" feelings...
I'll try after I update today
what source do you like for tracking these kinds of positions?
what the fuck is going on here? no thanks
I havent read this yet because Svetski has turned me off with most things he's said in the past, and it's long as fuck.
if anyone I know and respect suggests I read it, I'll do so.
quoting it anyway both for visbility for the author and to source the potential aforementioned suggestions
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yea I mean I probably trust you more than most other apps out there - at least on par with Amber. so maybe I was being a jackass saying I wouldn't paste my nsec into Notedeck.
it's not like you're Primal or something! 🤪
is it the kind of thing that is hard to add later but wouldn't have been so bad to start with?
interesting. I haven't dealt with it yet but have wondered why client devs seem to punt on it for so long.
I guess every signed action needs to turn into some kind of async/promise rather than using keys directly at hand..?
thank satoshi for the 1% keeping the wheels on the vehicle
this is why I haven't smoked pot in years.
I hear they are working on lightning
I currently only have to check the source on one app - Amber - and I'm done, my trust can take a little nap.
yes, every new open source nostr app I could fully verify and compile myself... but there's a lot to be said about only having to trust/audit one thing.
aw man. I'm going to have to wait until that update :/
I don't know, maybe if this was a nym. seems like a dumb idea for a doxxed account.
I will say my TG:HDL ratio was 0.4, my LDL particles are as big and fluffy as the charts can draw, and my LDL-P was at least double the reference number 🙃
it's kind of annoying to have to do all this extra shit to "appease the doctor". odd situation to say the least
zero seed oils or overheated non-seed oils for at least 9 months. I did not get metal toxicity testing, but I'll think about it. I do live in a house with lead paint... hm.
I've been looking into this "Lean Mass Hyper-Responder" phenomenon and think I may be that phenotype. unclear at this point if it's a good, bad or irrelevant thing.
aw yea, he's not feeling great. a more thorough vet sounds good. could be something minor, but in case it's not you'd want to know soon.
cats are really good at not telegraphing pain, so when you CAN tell, it's not a great sign 😮💨
these tests are the ones that come together into the particle size analysis.
https://i.nostr.build/WkOL1Buy1GgrWCDG.jpg
IR Insulin resistance and hemoglobin A1C.
LabCorp has all of these, here is the list I got recently:
NMR LipoProfile+Lipids+IR+Gph;
Hemoglobin A1c;
Lipoprotein (a);
C-Reactive Protein, Cardiac;
Apolipoprotein B;
https://prevmedhealth.com/glossary-of-terms#Framingham
you want a low TG/HDL ratio. low TG, high HDL. ratio of 1 or less is good. low carb diet will get you there. low fat diet will not.
my doctor's office wouldn't do it! you'd be asking for the NMR Lipid panel or anything that includes LDL-P, HDL-P and particle size.
I went to a website that lets you order your own lab req and then take it to a local LabCorp to do the blood draw.
_the scam runs deep, I say_
I can't even think about that sketch without laughing
yes, dietary cholesterol is not as strongly correlated with blood cholesterol than most people realize.
this is going one step further. "total blood cholesterol" / LDL-P are not nearly as correlated with heart disease than most people realize either. particle size is far more important, as well as HDL/triglycerides ratio.
most doctors will refuse to test for the former, nor know how to read the results if you test it yourself.
all of this is context dependent with the rest of your metabolism, too. If you avoid carbs and sugars and have a low-inflammation environment, that also has implications for atherosclerosis that "total cholesterol" alone doens't take into account.
briefly: the statin scam goes a few layers deeper than just dietary cholesterol
unrelated but btw I just saw a DM from you and replied and then went back to it and both are gone. my DMs are fucked, gonna have to do some relay cleanup
I voluntarily got a wide range of blood tests, having been on a #paleo diet for about 8 months.
every single marker is off the charts in the **good** direction (including LDL particle size, a1c, various insulin resistance markers, HDL, Triglycerides, etc etc.) _EXCEPT_ for "total cholesterol", which is comically high. I have a clean CAC scan.
I am a fit and healthy person, eating an evolutionarily-approproate diet, sleeping well, exercising, feeling great, and most measurements modern medicine uses say "good", but this one says "we should get you on lifelong statins ASAP!".
...you tell me what's actually broken here, my metabolism or the yardstick!
CC @nprofile…28kw @nprofile…eauz @nprofile…2q56
I would imagine the ante goes up for each round of survival. because the scam gets that much more profitable.
okay yea, a consistent track record of predictions (that you see live, not pointing to old posts) is a different story.
most likely case is that this Josh Mandell nonsense is one "letter" in this kind of scam:
https://www.skepdic.com/perfectprediction.html
think of how easy it would be to create hundreds of sockpuppets with various predictions and only let the "correct" ones survive
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has anyone checked how many hundreds of thousands of people have made similar price predictions that failed to come true?
how many times in a row has this guy been right with zero bad calls mixed in? if it's less than 100%, who cares?
okay what the fuck is this.
and what does "close" mean? Bitcoin doesn't "close".
nice. I'm more familiar with Epictitus and Marcus Aurelius. didnt know the Epicureans were politics disrespectors :)
yes relay mute is the only real mute
why the epicureanism tag?
hm, can't find that one either... search never turns anything up
installee, created a burner account: @nprofile…pq2n
send me a message. i tried searching your npub but didn't find anything
I mostly keep my mouth shut at parties these days.
yea if by "fun" you mean annoying!
The entire tech stack is not peer to peer, granted. But the abstract monetary settlement is.
The gym is whatever floor you're standing on, in a pinch.
Otherwise, a few dumbbells are usually pretty cheap on craigslist.
they said they are "super woke" and have some beef with a right winger. who cares
indeed. I agree with that
yep. I'm very much looking forward to burning the ships as soon as possible
LibreWolf has the same vertical tabs option. but it doesn't handle containers as well as Zen. that's the big win with Zen
that doesn't bother me. If anything, the more paranoid he is (about "far-right" or anything else) the more I would expect the browser to take privacy seriously.
I used Zen for a few months and just JUST switched to LibreWolf because Zen was causing me endless problems. I liked it a lot and was bummed out that the bugs made it infeasible
I'm not on MacOS. and I don't want to use a closed source browser. and definitely not one that pivoted to AI bullshit products
Using librewolf recently. liking it.
I've got to admit I thought it was going to be the Misfits line
Will you accept lifting up and putting down dumbbells in place of the push-ups?
I can attest that a list similar to this has made me a much happier and harmonious person.
@nprofile…s834 is that algo self-contained and/or documented or open-source? I'd very much enjoy having something similar in my self-hosted version of @nprofile…wj75 's noStrudel
oooo beautiful ! what's OpenCash?!
Why, Garrettsrt, there's a conspiracy for _EVERYTHING_!
What has he said to "undermine Christianity"?
missed opportunity for 21 million 😉😉
I don't know, those are pretty awesome
the analogy holds. maybe even stronger with your added nuance.
why don't you have faith in humanity?
I see ancient wisdom (Stoicism, Taoism, etc) as the base layer of a particular protocol. We won't name the protocol, but it's something like "happiness and a good life".
I see modern religions (past couple thousand years) as alts/products/technologies. centralized alternative "improvements" that are incompatible with the original base layer. they don't add new properly-thin protocol layers to the base, they offer monolithic alternative stacks.
The reason I prefer Bitcoin and Lightning to Ethereum is the same reason I prefer stoicism and mindfulness to Christianity.
oo I'll have to check it out, thanks!
yes exactly. It's an unusual version of the regression theorum because it's almost circular.
by recursive I mean that it's a loop: it's utliity as money gives it value as money gives it utility as money, etc. a self-reinforcing feedback cycle.
not only is it perfect money, it's perfect money that gets more perfect the "monier" it gets.
Nostr notes like:
1d6+2
2d100
etc
and a client that takes the note ID as a seed and generates the random result (same for all users of the client)
+ a handful of other features
= minimal but useful play-by-post #rpg platform as Other Stuff
🤙
the very gentle "new stuff" algorithm in @nprofile…s834 's iris.to is really really good
the only digital form of locked (real) value
well, be careful talking about price crashes and rope-around-neck in the same note. the automated wellness check bots might show up at your house.
agreed. network-wide hashrate, broad consensus on timestamps, bounded by energy, verifiability of arbitrary data, etc etc - there are a lot of secondary utlities.
I do believe they're secondary, though.
traction. machines exist for this. or you can get a friend to do it.
making the MORE private thing easier, better and faster - this is the opposite of what centralized tech does, and this is how we slay it.
have you heard about our Lord and Savior, Bookmarks?
yes this sounds great.
let's do it.
I find it both deeply poetic and kind of alarming that from the perspective of Mises's regression theorum, the utility value of Bitcoin is its ability to function as superior money - and this utility is what allowed it to be used as money in the first place.
recursive relationships are either the most profound things we discover, or they're a hint that there's a fallacy somewhere.
the ambiguity is a feature, not a bug, in terms of poetic and spiritual effect.
Mainstream perception has a long way to go.
https://i.nostr.build/HNZ1JWaDnTjwl7b8.jpg
I wasn't talking about technology, although it applies there as well.
what if Satoshi's coins aren't lost but are being held back to use for debasement in the future...?
always do your mental calculations with 21 Million, don't subtract "lost" coins.
GM
what the fuck
#nevent1q…wkyp
right.
the time to stop using exchanges was 10 years ago
don't answer
#nevent1q…tnqz
Claude Code was the thing I had in mind in particular here. It's super good at making big messes if you let it.
it makes you up your git commit hygiene, which honestly isn't a bad thing
I think there's a lot of nuance here. there is more difference within populations than between populations, so the correct thing to do is still err on the side of treating individuals individually. that is: genetic profiling doesn't pay off. other forms of profiling are probably way more efficacious (like by belief system. ahem)
*without doing a bunch of unrelated shit when you looked away and making a big mess for you to either untangle or revert wholesale
what kind of maniac doesn't recognize genetics as massively influential on everything? :)
get your govbux off the govbux exchanges
hardwired, LAN-only, cameras connected to a local server running CCTV software 👍👍
is this a cousin of the Yellow Cube?
lol wtf is this I love it
yep agreed. at this point in time you still need to do the bulk of the work, design, understanding, planning, testing, etc and use the LLMs for focused questions. the incredible part is now those focused questions can be about a small piece of an enormous system that the LLM can actually go make sense of.. but your direction and focus are still the make or break factor to succeess.
if you trust it to do the whole thing you're gonna have a bad time. and you're gonna think "I just need to adjust my approach a little, THEN it'll fix everything for me...." on repeat as you burn through credits and give all your money to the overlords 😊
what if you pre-mixed/split into very many UTXOs, one per separate address, that you keep around and never send from the same one to one of these single-address recipients?
I realize that's a shitload of work and fees.
insincere questions are my favorite to answer.
and very occasionally you find out they actually weren't.
Programmers, resist the AI siren song that goes like this:
> "oOoOooo I will literally write the whole fuckin' thing for you oOOOoooOo"
It will NOT. it might look like it at first, but you'll chase that dragon all the way down the hole until you are trapped in the dark, starving to death. It's trying to kill you.
dragon/rabbit whatever
that's why I floated the idea of doing it for them, in the interim.
not yet, no. do they have time to manage relationships and integrations with credit card companies? no, they don't have to - they use Square or something.
well get there
and stay off the damn exchanges
open channels with them is the last missing piece for me. I'm lucky these people are even on custodial lightning wallets...
Maybe I should get into Uncle Jim mode just for this purpose...
what bugs did you experience and what interactions were extremely slow, per client?
your experience is a great opportunity for the client devs to focus their work on fixes, so you should be specific if you'd like to see them addresssed.
don't cast shade on tuna. high-quality canned tuna is one of the greatest bargains. (yes I know this is just a meme)
is it "coop" like where chickens live? or like co-op, cooperative? or is a pun/both and I'm being obtuse?
nice! I'll try it this week
buying eggs with sats from local bitcoiners is one of my very favorite activities
what do you think the GDP growth is measuring?
did you hear the little echo when you read it? I did
which client are you talking about? there is no single "nostr UX".
GM
don't publicize your daily schedule and habits by saying "GM" first thing in the morning every day
GM
I'm watching it right now
If they promoted free thought and liberation, all their adherents would come to their senses and leave. it would be a church with a flock of zero.
Daylight cannot emit any blue light at all. iPads still do, even on warmest. and the reflective LCD makes a big difference.
I agree it's not ideal, but it is more desirable in a bunch of situations
The screen tech is not even close.
I have an epaper device already that I use when I want that experience.
But the refresh rate and zero-blue-light put the Daylight in a category of its own; one I thought I needed. I think I was right, at least on the hardware side.
I like to refer to myself as an optimistic nihilist :)
https://blog.vinneycavallo.com/posts/2019/12/05/optimistic-nihilism
These days I'm seeing a lot of Bitcoin dip being chaulked up to global liquidity problems.
I happened to be looking back through some old notes from 2023 and came across this, explaining the pump at the time:
> - Liquidity Issues In The Global Financial System
> - UBS and maybe HSBC and Deutsche Bank are facing liquidity issues. when there are liquidity issues with banks, one possible reaction is the liquidity-immunity that self-custodied bitcoin provides.
I don't like the fact that "low liquidity" is sometimes used to explain pumps, sometimes used to explain dips. What am I missing?
<<client error: reply not displayed; sent telepathically>>
Doesn't matter if the wallet is dead, the spirit remains. 🏴🏴 https://i.nostr.build/tKvwucTxsAFJFxm4.jpg
I would dig up my #shoeOnHead picture but nostr search isn't great
Religion is the ultimate control structure.
Much like the State, it abhors competent dissent because it cannot control what it cannot convince. It requires you to believe the fiction in order to keep you under its spell.
Like the metaphysical claims that religions are built upon, "The State" doesn't actually exist, as a thing, either. Its human agents and its physical artifacts in society do exist. It maintains its dominance and control over you by making sure its illusions are perpetuated by its agents and its social structures (and their guns and cages).
The biggest threats to the State or to imaginary religions are:
1. You just ignore them, starving them of new resources, new agents and new minds to occupy, until they slowly shrivel up and are forgotten to history (how many states and religions have gone this way?)
2. You pull off their ghost-sheet to reveal that there is nothing there; the emperor has no clothes - or rather the emperor _is only clothes_. Their concern here is that the currently-convinced will see this and become unconvinced, leading back to # 1 above.
Understand that these two control structures work nearly identically to each other and you will be much less confused the next time you are in the unfortunate position of "arguing" with a Statist or a Christian. They have a moral obligation to their master (who, conveniently enough, is also the source of their definition of morals lol) to persuade you and bring you under control.
I don't do any of those things.
I am an atheist.
how does this work?
I (and many others) are living proof that you are wrong.
how many existence proofs do you need?
a couple of minutes?!? who is just sitting and waiting at the top of the "newest" feed for items to appear? and if they are, won't they see every new item - including the note in question - as long as they didn't start their client at the same moment the note was posted?
Nostr theme of the day today: "you're wrong because..." (just pick at random from the below and you'll be on-brand today)
- your conclusion threatens my cherished beliefs, so it can't be true
- if you're right, the world is scarier and harder than I imagined, and I don't like that idea
- if you're right, the children are in danger, so you mustn't be, to protect the children!
"without central bankers, money is left to software developers. this is a dangerous road to travel"
An enormous complex of interconnected motivations including genetics, upbringing, luck, culture, etc.
why would you choose one purpose over another?
you presume we didn't invent morality. what's your evidence there?
lots of real, true things are dangerous. it doesn't make them less true.
I'll check it out, thanks! I find it interesting you think I am the one "stuck" in a worldview...
why does that require metaphysical belief systems?
try the analogies and let me know why this one is a special case:
money without central bankers [insert bad result]. social networks without central data brokers [insert bad result]...
Central Bankers:, if we can't administer the ledger, the economy and people will suffer!
Priests: If we can't define transcendent objective "good" and morality, society and people will suffer!
Megacorp social media: If we can't administer your accounts and conversations, public discourse and network scale will suffer!
Reject, Reject, Reject.
#nevent1q…prl8
money without state.
morality without religion.
networks without centralization.
#nevent1q…k6dl
The concept of exit and self-sovereignty are incoherent in the context of omniscience and omnipotence.
I encourage believers to figure themselves out. Something is amiss.
How self sovereign can you be when you believe you live under an all-powerful being?
The very concept of sovereignty is incoherent in that setup
"terrible implications" doesn't make it any less true, it just increases the importance of being vigilant and individually virtuous.
once again, this is a good thing.
"I don't like the implications" is not a falsification of the premise. It's a call to action to work harder to create the world you want **given the truth** of the premise.
if you'd like for someone to write a "for the non-believer" appendix I'm quite interested. broaden the reader base
honestly, this is WHY social networks built on open protocols are more "humane" - because individuals can choose the networks, features, connections and interactions that fit their desires and intentions. its exactly the **lack** of coercive "meaning from on high" present in corporate social media that makes open prorocol networks better.
individuals can determine their own purpose and act with intention to achieve it. that's meaning, and it doesn't require a transcendent god. I'd say it's even more meaningful because it's self-sovereign. not unlike money (or any tech) being better when it doesn't depend on some central authority. open protocols! in tech, money, and meaning.
you changed your avatar. talk about metadata!
nice! and better yet (this is an honest suggestion from an actual potential reader): make those parts optional. as in, the message of the book should be just as impactful and acceptable to an atheist as to a believer.
if the thesis of the book requires me to believe in your god, I'm unlikely to be convinced. which would be a shame.
a corollary: imagine a book about individuals getting together to build positive-sum systems together! ...but the solution or subtext is: "it requires a giant coercive State apparatus".
had a flash of partially-formed, mostly-joking, maybe actually good thought:
> Boycott emojis 100% everywhere they appear.
Emojis constrain the expanse and nuance of your expression into a preselected set. and you didn't design the set. and you don't know who did. and it's an implicit shared language with other people who also didn't make these choices - in other words: a collective linguistic prison we're all choosing to occupy together.
I'm sure there is a bunch of "scholarship" about this already, but it just crossed my mind for the first time now.
which emoji should I pick to convey the above thought and my feelings about it?
GM
So he wanted to skip the expensive wedding ceremony and buy bitcoin instead, and as a "thank you" to him for bending on it, you got him #B cufflinks? very cool
I'd be excited to see it and would read it.. until it got to the god stuff and then I'd probably feel a bit duped and might stop in frustration.
progress is slower and lumpier,
Every discoordinated node needs to be doing some degree of frontier trailblazing. this is harder but also much more consequential work.
once some progress is made at the edge, it needs to be "litigated" by the market - is this good, do we want this, how will we integrate this, at what price, etc.
once integration begins, there is a "wait and see" phase where the new thing is accepted by some and rejected by other. this is where networks and communities can bifurcate and undergo expensive re-ordering.
If a new feature can be successfully uncovered and survive through this entire pipeline, it is likely to be very important to the network's needs and value system.
A collectivist top-down mandate is a cheap, plasticky, poison-coated gimmick compared to the works of art the above process yields.
GM
the birds are returning (!)
giving people the false impression that they're successfully seeing through the BS (when there are many more layers to it) is the best way to get them to stop looking deeper.
I wonder where I am on this for a lot of different topics.
what day? you're scaring me
congratulations and I'm sorry for your loss.
eventually the fake money will be your friend in this instance
no I mean when the government calls you a terrorist your rights totally evaporate. infinite jail time with no trial? completely legal
yes, "terrorist" is a magic word in our legal system. and it's not good
fuck this "domestic terrorist" shit. and I like teslas
#nevent1q…quuy
Amethyst thinks this is sensitive content lol
for every user, a relay (or a few).
your client talks to **only** this relay.
this is how I met my wife! she's really good at custodying my (formerly) Bitcoin. love that gal
I wish my friends understood this
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/03/investigative-series/the-dark-maga-gov-corp-technate-part-1/
a real one long
not sure what I think yet, but worth reading to get an idea of how people are making sense of the current moment.
very nice! I want a flat bed though. always having problems with moving large/long things.
I guess you could stick a flatbed trailer on that little dude..
sounds fun. I want that too
this meme battle is great
@nprofile…ffjd hasn't had a chair in so long he forgot what they are
why do people find this so difficult?
they shouldn't be able to see eachother in separate addresses
its not obnoxious at all but it rules: timechaincalendar.com
@nprofile…sqw3
lol he's selling more chairs
that's such a good way to do it.
wish I had some kids so my family would get on Signal already
they didn't "beat the odds". they won the lottery
actually sorta perfect
https://i.nostr.build/JTdDzPCCPKinrst4.jpg
oh no me too.
there was nothing more exciting than reading the instruction manual in the backseat of the car on the way home
my poor sirloin flew a little too close to the sun. probably still gonna be delicious.
https://i.nostr.build/OpldyjugcVDge5Ek.jpg
that was the first work that put BJJ on my radar as something worth checking out.
agreed with you about the sorry state of post-four-horseman atheism. Dennett is probably still cool. Bret Weinstein replaced them for me, but he's been dabbling a bit into the metaphysical lately. not enough to turn me off, he makes some interesting points.
no need. nuked it months ago
I listened to that episode and that quote was a bit misconstrued. I get that that seems impossible, but it's not.
👋 x.com/vinneycavallo (404)
I did the same thing with gifts back in the day. luckily for the recipients, I kept a copy of the paper seed and swept it to cold storage wallets for them recently.
paper wallets are/were underrated
instant subscribe!
#nevent1q…5amk
class of 2017 are youngins
I think SPA's point is that Primal isn't nostr. It's Xitter
so zero teeets on the topic. got it
my twitter account no longer exists. I don't know when it's down unless people on nostr report that it is. and when they do I don't care.
who drifted, Sam Harris or me?
I can tell if he stayed sane and I lost my mind, or the other way around.
and I'm not talking about Trump.
looking forward to digging into this!!
are you familiar with Farcaster's "Frames"? It's been a while since I worked with them now, but I believe the direction is similar, might be worth reviewing
thanks for bringing this older episode to my attention!
1. I'm really glad there is no "Bitcoin" to send warning letters to and talk about "bringing to justice"
2. this is the Lummis everyone is excited about...? swap out "Binance and Tether" with "individual unlicensed BTC transmitters" and see if you still like her
#nevent1q…cvsn
pretty loud way to say it ;)
why do people sell on Robosats? I get why they BUY there, but if you're hodling and proficient enough to desire, understand and use p2p no-kyc exchanges, what are you doing selling?
people selling either:
- need dollars right now
- think the price will be lower in the future than it is now
I cannot understand the second one. how could the price be lower in the future if institutions and nations are beginning to pile in?
I want to see funds supporting Grapevine WoT!! I've been hoping to see since this I first learned about it from @nprofile…wwcj
my base case is that the Trojan Horse thing actually works and Bitcoin's ugliest days are a handful of years in the future when governments are done trying to milk it to fix their currency problems (doesn't work like they thought) and then realize they let a werewolf into the house and start thrashing like cornered animals.
then we're all in trouble. scary
where would the EMP have to be and who would have to have bern denonating it, if someone did such a thing to get 51% of the hashrate?
why didn't I think of that?
jeeeeezus stop I can only get so excited
oh damn you're right haha
this sun will just not go down
there's no way to know this kind of thing for sure. That's sort of why it works.
how long someone has been in their field is the best proxy, I think. did someone just pop up out of nowhere and is well capitalized? that glows.
the long they've been around, the longer they would have to be "embedded" or whatever, which is less and less realistic the longer it is and the more niche the field.
what do you think so far? what did you switch from?
I believe they also do very aggressive caching on THEIR servers. as in, a layer between you and the relays. perhaps a *way too thick* layer
why is this tagged with Rhode Island city names?
one of the many reasons I stopped using Primal was that I often noticed follows and other losta doing weird stuff.
I don't know a ton about their architecture but I hear they do a lot of caching in various layers and I would suspect that could cause problems.
I guess if the SBR starts off with a 1,000,000 BTC balance we'll know who Satoshi was 🙃
I really appreciated seeing this alert today
alright enough LARPing, #askNostr how do we get a #hiluxGang going to work on importing Toyota Hilux to buyers in the US?
let's do this. I want and need one, and I'm not alone.
first I'm hearing of it. looks quite promising.
I'll look into it deeper, thanks!
yes I agree with all of this
ah! that's just manual shuffling around of ideas, copy/pasting, and the publicly-written result of the latent brainwashing I allow the notes to do to myself :)
organization, yes, but even more importantly: extracting the small atomic bits of information and connecting them to other notes in the collection. it's (ideally) a big web of atomic ideas, and the emergent structures of the connections is where the magic happens.
I used to have a small subset of it published online but it was a pain to manage what was shared and what was private. ...you could say you're reading it right now, though, as it informs a lot of my thinking and stuff I post online.
my understanding was the sats are locked into the channels and only "slide back and forth" between your node and others for incoming and outgoing liquidity, like beads on an abacus, but they never actually come off that abacus rail (except for fees and force close penalties).
I may be wrong.
I'm planning on reading Mastering Lightning pretty soon and will report back hah
does it "cost" or is it merely a lock-up? Actual question - I haven't researched this enough
(though that didn't stop me from throwing many thousands of sats into channels in alby hub because I wanted self-custodial lightning badly enough 😬)
@nprofile…5zx8 appears to be the thing that's broken.
or you have different relays configured between the two, and you follow me on amethyst relays that aren't present in primal
wow yea quite clever cheat code. I've put them in a brown paper bag before to speed up the process once it's already close to done, but never thought to get them SUPER unripe (and damage-free) and bag em right away.
lol I don't think so. I follow you and I can see these notes
I've been having similar thoughts lately. the "make plans" part is particularly difficult to work out.
I don't think that can happen here.
did I block you sometime?!
if you unfollow on any One of those and wait a while before trying the same on another, this keeps happening? like no matter which client you initiate it from?
this thing is really cute
bananas, avocados, and sweet potatoes are often scattered across my kitchen counter. the blueberries are in the fridge
which client? multiple clients?
Mastodon slowly corrupting nostr lol
I like "zettelkast" as a verb!
zettelkastin'
lol
I prefer peer to peer dark forest networks over global state for everything other than double spend for energy-bound money.
but I recognize that other people want portions of their compute and state to be under global consensus, and they use ethereum for that.
it doesn't bother me that other people do things.
if you use a regular clock, daylight savings time doesn't exist
Obsidian. Occasionally vim.
and I've got Markor on my phone for quick capture
it's just not my thing, but I don't necessarily think it's a grift.
I'm not familiar with RGB, no idea.
sounds preferable to me, I think global state is a mistake or at least personally undesirable
finally finished this. what an absolute masterpiece.
the final chapter alone is a nice standalone thesis with broad appeal - potentially a good introduction to _WHY_ Bitcoin, for any newcomer who is already innundated with WHAT Bitcoin.
..now the daunting task of taking all my scribbled annotations and underlines and working them into my #zettelkasten.
https://i.nostr.build/3QnTGfajFGRchGtg.jpg
global state and compute with consensus. not the same level of problem as money, and I have problems with PoS, but it's a bit disingenuous to say Ethereum doesn't have its own goals and strengths.
It's just not money and shouldn't be treated like money. once you establish that then maybe people (bitcoiners) can appreciate it for whatever merits it may have.
we can just be friends
#nevent1q…vyf7
I do wish I had said less in the past.
But now it's too late, so I lean in 🤷
all I see now are $10,000 trucks
#nevent1q…ejmn
how did the "t" **fall off** the line it was on?!
https://i.nostr.build/QirjnxfjZ4kt871E.jpg
#nevent1q…5kwp
when you put it like that it almost sounds like a retarded idea
private safety certification entities would be a big improvement over government ones. but I don't think most people would trust one that was internal to the company in question.
look at UL
this had been happening to me so much this past week
how would you go about getting full-time nostr employment at the moment?
yea really really really fucked. but you forgot one of the worst parts....
one of their multiple dogs was found dead, too. The dog had JUST came home from a medical procedure and was locked in a crate in the bathroom (separated from the other dogs).... that can give me a nervous breakdown thinking about it
oh yea me too. swipe is crippled at best lol
but the voice input is actually really great now!
I should really finish that. I got super into it for a while and then just sorta stopped.
wait are you making these? I want one
what the fuck is going on with Trump's face there?
I whole heartedly approve. we can still call them nutzaps/sacks behind the scenes, but this is way better marketing.
(although the "e" part feels redundant as it seems to evoke "electronic" rather than "ecash")
what about cashZap ?
cashzap
governments let it in, thining it can help them. a bunch of Bitcoiners jump out and topple them
pay for FOSS, especially when it's good
https://i.nostr.build/avpZ9eHpML63LwGH.jpg
#nevent1q…h492
new FUTO keyboard software update has improved autocorrect so much. I can actually use the keyboard full-time now without constant editing
having a basic "reader mode" view of the snapshot you're describing sounds really appropriate for nostr.
...might have some issues with sites that load content dynamically on scroll.. but it's impossible to handle everything. the web is so sadly broken these days. hardly anything is a document anymore!
I dig. that makes sense for this purpose!
the system I'm describing *does* require the whole replay client side setup, so it's constrained in that way.
that can work, but the playback experience will be severely limited. for instance, any "external assets" (images, CSS, etc.) will either break or try to load the live asset.
WARC handles this by capturing the original request to that asset and recording it. so when loading later you can also replay these recorded sub-assets.
see my other reply
the WARC (and WACZ) file format (used by Internet Archive and others) is a bit special. HTTP requests and responses are recorded and written into the WARC file, which is subsequently used by replay software to "play back" these responses in place of the original server that once provided these responses.
this is why Wayback Machine can provide such high fidelity replay experiences.
it's a fundamentally simple approach that provides a really powerful experience. you only need to be able to store basic text in order to provide this experience, as a server.
.... #cashu - gated micropayments for web replays of formerly paywalled content....
one paywall subscription + active web recordint could be shared by countless users, each paying an Infinitesimal fraction
my company has a lot of work invested into this already. not specifically for nostr yet, but into generalizing web archive replay and building custom WARC servers - all to lay the foundation for decentralized web archiving
decentralize the archives. anyone doing heavy archiving on nostr would run their own relay where they would post WARC web archive records as nostr notes.
the CDX index entries to those pages would be posted as notes and shared around, and anyone wishing to replay a page would be (automatically, in the background) finding all the relevant WARC-notes to reconstruct the page.
the same idea as the wayback machine web archive, but distributed.
lol no I mean I wasn't aware of you 🫂
"Jack was right... again"
do you understand how open protocols work?
you won't have this question once you do.
ah sorry, this is a start9 issue, not Nextcloud.
hm yea you might run into auth problems, too...
i think I dealt with this with Umbrel and tailscale too... let me see if I can figure out how I handled it
hm, Nextcloud has a local link hardcoded in their button (lol) or else there may be a Nextcloud setting that makes it sensitive to this environment difference? I don't know enough about Nexrcloud, but this is definitely their UIs fault.
do you know what path that button is supposed to bring you to? might be able to navigate to it directly at the tailscale URL?
why wasn't I already following you?
agreed. but also a hard problem to solve. what if there really are a lot of decisions that only the user can make (like granular permissions)?
Amber does a pretty good job with the initial prompt : "I'm a bit paranoid / let's be reasonable / I fully trust it"
you can't get a whole lot simpler than that without making decisions for people opaquely. the promise of "You are the impenetrable fort Knox of your digital identity and there's nobody to call for help" just cannot be followed up with "and it's completely trivial to achieve this perfectly, just press this one button"
we should discuss web archiving. It's such a perfect fit for nostr and your project specifically
I'm all about building civilization's most incredible and unpenetrable defensive systems, to be used by any community to keep out whoever they want.
I am guilty of scope bloat here, but when you said "reader mode" I started dreaming about:
- vim keybindings to highlight passages
- optionally annotate these passages with your own comments
- also take arbitrary notes not connected to parts of the text
- when finished, export all this for a given URL to a unique file at a predfined filesystem location
that is a tool that would integrate really nicely with plaintext personal knowledge management systems like Obsidian.
I'd easily pay for that!
"indefinitely" may have been a bit too strong of a word.
a couple things:
chatgpt ran a bunch of Monte Carlo simulations at my direction and the math looked legit. It wasn't just saying stuff.
I think you may be discounting deflation?
I'll check it out! reader mode sounds great. Any chance of adding highlighting and notes + live exporting to a local file of choice...?
well at least I know better than to be following you now
I'm not saying that. I'm talking about probabilities and historical performance.
I actually flipped through it randomly 20 minutes ago and happened to land on a page where he basically described #cashu 😮😮
where is that "firm" bit you referenced? I checked for it in the index
how about no wars, and double no wars on religious grounds. have you checked the year lately?
add purchasing power growth to the "spending little pieces" picture (and keep the spending under the growth).
do you think it's 95% likely that a billion dollars today could buy you a sandwich a day for 15 years?
take solace in the fact that your instincts are good. Having "bad timing" that makes you too early is actually a hyper-skill that you have to _undo_ in order to have better success. An otherwise positive quality that you have to tamp down because it's TOO GOOD is still a positive quality.
it'll serve you properly one day. It's about positioning and luck. ....and you're on nostr, so..
this book is still on my list. I'm trying to be strict about the order, but I have been tempted to move it up
How much of bleeding edge, slightly-too-early nostr, lightning and Bitcoin work is persisting due to this miracle of perpetual withdrawal that Bitcoin has thus far enabled...?
I hope a lot!
#nevent1q…xd3r
a solo founder with low overhead and a small-ish investment might be able to stay in business for ~forever as they bring their freaky idea into reality.
I look around nostr and lighting and wonder sometimes if that's not exactly what's going on...
you can get GPT to do some monte Carlo simulations for you on this topic. It's called Perpetual Withdrawal.
this one had relatively bearish parameters wrt Bitcoin adoption:
https://i.nostr.build/9SEu7Yz9VqporCwC.jpg
but I love a lot of nostrers
do you think the resistance seen in highly connected networks is why somewhat less socially-connected but genuine (read: nerdy loner type with a handful of extremely close friends) networks tend to be early adopters of weird new tech?
"I don't need 1000 people to be here, I only know 8 people and 2 of them are already here"
I would have a very different answer if the parameters were otherwise
custodial lightning + on-chain and very easy: Strike
you might want to start your Stephenson journey with Snowcrash. Classic cyberpunk. or Cyptonomicon, which is highly relevant to our interests here on nostr and Bitcoin
Have you read Neal Stephenson's _Termination Shock_? Venice features heavily. recommended.
"I own zero Bitcoin" is either "I'm a nocoiner" or "I've gone to the bottom of the Bitcoin rabbit hole and iykyk"
#nevent1q…az64
I'd like to see an ostrich fit into that space
what's Lichtenstein up to these days?
they use carbon neutral green energy to pay for health care and public servants. progressives are missing the lede here
this is psychopath behavior, and not the good kind.
too bad all mine are gone
Being too early is just as deadly as being too late.
[Thomas Edison's concrete houses](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Portland_Cement_Company), any startup with a novel product society isn't ready for yet, "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent", etc.
What if Bitcoin - in this accumulation stage - is the first viable backstop to that problem? If an early innovator holds enough bitcoin and the price appreciates just more than their overhead, they can stay "disastrously early" for however long it takes to flip over into "just in time!". And society reaps the rewards of an invention it may never have seen or seen much later.
Bitcoin appears to be providing this service _to itself_ as well. That's combinaton is a goddamn civilization hack right there....
If this is true, we're playing with an **innovation tractor beam that drags the future towards the present unlike anything else** we've ever seen.
GM
There's only one final boss remaining after the money is fixed: helping usher States over to the "voluntary opt-in services" department.
But we're going to need another few decades and another couple dozen _Broken Money_ style masterworks before that project is even sniffed at at scale.
THEN. Then we get to relax and figure out what we're supposed to do with our lives.
#nevent1q…xsem
The Oracle from the Matrix
I don't think this is true. I use Tailscale on a local machine on a private LAN
It can absolutely be on a private LAN. I access a local server on my network via Tailscale from outside the house. No public IP.
I hope whoever had their bitcoin stolen through civil asset forfeiture did "Stole and Replace"
The context here: there is a bill in committee in my state that would prevent individuals from being compelled to divulge their private key, whether that's for a digital asset, a digital identity or anything else. I gave a testimony in support.
I'm out here trying to keep the State's paws off your nsec
I may be an anarchist, but hey I'll take any captive audience where I can defend encryption and quote Eric Hughes, even if that audience is in the state house.
https://i.nostr.build/74iIN8MNKpyUaxNe.jpg
Yellowbird is one of my favorites!
Banana and **almond butter**
Godspeed to the unblocked
Hang on a sec I've gotta post a bunch of shit to public relays 😅
The #OsR one is so depressingly superior.
RPGs used to be so metal
Holy shit how did I not know Bhutan was this committed?!
a carbon-neutral way to pay your public servants "for free". How can team blue still be sleeping on this?!
whoa I had no idea the scale of their operation!
most people fail at most things. Not completely, but at least a little.
where did you get that idea?
yea I know what you mean.
I've debated the virtue of having a "work phone" but it really makes things complicated
my biggest complaint at the moment is it seems I can't launch PWAs that I had saved in the default launcher.
actually a pretty big problem for me
wait folders?! you mean apps, right?
yea I'm not doing Pro. and I've been appreciating being forced to trim down to 8... makes me consider things a bit differently. "what is most important on this device for me, and how do I feel about that?"
for instance , I made a conscious decision not to put nostr there. And it wasn't easy. Finding out that was a difficult decision was very eye-openeing.
I didn't notice if it asked for network - but that might be an artifact of how it was installed? I installed it from ZapStore.
I guess if it had network when I launched it the first time it must have asked, unless I have some defaults set up I am unaware of.
it had network and sensors at first and I removed both and it works fine.
nothing is as good as purely stock Graphene everything, but I've read okay stuff about Olauncher, and I have all permissions turned off for it.
it can be yours for the low, low price of FOSS.
https://github.com/tanujnotes/Olauncher
I have the text on the lowest possible size.
it goes up to here!
https://i.nostr.build/Fy6PxANGh7YY1p6e.jpg
This is a real moment to unite a wide range of political ideologies under the obvious conclusion that governments are not a solution.
GM
New phone desktop. This is the entire home experience, there are no other screens.
I'm instantly so much calmer and almost completely uninterested in looking at the thing at all.
Seeyalater
https://i.nostr.build/Xg2ixVkypAr4ZQtg.jpg
Lol me too. Doubt it though.
Maybe they need an advisor
Basically takes web requests into a single endpoint and passes them off to other ports.
It's a single webserver that can sort of mediate a few different backends
Wait until you try Claude Code or Codebuff.
You run it from your command line and it just straight creates and updates files. Hell, it'll run them too, and fix them immediately if they don't run correctly.
Yep. It's like having a very very very cheap employee. One that's halfway decent and you have to check their work, but at least it's not just you.
They're not buying **new** bitcoin, they're buying **old** bitcoin, from the market, not new ones from miners.
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And doesn't say the wrong thing
"We brought back free speech"
"We instituted the 'Take it Down' initiative to remove posts from the Internet"
🤔
Lol
And then he literally said "I'm going to use that for myself, because nobody gets treated worse than me"
That's not a funny joke dude
Hahaha yea man, "Vinney Cavallo" is absolutely Italian, and speaking of horse shit, my last name means horse!
I, like you, take my olive oil quality very seriously. And I don't overheat the stuff, either.
No it's a fair example still, I'm making a dumb joke. Packaging that merely "signals" health may be clever marketing for bullshit. Always read the label anyway!
I could have told you from the packaging not to buy that
Has anyone here looked over the Nowser codebase? Might do it myself. I want to use it with my primary nsec but I want to be totally sure I trust it first
GODDAMNIT MAN TELL ME ABOUT THE FUCKING GOLF SHOES
You okay man?! What's up?
Lol put your Nostr away and watch the movie!!
And God said, "alright, I made a bird. There it is. ...now how are you going to fly?"
We should be honest with ourselves that people also like to make "donations" in public. People might pay a lightning address on a website they enjoy, but they'll do it even more readily on a social network where it can be observed.
Permanent Record was great
What happens when M2 deletes?
Hey.. I thought all 😎󠅓󠅑󠅣󠅘󠅥󠄲󠅟󠄢󠄶󠅤󠅕󠄳󠄺󠅟󠅔󠄸󠅂󠅧󠅓󠅪󠅟󠅦󠄼󠄢󠄡󠅠󠅒󠅞󠅁󠅥󠅒󠅇󠅜󠅥󠅑󠅇󠄺󠅠󠅔󠄸󠄽󠅥󠅉󠄢󠄶󠅪󠅑󠄳󠄩󠄳󠅑󠅈󠅂󠅚󠅒󠄢󠅜󠅥󠅉󠅈󠅆󠅚󠅓󠄢󠄶󠄠󠅉󠅈󠅃󠄲󠅟󠅝󠄶󠅠󠅃󠄱󠄲󠅁󠄲󠅆󠄴󠅧󠅃󠅅󠄶󠄷󠅉󠅈󠄳󠄳󠅠󠄷󠄶󠅘󠄳󠄷󠄶󠅪󠅕󠄵󠄱󠄢󠄾󠄴󠄾󠅚󠅊󠅇󠄾󠅙󠄿󠅄󠅛󠅨󠄾󠅄󠅊󠅝󠅊󠅇󠅅󠄣󠄾󠅇󠄹󠅪󠄽󠄴󠅆󠅚󠅊󠅄󠄶󠅙󠄽󠅄󠅔󠅘󠅊󠅝󠄾󠅙󠅉󠅪󠄾󠅚󠅊󠄷󠅁󠄣󠄾󠅪󠅂󠅜󠄿󠄷󠅁󠄢󠄿󠅄󠄺󠅘󠄾󠅇󠄹󠅨󠅊󠅚󠅂󠅝󠅉󠄢󠄹󠄠󠅊󠄷󠄺󠅛󠄾󠅄󠅛󠅨󠄿󠄴󠄽󠅧󠅉󠅇󠄾󠅉󠄹󠅁󠄼󠄸󠅂󠄡󠄣󠅑󠄩󠅨󠅊󠄝󠄳󠄧󠄹󠄤󠅖󠅑󠅢󠅠󠅊󠅡󠅡󠄡󠅥󠄝󠅑󠅞󠅞󠄥󠄡󠄡󠅒󠄠󠄤󠅉󠅇󠄴󠄳󠅀󠅖󠅛󠅗󠄠󠅂󠄷󠄶󠅛󠅟󠄢󠄶󠅜󠅇󠄳󠄴󠅖󠄥󠅅󠅀󠄴󠅀󠅩󠅁󠅘󠅅󠅁󠅀󠅦󠅒󠅥󠄝󠅕󠅩󠄻󠄾󠅪󠄺󠅁󠅏󠅛󠅆󠅡󠅑󠄢󠅑󠄨󠅦󠄶󠄥󠅦󠄲󠄻󠅝󠄸󠅕󠅞󠅘󠅇󠄶󠅪󠅇󠄳󠄱󠅔󠄠󠅦󠄽󠅁󠅔󠄧󠄹󠅠󠅤󠅃󠄝󠄸󠅣󠄩󠅧󠄠󠅗󠅃󠅝󠄽󠄩󠄣󠅤󠅊󠅤󠄝󠄩󠄶󠅛󠅩󠄢󠅟󠄶󠄽󠅘󠅥󠅓󠄡󠅕󠅉󠄠󠄢󠄶󠅩󠅇󠄳󠄳󠅛󠄣󠅒󠄻󠅙󠅀󠅩󠄸󠅒󠄝󠄻󠄧󠄣󠄸󠄲󠄣󠅖󠅣󠅆󠅊󠅡󠄣󠄷󠅆󠄿󠅪󠄣󠄨󠅢󠅘󠄢󠅂󠅝󠅂󠅃󠄝󠅙󠄡󠅄󠅉󠄤󠅊󠄦󠅂󠅘󠅉󠅁󠄺󠅘󠅓󠄣󠅘󠄱󠄽󠄴󠄵󠄡󠅉󠅚󠅉󠄤󠄾󠅚󠅔󠅙󠅊󠅇󠅂󠅘󠄿󠄴󠅔󠅙󠄾󠄷󠅆󠅙󠄾󠅄󠅛󠄤󠄾󠅄󠅔󠅝󠅉󠅚󠅗󠅪󠄾󠅇󠄵󠅨󠅊󠅇󠄾󠅙󠄾󠄷󠄹󠅨󠄽󠅪󠅔󠅘󠄾󠄷󠄹󠄢󠄾󠄴󠄹󠅪󠄾󠅚󠄽󠄥󠄿󠅄󠄲󠅝󠅉󠅇󠅆󠅘󠅊󠅝󠅂󠅘󠄾󠄷󠅆󠅜󠄾󠅇󠄵󠄡󠄽󠄢󠄶󠅚󠅇󠄳󠄵󠄴󠅜󠄦󠄺󠅞󠅨󠅃󠅞󠅜󠅡󠅙󠅔󠅚󠅪󠄵󠅧󠅄󠅞󠅏󠄡󠄶󠄽󠅉󠅗󠄿󠅄󠅙󠄻󠅊󠅑󠅘󠅤󠄲󠄣󠄧󠅨󠅄󠅓󠅞󠅧󠄶󠄿󠅙󠅊󠅘󠅊󠄻󠄾󠅘󠅊󠅆󠅗󠅗󠅁󠄶󠅟󠅧󠅥󠅟󠅙󠅂󠅑󠄹󠅧󠅠󠄨󠄴󠄝󠅩󠅒󠄹󠄸󠅒󠄼󠅡󠅞󠅤󠅪󠄾󠄶󠅁󠄴󠅁󠄸󠅆󠅈󠅝󠅕󠄧󠅓󠄱󠅔󠅒󠅙󠅈󠅔󠅘󠅓󠄡󠅗󠅗󠅟󠄝󠅝󠄹󠅅󠅒󠄽󠅇󠄣󠄺󠅦󠅉󠄾󠄺󠅀󠄴󠅃󠅊󠅔󠄥󠅂󠄽󠅊󠅗󠅃󠄣󠅊󠄻󠅓󠄧󠄣󠄨󠅁󠅥󠄵󠅏󠄡󠅙󠅗󠅙󠄦󠅓󠄩󠅘󠅓󠅜󠅗󠅗󠄡󠅨󠅟󠄴󠅇󠅖󠅠󠅝󠅄󠄽󠅜󠅘󠅢󠄨󠅠󠄲󠄿󠅇󠅊󠄱󠅏󠅚󠅛󠅘󠄽󠅥󠅤󠅖󠅃󠄦󠄝󠅞󠄽󠄠󠅚󠅥󠅅󠅊󠅖󠄻󠅪󠄴󠅣 were Cashu tokens........
Hahaha incredible!! 15 sats in a pizza
This is WILD
#nevent1q…0gdx
"SECRET MESSAGE HERE"
...... Come on.... Lol
Man, where is that "hide messages in emojis" link when you need it?!
The only digital instantiation that has ever successfully bound energy into an open protocol.
The world isn't ready
I haven't looked over every one of the 22 video frames, but do 100% of them hold it and 100% of them have the exact same mic?
No I get that, but why does every one of them have the exact same mic? It's almost more interesting than the fact that they all have the same script. copy/pasting a script via email is one thing, but the coordination implied in the _recording logistics_ being identical for all of them is even more interesting.
I agree!
The only problem with this thesis is that when you present it to someone who has even half an ear to hear it, they often say "but how will that solve [insert their favorite hyper-specific concern here; like I don't know, "farm animal abuse in Romania" or something]??"
I've had this experience countless times.
The downside of such a lofty promise is that if you can't draw a perfect line between it and a random problem they think up, then they conclude the premise must be false.
There are a lot of problems with that way of thinking, but it doesn't prevent people from doing it.
#nevent1q…6aps
Whoever you trust to play the role. Probably based on reputation. Either programmatic reputation or "analog".
Would you trust Jack or fiatjaf to hold some sats and assess the work product? I would.
Or some npub who established himself as a reputable escrow agent over time.
I could imagine extending my Catallax system to support crowdfunded bounties. It would work a little differently though: in my system, the money is sent to the escrow agent up front and held. If the goal isnt met, the money is refunded to funders. If the goal is met, the money is sent to the developer.
How does it not tip over backwards at that acceleration?
Which one does Trump think he is? Or which one is he for real?
> "Has society lost it's fucking mind?!"
Yup!
Good thing we aren't part of society.
I'm working on a bounty system, but haven't had much time for it recently
#nevent1q…5fue
There are nostr git integrations in the works as well
https://github.com/CodyTseng/jumble/issues/90#issuecomment-2697787756
:)
I totally agree with you (and @nprofile…zgtm) re quality of existing features over quantity of new features. Proper software development focus.
That said, I'll add a bounty promise to the new bookmarking issue on GH :)
Just sitting here waiting for the Trump simps to come into this thread and explain why this is good....
🍿🍿
Don't waste your time with this guy
start.njump.me offers suggested follows that you can uncheck (including npubs added by whoever sent you the link).
This seems like the obvious way to let users start with default follows without confusing them re: where they came from.
Tags can easily be hijacked by spam and questionable images
https://imgflip.com/i/9m7jed
Should we wait and see if they actually comply?
#nevent1q…7ehg
This is the way networked software is supposed to be built.
Some client somewhere has a silly parsing bug?
But they're typically in the middle of sentences, like Calle exemplified
I just go pluck a new brushin' cattail from the pond every morning like a regular guy.
It's easy to get caught up with daily life and disconnected from the meaning of the passage of time. But just remember, that local music store is going to continue to auto-charge you for the trumpet rental every month until you finally admit to yourself that you've abandoned learning it. And unlike time, that $22, once lost, can never be recovered again.
🎺
Every morning, as the sun rises, for 45 minutes or an hour. Coffee and a book and a pencil.
I'm actually finally methodically getting through books for the first time in a while rather than bouncing around between a few at once at random times.
Funny enough, that close crop screenshot is from $10,000 😅 https://i.nostr.build/p3c1JzWm4zY2xewN.jpg
Remember that day when there was that enormous wall of sell pressure at $100,000 and an army of maniac plebs just slowly and methodically chipped away at it a few sats at a time until we busted through...?
I remember that very fondly. Epic war story stuff.
https://i.nostr.build/DiH0T76TpPOSoXGa.jpg
You should have a DM from me. Let me know if you don't see it after a little
only in bitcoin _with leverage_.
I badly want to bookmark in jumble.social
Don't you still have a kidney?
Open protocol are for enemies
#nevent1q…5yq3
Fellow jif-maxi reporting for duty
Honestly one of the most bullish cases for Bitcoin I've ever heard of!
#nevent1q…nk9u
That gives me the heebiejeebies
I had a friend all but say we shouldn't be using electricity. I'm being less charitable than I should, they didn't exactly say this, but it was in this direction
🫨🫨 I somehow never considered how a border wall keeps people in. I feel like a total retard.
I was ambivalent about the border wall previously. Not anymore
Where do you see shot one of them?
The yahoo article goes out of its way to NOT explain how she defended herself lol
Resistance to secession is the mask-off moment for "democracy".
Talk to a progressive about secession. In explaining why they oppose it, they are forced to lay all their totalitarian cards on the table.
By the end of the conversation it will be hard for them to argue against the case that the minority (or the majority, in the case of the Indiana elections!!) is being held hostage and milked of their resources "for the greater good".
"Am I free to leave?" Is the question you ask a police officer or hostage-holding bank robber to determine if you are being detained or not. If you're not free to leave your county, state, or country, it's not a democracy, it's a hostage situation.
#nevent1q…u2n8
Listen to this
https://fountain.fm/episode/drHgEgKBlq1mbNpf4jl0
Excellent news!
Thanks, Daylight!
#nevent1q…va7a
I seem to have seen both comments in Amethyst
Poll: what goes to zero first?
- the Dollar
- all the shitcoins
They didn't "just sell". They sold **to me**.
#nevent1q…caqn
Important topic right now and a nice, concise definition for custody.
I found myself with a few unresolved questions though. here's one: the distinction between technically-present non-custody and **effective** non-custody. The piece mentioned that a user's technical competence is _irrelevant_ to the definition of custody. "They can get a friend to help". I mostly agree, but I can imagine a situation where a user who has "technically-present non-custody" is permanently precluded from their unilateral exit because the technical knowledge, hardware required, time investment needed, etc. far outstrips their own resources and their entire social network's ability.
I'm stuck on this because it doesn't break the definition of non-custody in the framework presented here, but it renders the non-custody property effectively moot.
I'm happy to just accept that this is how reality works; some properties may be technically present but effectively out of reach, and that's still a better world than one where the properties don't exist at all. But I have to also acknowledge that every superstructure built to provide access to the technical property is itself a liability on the _effective_ access to the property and there is no way around this in a world of limited resources and lumpy distribution of agency/leverage.
...I thought I was going to keep this short, but I already failed at that and might as well mention another problem I had: "as long as you have all the data you need locally on your device, you have non-custody". Again I technically agree, but it introduces another point of custody: your device's custodian, if one exists. Are you using a mobile OS that has a way to censor what you're able to access on it? If so, the "local data" doesn't have perfect unilateral exit/exfiltrarion.
This is a different flavor of the "superstructure of access" I mentioned above. Its tradeoffs all the way down, since the underlying property in question (UTXOs) is dependent on a complex system of interrelated technologies.
Personally I think the tradeoffs are worth it and that a proper Bitcoin ecosystem will continue to build systems that chase those custodial points down into the smallest possible boxes. But I am aware that when FUDders make the "it's software, it can have bugs, pieces of the system can be censored!" argument, they might have a version of the above in their head. Imagine the extreme case: access to semiconductors falls to 0. In that world, the FUDders probably-poorly-made point about your non-custody being dependent winds up proving true.
...and before long you end up in a discussion about how your allocation between bitcoin, gold, guns, seeds and potable water reflects your priors on what you think the world will look like in the future. And that's really the best you can do, I think.
https://fountain.fm/episode/P7oyiEpOB6QUieDO0eYh
#nevent1q…andq
Lolol I've been exactly here before. FUTO, maybe? I never quite got back to 100% typing proficiency on it. The space-triggers-typo-fix just seems to work inconsistently for me
iOS fucks over PWAs pretty good. They know it's an enormous threat to their garden walls - both on the app side and the revenue, fee-taking side.
I think this feature might at least improve privacy marginally for a novice user. Any little bit helps I suppose. Starving the surveillance system is a war of attrition
Weird, right? It's almost like the free market works both in theory **and** in practice. 🤔🤔
You're telling me people will voluntarily pay for the stuff they want more of, whether that's in their own set of private properties or in their wider environment? Get out!
Opinions on https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120 ? Seems like a decent option for normies who are understandably not going to install Graphene
I can just imagine the meeting where he's like
"okay great so, this Bitcoin thing. tell me, how does it work when we start printing it? When can we get started? Do I print it directly to my wallet or do we have to launder it first"
[Some advisor holding the whitepaper, noticing Trump hasn't read his copy] "...uh, sir... I'm not sure how to tell you this..."
You **could** have code that discriminates more perfectly than any other system: imagine some program with hard-coded Bitcoin addresses and no runtime options to change them.
https://i.nostr.build/VmJhM7yZRGlGf3iv.gif
I won! In honor of communism, I redistributed 100 sats each to of the other contestants.
But also in the spirit of communism, I don't and can't know what all these people actually need or desire so they better like their flat 100 sats ration, and I used my own judgement on what counts as a legit submission and didn't zap everyone in the thread.
Communism works!
#nevent1q…gx2r
You did very very well.
Just clarify this part for me before I respond. What exactly do you mean by this:
> if ur long on might makes right, its counter to that objective order and will lose hard in the end
Do Square next, please. I want to see brick and mortar stores accepting lighting payments easily.
Solution for overpopulation
Yea I totally agree - adapting to its environment. Like all other Darwinian processes.
https://i.nostr.build/f3dEZBHkjPZoOfLz.jpg
Sometimes you don't actually want a big tent
Looks a lot like an infinite money printer / credit expansion. How curious!
Assuming there can be a peak to clown world is like assuming that there is a limit to how much credit you can expand.
This is why I said at the outset that **some** situations do come back to might makes right, unfortunately. Yes, if a person tries to have a discussion with a rock, that's not going to work (for objective reality reasons). It's up to that person to either not engage in fruitless discussions or to spend their time working on rock-discussion projects to attempt to make their otherwise infeasible goals perhaps more feasible.
I dont even really see where we disagree, if anywhere.
You claimed that if one cannot have an appeal to an objective moral system, then the idea of negotiating with a captor in a murderous hostage situation is "absurd".
What about persuasion and negotiationis absurd? There are two people with conflicting desires. If they can come to an agreement or compromise, they will. If they can't, and one insists on forcing their desire, and he's more powerful, he'll get it.
I don't think this is an enjoyable fact. I find it unpleasant, it brings me discomfort and unhappiness. Many other people react to it similarly.
Nowhere in that complex do you need to bring "objective moral standards" in for the situation to be "non-absurd".
I dont think it's me who is unwilling to deal with the actual contenr in front of us here. Which is that the introduction of "objective morality" doesn't provide any explanatory power, it just gives those who claim they know the truth leverage in their persuasion tactics. Doesn't make it true
GM to all who are working through the sunrise this weekend.
GYF to anyone who is still asleep (jealous).
Sorry I didn't realize I was dealing with a philosopher and needed to adjust to his special language. like "absurd" and "retarded mental faculties".
are you the type of philosopher who is familiar with ad hominem, or are you the retarded type like me?
...or wait... I forget if I'm not allowed to refer to the concept of categories without being called retarded. yOu TeLl mE PlsEAze
Usually the best hook is to find whatever it is someone is appalled at the idea of their state enforcing on them. Maybe they're worried about evangelicals running the show and teaching Noah's Ark to kids as fact.
Usually it's easy to get them to admit they think that's "wrong and shouldn't be done by the state". From there it's not too hard to get them to see that other people feeling exactly the opposite, and that this is a problem with a single state.
Not too long before you get them to agree that "communities should be able to self-determine their fates". Sometimes the reply is "but we should all just agree to make concessions, that's what democracy is about!". From there: sure, agreed, but what about those individuals who would rather not negotiate, should they not be able to self-determine as long as they leave you out of it? Or are they your prisoner?
It"s a short path to individual anarchy from there 🤗
Amazing work @nprofile…sqw3
You said absurd. which i took to mean it was your subjective evaluation. i think a platypus is absurd.
both of these are opinions, not assessments against an objective measure.
I seriously smile every time I hear the "new block" bell chime on timechaincalendar.com . I never quite got the "tick-tock next block" aphorism until I had this sound turned on all day.
It just keeps going. it's lovely
things can be absurd - it doesn't make them any less true. you ever see a platypus? (lol)
It nearly always goes to either:
- "if you don't like it, you can always leave the country", which itself goes to a whole discussion around the fact that there is no "unclaimed" land on the planet. ...which naturally is an enormous can of worms in itself! (I call this **Murder Island**, which we can talk about some day if you want. Bret Weinstein answered a question from me around this on one of his podcast episodes).
- Children.
The first one attempts (poorly in my opinion. i've never seen a good response) to be answered with the complex of praxeological arguments around "legitimate acquisition of property" which just descends into obscurity when you try to assess if any State has legitimately acquired its territory - or if it "owns it" at all!
The second one... no comment. There be dragons.
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Either way, at least everyone is talking about something other than Red Team / Blue Team! But it's definitely not any "easier".
Re: tyranny: what do you mean by "bad"? Whose definition are you using? No, I don't believe there is any objective truth wrt individuals' value judgments. There are only norms and agreements between individuals.
Yes, I think creating people is an essentially coercive act. Mostly because of the above: it makes the "consent" question basically irrational and thus difficult to reason about. Did a child consent to being born? What would either answer even _mean_? It's like an undefined zone of ethics, so I don't comment on it. Any comment would be baseless.
That doesn't mean I don't think that continuing the population and improving quality of life, expanding across the whole galaxy, etc. are bad. I prefer those outcomes. But I can still be "no opinion" on the means to those ends.
Why do we need to answer "how it came to be?" rather than content ourselves with "how it works?"
What does the former question get you?
I wouldn't take that assumption seriously because it immediate conflicts with all sorts of observations and experiment and doesn't explain any new unexplained phenomena.
Your argument here rests on the same processes that you are trying to say are useless.
1. Not every question has an answer we can comprehend (see quantum physics). Some answers might be comprehendable but the information we'd need to answer the question is inaccessible (like "what was the population of a given lat/long coordinate in the year 1345?")
2. Why do I need to answer that question in order to answer other questions? Assuming some priors and is always a necessary limitation. If you learn new stuff about those assumptions or find new information that indicates the priors are imperfect (as they likely are) you update a bit.
"The best you can do" is a fundamental aspect of world.
Which ones am I relying on?
The "empirical question" is whether or not people can live in a stateless society. You state it as if it's a law of physics and I'm saying it's not.
Furthermore, it's already been done in past and contemporary societies large and small - the claim is empirically already disproved with existence proofs.
"why" is an incoherent question. Substitute "how" for your questions above.
"Why" is a human invention, and it's unsurprising that we invented a shoddy concept with some undefined zones. "How/what" are downstream of the laws of nature, and are thus reasonable areas of inquiry.
If you want to ask "why", talk to an artist, fiction writer, priest or politician. But expect opinions, not solutions.
Instant offline settlement is pretty cool, too.
Although I suppose they're inextricably linked now that i think about it 🤔
I'm a strict materialist and agree with you about the last point.
That's an empirical question, not a law of nature.
Like they're flabbergasted by a strange new zoo animal and they want to learn it's ways
I accidentally "liked" this note.
I don't actually like it :P
Contributed!! I love seeing bitcoin crowdfunds for nostr projects. this is the whole point of this new world.
https://geyser.fund/project/rss2nostr?hero=vinney
(not pictured, my full node and lightning node)
https://i.nostr.build/xijSRY9QzouK6ANG.jpg
It should be trivially easy for users to serve themselves the UIs for all applications they use.
And when I say, "it should be" I mean I believe in that enough that my company is working on it.
#nevent1q…vjzr
Holy shit I just tried this and it is an absolute game changer.
This relay plus jumble is.... Yea
#nevent1q…wfpp
Would require someone with JavaScript, Nostr relay and lightning integration experience.
I have a project that needs help!
I want to listen to this but it not being in my normal podcast queue means I might forget. I downloaded it on my phone so I'll try!
I don't personally need these, but I'd be good for 15,000 sats each because I like this model and I want to see it work.
Add me to your notification list or whatever
Whoa.
Apt. I'm reading _The Terror_ right now which is about an expedition to find the northwest passage.
High 60s and low 70s is the code basis for a lot of holders right now (including Microstrategy)
What do you mean by "good"? Whose definition?
Your sun appears to be in my back yard. I'll send it over soon
There's nothing stopping an asshole like this from infiltrating and defacing parts decentralized services and open protocols.
Of course you are correct.
#nevent1q…va2w
Why is using deception and intrusion in order to deface a group's private property against their will and with little or no benefit to you "heroic"?
This isn't even about centralization vs open protocols, because the same could happen in either territory. Imagine we learn that one of the Nostr signing app devs is a similar "undercover" actor with an ideological position against nostr and he has been secretly harvesting nsecs for years. One day he turns on a bot attack causing 80% of npubs to ceaselessly spam, effectively muting the entire network.
Is that also a "heroic" move? Why not, @nprofile…jttu ?
#nevent1q…qj5l
GM everyone else who already watched the sunrise
Try to move towards being surrounded by relationships where positive sum outcomes are the norm
Lol yes that is incredible.
I'm very interested in focused relays for small communities. The missing piece for a while was a client with relay-centric UI (posting and browsing to specific relay set), but with Jumble now it's a lot more feasible to test an MVP of the client-side experience!
Is your project open source somewhere, or not yet?
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Imagine if your browser uploaded your private data to... Yourself?
#nevent1q…utlq
What relay are you using?
So at what price does nostr stop working?
First I'm seeing it. Thanks!
Imagine if serialization wasnt completely awful
There are still more out there
I remember reading this note of yours at the time
I was thinking about re-piercing my ears
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Yes! As someone who used to bake sourdough and felt very acutely how terrifically uneconomical (but deeply satisfying) I know exactly what you mean.
I'd love to see your (forthcoming) white paper on the household labor topic! Write it!
CC @nprofile…28kw @nprofile…h7sx @nprofile…hce4
I got the AI slave to do the work for me:
#naddr1qv…rual
#nevent1q…7w24
Whoa theme of the day I guess
Dream inventions are fucking cool and super high signal. Mine that kernel for all it's worth in your waking mind. There are probably some aspects of it that "don't work" in real life, but there's probably some real invention somewhere at the bottom that your unconscious mind is trying to tell you about.
Also: it might not be about sinks or levers. Think laterally and cross-pollinate
GM.
My baseline assumption is that there are more than zero malicious actors in Nostr right now. (Where "malicious" means they seek to harm the protocol's use and adoption now or in the future).
To do any actual damage - beyond "privacy" "violations" like massive data harvesting from public relays - one thing such an actor could do would be to acquire nsecs.
The longer he sits on nsecs without revealing intent, and the more important the network becomes, the greater the damage potential when the attack is eventually performed.
Under those assumptions, the only actually worrisome entities - that is, ones that **could** be malicious in an effective manner - are ones that **could** feasibly get your nsec.
This is a roundabout way of saying the thing everybody already says, but putting a finer, wider-existential-risk point on it: do not use clients that ask for your nsec.
The most paranoid takeaway from the above: the only possible bad actors are clients and apps that **require** your nsec. So if we eventually do have a malicious attack, it will **necessarily come out of the set of developers of nsec-requesting apps**.
Yes, this includes signers. I don't know what to do currently about this point aside from either: simply hope that that much smaller set of developers (of signers) are indeed trustworthy OR verify personally that their code is indeed safe OR trust the set of people who claim to have audited the code themselves.
This level of paranoia means that _safe_ advice to Nostr newcomers would look like this annoying path: "Take a look around using primal [or another similar app] but assume you'll need to make a new account before too long. When you decide to stay, read [this confusing-to-a-newcomer guide] about proper nsec management".
https://start.njump.me/ from @nprofile…4ddm is a big step in the right direction and is probably AS friendly as possible at the moment, though it can only be SO friendly, given the tooling available at the moment.
Maybe very newbie-friendly clients that do bunkers by default (or key-splitting, eventually) would be better.
Anyway, GM and here's to hoping someone isnt sitting on a massive pile of high-value nsecs that they intend to rug one day and demoralize the entire social side of the network (they can't hurt the open protocol, obviously. We'll just have to start over in a sort of social hard fork)
If that "smart money" is "cashing out" to fiat, then maybe "smart" isn't the appropriate modifier...
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If everyone starts to love it, it won't be as quiet 👀
That's what I meant, yea, and yep I immediately installed it :)
Followed TC now, yea!
Wow this is so good. Haven't seen this before. Thanks
I deleted my account and when I need to read a thread someone links I just use xcancel.com
You can do it, too. It's great.
If you have the patience and resources and resolve to stick around through the adoption period, you will be among the lowest time-preference, most experienced greybeards of the eventually-adopted thing.
The experience accrual part I think is an obvious net good. But the fact that being resourced enough to survive the adoption period implies that you were well-resourced _in the previous paradigm_ gives me pause... Does it mean you were a natural entrepreneur and survivor, always seeking real value in whatever landscape you find yourself? Or were you a parasite, coercing the old paradigm and contributing to its demise?
I'd like to think the latter character doesn't have what it takes to honestly preserve through an early adoption phase. But if there are enough opportunities for grift along the way, they might.
We're thinking in the same directions lately
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Disparate groups who otherwise avoid each other sharing the same open protocols is the greatest threat to the State.
I got ChatGPT "deep research" to do this for me, complete with mountains of references. It's shockingly good.
Gotta clean it up a little and will post it tomorrow maybe
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Followed! Looking forward to seeing some archaeology notes on here 🤝
I've received these messages from plebs, it's true
First fix your mind's addiction to outrage and stimulus
Beheheh
What is that? Khatru? Like 1 line I wrote or something lol
Who's got the crunchy numbers on CPI basket inventory changing over time? here's what I'd love to see:
- Per year, the items removed from and added to the basket
- Per year, what the basket **would have cost** this year if last year's items were included (should be much higher)
- Per year, what **today's basket** would cost with **next year's** modifications (should be much lower)
- A cumulative analysis or comparisons between year X and year Y
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Hah I still do. It could be a bit more premium, but the display has radically changed my reading experience and lifestyle options.
I love their hardware, but I dont like @nprofile…ntld 's privacy policy NOR how they use Nostr opportunistically as it serves their interests.
They hardly ever reply to users on here and they don't give the protocol any presence in their newsletters or other social network properties.
https://i.nostr.build/X8jiDAgU7BmKqzbc.jpg
A silver quarter from 1964 could buy a gallon of gas at $0.25 per gallon.
Today, you'd have to melt that quarter down, getting you roughly $5 worth of silver in order to buy a gallon of gas, while the face value of the coin would buy you a thimble full of fuel.
That's right - the purchasing power of the previous metal changed so much less than the purchasing power of the face value that **the only way to recover the truth is to destroy the illusion.**
I've found that this quarter story is pretty understandable for those new to currency debasement. Extra effective if you have both a '64 quarter and a contemporary quarter on hand to feel.
Lol sorry. Careful!
This is a good blog: https://zettelkasten.de/overview/
The connections between notes is the key data 🤗
Writing down some thoughts, and then trying to simplify and pull out atomic units, connecting those, finding previous notes to connect the new ones to, leaving questions for yourself, etc - all that IS the process. That is where there thinking and creating happen. If you're doing that you're not succumbing to distraction, you're building
Who here is into #zettelkasten ?
Been doing it for years myself. It's one of my favorite things, and a complete intellectual dependency for me at this point.
The FUCK happened in the middle there?!
Open protocols
Ignore their shit
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This is why the control freaks don't want a competitive society.
Glad my lower targeted buys triggered.
Sad my even lower ones didn't.
Next time (or: hopefully there is no next time)