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 You can’t surpress the truth forever. #Bitcoin will win, gradually and the suddenly. 
 Like fighting gunpowder & dynamite with bows & arrows. 

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 The idea that an HWW’s security hinges on the secure element only is insane 
 Multi-vendor geo-distributed multisig is best.  Finding all the devices is a tall order vs cracking an SE.  After all, they're just signing devices, not "hardware wallets" 
 What's wrong with the usecase for smoking loser dude at the bottom? 
 A square is a specific type of shape:  a polygon.  All polygons are shapes; not all shapes are polygons.

This is not a polygon, therefore it cannot be considered a square. 
 All parallelograms are polygons; not all polygons are parallelagrams

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 In this realm, zero width lines don't exist.  All lines are at least the width of a Planck Length, all points have a minimum volume of the Planck Volume, etc.  Practically, lines are typically much wider than these theoretical minimums, which makes finding a true straight line or right angle in nature a rarity. 
 Gas tanks don't shrink over time.  Gas pumps are volumetrically accurate 🤷‍♂️ 
 Yep they definitely used to. 
 The guitar solo in Metallica's The Unforgiven is definitely in the top 5 of all time. 

Change my... 
 November Rains outro puts the solo to shame. 
 will someone pirate the HBO documentary and upload here? #asknostr 
 What doc do you mean? 
 Presidents don't have as much power as we think they do.  The buck really doesn't stop with them.  A respectable, likeable president...cannot be allowed. 😔 
 Super impressed with StartOS so far. As soon as I figured out all the connection stuff is under p... 
 Use Wireguard or Tailscale to connect directly to your node from Zeus without tor latency. 
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 Well one is like gibberish, so I think the other one is probably closer to the real meaning.  Can't be sure though! 🤣 
 カラオケボックスでも廊下で他の部屋の歌声聞こえるもんなそんなもん... 
 Lightning is literally composed of P2P channels between bitcoin users.  I don't think it's a bad solution compared to onchain-only. 
 I just learned that 50-70% of the population doesn’t have an internal monologue. 

I honestly c... 
 Internal monologues are the fiat/credit version of monologues.  Unsettled.  Without substance.

If you have one (as I do), make the conversation worthwhile.

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 Teaching the ten year old kid how to make word documents :D doesn't realize he will be using this... 
 Just point them to gihub and tell them to use markdown READMEs for their documents.  It's essentially the samething as a word doc, but portable outside of microsofts monopolistic bullshit.  
 Recovering, transferring, and future proofing hundreds of terabytes of data. Preserving legacy me... 
 I like ZFS a lot, despite it's origin.  Haven't had any storage anxiety since I started using it, but I did survive a 2 disk failure unscathed! 😏 
 Caffeine and nicotine goes so well together. 
 Disagree.  They don't synergize; they compete. Caffeine alone is more euphoric without nicotine, and nicotine alone is less euphoric than caffeine alone.  Both have side effects.  Using both together is suboptimal to me.  Usually means I'm already using too much of one of them.

I prefer caffeines euphoria to nicotines pleasure.  The biochemical math just makes that choice easier. 
 I've met so many people that feel the need to alter their consciousness everyday with DMT 

Out o... 
 Some losers are still very profitable.   
 Literally saw this happen at our Meetup this week. Guy that had been in Bitcoin since 2012 used a... 
 If you have half a million dollars worth of bitcoin, take a week off from work and study multisig.

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 Fuck people, I'm at peace with me and my environment (which sometimes has people in it, sometimes really cool ones too, go figure) 😏 
 standing on the shoulders of giants!  
 That's precarious.  😬

Better to exercise & make your shoulders as strong as theirs...and then build a stool or ladder to help you get shit done! 
 There's nothing to google; it's literally false.  I'm actually standing on the ground, using satoshi's unique & timely ideas as I endeavor forward.

Honestly, standing on peoples shoulders sounds very close to a circus stunt, or worse, slavery. 
 Physicists have been wrong about pretty much everything so far; giant men that let people stand on their shoulders is one example 😏 
 Gravity.  

Also, giant men.  It was a difderent era; I'm not convinved he was speaking in metaphor.  Dude was crazy. 
 Social media and the lack of care or discernment for truth, evidence and facts may very well be t... 
 I mean it's status quo throughout history and we're, ya know, we're fine.  

Only 500 years ago, reading was an absurd concept for a typical human. 
 I love this song.  It goes on and on and on and on

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 Any #Privacy advocates here that use #Tails The Tor infused Linux desktop 🖥️ 

#Tails #Priva... 
 #Qubes & #Whonix

USB can go fuck itself! 😏 
 Not really.  Facebook & the FBI used an exploit some years ago to catch a pedo who used tails.

I prefer the isolation that #qubes offers. 
 Most comedians are border line geniuses. nostr:note1egaa02un0fmgy227ndg2uqg87g05suexaz2njp28ke7hw... 
 Pouring one out for Robin Williams 🥲 
 idc how smart it is, i'm never taking my hand off the wheel or feet off the pedals 
 Spark plugs that use flint? 🤣 
 Thinking is shutting down my lightning node. Convince me otherwise. 
 No one can convince a person that a couple hours of node maintenance per year is a small cost for self-sovereignty.

You either want it, or you don't.  I don't judge.


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 I hate leaders, I hate hierarchy, I hate groups, I don't want anyone to command me but God and my... 
 Simulation theory?  Everything reduces to "you" & "your environment"?  Do you believe there are other agents like yourself in your realm? 
 This quote is up there with "Hodl" and "This is gentlemen"

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 Back in my day, we called apps ‘programs.’ 
 The word 'program' implies too much authority in it's linguistic meaning.  I prefer 'develop' whose meaning is more about the process than the delivery of the instructions.

But knowing the history of computing...it totally makes sense!  Processes were still important, but instructions were the crucial bottleneck at every turn 😏 
 Confession: if you use the word “problematic,” I judge you. 
 I use Problemat as a proper noun to describe a person who vigorously generates problems. 
 The right way to attack nostr is to outline the attack, release the code, give some time to prepa... 
 When a builder thinks they're thinking like an attacker, but they're really just thinking like a tester 😏

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 Imagine never learning English and still grokking this note! 🤣

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 Everyone should fully learn the logic & purpose & dare I say vocabulary of language once, but there's no need learn all of that again in every new language you might come into contact with.

Software engineers don't relearn data structures & types & loops every time they start using a new language; they just pick up the new syntax and go!  Granted...it doesn't always work out well 🤣 
 A realist looks at the positive and the negative effects of human nature

Be a #Bitcoin Realist 
 Human Nature is a redundant phrase

 
 She should be a lot less pretty for this meme to really hit the mark 😏 
 Sometimes quitting is the desired outcome though
 
 I'd love to know what they "studied" here.  Assuming they did more than ask AI to generate 5 possible t-rex roars! 
 what’s your favorite way to stop a cold when you feel  ill? 
 echinacea, but usually I just hydrate, get balanced electrolytes, eat well & get tired enough to sleep well.  If I just lounge around all day, I don't sleep well, and that just extends the recovery. 
 HBOs Westworld 

Watch it through the lens of how an Intelligence Agency would construct, develop... 
 Devs came out when Season 4 of Westworld was airing, and that show took all of the steam I had for Westorld away.

WW S1 was great, but I thought each season subsequently lost some magic.

The shows were similar, but I enjoyed Devs a lot more than WW (about the same as WW S1).  Westworld took the idea of Narratives far, but still felt like there were limits. Devs takes it full on turtles all the way down. 
 Had lamb ribs for the first time ever last night. They came out amazing just using the grill. How... 
 But not from the spareribs, they're very different than a lamb chop. 🤷‍♂️ 
 I assumed because lamb chop is common on steakhouse menus and spare ribs (from a lamb) aren't. I personally did not like lamb spareribs the few times I tried making them 
 This looks...painful!  🤣


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 i think there other more useful ways to make third eye contact than climbing into another organisms waste cavity 
 If you sit by the bank of the river long enough, you can watch the bodies of your enemies float by. 
 If you're enemies live upriver from you, you've kinda already lost. 
 Is the term 'gift-wrapped DM' clear to most people? 

We think ‘each message updates the sendin... 
 Metadata-minimized DM?

Self-updating DM?

Hidden-key DM? 
 The challenge is simply explaining how, when youconnectto acontact, you share your unique keys, but also a key update function.

Maybe "preauthorized hidden message".  Preauthorized:  you & contact can always ratchet your keys, it's the initial connection step.  Hidden:  every message looks like it's a brand new never before used sender 
 This looks...painful!  🤣


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