The GPL requires the the source be made available. Blocking WPE from accessing the public source could be perceived as violating that portion of the GPL. I'm not a lawyer so I could easily be wrong.


I'm half convinced that the actions that WordPress have taken are in violation of the GPLv2 which the WordPress source is licensed under.


I love home made salsa. We tend to go light on the tomatoes and heavy on pueblo or hatch chilies. Enjoy!


I'm watching The Bad Batch and am, once again, amazed by how beautiful some of the shots are.  Some of the best Star Wars story telling happened in animation and some of the most beautiful.

#starwars


I love my job but some weeks are less fun than others. This week coming up looks to be one of those weeks.


I love listening to General Conference. There are so many messages of hope and peace. There are two more sessions tomorrow.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/broadcasts?lang=eng


I'm finally out of the Samsung ecosystem. it feels good.


I had to get out of the thick of it because it was starting to destroy my sanity and relationships. I went from being politically active and an activist to blocking almost all discussion of politics.

I'm in a better place to dip my toes back in but, really, I can't stand most political parties and politicians. Now it's just a matter of accepting that I can't change anything except, maybe, at the local level and living my principles the best way I can.


Watching the Northern lights dance above me while swimming in the cold ocean water past the arctic circle is something I will never forget as long as I live.

Gn nostr

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- Aperture f3.5
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- ISO 2000-4000
- 6-15s exposure
- 15mm

#lofoten #photography #photostr #norway
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"In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children"


I'm getting a new cell phone. I'm not looking forward to reconfiguring everything but I'm thrilled to get away from Samsung and they're stupid choice to cripple everything that's not Samsung.


For everyone looking for something special... #bitcoinhttps://m.primal.net/LBlQ.gif

https://www.gocomics.com/thegrizzwells/2024/09/25


#Freedom #memes #Nostr https://image.nostr.build/55c8f222194aa2baa996ec6473a3d40ee7eed3c77b0b42511e36d6c873681d10.jpg


I love being in the Colorado Rockies


I'm sitting here sipping a soda and wondering why it tastes so bad. Then I remembered, it's #pepsi


Happy Constitution Day! Let's celebrate the most ignored document in American politics!


#SimpleX founder Evgeny Poberezkin speaking truth. #Nostr focuses on censorship resistance with privacy as an afterthought. SimpleX focus is on privacy. Do not confuse the two.

> **Censorship resistance and privacy are in a contradiction - the more censorship resistant a communication solution is, the less private it is, inevitably.**
>
> Evgeny Poberezkin

https://i.nostr.build/GnyxMZRnCnOf9zzh.jpg

#ikitao #opensource #privacy #nostr #censorship


I'm beginning to suspect that I have a touch of fructose intolerance. The last couple of days when I had a few high fructose fruits with breakfast, I almost immediately started having stomach pain.

For years, I've known that I get sick to my stomach when I drink apple juice. Apples are a high fructose food. I just never seen the correlation with other foods before.


This was a really interesting discussion.

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GM y'all


I'm less concerned about what make something go viral but what behavior going viral rewards. What got me thinking about this was the types of content posted to social media, particularly commentary and political content, and what the inherent rewards of the system encourage from creators.

From what I've seen, more extreme views get more engagement. No one cares about "Thing X is bad" but "Thing X is the worst thing ever and kills babies" tends to drive more clicks, likes, etc. which might push the "algorithm" to boost the post. In the end all the storm and fury surrounding one post that gets a zillion views doesn't mean much other than bragging rights. If, on the other hand, the reward is money there is more incentive to use that extremism to try and hit big, rake in the sats, and to keep going extreme to keep the sats flowing.

Maybe I'm overthinking it. (It's been known to happen.) I'm just wondering if one of the things that makes nostr awesome (the ability to  reward value with value by zapping sats) doesn't also encourage the toxic behavior that is so prevalent on X, Facebook, etc.


One of the worst traits of a creator media site is the tendency to reward the hottest, most extreme takes. For many of those, the rewards tend to be algorithmic growth and increased views.  For nostr, the rewards are direct and often monetary. Is that "better"? Does zapping encourage or discourage more extreme views or does it make no difference?

#nostr #sats #creatormedia #socialmedia


I like fun, character growth, and a general good triumphs over evil message. Internal consistency is helpful but not necessary. (The magic system in Robert Asprin's Myth series is all over the map but the books are fun.)

I also have to like the characters. If I don't like the characters, it's really hard for me to stick with a story. That doesn't mean the characters have to be "righteous" but I should want to spend time with them. In the series I keep going back to (like LOTR), it's because I like being with the characters.

I really like the Honor Harrington series from David Weber, in part, because the pseudo science of space travel is pretty interesting and I like Honor as a character.


Congrats to everyone frothing at the mouth over the mob vote. The mob vote is now dead.

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/the-future-of-minecrafts-development

#minecraft


I've gotten very used to package managers and docker containers. I don't miss installing software directly from source. If you need me, I'll be compiling...


I've been rewatching The Clone Wars. The last arc of season 7 is so freaking good. It's some of the best story telling in all of Star Wars.

#starwars


We must be talking/listening to different libertarians. As a libertarian myself, I agree that free speech includes the freedom to oppose people's behavior.


I really like my Logitech mouse but every so often it just straight up forgets that the buttons are supposed to do things. It's probably related to my KVM but it's annoying.


It's not every day that I see a buck this big in my yard.

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Creator media sites (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X) are built on the spam model. A creator puts out some form of "content" and waits for the likes, tips, whatever to come in. It's really a one-way process.

Social media is built on relationships and a good discussion back and forth. Discord, irc, etc. fall into that. Nostr currently falls here because the community is awesome and there's a culture of connection. The fact that it's still a small community probably contributes to that.

I get worried about people joining nostr and treating it like creator media. Either one-way engagement farming ("I will post my hot take and watch the sats roll in.") or just another place to spam out links.

#nostr #creatormedia #socialmedia

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Speaking of #Minecraft... I rambled on about Mojang's Minecraft experiment process in my latest podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSHB4-AcJWw


The first trailer for A Minecraft Movie is out and... I'm not impressed. Jack Black is almost always a negative for me. The style is interesting. It looks to be taking the basic story from Minecraft Legends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE2YZhcC4NY

#minecraft


I saw someone insisting that price controls totally work and shortages are okay. 🤦♂


You're welcome and good luck to your teen.


The grind is real. For YouTube, your teen might be right... for now. However, you can point your teen to what's happening in the streaming space. Sure, viewers use the built-in tools for subscriptions or donations but a lot of viewers use off platform tools like Streamelements, Ko-Fi, or Fourthwall to support creators. In theory, sats can fall into that same category.

On the other hand, it's really hard for regular viewers to buy and zap sats right now. As much as I'd like to agree with you, until it's just as easy for a casual viewer to tip stats as it is to tip dollars, income based on sats will be very limited.


I haven't read the Mistborn books yet. I read the Skyward series a while back. Fun stuff


Agreed. A problem I think nostr shares with other "social" platforms is that you can't follow someone without seeing everything they post. For some people, that's fine and awesome but sometimes I want to follow someone for their posts about certain topics (eg Minecraft, football) and not others (eg Politics, bitcoin).

I think there's room here for some form of client-side filtering rather than something at the relay level. A simple filter could be based on hashtags. Something more advanced might use a LLM to detect the topic which comes closer to solving both the "sender didn't set a topic" and "spam post isn't related to the stated topic" problems.


I just finished reading "Just Stab Me Now" by Jill Bearup. It's a fun little story and a great translation of her Fantasy Heroine series of Shorts. There were a few spots where I actually laughed out loud.

It's not high literature by any means but it's a fun fantasy romance that actively plays with (and subverts) the typical romance tropes.

#books #bookstr


I saw this thing for Mastodon and immediately thought of the relative simplicity of #nostr and zaps

 https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/1/24232298/sub-club-fediverse-make-money


That feeling when your contractor gives up half way through the project and ghosts you. I wish I could afford to hire a lawyer and/or someone to finish up this mess. Somehow, I doubt that my programming skills are going to be much help.

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"We're sorry your car broke down. We're sending you a space Uber." -- NASA, probably


Fair 🤣


I'm still in the "finding people to follow" phase.


We had a visitor

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Congrats, dude. Being a father is pretty amazing.


If you intentionally go out looking for problems and drama, you’ll surely find them.

If you instead focus on constructive stuff, then some problems and drama will still find you because life is life, but usually way less.


Thinking about this more. I think nostr is especially well suited to this. Sites like X or Facebook want to push out everything for ad-related reasons. Nostr is focused on the individual user and their needs.

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My latest podcast is out wherein I talk about coming back to nostr. When I recorded it on Saturday, I didn't expect that a couple of days later French idiocy would cause a lot of people to jump on the nostr train.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-wsCADMtNk


Social medial platforms like X, Bluesky, and nostr all suffer from the same weakness. They all assume that, if you follow someone, you want to see everything that person says about everything. That's seldom true, even offline. Often a person you go to for one topic is not someone whose opinions you want to see on other topics.

As an example, back when I was watching the NFL, I followed a couple of people on Twitter because I really liked their takes on the NFL. They were diving into statistical analysis in a way I hadn't seen before and they made it fun. That said, I had zero interest in anything they had to say about politics.

Here's another example. I'm really into Minecraft. A number of the developers were on Twitter. I really wanted to see what they were saying about Minecraft but I couldn't care less about their environmental activism or even what they had for dinner.

It would be great to be able to say I want to follow this person but only for this topic or I want to follow that person for everything except this other topic. Maybe I want their takes on nostr and bitcoin but not rugby.

On the sender side, this would require 1) that every time a person posts, they use some sort of topic specifier (like a hashtag) and/or 2) an LLM that picks up on the context and adds the topic that it guesses.

From the receiver side, the easy default is to show everything (which is what most people expect). Then when the sender posts something from a topic the receiver doesn't want to see, they could add that topic to the filter. Then posts that match the filter aren't shown in the main feed. (They should still be visible if the receiver visits the sender's profile.)

I'm not sure how reasonable this would be in practice but I think it would go a long way to allowing a person to curate their feeds to see exactly what they want.

#nostr #socialnetworks


I miss the days when every site has an RSS feed.


Fresh salsa waiting to go in the canner #foodstr

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I do a basic mindfulness meditation from time to time as I need it.


PerlStalker

Family friendly YouTuber, streamer, and podcaster. I mostly play Minecraft.

- Gaming: https://youtube.com/@MusicFreeGaming
- Podcast: https://youtube.com/@MusicFreeStatic


It's always enlightening to listen to a politician and count the number of times they use words like "ban", "require", or "mandate" when discussing their policies.


Yes


I'm a gamer though it's mostly Minecraft. I also stream and do the whole content creator thing.


I was an 80s kid. I listened to a lot of everything but what stuck with me was early hip hop. (C+C Music Factory, Marky Mark, etc ) My tastes have moved on to EDM, k-pop, and other high energy dance music but I think it all started with that early hip hop.