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 There is a fake account on nostr that is named exactly like me (@laura) but actually there is a s... 
 They can take your name but they can never take your npub! 
 Alright Florida, here we go! Looks like we have our first criminal case regarding deepfake porn.

Great quote: “It is really strange to me that you impose heftier penalties for fake nude photos than for real ones."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/florida-middle-schoolers-charged-with-making-deepfake-nudes-of-classmates/ 
 Let's say the AI apocalypse doomers are correct.

How should I prepare for judgement day? Seems like it would be smart to add EMP weapons to one's armory.

But all the EMP generator guides I can find are for dinky toys. Where's a guide for a scaled up generator that will fry every circuit within a hundred yards? 
 I ain't a quitter. 
 Do they have that on the darknet markets yet? 
 IT IS ABSOLUTELY RETARDED THAT AMERICANS CHANGE TIME MEASUREMENT TWICE A YEAR. 
 Oh are we doing that bullshit again already? 
 Peanut butter is better bait for mouse traps than cheese.

Hopefully you never need this knowledge! 
 A friend of mine needs some testnet coins to test out a new protocol.

If someone has some to spa... 
 Sent a few 😏 
 Bitcoin up.
Coinbase down.
It's practically a law of physics! 
 Why the hell are half of the AA & AAA batteries in my long term stash completely dead? They claim to be good for another 6 years. Both Energizer & Duracell. 
 Please enable zaps! 
 Ah yes, I can see your lightning address in Primal but for some reason Amethyst isn't loading your account details. 
 The GOP nominee for governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson, would like to revoke the 19th amen... 
 for some reason I can't see your quoted mostr.pub notes on Amethyst but I can see them on Primal...

/cc @Vitor Pamplona 
 Today I learned there are duplicate transaction IDs on the Blockchain from the early days 
 Yep, I learned about that when I wrote my first transaction indexer. 🫠 
 I think I just let it overwrite it ignore the error as long as the block height was below the BIP34 activation at height 227,836.

IIRC the UTXO of the earlier duplicate transaction is unspendable and effectively overwritten. 
 As of today the US Presidential race is officially what many have been expecting for the past year: a choice between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. https://image.nostr.build/fd088967ee11fe32d60829c9a14e5a43c54598bd547857dd53116ea9047e3001.jpg 
 A word of warning if you're thinking of uploading controversial images: don't use https://sovbit.host or https://sove.rent/ because they'll get removed.

On the other hand, nostr.build and nostrage.com appear to be solid hosts. 
 Yup 🙃 
 Not gonna lie, I do have plans to spend some of my bitcoin:

1. Invest in / donate to organizations building freedom enhancing technology

2. Construct a self sufficient citadel

3. Acquire more weapons & defense systems

4. Pay for advanced longevity medical treatments so that I can watch the nocoiners die of old age 
 I can already tell that X is going to be insufferable this bull market. 
 Xitter got pretty upset when I mentioned that I posted the Swift deepfakes on nostr and there's nothing they can do about it.

But we have learned that meta posts about posting Swift deepfakes won't get your X account banned! 😏 
 Yeah it was a test of both. Image hosts are a single point of failure which isn't great. 
 The crazy thing is that the guillotine was arguably more humane than most modern forms of execution. 
 How much metadata is leaked through posts and images/videos on Nostr?

As a very big fan of anony... 
 Use an exif metadata stripping tool like "scrambled exif" to clean your images before posting them.

Or use GrapheneOS which has a hardened camera app that doesn't save exif data in the first place. 
 Who are these people still buying bcash and bsv in 2024 ffs 
 Many are probably folks who just see "Bitcoin" at a cheaper price and think it's a better deal. 
 Big city life:

1 AM: police banging on the door across the hall and yelling for them to open up because they got a phone call that something was wrong.

3 AM: air conditioner decides to start screeching.

5 AM: some jackass drives by blaring music so loudly it sounded like it was in the room.

6 AM: recycle truck dumps huge bins of glass. 
 But then I'd be vulnerable to something going wrong and me not waking up to respond to it. 🤷‍♂️ 
 Where the hell do I have to go to find an upscale resort that isn't overrun by instawhores? 
 Let's say a grand per day. 
 Yeah I'm thinking it's less about money and more about time required to reach the location. 
 Have you tried the primal client? It seems to have more options for viewing topics and trending stuff. Discoverability is still a weakness of nostr. 
 Privacy and solitude are priceless. 
 Looks like it. I myself use Amethyst along with Zeus wallet for managing zaps. 
 It's a joke, see how they're laughing? 
 You can't, but a lot of us have retirement funds stuck in the TardFi system. 
 A lot of us have retirement funds stuck in TradFi 
 I've been using this Turing test for a year and it hasn't let me down yet.
https://image.nostr.build/7cb3a01f2aa70019560c6f971bb8459760738bc1ef6820083df87c185180a6d8.jpg 
 It could certainly be problematic if you don't speak English conversationally. 
 🤫 
 It's been 4 years since remote work surged in popularity and yet a bunch of you are still showing your bed or kitchen in the background of video calls 

Have some self respect and invest $100 in a green screen FFS! 
 What's the best site to get historic Bitcoin prices (since inception ) via API? 👨‍💻 
 Just realized my latest hardware testing project is going to require a total of 500 rounds of signing. 🫠 
 You know (one reason) why I love nostr?

You can call a spade a spade.

You can call a retard a retard.

On X I have to expend more energy coming up with a highbrow convoluted way of politely telling people they're fucking idiots. 
 How many neanderthals run their own nostr relay? 🤔 
 The day after Reddit locks my account for the second time, they send me an email offering me IPO shares for being an OG user. Talk about mixed signals! 
 Unclear, I signed up for a wait list to learn more. 
 Heh we're probably in some of the same meme channels. 
 Fuck Reddit.

Now they are locking my account on a weekly basis and forcing a password reset. The only reason I can come up with to explain this is they're discriminating against me for using VPNs.
https://image.nostr.build/2c5a4440b28d4b202391078046a9874ac3ae6517b6bb6deeb84383377640927f.jpg 
 My first Bitcoin interview was 10 years ago today, right after MTGOX crashed. They wanted to know if Bitcoin was dead. 😏

https://video.nostr.build/3d4ac1d63ba70f1627ea91805228157c7402cc71a8d12985ff7fff6c47a91646.mp4 
 I'd rather not remember because I spent like $150 in BTC buying donuts for my whole office. 
 That's Mycelium on Android  
 Hair migrated south 
 Feels good to be proven right. 
 As long as you contribute replies people find valuable, your work should pay off. 
 Elevators in high rise buildings should use LIDAR or similar tech to continuously scan the interior to determine how much capacity is available. If the elevator is near capacity, it shouldn't stop at floors being requested by new passengers. 
 Except there are edge cases like when someone wheels a large lightweight cart into the elevator. Scale can't detect that there's no usable floor space.