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 Imagine the hubris.. "I don't understand it, but it cannot be currency". Drongos! 
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 Statism always tends to extend to infinity and beyond.

This axiom is irrevocable, therefore the ... 
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 Or have some sort of mandated culling of rules process. Or after a term the whole thing gets dismantled and we start again, no exceptions. 
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 Yup, nothing says freedom than forcing by law for a group of pissed off people to behave themselves. 
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 If it's not money they should stop fucking taxing it then 
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 Do we all agree that X is now state-"owned" media again? 
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 I think its a bit disingenuous to compare old left wing Twitter and their cooperation with government censorship, and new Twitter with its free speech and all are welcome philosophy. Surely that is more important than what affiliations certain staff have. 
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 Sleek. What make/model is that? 
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 I need a new Nostr app to play with. What's something new and/or exciting that you've come across... 
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 Have you tried Gossip? Desktop app written in Rust. 
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 That's a keeper 
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 The irony being the number of votes are so much lower because the democrats cheated in 2020 and conjured up 15million fake ballots 
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 I spent hours trying to come up with a remote firmware update solution the other day. Except I want to use a raspberry pi zero located in the same enclosure to do the update. Couldn't find a way. OTA updates not well thought out.
 
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 "We should increase the number of Satoshis."

"We should increase the number of satoshis."

Capit... 
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 It was always known from the beggining that adding more than the 8 zeros was an option in the future. And it doesn't even dilute existing hodlers 
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 That's crazy, does it have something to do with the separatist movement? Is that why there's no government assistance? WTF is going on. 
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 Nice. Is that part of the default firmware or you gotta download a chunky firmware for that ui? 
 If we just get a few thousand people running blossom servers, we could replace YouTube  
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 What benefit does blossom provide other than a simple http server that allows upload? 
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 Great story! Your braver than I. Well done on the crossing all those years ago. 
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 Anyone want some EOS dust? 
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 He pimpin "saylorcoin" now? He doesn't believe in bitcoin, he believes in lining his own pockets 
 I am getting so bullish on this algorithmic relay 🔥

Now it personalizes the feed for each npu... 
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 So you've re-created the dreaded "algorithm" that normies keep complaining about ;) 
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 Pretty tough of biden to make threats like that with 15 days left in office 
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 Wow, kinda weird a hardware bug would cause such a specific software glitch. Maybe a buffering of the tx queue issue. 
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 I'm surprised how functional nostr, lightning and ecash are. Successfully sent some zaps, converted to ecash, send some free ecash without fees, converted back to lightning.

Only problem is the whole thing is so damn complicated, not sure how the Normie's are ever gonna grok whats going on. 
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 Yeah but the system has been dumbed down to "tap plastic card here", *most* imbeciles can figure that out. And if they fuck up somehow most transactions can be reversed/refunded. Bitcoin is not so forgiving. Anyway, it will improve over time. 
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 The noble man's autist. Didn't he die in suspicious circumstances? 
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 How many of these events do you believe official narratives/history got right?

- JFK assassinati... 
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 None 
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 I was sailing north yesterday and collided with a whale. Thankfully no damage and rudders still intact. Scary shit. Lots about at the moment. 
 Michael Saylor:

 - actively blocks open source devs
 - wants regulatory clarity 
 - gives all hi... 
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 Cause he is pumping everyone's bags. 
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 A major client shipping Tor embed and active by default is mildly ground breaking. 
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 Pretty sure Briar ships with Tor and is required for basic connectivity. 
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 ANYONE CAN STORE, DISTRIBUTE, AND VERIFY NOTES IS SIMPLY A BETTER MODEL THAN ONLY ELON CAN STORE,... 
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 I'm sure Elon wouldn't mind sharing and distributing posts but he spent quite a lot of money on it and probably wants some sort of return 
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 Ridiculous on so many levels. As someone dealing with kids and tech I can tell you the problem is not social media, its readily accessible tech in general, and the biggest problem is the schools demanding kids need a laptop, ipad, phone and açcounts with Microsoft , google, gmail etc. The tech is so woven into the system its impossible to stop kids from getting sucked in to all sorts of tech related addictions.
 
 Does anyone else notice that it tends to be ugly people who gravitate towards marxism? 

Not to u... 
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 Low-T 
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 There is a lot of censorship going on in the UK right now. Social Media companies are being force... 
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 Yup, western governments are too large, and are too tempting for large groups to form in an attempt to wield its emence power. Small government, decentralized governance is the solution.  
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 I didn't know of that quote, thanks. Yup he was onto something way back then. 
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 Just ordered my first pixel, looking forward to trying out grapheneOS soon. Lineage has been great, but I like your regular updates here on nostr. 
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 Observation:

On Nostr I follow a bunch of indie hackers building open source stuff creating imme... 
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 The value in proprietary software is in its ability to monopolise a given space. Open source cannot monopolise, by design. 
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 Imagine making an OS that encourages other companies to push driver updates that run in kernel mo... 
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 Just imagine what nefarious shit was hidden in those updates. No one will ever know. 
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 The only way to tolerate windows is to completely disable and block windows from auto updates. Id rather risk the viruses than put up with that shit. 
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 Is it true that Justin Trudeau is the son of Fidel Castro? 
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 Do you remember when Trudeau was the only western leader to come out with glowing praise for the murderous Castro when he died? 
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 I know we are now debating solutions for DNS, but the real boss is IP. 
nostr:nevent1qqsxkxs0rvur... 
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 I'd love to read a detailed comparison of reticulum vs yggdrasil, both interesting projects. 
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 That feeling when you embark upon a 25 mile bike ride and wipe out 100 yards in while crossing ra... 
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 Put some 4.8" fatbike tires on, you'll monster truck those rails. 
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 Morning tea at the bakery

2 adults, 2 kids under 8.

$71

#AUStriches  
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 You gotta lay off the salmon and avo toast! 4x lamo's, $24 bucks max  
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 If you're on Android and want a FOSS image editor, check out Image Toolbox! it's got tons of tool... 
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 Wen self publish? 
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 Today I uninstalled Damus. 
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 This is the correct lesson 
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 If reddit updated those subscriber numbers to actually active users it'd be 10% or less 
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 My personal email server has worked fine for like 10 years but gmail just did something recently ... 
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 Agreed about email decentralization, it certainly has failed. However 50 years of global adoption is pretty impressive, I'm surprized it survived as long as it did. Seems to be the natural cycle of things  
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 Gm! What improvements would you like to see on nostr? 
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 I mean, you could fork and do it yourself? Beauty of open source and all that 
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 How's everyone enjoying the new government approved Bitcoin ETFs and their influence on prices? 
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 I be sending zaps, but how to receive? Is it possible with self custodial wallets like pheonix? nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qghwaehxw309amxjar0wghxummnw3erztnrdakj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctc6ljg69 
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 I avoid custodial wallets. 
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 How is my comment in any way harrasment? Unless nos.social are a big bunch of commie wankers? Fuck off back to your left wing utopia SSB. 
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 Lol...this faggot 😂😂😂
nostr:nevent1qqs27xdk0lh5228h7fsety9c4qu80pn4t2k97uvensdj7hdex5pe7... 
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 Yeah, I got reported by that commie nos.social mob too. Didn't even use the word faggot either.