Thanks for sharing.

I remember that period very well. I was advising several banks across Europe on credit risk management at that time.

Ironically, the scheme put in place for Austrian (EUR) with Swiss mortgage loans in CHF was reproduced down the food chain. Raiffeisen Bank (Austria) was selling mortgage loans in EUR to suckers in Hungary, whose currency (HUF) was weak. Lots of defaults, lots of pain for regular people.

I was really radicalized at that time as 3 of my main customers were the banks that drowned their country (Anglo Irish Bank in Ireland, Fortis in Belgium and Bank of Cyprus). I saw in situ the situation going from crazy arrogance to bankrupcy.


I’m just getting started


I enforce a similar rule at home. Every time I hear : « I’ve not had time to do … », I transform it in: « you did not take time for … ».
It took a while for them to realize time is the great equalizer, but they’re beginning to get it. Even Elon has no more than 24 hours in a day.


I'll make a separate stack of "expensive" sats so they don't contaminate too much my currently optimized average price. That's just for moral support.


yup, i was just making the same point yesterday on X to a guy I don't align with who's leaving X for Bluesky. I told him he should consider staying on X to broadcast his message on that platform instead of preaching to the choir on Bluesky.


jajaja acabo de terminar el ultimo pod de  nostr:npub1yn3hc8jmpj963h0zw49ullrrkkefn7qxf78mj29u7v2mn3yktuasx3mzt0 y me dijé que iba a volver a leer los textos fundamentales de Nick Szabo. El orange-pilling profundo para mi occurió cuando leí sobre social scalability por primera vez en sus textos.


I’ve just had this exact conversation today with a good friend who’s been tested several times with a 180+ IQ. Granted, I can see he hasn’t done the minimum work to understand. He asked me today if I think it’s ok he sells his 1 BTC because it has “no value”. Smh.


yes, this is the first cycle I've already heard several GenXs around me saying they had doubts before, now they want to buy but they're very disappointed and bitter because they can't afford a full bitcoin.

I've been that annoying person trying to orange-pill them for at least 3 cycles. I can feel it's tough for them both to admit they were wrong for so long and they can't afford even 1 full coin.


Awesome!
Can't wait, I'll be a bit North from Futaleufu on the Arg side in the coming weeks.


awesome. I'd imagine it's somewhere close to lago ranco


Hermes Trismegistus, get out of that body


make it stop already, I'm tired, so much unnecessary noise in my head, I want peace and equanimity


Unpopular opinion: I prefer the sound of the bitcoin accumulation phase than the noise of the bull.

It has barely started and I already feel like I've had enough.

Equanimity is just more healthy for the mind and body.


Actually, I've come to appreciate having hangovers with even the smallest amount of alcohol. I'd be drinking way too much otherwise.


scale invariance is almost magical


LFG


Bienvenue


LIVE DELIBERATELY


Brilliant!


nice, but imho be careful with opsec. It only took me a couple of minutes to pinpoint exactly from which apartment this pic was taken.

I do it as a sport, but not everyone online is well intentioned.


GM
como echo de menos estar allá


best 2nd car ever.


Congrats!
Same here, today is my 100,000 blocks anniversary on Nostr.


I dumped my tesla in part to get physical buttons back. For many reasons, it actually makes a big difference.


Celebrating 100,000 blocks on Nostr!
https://m.primal.net/LtIw.jpg


No hay todavía un nivel general de exasperación suficiente para alcanzar la masa crítica requerida para un cambio profundo. Falta bastante.

Por otro lado, concuerdo con The Sovereign Individual en que los cambios civilizacionales de fondo no llegan por voluntad del pueblo, sino más bien por la tecnología.


My experience says you can have anything you want, but not all at once.


Salut 👋


great! will it be hosted on bitcoin.rocks or somewhere else?


Be compassionate, there’s nothing else you can do at this point.


Fall colors this week
https://m.primal.net/LpYM.jpg


This is the canton of Valais in Switzerland


nostr once again undefeated


Adding insult to injury.

O sea, eligen usar los pocos medios logísticos disponibles en la zona siniestrada para llevarse coches mal aparcados en lugar de prestar ayuda. Se pasaron.


My daughter is currently helping locals over there with her fellow students and was telling me this morning how little she has seen official gov help apart from firefighters.

These gov parasites must be made obsolete.


Yes, awesome day to be alive!
https://m.primal.net/LpYM.jpg


Yup, same here.
Doing oil pulling with coconut oil has also done wonders for me.


indeed, and esperanto limits your world to Neutral Moresnet ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Moresnet


the axiological realm has taken over the metaphysical one


Indeed, there's no taxes in my case


If at some point in 2025, we get over $220k/btc and the greed index is extremely high, meaning there's a high probability (no certainty) that price will be lower later, then I might sell a few percents of my stack to (hopefully) buy back more later.
That's what I did late 2017. But I didn't do it in 2021.


GM
🖖


It gets even more disturbing when you think that Lagarde is prioritizing employment over savings even though the ECB has a single mandate, which is price stability. Not like the Fed that has the dual mandate of price stability and max sustainable employment.


Over the past 4 years, it has slowly become impossible to have a conversation with my normie friends. The gap has widened so much that it has become too difficult to have a common ground.

I am giving up on them and it's not fun because we used to be friends.


imagine the power he would have by now if BTC was a PoS


In hatha yoga, where you tend to remain and breathe in physically challenging postures,  we say that the posture begins the moment you want to get out of it.


GM. Early rising on Sunday is so underrated.


Other-worldly Klaus Kinski in Fitzcarraldo


I'd like to think that's true but beyond what's possible for small communities, it seems the first agricultural societies were likely under the authoritarian rule of a clique that had control over water/irrigation access and defended against invasions.


You could also add homeless on this chart as many people from mental hospitals ended up on the streets when the institutions closed.


There have been many tether-based designs to bring stuff to LEO. It looks feasible on paper but it's an open question whether it would work in practice. It's certainly a lot of fun to imagine a world with these gigantic tethers.
There are many unsolved challenges:
a) to build it
b) to make it work,
c) to make it cost-effective
And you can't only consider the costs of mass-to-orbit by starting from 30km altitude. You first need to bring your payload from the ground to that platform. All in all, it looks cool but the starship design is really at the frontier of what is currently possible.
Reaching 4% for SpaceX is not just having 1 killer feature that changes everything, it's rather the accumulation of a very significant number of small improvements regarding materials, strucutre, fuel, engines.


I love the energy of the sticker fight!


To understand how close we are to have too much gravity, just look at the payload-to-total-mass ratio.

Except for SpaceX, the ratio is between 1% and 2%, meaning the useful stuff you can bring to orbit is only 1 to 2% of the total mass. 98-99% of the mass of a rocket is its structure and its fuel. This is due to what's known as the curse of Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation. A tiny bit more gravity and the 1-2% becomes 0%.

SpaceX Falcons are around 4% payload mass. Saturn V was 4% too.

Catching Super Heavy booster with the chopsticks means the booster doesn't need legs, which would be pretty heavy given that it's tall. By removing legs the payload-to-total mass ration improves quite a bit.


I look at all your photos with attention in order to extract some wisdom to improve my photos. I take decent amateur photos in environments that have obvious interesting features. But I have a lot to learn to take good photos of seemingly mundane environements.


GM
brake to witness beauty


RhapHcjcDhiGm/ySqbetRw==?iv=BIjp/FogYYOFrCNrap/pgw==


Plant many seeds, water them regularly. Adopt the mindset of a gardener, not of a hunter. Eventually, it will pay off.

At least I can say I'm an older dude and it worked out for me ;)


I've gone through that experience multiple times. Very frustrating.
Now I only concentrate my orange-pilling energy on a few individuals for whom I think the probability is reasonably good.
For other people, I let them come to me when they're ready (very few have).
There's no real shortcut to walk on this road. They need to accept to reframe their view of the world and leave their bags on the way, it's a lengthy process.


The 4th one is by far my preferred, absolutely wild.
Beautifully described in this book:

https://www.amazon.com/City-Fortune-Venice-Ruled-Seas/dp/0812980220/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZBEOEB1L7MPF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.AxspQb65o_w5ZtIil-7lpu-i8YOb-Bmq3IL6VmZxvG51o8X_u92pkd7leSr-NJOBQqT7LDzsnBs4XT21XuqDWMRMehKwgnG0OE3U2HfDODIccK4cA--shVDfFtAPjLhp09snE4KAR6Ro0fL940ZRF9-B8elby9R7npzowSJt7ewrjaM50BSTswJP5b6PriGuWFjD9j49NUpfUdGhKR9WxBZNiZwmmcpr6_O-WKfUFVE.4jRrWdcwIj6mjC1sh6ZUOPRtf1jZ_o1d-iokzzzVgfM&dib_tag=se&keywords=city+of+fortune&qid=1728918975&sprefix=city+of+fortune%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-1


This could be interesting if Professor Dave Farina was not so politically biased.

For someone claiming to root for science and calling himself Professor, he doesn't seem to have learned the basic premise of the scientific method, ie suspending judgment while investigating.


Legitimacy is earned performing the job, not showing off credentials.


great work!


"Should I Kill Myself or Have a Cup of Coffee?" Albert Camus


alternatively, private DMs could get nostr apps banned from app stores once stuff like EU ChatControl is finally voted and implemented.


Beauty is a marker of love and transcendental purpose.

We have a lot of work in front of us as a society before we witness beauty sprouting again.


GM. You can find that kind of landscape in Chile’s Lake District.


that's a great post! I wanted so hard to zap it, but it's not possible, it seems your zap setting is not working.


same here. Notepad was my friend then for html and java, and Sublime Text is my friend now for html and python.


Great initiative, but we need to set up a European version that is not in the middle of the night.


this had me remembering Ebo Taylor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkHzk07vb_w&pp=ygUZZWJvIHRheWxvciBsb3ZlIGFuZCBkZWF0aA%3D%3D


"I sit in my chair
I look at the street
The neighbor returns
My smile of defeat

I move with the leaves
I shine with the chrome
I'm almost alive
I'm almost at home

No one to follow
And nothing to teach
Except that the goal
Falls short of the reach"


Jala Neti helps a lot


GM 🚀


Smells fishy


KaliYuga

No one is coming to save you. Nostrich since 768952.


Comprendes Mendes no ha envejecido ni lo más mínimo en los 30 años que lo sigo escuchando.

https://youtu.be/HC9akmNXT-s


The realm of the possible used to be on another level. For example, with The Residents.

https://youtu.be/NRweyGHJ3bc


Ce qui manque à ce monde, c'est le retour des Bérus.

Bérurier Noir fixes this.

Quels souvenirs!

https://youtu.be/8LGliBxcSAE


above all, don't lock yourself out of your coins for being fancy and make sure your coins are not lost for your family if you get smashed by a bus tomorrow.


Hola 👋 hay q buscar un poco pero hay bastante hispanohablantes por aquí


I've stopped having these conversations altogether. I dig a bit more only if I feel the person is very very open-minded and curious, otherwise it's just a loss of time.


ok, dans ce cas je vais commencer avec une série rectangulaire


tu m'avais dit que t'utilises printoclock pour imprimer tes stickers. Je vois que ça marche pour les stickers rectangulaires de #bitcoinrocks. Par contre je ne vois pas la possibilité sur leur site d'imprimer des formats libres comme le sticker "fix the money fix the world" par exemple. J'ai mal regardé ou tu imprimes ailleurs?


Congrats! I learned paragliding in Chile as well in the 90s. It was truly exhilarating, but I saw irl some very bad accidents and became scared.


$58k victim


GM

https://m.primal.net/KuhD.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KuhE.jpg


haha same here


In Ashtanga yoga, the yamas and niyamas in Patanjali's sutras also contain principles that relate to focusing on action without attachment to outcomes. Same with Wu Wei in Taoism.
This is the way.


GM
Touch grass

https://m.primal.net/KrbV.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KrbZ.jpg


GM

There’s nothing like a morning walk alone in the woods.
First snow ❄
https://m.primal.net/KqXl.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KqXn.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KqXo.jpg


solo starts at 6:30


Same vibes as Mdou Moctar, but Mdou's hands are unique and pure magic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZvPoE0EH1o

 nostr:npub1mpz30qp2gdr403t2apjzhla56fh94hs8zgznw5pp26q0tztw27dsu60pxm


GM 🧨


Sure, she makes me smile. But she makes me laugh just as often.
https://m.primal.net/KoUJ.jpg


Thank you, reading this from EU helps me envisioning what’s coming and making plans accordingly.


and yet, imho Seneca is overrated. He writes beautifully and his advices are gems. But actually he comes from a rich family and never had to go through real hardship.
This contrasts a lot with Epictetus, who was a slave, and with Marcus Aurelius, who had to show up every day to rule an empire. Their lives were consistent with their talk.


you first gather a lot of data about a topic that matters to you. And then by training a neural network on this data, you're compressing all the information that is embedded in the data. The output of the training is a much smaller set of numbers (weights). By inserting these numbers in a math function, you can now ask questions related to your set of data. The answers won't necessarily be perfect since the data was compressed.

Training a neural network is a 2-step mathematical process where the 1st step is preparing the data (80% of the overall effort) and the 2nd step is going through an iterative process that intents reducing the error rate when compressing the data up to an optimal point.

There are many applications and LLMs like chatGPT are only an example. I was lucky enough to make credit default prediction models with neural networks in a big bank in the early 90s.


It's a good strategy as a rite of passage to enter a WoT


Si no lo conoces, Walden es, sin duda, uno de los mejores libros del siglo XIX. Viendo lo que publicas, creo que te encantaría.

"All good things are wild and free"


pity that note is not zappable, at least from nostrudel


Que tal esta joya q encontré en las pulgas en Buenos Aires hace justo 30 años? 🙌 https://image.nostr.build/cb7128fc9a04bea6c98f8c68499b4966a149e0ec40a38c78550f7b138f85f736.jpg


Thank you, but I'm looking for more detailed info and potentail implementations. I'd like to run a relay and in order to do that, I'd like to understand how events on a relay are managed, read, saved, filtered,...
I understand that nostr development is moving fast and therefore it's hard to have an uptodate explanation with examples, but I'm surprised there's not more info given the importance of relays.


Is there a how-to somewhere?
I've been trying to better understand relays lately but it's hard to find a good source.


When securing a significant amount of corn, sparing a few € to buy the secure device on the cheap doesn't make any logical sense imho.


I imagine improvements have been limited and uneven. Poverty, corruption, and exploitation, are persistent and slow to change without major structural shifts.


Same here. I keep them to adjust my Bayesian model of the world. We’re not acting in a vacuum.


I watched it 15 years ago and I keep thinking about it very often. Truly like a nightmare.
Every time my over-privileged children complain about bit too much, I tell them to go watch this movie.


WMD


Cngratulations, awesome project!

Here is my spot a tiny bit North of Patagonia. I've owned it for many years but haven't developed the homestead yet.

https://m.primal.net/KiLg.png


Truly feels like it's Nostr Cambrian explosion moment.
 https://image.nostr.build/26fb58220ca475cbf4d32ae8a2105e7dc53117c1fcca1d02cbfbac1621191740.png


GM 🧨


Where can I find detailed info about how relays work? Been searching but unsatisfactory so far.


Te envié esto ayer

https://njump.me/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpm539umd7ltlqm2k4xg2x9kzukxhhj28k45d7z89ry7sytnglv7eqqsxjecfg6kaxdvggdg9mpfmnd9qfnvsgh32r9rt9cfadvp03gp93vcpm0yrp


Salut!
LFG 🤜🤛


- getting fees lower on Relai: yes it's possible, but that's not the baseline situation.
- I knew Relai a few years back too and recommended it to many newcoiners. I discovered bittr only recently and I'm pretty happy with their service so far. Now I'm recommending ProtonWallet and Bittr, not Relai anymore.
- Sure, Bittr is only KYC-light bc of bank transfers, not fully KYC-free. Not ideal but nevertheless better than full KYC imo. And I'm still not sure why Relai now has to KYC everyone.


2.5% on relai
On Bittr, there's no KYC and I pay 1.5%
On kraken, KYC but fees are only about 0.25%


imho Relai has lost attractiveness: KYC + high fees


btw, ya intenté varias veces hacerte donaciones mediante tu pagina web (apoyo->donacion) pero la url da un error de DNS (uso cloudflare y google DNS).


Sigue siendo util enterarme de las barbaridades para ajustar el modelo bayesiano del mundo que llevo en la cabeza, pero se puede hacer con mucho menor frecuencia sin perder predictibilidad.


ah ok, but that's on Mastodon, I meant posting in English here on Nostr. I couldn't find it, but anyway, thanks again for what you do.


nostr:npub1sqzr42dj8vx32yd5jcvvl3ytux45kl0etgf6y2ymjvmd7lqmuwmqk9vk7v why exactly do you need KYC when Swiss competitors of you don't?


Freedom from peak authoritarian central control is the real worldwide movement.

#Bitcoin and #nostr are two tools to help decentralized sovereign individuals actually win the fight. Eventually.


Thanks for keeping us informed! Would be great if you could also post these in English as you do on X.


GM


Sinclair ZX-81 generation


oh, that's bc they're discontinuing the system they had since when zaps started and are now implementing Alby Hub, which actually gives them a business model to live on. I've not made the switch yet and don't have invites.

Maybe check your strike lightning address to see if there's anything obviously wrong bc I think it should work. Otherwise maybe walletofsatoshi is the easiest solution.


I've been using Alby since day one. It's pretty handy given that it's managed from the same web extension that manages your keys.

I've also used walletofsatoshi at times and it was working fine.


The problem is my friend don't even understand what the problem is.

https://m.primal.net/KYsU.jpg


I've also tried to zap your profile instead of the note from Primal, noStrudel and Damus and it doesn't work. I imagine there's something wrong in your config with colincz@strike.me. Damus says 'invalid lightning address'.
It's weird though since I can see the note has been successfully zapped by someone else. I'm not a strike user, idk what are the config requirements.


On Primal web, it lets me click the zap sign and doesn't show any bug but the zap does not ask for confirmation and does not register.

On noStrudel, the zap sign is unclickable.


pics are really great, love it!
but there's something wrong, zapping doesn't work on your note.


Thank you.

They've been trying for some time to get #ChatControl approved. It looks like this could be their moment given that the few people who care about privacy and were abstaining or against the law might find this version acceptable in comparison with what's going on in UK and Brazil.

One option will be to move away from EU because there's really no sign that anything is going in the right direction at this time.

Another option will be to stop using the centralized platforms and move towards p2p and decentralized whenever possible. That will mean stopping to communicate with many people who see no issue in what's happening.

All in all, it will mean spending more time on Nostr.


That's the content we're here for!


Welcome! Show your doggos 😁


GM
https://m.primal.net/KWfR.jpg


Agreed.
If there are enough people complaining, which I'm pretty sure there'll be, then there'll be a NIP about it and client/relay will implement the NIP.
Advertising will be a cat and mouse game where NIPs will need to constantly evolve to protect users.


Mine can’t convince herself to eat blueberries
https://m.primal.net/JliT.jpg


"Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need." — Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire.


I have no doubt that at least some Nostr client will cater to the needs of those who don't want to see all the microzaps-for-attention. If they don't, I'll build one for myself.


Awesome 👏 thank you


The funny part is he’s both a citizen of UAE and France.🍿


Nostr doesn't need as much relay decentralization as it needs relay replication and resilience. It's a real challenge but it looks achievable.
More work is needed to make relays easy to run and manage, and much more work is needed to make relay management in clients much easier (default+advanced modes).


2 years is only for one item in the list. By summing up the potential jail time for each "crime", I suppose you should get to approx 20 years.


oops, I wrote "up to 2 years in jail" but it's actually "2 years in jail"


I thought this law had been initiated by Macron, but it's from 2004, before his first mandate.

Failing to file a declaration for cryptology services used for confidentiality can result in up to 2 years in jail and 30k€ fine.

art. 35 "III. - Le fait de fournir des prestations de cryptologie visant à assurer des fonctions de confidentialité sans avoir satisfait à l'obligation de déclaration prévue à l'article 31 est puni de deux ans d'emprisonnement et de 30 000 Euros d'amende."


ok, thank you for the details.
I'll check first how to run a personal relay (not Android).
But I'd like also to understand how public relay management works in general and what are the challenges. I want to understand how much of a help it is for nostr in general if I just start a new public relay.
I'm not looking at this to build a business. It's a war effort.


where do I start if I want to run a relay?
is there a handy how-to somewhere?


is that your doggo?


Agreed.
Beautifully said!


Even if there is a way to bypass it now, the trend is clear and soon enough, there'll be no way around.

My guess is that using Windows in 2024 is asking for trouble.


Agreed, 'decentralization' is probably not the right word in this context since single truth is not required across relays.
The expectation is not being censured and not losing notes because a relay went down. Sounds quite different from true decentralization.


pls do, there's a lot of people here wondering


No one is coming to save you


The New-Yorker example makes sense and I fully agree with the general idea of deflationary technology, but it can't be extended to every product and service. Technology by itself will not make everything cheaper.

Just look at a car made in the 60s and compare it to a current car. Sure, there's a tremendous amount of productivity stolen by inflation. But there're also safety improvements (ABS, airbags, structural design,..), regulatory changes ("safety", fuel efficiency,...), and hedonistic enhancements (AC, better seating, multimedia,...).

The same goes for houses.

The function has not changed though: drive from A to B for a car and shelter for a house.

Eventually, even if salaries had followed inflation, cars and houses have become less affordable for the average family.

https://image.nostr.build/a2757bf618f07d19658fa075a7c2bcb2e90f9f2939f800e8b741d91ef98239a3.jpg


Young children are an immense joy but later you might have moments of doubt when your children are in their teenage years.

By then, you're not their source of truth anymore. They'll rather rely on that guy on Tiktok, or on their buddy who dropped out of school or on their girlfriend's uncle. In the vicious culture environment we live in, you can quickly see your children spiraling out of control. It can be tough as a parent because you often feel powerless and you can never be happier than your unhappiest child.

I feel lucky because one of my children has now vigourously bounced back and is doing great as a young adult. But I have several friends not as lucky as me. And my second child has not made it yet to the other side, the jury is out.

All in all, I don't regret a single second having children, it's an incredible adventure, but it can be a very bumpy road.


spectacular!


it's a harvestman, aka daddy longlegs ;)


imho, besides framing the positives differently, the technical barrier must be lowered by making it easier to deal with keys and relays.


regardless of being disrespectful or not in the present, such a situation can only lead to trouble down the road.


The brain does not process stimuli; it processes
prediction errors.


Your brain doesn’t work by receiving stimuli from the senses and then analyzing it and reacting as is widely believed.
It acts according to an internal apriori built over time and only use data to validate the model.
A top tennis player wouldn’t be able to return a tennis serve if the model was stimuli > analysis > reaction.


yup, unfortunately we now have scientists and economists more driven by ideology than their craft, and then politician taking advantage of these publications for their own benefit.

Btw, in France it's still possible to buy one of the few remaining new Jimny on the market, but while the car will cost you approx €28k, the new special French CO2 tax will be around €30k on top of purchase price. We've entered crazy territory.


yup, no go for me.

I don't want yet another wallet with fiat rails.

Alby was great so far, but I'm not clear how the experience will be modified with Alby Hub. Let's be realistic though, they do need a business model to pay their expenses and keep building. They've really done a lot of great work over the past 2 years.


Jimny was in such demand in recent years in EU that there was almost a year of delay between order and delivery. Also, it was not possible to choose a color. It would just arrive and if you don't like the color, the car is for the next person in queue.

Earlier this year, Suzuki has stopped selling them in EU because it was too damaging for the EU CO2 rating given that there's no hybrid version.

I guess 2nd hand prices are bound to increase. Mine is certainly not for sale.


I've not tried that and I don't really want to be tinkering with browsers everywhere (I use 2 desktops, 2 laptops and 1 smartphone). I need something easy enough.

I initially hoped that ProtonMail = Gmail + privacy but in its current state and with a big archive, it's ProtonMail = Gmail + privacy - searchability, which is frankly less compelling.

So far, I've moved all communications with banks, shopping sites and private conversations to Proton, but Gmail remains important for the rest and I don't find it handy to need managing both.


thanks. yes, I've already tried that. It works with a reasonably small collection of emails, but with an archive over 5Gb it's not really a workable solution.


the tradeoff seems obvious at first in favor of privacy. But when I consider that I need to search quite regularly (sometimes on mobile) in thousands of emails of at least the last decade, the tradeoff is not easy anymore.


I have an account and I love the product.

But the big drawback is that you can't really search full-text in the body of emails because of encryption on server side. And searching in the subject is most often not enough.

I really wonder how people deal with that.

If you don't have many emails in your archive, you can use their web storage full-text search, but that's not scalable.
You can also use Proton Bridge with Thunderbird to import your emails locally and search full-text, but that's not handy through multiple desktops and mobile.
So you're left with over-engineering your email subjects, labeling and folders, which is not manageable.

I'd love to give up on Gmail and go 100% ProtonMail but I need to solve that problem first.


That’s what Proton Wallet is doing


Understanding breathing is a master skill. It has transformed my life over the past 25 years with holotropic breathwork, pranayama, wim hof and others.


Thank you, that's exactly what it is, my freedom car! It's the perfect 1-person car to travel around. There's room for my dog tough 😉


I don't know whether Bittr works with an id.
What I said was actually a comment that the Bittr founder wrote me in an exchange to explain that his system is not KYC-free per se because my name and bank account is still captured by the bank (and maybe by them for the conversion).


I haven't configured a wallet belonging to an app, like Primal, because I thought it would come with strings attached and complications to use with other apps. NWC arguably removes that hurdle but anyway, I find Alby to be by far the easiest and more logical home for a Nostr wallet that I use with all apps on desktop and mobile.


Bittr is arguably easier, does not require KYC and is substantially cheaper.
Keep in mind they get your name and bank account nbr given that you need to wire to their account.


I'm not using #nos but I imagine that in the app settings you should find a way to connect your Primal wallet through NWC.
I guess it would require you to go to Primal where you would ask to create a new connection for your wallet, it would give you a QR code and you'd scan that QR code from #nos.

I don't have a Primal account but that's the flow that works through Alby to connect Alby wallet to a new nostr app.


this is quite certainly not obvious


the freedom to be inoffensive is no freedom at all


Thank you, she's my faithful companion, always ready for an adventure!


Hate speech is clearly not specific enough.

What must be prohibited is speech that jeopardizes the physical integrity of others. There must be a clear incitation to physical violence for it to not benefit the free speech label. Think Radio Mille Collines in Rwanda in 1994 for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Libre_des_Mille_Collines


I'm not 100% sure yet.

I know I'm here with like-minded people. I'd say we all crave for safeguarding our eroding freedom.

And I know we're currently cooking something together. Not sure how yummy it will be, but we're on it, one way or another.

LFG


Bruce Lee is the GOAT
https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/02/22/in-my-own-process-bruce-lee/


no worries, tea-bagging will come in due time


getting rid of nicotine adiction is arguably not that hard, it would take at most a couple of weeks. What is *really* hard is getting rid of the habit, and above all getting rid of the associations between smoking and some activities (stress reduction, alcohol, post-eating, concentration,...).
I managed to get rid of it several decades ago, never went back. I used a combination of matches and water. Chewing matches helped me to slowly getting rid of the habit of having a cigarette in my mouth. Then, whenever I feeling a strong urge to smoke, I would force myself to drink 75cl of water quickly. It would fill my belly and and therefore alleviate the urge.
The most dangerous moment is after 6 weeks and after 1 year. That's when you feel confident that you're in control and risk relapsing.


GM

Ashtanga yogi here.
I've done a few pilates sessions and find it an excellent complement to ashtanga.
I'm older than average here and want to develop as good as possible mobility, stability and strength for old age.


Let’s be realistic, most of us here on Nostr are on the spectrum, and it’s not a coincidence.


as I understand from the blog post, there will be a Lightning solution, but it's currently only an on-chain solution. What about network fees, it could easily be a double digit percentage on small amounts in times of high fees?


ok, thanks a lot, I'll try it!


You're right, that's a good point.

So, that's basically the same info leaked as when buying on a P2P platform like Peach. Sure, I don't "like" that a company has that info, but I think I like it even less that a person I know nothing about on the other side of P2P deal gets my name and account number.

Anyway, you've convinced me, I'll try your service ;)


if it's not KYC'ed, I agree it deserves paying a premium on top of kraken and then comparing 1.5% to the regular premium paid on P2P platforms actually make you offering look much better.
Maybe I read you web page too fast, but it did not immediately appear to me that this is KYC free. If that's the case, it might be worth highlighting it a bit more.


ok thanks for explanation!

I imagine that if it's not KYC'ed, Switzerland limit is 1000EUR/day?


I hesitated to go for Ente, I eventually just switched to 2FAS, it's also open-source and easy to use. Happy so far. It's possible to keep a backup in iCloud. Btw, I never scan 2FA QR codes, I copy the token-secret (string) and paste it in first in the 2FA app, and then again in an encrypted file that I keep as 2FA backup. It's much easier when you switch app, and more reliable than recovery codes when you lose 2FA device.


Welcome!
Nice concept.
1.5% fee though. I get it that's it's hard to earn enough to sustain your business while you're not at scale, but it 7x the price I pay on Kraken. I'm willing to be convinced, why should I try your service?


I discovered him about a year ago when I was trying to understand René Girard's work. J. Bi had just released a series of 7 episodes about Girard. IMHO, each episode should be watched twice because I find it pretty hard to digest Girard on a single pass. Great work from J. Bi and D. Perrell.


Johnattan Bi clearly has a style that won't satisfy all tastes.
But he's very good at conveying key philosophical ideas.
I've started watching the videos from his new project about great ideas from Western thinkers. Definitely worth my time so far.


Yup, there was a big energy buildup and big hope for a new world.

Do you remember that day when Antonopoulos said he had only a small amount of bitcoins and everybody started to send him some? It felt so good.


I'm much happier because #Bitcoin is Fuck You money and it qualitatively improves my freedom.
But since I was raised in a rather poor family and have pinched pennies until early 30s, low time preference has always been a given. I always had to slowly gather money if I wanted to buy myself anything.


GM

https://m.primal.net/JliT.jpg


Certainly one of the best books I've ever read.
As a young adult feeling lost and misunderstood in my mid-20s, it helped me a lot and later I read it again several times.

I reacted to this post because “The only zen you’ll find on mountaintops is the zen you bring up there with you” immediately stuck with me on my first reading of the book and I keep thinking about this sentence pretty often.

How do you like it so far?


That's not from Alan Watts afaik, it's from Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.


Ok top, merci! Ça fait des mois que je veux en imprimer et que je procrastine. Tu m’as motivé 😁 Tu en design toi-même aussi ou tu prends essentiellement ceux de nostr:npub18kpw3akvdsyk239lx0jgwksr74sq4nlha3r8u9g2rnrhztfpfhysy469c4 ? Celui de bitcoin standard, il vient d’où ?


Très bonne idée! Tu les imprimes où les stickers?


are you using the sticker files from bitcoin.rocks and print them locally?


And it mostly just keeps accelerating. By my age, years are just flying by.
With that said, it goes by fast if you don't do a lot of new stuff. It's been shown that daily routine gives the impression of time passing faster. Hence, the need to find the right balance between routine and discovery.


Same here, I really like Proton but don’t want all my eggs in the same basket.
I use Proton Pass only for email alias and keep all logins in Bitwarden.
Also, Proton is releasing many products at once and is likely overextending themselves. Proton Wallet is a very cool idea but I’d prefer by far they’d work on a better solution for email search and a better Proton Drive client on Mac OS.


How can we ever expect to raise again as a civilization if we devote public space to billboards instead of inspiring art ?

Ads trigger mimetic desire that (at civilization scale) inevitably ends up in insatisfaction and violence.


Yes, by default nobody wants to deal with that.
The downside of automation being probably more centralization, though with the option of tinkering for those who need it.
And the centralization will require financing, so there will be either ads on some relays or subscriptions.


je ne me souviens plus bien, mais c'est pas lui qui avait pourtant initialement poussé l'idée il y a 7 ou 8 ans?
j'ai pas pu lire l'article de l'express à cause du paywall.


I'm in the same boat.
So far, I remain a resident of EU (though I spend a good chunk of the year in Switzerland), but I feel there's a tipping point. One day, EU will enforce just another seemingly inocuous dystopian law and I'll decide I'm done and just leave.
I've lived in Latam in the past and will probably split my time between Latam and Switzerland.

Today with doggo 🙌🇨🇭
https://m.primal.net/JcoO.jpg


:peepoHey:


GM frens
🇨🇭 https://image.nostr.build/8e13245455bd19ff616162f9fd8f5d90a519affb2a21680c0842695d914d7c00.jpg


Epictetus > Seneca
Seneca is a good writer and a good thinker, but he's a free powerful man coming from a rich family. There's a lot of stuff he preaches that he never had to put in practice.
Epictetus on the contrary, as a slave, used stoicism to go through the hardship of life. Proof of work.


🇨🇭 https://image.nostr.build/a06bd0b55120321765a87600c212b12bce503430330c3e8c30b6cce52410fceb.jpg


LFG nostriches

🇨🇭 https://image.nostr.build/9fa9fd971322ae4ccf8e641f51f23c5ab0a2bb9e61b9118fb84c0f309f087f45.jpg


Calisthenics + ashtanga yoga make you free.

Wherever you go, you'll be there, facing yourself, without the need for weights or machines.


No music.
Ashtanga yoga requires full concentration, there's no room for distraction.


Trump + JD Vance => reevaluation of US commitments to European allies + strategic pivot towards addressing  challenges from China only => Europe has 5 mths to prepare for managing Ukraine support independently and reassessing its own security arrangements, which will be very hard with current fiscal deficits.


assuming you're talking about an application of pki and not the concept in general, boomer explanation depends on the topic (authentication, encryption or digital signatures)


Nice composition. It's really cool you've been sharing so many photos over the past year.
I'm no expert but if I may give an opinion, I find that some of your photos might use more dynamic range.
Have you tried chatGPT => Explore GPTs => Trey Ratcliff's Fun Photo Critique GPT?
The GPT gives photo critique, sometimes very relevant imho.


I have noticed in conversation that some people are put off by your flag. People have the urge to classify other people into boxes. You don't easily fit in a box as you are, and that seems to bother some people. It's their problem, not yours.

Your voice and your work are important. Bitcoin is neutral and I wish we don't stay stuck with the existing bitcoiner stereotypes.

I hope you stay around.


Twitter was a revelation for me in that regard. It helped me better take the measure of people I look up to by watching their consistency across topics and moods. Think someone like Taleb for example as a caricature.


Most here want to be freedom-rich to freely decide what they do with their scarce time.
Nostr crowd doesn’t look very materialistic.


best quality entertainment I've watched in a while!


Thank you for sharing. Hopefully, sharing helps for healing.
🙏


Barcelona, like Prague and many others, have become hell for locals because of tourism pressure.
Good decision.


Lunaticoin

https://podtail.com/podcast/lunaticoin/


OpenCV


Agreed but that’s way easier when you know you took good decisions and luck was on your side.


Booze, yacht, private chef, fancy watch, fancy cars => unnecessary

1st class air travel => Economy Plus is enough when flying commercial

Private air travel => Netjets route and schedule flexibility sometimes worth the price. Onboard luxury is unnecessary. Not having to go through regular airport onboarding process is priceless though.

Luxury food & hotel & mansion => I take authenticity over sophistication every day.

Clothes => function > look


I’ve had the same pattern of issues as you experience.
Now it’s much much better.
1. Lots of water, no alcohol.
2. Sensors quieting: earbuds, eyemask and mouth taping.
3. Different breathing techniques to relax and sleep when possible.
4. Mindset shift so as not to stress if sleeping pattern when flying is very different from regular night.


yes, but income tax is as much about surveillance as it is about collecting resources for the State.


Now that parenting is over, hiking & offroading is top of the list.
Cantabria last week👇 https://image.nostr.build/4f31c8be0479f91e3ae6f07140737cb993a196fb5151d9605f3c32b585e56cc5.jpg


Appropriateness is subordinate to effectiveness.
I’ve never had to do it with my kids but can see that it would probably have been effective with one and ineffective with the other.


* order of magnitude better obviously
lmao


My local monthly meetup is an order of scale better imho.


🧨  100%


https://m.primal.net/ILQT.png https://netzpolitik.org/2024/internes-protokoll-belgien-will-nutzer-verpflichten-chatkontrolle-zuzustimmen/


GM
https://m.primal.net/IJsY.jpg


Great initiative!
Unfortunately, the financial part will only really work at scale, when many more people are on Nostr. As of today, it's good for content creators to be here and build a community, but the zaps are not enough to leave other big censored platforms.


Agreed.
I guess human power dynamics can't be fully eliminated from a value-exchange system.
Trust minimization is the best we can expect.


What does prevent us from similar dramas in the future? Internal power play, purposefully intensified by states that want to weaken bitcoin, remains my main concern for the future of bitcoin.


Bacon x 24


The smell of fear


Come for the nostriches, stay for the revolution


Let's focus on the one whose actions are currently more damaging for the world. I'd slap Trudeau for sure.


Maniac zapfest


I fully agree with that statement. My point was about “that’s why they want to totally destroy…”, ie the conspiratorial tone of your post.


You are overestimating their strategic and operational abilities by a wide margin. But, by all means, stay fit, stay healthy, stack sats, use critical thinking.


not sustainable, just like fiat


I’m a bitcoin boomer, but if I were a millennial that’s exactly how I’d be thinking


Statements like this made in a vacuum are not useful. You always have to compare to the alternative, not to an idealistic leader that doesn’t exist.
And taking that into account he’s way better than Salvadoreans have ever seen.
Also, don’t judge from afar, go there and talk to people.
Basic security is worth more than democracy to most people.


That Windows 95 in the video is booting way way too fast in comparison with the real thing 😉
I had the same setup at work and at home, though not even with 32Mb RAM.


Same here. Between 2017 and 2020, I offered many of my friends 50€ btc in a wallet on their phone. To many of them I packaged that with the Little Bitcoin Book or the Bitcoin Standard.

Of all these people, 20% still has their seed phrase and can access their corn, 5% read the book (literally takes 1 hour) and 3% have bought more and kind of learned a bit but couldn’t explain bitcoin ELI5.

Say what you want, unless you live in a country with high inflation or you’re paranoid about an overreaching state, it’s hard to get people hooked by anything else than speculation.


started in 2015, peaked in 2020


GM nostriches!
Let’s Fucking Goooooo!

https://m.primal.net/HiGz.jpg


Welcome Yevgeny!


frankly, it wasn't that bad.
I remember at Adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador in Nov 22, right at the bottom, people were happy nevertheless. Nobody was talking about the price, everybody was talking about the fundamentals.


I started that 4 years ago.

I said if they want to save a small part of their allowance in sats, they send me a msg anytime in the month stating how much btc they want to buy at what price and as a reward, I double that amount.

I have made a shared google spreadsheet showing the cumulated amount of sats they own, how much that's worth in € currenty, and importantly it also shows how much they missed over time by not asking and how much that's worth.

Results so far:
- my daughter (21) has asked every month and has a sizable amount. She is markedly "long term preference"
- my son (19) has been asking only a few times when btc price is high and it flashes on tiktok. Over the past weeks, I've shown him how much he has lost by not asking. At current price, it's almost a 5-figure amount. He's bleak and can't stand the "injustice". lol.


not much so far, only an ex-gf I orange pilled 3 years ago texting yesterday that she can't find her seed phrase. lol.


thanks, very interesting read !


Today I see this new analysis revealing what Russian intelligence services have discovered by looking at weapons delivery to Ukraine from European countries. The bottom line is:
a) at the current speed of weapons production, we could only deliver sufficient weapons to Ukraine by 2025!
b) at the speed we are giving away our stockpile, we'll need 15 years to resupply!

Obviously this is coming from Russian intelligence and should be taken with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, it seems directionnally correct. This is a serious counterweight to the idea that this war is depleting only Russian forces. It is depleting supplies on both sides but Russia has probably prepared itself much better since 2014.

https://www.intelligenceonline.fr/renseignement-d-etat/2024/02/12/munitions-europeennes--le-svr-livre-ses-conclusions-sur-les-capacites-de-production-alliees,110157230-art


don't forget keet.io


yup, same here https://m.primal.net/HcHd.png


this is certainly a fair take. I don't have a good answer apart that maybe if 60% of Russian forces are eliminated, Putin really sees an interest in ending this war rapidly as long as he can paint it as a victory internally. But I agree this might be wishful thinking after witnessing how obsessed he is with his version of history.


I'm no expert but I'd imagine that either they go all-in with a trillion USD to win the war or they stop sending weapons and sit at the table. There's no use sitting between chairs.


Looks like next difficulty adjustment is needed
https://m.primal.net/HbrM.png


you're right that it's not the same objective. By all means it caught mu attention anyway, I'm here answering you during breakfast. And I'm sure mu kids could use that book 😀


i agree with karnage. Imho the message feels so carefully crafted that it lacks spontaneity...and punch.


I'm older than you and can only recommend buckweat pillows. Was a phenomenal improvement for me. Been using it for 10+ years.


my 2 takeaways:
- the idea is not watching to check whether Putin is gaslighting the audience or not, you're watching to gauge to understand the vision of an important world leader and to understand how cognizant he is.
- Putin seems to let the door open for a negociated peace. It's unclear if that's sincere but people in the West might question a bit more whether their govs are really trying to end the conflict.


it makes brute-force intents from hackers much more costly in CPU in case they have their hands on your encrypted vault. Bitwarden past default settings were much too low and they've not updated old accounts


Have you all increased the nbr of rotations for your Bitwarden account? If not, go to Account Settings => Security => Keys=> KDF Iterations and make sure it's at least 600000.