I think inertia is leading us toward a quantified state, in which the costs of tracking and categorizing objects — primarily people, phones, cars, and money — as they move from place to place becomes so low that most institutions are doing it by reflex, without either considering or caring for consequences. Eventually, somebody is going to exploit the gap in information (between what is available to ordinary people, and what is available  to organizations) in a way that causes enormous, historic harm, as happened in WWII when a particular state realized that IBM had compiled a database that was perfect for populating a list of names of those who would soon be marched off to camps. And that was just census data. Now they know what you read, where you go, who you're with, and how you'll vote.

The unfortunate reality of contemporary political thought is that consequences do not exist until they are felt. Rare is the chicken that fears the farmer. That means we've got two options: we either wait for the pain, or we stop waiting for political consensus.

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Akhi this is an incredibly misguided take. The fatwa issued by ulama around the world is that Muslim nations need to aid Palestine militarily. The taghut rulers won't listen, but let it be known that the ulama didn't sit idle. This is far from the only thing they have done.

The term "fatwa" has been stigmatized by Mossad/CIA plants that order senseless killing, but that is not at all the original purpose of the word


Entirely agreed


It most definitely is


#Jewish people peacefully against the #war.
The #zionists came to show the real face of #Israel.

Usually, ultra orthodox people are #peaceful and against #occupation. These people are the advertised reason to why there is a country called Israel.
Israel is cancer these days and it doesn't give a rats ass about Jewish people.

Do you remember who else used to act like this with Jewish people? Right answers only.

https://media.bassam.social/4ad8405cd5e6d7f7841ff21f5426059216df8c33aa59a70d755198adbdefdc87.mp4


I'll condemn Hamas when the occupation is over. You don't condemn a starving man for his table manners. There's a very deliberate focus on actions over the conditions & ideologies that lead to them, and it's very telling.


There are all sorts of Qubes tips I could give, but it'd be a waste to give them all right now when you're not even using it- feel free to reach out if & when you do give it a shot!


Arch is worth it & easier than you think- been using it on various machines for 3+ years.

Once you have a good amount of experience with Linux (i.e. once you're comfortable tinkering with random things and have a good amount of intuition) I'd recommend going for Qubes if your machine is strong enough & you care a lot about security.

Side note: The default XFCE desktop environment sucks in my opinion, I always replace it with KDE or i3 or dwm. KDE works best with some tiling extensions if that's your thing, as you can use activities in conjunction with workspaces to really isolate different workflows. I'm usually a WM-only kind of guy, but the activity+workspace combo has kept me on KDE when using Qubes.

Also, be sure to install 4.2 alpha rather than 4.1. It's perfectly stable and dom0 will be much more modern. Don't play around with guiVMs, they are very hit-or-miss depending on hardware and not something you should try until you're very familiar with Qubes.


0 respect for elders, why am I not surprised?


I speak on behalf of our community when I say that we've had enough of the US government meddling in our affairs.


Anyone else noticing this weird bug where putting a lowercase L after an f results in some severely screwed rendering? Happening on Firefox & Librewolf for me. Uploaded an example below

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


Be prepared for a false flag soon

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


Not familiar with either of you but that sounds funny so do it


Look up Pakistani trucks, you'll be surprised


Eh, I've gotten used to the write code -> run clippy -> fix bugs cycle, I only compile when I really need to test something


I wouldn't be surprised if this was true. Piers Morgan gained far more traction from his interviews with pro-Palestinian figures than he did from his interviews with Zionist shills.

The entire Daily Wire crew has also been losing engagement ever since they opened their lying mouths about the war in Palestine


Agree, the list goes on and on...

-relies on large centralizing middlemen nodes for succesful routing and cheapest fees
-need capacity to recieve to begin with as you said
-limited in the amount you can send
-can't transact without both parties being online at the time of transaction
-can be rugged if your node is offline
-bad receiver privacy, IP is exposed by default, and hidden balances can be discovered by a passive adversary
-can be force closed onto the base chain against your will
-ability to grief honest users with zero cost
-worst of all it isn't a real solution for scaling for all the downsides you take on

Another big thing that recently came to light. Critical security issues discovered that are unresolvable without base layer changes (we both know how nearly impossible that would be)
lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-October/004154.html


Agreed, those are the mark of a psychopath


Deserved


I think you'd enjoy this blog, it's a hidden gem

https://www.secretmuslimbanker.com/


Well now it embeds. It wasn't embedding in the preview


The slimy behavior and idiocy of Piers Morgan (the second image isn't embedding for whatever reason, it's a screenshot of the tweet on children being killed in Gaza that Piers was responding to).

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

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


Problem is, burned Israelis were burned by Israeli forces 🤦


Side note: Would you want an AUR package to be created? If so, I'll do it


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This is a great take and I almost want to fork the existing NIPs repo to do this too.


I'm writing a relay and this will be super useful for testing it, thank you!


What topics does the podcast cover?


The real story of #burned Israelis. Who did it? Why there were burned people? And who to plame for the dead #babies?
Let's see what the Israeli #media said about the #attack and let's see what the #IDF did to make it a disaster.

https://media.bassam.social/a936fe745981316b3a49f3f0297ce9f36db417e3bc812f9fd927aa67133cb55e.mp4


Session lacks PFS


Just found out you're on nostr!


Funny how you still manage to have bad geopolitical takes


Kek
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I'm jealous! What's the experience been like so far?


Islam is fundamentally incompatible with Western values, but it doesn't need to be compatible for the purpose of establishing peace between the two civilizations. Removing israel from the equation would help a lot in this respect.


I'm taking a look at an existing Rust implementation for reference, though the existing docs in the API library and NIPs make it simple enough that I don't need to do it often. A repo with automated tests would definitely be sweet. Long-term I want to add support for Monero payments to the relay as I don't see any implementations yet- that's still a long time off, though


As for wartime, infrastructure is generally quite spotty so apps like Briar which can leverage bluetooth to create a mesh network are ideal. I'd recommend looking into it if you haven't already

https://briarproject.org


Neither, though I am doing my part to help spread nostr within my own social circle. I'm also writing a relay in Rust, though it will be a while before I publish the source code online. My priority is to bring open-source and privacy-respecting software to the Muslim community, though there is a long road ahead


Thanks, will give them a shot

Yeah, I've only put my keys on a few clients & I always vet them before doing so (must be OSS, widely used, etc). Considering just creating an alt for messing about with various clients so I don't have to be so cautious about it


Hasbara propaganda industry is getting desperate if these are the influencers they are funding now lol


Arguments on celebrity drama fall squarely in the latter category as well


I have to say that in the time I've been here, nostr has felt very organic and alive in a way that Mastodon and other decentralized social networks haven't. There's a sort of passion here that's hard to replicate


Piers is a clown. He changed his tone AFTER what everyone told him was going to happen happened. Not going to take him seriously unless he comes out and admits he was wrong


Arguments on ideology, truth, and plans for the future are worth it. Those discussions need to happen on uncensorable spaces.

Twitter-esque arguments on pointless things like preference of text editor or web framework, on the other hand... (yes, I spent too much time on dev twitter)


Depends on what the argument was about


He has no faith, that much is clear


I deleted Twitter a while back, but this looks cool!


You can register a domain anonymously through njalla for one (just pay with XMR)- domains start at $15 a year


The one-dimensional worldview of Western chauvinists is hilarious


Any nostr clients up yet? Haven't been on i2p in a while, unfortunately


I'll give it a shot then inshaAllah- I'll miss the iris interface if I do end up switching over, that's for sure


I've been using Iris/Snort for a while, but I'm considering trying out primal.net- thoughts?


You're running OPNSense? Nice. Been wanting to add a network card to a spare machine in my home and do the same thing, but haven't had the time. Stuck on OpenWRT for now


Well articulated, though I wish he emphasized some things more (particularly ensuring that whatever replaces fiat remains outside of the control of any one party, ideally through a return to hard money or something resembling it)


hmm I love liking my own note on accident and then not being able to unlike it


work better over tor*


unrelated: Really wish there was a way to edit notes, I hate posting something and noticing grammar mistakes a few minutes later


I wouldn't necessarily consider 75k/low 6 figs to be rich automatically (though the latter has the potential to become rich over time) but I think it'd be better to reframe it as presence of the domesticated/white-collar middle class. The type of people who had a cushy upbringing and went the traditional route (going through uni and then getting a desk job at a large corpo) in life without questioning the world around them.

I don't mean to be overly harsh in my description- I come from a similar background myself


I cannot wait to see it become viable on desktop!


Seconded, though i2p tends to work over Tor on my setup. Worth noting that my setup is kinda exotic (Whonix on Qubes)


This joke is just a LARP as long as you're using BTC & not Monero


What qualifies as "high income" here?


I think it's just a matter of getting people others want to follow on to this platform. People go to where their friends & favorite celebrities are, and once they're following enough of them the algorithm ceases to matter as much


I've started, will create a GitHub repository once the general structure of the codebase has been laid out inshaAllah

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I look forward to seeing more Palestinian brothers on the protocol!


I'm not entirely sure what you mean by Monero attempting to be something more than money akhi. In being anonymous, it seeks to fulfill the biggest requirement that any true cash-replacement needs to meet: fungibility. BTC struggles with this, and available tech to combat it has its own issues that you are no doubt aware of.

There's other ways in which I believe Monero to be better than Bitcoin, but let's focus on fungibility here. Is there any way that Bitcoin tackles this issue without major drawbacks? And even if there is, is optional privacy really what you want from a cash replacement? Fungibility should never be opt-in, it should be the default


Rasulullah ﷺ once said that the ruler who shaves [gold/silver] coins is a tyrant. Fiat is that ancient practice taken to an unfathomable extreme


Today's a sad day for the decentralized web. LBRY Inc. is dead.

https://odysee.com/@lbry:3f/theendoflbryinc:d


I'm going to begin writing a nostr relay for fun soon inshaAllah


A return to hard money is ideal. Cryptocurrency is the closest digital thing we have to hard money.


https://video.nostr.build/2b91c6db515abb88ed5045728512f4c8c04f8d3a12b128a1fde3a58bed644b1c.mp4

"Pakistan, Alhamdulillah, is an atomic power. These atomic bombs have not been placed for show. These atomic bombs have been placed for the defense of Muslims and Pakistan. We ask that the prime minister warn israel that unless it ends its oppression and occupation, we will wipe it off the map." - MP Sarwat Fatima


Wa alaikum as salam, glad to hear it :)


He didn't learn his lesson after Muhammad Hijab huh? Entertaining. May Allah continue exposing these morally bankrupt people


Why's that?


Is this working?