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Yes, everyone, everytime 🙌
To be fair, I kinda understand their point in that it is indeed theoretically possible to perform KYC on every redemption, and thus only rugpull a specific subset of users. But it's probably the costliest way to rugpull someone, because you'd have to do a KYC check for every claim until you're sure that the remaining ones all belong to the subset you wish to rugpull. And from the point of view of the rugpulled, the outcome is no worse than if the rugpull was general.
It's my third time reading them up to Children of Dune (first time was probably around 14 with my parents' edition, which only comprised the first 3 books). I've also read God Emperor once, but I've yet to discover the last two books for the first time. Which is quite exciting!
Am I the only one to often get issues with USB-C charging on my phone? Works like a charm for months, and someday it becomes harder and harder to use: the thing is plugged-in, but it seems even the slightest misplacement stops charging.
Is it that I'm pushing too hard on those when I plug them in?
Just submitted my entry for Consensus Network's second short stories competition! 🥳
This time the theme of the anthology is "Financial Fallout" ☢️ (21futures.com). Can't wait to discover all the stories!
cc nostr:nprofile1qqszh6vr6v4f342d287qchrf88mc9w3l3znx63884fwwe754jw5gujqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqzxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcu0gzyc (yes I love to play with deadlines)
On light of the Pavek Durov arrest: do you think nostr relays should implement basic moderation on clear (i.e. unencrypted) content? E.g. ban pedo-pornographic content.
By "deniability" you mean the defence that developers are not responsible for the usage of the software they produce?
I think it's a bit different here, since relays are running code, not writing it.
Does anyone know of an open source Mapstr alternative. I'd like to be able to create a shared map with a bunch of friends, where only us can see and edit the pins. Use case is sharing restaurants locations.
I gave Nextcloud Maps a go, but:
- not sure there is an iOS client
- the Android client doesn't seem to let you search by name to find a place
- Nextcloud doesn't let me limit access to certains apps to groups of user with enough granularity.
Pas vraiment. Par contre il y a bien uMap, construit au dessus d'OSM. Et a priori on peut restreindre la visibilité d'une carte à "anyone with link", ce qui est suffisant pour mon cas d'usage. Merci !
I'm not sure I find David J. Peterson reasoning behind distancing Neo-Chakobsa (movie) from Chakobsa (books) and current Earth-spoken languages very convincing.
One of his main arguments is that in the the 20k years timeframe that separates us from the events unfolding in Dune, it is unlikely that contemporary (or a bit more ancient) languages would have survived, except for barely recognisable influences.
That could work for most sci-fi settings, but imo it misses the target on Dune.
- Great Houses have roots that go back to the Earth days of humanity, and language is a great part of a House's identity, as is perfectly conveyed in both the books and the movies. Houses would therefore protect their historical languages ;
- the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mothers have access to the memories of their female ancestors, and given the organisation's influence in the Imperium, they could very much act (consciously or not) as "seed crystals" for the survivance of old languages (the name Bene Gesserit itself is Latine, ffs) ;
- in the specific case of Fremen, who are the main speakers of Chakobsa, their culture involves a figure very similar to Reverend Mothers, as well as the Tau "orgy", where minds can experience very close connections. Spice consumption increases life expectancy. In this setting, I don't see why Fremen couldn't speak an old language, kept alive by Reverend Mothers and tradition.
Bitcoin/Lightning service providers should 100% break ties with hostile jurisdictions and stop serving their citizens.
Protocols provide censorship resistance, not companies. If you live under a repressive regime, learn to use them.
I'm hinting to some very specific jurisdictions, which can arrest you pretty much anywhere in the world, extradite you, and have you trialed on their soil.
And for other jurisdictions, the case remains that protocols are better suited to provide censorship resistance rather than company.
PayPerQ (https://ppq.ai/) joins the long list of awesome products with a name that accidentally sounds funny in French 🇫🇷
A common slang for toilet paper in French is "Papier Q" ("papier cul", butt paper). And, you guessed it, PayPerQ pronounced with an impeccable French accent sounds very much like Papier Q.
Trying to dust off my nostr relay game a bit. I'm currently only using free relays. Are paid relays still a thing, and do you notice a big improvement in terms of reach and/or discoverability when using them? If so, which?
Thanks for your answer! Yes, topic-based relays are going to be interesting. I like what nostr.wine is doing with its Patreon-like paid relay feature where you can see events based on your subscription.
At some point it seemed they would be a walled garden protecting their users from spam: you could only listen to events coming from paid relays, thus preventing spam because you would only see what other paying users broadcast. Could call it Nostr Blue 😅
But spam doesn't seem to be so much of an issue (yet?), and it is at least not worse here than on Twitter. What I'm wondering still is whether it improves reach, since there maybe users who mostly listen to paid relays.
In an hypothetic bitcoinized world, that would be used for acute transparency (for example for banks, companies or public institutions). Wanna send those funds? First, you gotta make a statement on your official nostr profile.
Is there a German world for the feeling you get when you're at home waiting for a delivery but you've got an errand to run and you feel in your guts the delivery man isn't going to show up today ; but at the same time you *know* that 5 minutes after you leave the delivery man will come knocking at the door?
Nice! I guess more granular sharing would not be too difficult to add to the mix, such as posts that are only for a certain tier in the beginning but become public after a few days
@PABLOF7z I'm wondering how exactly the new Patreon-like subscription feature works in Highlighter, bacause it seems to me I didn't have to create a NWC connection as I expected to.
But I had to sign a kind 7001 event (that's new, isn't it?) which contained the details about my sub (amount, frequency, my pub key and a random id). So my guess is the Highlighter client digest this kind of events and, the next time I open it in a month it will prompt my wallet (e.g. Alby) to create another zap request. Because else I don't see where a connection was established between highlighter and Alby. Thanks!
Just published the latest issue of Latest Strikes yesterday evening.
Wondering how exactly @ZEUS is destroying the Lightning Network? Thought it was already doomed due to replacement cycling attacks? It's in there, and more! 👇
https://blog.lnmarkets.com/latest-strikes-59-october-16th-22nd-2023/
PS: feel free to zap if you wish to contribute to the destruction of the network! I promise I'll settle those quickly 😁
Re Lightspark/UMA, a thing that some people don't seem to quite get is that it isn't really about KYC itself. Rather, it is about the standardisation of it on top of a pre-existing open protocol.
What if UMA become predominant over vanilla LNURL? How long 'till it kills it, like Google killed XMPP?
That's how you will a decentralised network, as brilliantly articulated [here](https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html).
There's a clear path in which "compliant" extensions of open protocols become so widely adopted by the public that you either comply, or be exiled to the confines of cyberspace. What is happening now to LNURL will come to Lightning itself.
The openness of the protocols we use & love means there is no way to prevent States and Corporations to implement their own controlled versions of it. The only hill we can really fight on is acceptance and awareness. And I think the earlier we fight back, the better our chances.
As Eric Hugues [wrote](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/cypherpunk-manifesto/): "We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak."
The DiamondHands guys are in partnership with Boltz. They are using the Boltz codebase, but it's a completely distinct deployment AFAIK.
Also, Boltz isn't completely open source, but uses a Business Source License that will completely free the software in 2027. In the meantime, the software can't be used in production, unless with Boltz' agreement. Hence the partnership with DH.
That's just because the transactions that pay really high fees push the ones that don't from the current next block. If there were enough degens out ther paying crazy high fees, their transactions would fit several "in construction" blocks, as you expect. There isn't just a full block of "really high fee" paying transactions in the mempool (yet?).
You can watch the mesmerising ballet of lower fee rates transactions getting pushed off the current next block in the detailed view of the block.
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