Well, that's exactly the point. If your kid can't find anything to do if it's not actively entertained by either you or a screen, the screen does harm while you do good but them being alone also does good as they get bored and can break out of that boredom by being creative. Screens and always present care givers are not good for creativity. Kids also need some time alone with their toys or better yet in nature.
Why would the screen type change a thing? Watching TV leaves your brain less active than actually sleeping. You burn less calories.
At night, the pure light of course is an issue but a Daylight Computer still needs light somehow.
I love Ghibli movies and my daughter loves them, too. I can't get tired of recommending these for kids. Bluey looks slow paced compared to many other series, too 👍
"his introverted mind loves to shut itself"
That sounds like keeping bottles at arms reach was a good idea if your brain craves alcohol instead of thinking about detox. When family members give a screen to my daughter and her brain shuts down, with her literally not answering to anything, I get mad at those who shut down my baby's brain.
Well, I see the hypocrisy, too and try to reduce my own screen time and whenever my kid is approaching, I always switch off my phone if not in the middle of a call.
I try to make time on a screen count but yes, I do read and post on nostr before getting into difficult work tasks and yes, there are tons of temptations when working on a screen all day.
I wish I had the iron will to only do meaningful things and the wisdom to decide which activity is actually good or bad for my future.
Writing this comment for example ... is it shitposting? Will it make a difference in my life or yours? As Jordan Peterson says: Most people cannot actually think without expressing their thoughts in voice or writing so I'm inclined to believe it helps me get these topics I care about straight in my head. Even if I don't hit send ;)
Verifying marketing claims is hard. Too hard for the average consumer. We need tools for that. I had built "opinions" for wallet products but sadly it's not getting used much. I had hoped for people to obliterate hardware wallets among other products and get big tips for doing so but meh, not much going on. If you have an idea how to punish stupid marketing claims in a decentralized way, please share.
Sadly stupid claims regularly become accepted standards. Think about "lactose free" meaning there is the same amount of lactose as in other milk but also an enzyme to eliminate one type of undesired effects of that type of sugar but it leads people to think that they could cut carbs by drinking lactose free. WTH? Light bulbs were sold by their wattage but now, LEDs can't compete with a 100W bulb if it provides the same amount of lumen which nobody was told about before, so they just print 100W on a 15W LED and laser pointers are sold with ridiculous power ratings making these ratings completely pointless.
Sure, wallet providers do the same. Almost all wallet providers are guilty of claiming that theirs is the safest. What does that even mean? And yes, "secure element" has "secure" in the name but is just a marketing term of a supplier of one of your chips and doesn't make your wallet magically secure.
My take - the take I had adopted for @WalletScrutiny - is that a "secure element" does not get in the way of verifiability iff it does never handle the private key material. It may contribute "true randomness" and it can be used for a key encryption key but the parts that actually touch the keys must be public source and binaries reproducible and the device itself has to show the actual hash of the binary you are trying to install prior to installation.
That is why I came to like the combination of SE and MCU where the SE is oblivious to what the MCU stores but the MCU stores all secrets with a key only the SE knows. What's wrong with that? Now the auditor can treat the SE as a black box that yields a key encryption key only if provided with a secret but bricks itself if the secret cannot be provided in x attempts.
You say, Coldcard could do something shady in their not-a-ROM boot ROM? But that's MCU side, right? So can we audit it? Or are you talking about the hardware not being what they claim it is?
I tried it out and created an order for 100,000 CLP and it told me it was too much but not how much would not be too much. What gives? That's about $100US.
Whenever I see a project that is clearly a fork of another project but doesn't show as such, I assumed, the devs were trying to hide the fact but GitHub is even incentivizing this and providing tools to make a fork "independent".
I thought they should treat a project as a fork of another even if I don't hit that fork button, merely based on the same initial git hash but that's not how GitHub works. And they punish you if you show your project as a fork of another by not counting commits to your project as commits the devs did.
https://i.nostr.build/CvdcW93zaMjewTVo.png
That, too but that's sort of understandable. The above mentioned rule makes your contributions not count if it doesn't get merged to the default branch of the upstream project. So for example I started WalletScrutiny as a fork of some gh-pages template. I never intended to have WalletScrutiny merged into that template. It would make zero sense but I never intended to hide the fact that I used this repo neither. Now that I think of it, those who are curious if somebody improved the template probably don't want to find my projecte neither but there are many projects out there where a dev stopped merging PRs, others forked it and wanted to be found as forks, so breaking that link would be bad but without breaking the link, contributions to their project now doesn't count as contributions? That's stupid.
Just got a scary call from a very convincing scammer :/
1. Hi, it's your bank. We just blocked fraudulent activity associated with your debit card starting in 1234.
2. We also blocked your internet banking. Verify that if you want. (yes, it was blocked.)
3. To recover your debit card, please come to the closest branch
4. We now just need you to authorize a change in your password because of law 12343456 of the consumer protection what not ...
5. Please open your banking app, do not login (cause there I would have noticed that nothing was broken and that no cellphones were bought with my card)
6. Click the "BE Pass" below to authorize this complicated protocol we are following here.
Turns out, they knew my name, national ID, maybe not the debit card number as these all start the same with the same bank, my phone number and my email address that I exclusively use with that bank. They made 3 failed intents to get into my online banking so it got blocked, went to the "recover my login using the banking app" page, called me with a well trained scammer and when they thought I was ready to click "ok" within 3 minutes - the time you have for these BE-Pass authorizations - they hit ok on that "change my password" page.
I hate I did believe it was my bank for so long, despite noticing some red flags early on during the call.
Yes. They never went for the middle ground of asking me to provide any personal data but went straight from knowing stuff and showing competence to asking to hand over the keys and that's where I pulled the plug. In hindsight I wonder what they could have achieved that would not have been appropriate other than me providing them with a free sample of my voice.
BE-Pass is their 2FA application. It's not bad as it shows you some details but in the case of the password it does not show you the new password, so if you get two requests in the BE-Pass app, they look equal and you don't know which new password you are confirming - the attacker's or yours.
Google Authenticator would require me to enter the code into the website where I requested the password update while the hacker would need me to give him the code. I think it's more transparent that giving that code over phone is a blind signature than when they trick me into clicking a mere button in the 2fa app.
first numbers: Yeah, as I said in OP, I am aware of this and will not fall for it again.
Hang up immmediately: Why not have some fun and waste the scammers time?
Block and report: Probably pointless as these scammers are likely to spoof their number anyway. Case in point, a relative got a scam call from his bank yesterday and the number was indeed registered as belonging to the bank.
Tell the bank: Yeah, maybe. Next time I see them.
Practice basic hygiene when zapping and following.
People getting zaps get zaps and follows.
People getting follows get zaps and follows.
Especially the OG nostriches and those with a big following must be careful who to endorse with zaps and follows. I always triple-check before following somebody if it's for who they are and not the immediate content on their nostr profile.
You have the order right but I have questions ...
I want all those to exist. I want to use 1 and 2.
- a Jobs board where you can offer your services and find people to hire, fiverr style.
This of course should be an open standard so we can finally get rid of fiverr and all the similar platforms with a protocol. Or do you plan to earn by building a platform?
- local feeds, where the app will present a feed based on locations and allow you to post only to people in your location.
While this would really be awesome, how do you plan to not allow me to post to a certain location? Proof of location is an unsolved problem and in an open protocol ... clients can reject messages from people that tend to travel faster than the speed of sound or something but you can't prevent them from publishing to different locations. And maybe you don't want to neither. Many of us are international and like to share stuff relevant to one city and another city next.
Where can I buy actual holograms?
As a kid I had a hologram - a white light, reflective hologram. Now I want a green laser transmission hologram and can't find a single hit with this technically correct term and when I losen the search, I get millions of stupid toys.
/rant
Watching "Money Electric" I thought, what the hell was Peter doing? And Adam looked like thinking the same but it's actually pretty clever. How do you help Satoshi cover his tracks? You lay more tracks. "We are all Satoshi" and writing this line alone is not laying much of a track.
https://i.makeagif.com/media/7-24-2017/hkxzJp.gif
Those big corporate LLM "AIs" are all political and of course they will always be political as they only can produce what they were fed with.
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https://i.nostr.build/ojPfu2mWbZRTzKVp.png
If this is all the proof they have for Peter being Satoshi, let me quickly compile a collection of another 12000 people Peter did similar pedantic replies to thus proving he's also them.
But I'm not sure guilt is the right concept here or if nations can fall collectively under the same concepts as a natural person.
You can argue that the children of aggressors are first and foremost humans that have the same rights as any other human but by living on in this case Arab land, they live on stolen land, justifying eviction? @Jose Sammut this would be the property-rights case?
Who decides who is the rightful owner of the land? Rothbard makes a strong case for "Arabs" and certainly there is no shortage of families to justify claims on the land but how would you resolve this? If the other side of the argument has nukes, civil discourse only gets you so far.
As long as secrecy rules, ethical considerations are just of academic value. What can be done about this?
On X, suggesting that the October 7th attacks were self defense gets you attacked like crazy and of course, killing randomly won't pass as an attempt to evict squatters. What could they have done instead? What can others do?
I have friends in Iran and care a lot about what's going on over there. I also have friends in Israel but in both cases it's common people I fear for that don't harbor hate for people of this or that nationality.
Peace in the region is only possible if the US pulls out and stops emboldening Israel to fight its proxy war with US material and personnel.
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Good read. And nothing has changed in 60 years 😟
That last paragraph though ... I don't know how Israel could turn things around at this point.
https://i.nostr.build/OhwopB0xsjgJiuQ0.png
But I'm not sure guilt is the right concept here or if nations can fall collectively under the same concepts as a natural person.
You can argue that the children of aggressors are first and foremost humans that have the same rights as any other human but by living on in this case Arab land, they live on stolen land, justifying eviction? @Jose Sammut this would be the property-rights case?
Who decides who is the rightful owner of the land? Rothbard makes a strong case for "Arabs" and certainly there is no shortage of families to justify claims on the land but how would you resolve this? If the other side of the argument has nukes, civil discourse only gets you so far.
As long as secrecy rules, ethical considerations are just of academic value. What can be done about this?
On X, suggesting that the October 7th attacks were self defense gets you attacked like crazy and of course, killing randomly won't pass as an attempt to evict squatters. What could they have done instead? What can others do?
I tried the "forgot my unlock pattern" puzzle.
Not recommended. Very anxiety inducing.
⭐1/5
The game comes with incomplete instructions. Knowing the rules upfront would have improved the fun part.
I think a lot is kind of muscle memory. You can't put it into words for reproduction but still you can study it in words.
I imagine that humanoid robots will quickly gain street smarts like autonomous cars are learning the unwritten rules of human interaction. The latter probably do so very explicitly, with engineers approving changes to how the car should behave that were not clear before actually getting into the street. I wonder what Tesla knows about how people expect you to drive according to your location. They must have hard data where humans only have anecdotes.
Would it matter if the NSA had invented Bitcoin? Absolutely.
The revelation that "Patoshi" might actually be "NSAtoshi" - not just holding 1 million coins, but an additional 9 million - would shift the entire narrative. It would suggest that Bitcoin’s early growth was an orchestrated effort, not an organic revolution. A vast wealth accumulation strategy in a world where the dollar is dying.
If the NSA had such a head start, our discussions about decentralization and governance would suddenly seem hollow. The slow awakening of nation-states to Bitcoin’s potential could have been a well-crafted story, designed to mislead us into believing we had control.
The collective agency we thought we shared? An illusion.
Whether Bitcoin was a spontaneous creation by a lone cypherpunk or a long-term operation by an intelligence agency to prolong US dominance is no trivial matter. It changes everything.
Do you know who owns all the bitcoins? 10 million were mined in the first 4 years, so they did certainly not accumulate 10 by the time Satoshi left but by now? Are Bitcoins accounted for to a degree that would not leave 10 million to some government agency that bought it via thousands of accounts on exchanges over the years, whenever a pump was desired for their narrative?
I'm not saying this is what went down but if that were what went down then yes, it would matter a lot.
My immediate thought, too. On the other hand, nostr is great for async processing. Once the events are in cache, network delay or bandwidth simply don't matter anymore.
I'm curious for your thoughts on this:
Whenever an app offers integrated TOR support, I would not trust it to use it for all requests as I had worked for a product that had introduced TOR but then forgot about maintaining it, so new devs connected to new servers forgetting about TOR.
Using TOR to completely proxy all traffic for an app should strictly provide more reliable privacy ... unless that doesn't play well with integrated TOR support which might choose a new circuit under certain conditions which the proxy cannot know when to do.
Not exactly. Git is more than just github. Git is great for incremental changes, each with a commitment to the full history of the repository. If you know the ID of commit 200 and somebody is offering you a copy with 205 commits, you can immediately check all up to 200.
Your argument works great on micro plastics: if it doesn't decompose in hundreds of years, basically being inert, why would it harm to have some mg of it in my body?
For fiber though I think there is a case to be made that it increases the volume of what reaches your lower intestines and I think there is scientific evidence it lowers colesterol. Clearly it's not its chemical properties but its mechanical properties.
No. Roger is many things but not that stupid. "ICO" wasn't even a term back then and he was figuratively speaking as Satoshi did contact Adam Back to join in earlier than he did in the end.
I hated the "Bitcoin Foundation" with a passion but my memory now fails me as to in which way they made the claim about Satoshi being involved. I think they had him listed but publicly said it was implicitly clear that Satoshi would support their nobel cause.
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