They did not accuse the pundits at all. They accused RT, its employees, and the media company’s founders.

This isn’t so much “Trump-Russia” (much of which was later shown to be false) as it is “this specific organization accepted illegal funds”. The only pundit that one might legitimately suspect of directly profiting from pro-Russia messaging is Tucker Carlson.


I deleted FB years ago and LockedOut soon after, but I still have my Twitter account despite only logging in 2-3 times per year. There’s something different there, and even if I don’t actually go there, I am reluctant to break the connection.

And yes, I’d love for some of my remaining Twitter/X contacts to join Nostr.


If you have your private messaging link in your profile, that can work. On other services, I’ve had people give me their banking info, their legal names, their addresses, their cellular phone numbers via DMs, despite knowing the owner / admins could see it if they desired. I would rather they contacted me via XMPP for that.


We had SEO when Google was just an idea in some college students’ heads. It got a whole lot worse once there was a centralized monopoly, but I remember when metatag stuffing was a thing, and microscopic invisible text after that.

As always, it mostly gets used to elevate garbage.


https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/so-long-richard-shelby-and-thanks-for-all-the-pork/

Seeing discussions about Shelby’s outsized influence on NASA’s decision making … implying that Artemis was part of that.


https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html

If you use PuTTY, read this.


The IP address my ISP gives sometimes points to my exact city and sometimes to cities over 50 miles away.


Alex, You're missing out on the ever-present fear that what you're chewing on will start wiggling in your mouth.


All on-screen keyboards that I've ever tried stink. I want a phone with a physical keyboard again.


You’re not old until your son’s beard turns gray.


I’m blocked because they think I have an adblocker running.


What the-

https://media.gleasonator.com/436f7557e32d0017277221f4cb7dca807bac8301ae1e21bc144d4eaf8c9631d1.jpeg


Oh, happy birthday, jb55. Same day as Linus Torvalds.


Maybe if there's a link to tbe source so we can read the whole story. It is hard to have discussions about the headline without the whole story.


I was on G+ briefly at the beginning, when it was a Diaspora clone without federation. When they got intrusive about personal information, I completely closed my Google account. I think that happened even before I closed my Facebook account.


"Get over yourself" was a little rough. If I had to summarize, I'd say they meant you're not posting regularly enough to gain a following.


I've never seen your posts before now.


Every national government is going to consider and consider again before making such major changes in their financial system. They have to think about who benefits, but also about who gets harmed.


It is important, to realize that we're not really in competition with other decentralized social networks. We're trying to break the stranglehold that the corpocentric socnets have over online social. Everyone that uses any decentralized socnet instead of the big corporate centralized networks helps chip away their dominance.

That's also why I favor bridges between decentralized protocols and multiprotocol sites. If I don't have to join $NETWORK in order to interact with my contacts there, that benefits me and means we don't have to maintain a centralized fallback.

I think the instance model used by the Fediverse is too vulnerable to petty dictators, so they'll eventually need something closer to peer-to-peer (possibly Nostr or similar, as P2P that works as the network grows does not seem to be a solved problem). But it is a good intermediate step for people leaving centralized platforms.

TL;DR: The goal at this stage is to weaken the centralized platforms, not pick the eventual winner. Every decentralized user gained is progress.


Hey.


I drove 4+ hours to visit a Krispy Kreme in Kansas City once. Of course I also picked a friend half way there and went to MicroCenter and then a BBQ place.


What's going on with Alby? I've seen a couple of posts mentioning it.


I only heard of fentanyl a few years ago. The question is: are we sure that a significant portion of street fentanyl is imported? If it is being made in backyard drug labs, then trying to block it at the border is a waste.


It's pretty scary that they can be that ignorant about the necessity for anonymous and pseudonymous "speech".


18 is an adult in the US


Please do not use this chat app. It's essentially signing you into a Mac with your iCloud account. That's a big yikes.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/14/23960516/nothing-chats-imessage-android-phone


I really do hope they figure out how to host economically ... and how to federate without losing their paid userbase. If former President Trump's motive was being deplatformed from #corpocenric socnets, he should consider that a non-federated platform leaves his users in the same boat.


Thank you, nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 for what you are doing. If I ever make it to Austin TX, I will try to meet.


I'd say it is a vanishingly small percentage of people who "designed" society by enforcing their choices on the rest of us. I also disagree that said designers were all male.

To some degree, society is just today's ruling choices laid atop the prior day's ruling choices with near infinite recursion.

That said, we can and should be trying to make society better for all of us.


I remember reading something about crazy high hosting costs. Maybe someone should tell them to shop around for reliable hosting that doesn't break the bank.


I used to just add books to their returned stack. No need for plaques or someone to approve the donation.


McD's is the market leader by far. They can and do set prices, even when inflation was low.


A gave a talk at the New Orleans Investment Conference the other day. At 50 years and counting, it is the longest continually-running investment conference in the country, and possibly the world.

It is diminished from its heyday due to broader competition and online investment media, but it has a certain air to it. Ayn Rand, Ron Paul, Margaret Thatcher, Alan Greenspan, Milton Friedman, Gerald Ford, and Steve Forbes have spoken at it, among many others. It is mostly a boomer/gold/resource/conservative/libertarian conference, and gets the best from that crowd, but otherwise is not huge. The guy who has run it for decades took it over long ago from the original founder, and he wants to freshen it up and modernize it a bit and throw some hand grenades into his own conference, so he invited me to talk. He is a gold guy, a resource guy, an old-school conservative, and he likes bitcoin and wishes he bought it earlier. He's open-minded, objective, and growth-oriented.

My talk was "Broken Money, Broken World".

-The first theme was that there are 160+ siloed fiat currencies. I used Egypt as my main example, and held up a physical Egyptian pound and said this is basically a national casino chip; it has very low salability outside of Egypt, similar to how a casino chip has very low salability outside of the casino. The 105 million people who live there are trapped in a fiat matrix of 20% annual money supply growth, like a treadmill that they have to keep up with in terms of their wages, price increases, rent increases, and so forth to avoid being diluted, and most can't keep up with that treadmill. And there are dozens of countries like this. I held up a Norwegian krone and said even though this is from a wealthy country, it is still a casino chip because what can I possibly do with it in New Orleans? It's too small and unsalable. This is outdated tech.

-The second theme brought it back to the US. I spoke about how the past four decades had two main trends: rising public debt/GDP and falling interest rates (see included pics below). Developing market currencies suffer while those of us in the US feel that things are stable. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, people rightly freaked out about the debt and deficit. The famous NYC debt clock went up in 1989. Ross Perot ran the most successful independent presidential campaign in the early 1990s on the debt and deficit. That was when interest expense as a % of GDP was at its peak. But what they didn't or couldn't predict, was that the next 30 years would be disinflationary. China opened up to the world. The Soviet Union fell. Western capital was united with Eastern labor and resources. China became a manufacturing hub, which was disinflationary. Russia supplied cheap energy to the German industrial base, which was disinflationary. Interest rates fell structurally, allowing more debt accumulation, and for prices to increase far more slowly than money supply growth. But then we hit zero interest rates, and then we monetized fiscal spending. We're in a new world now; debts and deficits matter again. Those guys from the late 1980s and early 1990s were right but early, and now we are facing some of those consequences. Fiat currencies including the dollar have structural instability.

-The third theme was to bring up again that there are 160+ casino fiat currencies in the world... and that every one of their gates are fucking down. Pre-Bitcoin, the only way to get money in or out of a country was 1) physical ports of entry (typically limited to $10k USD or so worth of cash and gold) or 2) bank wire transfers (highly controlled by local governments). Countries could maintain their little currency bubbles. But Bitcoin and then stablecoins blew that open. You can bring a billion dollars worth of bitcoin through an airport by remembering 12 words, or writing them down and tucking them away in your baggage, or briefly putting them in an encrypted file in the cloud. Infinite value density. Same for stablecoins- tokenized dollars or whatever the market wants in terms of global fiat currency and assets. I can pay a graphic designer in Nigeria with a QR code over a video call or email or DM in bitcoin or stablecoins or whatever she wants. All of this bypasses their currency bubble and goes around their banking system, unless their country wants to be North Korea and cut itself off or get shut off externally from the internet. And I said the investment implications and macro implications of this are massive; it's a new world that, over the long arc of time, breaks all the fiat bubbles.

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


Jason is describing a pre-installed keylogger as a good thing.
https://i.nostr.build/Lq82.jpg


There was some issue at a private ACH processor (contractor for the Fed?). The banks have to re-send those transactions.


Yes.


I have a US Bank account … I seriously hate dealing with them … even the mobile apps are a hassle to deal with …


I don't expect to repeat it, but my phone says I took half a million steps in October.


With the unstable management over there, any dependency on Twitter is a bad thing.


Happy birthday. My granddaughter turned 12 yesterday.


Remember when XenSource (Xen) was going to catch up with VMWare (pre-Citrix)?


Yes, that was something most pump.io clients figured out. Hopefully nostr clients also figure that out.


Certain BOTS belong in BOTcatraz. Others can be okay in limited quantities.


The upcoming FinCEN rule proposal is much larger than being able to coinjoin or mix UTXOs. It essentially applies to opening Lightning channels and creating new and unique addresses for normal Bitcoin transactions. It's bad.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/fincen-proposes-insane-special-measures


McDonald's has terrible food, but today feels like 90⁰F and they sell 'frozen Coke' slushies.


Most boycotts don't last long, but according to the article, this one is still hindering ABInBev's sales months later. This may become a case study for business schools.


Whenever I'm shopping with / for one of my granddaughters, I send lots of photos to a female friend. She responds with get this, don't get that. It really helps.


Improved easy-to-use filtering (possibly including autofiltering of potentially illegal content) in clients would go a long way toward solving that. It could be decided during initial set up.

Also, relay operators could be on the hook for such content. Hopefully the developers of relay software are already working on moderation tools.


First you invent a time machine. Then you go forward in time to the desired date, generate the encryption key, tell you of that time what the key is, then come back in time and encrypt the data.

So yeah, you’ve posed some significant challenges. I suppose zero knowledge proofs have already been considered for the second one.


There’s room for both of them, but extremists on both sides refuse to concede that neither group has anywhere else to go and that therefore any solution must include BOTH of them living there in the land.

And this means that Hamas (with its kill all the Jews and others living there goal) is a major obstacle to any lasting peace.


I don't play games enough to have any recommendations.


#Amethyst is the only #Nostr client in F-Droid so far.

I may give up phone posting.


>bluesky
>$8m funding
>full-time dev team
>1/10th the userbase of fedi
>bridging isn't as a priority


If you’re trying to “make your vote count”, you need to be that one vote that puts the winner ahead. On the other hand, if you want your vote to help make things better, vote for the one candidate most aligned with your views, even if the candidate is not part of the #twin_parties ™.


> We don't need ...

There's a reason people create new socnets all the time. The old ones don't meet all their needs. It's time for bridges, multiprotocol servers and multiprotocol / API clients, so people get the benefits of their desired protocol and can still reach their contacts who use other protocols.

The goal is to take away enough people so corpocentric networks lose their ubiquity and begin to collapse. Being partisan about AP or Nostr or ATProto doesn't help. We're all in it together.


I should probably just find another client. "Do mental gymnastics" isn't a satisfying answer.


He's being myopic again. Protocols, not sites / apps. One site can speak multiple protocols and be part of multiple networks. And bridges can help where the app developers don't.

Every person who uses a decentralized network--any decentralized network--helps all others by legitimizing protocols instead of #corpocentric social sites. Each network can learn from the others and evolve closer to each other.

If we think the protocol is unchangeable, we'll fail to fix its most annoying flaws, which will eventually start chasing devs and admins away, taking users with them.


I wish there was a way to disable the "new posts" purple dot from appearing on the "global" icon. I'm not interested in the "live" stuff and it bothers unless I click into the content I don't care to see.


I don't remember Hulu having any public domain content, but I remember watching lots of 1960s and 1970s shows.


https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26455

This is not the way to persuade developers to change their software's behavior. Not for Mastodon, not for Nostr, not for Bluesky.

Try it with Twitter / X and see how it gets.


Wow. You're about the same age as my kids. I thought you were older.


I'm still active over there, so I do follow a few of my contacts across the bridge.

That said, I think Fediverse people have different privacy expectations than Nostr people, so bridge blocking is also happening via various fedi instances.


I agree totally. That bridge is extremely desirable. If decentralisation needs to happen such bridges are crucial.


Weak stance: they do mix well, both sides just have an unwanted content problem🫡


What's Reddit?

;-)


Remember when http://homepage.tinet.ie/~leslie/testpage.htm was the main speed testing page?


No. If the movie is that bad, I'll leave the theater / turn off the stream.


0.77.0 does that occasionally.


It tastes better immediately after baking


You are quite the risk taker


I don’t think T-rump stands to gain anything from participating in those debates; it is the other candidates who need him there so they can look relevant and prove they can win

No one except political junkies is paying attention or even knows who is running yet


It was awful.


Make sure your pants cover your underpants and your underpants cover your personal parts? What else do you need?


I used Identi.ca, lnxwalt.status.net, 280.status.net, 300.status.net.


I closed my Mastodon account (Vivaldi.social). I still have multiple Pleroma / Akkoma / GnuSocial accounts, so I'm still active in the Fediverse.

I just don't like the MastoUI and I didn't feel that my direction is compatible with Vivaldi's.


online anonymity is essential https://i.nostr.build/PkW0.jpg


Uh oh. Alex got hired by the FBI.


I said in another conversation that corporate CEOs can give up an extra mansion so their employees can afford to buy homes.


nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 Nostr isn't failing at all. The future is bright. Most of the people fleeing #Twitter seem to be choosing decentralized alternatives such as Nostr or the Fediverse, or #BlueSky which isn't decentralized yet, but promises to become decentralized in a later iteration. We may seem to be in a death match against other decentralized networks, but every user that replaces a corporate centralized network with a decentralized network strengthens the whole sector. #DecentraLife is always preferable to #CorpoCentric life.

If trends continue, each of these networks will grow some form of interoperability with the others. The mostr.pub bridge is just a beginning. And in the meantime, people keep building. New clients, new ways to present Nostr (like #Reddit, like #Instagram, etc).

Recently, #Minds, which already has its own #Nostr relay, added #Fediverse capability. Once again, we see the two growing together. The future is bright.


They'll make them sign a contract as long as the Affordable Care Act that prevents the patients and their families from suing when their head swells up like a watermelon.


Maybe someone should write a NIP that defines a suggested minimum featureset (list of NIPs to be implemented) for microblogging type clients. Then, clients can claim NIP-XYZ compliance and users can have an idea what they can do.


I think I took one of my kids to see that. I don't really remember the movie itself, just the kid's excitement.


Last minute wins can stun everyone.

I see that Mizzou beat K State with a last minute 61 yard field goal.


You could use something like https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ to come up with a name.


It can also mean they came from a direction that wasn't being watched. For example, in #CFB, a quarterback can be looking to see where to pass and  a tackler comes from another direction and sacks him.


You'd have to ask nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 for details, but I hear Deno WONTFIXed a security issue.


There used to be a raw milk dairy in SoCal. Is it gone now?


We need to make the new user experience on nostr better. Bluesky’s topped a million users but our growth with nostr hasn’t kept up. I’m very pumped on Nostr and think we’ve got a better model for building social apps, but there are problems.

Wallets and keys are hard to understand, browser extensions make sense if you’re coming from the crypto world, but most people don’t get them. We need a login with nostr that works like / with oauth. We need better contact discovery, content warnings, apps to have by default anti-spam filters, etc… Unsexy stuff where we go from it works for me to it works for non-technical users.

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats


I am only hearing about it from you.


ME: How might Cloudflare be bad for the Internet and decentralization?

ChatGPT: Cloudfare can potentially centralize web traffic and control, making it a single point of failure and giving it significant influence over internet content and its distribution. It can also potentially stifle competition and innovation by dominating the market.

ME: How would running nostr services on Cloudlfare be repugnant?

ChatGPT: Utilizing Cloudflare for running Nostr services could potentially centralize a platform meant to be decentralized, thus contradicting the core philosophy of Nostr. It might also expose user data to increased risks and undermine user privacy and security.

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An LLM gets it. 🤣