If any other podcasters/content creators out there are sick and tired of youtube and want to know how I handle all my long-form content on Nostr, here's the workflow I use for my long-form  nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 interviews:

1) Riverside for recording (they also have live streaming so I use the zap.stream rtmp and it's good to go)
2) Live stream broadcast to zap.stream, with recording enabled so the when complete anyone can still view the past streams on their own time.
3) After adding intros/outros in Riverside, upload finished episode to https://satellite.earth/cdn (storage costs paid in sats)
4) Copy upload link and paste it into  nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x , add video details/thumbnail
5) Publish videos on Highlighter: https://highlighter.com/walker/videos (there appears to be an issue with my thumbnails, will investigate)
6) Without doing any extra work, videos appear automatically on Flare.pub and any other Nostr clients that support it: https://www.flare.pub/channel/npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u

That's it. It's easy. Your videos are then available on Nostr for anyone on any client that supports it.

Hit me up if you have any questions.

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Interestingly, we started doing this in the US in a time when medical ethics weren't nearly as developed as they are now. I'd say we hardly had any at all by today's standards.

We should look at these issues ethically without making the issues political or even scientific. Even if a thing is scientifically proven to do more good than harm, that doesn't give one the right to disregard ethics and force that thing onto others. People must be able to choose in a free society.

Ethics is an issue that we should be considering first. I've failed at this too on this issue and others.
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Medicating people without informed consent is unethical. Fluoride is not required to make water safe for human consumption and should not be added without informed consent. There are some risks associated with fluoride consumption for different people at different levels. That is a fact. The degree to which one accepts those risks vs benefits is up to the individual.

That said, there are worse things in most drinking water, which is why I remove almost everything and add minerals back. I floss, brush with fluoride, and use good mouth wash. I've done this for years and have had one cavity between two teeth that grew in such a way that they weren't getting flossed well in between. I have all 32 teeth and all are perfectly healthy. That's anecdotal, but the causal relationship between fluoridated water and dental health seems overblown to me. I also don't eat a lot of candy, soft drinks, etc.

I don't buy that there's no other way than to medicate people without informed consent. It's bullshit.

This is just one example of an issue that can apply to many areas. It's important to apply ethics universally.

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Is there a specific reason you recommend considering this approach? I tend to prefer this approach as well, but there's a lot to keep up with.


A castle with eggs and coffee.


Eggs and cigars, to name a couple.


I'll just say this because a lot of the studies and things I've read on the topic are wildly conflicting and/or inconclusive: I will give you every one of your points and finish on one I think is conclusive: lack of informed consent. It is absolutely immoral and unethical to medicate people who have not been informed and consented to being medicated. The levels typically vary, and there are risks to consuming fluoride. There are risks to having it added, even if you think they are outweighed by benefits. That is not for you to decide for anyone else. It's wrong. End of story for me all else aside.


There is no set standard for fluoride dosing in water, so it isn't possible for you to even know whether it causes harm or not. This is one of the reasons many of the studies have been inconclusive. We should first explore alternatives before just dumping shit into water.


Then make rinses that they use and spit out. There is still no need to put it into everyone's water that goes into the rest of their bodies.


It has an impact when applied topically to the teeth. Like what happens when one brushes their damn teeth. It does not need to be in drinking water and we should not take the "it may not be unsafe but who really knows" approach when dumping shit into water. Of course the same can be said of other chemicals too, but there's no reason to just pile unnecessary things in when people can just brush their fucking teeth.


It's also completely unnecessary. The benefits of fluoride for teeth come from its topical application to the teeth. We don't need every sip of water to have it. It's complete fucking junk science that people still defend as though it's scientific. Probably causes bone density issues too.


Hahaha I never was great at geometry. I shouldn't be assuming


Four STRAIGHT sides of equal length. Otherwise, it wouldn't be distinguished from other quadrilaterals that have irregular sides.


No. Tuta implemented their own notification service for privacy and Proton should too, or at least copy someone else's. They're being fucking lazy and it annoys me. It's their company though and I'm paying a different one that meets my needs. Everyone wins. I tried Proton again because I see it frequently recommended and it looks wonderful from a high level view. Unfortunately, almost of the services are half baked and useless for me as they are.


I'm sure we wouldn't find ideals that have killed tens of millions of people in her bag of morals.


She is lost in that sauce! Not a noodle in sight.


I use a custom domain for my email because it can be moved to a different service (or my own if I choose) easily.

I won't use Gmail and services like it for multiple reasons, but even if you do, consider a custom domain. You can't just take your @gmail address with you and switching emails is painful in my experience (I used to be an @gmail guy).

You're still at the mercy of DNS (for now 😒), but you always were anyway.


Nah, it wouldn't be Gorilla Glass without the screen cover though. It's the combo that makes it gorilla glass!


Poor man's gorilla glass.


Fenix Ammunition, but I can't say they are strictly libertarian since it's a rather meaningless term.


It's interesting how often I see raging leftists in my incredibly blue Midwestern city use a Southern accent to portray stupidity (this usually happens at work, and they don't hide their ideology).

The same people who claim to care so much about immutable traits use my immutable trait to essentially portray retardation (another immutable trait) mockingly.

I have a Southern accent, and my IQ is 137. I'm no genius, but I'm also not retarded.

I've also heard blatantly sexist statements. Recently, one of these PC warriors said she wished all men were gone from the planet. Cool. Imagine if I said that about women (or any other demographic). Do any of us believe we would be treated the same by HR? Would the patriarchy save me? I don't think so.

There's a lot of hypocrisy in this PC movement that many people aren't willing to acknowledge.


People keep saying "Bitcoin Strategic Reserve," but has anyone actually looked at what else is in that bill? I doubt it's just one page defining the reserve and rules around it (which is absolutely possible).


Or they just get value from his posts. Could be that.


A job would be a good start.


We are back at Proton being a no go.

No Proton Drive sync application for GNU/Linux makes Drive useless for me.

No notifications on Android without Google Play Services. Lame. Tuta works without it.

I gave it a go. It has gotten better since I started using it when it was new, but they still seem to be focused on creating new products without addressing some seemingly basic issues that you'd think would align with their alleged dedication to privacy and security (applications for GNU/Linux, Independent notifications on Android).

Overall, Tuta for email and calendar with Filen for cloud storage still seems to be a better fit for me.

I appreciate everyone's suggestions. Hopefully they make the services more complete before starting the next thing.

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Notifications not working for me is a no go. I put them on silent but still want them. Lame as fuck for the price since Tuta does it. Thanks for sharing your experience though. Helps me figure out what is there for others


So am I. Screenshot is there. Notifications don't work either.


I don't see any official F-droid release. I'm using the APK from their repo. Notifications don't work.


Blindly rejecting everything is just as stupid as blindly accepting everything.


Well, that's just a consequence of having a thing that anyone can use. It's something we have to get over until we can reign governments in. It will take time.
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It turns out that you have to know that 2FA is the need for GPS. Use anything other than hardware 2FA and it will login. Haven't tested notifications yet.
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It's the 2FA. My account is setup with a hardware 2FA so it defaults to that. It didn't tell me that was the problem, but it works if I use a backup code or OTP. Lame, but it works. Thanks for the input!


Interesting. That's my setup so there must be something else at play then.


Instant death sentence for Proton products for me. I always test all apps right before switching to a service. RIP. Just glad I tested before buying a year family subscription. 😂https://image.nostr.build/91c15b0af6c332fd41b5007d90d55c4f0fd6ee0caaa8aa55831ed474c81d98a5.jpg


I actually love it when my wife is feminine and she doesn't hide that she likes my masculine energy. I think the thing a lot of people don't understand is that both start from within. It's energy, not always some external thing, although those can be expressions of the energy. And of course neither is strictly limited to a sex. I have some traditionally feminine traits in my work in healthcare. And sometimes I have to turn that off if someone is getting rowdy. People are way too serious now. Just be yourself when you feel like it is my attitude.


My Bitcoin journey actually started with real estate. I came to the conclusion that real estate was the best way to protect myself from bad monetary/fiscal policy. Cool. I had a plan. Digging into the fine details exhausted me to the point that I started doing research again thinking there had to be better way.

Just like that, a real estate investor was prevented and a Bitcoiner was born.

I can't be the only person my age (early 30s) coming to this conclusion.


I fucking hate open mouth thumbnails. I won't click them.


The lack of indicators of what is happening in #Bitcoin wallets & #Bitcoin services is really ridiculous. I am so glad many of the services & wallets are there, but the actual UX for many things is just trash. Having large amounts of money disappear for hours with no indication that anything is working is incredibly brutal the first time you use something. Having balances disappear from wallets because they have to "sync" everytime you click away from the wallet sucks too, especially when the "syncing" indicator says complete sometimes minutes before the balance shows back up.

I don't use Apple devices anymore, but one of the best apps I have ever used is LittleSnitch because it makes what are normally hidden processes visible. Proper indicators that make whatever the app does visible is the key to good UX.

There is immense value in showing how things work in a relatively simple fashion. I want things that show me the pipes in a beautiful way.


Lol that would probably be worse for most people. Unless you're tying it to a basket of things that contains Bitcoin. I think anything more than 5% would probably kill a lot of people due to volatility. However, this could work decades from now, but I hope at that point we don't really need the concept of a dollar since we aren't using gold anymore.


The same thing is happening for me and my wife. Thankfully, we are much younger and as a result will be able to retire with dignity at a much younger age. Of course, at our age that really just means we can do the work we want to do without considering money.


He STILL doesn't fucking get it. Lol He will keep doing this Groundhog Day routine for years.
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Because 99% people will not do the work. Ever.


I've also accepted that many people simply will not make it. There will always be a 1%, even in a Bitcoin world.


I don't see it that way. I value my time and view that text file as the undergrad of Bitcoin. If they can't do that basic work, I'm not wasting my time on PhD level instruction. I'm certainly not wasting my time rehashing what has already been covered by many other people at great production expense.

I'm in school right now, so forgive the academic analogy 😂


They won't get a response other than my  premade text file with all the links to get a base understanding of Bitcoin. I don't waste my time on people who don't know the basics anymore. I don't need them to do anything. Take it or leave it. Swim or die.


Good point, but price (even though some people pretend otherwise) does matter for the success of Bitcoin. We live in a fiat dominated world right now. One Bitcoin is not just one Bitcoin, and it will fail if it can't outpace inflation at the very least, and adoption will only accelerate with greater gains, which is what I want. I want to be alive when things get better. Going up and right is required for that to be true for everyone coming and staying. So you're both right.


There are an alarming number of great FOSS projects being ruined by a handful of men's size small tyrants. It's really sad to see.

Project leaders and contributors need to stop giving these batshit crazy fuckers any ground.

Never cave. Never apologize. Tell them to eat dicks and fork off. Fuckem. There's no other way to deal with these types of people.

NixOS is a great example for anyone wondering what I mean.


I use butter almost exclusively for cooking. May try tallow though. I've heard it's good


He basically did. There's not a whole lot you can do for someone like me. 😂


Kirby makes wonderful vacuums. Modern vacuums are a generally good example of the rot caused by fiat systems (in my opinion based on the ones I have used).

I will never go back if they keep making them like this. I bought mine used for less than half price and it works beautifully.


In recent history, yes. Not really that long in our evolutionary history.


Nah, I won't regret it. I have a pile for having fun with. Just have to be a little less reckless with the fun pile so I can spread the love around 😂


Good point.


I guess I need to chill out with my zaps now 😂 Those little thousand satters aren't so little anymore.


I mean any meat at all. I've never been able to stomach it (taste, smell, texture, it disgusts me and always has). The best I've come up with is eggs, cheese, whey isolate, butter, and several green vegetables I like. So a majority fat/protein approach. Admittedly, I feel better when I eat mostly this diet, even without meats. I mix in krill oil and a few other supplements as well (Magnesium, potassium, salt, and a range of B Vitamins)

I'm basically just trying to make the best of my own shitty meatless situation and wondered how you'd approach it. Thanks!


Ha. I blew my load on the low. Super great problem to have.


I just accidentally discovered that using the USB-C display port on my monitor also charges my laptop.

What a fucking win. You really do have to appreciate the little things.


Maybe I'm just lame as fuck, but my Lambo is a peaceful home for my wife where she can garden and have as much freedom as possible.

But I'm a man of many shades. I'm also going to have one hell of a walk in humidor as my own garden. And it will probably be worth more than the house by the time I fill it. 😂


I don't think humans have directly consumed large amounts of grains for eons. Where are you getting that from?


What would your diet look like if you simply couldn't eat meat for some reason? Eggs and dairy are still options.


Earth could be a zoo for some other intelligence in the universe. Maybe all the UAP/UFOs are just family trips to the Milky Way Zoo.


Firefox Containers doesn't exist for Brave.
Brave tab grouping doesn't exist for Firefox.

It's rough out here on these Browser streets.


It isn't Obtainium's fault, but it can help to select "Verify Latest tag." This doesn't help with the repos that put multiple completely different apps in the releases though. But it works for something like Brave stable, Nightly, etc.
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Having a single release section for every application in a GitHub repo is annoying and makes #Obtainium a lot more difficult to use.


I live in a super liberal city in one of the swing states. I grew up in the deep south and have found that I actually love the diverse culture in my purple state.

But I can confidently say that these are the people no one good (if anyone at all) actually wants to be with anyway. Cleaning the pool as far as I'm concerned.


Shoot me, but I don't try to talk boomers out of gold and silver anymore when they ask me about Bitcoin.

I just send them some links and tell them that what they're doing is still better than being entirely in the fiat system.

They'll do whatever they're comfortable with anyway. Alienating the metal bugs is good for no one. We mostly want the same things.


I just send people a text file with links now. I don't have time to waste failing to convince people who don't understand fundamental economics, philosophy, technology, etc.

In the text file I tell them right off that the links are basically their under grad studies. Do it or don't, but I have no time for them until they do the self-study to get to a basic level of knowledge. And I can always tell who actually does the work by the questions they ask.


Fuck, I have had people help me test similar things but only so I could test my potential blindspots. I zapped them back though 😂 Now I feel like a grifter


There is also value in more people being able to turn old mobile devices into nodes easily.


Good for you, but some people don't have the same level of stability.


Can Trump end the income tax?


It's fine if you don't try to flip back and forth on your off days. I'd be fine with it if I wasn't married.


Hopefully you'll end up with a nice casket and plot.


Yeah, but the roads are smooth and dry lol And the tires don't last very long.


One of my favorite childhood movies.


Some people like to conveniently ignore that this means the network as a whole is more efficient than fiat systems. I'm guessing that translates over to climate issues as well. People forget that banks, corporate offices, POS terminals, etc use a ton of energy and other resources.


How much does programming language choice matter for Nostr development (excluding the protocol level stuff)?

#nostr #nostrdev


It's probably a bad idea to have one source of funding driving too much development anyway.


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The difference is that I didn't do it for almost three years straight the last time. And I'm older 😂


This is nifty.

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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/undercover-cops-arrest/

Still funny if this is the actual story


Probably something better than the stuff coming from batshit leftists.


Brave's Leo has managed to go from bad to worthless garbage.

It used to provide me with a list of titles for academic papers related to a particular subject. A list of titles, not the actual paper. I understood why it didn't just give entire papers, but it was a fast way of figuring out specific papers to go locate (sometimes).

Now it just cites copyright and gives me a list of popular websites to search on my own. Fucking great, but that makes the AI completely useless. I was always free to go to individual publishers to search their websites, but that takes a lot more time.

Giving me the names of papers and authors isn't a violation of copyright anymore than suggesting a list of movies would be.

Who the fuck is steering the ship with these things and what makes them think it's worth paying for?


I don't even need a fancy checker that verifies what I've entered. Just a fucking line of text at least telling me what your requirements are. Too many modern websites completely fail at this and it makes no sense in 2024. This isn't 1999 where every password is ilovecats ffs
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Developers who impose password requirements without defining them for the user are a special kind of awful.


There is a problem with people defining their terms as well. "Separation of money and state" can obviously mean multiple things and people should always define terms when discussing philosophical, political, legal, or similar topics.

I never got into Bitcoin thinking that only an approved group of purists would use it.

But, I also don't know what he means here because it's vague.


In what sense? Commution of his sentence has been a public Trump campaign promise for months. As to whether it will really happen remains to be seen after the inauguration on January 20. The promise was "on day one," I've made the allowance for January 21 in my own expectations. Processing can take time (I'm not sure of the amount), but I expect the order to be made on day one and for the release to happen soon after.

If not, the entire Trump family line is dead to me. The entire name lives or dies with this promise. Maybe that's unfair but I don't give a fuck.


I always thought the goal was to remove centralized control of money, not to prevent states from having anything at all to do with money or the use of it. That is goofy.
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I appreciate the recommendations.


I was referring to basing your financial decisions on the actions of Trump. I don't care what they buy or how. Just think it's pathetic for Trump's actions to be the extent to which a grown man learns and makes choices.


What a pathetic way to live, but progress?


The biggest financial enemy of the middle class is their own spending. You could cut their tax rate to zero and they'd just buy bigger houses, newer cars, and a camper or some other shit they put on credit because they can't afford it.

You could tax the wealthy at 100% and still not keep this ship afloat. Scapegoating wealthy people and lionizing the poor and middle class is a tired and pathetic story.


This is victim blaming. Robbing me less doesn't make out of control spending my fault. Spending, by the way, that is mostly social programs for people who aren't wealthy. Something like 37% of taxes collected come from 1% of Americans. But yeah, it's their fault.


On the flip side, this actually enables people like Trump to win. I didn't want to vote for that fuck. I'm pissed that I had to stand there and look at a ballot that made me think he was my best option (I was thinking of Ross and the possibility of a smidge less targeting of Bitcoin, nothing else appealed to me).

They'd probably end up with a lot fewer detestable opponents if they'd stop letting equally detestable people steer their ship. Trump is a backlash candidate in my opinion. A lot of the country is sick of being alienated and treated as sub-human for not going along with the woke policy of the week. We're letting like 5-10% of the population completely control the show.


*I know there are a couple cool people with blue hair. They get a pass.


Nah. Why listen to any of this when they can just keep letting bat shit crazy basement dwelling blue haired fucks run the party?


They aren't any higher than the last election that Biden won. About one third actually. It's hardly what I'd call sketchy given the context. The US has a lot of voters that are pretty easy to flip and plenty more who probably weren't happy with the last four years. People tend to vote for inflationary policies but against the consequences (or the proxy for them, which is often the president). This election wasn't as close as I expected, but certainly not so far apart to be sketchy.


Been there. It's bloated Chromium with a shitcoin baked in, but I did enjoy how they do browser syncing. That's about it. Their search engine has gotten pretty good though. I use that a lot.


Options for First Woman President:

1. Hillary Clinton ❌
2. Kamala Harris ❌

SeXiSm ✅

Has to be sexism because some ism is the only possible reason Democrats can ever lose.


The most devastating part of planning which browser I will move to has been the realization that Firefox Containers doesn't seem to have an equivalent. That has been probably the greatest browser feature I've ever used.
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I'm suspicious that Firefox is going to die fairly soon. I wonder what will happen to Tor. Maybe they will continue developing the browser along with some of the other forks.

I hope that the browser gets back to its roots and does some things even better than before.


My point is that your point of view isn't going to lead to a good politician if that's how you're voting. A good politician would have an agenda and wouldn't be altruistic (it's an awful philosophy), in my opinion. Whether or not you agree with the agenda is a different matter and would be the bit that makes it politics. Otherwise, you'd be voting for nothing at all.


I don't have issues sleeping. My body just doesn't feel like it slept and still wants to sleep during the day. There's really no way to avoid the shock. Just takes a bit to adjust. It took me about a month to fully adjust when I did this in the past. Certainly not as easy now that I'm older lol


Why do cloud storage providers feel the need to add chat? Where did this come from? I'd rather have the ability to sync calendar/contacts and web browser bookmarks (easily, I know there are ways) so I can finally ditch the awful nightmare called Nextcloud.

I've never thought how cool it would be to chat with people in my cloud storage app.


Finally, a reasonable perspective.

I'd add that developers should also make sure basic features actually work before piling more on. I'm not sure if this applies to this client, but it does to the ones I've used on Android.
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Switching back to day shift after 2.5 years of night shift really sucks (I never flipped back and forth, even during my off time). It's amazing how many systems are affected by sleep patterns. My digestive system is even chaotic.

The feeling reminds me of quickly reversing the stir direction in a pot of water.


I don't think the average Biden voter really cared. They would've voted for a potato. It was clear to me before the election that he essentially was a potato. Not seeing that was willful ignorance.


A part of me (a microscopic part) is considering a Truth Social account just to keep reminding Trump of his promise to #FreeRoss.

I'm not delusional. He doesn't understand Bitcoin nor does he care about Ross. But I don't consider this issue solved yet.

I think a 'micro win' strategy is the best chance we have with politics and government as it is.

It makes sense in my mind to cause just enough chaos that they keep giving us our way, and even if on relatively small issues. Eventually, we may wake up having made significant progress.


I'm still waiting for us to do the right thing. Freeing Ross will be a damn good start if he doesn't rug us.


They would have been smart to do this before the election to take away every vote they could.

But they were arrogant and didn't bother listening.

But 'smart' is not an accusation I make lightly when it comes to most politicians.
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He promised to commute, not pardon. But I doubt Biden even knows the election happened, much less who Ross is.


Ideally, Ross will be freed. Other than that, I won't have to hear Kamala cackle. Not much else.


I'll give a grace period of January 21. That's the latest I accept as day one.
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Not exactly, but I share the sentiment.


I seriously doubt that Trump is the final battle for anything.


I didn't expect Kamala to get spanked quite that badly.

#FreeRoss


I guess you kind of are in a way lol


That's about all those are good for. Hate them.


He doesn't have to care to fulfill the promise. No politician actually cares about every issue possible, and neither do you. I don't even care if he doesn't care as long as he actually keeps his word. That's what actually matters.


Cigar lovers know how much this sucks 😂
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Empty barrels make the most noise.


Using the term "late stage capitalism" tells me that you have absolutely no clue about economics or history.


Definitely sounds like a good place for me to start learning then. Thanks for your work!


I find your work very interesting. It's one of my favorite in the space and I hope I'll be skilled enough to contribute some day.


Voting for Ross today. Hopefully it makes that difference at least.


Having an agenda isn't necessarily a bad thing. And altruism is wrongly assumed to be good.


They have to listen first.


You won't see this often, but I'm about to defend politicians (sort of).

There are scumbag politicians just like any other position, career, etc. I am also speaking from a US perspective. That's out of the way.

I think there are many politicians who went into politics with good intentions (even if their goals would have bad results if accomplished), but were ultimately shredded by the meat grinder.

There are hundreds of millions of us with at least dozens of high level concerns that politicians are expected to address and/or care about.

I don't intimately follow every single social, economic, financial (etc) issue that one could follow. I can't. It's impossible to care deeply about every single topic, yet most of us expect that of politicians. We get angry when they brush over our very important issues (THE issues).

Frankly, no person can reasonably manage the government we have now. Even our presidents, arguably the most powerful people in government, have a very small view of what is actually happening in the government. Our Congress can't reasonably keep an eye on what the other branches are doing. The state is so absolutely massive that checks and balances only have a hope in hell of working a very small percentage of the time.

Our government structure is quite wonderfully designed... IF the state is as small as it should be.

We expect our politicians to intimately care about and understand hundreds of incredibly complex issues when we can't even do that ourselves.

The only rational path forward I see is to remove government from almost every aspect of life so political leaders can focus on the few things government actually should be doing (national defense, a justice system, etc). Even our judges can't keep up with all the nonsense, which frequently leads to contradictions and unjust outcomes. Nothing is working right because it's all too large and complicated.

Expansion seems to always lead to corruption, probably because the thing becomes too large to actually monitor and maintain. It becomes too easy for crooks to embed themselves in the shadows cast by a massive machine with far too many moving parts.

Our politicians seem inadequate because they are. And so are we. No one is adequate for the job and never will be as things are.

WE are the problem for expecting government to deal with every issue that we face.


Peak fiat.


I'm finishing up an AI course for my Computer Science program.

One of the main takeaways for me has been that AI is the latest victim of the VC hype pump and dump machine.

There are many wonderful advancements being made (over many years) that have been completely overshadowed by the unrealistic promises made to pump valuations.

This recycled VC scam hurts real fields of study and probably sets them back years.


It's quite incredible how pretty much everything is killing me and simultaneously reducing my risk for things that will kill me.

There's some bright eyed fuck peddling both angles for seemingly everything we consume.

Information overload is probably why anxiety disorders have exploded.


He added a child to the mix. I'm only speculating, but he probably has too much going on. But that's on him to figure out or say. I could be wrong.


Their brains can't handle the contradictions.


Your unwillingness is proof that your statement was fucking asinine and worthless.


Cool, then you have nothing to lose. It's not real, right. Send em over.


Microwave clocks are a shitcoin


That's what I thought last night during my 12 hour shift in the emergency department. I was exhausted and got to watch the clock go back an hour for my effort.


Getting rich quickly should be the goal. Having the nicest wheelchair in the nursing home is cool and all, but does nothing for me in my best years.

Getting rich EASY is the dangerous expectation. Mark Zuckerberg, for example, got rich quickly. But that doesn't mean it was easy.


It is once you're far enough left. This is the problem with tribalism. It just keeps getting narrower and more tribal.


That is literally not fucking true. They could each hold their own keys, one could, two could. There are a lot more than one single way for keys to be managed. And I think it's retarded to delegate key management for an entire family to a single person. At least a single key. A multisig setup would be better, but still far from  the ONLY way.

Think a little. It won't kill you.


I'm not convinced that it really is up to us. You can't force people to value or use something like Nostr. Especially when it's such a monoculture. I plan to post more cigar and pipe content as I can to help diversify content, but I'm skeptical of how much it will matter.


No, that is not the only way and you don't get to decide what the goal for everyone is.


It effectively does. Send me your keys and I'll show you what I mean.


You will need even more help if it doesn't. It has to happen at some point.


It takes a special retard to not see the differences between these two things.
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What the fuck...

Useless scumbag pieces of shit.
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The whole relay thing has been one of the most annoying aspects of UX for me.


Ah. I didn't understand what topical meant. It would be cool if clients added such relays when someone follows a particular topic or whatever. Or at least offer to add them.


He can come for deez nuts.


Is this a message to devs or users? (My understanding of relays is still pretty weak).

Is there anything I can do as a user to help with this? (Add specific relays, etc).


They even use 'Ape in' as if it's a good thing. Lol


Neat fence design.


It's bananas when a FOSS project says they don't want more donations (because of how small their operational expenses are) when the app is buggy and becoming unusable (AntennaPod).

I can barely use the app for listening to podcasts anymore, yet I'm still being discouraged from donating money.

I don't understand it.

Debian is similar in that they take donations (in a very convoluted way the last time I made a donation) but are hardly willing to actually use it to make Debian better. The last I checked, anyway.

I don't run a FOSS project, so maybe I'm just missing something. But I do like to support them in ways I can, which is usually financially. What's the point if they aren't using the money to improve the software?


I'm definitely going to study it. Quite interesting...


Maybe he is, but I think the general concept of the work is interesting and important. I'm generally skeptical of people who say disclosure is a mission yet hide it behind a paywall. However (and I don't know what's behind the paywall, so I'm speculating), it's really common for all types of research to be behind paywalls. That's the biggest lesson I've learned from academia, and frankly, a lot of it, somewhere along the line, was at least in part funded using tax dollars. A lot of the paywalls I've ran into seem sketchy for that reason, but my main point is that it's pretty common. Again, I don't know if it's his research or just some other documents he doesn't necessarily own.

I understand the need to fund research and have no idea how to balance that with open access for people who aren't using it commercially. I'm skeptical that his stuff has commercial value, but I have no idea.


This seems like a good time to say that the 'no algorithms' marketing crew aren't necessarily demonstrating a virtue. Algorithms are wonderful, and can be designed ethically.

I don't see a future for the social media use case on Nostr without applications having discovery and relationship algorithms (at least as a default with the option to disable or tailor).
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There is some content on Nostr that isn't strictly Bitcoin or Nostr related. However, the problem I see (and I could be wrong) is that such content only has a chance of gaining traction IF the attention of a larger Bitcoin or Nostr focused npub is caught.

I just don't see a sustainable path here for people who want absolutely nothing to do with Bitcoin or the Nostr protocol, which frankly is going to be most people.

The exposure I've gotten to other topics on here have come from my feed of Bitcoiners and Nostr developers. Primal sort of drove me that way when I first onboarded, and my feed is now driven by a few larger npubs.

This probably IS natural given the context of Nostr and alignment with many Bitcoin values, but it really isn't surprising that others aren't sticking around. I've found like two people interested in cigars (and they post Bitcoin related content lol). I've encountered hundreds to thousands on other platforms over the years.

Telling people to sift through a mountain of spam and rando npubs to get started isn't going to do it. The onboarding was pretty much entirely through a Bitcoin lens when I joined. This stuff is beta as it is. That isn't good or bad, it just is.

Frankly, it's all too nerdy for people other than the majority already active on Nostr. Even I get bored with it, and I'm extremely interested at baseline.

I don't know how to solve it. I suspect time and better UX will bring more people. But I'm not surprised as things are.


And the noob sees this on the most popular client for one of the two major mobile platforms.

Stuff like this isn't going to keep average users around.

It's going to be okay with people like us, who are already here.
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Sure, but good luck discovering it. I'm not saying that one can't painstakingly sift through the shit to find something else to follow. But the onboarding experience for me was driven by and toward a handful of large Bitcoin and Nostr accounts that now dominate my feed and the people I interact. Discovery has been a tedious experience and one that I have largely given up on. Maybe I am the problem here, but expecting the average person to stick around is goofy in my opinion.

For example, this is what I get for the first three pages when searching for music as a keyword.

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Development is happening at an incredible speed, but I don't buy that excluding Bitcoin and Nostr content will result in a sufficient feed for the average person. Even the artists and musicians I have discovered came from my Bitcoin feed. They're Bitcoiners who also do art and music.

None of this is a bad thing at this stage, but I don't think the UX or userbase exists to attract and retain people who absolutely do not want to see anything related to Bitcoin or Nostr specifically. It's all in beta, which is why I haven't recommended Nostr to a single normie in real life. Even my Bitcoiner (lite) friends aren't interested.

I think it will require some branded application that doesn't advertise ties to any Nostr protocol or Bitcoin stuff and offer people a very easy way to manage keys. We aren't there and people leaving quickly is exactly what I expect. I tend to think we shouldn't taint people's view of Nostr this early on by recommending it to people who aren't at least somewhat interested in Bitcoin and relevant tech.

I see myself as a beta tester here and nothing more.


I'm not sure what would be left other than porn and spam.


My fingers would be absolutely fucked if I tried this.


I'm going to add this to my list of things I expect to fail pretty quickly.


Making my own food using raw ingredients has helped a lot. I can't reasonably attain perfection right now (and probably never will), but I've reduced the impact significantly compared to my past. Maybe that's the best I can hope for in my country right now.


In the US, I compare it also to three rights specifically:

The right to free speech (encryption can protect my speech in transit and at rest).

Most importantly, the right to bear arms (firearms or body armor for personal defense). I have the right to defend information critical to my life and property (like Bitcoin).

I also use it to defend myself from unreasonable search and seizure. In this case, it's an explicit protection that prevents the government from just secretly stealing what they can't get legally. At least in theory.

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I still work for it, but I dump it ASAP.


But yeah, I generally prefer no preservatives. Citric acid is one of the least offensive ones in my opinion.


It's in fruits and vegetables naturally too. I'm not all that worried about citric acid. It's not like you're breathing in the mold.


I ordered: Scrambled eggs and cheese. Pretty simple. The ingredients say: Scrambled egg, white Cheddar, salt and pepper. Great.

Oh, I wonder what this little "Detailed Ingredients" link will show. After all, they showed me the ingredients. Seemed simple enough.

They are putting seed oils in fucking scrambled eggs now.

Ingredients: Scrambled Egg (Liquid Whole Eggs (Whole Eggs, Citric Acid [To Preserve Color]), Canola Oil)

Bro. What the fuck. It isn't technically a scam since I did get some portion of an egg scrambled, but it feels like a scam nonetheless.

And it gets worse.

The Salt & Pepper also has a buried list of ingredients: Salt and Black Pepper Blend (now it's a blend, okay): (Sea Salt, Black Pepper, Canola Oil)

EXCUSE ME?!

I'm going back to hardly ever eating out. It's better that way anyway. Fuck it.

I'm just in shock. Salt and pepper isn't even safe anymore.

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This is metal as fuck.

Maybe they get it too well. Lol
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I'm usually able to discern whether an opponent is smart or not and admire their skill even if I vehemently disagree with their conclusions.

I've never felt that way about Kamala.

Maybe she's a gifted actress. I don't know. She deserves an award for portraying stupidity if that is the case.


Vehicles have become so goddamn complicated that even dealerships are having issues actually fixing problems for me lately. The new maintenance approach seems to be to replace parts and rack up the bills until something sticks. I've experienced this in multiple areas and shops. I've also noticed that I can no longer do the same simple fixes I used to do on my older vehicles.

You almost need engineers in the shop to work on the fucking things.


One breakthrough for me has been my realization that I consume way too much information. It's just how I'm built. However, it can be detrimental when I don't slow down to actually apply or sit with certain concepts long enough. Often, information applied if more beneficial than information consumed. This is a massive lesson for me that I wish I'd figured out at 20. So goes life.


Intended by whom? That's exactly my point. WE don't have to accept it. Hopelessness and unwillingness to demand change definitely isn't going to fix anything. I think the average American voter is what's broken. You can't let bad philosophy and low standards run rampant and then take none of the blame. We are the system.


You're not being a killjoy, you're over inflating your concerns. I've been through a lot of my proposals here, and there wasn't as much DEI and PC leftist stuff as you're insinuating. It's certainly not as systemic as you seem to think it is. I'm sure there are varying degrees of those problems in pockets, but that doesn't mean we should just throw our hands up and say fuck it.

As for unions, those exist now. I'm skeptical that they would be opposed to having better standards in training, career opportunities, and pay. Besides, we get to vote for the people who actually make these decisions.

Most Americans on all sides probably don't want some dumb fuck 21 year old (in general) with little life experience running around with a badge and a gun. I just don't buy that police meeting my proposed standards would be worse than the very low ones we have right now. DEI or not. That stuff already exists right now anyway and people don't have to go to those kind of schools. I didn't.


99% of them won't be getting a response from me.


Policing in America is fucked.

My proposal:

-BS/BA education minimum

-Some number of hours in a higher responsibility position (EMT, nursing assistant, etc - something that requires skill and an ability to make decisions under pressure and without abusing power)

-THEN a psych and physical fitness eval, and whatever other requirements of acceptance into a 2 year minimum police specific training program.

-Lastly, starting out in either a lower level position (parking enforcement, community assistance, etc) or partnering with a senior officer and demonstrating excellence for an amount of time before going solo or becoming a non-probationary officer.

Plus continuing education, and mental and physical fitness requirements to keep the job.

This would require a lot more money and career potential to attract the best, but I think it's better than: completed high school, completed a six month course, and reached 21 years of age. It's really no wonder we have so many horrible people in LE. The standards are super low.

Being a cop should be incredibly rewarding and a privilege given to the most moral among us, not a career any asshole can drop into with little effort.

Falling through the cracks as an unfit police officer should be incredibly difficult, and I think it would be a lot more difficult with these standards.

Ending the drug war and other stupid laws would help even more.


In terms of USD, the obvious negation to this whole debate is to buy the 500USD worth of Bitcoin and immediately send it to the artist just like you would if you were paying in fiat. Your point only makes any sense if you aren't spending and replacing or earning income from some value you provide in a market. You could argue this for any money you spend on anything. I just spent $260USD on Yeti products. Could I have invested that instead? Of course. Will someone pay me more than that in the future? Probably not. But we have to separate our investment pile from our spending pile and decide how much we want to put into each based on individual values. Otherwise, there is little point to life. Delaying gratification can be good, but that doesn't mean everyone will have the same idea of what that means (I buy new underwear and don't sell my chairs and go into debt for Bitcoin). I value my happiness and wellbeing right now to some degree more than future potential earnings, but I do have my own lines (I don't buy brand new vehicles or the latest electronics, etc).

It's also worth considering that the major levels of volatility in Bitcoin come from it being an emerging technology. There would come a time when "going up" doesn't mean what it does now. It's value would only increase with population an economic growth, which probably won't be anywhere close to the levels we see as early adopters.


Not everyone is buying art as an investment. I might just like to look at a particular picture on my wall. Buying everything based on the value it might give someone else in the future seems like a pretty pointless life. Art should be bought based on the value it brings to your life.

I don't think art is necessarily a good investment anyway unless you plan on outliving the artist (or they are already dead) AND a lot of people like their work or you have reason to believe they will. The problem with art is that it could be low value now but priceless in a museum two hundred years from now. It's also super niche. Money isn't. Everyone uses it.


Then why buy anything ever? Your statement applies to pretty much everything one would or could buy.


There is no shortage of idiots either, so it may have a greater reach than you realize.


That isn't what you said in the original post. You're watering it down into a different point, which is a pretty weak debate tactic. It's not the point I actually responded to, nor are you responding the actual point I made.

Even setting that aside, the number of people who believe a thing has no bearing on what reality actually is. It doesn't matter if the belief is in the affirmative or negative.

What is and isn't true exists independently of human perception. But we have to actually evaluate things independently to live life as intelligent beings as part of a society. Basing our evaluations on the number of people for or against a given position doesn't actually mean your belief is accurate or true.

You seem to think that truth is whatever the fewest people believe it is. That isn't necessarily going to lead to the truth. It's a ridiculous way of evaluating anything. Sometimes a minority is right, sometimes it isn't. There's no definite correlation.

Intelligence also has nothing to do with the topic and is not correlated with being right or wrong. Another weak tactic.


Selfish and generous are two different concepts, so one need not be one or the other.

The opposite of selfish is selfless, not generous. This isn't just about being picky with words. There are important philosophical differences that can have a huge impact on one's life.


Both.


Neither has any bearing on truth. They're both equally wrong.


I'll be more interested if someone puts it on Nostr. I get turncoat vibes from reading that article. But at least it might be open source if it does. The idea is cool for those who can stand that format.


Good fakes.


Did they use 'real' hundreds? 😂


Fuckem. I'll buy the dips every time they get rekt.
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Fucking A+ response though. Lol

I tell people that the best strategy I've found that's worry free is to just keep stacking over time regardless of price. I'm far outpacing most Americans and the gap is getting wider for me every year 🤷


Better idea.


Probably not very in mine lol


The Global feed on Amethyst is like going through a wood chipper feet first. 😂

Probably never clicking that again.


Anything connected to the internet is going to have essentially the same problems, just in a more limited capacity.


MY NSEC WILL NEVER LEAVE THE VAULT
https://github.com/vnuge/nvault

Users using uBlock origin would likely have been protected by default, I know I am. You should always be using blocking tools such as script blocking extensions or DNS blocking to disallow apps from sending YOUR data to 3rd party servers. I encourage other developers to avoid even the slightest possibility that you could be responsible for compromising user's identities.

For web applications I think it's time to deprecate nsec login.

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**Security Update**

I've got some bad news for you guys. This morning, as I was adding error handling to flotilla, I discovered that Coracle has been sending user session objects to bugsnag when reporting errors.

Who is affected: Users who triggered an error in Coracle while signed in with their private key, since December 5th 2023.

What I've done:

- I immediately released a new version of Coracle, both to web and to zap.store
- I have deleted the affected apks from my releases
- I have deleted all my error data from bugsnag
- I have deleted my bugsnag project and rotated my api key, so lingering error reports will be dropped
- I have audited my code for use of the session object to ensure nothing else like this is happening

What you should do:

- If you're logged in with your private key, log out
- Hard refresh the page to ensure you have the latest version of Coracle

The bottom line is that if you signed in to Coracle with your private key, it has been shared with me and with bugsnag. In practical terms, your keys should still be secure, since they were sent over TLS, and have been deleted. But there is no guarantee I can offer that they are in fact gone.

I take my users' privacy seriously. My error reporting implementation doesn't record user IPs, it redacts identifying data, and it allows users to opt-out. I also warn the user when they attempt to enter an nsec into a text field. In this case, I simply screwed up, and I sincerely apologize. Reply to this note if you have any questions.


How would an algorithm even begin to know what is good for your individual well-being? The algorithms are supposed to serve you content you'll engage with. Would you want to see a bunch of shit you don't find engaging?

I understand the negative consequences that can come from social media use, but I don't understand the expectation that a social media company is supposed to somehow know what exactly is good for you. You are responsible for figuring that out for yourself.

The algorithms are mostly just reflecting you because that's what makes money. They wouldn't be making money if they only showed you things that you don't keep choosing to engage with.

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I agree about all the tracking being bad.

What I find itritating is that the law referenced here only protects a special class of government employees, as if everyone else should just get fucked.

Data brokers should get fucked and this law should apply to everyone.

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We need to see more of this.
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Clickbait is lying. I don't give a fuck if it gets more people to consume your content. I lose respect for you because you have poor character in my eyes.

It's pathetic and probably attracts lower quality consumers. Maybe that's the goal. Cool. But I can't imagine that any decent human actually respects you.


I'm not sure that flies if an official regulated entity is involved. For example, a non-profit or something that spearheads a project (as with Linux). Maybe best efforts to collect dev data will suffice, but this is somewhat unchartered territory (for FOSS software) in the US from what I can tell. It may not suffice and anon devs may just get booted anyway.

The best strategy could be to let the regulated arm do what it has to and then use the right to fork for those of us who aren't regulated non-profits or whatever.

I'm honestly not sure how this plays out. Centralized funding is an obvious issue here because that's the attack vector government is using. It isn't practical to go after every single one of us pulling from repos.

I think the result is going to be greater fragmentation, lower quality and less secure software in the long run. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Either way, forking Linux outside the US may help, but so many other US based projects are using it that I just don't think it's practical. The whole thing is goofy.


The best way to understand recursion is to understand recursion.


#Obtainium
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Centralized technology stacks are the problem. Building on a broken foundation isn't going to address the root problem. They can always just change the software to ban or break your app store.


Apparently it is an executive order from Biden causing the chaos.

I do find it concerning that he made no effort to defend maintainers who weren't exactly no name contributors. He had no issues stating his other political views.

I also hate Russia, but I see no benefit in going along with clipping dedicated FOSS contributors without even acknowledging the absurdity of it.

I can understand the US not wanting people to directly help the Russian government or other enemies, but I don't think FOSS should be a concern. I especially don't think alleged defenders of FOSS should just go along with this sort of treatment for contributors without calling it out as bullshit.


I guess we need a ComplyGuy bot to go around checking compliance for every note posted.


My interview @JarrettAdamsLaw is now live. At 17, he was sentenced to 28 years in a maximum-security prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

Now, he fights wrongful convictions and the Prison Industrial Complex.

Full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCTKdTfXOx8


I don't see how taking free contributions from Russian contributors is supporting Russia's political aggression. Unless they were being paid or there's some other law not being mentioned here...

I believe there are some export laws that cover certain types of software, but it isn't as clear to me as he implies it should be.


Thanks for clearing that up. https://image.nostr.build/ea6dca3e2cdccb76e0123866c9488f471a0774cd38fe7236d5a59fc73d109284.jpg


I just watched my first Feynman lecture and his genius as a lecturer (if nothing else) was quite apparent within the first few minutes.


It was for me too at first compared to the SeedSigner or Trezor Model T I've been using.

The SeedSigner has by far been my favorite and the most reliable, but all of them have tradeoffs somewhere.

The Q has some interesting potential. The physical scanner is amazing, but my laptop camera can never scan the display in reverse (works perfectly on my SeedSigner though).

It definitely needs work, but has a lot of potential for advanced users (in my opinion).


I don't mean to say that spreading someone else's ideas is necessarily a bad thing. Only that it can easily become religious or tribal once people start deifying influencers (like Saylor) or participating in the latest drama. People can do whatever they want. I'm just bored with it and don't think it deserves my energy.

Bitcoin is the best money I've found and I just want it to be that. I don't need it to be my religion or sole focus in life. The whole point for me was to free up my mind to focus on important things, and Bitcoin X isn't it. Unfortunately, I can't escape it even here. 😁

Life goes on. ✌


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They also replaced my MK4 that was having many bizarre issues after an update as well.

I updated the new hardware to the same versions as before (latest as of this note), and everything is working so far. I have no idea what happened. I found someone else who had the same issue with their Q.

Either way, the support team helped me out pretty quickly and easily. Honestly, it was a lot better than most companies I've had to deal with, so good job there.

What I would like to see is more care with updates (assuming this wasn't some manufacturing issue or wild coincidence). Maybe it was unavoidable. Testing updates on more devices out in the wild could be a good idea, if not already being done. I'm willing to help.

No funds were lost. Shit happens. We will see how the long term testing of the new hardware goes.


If you want to imagine a small number, consider how few people on the planet give a fuck what's happening on Bitcoin X.

Imagine an even smaller number by considering how few people on Bitcoin X are original thinkers who aren't just parroting someone else or mindlessly trolling.

There's a lot of boring circle jerking in this space, and I've definitely participated in it. Guilty.

Honestly, I can see why most people aren't interested.

Money shouldn't be a religion. It's a tool. Fucking use it and live life. Bitcoin X isn't real.


Product development doesn't just fucking happen. It's an invention for people who want to live in a civilized society where investors and innovators aren't just sacrificial animals who get no reward for their effort.

You can't compete with someone who gets the benefit of your labor without bearing any of the cost for it.

The mental gymnastics to justify stealing is quite incredible.


You essentially are making those investors take the bus if you copy their product and sell it a price they can't compete with. There's a difference between an idea and a usable product that has been developed at an expense. Plenty of people have ideas, but that isn't worth shit unless someone is willing to invest their energy into making it real.

We protect intellectual property so investors can recoup their investments rather than just being eaten by people who didn't take the initial risk. If you want to give away what you invest in and create then fine. But you don't get to say that forcing everyone else to do that isn't theft.

This seems like it was written by a mentally delayed child in a communist country.


All roads politicians are willing to take do. But there are roads we could take that don't just prolong the illness and let it grow.

It's like the scenario of ripping a bandage off vs pulling it off slowly, except in this case the bandage never comes off and actually grows in surface area and stickiness over time.

That's what you get for having politicians rather than leaders.


Fardisaster


I can't remember who it was now, but I warned someone on X about investing their time, money, and energy into this and got a snarky response about my intelligence or some other ad hom I think.

Fuckem.

I don't try to save people anymore. It's a waste of MY time and energy, which is far more important to me now (as it should be).

Hopefully we both learned valuable lessons.

#Nostr is the way for me.

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Yeti engineering is on point.


Oof.


"...Fed to offset..." is all I needed to hear.

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built a fuzzer, found a bug, feelsgoodman.png


Alright, I'll stop being an asshole after this one https://image.nostr.build/08c625faa2e60b7d804b8316693c0595b0b95f3bde22f9eccec43cbaaba1befb.jpg


I'm nauseated every time I see pUbLiC pRiVaTe PaRtNeRsHiP.

It's almost always an indication that I'm about to be fucked in some way.


Head bleeds are a bitch. Hopefully the doorway is okay. 😉


Never is a very long time.


Lol

Side note, excellent actor.
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I don't owe Saylor shit.

He's here for the same incentives I am. I didn't take on a bunch of debt for my stack, and that's okay. His play is okay for him and his investors. Give it all to the custodians and governments. I don't give a fuck.

Creating deities for what is supposed to be money is fiat clown nonsense.


Anyone who doesn't think and live exactly like me... NGMI


I don't owe him shit.


Or in this case looking at the genes directly and deciding all is well and changing nothing.

This isn't a binary issue. There are benefits to these advances beyond just having a baby later in life.

It's totally awesome that parents can learn beforehand that their child will have a terrible disease, etc, for example. I tend to find the whole eye color, gender, etc thing weird and something we should discuss, but the medical application for prevention and treatment are amazing and should continue.

Most people tunnel vision on one use case, and either discard everything because of that or some other ridiculous religious belief. Both are equally dumb.


Selective breeding of dogs, plants, etc has historically been a try and see approach (a best guess) by discarding the undesirable offspring and only breeding the desirables. That is not the same thing as targeted gene modification.

Having sex with a partner who looks good with the hope of having a pretty baby is selective breeding. That's not a new idea.

Editing the genes directly is totally different.

https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/gm-plants/how-does-gm-differ-from-conventional-plant-breeding/


Gr8 b8 m8


I was talking to someone about something political and totally forgot that Joe Biden is the president. Dude has been memory holed. 😂


Un-memory Hole: Engaged
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Tuta has been good for me. 🫡


On my selective breeding point, I meant that it will likely be more precise than getting a pug out the deal lol But, only time will tell. We definitely need ethical debates on the shit for sure.


Yeah, I think it's an example of some people taking something too far. It happens with everything. I can definitely see this becoming a racist type thing, but I can also see it doing a lot of good for normal people. It'll be a spectrum of normies all the way to fucking weirdos.


Meh. It's like pretty much everything else. A lot of the science will be wonderful, but you will also have weirdos who go way too far. I have ethical concerns about some of it. It's something we will definitely have to figure out.


I don't think it's the same concept as selective breeding.


I think we use the wrong measuring stick sometimes. Indie software is a great example. 1M per year in revenue is basically nothing to a company like Google, but it is quite significant to an indie developer. So you may not attract a VC or buyer, but that doesn't make it worthless.


If I were a judge, I would destroy this mother fucker to the greatest extent allowable. You would very much want me as the judge in a countersuit. He'd be living under a fucking bridge by the time I finished.


Install an alarm system in your home. Even if it was just local, a noise maker tied to every entry point would have spoiled a lot of the historically significant crimes that are being studied today.

This isn't a perfect solution, but most criminals care about being caught. Do everything you can to bring attention to them and you'll be more likely to win.

I'm in the US, so being armed and trained is a part of that. But you can't defend against what you don't know is there and making a bunch of noise is almost always going to be in your favor.

Peace.


I don't know what villain arc means, but I'm proud of you for putting work into something you value. I need to work on my health. Great to see.


What some people fail to realize is that hope and numbers do have meaning, even if they don't immediately change every wrong you see in the world.

It could be the case that someone else sees how many people care about people like Ross, Bitcoin, etc and move us in a better direction politically down the road. Humans have a hard time appreciating how little decisions today can matter decades from now.

Yielding to politicians with absolutely no pushback isn't going to help things more than voting even if you don't see the impact right now. Sometimes just being a wrench in a gear is enough to change history for the better.

You are responsible for politics whether or not you participate, so you might as well participate strategically.


Some humans will be predatory monsters no matter what. No amount of parenting or social influence will change that (but it can indeed help in many cases and should be explored).

It is understandably difficult to accept this for the average human, but my extensive research on serial murderers (yes, I know that's an odd interest, but it is important) has led me to this conclusion.

We have to accept some level of evil in the world and mitigate it the best we can. Perfection and safety are myths in this reality. Prepare accordingly and then live life happily.


I'm not going to back down from people professing their hopelessness from the back row, and neither should you, nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvq9n8wumn8ghj7enfd36x2u3wdehhxarj9emkjmn99ah8qatzx9e8gmr3vdsnsu3kv96hjcthx4hr26pnds6ngv3jv3kngumj0y6kg7nxv4jngd3exen8zefcwvm8zem4v34hxdmydf6xvuelvfex7ctyvdshxapaw3e82egpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejs5mzk3a.

There is no shame in voting for what you think is the least shitty option. Making the best of an awful situation, even when you know the odds are stacked against you, is exactly what being American means. Some of the people in your comments would have yielded to the Brits on "principle."

Just sitting in the corner pouting while politicians run wild definitely isn't going to change anything either. Fuckem. At least we will have tried to correct at least one wrong.


If it must be a binary issue, I usually ask myself who I'd rather rather my family be captured by. That always helps me pick a side if nothing else will.

I'm an atheist, but I'd pick the Jews over any militant Muslim group. They're both retarded, but I'd rather live in Israel.


Rather, what the left claims to care about.


Yeah, I've figured that it's about the best I can hope to get out of the election. Freeing Ross would be the most I've gotten out of any election up this point in my short 31 years.

It's just fucking sad that this is the state of our politics and justice system. Quite pathetic really.

And if Kamala cared about even 1% of the shit the left cares about she would have already freed him while wearing a Satoshi shirt. At least orange man went to a Bitcoin conference to patronize us lol


The thing that most interests me about nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyfehcpn building a Nostr client (as a thought experiment, I'm not saying he is) is that it's unlikely to be a toy like so many are. There's some great work going on for sure, but most of it feels like someone's toy that's okay to break and be in a constant state of beta or worse.

I often find myself craving a mature client that just works and doesn't shove something new in my face every week that I have to figure out and adjust to just in time for it to happen again. I'm excited about Damus coming to Android (I have no idea if it's closer to my ideal client or not).

I don't need "feature" after feature packed on top when the basic things still have bugs.

Everyone has different values. I just don't value what the major clients seem to be aiming for (I can't really tell what that is yet, and maybe that's good for them). Jack has proven already that he can build a reliable and familiar UX. I can't think of a more qualified person in the Nostr space right now. His experience and wisdom has to be overwhelming.

Peace.


Perhaps, but they are competing against 25-30% humans who aren't as optimal probably, which makes it profitable still (and the bot technologies are still improving).

I don't see the point as it's closer to 100% bots, which is the incentive obviously. You'd eventually end up with bots so good that the gains and losses are a lot closer to zero (less profitable).

I think the long term result is the end of such things, and the beginning of actual prosperity IF we fix the money. Just speculation, but I think the average human lifespan would already be 200 years if Bitcoin had existed when the Federal Reserve was created. I can imagine 100-200 years from now looking wildly different. Financial trading will probably seem retarded.


Damn.
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#nostr #relay #grownostr


I suspect bot and other automation technologies will virtually end some of the degenerate and largely fruitless things happening in human economies.

For example, what will be the point of financial trading once most of it is done by bots that are so optimized that almost no trades are being made? Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see the value in traders. It just seems like a useless grift to me.


I will definitely look into both though and see if I can get some Nostr peeps to use it with me. Silos like that probably is the future anyway, unfortunately. It's the only way I can see to keep things decentralized.


I do agree with the corporation point. My primary issue with Signal is that it isn't at all simple to self-host even, and if you do, you're essentially disconnected from everyone who uses Signal. It would be cool if they had a way to add someone's self-hosted server when adding a person in Signal. So the app would connect to that instance with that person. But then you do have the domain issue and all that. Maybe a bunch of different apps for different cases is the best scenario we will ever have.


But who uses it? That's always the problem with messengers. Getting people onto Signal is hard enough. I'm not totally sure how to even say that name. It seems niche and that's fine, but WhatsApp has a network effect, and Signal is so easy that normies don't have to think about it. Frankly, I've largely given up on trying to convert people, especially after the Signal SMS rug pull on Android. Of course, I'm in the US where SMS still dominates, so it was easier to convince most of the people I know to use it as default app (most of them have uninstalled and went back to SMS).

I have like six friends on Signal (one is my wife) and it took a lot of work to get that many. Lol The messenger things feels hopeless to me. We need an industry standard that works seamlessly across platforms.

/end rant that is hardly relevant to your post


I'm definitely not taking financial advice from a company with Fool in its name. It seems to be an accurate name though.


So that is a problem for you but the whole point for me. I can see something like a long press that has a popup for which account you want to boost for or whatever, but I'd prefer to have that as an option that can be disabled.


Making such a thing easy would be suboptimal for me because of my reasons for having a separate account. That's my point. A good middle-ground would be to just have account switcher settings. I say 'just' without understanding the complexity of doing such a thing.


Many are. However, there is a seemingly small number of engineers (I consider them different than developers) who still care about computer science and making actually good software.

Seemingly very small. They've probably mostly retired.


My coffee cup was probably brewing the next global pandemic. 😬
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I'm going to publicly flog myself for the betterment of humanity (probably mostly men if we are honest).

I decided to clean under my Yeti lid gasket for probably the first time ever. It wasn't as bad as I expected. The inside of the cup used to be a dark 🤎 which I swore to some ladies at work was "patina." (They didn't buy it) It wasn't. My dishwasher just baked on coffee and tea for years. It's silver again after some scrubbing.

I then had the idea to remove the handle accessory on the cup for the first time in about 6 years. My god. To call me an animal would be offensive to animals. I'm a monster.

I am ashamed. Don't be like me.

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#shame #nostrshame #yeti #coffee #tea


Me too, but I still slip occasionally. Far less often that I used to though. It was essentially constant before I went Nostr only.


I'm thinking more of a hands on approach than something like Khan, Udemy, etc, but I agree.

Similar to physically going to a class except it's virtual. Synchronous I think is the term. It wouldn't be totally on Nostr, but parts would be. More would be over time I'm sure.


I have considered exploring a digital version built on Nostr. It's quite a task though. Certainly one that would require many minds coming together.


Agreed. That common framework for me was the first half that I mentioned (US school). I was already reading and comprehending at a college level by then and could learn anything I wanted. I obviously don't speak for everyone. Just using examples that applied to me.


It's an obvious standard if a company gives a fuck about its customers. Hardly any do, hence my surprise.


Filen.io is pretty cool. Keep in mind that I only use cloud storage for non-critical data and sharing large files when I need to.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that they added the 20GB I had on the free plan to the storage I got when I upgraded.

I've tested for several months and everything has been stable and smooth. 🥹


To be fair, they did give us five minutes between classes to use the bathroom and rush to the next class, with a 30 minute meal break that included the time it took to get your food and find a place to eat it. No food or drinks in most classes. Thank god for the 5 minutes between classes (if you weren't late - punishment!)

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I have a dream of an educational institution for those who want to explore anything and question everything.

I know that sounds radical today, but I feel that's the true purpose of education. The dominant philosophy of academia today (in my experience) seems to be that the student is supposed to accept at face value anything presented to him.

There is no time for questioning the underlying assumptions or statements of the curriculum. Things are as they are and that is that!

Read this 1300 page textbook and let me know if you have any questions so I can tell you to read pages 100-156 again.

Now give us 50-100k+ and shut the fuck up.

********************************************
Trust the science!

You are wrong because you don't have _insert degree_.

You can't say that here!
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Interestingly, I used to think I would hate to be a teacher; I would in schools as they are today.

But I am deeply excited by the idea of teaching when I experiment in my mind with what a proper institution of exploration looks like for me. I can actually picture myself engaging with young (or older) minds and loving the process of education.

Pretty much everything touched by government and the fiat system is destroyed, including the passion of those within the affected systems.

Looking back, my state education after about the half way point (grade 6) was a total waste of my time. In fact, I think I became an adult worse off than I would have been if I had spent half the amount of time studying what I wanted to at the time, and the other half just being a kid or working a job when I was old enough.

Sitting in a hard plastic chair for nearly 8 hours per day, 5 days per week (with work to do on the weekends) felt more like prison than education.

Peace.


Nice.


My favorite error message up to this point in my life:

Error: UnexpectedMessage: Unknown message

👌


Just looking at this image, I have no idea what the purpose of this is. All I see is four boxes that have something to do with addresses.


I also don't know what a Lightning offer is though. Like I said, I may be missing important context.


No. I can tell that I'm entering addresses in, but for what purpose?


Rather, that I shouldn't spend my Bitcoin to buy X.


To be fair, he did say 'need.' I think his point is that most people can have the use of things without the headaches of owning them. That obviously doesn't apply if your value is to keep the same house for your entire life (or while your children grow up). Owning it would be the surest way of achieving that want.

But I do agree with your sentiment. I hate it when people tell me I shouldn't spend my Bitcoin. Fuck you. The whole point of money is to express my values. Otherwise, what are we here for?


I don't want my accounts to be so easily intermingled. That's why I have separate accounts. I think the way Amethyst handles it, for example, is my ideal way of handling account switching.

Of course, having settings that allow one to customize account switching would be nice so people can have a tailored experience.


The best? Maybe not. But they may have a massive impact on your life or a life you love. Literally in the case of 2 and 3.

1. Study philosophy
2. Stay hydrated
3. Learn basic first aid and life support


Using Trezor devices for U2F is pretty cool. I have a Model One that I specifically use for this purpose. It has held up for several years in my wallet. I have another Model T that I also use for this purpose and it works well too. It just isn't quite as portable as the smaller Model One so it stays at home.

Is it overkill? Absolutely. But at the time I wanted an open option that had a display.


I don't really pay attention to mainsteam media. However, I occasionally see a Sky News or similar clip that makes me laugh because of how savage Australians can be. The accent just makes it 🤌


That's what I do everytime I leave a job that has forced plans or contributes for me. It ends up being about 50% gone but I've never regretted putting the other half into Bitcoin. My current hospital participates in the forced state retirement plan, which I recently found out was putting Bitcoin in their portfolio. The plan is somewhat well known for being extremely conservative. Sign of the times. I get a chuckle when my coworkers push back on Bitcoin not realizing they are already indirectly investing in it.


I simply don't want the feature to do anything at all, which seems like the simplest scenario in my mind. It's the easiest ask. It should require zero effort to get rid of such a thing. Even X makes you explicitly say you want to save something. Amethyst just does it without even telling you and has no simple way of stopping it.


Is it possible yet to not have drafts in Amethyst?

I saw somewhere to not enter a relay. I haven't, yet I still see drafts.

I don't want drafts. I never wanted drafts. I don't want to request deletion for drafts. I simply want them to never be recorded anywhere. A complete disabling of the feature.

I gave Amethyst another chance after seeing some people say it was being remedied, but I'm not seeing how.

I still think this issue is needlessly complicated from a user perspective and should have been strictly opt-in from the start.

What am I missing?

#Amethyst


Or they just aren't aware. Not everyone is buried in this topic like we are. There are plenty of people buried in other topics, without whom many of us would also be fucked. No one has the bandwidth to be deeply knowledgeable on all topics.


I have no idea what I'm even looking at. I could be missing some context and may not be your target demo though.


The main problem I see is that the primary incentive is usually "do it to support the network, bro." People are doing what economically makes sense. It doesn't make sense for me to get paid in fiat, have mostly fiat bills, and spend a fee to use Bitcoin, spend a fee to replace the Bitcoin, and then have to live the nightmare of tracking all of the buys and sells for my taxes.

There are so many differences between jurisdictions that there is no single answer to more people spending Bitcoin. The incentive where I live is to spend fiat and save my extra in Bitcoin. I usually have a disincentive to spend and replace. The only time that hasn't been true is when there is a 10% discount on some larger purchase I'm making. Even then, I usually don't want to deal with the tax tracking of it.

This is a multi-faceted issue, but I do agree that more merchants would not solve my issues. I actually don't even need merchant adoption as much as I once did (with all the conversion options). What I need is simpler tax tracking or no taxes at all on Bitcoin for the full economic incentive to bother with spending and replacing.

I donate a lot more Bitcoin than I spend because the tax situation isn't complicated for me when I donate.

I don't think the network is any worse off doing what I do. I'm still pulling value out of the fiat world and putting it into Bitcoin on a regular basis. I'm just not micro transacting myself to death when my reality simply isn't set up for it.

If Bitcoin was legally a currency without taxation, I'd be living completely in it today, even if I lost a percentage for doing so. I would do that on principle. But the amount of work I'd need to do right now is beyond what I am willing to do. There may be ways to make it easier, but not easy enough.

The UX and laws just aren't there for me yet. And this isn't really surprising. The Fiat rails have almost a century on Bitcoin.

We are going the right direction. I'm on more of a Bitcoin standard in my own life than I've ever been, even with how I use it right now.

Like nostr:nprofile1qqsw3znfr6vdnxrujezjrhlkqqjlvpcqx79ys7gcph9mkjjsy7zsgygpr9mhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarjd93kztnrdaksz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ekk7um5wgh8qatz7tvu4p said, we're gonna make it.

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It's amazing what happens when you can't just dump someone else's money into the ocean for every launch.
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Depends on the item. Sometimes it just says Butter, or whatever. That is mostly how I use them. To make sure that things like sour cream are actually sour cream, which is unfortunate but still helpful. I'm not going to produce every item myself at home.


I understand that. I was responding to the comment.


It sure is. But claiming that one doesn't need to worry is a technical claim that may not be true. Bisq isn't a total shield from state tracking.


Another idea I had was using electrical box covers. They aren't quite as tough, but may work well for those who want to make backups of backups cheaply or need something that is easy to hide.

For example, you could put these under carpet, screw them to studs inside walls, under floors, in vehicles, or even on an electrical box if you're feeling extra cheeky. https://image.nostr.build/ed28591113f41392078872b420622c1687e04816da695db4448706c14f6f8cb2.jpg

There are lots of cool possibilities for flat plates like this. Sizes vary.

#bitcoin #seed #seedphrase #bitcoinbackup

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For anyone interested in an example of all the materials:

https://image.nostr.build/08b7158af461b16dd8aa54a7d6cd9be11e8a2896e9d8a02270c7c9d0746ca32b.jpg


Seedor is cool and all (they look nicer maybe), but you can do something similar on your own. You will pay more depending on the steel specifications (heat tolerance, corrosion, etc), but buying the best I could find cost very little in comparison to something like Seedor.

I spent around 50USD for the punch kit (hammer, letters, numbers, platform) and all the materials needed for the steel backups. You can tailor the amount of materials to lower the price. I bought quite a lot to experiment.

I'm fairly public about my journey in Bitcoin, but ordering parts like this or going to a hardware store can naturally be a lot more private than ordering a kit from a Bitcoin company.

One disadvantage is that I didn't have a guide to help with stamping, but it wasn't that difficult  to freehand. I'm sure there are kits with guides or whatever the technical term is. You could consider engraving.

I haven't looked for a steel capsule yet, but I have seen them on keychains for holding medication. I'm sure something exists.

I haven't done this, but I have considered cool hiding ideas for these. You could easily install it on something like a vehicle (with the bolt head flush and in view) or something else that is double walled and most people would have no clue that it's a hidden seed.

Seed backups is a pretty interesting topic once you start experimenting and thinking about it.

Have fun.

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NOTE: THIS IS FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD THE SEEDOR PRICE, WANT MORE PRIVACY, OR HAVE SOME OTHER NEED.

I don't care if you like Seedor and own their products. I just used it as an example because it is the closest popular example I can find like this sort of backup. My goal is to give people a cheap and private backup option, not to attack Seedor or any other product. Use whatever you want.
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#bitcoin #seed #seedphrase

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That's an interesting glass


I think physicians should still be able to practice if it's made clear what their licensure status is (none, this or that org, just med school, etc). I can choose for myself what I want in a physician. Especially when it comes to family medicine. I can understand hospitals wanting more standardization for something like emergency medicine, but primary care should be individual


I don't really care if someone eats crickets per se. After all, the chickens that lay the eggs I eat live off of bugs mostly. Maybe they aren't directly good for us, I have no idea.

What bothers me is that they are clearly trying to hide what it is.

Acheta protein.

Why not just write Cricket Protein? I think it's because they know most people don't really want cricket protein.


I would certainly expect Trump to sell every case he can though, especially this close to the election. It just wasn't as sellable until blood was drawn.


It really isn't that amazing. Media coverage inspires certain people to do things like this. It is seen with school shooters and other types of violence too. I think there is also an incentive for media to cover these things while they're hot, which fuels the cycle. My guess is that things like this happen more often than we know, the media just isn't as interested until a bullet is fired.