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 Number 1 reason I refuse to use #Linux on the desktop is that #Wayland support on #NVIDIA is stil... 
 Number 1 reason I refuse to use #NVIDIA on the desktop is that #Wayland support on #NVIDIA is still a hassle. 

Most of the things work but something simple as watching a full screen video in the browser is still painful. 
 in a way it's almost like insomnia is the constipation of the mind. 
 the more i see posts with the #grownostr tag the less i seem to understand what the tag is about.
i initially thought it was about growing plants, like gardening. i really feel like a boomer. 
 1. Use a password manager
2. Use #Matrix
3. Use #Tor
4. Use #privacy email addresses
5. Buy thing... 
 simplex chat over matrix in my opinion, but otherwise good tips. 
 List your favorite hash tags to follow

#asknostr #grownostr #privacy #opensource #cybersecurity 
 #3dprinting #hardware #foss #linux #sdr 
 Anyone got recommendations for people to follow in the #monero #xmr space? 
 the real ones trash on monero and claim it's simply the lesser evil in an inevitable future cashless society. if you see people selling it as the secondcoming of jesus, avoid them. 
 is Llama 3.1 not capable? 
 i recommend giving it a try even if it is not one of the officially supported languages. 
 well, it is not exactly OSS, but it's self-hostable and the weights are widely available. so hopefully that's good enough for you. 
 feel free to dm me or send me a simplex chat invite link and i'll gladly try to help with the little that i know. 
 Asking for your insights. What are the possible (temporary) causes for stalling or reversing the ... 
 more powerful models that use multiple times more expensive hardware and much more energy becoming the common standard seems to be the only realistic possibility. 
 if some company released a model with 10x higher costs per token (due to the sheer hardware requirements for inference) but if it made gpt4 look like gpt2, you bet many people would gladly pay the extra price. 
 What are good alternatives to Soundcloud? Am not a big fan I must admit. Maybe even something in ... 
 bandcamp, perhaps 
 cool, $1000 is a bit much though, can't an rtl-sdr under $50 do this kind of stuff too? (even if with worse quality?) 
 awesome, would be fantastic to be able to track down number stations 
 flux by black forest labs is an #ai text-to-image model that has an open source version that seems to completely shit on stable diffusion. things are looking good for #localai
https://blackforestlabs.ai/announcing-black-forest-labs/ 
 Potential Monero Ecash tokens in 3-6 months (maybe)

Cool

nostr:nevent1qqsqv37s8fyqx0we6l4rs32h9... 
 not familiar with ecash, can i please get a tldr? 
 if you had to choose one project to succeed and one to fail between meshify and reticulum, how would you choose? 
 seems to me that meshify is a better project right now, but has not much more room for growth, while reticulum is worse but it could be so many times better than meshify ever will. am i getting it wrong or do you agree? 
 oopsies, yes, that's what i meant. 
 seems like i confused it with the computer case 
 What's one thing you wish was easier to find or purchase online with bitcoin and monero? 

#asknostr 
 equity in various companies 
 i am not ready for llama 3.1 being as good as it's being claimed to be. #ai #localai 
 is it just me or is #monero getting a large influx of new users this summer? if so, any idea why now? 
 but before samourai was around not many people cared about monero either. 
 interesting to read about all the different aspect ratios of national flags
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aspect_ratios_of_national_flags 
 like a good pirate, i have it in a buried chest in the sandy beach of a small unpopulated pacific island. 
 Hey nostr any recommendations for a #linux distro? 

#asknostr 
 Debian, Arch, or NixOS. But others are also great, when compared to lesser OSes. 
 that's cool, but i prefer the idea of using a laptop. btw, do you know if packet radio possible with SDR by any chance? also would like to know more about making antennas from simple wires. 
 Pssst

You need a dummy phone number and email address. Use them for every sign up, service, gas ... 
 use email aliasing such as addy or simplelogin. one dummy email address is not enough. use a different alias for every service. for phone mumber i recommend jmp.chat to avoid sim card tracking. 
 do you ever just try to do something completeududvjijfyilbfqwckeunviwetkly unexpected in order to keep the truman show entertaining? 
 i just decided to do the metal hands and touch my elbows with my pinkies🤘 how many humans in the history of mankind have done that before uh?  
 Quiet people of the world, the time has come to speak. If you are looking for a sign, this is it.... 
 everyone wants to speak but no one wants to listen 
 best video i've watched in a long while, recommend watching. #radio #hamradio #sdr #foss https://youtu.be/pjoUpIlQEXk 
 openrouter.ai is a fantastic concept, wish they'd support anonymous users though. 
 Everything should be free and open-source, including government #FOSS. 
 including your emails and private messages? 
 Maybe cloudflare is cheap because it’s a government front. 

This a theory I heard today that... 
 the companies own the gov, not the other way around. 
 I have more Bitcoin than Monero now, but i think its time to reverse it. 

Monero is more truth t... 
 please stop overglorifying Satoshi and treating him like a prophet.
monero is a solid project regardless of what some dude that vanished 10 years ago thought. 
 #linux users, what do you think is the most intimidating or confusing part of someone first getti... 
 filesystem being completely different, wheres my C drive, wheres my D drive? no ctrl+alt+delete. being used to install programs from a binary downloaded straight from the prohect's website and expecting it to auto-update. 
 #DuckDuckGo #search is down right now. What is a good #privacy respecting alternative? #asknostr 
 local ai. 
 someone should put #ai looking for hidden messages in old classical books. i'm sure you'd find some gems. 
 What are your favorite #foss #android apps?

#asknostr 
 LibreTube, SimpleX Chat, Feeder. 
 RSS Reader that allows you to keep up with different blogs and news sources.
https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder 
 Maybe we should make people pass the written and driving tests every time they renew. 

And pass ... 
 make the civics test hard enough and you got yourself a dictatorship 
 #monero should be banned. who needs #privacy anyway. https://banmonero.com/ 
 yes, i2p should definitely be banned as well. spread the message and tell everyone you know to avoid it, especially people that aren't aware of it! https://geti2p.net/  
 let's not get ahead of ourselves, water isn't as big as monero for our society, there are alternatives to water. if we ban water people will just drink milk or something else. monero is the only functional privacy coin, it has no real alternatives, that's why we need to ban it, that will surely fix financial fraud, just like banning drugs fixed drug abuse. really that simple. 
 i invite you to click the link and read the academic literature on why monero should be banned, it's really a no brainer. 
 what if you work 2 or 3 miles away from your home and need a phone while at work? 
 Most sci-fi stories involving time travel involve a mechanism that's incredibly rare and/or diffi... 
 just orbit a large enough mass. time dilation is the most realistic form of time travel 
 why would i want to keep my savings in a currency that has proven time and time again that it isn't able to function as digital cash? i'd rather keep it in precious metals. 
 it's out, grab it #ai #localai #selfhosted
https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/
 
 as of today fear, uncertainty and doubt about life in general seems to be at ath. very curious about i'll feel about it 1yr from now. 
 realistically i think more fear, yet less uncertainty and doubt, but who knows. 
 buy gpus, buy hard drives/ssds, buy 3d printers. 
 wake up. new mistral magnet just dropped. 
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 privacy-focused people tend to act much more like themselves when they are anonymous, their anonymous accounts are where they show their true self and their identity. what they post on their public accounts tends to be in less volume and much less personal. the sheer amount of information and specific interests of a user with an anonymous account can go along way in understanding who they are and what they do, their legal name is not super relevant.