No more weird than early internet humor! Like Homestar Runner or Salad Fingers 😂 I really like the video game aesthetic. Always love Freedom Toons content.
Some big news! I took a mechanical engineering position at a local, family owned company (whom we know well and are related)!
So, if you do CNC work and need repairs or upgrades to your machines, be they mechanical, electrical, or software/controls, give me a DM. I'll get you connected, and we'll take good care of you.
What if the real price trajectory would have been 2% deflation instead of the 2% inflation they aim at but exceed? It used to be (pre-1971) that things got cheaper with economic progress, not more expensive.
The hellthread hasn't really been a thing for awhile, and God willing will never be again, so it may already be the case that those already get muted. A similar solution could be in the works.
The basic human currency is trust.
If you trust your friend or family member to return favors and regard you with goodwill, money is not necessary.
Money is what extends trust to strangers, because by giving money in exchange, they promise good will be returned.
Money is information about good done to and for others. It is a substitute for trust and goodwill. It does not replace trust, but extends it. Fundamentally, to trade money is to say the money is trustworthy and said trust may be borrowed by the counterpart in trade.
When money becomes untrustworthy in a society that has greatly relied upon it, that society breaks down. Only when society fixes the money will it recohere.
I would agree that we have a lot of fake stuff all over the internet, but it's heavily mixed. I don't know about 70-90%, but maybe the 80-20 rule is in terms of attention rather than actual volume of content; that, I believe already.
The MSM, including the tech giants de facto, push a narrative that keeps the people atomized and out of close knit community, because friendship is the opposite of tyranny. Brother against brother, father against son: if they can divide us, they will, because that makes us weak, and a weak proletariat is a controllable one.
The solution is real, in-person community. They can't fake human interaction.
Open source ones are fine, though. Forget Squarespace and Wix, but WordPress is pretty good. Plus, the client can make simple edits and add content, so you're not on the hook for tedious minor updates and such.
Built my new PC with an AMD 8600G and 48GB RAM. Man! The thing is so much faster than my laptop! 😂 sporting Xubuntu, for now. What's your favorite distro?
Also, video editor for Linux? I thought I saw capcut had a version for Linux, but apparently not. Looking into shotcut.
#pcBuild #askNostr #Linux
https://i.nostr.build/DqrhIuDpVPM5zKiX.jpg
Cool! It had been a bit since I tried it, and I have to say, UI scaling has come a long way! Several years ago, 4K looked awkward, but it's basically a good a windows and macos, now.
Cars don't need computers. Give it a microcontroller with some FOSS running on it to tune performance, and maybe active traction. If self-driving is the future, we need an anonymized FOSS solution.
Advertisers don't need to know how much lead is in my foot or how close I follow, let alone all the rest of that privacy nightmare.
At the same time ... I've found we have definitely erred on the side of too much explanation, and now our eldest basically needs us to tell him our reasoning before he complies. Authority exists and is not just one will overpowering another.
Sometimes an explanation is not only simply not necessary, like in the case of daily chores, but may be detrimental to the child, such as in the case of emergencies or topics for which the child is not ready. Obedience without question is a virtue when applied to legitimate authority, that is those who are trustworthy, responsible, and proximal.
In the case of adults, imagine if an employer had to justify his direction at each step in a process. Eventually, the employee may benefit from an explanation for each step, but it would be better for both to get him familiar with the process first.
So, too, with law and governance.
Now, I would say much of our modern governance is not trustworthy, responsible, nor proximal, but great caution need be had in resisting. Take stances carefully.
Whoa... I just thought of a paradigm shifting development for computing.
One-time, periodical, on-demand, and real-time data sharing between applications using user-definable data pipes, achieving a secure, memory safe, and more streamlined alternative to repeat clipboard operations. This would pair with a window manager so that very simple applications could be written and plugged into one another in wrappers to compose new applications.
Imagine ...
1. Two-way piping a Nostr app window into a signer app so the Nostr app needs no signature method, just a signature request/receive pipe fitting.
2. Maybe pipe in a Bitcoin signer with the invoice and CRM app to send payment requests to customers without needing to trust the CRM dev with your key, and that's plugged into an email app from a completely different developer.
3. A game app could have a renderer, but some raw data could be piped through another app and streamed via the internet as non-video data. The viewers would open the same renderer app and pipe in the streamer's data, maybe have their own setting and characters, rendered at far higher framerates and resolutions without increasing network load.
4. Do you like one app's interface but another's processing performance? Pipe between the two! Maybe pause one app to save resources, isolating performance on the one you're more interested in, and restart the processing app when you're ready.
5. Automated, custom data processing flow: Email app → filter app → CRM → Invoicer → Signer app → Invoicer → CRM → email app
6. Plumb a pipe to an AI processor and back to automate your workflow. Like a 3D modeler, to an image AI, to your image manipulator, and only then go to disk or email, not having to save-upload-download-open in-between.
Automate rather than copy-pasting, saving from one and opening in another, and do it in real time!
Yes, some of these can be automated using other services like zapier, so maybe it won't catch on immediately, but the power users might, and their higher performance due to it.
The main paradigm shift is exposing interfaces to the user other than keyboard and mouse actions in-app, and anything more would be near exclusively a per application-pair basis. With this, the user can plug anything into any other thing with a similar data structure!
This was *literally* my next idea! You have a few more things thought out, but the idea is to pipe data from machine to machine, so as to treat lower end devices as thin clients of the more powerful device by piping in data, so the compiler runs on the faster machine, and the editor itself runs on your portable laptop.
I really like the idea of baking in cluster management. Hot-swappable compute management could allow an office to scale compute without needing a server room. Your desks *are* the server room! Flippin' sweet.
Another idea: true sub-accounts, that is, npubs, just like new addresses under Bitcoin. Allows for one to interact more anonymously without creating an alternate key and maintain interoperability, etc.
Additionally, multiple personae with one key would allow others to follow one persona under a key but not all, just as a personal and professional side to an npub. More basic* than tagging.
This may prove difficult, but I don't know, since I'm not a cryptographer.
*basic to mean low-level or foundational, not simple.
The one word I say like a good ol' boy is "oil," and only in the context of cars. First job in high school was a JiffyLube in central Texas. Otherwise, I sound a mild Californian.
It doesn't seem to me that it would be legal to regulate who can own it, but regardless, it's impossible. They can't freeze it, seize it, censor it, and if you're smart and careful even track it. That's the point of the invention.
I'll let you know in a bit. Going to spin up a rust-based nostr client for windows real quick.
(Actually...I really do want to do that.)
The fact that the rendering is handled completely, and all I have to do is structure it and then describe it in CSS is amazing. If I had to include the code for the renderer for every project... 🤷♂️ time saving is just the half of it.
I just realized that Gossip is written entirely in Rust! It's the only real client on Windows (never got nostrmo to work).
I might have to dabble and contribute!
Gotcha. A step above needing to code your own font engine. That's pretty low level. It's probably great for data visualization or building a game engine, or at least something that changes frequently.
Depends on the application and how low-level the language is, but this definitely can be true. I'm mostly web-dev, so the probability is much lower in my space... but never zero.
Interoperability, zaps, and data sharing. If you could add someone by a known ID, have data cross the app barrier (like the in-game ID same as chat ID), maybe even do business (imagining gig-sharing, freelance co-op, or something of the sort).
Easy to make a new npub, but it would be terribly convenient to not have to if you don't want to. Kinda makes privacy opt-in, but it's not too difficult to run an anon acct. alongside a "normal" one.
I would spend *just enough* on income producing assets to equal my absolute minimum expenses, celebrate my new wealth just a little with family and friends, and the rest (70-80%?) goes into long-term storage bitcoin. I'll do the same at each 10x therehence.
For real, though! I've kept seed oils out of my diet, and I only very lightly burn in the sun. I mowed shirtless yesterday and am perfectly fine today.
Interesting idea: consigned notes
Not as interesting for microblogging, but I could imagine collaborative "other stuff" (such as video, audio, streams, semi-official texts) could benefit from multiple signatures.
Detecting spam is the trick. New npubs could have a probationary period until "vetted". WoT-based lifting.
In general, the incentive ought to be to create content with which other trustable npubs want to interact.
Bots will always create multiple npubs, so a simple blacklist for spam isn't enough.
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