Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

C.S. Lewis (but basically Luke 12:48 )


Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted

paraphrased, C.S. Lewis


nostr:npub1ftrnkvl0hdud65yacyvcn6sx2w7lfztdp2957wp344dcc9s3yf8qm56ykf

lmao https://image.nostr.build/50d26fbd392e00480a988640483200558cd31a03880f29b2fc003c522bfdf986.jpg


We must cultivate our garden |
Statistics and Data Science

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition


Bitcoin makes tradeoffs that make it more expensive than trusted, custodial solutions.  That will always be true, no matter what soft forks are activated.

Many people will always choose cheap, trusted, and easy.  And that is their choice.

Lo barato sale caro


https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/nostrcheck.me_8564808860250628701710018078.webp

Hoje comemoramos 31 anos de aniversário do Manifesto Cypherpunk, escrito em 9 de março de 1993.

"A privacidade é o poder de se revelar seletivamente ao mundo." - Eric Hughes

https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html


the world has never been better

source:  I just went to Harbor Freight


my man


drinking coffee on the toilet, pure luxury


sounds like a lot of work


cruising the mountaiiinnn, wheezing the juiceee


bro what

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution


…for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the earth.

J.R.R. Tolkien


price goes up, price goes down.

you can’t explain that https://image.nostr.build/83575a8937f5c0e1f8681106141241c2b4cf4e841eb230715e346ae1b422652b.jpg


Finally finished an old project.

Leather rune pouch lined in rabbit fur.

 Great prototype, now I just have to tool up for real production. Will definitely be open to p2p trades.

https://image.nostr.build/1c38d7fdaaa27b7ed067078f0aebe5985dc98f14d0469581eade519435a6bfff.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1225x816&blurhash=rGCPR%3FJUoy%7EA5SIpnOJB9HIUIVjFM%7DkD%250oft7xs5WwJjZOX%24fRkX8niof-.%252ofxsM%7DRkWCM%7CWB9HW%3BRjM%7Coy%251ofkBxZs%3At6WVxZoJNHn%24WBW%3D&x=9c276bd4a02d12a4e62adcc312e1bdff8d7a4074416f28e6a64d988fb6d05164


I’ve been to Istanbul and Cappadocia, would recommend both.  I hear the beaches on the Aegean are beautiful, but I’ve never been


I think it’s just that 1) there’s not that many people on nostr and 2) notes quickly get buried by newer notes


that’s true, New Jersey is pretty horrible.  And to MA’s credit, it feels much cleaner than CA or NJ


Having lived in both places, I can confidently say that Massachusetts deserves the “commie shithole” reputation more than California.


lol giving her way too much credit, she’s still broke


it’s hilarious that these people will claim they’re building a “credibly neutral” protocol, and then accept seed funding for a “business”.

How do they not see that trying to monetize the development of the protocol itself contrasts with the goal of neutrality?


Everyone should check out the new Circles app built on Matrix protocol.

https://circles.futo.org

It is definitely inspiration for something that could be done on Nostr. I’d like to see more emphasis on private convos and more intimate connections. Products built for family for example. Maybe that just isn’t what Nostr is for. In which case, maybe Matrix is better.


Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.

J.R.R. Tolkien


larping


Love this channel

https://youtu.be/o1L6P_kMNzY?feature=shared


Some of y’all need to accept the following:

Many people in developed countries will never accept that they are wrong about bitcoin. Hyperbitcoinization and the death of fiat is not coming in the next decade.

NGU will continue, and yet, the people around you will continue to repeat mindless FUD.  Bitcoin went from $0 to $60,000, and very few people changed their tune.  When it hits $500k, nothing will change.  Be at peace with this, for your own sanity.


honestly, an app that uses nostr to log in is better than a nostr app that asks for an email address to zap people (primal)


not sure where you found a camera in the parable


chad schizophrenic vs virgin sociopath


so sick of this shit, we gotta get rid of voting


naw


And to add to this excellent critique:

Shitcoiners like farcaster, ergo it sucks.  Q.E.D.


yes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant


fresh


stay regarded, stack sats


what a fucking chode that guy is


energy abundance is good, yes


thc edibles?


Three Meshtastic nodes are active in Cape Town for off-grid communications during disasters or just to meet your neighbours

https://image.nostr.build/1587f64b96b88ebef3e79216219540adbc212da44650848a8eb764088bd5036a.jpg

Myself and two other ham radio operators have established 3 Meshtastic nodes that will operate 24/7 to help build out more connectivity across Cape Town.

We are using license-free 868 MHz radios, so anyone can buy these cheap (ish) devices and get connected. The more nodes we have, the better the connectivity gets across the whole city. These radios will keep messaging going regardless of whether there is Internet or not. So if we hit Stage 8+ load shedding and cell towers and Internet starts to go down, this messaging network will still work.

This means that citizens can message for assistance needed, and this can be relayed to City or Provincial Disaster Risk Management. Or in cases of loss of communications during a disaster we can also send out messages to everyone on the network as to where water tankers will be deployed etc.

Apart from the public channel (which is much like CB radio's Channel 19) anyone can also create their own private channels (with passwords) to stay in contact with groups of friends or family. The connections between all radio nodes are encrypted with AES256 encryption, so private messages will stay private even though they bounce across 3 or more other radio nodes to reach the recipient.

You have a phone, so all that is needed is the free Meshtastic app, and a Meshtastic compatible radio device. This is probably bad timing, as right now there is a global shortage of Meshtastic radio devices. The massive global uptake has also made this situation even worse. But the point of preparing for disasters, is to do that well before a disaster strikes.

I've documented a lot of my lessons learnt, as well as given some context to the situation in South Africa for this service at the linked web page below.

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/hamradio/meshtastic-in-south-africa/

#technology #Meshtastic #offgrid #CapeTown #SouthAfrica


I appreciate the thoughtful reply :)

I didn’t intend it as a serious post -I was actually trolling a bit poking fun at the fitness influencers and course sellers.

I don’t think quantum computing is necessary for abundant AI or cheap energy and goods.  We’ve been making advancements in those areas so far, and I see no reason for this to cease.

The connection between bitcoin and cheap energy is simply that it incentives the production of energy that would otherwise go uncaptured.  So in certain areas you’ll have an energy surplus that drives prices lower.  But I’m not hanging my hat on that bringing prices down in densely populated areas


The year is 2044.  Bitcoin has unlocked troves of cheap energy Coupled with AI and automation, this has driven the prices of basic living necessities to historic lows.

90% of the population are now influencers, life-coaches, and fitness instructors that buy each others courses on how to make money selling courses


Voting creates horrible incentives and we should do away with it in the US

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition


yea definitely


Would you say this is more or less true?

If you have a strong “pro-Palestinian” view you fall into one or more of these groups:

* A leftist - Israelis are “colonizers” and are therefore in the wrong

* Anti-American - you resent the US for the way it has wielded its power for the last 80 years

* Anti-Semitic - you believe Jewish people manipulate various aspects of the world


horribly sad :(


let the looting phase continue


Certainly, I could.  But I still find it jarring


The primal wallet asks for an email address? Is that a joke?


PV weirdos

Go do stuff and be #sovereign https://video.nostr.build/efd3bd17e8ddf78bada9d79004f9943a726c95216e96aa5d33a612639f773424.mp4


it’s good you told me this because I was actually gonna go in with my private military and oust bukele.  But now I’m gonna go fuck myself instead


lmao


habeas corpus and presumption of innocence


I won’t tell anyone they’re wrong for supporting Bukele.  Especially not the people of El Salvador.

But your premise is flawed, in my opinion.  It doesn’t matter how popular something is.  Governments shouldn’t violate rights


there’s no breath more important than this next thought


I’m raiding Icecrown Citadel tonight.  First time ever doing a raid, I’m stoked


I would never touch this, but I admire whoever did it nonetheless


O see ye not yon narrow road,
So thick beset with thorns and briers?
That is the path of righteousness,
Though after it but few enquires.

And see ye not that braid braid road,
That lies across that lily leven?
That is the path of wickedness,
Though some call it the road to heaven.

http://www2.open.ac.uk/openlearn/poetryprescription/thomas-the-rhymer.html


yea.  falling off of stuff too.  not a great feeling lol


this is the only FUD it seems acceptable for bitcoiners to spout


People who think bitcoin will only be a success if it hits *insert price target*:

why?


bermuda in the sky with diamonds


Ubuntu


feliz nochebuena a mis nostreros


I did, but 3 months later.  nostr:npub1d55wmw3ta3wcpvjn38dtpvh26ch7avcf4zfyu8sdhcc8padtz5wqnjp3ca , I hope you’re still on nostr.  We need more Californians


Lol did no one reply to this?


I’d zap you but still haven’t set up Zeus lol


Does the new Zeus suck? I’m pretty annoyed I have to reconfigure things after the update


zeus and phoenix


Hey nostr, I have some nodes to sell!

Not only could you get some solid hardware (even nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll started selling some of these), but you also get my time & expertise. We’ll figure out how you need me to spend my time to help you - I am looking to be a resource to plebs trying to navigate migrating away from a rpi, devs looking to cleanup their digital environment, or enterprises looking to scale their solutions.

Laptop & desktop purchasers will be guided on installation, setup, & maintenance of their new physical & virtual servers! Proxmox is FOSS software we will use to allow for the commoditization of all of your machine’s resources, allowing you to get the most out of your purchase. With one physical machine, you'll be able to cram a dozen virtual ones inside while I'll show you how to manage their compute/memory/storage requirements and interactions.

These are used ebay purchases, I'm not trying to profit off the hardware, just stacking sats with my time. Shipping or pickup at #chibitdevs included. Until I offload this hardware and complete the hourlies, I’ll be restricting my assistance to these buyers. But, I'll likely eventually offer support for byo hw/sw.

https://btcpay.dimi.gg is now live, please chat with me before a purchase if you have any questions. Payjoin enabled.


Are you trying to avoid web clients?


Lol it was actually ln.  I used muun and for whatever reason I just assumed they didn’t support lightning.  Don’t use bitcoin stoned kids


Yea. I’m not really sure what that is.  But I sent from my own wallet


I just ordered some RAM from newegg.  Paid with bitcoin, and the order confirms with 0 conf.  Pretty cool


Happy Sunday nostrovians

https://youtu.be/u3vQDWAoknw?


Doctors are not rent seeking.  Don’t go to the doctor if you aren’t sick.  Simple


Imagine I send you a DM.  My client packages the DM and sends it to a relay we both use.  For your client to fetch that DM, the fact that you’re the recipient needs to available


hansel, so nost rn


Consider this:  For most of human history we did not have chicken nuggets


I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

Trees, by Joyce Kilmer


Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiator


lol it wasn’t me,  but I’m glad to see you’re getting zapped :)


hello racik, welcome


Sometimes both are minuscule compared to the cost of not reading it


"Bitcoin wasn’t created to make you rich. It was created so that you can opt out of a broken system." —Chairforce


congratulations!


The abbot in Castlevania: Nocturne is a great character.  At least so far, I have a few episodes left


duuuuude that’s sick


The Roman legislation was in a twofold manner the child of philosophy.  It was in the first place formed upon the philosophical model, for, instead of being a mere empirical system adjusted to the existing requirements of society, it laid down abstract principles of right to which it endeavored to conform; and, in the next place, these principles were borrowed directly from stoicism.

Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World


impressive discipline!


I really liked both Sapiens and the sequel.  I read both pre-bitcoin-rabbit-hole, so I had a very different perspective then.  Maybe it’ll be worthwhile giving them another look


so it’s just that people hate the author?


The book joined the WEF?


Why do people seem to hate the book “Sapiens” so much?


Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or praise.

Think of this: that every word, every act of our Art is said and is done either for good, or for evil.

Before you speak or do you must know the price that is to pay!

Ogion, in A Wizard of Earthsea


salami nips


Humanity has been given the priceless gift of creativity, but it’s vital you understand how it works.  Creativity is the essence of the human spirit, and flowers best when it is unconstrained.

If you try to control it for your own ends you must learn that you can get only what you ask for.  The unexpected will not arise.

Dan Braben, The Wizard’s Warning


Me recuerda a Donnie Darko


Never thought about it, but now that I have that’s actually a lot!


Diablo IV is good


I’m not a networking minded person, so maybe I’m about to say something dumb.  But I feel like changing the way we use relays would be a step toward this.

Rather than aggregating the growing set of relays and treating them like a distributed twitter database, building tools that allow people to explore little community hubs of relays is how I picture it.


A fine meme-meditation


As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make straight their arrows, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.


lol yes! Exactly my first thought


Not saying there weren’t a lot of negative consequences.

My argument is:

Capital markets increase the rate of medical advancements >>

Fiat games “juice” capital markets (with bad consequences, sure) >>

Pharma/biomed is uniquely sensitive to “juicing” because it would otherwise be unattractive to investors (high failure rate, astronomically expensive research costs >>

Insurance model decreases consumer price sensitivity and obscures money allocation, which allowed healthcare to be inordinately profitable.  Proceeds from this can then rotate back into research.

Of course, eventually this destroys price signals and feedback loops, but initially it supercharges things.  Thus the faustian bargain


I’m sure it fluctuates over time. But I feel safe saying that over the last 50 years, a disproportionate number of medical advances have come out of US based or adjacent private companies


For sure, I think almost everyone “feels” it now even if they haven’t reasoned it out.

But I think many in our circle disagree with the first part


I have a weakly held opinion that recent advances in medicine and healthcare wouldn’t have happened as fast without fiat financing and our whacky insurance based system.

But it was essentially a faustian bargain where we gained miraculous powers of healing in exchange for consumerist society, globalization of key resources, and inflation.

As a species we chose to become lich kings.


I like it, though I’m not sure exactly what it means


As one example, take a look at this.  The framing is so wrong.  If you’re transacting on some zcash sidechain, you’re not transacting on bitcoin.  This does nothing to improve bitcoin privacy.  The fact that miners get some fees is irrelevant.  If it’s not the bitcoin protocol, it’s not bitcoin. https://image.nostr.build/b7755c1efc917989ff6859e3d676cf45a4cdc24b5d39509b87ea9ab1ca5fd362.jpg


Drivechains are so fucking dumb, idk how anyone buys the shit they’re pushing


Suddenly ctrl+c doesn’t stop my python script.

Just a few minutes ago that would kill it, but now it does nothing.  I didn’t make any changes to the code either.  Really strange…


That’s true


Never heard that song before, thanks :)


No perfect ideals are attainable.  That is why they are ideals, or goals.  That is why the great masterpieces of art are so few.

Without the gradation made possible by our imperfect world, including our imperfect minds, we would not notice such differences, and it would be impossible for us to appreciate art at all.

So there would be no art, not to speak of “great” art, -which requires artists to aim at “perfection”- and only imperfect people in an imperfect world can possibly imagine what that could mean.

- Christopher I. Beckwith, “Greek Buddha”

https://www.goodreads.com/sv/book/show/23528934


That which is true, is mine.


me too, it sucks


Oh yes, there are dozens of us! 😂

Just cracked it open for another read through.  It made a big impression on me as well


It is, surely, good that there are synthetic medicines to ease the surplus of pain, telephones to break through loneliness, and electric lights to keep the wayfarer from stumbling.

There is, though, something wrong when we use medicine to deaden our sensitivity, when we obliterate solitude with electronics and blind ourselves with the very lights we devised to help us see.  There is nothing wrong with our artifacts; there is something wrong with us; we have lost sight of the sense, the purpose of our production and our products.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317739.The_Embers_and_the_Stars_a_Philosophical_Inquiry_into_the_Moral_Sense_of_Nature


I appreciate that eliza!  It’s just some public domain art I found online.

Same for my alt nostr:npub1w83qy86qakjqrp8r99cfxpm9ad43tswv3f9xqw87wt8kspdyj3tsqxynzu


sure, it’s just a matter of perspective


gn ✌🏽


I think they call it scotch whiskey


zapitico - little zap from abuela


always has been allowed, and always will be.  It won’t be common because it’s just a way to graffiti the chain


bitcoin.review is hands down my favorite bitcoin pod right now


followid


morning farooq


Cool feature in Damus iOS: If you post a bitcoin lightning invoice, it will render a "widget" with a pay button!

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/86188777/207721422-43ff54c4-31e2-430b-8576-1616afe793af.jpg