👀 https://image.nostr.build/b2fd8865a4b7b1bd320887606dbb226f44836c3807970000be66d68c7f223f76.jpg  nostr:note1hulayqahr2zu6svlw43z8ulej7s2l5p9k52ctwxy44z8cwteczzs8tv8gz


I'm all for more people cooking their own food, though that certainly doesn't justify deportations.


I find it very useful to know who makes which claim about which topic, so I can weigh it by their expertise and observed biases.

E.g. if you say "this proposal by five major governments is amazing" that has different weight than when Schwab say it.


And I learned earlier this year that it was produced by nostr:npub1sn6gfqv08p3y9fdn6a45vl8qnec0dcdplpr2dfvg2xx3g65ag8fsqr5xxk.


Oops nostr:note1qqqqf9pj9nt8fkfv8e6ja5mcz6y659779gt645yjpfsp9y8mc9qqha3tc4


Still an epic trailer: https://youtu.be/Ouo7Q6Cf_yc?si=Ae3d1zoPPCAaQlrB


And unlike in the movies, apps that actually shipped :-)


Big Home Assistant fan here! And it's made by a Dutch guy :-)

Easiest to run it on a dedicated Linux box somewhere, because it's a bit of a Docker circus.


I'd probably start with a full Mars patterned T-shirt, and then print only the text and a subtle doge picture (leaving out the narcissistic couple).


I was thinking, esthetics aside, I could wear it at a Bitcoin conference to troll folks.

It's good if a T-shirt pisses everyone off.


#PreemptiveMeme nostr:note1gnkhk3khszvp2er3s904f9uk7uaxd456nv22vuyuyys6p245huvscs7fxw


Oh wait, it's not even satire. Trump actually sells these shirts.

Well in that case, don't be lazy by only printing a square picture. Make the whole shirt Mars colored. Make Swag Great Again. https://image.nostr.build/4dbfe48cb5b90017c48219500d19b0f16cf73e8c0b1b5df73d81faf13f87499b.jpg


Epic picture, still have to read the article. nostr:note1g8a9ue265fxp96xyu4f8g69wp06ykgl78f8mpux4wkkvk78nw3sqx4m0zh


There's always historical value in documenting stuff :-)


Yes, we should leave backdoors in for centralized capture?


Oh no, I fixed this myself a month ago and suppressed the memory.
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It broke at an earlier update, so maybe it's been even longer. Time flies.


I hear from unreliable sources that some places in the US don't punish theft at all, so this seems excessive :-)


I turned the wifi driver off on this machine, I'm not that brave to use Ubuntu on a laptop :-)


After half a year of so, suspend works again on my Ubuntu machine! Randomly.


And nobody bullied them about the Hong Kong flag? So I guess water melon is deprecated next?


How does it compare to: https://www.encodeproductions.com/deathathletic


We're watching!!

Anyway, it seems unlikely to me that Musk is going to play here once Trump, in his capacity as POTUS, tells him to delete various opponents from the platform. But we'll have to wait and see.


Right, I meant in terms of mass.


* a plant


Conversely: have you ever seen how much can grow with mostly co2 and water?


It's much easier (for me) to go to bed super early and wake up early when going west. Staying awake when tired is easier than falling asleep when not. Though not aren't great for health.


In addition to safety concerns, and lack of solid evidence that it does any good, The Netherlands also stopped adding it in 1973 after the government was sued for "mass medication" and the judge found there was no legal basis for doing it.

Of course Trump will probably also deregulate drink water quality so companies can either add or fail to filter it without disclosure.
https://www.drinkwaterplatform.nl/fluoride-in-drinkwater-alle-vragen-en-antwoorden/


Jetlag flying east always gives me a couple of nights where I wake up around 1am and have a random amount of time to catch up on podcasts. It is what it is... nostr:note134dqcfkzqjg2qpw53zw8znefjwqwjuzwhasfcc008ezcwjzpcsuqw9pa78


So the reason Europe doesn't export trucks to the US is a tarif fight over chickens in the 1960's. But you'll have to learn Dutch to find out why.
(or google it)

https://fountain.fm/episode/AOZLNRhGbXi3z9upuLT4


Going to repeat my hot take :-)
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One small dependency less... nostr:note18wg3vk2yljlz4eq3rh6zc75hgtdw2ev9svuavrjk7qpc5j0ykcksnrtshr


joinmarket still doesn't work with descriptor wallets in bitcoin core, and it's become kind of pressing that this is addressed

legacy wallets have been deprecated for a long time, and are very likely going to be removed in next major version of bitcoin core (29.0), there's migration functionality to upgrade old wallets but this won't help for the use of legacy RPC calls like "importmulti"

after that it will ofc. still be possible to use it with version 28.x, but it's kind of sad to see an important privacy tool fall behind like this

so in case anyone wants to give it a go:
https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/issues/1571


Auction page is live!
This unique piece could be yours!
Place your bids, starting in ~8 hours: https://timechainartifacts.com/ab24/1777-AB24_51.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N30GJlqAYrA

https://image.nostr.build/6cf4246b0b9693e21ba74226c6968f7ade58b242fec6efce24184aad5ed1044e.png

 https://image.nostr.build/c72b9f230431e18385341a891c7013585f0407e01bc67c1bbe38f0e77cd7ebbb.png


Normally a president can't do that, but Trump controls all three branches, so he can indeed just order his Supreme Court cronies to fix this.

Of course he can also just order anyone he doesn't like executed.


When nobody is left, there's nothing to censor!


New ideas for taxes and fees? Look no further: Zimbabwe has it all. The national post and telecom authority will charge WhatsApp group leaders by issuing licenses.

https://iharare.com/heres-how-much-potraz-will-charge-for-whatsapp-group-licenses-in-zimbabwe/


For like, literal format strings! nostr:note1twpkxggrsmync3xjv8agesr4p30323xr4z4q5xa4ckekjk937nxs3tnplc


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


What do you mean, "bought"?


Sometimes the truth hurts and it's useful to have offensive people saying it out loud.

Sometimes saying the truth is not useful. In that case I would call it impolite, but not wrong.

And sometimes offense things are just wrong or at least founded on junk science. Fortunately we don't have an algorithm here to boost that latter category disproportionately, but people have made entire careers out of a they-don't-let-me-say-this Schpiel. Social media algorithms love that, hopefully Nostr doesn't amplify it.

Right to speak goes without saying.


Tl&dr of today: since I care deeply about human rights, I won't force anyone to read Taleb. Sometimes an argument is not worth winning :-)


Diversity Equity Inclusion (pretty much on its way out)


This is a needlessly distraction straw man.


(don't want to force anyone to work through Taleb books though, we can just disagree on this topic)


Do you actually have a (link to a) serious argument as to how his IQ statistical reasoning is wrong?

To the extend I read it back in the day, along with his book Statistical Consequences of Fat Tail, it seemed plausible. I've learned enough statistics back in uni to be extremely skeptical of any social science statistics, and I'm about 90% confident Charles Murray (where most of this stuff comes from) is a grifter.


It was uploaded with noStrudel (because it supports Blossom) from my iPhone photo library.


(the only part of his black paper that didn't suck was his analysis on volatility - though I wish he'd focussed on that topic alone)


The video at the end of this message still doesn't play for me in the latest TestFlight: nostr:note1vzf2njwes8j6haz30vdsefufg3hpqjajz7f9m6whqpwhj4svmf5qdm64h4


Disagree with Taleb on statistics at your own peril.


Also I'm not saying Trump is anti-semitic, but he absolutely has supporters who are.
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/antisemitism-rising-among-american-right-wing-extremists/


Regarding IQ "science": https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39


White supremists make into parliaments plenty of times. I've also never seen a single member of parliament in any country with a solid understanding of statistics. The man makes it very clear he's obsessed with race, as shown by the first screenshot.

Anti-semitism has been on the rise in various places in recent years. Legal Muslim immigration is a factor, as are woke activists* and Trump.

* = in part because woke ideology tends to lead to anti-semitic conclusions with regards to Jewish white men in high positions, in part because they block any serious law enforcement action against jihadists and other intolerant behavior


(Again, if you don't care about human rights, life is easier)


Another big factor for the lack of teenage job opportunities is an increase in child minimum wage and stricter child labor laws. Businesses would rather hire a collega student than some twelve year old for a customer facing role, if pay is equal anyway.

I personally think child minimum wage should be lower to give them more opportunities. But it's a tricky balance there, since it's age discrimination - I think most kids and their parents are fine with that, as long as the kid is just learning and not having to feed their parents.


The idea behind banning illegal immigrants (as well as legal asylum seekers) from working is to disincentivize them from coming in the first place. That's somewhat rational. But it becomes problematic when people subsequently blame these people for being unproductive. Sure there's always lazy people, but also plenty of people who happily work harder than most western europeans.


I don't give much credence to do-your-own-research by a random UK white supremist on Twitter.

Sure, automation and offshoring remove some job opportunities. But the EU population is getting older and the budget required to take care of the elderly is getting out of control. For every lost restaurant job, there'll be dozens of diapers to change.

Canadian demographics look pretty similar. Producing more white kids, ethics aside, is far less effective for growing the economy than importing mature labor from elsewhere. https://image.nostr.build/0b902901b3893714f9903963a6ef94ef789099a42e7c52d98ffc88c69521e558.jpg https://image.nostr.build/23418645cdf144dc58e54146df60295f60614de1807ba2c9a2872a6474f50bb0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/42e2d83b3fa0d4e00b4c5aa772e62d179099cd22b6a257fb5a04a50dc888a4fd.jpg


If you ban illegal immigrants from working, you can't act surprised when they use welfare.

The EU has massive shortages for unskilled labor. And that will get a lot worse over the next decades as baby boomers retire.


Well not really the latter...
https://youtu.be/fCW9olBQ24Q


Bitcoin Core term or Finish metal band? nostr:note10wtl947zhhm7qn07ckjyuvsytz9e9cmucglksaf96jem5tuptttqq09x9l


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


Just skip verifying whatever libbitcoin skips :-)

(no there's plenty of room to make it faster)


It got especially noisy as the fans were degrading.


The blocks take up 652 GB for me. Plus 12 GB for the chainstate (UTXO set).


I have several physical Linux machines so I feel like I'm excersizing my sovereignty muscle plenty, while actually getting work done on a machine built by satan :-)


It's bulkier and heavier than my 2019 Intel MBP. But it's probably worth it for the extra battery life and better cooling.


It won't work, it's purely symbolic. The military police (KMAR) which does border patrol is understaffed already. They also don't want to slow down trucks since our entire economy depends on trade. So they'll just spot check cars with non-white people on highways. Meanwhile you can cross the border in other ways. But they'll get to report some nice sounding numbers, pretending succes, as the Germans do now.

Meanwhile they're also tasked with protecting politicians under threat of jihadists and such - imagine the political fallout if some politician is killed because they were distracted with symbolic border checks.


A lack of fan noise makes it feel slow though :-)


The M4 MacBook Pro is not the fastest machine I have, but it's the only one that can sync the blockchain in a few* hours hours without loud fans.

Syncing from the assume utxo snapshot at height 840,000 to the tip took only half an hour. Looking forward to that process becoming more user friendly over time, because it really improves the onboarding experience of a full node. It took me longer to download the torrent from my own slow seed :-)

* = 6.5 hours while doing other stuff, with very large -dbcache


In practical terms I think it's more productive to get better at deporting people who are here illegally, and aren't entitled to asylum. The problem isn't that they're hiding, e.g. in The Netherlands lots of illegal immigrants are arrested and/or fined multiple times.

Part of the problem is political, in that we're trying to be too nice. But that's not all of it. You can't just drop people in a random desert, unless you don't care about human rights. A lot of the times the countries of origin don't accept these people back, stuff like that. And we can't just recolonize those countries and force them.

So maybe the better approach here is to open the labor market to everyone who wants to work. That might even grow the economy. But we don't want economic growth!


The EU in general has several very deadly border protection measures. We drown thousands of people a year, intentionally: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1082077/deaths-of-migrants-in-the-mediterranean-sea/


Hungary is a big part of the problem: https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-viktor-orban-migration-russia-belarus-national-security-fears/


The Netherlands will reintroduce border checks soon, following Germany's example. But what happens if you illegally snuck into Germany from Poland, the Dutch border patron sends you back and then the Germans also send you back? Tom Hanks is expensive.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2544112-kabinet-vanaf-9-december-extra-grenscontroles-tegen-migratie


Ask your favorite company about their anti-KYC policy. nostr:note1xd844y7epq94t6awlpcdxe70v40wp8psdpjyyns6a0ng7zd7eqhqsej3y9


Fiat inscriptions? €453.600 for a coin with €1.13 nominal value that shops won't even accept anymore since the Euro was introduced 20 years ago. Even banks won't exchange those coins anymore.

Ok, it's a gold coin, and I couldn't find the weight, but this one is not for melting.
https://www.rtvutrecht.nl/nieuws/3812587/zeldzame-rijksdaalder-geveild-voor-recordbedrag-het-was-spectaculair


Usually you can copy-paste the note identifier in a reply:
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As for fiscal discipline: lack of that is a bipartisan talent.


Not sure about the latter. I think there are two Team Trumps:
1. Team Trump personal grifts: such as this crypto projects
2. Team Trump "serious" government stuff

There's overlap of course, e.g. in the form of nepotism, but he does have higher caliber folks in (2). Though that team will have to keep Musk at a distance to achieve anything sane in crypto land.


IIUC all of Congress, Democrat and Republican, has a carte blanche on front running stocks based on private information. Imo that should be criminalized.

The Trump NFT and crypto project are quite different imo, they are just scams based on his celebrity status. More similar to Bill Clinton speaking fees.

Where things get more serious is when foreign nationals pump the stock of Truth Social of one his hotels. This was covered in the first half of the item. But that's not crypto related, so I didn't bring it up here.


It's a bit weird and funny to see John Oliver worry about World Liberty Financial (starts at about 11 minutes). As far as Trumps self enrichment scams go, this one seems minor and insignificant to me. It's vaporware, run by clowns and barely raised any money.

He's worried that Trump might pass legislation that would unfairly favor this project, but I don't see how that could rescue this nonsense token. Even if he made it legal tender, banned Bitcoin and the US dollar itself I doubt it would go anywhere.

So this seems to be a case of his staff writers not knowing even the slightest thing about cryptocurrency and its long history of failed scams, by the standards of which this is simply a non issue.
https://youtu.be/pz3I81dVpTQ


I suspect there's two reasons, but I haven't researched it:

1. Driving in Arizona is so insanely easy that cars are unlikely to break any rules, so a couple of fines don't matter.
2. California as a tech hub is willing to make life easy for these tech companies, even at the expense of their citizens.

That said, there may be more nuance to these exceptions than what the video goes into. Who knows, maybe they just pay a lump sum to cover x amount of violations.


I wish you'd picked a sunnier day to visit Utrecht :-) But otherwise great video!


Luchtig gesprek over toch een vrij zwaar onderwerp.

https://fountain.fm/episode/dBm0Ed4brmPVQ2gOgVkJ


Wonderfully dystopian scenario, let's hope it's like most predictions...
https://youtu.be/040ejWnFkj0


Nice play.

Nice play.


Bam Bam 👊

Bam Bam 👊


A bit tedious having to type ".jpg" after every Blossom image URL in noStrudel. nostr:note1qqrvqw7at7aa2eejmw2s5wjp0rqrals7mxuywtlqc6fd2h0esmksprwwfz


I don't think so. Unless I have a PR open that I forgot about :-)


Though the ordering in my link seems nonsensical.


What's the query for this? I get very different results here: https://1ml.com/node?order=oldest&active=true


* out of convenience


Of course I'm happy for any support of analog freedom tech. But it makes the defense of Bitcoin complicated, as I tried to explain on a Bitcoin Amsterdam panel.

If you simply argue that physical cash is going away and people need an alternative, policy makers might agree with you and point out how they're mandating shops to take cash and how their CBDC vaporware is going to be amazingly good for privacy under €3000 (and magically compliant above that).

But that won't stop a ban on cash payments (to businesses) above €3000 like The Netherlands just passed. That means you must have a bank account for large payments, which you'll then use for small payments out of conceivable. And then everyone is stuck in the surveillance drag net that banks happily facilitate.


Not over a concern for privacy... nostr:note1ns84ckxekuxvlyeffemhuyp6vfeckxp68zwvkx7wmfnzskl36kkqjvfzd5


Would be good to ask Lummis for comment, her general views on financial privacy.


I was already wondering if Warren would get a job in the Trump administration, informally or otherwise, to keep her army going.


Ad for nostr:npub168euw93e4cam59llcmydav0akwjk2p4nfy3p85pn22xv9y2jxuzq4s9uaw in #Boston subway, nice! https://image.nostr.build/2502ea9f6db48f20a9ba690557c837dd0f7947a1b5db970d5c58aacac146731f.jpg


Thanks mom.


PIPE dreams? In any case it was a great BitDevs in #Boston. And now party time... https://image.nostr.build/97487574445083894f8cef97afd5985a6dbd61fb1ddca7bee9931fb6acfb12f9.jpg


Nice! It doesn't seem to fetch the image associated with my post though.
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When you can't the TV off, but you find a nice therapeutic gold sales channel... now I can read my book undistracted. https://image.nostr.build/5008f9b6b01cfd4df2319e9891345c827ed220482c0d8b1947b28bfaecd21293.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a90fd08312bb6a544bc0ff809af178569554095c5bece6776eb84ae2090c4f66.jpg


It’s great to spend sats with people who appreciate it. https://image.nostr.build/102eb17ae255ca3fba3521013b06e4a2039a281a68620573c0afeed88e333d95.jpg https://image.nostr.build/274d03d6d1b348df9d3564fff84ee314ac97f1d259a9d255e2ab0a97c1dc548c.jpg


I can now tell you all: OpenTimestamps did in fact have a small role in the US election! I don't know the full details. But apparently it was used to timestamp election data in Screven County, Georgia; possibly others too.

https://www.youtube.com/live/hR9dBzqZvvg?t=18344&feature=shared

The total cost for time-stamping at maximum speed for two days, on two calendars: 259,380sats.

If I get more donations, I'll continue to timestamp faster, giving everyone more accurate timestamps: https://geyser.fund/project/opentimestamps


I suppose one practical question is what Biden can do to reduce power of the executive branch to the point where it really doesn't matter who the president is. But somehow every election cycle that doesn't happen.


After each US election I like to the other half that this option still exists :-)
https://www.cardon.nl/blog/the-dutch-daft-visa-for-american-immigrants-in-5-steps


Buy the rumor sell the news?


That was Zion national park in Utah. I'll share more pictures in a few days.


Step 1 would be to reduce the number of relays you're using, from 19 (?) to something like 3. See if that helps a bit.


Other than a sporadic billboard and the occasional hotel lobby TV* I barely saw any election related stuff.

Not that many humans either, so not sure where all those votes are coming from :-)

* = booking sites should have a filter for walls that scream at you https://image.nostr.build/6eaf1970f2a45b56f6e34b63edd1e52abc724639dc1e93125591e5498dd59806.jpg


Had a great time during my brief visit to Vancouver, walking around, spending sats, MC'ing the BitDevs, eating Chinese food at The Chrystal Mall. And of course meeting people! nostr:note1vzf2njwes8j6haz30vdsefufg3hpqjajz7f9m6whqpwhj4svmf5qdm64h4


Glad I deleted my account there recently.


Indeed, bitcoiners just left do they don't have to engage.


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


Isn't the idea of a "follower" that they follow you? To Nostr.


"I asked an AI to show me how Egyptian pyramids were built, and now I'm pretty sure I'll have nightmares for life 🤯"
https://x.com/javilopen/status/1851361418857365974

https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/113/398/803/908/091/853/original/f67e7ca5c6ee6b4d.mp4


By getting him to use Nostr?


There’s been some questions about pronouncing “Athenut.” It was conceived as a play on the Greek goddess of wisdom, so we pronounce it “uh-THEE-nut.” There’s a great branding opportunity to create something clever with the logo. https://m.primal.net/LnJl.png


Nothing says power hungry bureaucrat more than an impractically large form with the words "do not fold" written on it. In French.

That said, the guy at customs was very friendly and even asked if I was developing my own cryptocurrency, given that that's where the money is. Sadly no :-) https://image.nostr.build/619ab685d32d71beac779594dd04aefd17c7e44650b32f69fe6f4851716e3da4.jpg


Proof of Work FTW 🔥

Proof of Work FTW 🔥


Een hoop dingen die je waarschijnlijk nog niet wist over Noord Korea.

https://fountain.fm/episode/FHo3E7OLHaOdpVlgHSIn


Voting machines should not exist at all. Paper ballots only.


Their last name is DoS?


And nothing involving network drives?


good riddance 🙂
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Many from my home town #Utrecht, sadly.


Ah so that's how the robot dogs work... nostr:note1wz4pelx8qvarwdphaycgnjnhjsrxj3eqsxuw8th6tclgp8sf38lssn2vp2


A Starbucks with chill music, quite the contrast from my hotel lobby with its big TV blaring political attack ads and non-stop news of doom.

But in other news, I really enjoyed this edition of #TABConf and the new venue on Georgia Tech Campus. Thanks nostr:npub128a25achgxk429gwuwy7tgrwh44z5s42js2260cxdstk7tpxv9ds497erh and others for organizing!

If someone builds a nice hotel here quickly, I'll be all set for next year! https://video.nostr.build/7e50dce6f4a7e980c4a12b7f7f8c2f90ffb5ee8d472b6f4619ac71a5b66f0e20.mp4


While i believe it’s fully the intention of the creators that ATprotocol and Bluesky end up being a fully open permissionless protocol, the decisions they’re making around how to build and fund it means they’re going to face a lot of pressure to not actually open up. Twitter was incredibly open and even at one point federated via XMPP, but the constraints of running a VC backed platform caused the company to enclose the commons and walk away from the open network.

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Meh https://image.nostr.build/3fad8e7eb6739e4b2e5a35e102b0f6e28d834ac9179f320a1a9d939116b861d5.jpg


Hey, this is Tadge.  First post on nostr.  Using "gossip" desktop client. Not sure if this works, but I like the idea :)


Lugano, Switzerland, has unveiled a striking statue celebrating the anonymity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin.

Designed by Valentina Picozzi, when viewed head-on, it disappears almost entirely.

https://video.nostr.build/e01bef1480f342efe136c6806260ea2ba65634f6ddd9c1dc9011655be9a05ca1.mp4


From earlier today in the Lime app... "have you ever tried a bicycle?" 🤣🇳🇱 https://image.nostr.build/e43e2add73d70d16f2ebbab75beb899dd63ad41cfea73d03e13b48f9e5d382df.jpg


One team is led by a fraud who thinks he knows how to handle a sword, the other hires an actor who can dress up in a puppet outfit and convincingly hold a sword. We are not the same. https://image.nostr.build/ebe171cabf0cd2820da3c97d687225246664ea70f15e12417c7264d44c27f356.jpg


Setting your language to North Korean might do the trick, haven't tried :-)


Just get it flagged for some reason and they'll automatically close it!


I'm really impressed with the new Satoshi Nakamoto statue in Lugano. I love how it celebrates privacy—disappearing from certain angles. We are all Satoshi. #Bitcoin is social consensus.

https://video.nostr.build/df2360a4f2875f0d517747ba1eb75ac732d5321f837132cea1c46026063c030f.mp4


A couple years after Nixon dropped the gold standard.


Please don't run Bitcoin Core v0.19.2 or older... #TABConf


They've been around for decades in my experience.


Well at least I recognize the last two characters.


Another gem from the same episode.
Listen to the episode to find out more about this feature.
(I think it's pretty cool 🤫)https://m.primal.net/LeWa.mp4

cc:  nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5  nostr:npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c


PS nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s I think the multi image upload feature does not respect the order of images. And there's no drag and drop to adjust it after upload.


It's time for #TABConf https://image.nostr.build/41d232a01b3c779aab349afe6dcbfeb571486059e14085152dfabfc9a9096965.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3a2adbaae81e533b8d6959620d9a50431848e043ba573d25479d0f9e46521bd8.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e3d7a044762d1ea0c11243b2a50eed864a0c1392060664f57026d4321c0a5f71.jpg


Yes, try being a dissident in a country Musk doesn't care about though...


In a corporate walled garden, only the rich get privacy. nostr:note19gnmw7436zgmkwsgjgv02c4kfhvzd6z2fd0xrv2hf6g40tx83mlqhqd3xx


Vodafone gets €2.25 million fine because their wiretap backdoor was insecure. Good, but it shouldn't exist at all.
https://www.rdi.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/10/22/aftapvoorziening-vodafone-niet-voldoende-beveiligd


Hopefully you'll get it back, but if you have a recent backup, try #instablossom
https://git.sprovoost.nl/sjors/instablossom/src/branch/master/main.ts


(though I wish it was lighter and larger)


It's also a nice laptop extension. https://image.nostr.build/cb770ba8022edc4b602a39de47d8cb88ba899260c6ff80240be251b08118eaa8.jpg


And you have a profile pic!


Well...
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"Windows is an attack on Bitcoin" - Satoshi


Upward 📈

Upward 📈


After two years! 🎉 nostr:note10sspuql3u747m85wzqynpz44jckg8h6znes0nqkudryq8dm9n37qvszu4l


Dutch government was to raise penalties for drug related crimes. I guess the current coalition enjoys the War on Drugs because it gets them votes for being tough on crime.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2541592-kabinet-maximumstraffen-voor-drugsdelicten-gaan-omhoog


Yet another victim of the EU's relentless fight against European companies:
https://bl3p.eu/nl/news/92/Belangrijke+mededeling%253A+BL3P+sluit+per+20+december+%E2%80%93+Overstap+naar+Bitonic


Don't just do something, stand there!
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/22/stand-there/


US consumer protection is non-existent so these companies don't even need to abuse AML to scam people. Not sure if that's a feature or a bug :-(


Good idea, can the bot do that?


"If you meet some people from the offboarding team you can give them a hug" - Rabobank chief for financial and economic crime Philipe Vollot.
https://youtu.be/mtl7clX3-EM


TIL yet another way banks abuse AML "compliance": to get rid of a mortgage and liquidate the house. The bank didn't do their due diligence when accepting the mortgage, which under Dutch law is insufficient grounds for termination.

So they started asking questions about her birth country and her foreign boyfriend, both unrelated the mortgage. And we didn't sufficiently answer those they terminated the mortgage - so unless she wins the upcoming trial she'll be homeless with kids.

Rabobank (through its subsidiary) showing its true nature. These are the people we bailed out with tax payer money.
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/criminaliteitsbestrijding-rabobank-gaat-perken-te-buiten?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebuttonleden&utm_source=linkbutton&share=joQyhviU1A8eag2AJ7Jz%2FTBx4P0W5RDmdnUj81HRtDasBuV4dmPegacLHrmY7fY%3D

(tracking link to maybe give you free access, sorry nostr:npub1c4vv0nrfh0drcfchs2mndw4uvjkd9k393v20x4kme2txev9hhz0qw4cqk7)


As a large model I don't know.


That said, if you want to try the defamation / libel angle, it might be easier to find an English company that Chainalysis marked as a scam. The US has a high bar for this, mostly for good reasons.


According to the complaint, Chainalysis flagged YieldNodes as a scam in its Reactor blockchain tracing software sometime in 2022. Around the same time, YieldNodes customers started reporting that their bitcoin withdrawals and deposits were being frozen by multiple cryptocurrency exchanges

The consequences of getting flagged by a black box algorithm can be enormous. People are in prison because of that. But I guess it takes a company losing money to actually do something about it, so here we go!


While there is a rapper who was notably recently required to pass his lyrics by his probation officer as a condition of his release,6 sadly no such conditions have yet been imposed on Razzlekhan

Other interesting content as well, but Damus only lets me highlight one thing :-)

Friendly request to mining farms (later in the article): if you have neighbors who complain about noise, don't wait for them to sue. Just use immersion cooling.


Also I think banks should offer a savings product that you cannot withdraw from online at all. You have to pick a physical branch in advance and go there in person to withdraw.

Right now anyone in the world can call you and take your fiat net worth in an hour of effort. Those folks might still be able to convince you to walk to this branch, withdraw and send it to them, but at least someone at the bank could try and talk you out of it.

Fundamentally though, the fact that any scammer in the world can choose their victim from the entire world population is a fundamental problem which Bitcoin doesn't solve either.


But anyway, when people tell you fiat in your bank is superior to Bitcoin because the bank will protect you, point them to these court rulings. There's an upper limit to that protection.


Multiple Dutch judges confirm: not your bank password, not your fiat. It puts on a limit on how much banks have to protect customers from their own recklessness, e.g. installing AnyDesk and giving your password to someone on the phone.

IIUC they're getting 85% back from Bunq bank, but they wanted more.

Sadly this is a numbers game. Most people most of the time might not fall for this scam, but they just need to hit some people at a bad time when they're less alert. That makes them look reckless in retrospect, but I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that you would never make that mistake. You have to defend against these attack all the time, they only need to succeed once.
https://fd.nl/bedrijfsleven/1534496/gedupeerde-klanten-van-bunq-vangen-bot-in-de-rechtbank


I wouldn't overestimate the quality of my list. But it was handy because one of the names looked vaguely familiar and I was able to find it.

Because for the most part, when it comes to these people... https://media.tenor.com/BcbJSegK1RsAAAAC/don-draper-madmen.gif


I keep a (incomplete) list of malicious / unhinged government folks. These two ECB authors were already on it.

This is what Ulrich Bindseil and Jürgen Schaaf wrote in 2022: https://www.suerf.org/publications/suerf-policy-notes-and-briefs/the-encrypted-threat-bitcoins-social-cost-and-regulatory-responses/


Just my...

Just my...


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


The documentary review even made it to the physical weekend edition, nice! Here's another quote:
Hoback: so what is it about then?
Todd: to make Bitcoin the global currency while people like you are distracted by nonsense.
https://img.sprovoost.nl/48d2a5c230015e6606fb15cb795d7bc7027097c54f179f41effa3ebf480ccf8c.jpg


> There were produced two different music videos for "Run Away". The first version, made for the European market and directed by Swedish-based director Matt Broadley,[23] features singer Patricia "Patsy" Petersen walking in a desert-like setting while miming the vocals of studio singer Karin Kasar.

I think I remember that one, but this version is new to me:

> The American version, directed by British music video and film director Nigel Dick, is set in a factory with many exhausted "slave-like" workers, while rapper Olaf "O-Jay" Jeglitza plays the role of "Big Brother", monitoring the workers' progress and demanding maximum productivity from them. It was never released for public broadcasting, since Arista felt that the image of the video was too dark and negative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Away_(Real_McCoy_song)


Unreleased
https://youtu.be/puR8F4I6E6E


Indeed, if it already renders server side then it just needs to add images.


Yes but not the images.


Strange, whatsapp gives me nothing here: https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqqqq8lu5cpmgrdc5m5y0vy83g5st4wvusenkulgs5dnzznx45d6qprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuumswfhhvmm0wd6zumnvqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hszrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqspqnuj https://image.nostr.build/87173073c7febfeaa971e3426b4238b52df0f7282a1e7bb643fcd5448b3a45b3.jpg


Or put a GPS tracker in the flag.


Oh no it says Trade, not Trump. https://image.nostr.build/f7b94fdd548a42b81b1a7c5b740950386fbb53b0a69c8c14fdb11c7ca23eb12f.jpg


Ah yes, I assumed you were in the US based on those Trump hoodies.


Seems doable to trace them based on cell phone data and then identify them based on their moving style. But that's assuming the cops care about property rights and harassment. Better get one of those remote controlled machine guns, afaik in some states it's perfectly legal to use lethal force in these circumstances.


Unfortunately not (yet?).


Trying video upload from nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 instead of noStrudel (blossom). https://video.nostr.build/9962d7955e686b60e4e5eeb3bc31231f48846874d9b55b081557d149504e465a.mp4


In the past five years each and every stone and sculpture was inspected with a simple question: can this fall on someone's head in the next fifty years? If so, it was repaired or replaced (with the help of the 3D image scans and historical archives of earlier repairs). Sometimes they'd put a small net around it. #Utrecht

https://img.sprovoost.nl/d147ff28d22f1fb3ad1076b6265437d501aee7d33746aa241f35eb8b88652ebc.mov

 https://img.sprovoost.nl/814aa7e7b6c44c96951a2becbc5e204c343f7fbc07f7171bb610443ed01f08aa.jpg

https://img.sprovoost.nl/ed15740056367e859f936f4cdd0846fb6695b79e534fad25a04fbc3929d1d05a.png

https://img.sprovoost.nl/9d9fd876a9203567fae81841a0e09f9fa24184ef8a1ebf1272f087abbcbe7cf3.jpg


I think it's all client side javascript rendering, which doesn't play well with social media previews. It probably also doesn't have a database, so nowhere to store short url to long url mapping.


Met een stukje uitleg over Europese besluitvorming, hoe nieuwe voorzitters elk half jaar deze zombie doen wederopstaan op ontransparante en onvoorspelbare wijze. En hoe nostr:npub1m4ecfnnaa0qr084t2p83vqxldh0zqxvpyvrxw2henwrekjm5wlssrqhshr als non-profit dat moeilijk kan monitoren, vaak alleen dankzij lekken.
https://fountain.fm/episode/6VwJ4gjONCdCwHbA20SJ


It seems nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 doesn't recognize a pasted npub as such. Apps like nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 and noStrudel figure it out anyway, but without a tag I don't think they'll be notified. https://image.nostr.build/68cbef037afdbb85831b97c721fb2370fb98f2d578614abb8c27fa0c37d6693e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/43a9fba93acf223d54db9861a0e4c97f26a218a0ccdd068c09d602c36fcf5a4b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c771369c6c7d0dec3e1219ac416a4e77713071790c2fcda40f0a1aa0730dac80.jpg


It's infuriating how undemocratic the EU is with all its secret decision making mechanisms.


Met een stukje uitleg over Europese besluitvorming, hoe nieuwe voorzitters elk half jaar deze zombie doen opstaan op ontransparante en onvoorspelbare wijze. En hoe npub1m4ecfnnaa0qr084t2p83vqxldh0zqxvpyvrxw2henwrekjm5wlssrqhshr als non-profit moeilijk kan monitoren, vaak alleen dankzij lekken.

https://fountain.fm/episode/6VwJ4gjONCdCwHbA20SJ


Shortening could be done by e.g.:
/e/ for nevent, /p/ for nprofile, etc
Followed by just enough first letters that it's unique.

This works especially well for self hosting because the number of events would be limited (e.g. a whitelist of npubs of yourself and some alt accounts).

A public service could offer this as a SAAS: you get a short URL and (static) server side rendered page for any event/profile you visit, with a cookie to track your balance, NWC or something nuts.


Ok, so I'd like something like a self-hosted njump but with server side rendered pages and much shorter URLs. Both make it easier to share via e.g. whatsapp and get nice previews.


Precies twee jaar geleden op deze dag, eindigde een wettelijke overgangstermijn en waren er van alle 48 registratie-aanvragen cryptodienstverleners er nog zo'n 16 a 17 over.

Er is veel te zeggen over wat er die periode is gebeurd. Lees hier de terugblik

https://bitcoin.nl/artikel/twee-jaar-dnb-toezicht-op-crypto-een-terugblik


He might literally get bombarded.


@damus wen nuts for renewal? Can't find route.


🤣
https://youtu.be/IIx6mio-Jvk


And you bet ethnicity and nationality matter for the chance of being de-risked.


Closing their accounts yes. More specifically, doing so to save money on compliance cost and fines, as opposed to actually caring about preventing money laundering. Which makes total business sense.

Even the #FATF acknowledges this:
https://www.coe.int/en/web/moneyval/implementation/de-risking


Goed plan! En als je tijd over hebt, probeer ook eens Nostr :-)


A tiny fraction of these de-risked customers contact nostr:npub1xgd8uqrlvq7d7rk9sfgf9acn3gusn2aufmlad8pj69702h5j6teqr7vzl6's foundation: https://hrif.eu/en/about-us/


Rabobank has been de-risking 10,000 customers per month (out of 8 million). They have 8,000 employees pissing away €840 million per year for this task.

For comparison: the Stasi had 90,000, which is 5x more per head of population. So it's not too bad really.

The Dutch police budget is €6 billion, a tiny fraction of that is spent on dealing with deluge of surveillance reports pushed by the bankers. With zero proven effectiveness.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2541247-Rabobank-stuurde-elke-maand-10-000-klanten-weg-na-strenger-witwasbeleid


GN fellow unscrewers of the bitcoin network.
https://m.primal.net/LaIi.jpg


Als je mij vanaf Mastodon volgt (of ziet) en een quote post ziet, dan kan je het oorspronkelijke bericht opzoeken via het ... menu en dan "originele pagina openen".

(de links tussen Nostr en ActivityPub zijn enigszins een touwbrug) https://image.nostr.build/99a7e66a8b3685ef3945df8664d8b501f287d58be75a75c7fe1353a79f1cf07e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/17e42eac9c9518b37edd8694ba877d603fb435d0d4b4678ae5cbb499334da3b7.jpg


Oh wacht, ik vergeet soms dat Mastodon quote posts niet werken. Dat was inderdaad het artikel dat ik deelde.


nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 is universal lookup guaranteed to check every configured relay if you give it an npub?

If not: please make it so, otherwise it's hard to find some Mostr bridged users for me.


Eerst link in het artikel wijst naar: https://berthub.eu/tkconv/document.html?nummer=2024D38837


The article ends with a list of predictions of all the bad things that will happen as result of this, with a promise to update the checkmarks ✅ over time.


As the article explains, this basically gives both America (through the Patriot Act) and China (through Microsofts incompetence) access to all Dutch government data. Great for economic and other espionage, or just plain extortion.


Idiot move of the year: The Netherlands surrenders all IT sovereignty to Microsoft cloud. Have fun learning the hard way...
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Yes of course "blacklist mt7921e" fixes suspend... #ubuntu

(this disables the wifi chip that I'm not using anyway, which somehow caused the machine to wake up immediately after suspending)


🫡
https://m.primal.net/LZlD.jpg


They don't promise you fall asleep on this one... and I still don't know what a DVM is, or whatever the acronym was, that did something cool...

https://fountain.fm/episode/rrZNKoROI34ccbuWesrW

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzpcclww0yr9v8c8s947j9p206nf7av52hgk6t99jcac79n3vf2gn4f6eh2s


There is some great food out there though.


No.


Walkie talkies?


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


Closed source at it best, in which Apple congratulates me because thousands of people encountered the same bug that they still haven't fixed or even acknowledged. https://image.nostr.build/82c807496b7aa0da56e34f721da6922b4cc41bd3f0b75752d26fd1f6628a26e8.jpg


Joe appreciates ⚡

Joe appreciates ⚡


> Spoiler alert: the filmmaker is laughed at right in his face at the end of his film by the man he identifies as the bitcoin inventor in a Wie is de Mol-like scene. And I felt that urge too.

(Dutch newspaper, paywalled)

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/16/zoektocht-naar-uitvinder-van-bitcoin-eindigt-in-hoongelach-a4869535


Oh actually nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 let's you click on the ActivityPub icon which opens the original URL in a browser.


It's bridged by Mostr. NIP-05 let's you verify the bridge domain but that's all. The post itself should have a tag linking to the original mastodon server, but at least Damus doesn't render that so it's tedious to check. europa.eu is presumably real. https://image.nostr.build/24b9f780314dc802669a4e22e3d88fbbd69bb27afcd1ea3497907896bcb3e8b5.jpg


Our criticism of recently published
Wired article: "Wired's Attack on Privacy"

https://simplex.chat/blog/20241016-wired-attack-on-privacy.html


Oh no this is the DMA, not the DSA.


I think the EU is saying that X is basically already dead :-)


TIL scaring away advertisers is a great way to escape DSA scrutiny. nostr:note1tjlhrf00ksmd8hmdyexagjj9hht5x3e45gvu9yr7kz0064v9hc4skur9c2


Yes this uses a bridge.


Just got stopped, searched, bag strewn on the airport floor on arrival to Germany.

I’m a bit shaken up that was horrid.

The Alsatian sniffer dog was adamant I had something on me.

I know I dont have any drugs so I was trying to be helpful to speed it up. But it’s pretty intimidating when they’re so abrupt and aggressive.

The policeman was a massive cunt though. Threw my stuff on the floor and was the “guilty until proven innocent” kind of guy.

“You have drugs. I am going to find them .”

He made me repack my bag in front of the queue leaving the plane.

I held up the queue though and they were all scowling, naturally.

They tested my hands with some swab thing and the lady policemen had to check with the other guy and said “it’s high.”

It can’t possibly be the case as I haven’t touched weed since maybe the summer?

Hate to judge but there weren’t a lot of brain cells between them.

But they still weren’t satisfied so i got paraded through past the gate to do a “underpants search” as they were adamant I had something.

At this point i was like what are my right here, you can’t just strip search someone.

Once we went through the gate though the sniffer dog changed its mind.

It stopped butting my right thigh. Thank fuck for that.

But man. All that coz they thought I had a bit of weed?

Gahhhhh. Jesus wept what a waste of resources. I missed my train and I’m probs gonna go full radicalised.

Fuck the fucking fuckers.

 welcome to germany lol


Don't forget to file a complaint against those neo nazi assholes.


I checked again today, this is real

🤡 #tesla #dogecoin

https://www.tesla.com/support/dogecoin https://image.nostr.build/44ff74466e56e62a9ddf2834e32962d6daf479135249f3e20183e5513836999f.jpg


Bullish, I should figure out what to do with my expired 200 NOK notes... https://www.norges-bank.no/en/topics/notes-and-coins/exchanging-withdrawn-banknotes-and-coins/


Really good news: in Norway, the right to pay cash has been enshrined in law, as of Oct 1st. Retail will no longer be able to refuse cash for payments up to $2000.

Meanwhile, in other EU countries you're _prohibited_ from accepting that much cash!

https://www.norges-bank.no/en/topics/notes-and-coins/the-right-to-pay-cash/

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/norway-one-worlds-most-cashless-economies-just-made-it-lot-easier-pay-cash


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But you caught it just in time for step 6??


Just got a scary call from a very convincing scammer :/

1. Hi, it's your bank. We just blocked fraudulent activity associated with your debit card starting in 1234.
2. We also blocked your internet banking. Verify that if you want. (yes, it was blocked.)
3. To recover your debit card, please come to the closest branch
4. We now just need you to authorize a change in your password because of law 12343456 of the consumer protection what not ...
5. Please open your banking app, do not login (cause there I would have noticed that nothing was broken and that no cellphones were bought with my card)
6. Click the "BE Pass" below to authorize this complicated protocol we are following here.

Turns out, they knew my name, national ID, maybe not the debit card number as these all start the same with the same bank, my phone number and my email address that I exclusively use with that bank. They made 3 failed intents to get into my online banking so it got blocked, went to the "recover my login using the banking app" page, called me with a well trained scammer and when they thought I was ready to click "ok" within 3 minutes - the time you have for these BE-Pass authorizations - they hit ok on that "change my password" page.

I hate I did believe it was my bank for so long, despite noticing some red flags early on during the call.


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They also still have twelfth century equipment where you have to take your laptop and liquids out of the bag.


To continue my rant about dysfunctional airports... they have this really handy list of waiting times. But absolutely no map or signs to figure out which one is where. #BER https://image.nostr.build/cd014f4e424c6bcf7b757eb0f921cc9e8fd9eb66a4ea5054726fde15e83a8c3e.jpg


Fun AND interesting nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52, keep building! nostr:note1r5zal5hjtj7kf9x04wsjdwdve5jm2v37jymdkkwrkc8h4mggyt2qcf8sc4


Fedi mints https://image.nostr.build/6c84b949faaeb725abe43e5ce21249de8669012f2dfbc453eaff9f871149f1ce.jpg


Zapped by Horszt 🧡

Zapped by Horszt 🧡


cool

cool


There's still a chicken-egg problem of getting something from that mint. But either someone might already have ecash from a previous time they were online, or maybe we'll have 7-Eleven ecash one day? Perfect use case for physical scratch cards.


Definitely not a Bitcoin wallet...
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/police-discover-drugs-in-bag-labelled-definitely-not-a-bag-full-of-drugs-13232352


"We're good on the number of nerds" - nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg


A panel...
https://www.youtube.com/live/uCyRffPdsaU https://image.nostr.build/ea7830511c2cd1af6b67b98a67d2994181c49006224ce2c52482606b96cf5ea6.jpg


Clue was in the spelling.
https://x.com/bitnorbert/status/1844973478165852588


Rumour has it he's back...


🇬🇧In response to my complaint, @Europol admits mistakes when employees switched to #ChatControl surveillance tech provider @thorn. Internal rules were disregarded without consequences. Europol promises reforms. However, the checks for conflicts of interest would need a fundamental overhaul to exclude pro-surveillance lobbying by ex-employees.

Report: https://balkaninsight.com/2024/10/11/europol-revising-conflict-of-interest-screening-after-birn-investigation/

Audit report: https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/doc/inspection-report/en/192216


The timing attack you were looking for in the last episode was with BitMEX and their 3-of-4 multisig, with 3 keys held by the founders and a fourth vanity key thrown in to give the addresses a cool 3BiTMEX prefix. By watching which keys signed off on daily withdrawals, one could make a good guess about who owned what key. The biggest clue then came when one of the founders Sam Reed was arrested and that pretty much gave away the identity of his key. Because P2SH is a privacy leaking shitcoin unlike Taproot's tapscript, which keeps key combinations and spending rules way more hidden.

https://fountain.fm/episode/mtliXmqO4RstptPR9ecM

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzps36pcyf4r3r590uaxy86sy4yu2n3vn3z9pj28sv5wsgnf8g68glf2tzma


I hope so, there's a Black Mirror episode with exactly this premise.


I agree with you that PR is unusually important in this war. For comparison, the Nazis exploited civilian casualties (in occupied territories) of allied bombing in their propaganda. But that didn't have much effect in the scheme of things. In this conflict you see it has an effect on arms deliveries, etc, though not as substantial as Iran might have hoped.

But even is preventing bad UN reports is a covert war goal, bombing UN facilities is predictably counterproductive - it draws more attention than the reports themselves. So I'm skeptical that the IDF would bother spending the (reconnaissance) resources.


This is where proportionality comes in. Military action has to be proportional to the goal.

Attacking a UN camera risks death and injury. Now consider two goals:

1. Prevent negative reports
2. Prevent the death of IDF soldiers from leaked operational information

(2) seems proportional, at least defendable. (1) absolutely not.

And that's where priors come in: if you believe the IDF is fundamentally unethical and just a tool for Netanyalu shenanigans, you might think (1) is the most plausible explanation. I don't think they are, so I find (2) more plausible. Until more information comes in.


As for bias, I prefer the term priors. Everyone has them, the question is if you can update them with new information.


Sheltering Hezbollah or giving intel to Hezbollah are not that different. Both  completely justify force and collateral damage, they asked nicely in 2006.

The reason I shifted my hypothesis is that they are hitting observation towers in combination with what happened in 2006.


All three intel gathering instruments.
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The Unifill website says they mainly attacked their camera's. That suggests another possible motive, to prevent Unifill from sharing or leaking intel about IDF troop movements.

> UNIFIL also came under criticism during the 2006 Lebanon War for broadcasting detailed reports of Israeli troop movements, numbers, and positions on their website which "could have exposed Israeli soldiers to grave danger", while making no such reports about Hezbollah.

I find that somewhat plausible.

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


The UN only says they were "affected by explosions", afaik they're not denying Hezbollah was (ab)using their facilities. https://image.nostr.build/00b9a234c56b4dddc9a44066d05da7171cc076d3a05d891553023c3c791eac2f.jpg


The IDF rarely comments on things, so that's really not evidence for your hypothesis that they attacked the UN deliberately to chase them away. My default assumption is that they're doing what say the war goal is, or at least trying to: get rid of Hezbollah. There's just no evidence showing otherwise here, yet.


Yes, the Mostr has a bunch of:

// Prevent roundtrip
if (hopefully the right check) return;

cc nostr:npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p


Damus shows an ActivityPub tag for bridged posts. https://image.nostr.build/dc08f34d4378b113a4a232b5fb96a94622b917b253bf174ebe7e5eedc0d0a641.jpg


Where things really get confusing is that nostr users are identified by pubkey, fediverse users by URL. When there's multiple bridges you get an infinite number of permutations, e.g. bridge1.com/npubabc, bridge2.com/npubabc are the same nostr user, and each fediverse user has one npub per bridge. And all can follow and interact:-)


Philosophically all of Nostr is part of the Fediverse, just like Mastodon instances are.


Mostr is a piece of software that bridges between ActivityPub (e.g. Mastodon) and Nostr.

There's a public instance at mostr . pub, but it tends to get blocked by Mastodon admins. I run a private instance on my own domain too, but only my own replies on Nostr can cross that bridge.
https://soapbox.pub/blog/mostr-fediverse-nostr-bridge/


our ecash edition in Berlin is now live on zap.stream! https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrze3ex9snsvp595ekvcfh956x2vfn943rzefk95ervcenxvcngwt9x33kyqgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmp0qgsv73dxhgfk8tt76gf6q788zrfyz9dwwgwfk3aar6l5gk82a76v9fgrqsqqqan89pxa5d


There are multiple meanings of "deliberate". All this says is that they hit the building intentionally, that they aimed at it and it wasn't a stray. The relevant question is why they did that. To bully the UN or because Hezbollah was handing out there and the UN didn't bother sending them away? Remember that for more than a decade now the UN has allowed Hezbollah to operate there.


GM!

And no Apple, this wasn't a workout. https://image.nostr.build/b0c5cfbba16da91f9a3c190a8752b9748e1ceffd768e5ff8f71782c2f7efb34b.jpg


I agree there can be all sorts of reasons for the attack, but I was responding to the claim / suggestion that it was a deliberate attack on the UN by Israel. That's not a reasonable default assumption. Bad intel or some other misunderstanding is a good default assumption, until evidence shows up to suggest otherwise.

As for IDF investigations: the Dutch air-force accidentally killed 70 civilians in Iraq in 2015. It took almost a decade for that to come out. And because of a whistleblower. It was hidden from Parliament too. Militaries around the world are not known for transparency. So we may indeed never know. But stuff leaks, and whisleblowes are out there.
https://www.amnesty.nl/de-aanval-op-hawija


Press coverage of this war between Israel and various Iran proxies is extremely high, e.g. compared to Saudi Arabia vs. Jemen (also Iran). The fact that a bunch of mortars fired at a UN compound even makes the news is absurd. These things happen in all wars (though usually there's no UN or journalist around to get shot in the first place).

Nobody is complaining that Mexican drug cartels don't allow enough journalists on the battlefield. Of course it's fair to hold a democratic county to the highest possible standard.

I'm sure there's both good and malicious reasons why journalists are not given free
and safe access to this war zone. From the other side I'm skeptical that Hamas and Hezbollah will protect every journalist no matter how critical their reporting.

This creates an asymmetry where anytime Israel allows a journalist in, they will only report on bad things done by Israel because otherwise they're killed. Or they get killed by accident by the IDF. There's no upside. But denying them access also looks bad, and isn't how democracies should behave. Embedded journalists in the IDF would be safe and might reveal bad behavior from the other side, but it would be seen as propaganda. Which it is, but so is Al Jazeera coverage. There's no winning strategy here.

And then of course Netanyahu and/or his zealot buddies will find a way to make things even worse. And because this is the middle east, it's always even more complicated.

From a news consumer point of view the best thing is to probably just wait.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts


Presumably they have to reason to believe Hezbollah is using those locations. I don't know how accurate their intel is of course, but neither do most people who comment on this sort of stuff.

Perhaps a more important question is why on Earth the UN is still there. They never stopped Hezbollah. They can't stop Israel either. Seems they're just in the way? But maybe I'm too cynical.


I love how Apple thinks every walk of more ten minutes must be a workout. It says a lot about where that company is based.


Russia banned the partially-encrypted communications platform Discord on October 8, likely degrading some frontline Russian forces' ad-hoc communications in the near term. Russian federal censor Roskomnadzor announced on October 8 that it had banned Discord within Russia on October 8 following recent Russian fines against Discord for failing to comply with Russian censorship laws.[19] Some frontline Russian forces use Discord for coordinating operations, including combat drone operations, and this ban will likely impede some Russian military communications on the frontline in the near term.[20] The Kremlin has recently implemented several measures that have threatened frontline ad-hoc communication systems, including limiting the use of personal electronic devices on the frontline, and the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has failed to establish a secure and effective official communications system for Russian forces to use instead.[21] Some Russian milbloggers responded to the Discord ban by reiterating complaints about the lack of adequate alternative communications systems for Russian forces on the frontline.[22] A Kremlin-affiliated milblogger complained that the Russian MoD has failed to address this issue for the past three years but claimed that Russian forces have been able to use other communications services to coordinate combat operations successfully.[23]

I continue to be amazed by the poor choice of tools people make even when their life is at stake.

Afaik the only encrypted part of Discord is the https connection their company web server, the rest presumably goes straight to the Pentagon.


I often do that as well, but sometimes these mailinglists are run by non-technical folks who just use some marketing SAAS, not knowing how obnoxious it is.


ht nostr:note1pl9vxpk8jmams4tx5mgvztefpqdrahj4er4m48kfyvd2dc0xzc6szhsugm


one man came forward from a small town, Wagga Wagga in the depths of Australia – claiming to be Roger Titchborne, the heir to the ancient Titchborne estate in Hampshire. Roger was long thought to have died at sea


#GDPR adventure of the day: mailinglist that I don't really remember signing up for - but maybe I was a nice mood - has an unsubscribe link at the bottom.

The page asks me to confirm my request to unsubscribe, but before I can click on OK, a cookie wall popup appears with the usual dark pattern that makes rejection of cookies almost impossible.

Once I figured that out it redirected to the main page, so I had to go back to my email and try to unsubscribe again. Which worked this time.


We'll just have to figure out how to apply that to a twelve year old. Juvenile crimes against humanity law is underdeveloped:-)


Golm sounds like Middle Earth, so perhaps that's the hint? I've been to Berlin plenty of times and even I felt uneasy until more station names scrolled by.

Bitcoin doesn't fix this :-) https://image.nostr.build/e58caa65bf63effa795ca47eee752c3a920964488df806692b81d399fa28f65e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/84a64514c178b9533e16c262043d394a285acf28ddfee4628cd34cc5b4ac6294.jpg


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The sign above the platform doesn't say the next train to the central station will be there. Only the screen will trains lists it. Hidden between a million obscure stations.

And yes there it is in the distance. For absolutely no good reason. There isn't a second set of escalators on that side of the platform. The train itself only shows the obscure final destination. https://image.nostr.build/83396761a0cd0b34a019c4cfbaf0448132601a92443b3e3fbbdacb6e97618121.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4d94529ba01d74c6d830e96dcfaa898031434d18dadb4ff29154e7aec21e9a30.jpg


It's stupid little details: the train to Berlin main station leaves from different platforms, so there can't be signs pointing people to the right platform. It also leaves from the wrong side of the platform so when you come down the elevator you have to run for several minutes ... to miss it. And then walk back up, go up the elevator, walk to a different platform, and try again.

Meanwhile the announcer rubs it in: "please make sure to be at the correct part of the platform", rather than just having the train do so.


I'm starting to appreciate why people consider Berlin airport a failed project :-)


The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts
A DDoS attack isn’t the only problem.

When visiting The Internet Archive (www.archive.org) on Wednesday afternoon, The Verge was greeted by a pop-up claiming the site had been hacked. Just after 9PM ET, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle confirmed the breach and said the website had been defaced with the notification via a JavaScript library.

Here’s what the popup said:

    “Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!”

HIBP refers to Have I Been Pwned?, a website where people can look up whether or not their information has been published in data leaked from cyber attacks. HIBP operator Troy Hunt confirmed to Bleeping Computer that nine days ago, he received a file containing “email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, Bcrypt-hashed passwords, and other internal data” for 31 million unique email addresses, and confirmed it was valid by matching data with a user’s account.

A tweet from HIBP said 54 percent of the accounts were already in its database from previous breaches. In posts on his account, Hunt gave further details on the timeline, from contacting the IA about the breach on October 6th, and moving forward with the disclosure process until their site was defaced and DDoS’d today at the same time they were loading the data into HIBP to begin notifying affected users.

After closing the message, the site loaded normally, albeit slowly.

As of 5:30PM ET, the popup was gone, but so was the rest of the site, leaving either nothing or a placeholder message saying “Internet Archive services are temporarily offline” and directing visitors to the site’s account on X for updates.

Jason Scott, an archivist and software curator of The Internet Archive, said the site was experiencing a DDoS attack, posting on Mastodon that “According to their twitter, they’re doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.”

Later Wednesday evening, Brewster Kahley of the IA confirmed the breach in a post on X:

    What we know: DDOS attack–fended off for now; defacement of our website via JS library; breach of usernames/email/salted-encrypted passwords.

    What we’ve done: Disabled the JS library, scrubbing systems, upgrading security.

    Will share more as we know it.

An account on X called SN_Blackmeta said it was behind the attack and implied that another attack was planned for tomorrow. The account also posted about DDoSing the Archive in May, and Scott has previously posted about attacks seemingly aimed at disrupting the Internet Archive.

We’ve reached out to the organization to learn more information.

Update, October 9th: Added information from HIBP and BleepingComputer, and Brewster Kahley’s confirmation of the breach.


🇬🇧Dutch Parliament just passed an exemplary resolution on #ChatControl with broad majority +++ "irreconcilable concerns about the proportionality of the European CSAM Regulation" +++ "detection order to be issued on the private communications of all citizens" is unacceptable +++ Government and experts to draft "an alternative European proposal to combat the dissemination of images of online child abuse"
https://berthub.eu/tkconv/document.html?nummer=2024D37580


Plenty of inside jokes in that documentary though, so it's certainly entertainment for bitcoiners.


He also made the mistake of thinking that particular comment was "super technical". Sure, it requires someone to paid attention to digital cash and Bitcoin for a while. But it doesn't require having implemented all of Bitcoin.


Just watched the whole thing. It's great until it goes off the rails in the last fifteen minutes. I think it's Roger Ver and Amir Taaki that sent the documentary maker chasing a ghost. They made RBF seem important, even suspecting it to be a government sabotage effort. This glorifies nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm's image in his head, which Peter then openly exploited - while being very honest about doing so.

The bigger meta mistake the documentary maker made was to seek out people who enjoy being on TV. If he'd contacted experts in a more systematic way they would have ruined the plot. But this is more fun for everyone. nostr:note1w0679347vjl0sjny793aahr3k7cxzxjklrzqdd82dfatfe64m2rq97nkww


Nice! Both the fact that this was merged and that the bot tagged me (add an njump link or something similar to your Github profile). nostr:note1k6aevgrjjtrfyws4j679qtk0jp04cmsw0g3a73prqgjq9t5xdsjqkanx5d


Interesting, added to listen list.

(adding nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 link so it picks it up, though it would be nice if it understood show pages somehow)
https://fountain.fm/episode/DRf0gvqNkiAmQpjAM4ze


Free 21 Sats & Win 2100 Sats daily #bullishbounty


🥳 Dutch parliament just broadly passed a motion instructing the government to 'clearly and durably' argue against any future proposals that might entail a detection order that applies to the private communication of all Europeans! And also to come up with better plans to combat the scourge of #CSAM, while (this time) also consulting with experts. https://berthub.eu/tkconv/document.html?nummer=2024D37580


nostr:npub1hxwmegqcfgevu4vsfjex0v3wgdyz8jtlgx8ndkh46t0lphtmtsnsuf40pf talks about Texas at #BitcoinAms https://image.nostr.build/e40c8129651ca900a44692f6dcde885e1b4a6a8594624c3a0140ce72c7219716.jpg


So apparently the reply at the bottom is evidence? Did they try a blind test asking random Bitcoiners who that comment sounds like?
https://x.com/BitMEXResearch/status/1843788557925921052 https://image.nostr.build/97c0f157e4f8a5f5a31377d7f663de6da10d7d6d0a2c1c1f01ea04044cbeffb4.jpg


Together with Dorien Rookmaker, nostr:npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c and nostr:npub1hrnt73hppyc5v9h7ynnv0cn90yd97t6we9dw32s46ug845jsm33sktjsct we will discuss tomorrow at nostr:npub1rwh33t5x8n7czknhts5fg0v0fml8mkl7neaarksumkkf8d679qrqcz7avv in #Amsterdam: How to Guard Privacy Tools & Developers.

Come at 11 am on Stage : Bull Arena

Case of arbitrary de-riskig @BitsagaBe is one of the clear examples why #AML Regulation has discriminatory approach to tech developers.

It destroys EU’s #competitiveness , which EU Commission and ECB are promoting right now. We need urgently address this problem. The best place to have a debate with all parties involved/affected in the Europarlament.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/8f6568deec0120acb2a4d1e4e311c881d306c396a9288b0a07f564d20f186268/601fd7b8c16eb631b9db38e15e1ac79cee0da9d6ab74c7cceb98bfc03c8a713c.webp
https://nostrcheck.me/media/8f6568deec0120acb2a4d1e4e311c881d306c396a9288b0a07f564d20f186268/fd7d140e37adc03723517782ed36237daea3cfe7504a84aa68ffb2c4a76ba7b8.webp


nostr:npub1h5ewqujs336m0kdez46l03jttnaqp3yrvf7evertw0ec52q3qulq4kcdg7 is starting!
https://m.primal.net/LOmR.jpg


Afsluitdijk is een leuk ritje.


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


Not even in Amsterdam?


Not "eventually", immediately.


Why not just let the node sync and call getblock on each block?


That was quick... nostr:note1gwrhm9e24qqdk5k2n68de55sdru695c9qhr4khhtgm8p4ml8tyxsu86df9


Sjors stacks sats

Sjors stacks sats


In which nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5 and I introduce a new song... and highlight a few cool things from the Bitcoin Core v28 release.
https://fountain.fm/episode/3NQcPj1AdzBCfNhE7Bil


Thanks for spreading info for chatcontrol


They're so inclusive!


Could even be a separate subdomain that you link to, complete with RSS.


On my homepage, which currently ranks at the top for my name, I have an njump link but that doesn't seem enough to give google a hint.


How do we get nostr profiles to prominently show up in Google searches?

I guess https://nostr.com/nprofile1qqsgdp0taan9xwxadyc79nxl8svanu895yr8eyv0ytnss8p9tru047qgckrxq returning a blank page doesn't help? :-)


Thanks for the tip of printing the train ticket... hopefully Seattle to Vancouver is a bit better. I did it in the other direction ten years ago and as far as I remember that was just fine, and scenic.


Any time I see a normie contact join Telegram I’m like, lol, they’re coming to talk with a dealer 🤣


-stopatheight maybe, but I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve.


Nuance lijkt me zeker een goed plan, maar een anti-Israel demonstratie op 7 oktober kan m.i. niet anders opgevat worden dan het vieren van die aanslag.

Als het gaat om het lot van de Palestijnen dan zou 28 oktober gepast zijn, de dag dat Israel de grondinvasie begon. Of 8 oktober, het moment van de oorlogsverklaring. Of een andere historisch relevante dag waar Israel de aggressor was.

De reactie van de VVD op de NS vind ik overigens dan weer gênant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war


Yes, the answers will be public, but probably vague and boring.


I think it's relying on https://podcastindex.org rather than polling RSS feeds directly.

That index might be adding some Podcasting 2.0 fields that you want, but the app should probably still poll RSS feeds directly to look for new episodes. Any missing 2.0 metadata can be added later.

Obviously not a trivial thing to implement.

An easier solution might be if we can zap the index to hurry up and refresh our favorite shows.


Which one?


Time keeping is easy, just buy an atomic clock. Time synchronization is the challenging part, but that's merely a means to an end.


Meh, centralized time keeping is overrated.


Please take this good sir or madam

Please take this good sir or madam


One very bullish development for nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 is that the Apple podcast app is increasingly broken. It's now just marking random episodes as played and deleting them.

It used to "merely" do that for Patreon RSS feeds, but it now does it for all shows.

That said, I've noticed episodes often appear many hours later in Fountain than on the Apple Podcast app, to the point where morning podcast show up in the afternoon.


The Russian government appears to have amended its plan to deanonymize Russian social media accounts following significant backlash within the Russian ultranationalist information space. Russian federal censor Roskomnadzor and the Russian Ministry of Finance published a draft resolution on October 4 requiring social media pages with an audience of over 10,000 subscribers to register their identity and contact information with the Russian government.[13] The draft resolution requires that social media pages with 10,000 or more subscribers register and submit their contact information (including full name, phone number, and email address) through the Russian government services portal, Roskomnadzor's website, or a chat bot on social media platforms. The draft resolution states that Roskomnadzor will publish a public list of all “verified” social media pages after the owner registers their information and that Roskomnadzor will require the page to include a link to Roskomnadzor's list for subscribers. The draft resolution also states that Russian authorities will not allow “unverified” social media pages to advertise or accept donations, which could be an effective enforcement mechanism as many milbloggers depend on income from advertisements to sustain their channels documenting the war in Ukraine and often collect donations for frontline Russian units.[14] Many Russian milbloggers decried this new version of the registration law and argued that it could lead to the Russian state censoring the Russian-language internet and the milbloggers’ coverage of the war.[15] Roskomnadzor published and immediately deleted a previous version of this resolution that required social media pages to also submit IP addresses to Roskomnadzor in September 2024 amid outcry among Russian milbloggers about the effort and ongoing concerns about the Kremlin's intensifying censorship efforts.[16] ISW noted at the time that Roskomnadzor's decision to delete the draft resolution indicates that the Russian ultranationalist milblogger community maintains some influence on the Kremlin's decisions, Roskomnadzor's decision to amend the draft resolution further indicates the milblogger community's influence over the Kremlin. It remains unclear how the Kremlin will react to the latest wave of milblogger criticism against the new watered-down version of the Telegram deanonymization law. Prominent Kremlin-linked and co-opted milbloggers such as Rybar, Evgeniy Poddubny, and Alexander “Sasha” Kots have not commented on the new draft regulation as of this publication. ISW continues to assess that the Kremlin is working to secure further control over the Russian information space via both codified regulations and reflexive control campaigns aimed at encouraging milbloggers and other critical voices in the Russian information space to self-censor.[17]

When Russia does something EU bureaucrats can only dream of.


It is very concerning how hard it is for people to get travel visa's to come to  nostr:npub17yqgpat6e6ensd78jqhj4c3ef03uq04uqu3z05rhjnlk67lwm8wq9w5269. It's also concerning how many non Americans I met that don't want to travel to the US even if they could get a travel visa because of safety and security. My eyes have been opened this year on just how bad this is. If this doesn't eventually get better I'm going to have rethink a few things about TABConf.


That appears to have been a false alarm,  but we need to keep an eye on this: nostr:note17slhfxjwvtehhee0f3fh9jwm0zyv6t0t9e7jp3zx9tzlzclp0dxq6qrrwf


Until exchanges are forced to remove lightning support because it went from a niche nerd thing to large scale privacy.

They'd delisted privacy coins for merely the *marketing* of them being used.

And then might go after lightning developers holding them responsible for for North Korea deposit with the exact same arguments used against tornado cash.

Also, GM :-)


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


And it doesn't solve the problem of on and off ramps blocking transactions going to and from mixers. Until all NGO donors use Bitcoin and all their landlords and lawyers use Bitcoin, money has to move to and from fiat. This problem is 95% political, 5% technical. Unfortunately, because I prefer technical problems :-)


The problem is that developers are getting prosecuted. How many have to go to jail before JoinMarket is user friendly enough and in such good shape that it can be maintained by a handful of nyms?


Donating Bitcoin to the opposition without going to the goulag requires mixers, which the west is recklessly persecuting.

https://fountain.fm/clip/dIAPk66VELwyQ0Mvc1G9


More American spyware is not "innovation", as much as I find (EU) AI legislation a bunch of hysterical nonsense. Sounds like this should encourage innovation in self or distributed hosting!


Modern traffic controllers would probably get run over all the time because they and half the drivers would be looking at their phone too much :-)


Offline but reachable by short range radio seems like a fine compromise to me. It requires physical proximity to mess with, which doesn't scale and is relatively easy for police to investigate. Just modernize the encryption.


Of course you can also do things the hard way (from about 2:30): https://youtu.be/QKVWNxihKcs


My guess is that busses don't use sensors in the lane but rather a radio signal. Which makes sense because it's flexible with regards to speed and which direction the bus needs to go. And not all intersections have dedicated bus lanes.

🚨 are useful, but red lights add a lot of safety.


Tl&dr: some Dutch traffic lights can be remote controlled via radio signals to give priority for busses and emergency services. This obviously can be hacked, as recently demonstrated by a whitehat.

The plan is gradually replace them with a more modern secure system ... which is connected to the internet.

I'd rather take my chances with local bullies over North Koreans. Anyway, paying attention fixes this :-)
https://nos.nl/artikel/2539694-verouderde-stoplichten-in-nederland-blijken-relatief-makkelijk-te-hacken


Ah yes, in that case it makes sense to have the release notes link to the event. And if l the  🧲 URL is in the release notes that's a nice fallback.


Maybe put the torrent in the same note as the release note?


Transaction broadcast is a completely different issue than scanning. One shot Tor connections are a nice potential way to deal with that.

Dandelion would be nicer, but so far nobody has implemented it in a DoS resistant matter. Part of the problem there is that the Bitcoin Core mempool is already extremely complicated, though I'm still hopeful that will improve, e.g. with cluster mempool.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29415


Oh ik dacht dat jij die vriend was :-)


Volgens nostr:npub1xgd8uqrlvq7d7rk9sfgf9acn3gusn2aufmlad8pj69702h5j6teqr7vzl6 werkte
https://www.godutch.com/


Which is completely understandable, the problem lies in him pretending otherwise.


Los van uitstoot en stank, zou het ook mooi zijn als steden een decibel limiet op voertuigen konden afdwingen. Je mag van mij best diesel rijden, maar niet vol achteruit in een te lage versnelling.


The Joe-Roganization of technical discussion? :-)


I don't know how Cake and Silentium work exactly. There is no standard yet for light clients, so claiming that non-standard experimental software is slow, is just not that relevant. Let's wait and see.


> And the privacy implications are not as detrimental to Monero users for using a public node as they are for Bitcoin

Do you understand how BIP158 filters work?


We'd have Dogecoin zaps by now!


You should ask Scottevest to design a large dress with giant pockets. Those don't count as luggage.
https://www.scottevest.com/collections/pants


Ik vind "belasting is diefstal" altijd wat kort door de bocht, maar hier komt een officier van justistie aan het woord die het *niet* betalen van belasting diefstal noemt, lol.

https://fountain.fm/episode/UiqMoa0RSLBZYzrXDS8w


Did Musk just get rugged?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-x-seek-resumption-brazil-service-fines-paid-sources-say-2024-10-04/


And one message could be an array containing the result of some query, i.e. all posts by people I follow in the last day.

That's probably not much slower than going from json to binary and back. But haven't benchmarked.

Would be good is there was a relay health tool that checks if this is configurered.


Can nginx and browsers automagically gzip the json?


No, but it would make me more bullish on getting a similar law passed in the EU!


As the wizard said, it shall not pass. :-)


And also because I don't have time to study, for you and for free, a dozen protocols to figure out what trade-offs their marketing team isn't talking about that make it unsuitable for Bitcoin.

That's not to say there's never something useful out there. Information does make it across, e.g. because developers talk to each other - less so through public debates.


> why don’t you join my show

Because of your behavior.


Silent Payment syncing on a full node, which you should have anyway, should add less than 1% overhead.

For light clients there isn't even a full spec yet on how to do that, so I'm not sure what mechanism you used. It should be comparable to bip158 sync.

In any case Silent Payments are just a way to avoid address reuse, they're not trying to achieve the same thing as Monero.


I think the words "emergency relief" imply the funds will be spent soon. And the alternative was the bank confiscating it.


Yesterday I helped someone in Lebanon to download and install a Bitcoin wallet. I was in the USA. After about one hour back and forth we sent emergency relief money that was received within seconds.
The answer was: „today I won’t be able to sleep 🤯😇“ expressing the surprise that this really works.

#FreedomMoney


I'm sure Coinbase is deeply sad that they must deplatform their competitor stablecoin. They surely didn't lobby for this.
https://www.coinbase.com/nl/blog/ushering-in-the-next-chapter-for-usdc


TIL the Nazi occupiers changed Dutch traffic rules so that their tanks didn't have to yield to cyclists coming from the right. It took until 2001 to rectify.


This week's Financial Freedom Report #43 features the following in global news:

-Kuwait | Mandates Biometric Data for Access to Financial Accounts
-Egypt | Rising Costs and Repression Deepen Financial Struggles
-Zimbabwe | New ZiG Currency Faces First Official Devaluation

In Bitcoin news:

-Telegram | Announces New Compliance Measures
-Boltz | Launches BTCPay Server Plugin
-Tornado Cash | Legal Battle Set Precedent for Financial Privacy and Freedom

Plus, a podcast featuring HRF's Nonprofit Bitcoin adoption Lead Anna Chekhovich detailing the realities of life and activism under Vladimir Putin’s regime where activists, dissidents, and nonprofits face regular acts of repression, fabricated criminal charges, and asset seizures.

Read more here: https://hrf.org/category/financial-freedom/


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Unless they fixed that recently?


No you have to keep the phone on with the app open.


It's promising. I'm still waiting for a (sane) way to use it on both mobile and laptop though.


Mocht je geen gewillige bank kunnen vinden, dan kan Simon Lelieveldt van Human Rights in Finance je misschien nog tips geven voor een gepeperde brief aan de bank die je afwijst.
https://hrif.eu/over-ons/


🦊 ungovernable

🦊 ungovernable


It's quite a disgusting hit piece.


Sad to see The Guardian degrade from opposing the surveillance state to simping for it.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/04/telegram-simplex-far-right


Sad to see The Guardian from opposing the surveillance state to simping for it.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/04/telegram-simplex-far-right


If you can, please consider supporting us, so we can label you a far right extremist for wanting a private way to speak freely, and freely associate with others.

Guardian doing great work attacking tools that keep human rights activists safe 👏. https://image.nostr.build/8c02bf593260ed6c3e16113fea338ab9d4a25a29abf53852ce61851b199b4e9b.jpg  nostr:note15ttnvmf6cvps4t4q64kdg9ncnenwt0km7n8w5qv5h35ex83p77jsrf8ta8


Probably nothing too surprising here, but didn't read the whole thing...
"The data subject
must be informed of the grounds for the authorisation as soon as the provision of this information is no longer
likely to jeopardise the investigations"
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-10/cp240171en.pdf nostr:note18tekaesa4acc8hylylp7qjydtye6yzqxa3m7k68tt7mddkne252q3ngtms


nostr:npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk I would like more fine grained control over notifications. https://image.nostr.build/addd55583af1415898fe11a74599fac4446741d59d43a2d9ce212d4aafcedcf6.png

Probably just DMs from people I follow, the rest can wait.

Can the worker also be used to handle a NWC payment request coming from another client? Because now it seems I need to keep a tab open.


Not sure if it's time :-) But this should be interesting! nostr:note1zxecrfelg9hk5ktctrc3qsjttfm3e63t456fk78sr5806vdm0dysk0ypnx


Bovendien moet een pool op de een of andere manier, liefst vooraf, communiceren wat ze willen censureren, want anders weet je als miner niet wat je in je block moet stoppen en verspil een bak hash power. Dat trekt aandacht en is gedoe. Geen sinecure natuurlijk.


Ah, that explains.


I seem to be on 🔥? nostr:note1xzyn8z83a70e4lrkycxn9xxwxeh3d8vpz96ug3a783jac5pn2hgsfftszc


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Re. de macht van pools: het is goed dat (bij zowel Stratum v2 als Datum) pools een block template actief moeten afwijzen. Dan wéét je al miner tenminste dat er censuur is, nu kom je daar maar moeilijk achter.

Stratum v2 op BitAxe staat ook op mijn wensenlijstje, er is een Github issue voor. Maar is niet iets wat ik zelf kan.
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https://fountain.fm/episode/UOM4HtDHQ1Yol8LCd0uf

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Yes, assuming there isn't one yet.


Most of 102 questions asked by Dutch parliament to the Minister of Justice about #ChatControl are boring, but I put a few highlights in the thread. nostr:note1xz3pkadl7fedyw6gk48yv6cjjvefpfp0hts736lm0rh68jjwr9lszq0z8c


60. How can lists containing details of potential or as yet unconfirmed owners of possible child pornography be prevented from ending up on the street?

(ending up in a data breach)


50. How do you use the definition of ‘end-to-end’? And more specifically, what is the beginning and what is the end of communication?


(it was actually question 44)

45. What is the rationale behind Article 7(8)(d) which states that detection does not apply to accounts used by the State for national security purposes, maintenance of public order or military purposes?

Quod licet Iovi non licet bovi, duh.


Let me answer this one:

42. Is it possible to use technical means to exclude the possibility that a detection order will be used in the future for other types of information than child and young person sexual abuse material?

NO


34. What is the United States' position on the CSAM regulation, which could subject its national tech sector to legal obligations that conflict with U.S. law?


32. How confident can you be that enabling client-side scanning on encrypted private communications will not eventually lead to its expansion to other types of material?


28. Does the CSAM regulation sufficiently take into account the signals from the [police department that deals with sexual assault, CSAM and similar depressing stuff] that additional reports will not lead to a faster or more effective fight against online child abuse, because the capacity is not in order?

(i.e. they're understaffed because of a lack of budget and the fact that you can't do this work for long without losing your sanity)


From the 102 questions linked here.
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Gotta love passive aggressive questions from parliament:

> 20. How do you assess the criminal consequences that may result from the automated notifications of client side scanning? Is this automatic decision-making with major consequences in the event of an unjustified suspicion in line with government policy?


I believe the current plan is to have a v28.1 release later that's a little bit more relaxed about weird invalid stuff. So if things break, and you can't quickly fix them, maybe wait for that release.

But don't wait passively: actually open a github issue.


If your application uses the Bitcoin Core RPC you should test it with v28.0, either rc2 or the final release.

E.g. the (unmaintained) rpc-bitcoin npm package accidentally broke: https://github.com/vansergen/rpc-bitcoin/pull/65


Those are probably fine, but I did the time-money-effort trade-off and got the more expensive one.


I vaguely remember looking a failed delivery queues back in the day when I had an instance.

... which grew very large because of a broken or absent cron job :-)


I should probably stop procrastinating on giving Mostr its own systemd file, but at least it seems other Mastodon servers do try posting to my inbox again when my instance comes alive after I forgot to restart it.


Dutch parliament has just asked the government a whopping 102 questions about the #chatcontrol #CSAM proposal, to be answered before next week's meeting in Luxembourg. There are some piercing questions in there too. https://berthub.eu/tkconv/get/2024D36653 (in Dutch).


Don't know about OpenWrt but these ones support OPNsense at least: https://eu.protectli.com


It should... https://github.com/irislib/iris-messenger/pull/370

But it doesn't seem to. I see a red dot in Iris for my own relay.

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Does Iris even do NIP-42?


The cashu wallet inside Iris doesn't have my nsec, and I guess it doesn't use the main one (yet).

I'll work around that by adding another relay for NWC. I had it set to just my own relay for debugging.


The request went fine:
Oct 03 17:03:24 sjimmie nostr-rs-relay[1716]: 2024-10-03T17:03:24.251064Z DEBUG nostr_rs_relay::server: successfully parsed/validated event: "42968188" (cid: 93bd29a3, kind: 23194)
Oct 03 17:03:24 sjimmie nostr-rs-relay[1716]: 2024-10-03T17:03:24.251090Z DEBUG nostr_rs_relay::db: nip42 authenticated client may publish


And my second zap attempt did work.


Oh wait, maybe this is the response, kind 23195


nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s it looks like nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 does not NIP42 authenticate the connection when posting a NWC kind 23194 event. Either that or it uses an ephemeral pubkey.

Oct 03 17:03:27 sjimmie nostr-rs-relay[1716]: 2024-10-03T17:03:27.825280Z DEBUG nostr_rs_relay::server: successfully parsed/validated event: "0d7c2fd4" (cid: 41f1d0eb, kind: 23195)
Oct 03 17:03:27 sjimmie nostr-rs-relay[1716]: 2024-10-03T17:03:27.825322Z DEBUG nostr_rs_relay::db: rejecting event: 0d7c2fd4, unauthorized author


> Supported by vocal advocates like Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk

Musk moved on to Dogecoin years ago. So I guess the documentary is going to be about Craig Wright?

Not holding my breath on this one.


Ah web push... well it's better than what Safari had before.


NO PRIVACY, NO FREEDOM ✊

Join our discussion to support privacy and #Bitcoin in #Amsterdam!
Who is coming there? Let’s meet 🧡 https://image.nostr.build/3bb03c9015faeae949beabebe338ed9269ff2df9e1ce66017ba67231a3935ce4.jpg


In #Arnhem Food Hall again for lunch, carpaccio and sushi paid with #bitcoin nostr:npub1uv2tr83c5y7k82af6zdzlqs8m0klcmndd8u5vmlg2eyrskld6uzsv4rmr8 they also have nostr:npub1gwa27rpgum8mr9d30msg8cv7kwj2lhav2nvmdwh3wqnsa5vnudxqlta2sz hanging here
https://m.primal.net/LJmp.jpg
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* didn't invent


I don't know how far off the Club of Rome prediction was if it hadn't been for artificial fertilizer. But technology doesn't always save us just in time. We didn't anything to help folks in 1315.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315%E2%80%931317


Is that a self-custodial wallet and the actual "network" fee? Or a custodian being deceptive about the fees they're charging?


If that had actually happened you wouldn't be around to complain about the incorrect prediction.


Congrats to 25 years of Euro!

https://image.nostr.build/ab604ca16f31ea24518205333863798d64312193c69fee0d4f9a3067fd4fe045.jpg


Is that a new feature?


There's a little check box "share on nostr" in the app.


Vraag (22) is de belangrijkste en het antwoord op vraag (23) is naar alle waarschijnlijkheid ja.

Na de lek van Snowden, die op vergelijkbare wijze toegang had tot veel te veel* gegevens, is er gewoon geen excuus om dit zo in te richten. Dit was te voorzien.

* = of precies genoeg, vanuit het perspectief van de journalistiek :-)


Decentralized hashpower.

365 BitAxes coming online in 3…2…1…
https://m.primal.net/LIvu.jpg


Some observations from my end:

1. Major political donors like Coinbase and Ripple care about "crypto", even at the expense of Bitcoin. The latter even actively attacks Bitcoin, as we've seen with GreenPeace.

2. It's pathetic to have political attack / endorse ads about a non-crypto topic and hide the intention behind it. Ditto for deceptively naming a Super PAC.

3. Save yourself a minute of cringe by skipping the Zeke Faux clip; better to remember him from what he wrote in the book, which was pretty interesting. Unfortunately Patrick Boyle himself is also parroting the crypto-for-criminals line, which detracts from the more interesting parts of this video.

To me this looks like a new casino industry trying to keep a specific form of gambling legal. Using tactics that one would associate with that industry.

https://youtu.be/kpZvC_5leDY


Or maybe they're using one giant shared database by default, in which case I'm looking forward to the entire thing leaking. But I doubt they're that stupid.


I could imagine that investigating a transaction outside their country has zero priority for Switzerland, unless it the request comes from the US.

I would also expect the Israeli FIU to ignore the event. In fact I'm surprised the Israeli FIU, who was presumably notified first, would even "leak" this to other FIUs. Someone probably got fired...


I'm happy to see Columbia leaked confidential information from this illegal (and human rights violating, mass surveillance) FIU cabal. The fact that it got them de-platformed confirms that it was a just* move.

However I'm thoroughly confused what Switzerland has to do with any of this. IIUC the cash went from Columbia to Israel, and Pegasus is an Israeli company.

* =  although the cynic in me suspects their motive was geopolitical, in line with them joining South Africa in the proceedings against Israel and warm relationship with Iran, rather than a sudden deep commitment to privacy.
https://iranpress.com/raisi-iran-ready-to-share-its-technology-with-colombia


* 100% CPU


Well in the worst case you use 100% until your battery dies and find nothing?

Most bip158 light wallets don't do much checking either, their worst case is limited to downloading all blocks. Which in practice also means a dead battery an no transaction history.


So by "everything" you mean any arbitrary spam sent to you by some random guy on the internet? And you're performing something like ecdh on it to see if you're being paid?


Coffee on me ☕

Coffee on me ☕


And while you're at it, does 1-parent-1-child use the orphanage or something else?

You don't know? Thought so. Fine, I'll read the PR's.


Ok ChatGBT, explain to me how v3, TRUC, P2A and limited package RBF are related and what's actually implemented vs. just allowed under standardness?
https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/28.0-Release-Notes-Draft


Torrent is probably easier to make, but Git repos are easier to add stuff to later.
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For videos and photos you probably want to use a Nostr client that supports Blossom, e.g. Nostrudel.

But since these things are still in development and in flux, you should also just make a big torrent with everything in it. Then you always repost things in more user friendly formats later.


Hi #nostr, I have #question: #Telegram for a long time was the only place to keep human rights and opposition archives for #Kazakhstani and other Central Asia countries.

Following #Durov’s arrest and cooperation with authorities, few days ago all opposition channels were deleted without clear reasons and right for appeal.

We are thinking about how to move this archive to #nostr: video, photos and documents (doc/pdf) files. What is the best way to do it?

Also we happy to work with you guys to translate interface of #Damus or other relays into #Russian, #Kazakh, #Kyrgyz languages. Grateful for your reports and advices 🧡


Read 21 Bitcoin Sci-fi Stories - 21futures.com


There's a massive gap between the confidence you can have in sha256 and that of the mempool of Bitcoin, let alone that of Monero (which has fewer incentives to be attacked, e.g. no second layer protocol that relies on it).


1. I suspect Monero's mempool works differently from the Bitcoin Core implementation.
2. A lack of attacks does not mean the problem is solved.


speaking of Dandelion, has anyone yet made a stand-alone bitcoin P2P transaction broadcast tool using arti (https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/core/arti/ )?

like https://github.com/laanwj/bitcoin-submittx but it wouldn't use a SOCKS proxy to an existing Tor daemon but handles the Tor network handling internally

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There also good reasons why Dandelion isn't in Bitcoin Core (yet). But why do a simple google search to learn why if you can score engagement by complaining?

This doesn't give me too confidence in the new publication, though of course I'm happy to be wrong.
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/81503/what-is-the-tradeoff-between-privacy-and-implementation-complexity-of-dandelion