what makes you go back to the hellscape that is ios? honest question


It's basically the same process as a lightning zap just slightly different


Relay list to store private content from this author


I for one am not in support of the Department Of Government Efficiency, but I would be in support of the the Bureau of Treasury Control, the Better Trasury Consolidation or the Bureaucracy Termination Commission!


it only sounds complicated because you're not a developer (I assume, and I apologize if you are) and you're reading technical specs; technically a lightning zap is actually just as complicated.


can you imagine the conversation... this kid, literally a 10 year old, is learning to do something of her life so she will hopefully be able to live as a sovreign individual not yet another cog in the machine when she's an adult, and some jackass just tells her "no you're not allowed to".... I just can't wrap my head around this level of evil. a 10 years old, making $2000, $2000... and those jackasses have the gall to steal it?


sure you can, nutzaps (NIP-61) are a thing and if all else fails nip17 a note with ecash


Look at this shitcoin, what a pump and dump 🤣🤣

 https://cdn.satellite.earth/899163f3e21494d92c023bff46245f9116079db6f58d8bc3c903cff566caa4ea.png

lost 90% of its value since they pumped it 5 years ago and let's not talk about it's value 10 years ago (99.54%), or 100 years ago (99.9994%).

My prediction is that in the next 10 years it's gonna drop another 10x but people will still be shilling it because scammers gotta scam


taxation is theft, but nice to see that they're starting to accept legalized extortion payments in bitcoin too now...

tho the fact that they're partnering with PayPal of all companies - one of the most notorious financial censors in big tech - shows how this is just putting a fancy digital wrapper on the same old coercion, nothing changes, it's just slightly more convenient


I'm calling it guys, 1sat=1sat by the end of the year


Danny Morabito

Building Arx

⚡ Tick tock, next block
Their time is running out
Stack and zap, no looking back
That's what freedom's all about 🟠


Yeah it can be useful for that but don't learn to rely on it, it will honestly just bite you in the ass if you do.


Just build a proxy to get around CORS if it's a hinderence


I honestly see no benefit using ChatGPT or any other LLM when coding. Just the fact that I have to "change brain mode" and try and explain something in English is enough for me to lose all the potential "productivity gains".

Then even if you do that, the code it writes is so bad, it writes bad code with the confidence of a cocky 10 year old who has just learned how to code and thinks they know everything. But it keeps decent ish variable and function names, decent type usage and a consistent style, so some less skilled developers can't tell how horribly bad the code is.

Also, finally, I honestly think the only developers who can even benefit from an LLM in any way where they save time is either beginners or people that just do repetive and iterative things.

The only thing it's sometimes genuinely useful for use an LLM is if you're dealing with a new programming language or some badly documented api and you want a quick way to search for something (and you don't mind if its wrong 20% of the time)


He would've loved nostr if he were still alive. Honestly he was a hero, I wish I would've met him when he was still alive. Rest in peace Aaron.


He would've loved nostr if he were still alive. I wish I would've met him. Honestly he was a hero, I wish I would've met him when he was still alive. Rest in peace Aaron.


The note above is why people don't like this feature, but that being said to me it's personally essential. I typo all the time and rewrite what I said to fix typos all the time. The original note is still visible and any good client should implement a way to see it (like amethyst does), then there isn't a problem. The way that element displays it (you can see the history with all the diffs) is good enough for every single use case in my opinion.


I vote yes on editing


I vote no on editing


Woah that's far right thinking right here, don't you know that taxes are the price we pay to be in a society... Something something social contract something....  🤣🤣

I tried... I cant even joke about being a statist lol


This is why in order to inspire change most people truly do not matter. I know it sounds awful to say, and it is, but you can safely ignore 80% of the world.

If you're building something revolutionary you need to convince the top 20% of the 20% of people that are not NPCs. As soon as change happens it will propagate up to the NPCs, it has happened time and again in history.

To me, this is a liberating perspective. Trying to convince 8 billion people of anything sounds like an impossibly daunting task, who could possibly do that? While convincing 300 million people is still impossibly hard but much much easier. And this scales, convince 20% of them and it slowly propagates down the chain, eventually reaching the NPCs who just do what everyone else is doing.


How so? Some Linux distros are worse than others naturally but how is Linux as a whole becoming like Windows?


nah sorry Walker this time you're wrong, I only clicked it after listening to the last episode, I fully expected a joke and I got rewarded with exactly what I expected :P


Rough translation:

Here's the Plan ₿ forum
"The pride of lugano", says folletti

Starting tomorrow, the highly anticipated conference, Bitcoin the queen of Europe, begins. On the eve of the event, we interviewed the mayor [of Lugano] who played a key role in creating this event that will attract, for the first time, thousands of people around the world.

A chat with the "Lord of the house" (no clue what the meant here) on the eve of the most important Bitcoin conference in Europe. We interviewed Michele Foletti, mayor of Lugano, a city that in 24 hours will become the center of glboal attention from the world of decentralized tech and finance. The countdown is almost over, and tomorrow, Friday 25th October, the veil will lift on the third edition of the Plan B Forum, the reference conference for Bitcoin and decentralized tech.

This year too, the event will be hosted at the Lugano Congress Palace - including satellite events in Piazza Castello, Villa Ciani, Aula Magna, and Parco Ciani - where over 100 international speakers, thousands of attendees, and a series of enterpreneur activities will gather to explore these sectors in depth and discuss their exponential growth in the near future, with a central role in financial, technological and social innovation.

Among the most anticipated speakers are names like Adam Back, Nick Szabo, Paolo Ardoino e Stella Assange, wife of Julian Assange, the founder of wikileaks, who will be accompained by her father and brother. Alongside keynote speeches, there will be thematic panels, workshops, interactive masterclasses to explore technical, economic and social aspects related to Bitcoin.

There will be no shortage of side events, such as the free initiatives by "Spazio 21", the meeting and formation space open for everyone (not sure if this is the best translation, but whatever), and the Super League match between FC Lugano and Young Boys on the 27th of October, where Forum participants can assist by the symbolic amount of paying 1 CHF.

The latest goalpost, so to say, it confirms the vision and the effort of a municipal administration that, especially through Plan B, has transformed the city on the river of Ceresio to an international hub for decentralized tech and economic experimentation.

On the eve of this crucial appointment, we reached out to the mayor of Lugano Michele Foletti, to give him the possibility to express his views, and future prospects of a project like plan B, which is redefinint in an extraordinary and innovative way, the tech and financial role of the city.

> Mayor Foletti, we are on the eve of the for this third edition of the Plan B Forum, what are your thoughts?

"I am very enthusiastic about welcoming the third edition of Plan B Forum. It is extraordinary to see how this initiative has grown so rapidly and how Lugano has become a reference point for the cryptocurrency world in Europe and beyond. Our commitment to make Lugano into the capital of tech and financial innovation keeps yielding tangible results. In short, it's a great moment of pride for our city."

> What should we expect, especially when compared to the two previous editions of what will be considered the msot important Bitcoin Conference in Europe?

"This year the forum will be even richer in content and speakers of the highest caliber. We will have experts, innovators and leaders from all around the world to talk not only Bitcoin and Blockchain, but also about the social implications of this tech. Our goal is to continue to grow this event, making it increasingly international and strategic for those who operate in this sector. There will be new collaborations and partnerships that will further evolve Plan B (this last sentence's translation is a bit rough sorry)"

> The Forum, moreover, always represents an important way to take stock annually of the evolution of Plan B project: do you want to anticipate something in this regard?

"I can say that the assessment is very positive. Plan B has made great progress both at local and international level. We have seen a significant increase in cryptocurrency adoption in Lugano, with over 400 stores that now accept Bitcoin, Tether and LVGA as forms of payment. Also our commitment in training young people and local businesses on blockchain technologies is bearing important fruits. During the Forum, we will present details of new projects and partnerships that will further consolidate Lugano's role as hub of financial innovation"

> This ambitious project, born in Lugano, is slowly expanding in the entire world. This January, the Plan B forum will land in El Salvator, will the representatives from Lugano be there?

"Absolutely. We'll have an official delegation to strengthen our bond with El Salvador, the first country to adopt Bitcoin as it's legal tender. This collaboration will represent a unique opportunity for trade. El Salvador opened the door, and Lugano, with Plan B, wants to continue on this path to promote the global adoption of cryptocurrencies and decentralized tech."

> In general, how would you assess the evolution of the project Plan B almost two years after its launch?

"The evolution of the project has been extraordinary. In less than 3 years we grew the interest and participation of international actors, and have contributed to position Lugano as a reference point for Bitcoin and in general digital innovation. We've been able to build an ecosystem that not only promotes innovation, but also offers real opportunity for the economic future of our city. And we're not stopping at this, the next few years will be crucial in further affirming our position as an innovative and up to date city"

(jeez it shows that I don't read much stuff in italian anymore, I struggled with this, it's embarassing lol also the article really repeats itself a lot, they had a certain amount of space to fill and they just rolled with it, huh?)


Just sit back and watch it unfold, man, the media's decline is so obvious. What's actually terrifying to me is that there are still people that trust media organizations today, when they lie about everything and spin the truth all the time. It's honestly truly mind-blowing that anyone still takes them seriously at this point.


if you run your own inbox relay locally, you can get notifications in literally the speed of a network packet from the sender (plus maybe a few microseconds for processing) with this, with anything else it has to go through a notification service, which means at best you get 2 packets speed (and usually more).

If you don't run it locally, it's the time it takes the sender to send a network packet to your inbox relay (plus a few ms) + your ping to your inbox relay.

Literally nothing can beat this, assuming perfect code naturally


somebody could write a UnifiedPush system that sends nostr notifications and then you can get all your notifications for apps that support UnifiedPush via Pokey!


I'm not at all an expert in this area, I have never coded a Java card, but I looked into this a bit; javacard.framework.Applet defines a method called process(javacard.framework.APDU) which gets called whenever there is an incoming packet of information, and allows it to receive any kind of arbitrary data. This means that it's absolutely possible to code any instruction you would want, in fact from what I'm reading from the documentation, the byte at position ISO7816.OFFSET_INS, is designed specifically for that. So you'd check if it's whatever constant you set to getting sats and then read the following n bytes as the amount, the card can then respond with an ecash token of that amount without any issue.


That's why we need hardware signers


That's not at all what I said.... How.... What?


Don't blame the people, blame the sustem. There are lots of Germans that are great people in every way, some of the best freedom thinkers come from there. The problem is that the government still thinks it's the 40s and they want to control everything. Just like governments everywhere else


Question for Jonny:

How did you get into bitcoin, what was your orange pill moment? and why aren't you on nostr yet?


Every time I see something useful online and I can't #zap it I legitimately get angry. I found something useful that saved me minutes of time, I just want to tell whoever made it thank you, by zapping a few sats their way but I can't, it's so infuriating


If peter todd is #satoshi then I'm jesus


Simple static site, one page only, content only from nostr, no formatting, you may want to change it a bit if you want it to look nice (you asked for the easiest, so just as a joke I wrote the truly simplest website possible that does that!)

```js
const noteId = "fdf3d23250bea5008dc5d361ab195eef81942fe938f7aa7ae128379fc4161755";
const relay = "wss://nos.lol/";

const ws = new WebSocket(relay);

ws.onmessage = (e) => {
  let event = JSON.parse(e.data);
  if(event[0] == 'EOSE') return;
  document.body.innerText = event[2].content;
};

ws.onopen = () => ws.send(JSON.stringify(["REQ", "science", { ids: [noteId] }]));
```

(naturally this is not production ready, but I had to do it as a joke 😛)


I accept the 10,000 sats for a few lines of Javascript deal, nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8


Chat applications that need millisecond timestamps can add an additional tag for milliseconds


I have so many questions....


I will not stand for this, as a lasagna fan this is blasphemy!


I think we've reached a level only philosophy can answer, "what is a lasagna, really"?


But by that logic isn't a shepherd's pie british lasagna?


I didn't know what Biryani was so I looked it up, it's nothing like lasagna dude!


That's a new one for me, who cuts pasta? I heard of americans breaking pasta, never heard of them cutting it, what?


yep, there will be no way to get the emoji back from the hash, but you can always recover the account if you have the emoji and as for randomness, correct, if someone knows that you use an emoji key they "only" have to try all the possible emoji instead of all the possible words in the wordlist. it's a compromise for sure, but it's a fine one for the average person (and if you need more security, just don't use this system!)


I mean you can, there is nothing stopping you, but then you have to live with the consequences that if an italian person sees you do it they will jump off a bridge or something from the horrors they witnessed


Hey, that's no joke, that's how my uncle died, he PASTAway. It was a PENNEful experience for the whole family. /s


Some of us consider it a crime against Italy!

Some of us don't care :P


To be fair, even tho I agree with you, you don't own your website. If you self host it you may own the server and the content naturally but you most certainly don't own the domain, somebody could seize it, take control of it or redirect the DNS to point elsewhere and unless you have self-signed certificates (which you probably don't) they can even pretend nothing is happening


why not? hash the emoji and derive the private key by the hash, then generate the recovery words from the private key


I can verify, with and without a computer, now and till the end of time, that "5885893a033d01aab4d337375a740c043a8a6241e868873084342a658c3f924c1e43a140111025fd8b5f6a8135f1d077c9fd6c80958834681615bb60be12069e" is a valid signature by "9aff936f8619411c0692e14d7aaf49e45cfd908e8a9c7afd3c72a64ba0dcabfc" for note 3002d0906592f1f372bfedfc0c61c5e770c2a37e7c84d4f267edc8995f544229 (the one I'm replying to), meaning that the owner of that npub authored (you) authored that post.

I don't have to rely on a central authority for that, a relay owner CANNOT submit a note and pretend you sent it, no matter how many resources they have (let's ignore quantum computers, once they become actually real (and I mean actually usable) nostr can easily switch to a quantum resistent algorithm and apps can display warnings over non-quantum signatures).


It has nothing to do with deepfakes. The problem is that posts on any social media (and most chat applications) have no signatures, it's impossible to know that they're actually written by the user that posted it.

This problem has been solved 50 years ago, social media platforms are literally 50 years behind the times; does that make sense now?


Yeah then you can wait forever.... Apple's rules are just too strict; use nostr on your pc or get yourself a better smartphone.


What? It depends on the app plenty of apps allow it... I think you're talking about Damus and other iOS apps, and that's mostly because Apple's restrictions


What show is that from? That's hilarious


This issue goes way beyond who you vote for or where you get your news. Whether you're ride-or-die for Trump or Kamala's biggest fan, whether you're glued to CNN or binge-watching Daily Wire, the threat's the same for everyone.

It's the danger of being able to send a public message, pretending to be someone you're not, and your followers not being able to know it's actually you.

Sure, maybe ODELL's war prediction is a bit over the top (though let's be real, in today's world, who knows?), but the potential for trashing someone's reputation or a brand's image? That's 100% legit and seriously concerning.

Nostr fixes this

Also: Big assumption there to think I'm a Kamala supporter just because I want to know that the person who says something is actually the owner of the account saying it LOL (hint: I'm not a Kamala supporter in any way)


This issue goes way beyond who you vote for or where you get your news. Whether you're ride-or-die for Trump or Kamala's biggest fan, whether you're glued to CNN or binge-watching Daily Wire, the threat's the same for everyone.

It's the danger of being able to send a public message, pretending to be someone you're not, and your followers not being able to know it's actually you.

Sure, maybe ODELL's war prediction is a bit over the top (though let's be real, in today's world, who knows?), but the potential for trashing someone's reputation or a brand's image? That's 100% legit and seriously concerning.

Nostr fixes this

Also: Big assumption there to think I'm a Kamala supporter just because I want to know that the person who says something is actually the owner of the account saying it LOL (hint: I'm not)


TOO MUCH CONCERN OVER LACK OF KEY ROTATION.

NOT ENOUGH FOCUS ON HARDWARE SIGNERS AND MULTISIG.


This issue goes way beyond who you vote for or where you get your news. Whether you're ride-or-die for Trump or Kamala's biggest fan, whether you're glued to CNN or binge-watching Daily Wire, the threat's the same for everyone.

It's the danger of being able to send a public message, pretending to be someone you're not, and your followers not being able to know it's actually you.

Sure, maybe ODELL's war prediction is a bit over the top (though let's be real, in today's world, who knows?), but the potential for trashing someone's reputation or a brand's image? That's 100% legit and seriously concerning.

Nostr fixes this


what if he tweeted from @POTUS? You would see POTUS as the person who tweeted it, and it would link to the REAL profile.


> 1.) He put Elon Musk prior to the quote

What if he didn't?

> 3.) Who owns America? Nobody sees that and thinks it’s an official corp announcing something that could incite a war. If you saw something online “Iran says I will destroy Florida” and it had the “official” Iran Handle, wouldn’t you look to see who from Iran is saying that? If not, you’re, proverbially, a moron.

What if he tweeted from the POTUS account? X doesn't have any signatures so it doesn't have a way to validate whether the real POTUS account sent the tweet.


multisig solves this


Even if you agree with musk this is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS and definitely something that nostr solves


And don't forget Closed Communities!

Under Big Tech/Legacy Closed Communities are Centralized, Server Owner Controlled and spied upon
Under Nostr Closed Community Networks are Decentralized, User-Controlled and Encrypted!


I've been thinking about how we talk about Nostr...

Maybe we need to switch up our language a bit when explaining Nostr to the world.

We're not really "on Nostr" like it's some monolithic platform. We're using apps that implement the Nostr standard. Naturally everyone already on nostr knows that, but newcomers might not, so this is a tiny distinction, but it might click better for newbies.

There's no single "Nostr platform" where all content lives. Each Nostr app shows kinds of content stuff. It's more like a networking protocol than a platform - just a standard way of communicating.

Nostr isn't trying to be:
- A Twitter clone, but it can do short posts (kind 1)
- A Medium replacement, but it handles long-form markdown (kind 30023)
- Twitch 2.0, but it can stream RTMP (kind 30311)
- YouTube's successor, but it can share videos (kind 34235)

Nostr is the protocol powering all these possibilities. It's not the app, it's what makes the apps work.

Maybe we should describe Nostr as a decentralized, secure protocol for sharing identity and content. It gives control back to users, not some faceless "platform".

Just a random thought dump. What do you think, nostriches? #nostriches #nostr


I love what the Tuttle Twins are trying to do and i've shown the series to young members of my family as well. Honestly the series is better education for kids than what you get at most schools nowadays.


I agree up to a certain point, learning basic grammar is always a good idea but beyond that you'll pick up anything by listening and eventually after a while talking with people.

Source: I speak 4 languages, mostly fluently


Can confirm that lingq is good, but nothing beats listening to the language all the time (like AJATT)


The nostr protocol is incredibly simple (and that's a good thing), so making a bot isn't that hard. For example a simple bot that greets anyone that writes !greeterBot is as follows: you read any kind 1 event and then submit your own kind 1 mentioning #e the previous event. Does that make sense?


the best way I can describe: choose the best application, not the best content


that would be extremely easy to build, too


The way that the livestream works is basically the same way that twitch or youtube live work, basically you have a server that just receives a video stream and pushes it down to other users, it's actually relatively simple to make it work over nostr because all that nostr needs to store is basically a link to the video so to say, which is why we've seen it so early


especially when their ideas have no value


It makes sense from their perspective, it's easier to censor people than to actually fight on the value of their ideas


nevermind I'm an idiot and went back in the stream lol


Result<T, E> not (T, E) :P


you're doing it wrong again lol


The syntax is Result<GetBalanceResponse, ApiError> not (GetBalanceResponse, ApiError)


you're doing it wrong, you're not returning a result


How are you liking japan so far?


A Closed Community Network, you can think of it as a private, encrypted, invite-only community/group built on top of nostr


That's a message left in a Closed Community Network, for CCN members, the content is perfectly legible and accessible, but for those outside it just looks like a bunch of hex digits

In this case that's a simple note with a simple text message, but it could be anything, it could be a message in a forum, it could be a recipe, it could be their move in a super-secret chess game, heck it could be a plan to take over the world 😛.

Within the CCN, the sender's identity is transparent to all members. To outsiders, though, it's merely a solitary post from a random npub that will never publish again.

Members of the CCN also don't care if the message gets deleted in the relay because their private relay maintains a copy of all CCN content.

Outsiders don't know how many members a CCN has, all they can know is that there is an event happening in a specific CCN, in this case 8c268cfe-7db2-11ef-803e-98fc84e474e0, but this note doesn't have to be published anywhere specific, since the CCN maintains an association between its members and the relays they post to (similar to NIP-65 but only accessible to CCN members).

If you have any questions feel free to ask!


I know that this may look like complete gibberish posted by a new npub that will never interact with nostr again as far as the network is concerned, but it might be one of the most important notes in a while 😉

nostr:nevent1qqsy674wxgvaerjgq6qfafe5c0fhsysxnu3035svefdad4dphqml8ygpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qgsgdakpfl0rmkxguetzyswvm2ptamvmzlkc5vdrjek8l3uj57fthsgz8jyzz


Also, one point that's not brought up often is that ancient african societies, like their european counterparts, engaged extensively in free trade, which contributed to their prosperity. The region's economic decline largely began when many of these societies shifted away from trade-based systems and adopted forms of proto-proto-communism.

And by free trade I mean capitalism naturally


Also, one point that's not brought up often is that ancient african societies, like their european counterparts, engaged extensively in free trade, which contributed to their prosperity. The region's economic decline largely began when many of these societies shifted away from trade-based systems and adopted forms of proto-proto-communism.


💚Say hello to Privacy Index: a guide of guides for all things digital privacy.💚

I started working on Privacy Index in the beginning of the year because I was frustrated by the one-fits-all solutions I was being sold by other privacy projects.

Privacy Index is the opposite: it's a resource for resources, so you can choose what tips, tools and tricks best fit your needs.

I would love for this project to grow and encompass all content others have found helpful on their own privacy journey – be it stories that inspired you, books that you read, tools that you use, or guides you found helpful – some of my favorite additions are highlighted below.

Privacy Index is by no means complete. But it's free and open source, so anyone can contribute on github. And the more people contribute, the better it will get 💚

s/o to @HRF
 for funding this work 🤝

http://privacyindex.net
https://m.primal.net/LBAV.jpg


It's not cringe, it's not evil, it's way past that, it's just straight up demonic. I know they're politicians so they don't have a soul to begin with but just how inhuman does one have to be to sign A BOMB? I just can't wrap my head around it


I've started seeing those accounts in comments too :-/


That's usually how people join the cult of rust. Once you try it it's very hard to go back to anything else


Yeah they plan how they're gonna get out 🤣


Honestly I've come to understand that when many people say capitalism they just mean "thing I don't like". Their indoctrination has made that association between "capitalism" and "bad" and so everything they don't like is capitalism's fault.


As far as IP protection goes, it's not my goal to compete with TOR or even VPNs, I would say that the user is responsible for that (tho in the future if there is a lot of demand I may change my mind).

All the code will always be fully available and licensed under AGPL3 but this is definitely a company, and we will charge users a license fee to use it, similar to the model that FUTO apps use


Yes, everything on Arx is end-to-end encrypted, between members of your CCN, both user to user messages as well as user to CCN messages (and more)!


https://arx-ccn.com but no code is released publicly YET (want to wait till I have a fully working and most importantly secure implementation)


Developer here ~ working on Arx (closed community networks over nostr)


30030:5fd693e61a7969ecf5c11dbf5ce20aedac1cea71721755b037955994bf6061bb:I am in the matrix and I just…

30030:1bc70a0148b3f316da33fe3c89f23e3e71ac4ff998027ec712b905cd24f6a411:Here Comes Bitcoin by Spiral


You're right to be angry. The school has clearly failed your sister. Their harsh communication and exclusionary practices are inappropriate for 10-year-olds. This kind of treatment can crush a child's enthusiasm and self-esteem.

Keep supporting your sister emotionally and reminding her that the school's failings aren't her fault; help her practice for the orchestra at home for example.

And as soon as the option for homeschooling becomes available take it because the indoctrination system needs to crash down


And futo!


Bitcoin accepted at a supermarket? Where is this?


File uploads (including images) on #nostr should always be via torrents - change my mind


For uploads (including images) on #nostr should always be via torrents - change my mind


Do you have a license to buy groceries? It's part of the implied social contract that you must submit this information to protect against criminals who dare buy groceries without permission. I mean... what can you possibly do with those groceries, jeez. You never know what kind of chaos someone could cause with an unauthorized carton of eggs or a loaf of bread. Honestly, I'm just relieved the grocery police are cracking down on these lawless food buyers. I sleep better at night knowing that all grocery purchases are verified, tracked, and kept safe in a database somewhere. /s


#replyguy is really starting to annoy me


Pay to post might be a good idea for many relays, tho I would prefer it if you used cashu, that way you could prebuy a number of notes and when you want to submit a note you send a single cashu token with the payment back to the relay.


*sigh* it will have an effect, on people that rely only on Google or Microsoft, yes those people would be affected, but email in of itself wouldn't.

in fact I'd love for that to happen, it would make email open again; email has been controlled by powerhungry maniacs for years now all because google offered 1 GB of data in exchange for your privacy. The advent of gmail was literally one of the things that exponentially increased the speed of our descent into the surveillance dystopia we find ourselves in now.


History always repeats itself, all we need to do is replace a few words and we go back in time 40 years, hint: TCP/IP won, by a landslide

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Love the spirit and ethos of TCP/IP, hope that it takes off. But it is ironic that Louis Pouzin is doing more to push back on lawlessness + better data protocols and so many people are trying to funnel people away, while not admitting that TCP/IP is more limited than CYCLADES

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Isn't the idea that the potential number of protocols at least makes it more resilient?

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That's the theory but it doesn't work in practice. If any protocol gains dominance (think the majority of the internet), then it will be constrained. And then designers have a decision to make. And when one design caves...what is needed is architects with power to push innovation. Not just a protocol.

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqvhpsfmr23gwhv795lgjc8uw0v44z3pe4sg2vlh08k0an3wx3cj9qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43z7qpqfaymrczpf475gr96fxwazspk9h0us9dkfjejvn554ytrwl43lp4qnx2j65


the inmates are running the asylum


We're all surfers, we surf through the wave of notes to find the ones deserving of the most zaps! We're all one big ohana. Ohana means frens.


Have you thought about using gift wrapping (NIP-59) to encrypt and sign the nsecs for each of your anon accounts, as well as the npubs of your follows?

That way you don't need an export function, just decrypt the message with your real nostr account (or one you use only for this purpose if extremely paranoid) and you have access to everything.

Use Nostr!


Have you thought about using gift wrapping (NIP-59) to encrypt and sign the nsecs for each of your anon accounts, as well as the npubs of your followers?

That way you don't need an export function, just decrypt the message with your real nostr account (or one you use only for this purpose if extremely paranoid) and you have access to everything.

Use Nostr!


Government can only ever do three things, neither of which ever solves any problem:

- Make something illegal
- Attack someone
- Print money

And usually if one doesn't work they'll try the other two, just in case. And when that doesn't work it's due to how evil the opposition is, they had their hands tied, duh.

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People can't afford to live because of inflation, there is only one solution: LET'S PRINT MONEY.

People aren't having kids because they're disillusioned with the state of the world, so there is only one solution: LET'S PRINT MONEY.


I can't wait for Bitcoin centric closed community networks / microeconomics to become widespread so people stop caring about the amount of fake money their real money buys


Don't leave your #yubikey unattended, fellas.

https://ninjalab.io/eucleak/

To be clear, this is an extremely sophisticated attack and I don't think that it's a realistic attack vector you need to protect against, for most people, but just in case, keep your #yubikey with you at all times.

#privacy #security


> 🎙 No one cares about deplatforming or censorship. No one spoke of Twitter / Brazil over the weekend.

Honestly that's what I expected. In the west we're only concerned about ourselves, truly they wouldn't even care if this happened to their neighbors, in fact I'd say that they would find some way to justify it

> Funny story. One girl had created a load of Tupperware brand.

> But oops. She messed up because people stopped buying from her coz the products actually lasted. So they bought one for life and she couldn’t keep monetising her audience.

Enshittification

> To sum up. Would’ve been super interesting to be a fly on the wall over this weekend but influencing SUCKS.

> The model is retardio and to succeed in the world of influencing, your mental health takes a big hit and you effectively HAVE to become an unbearable diva.

Truth!


But since Big Tech is doing it we just roll with it


... Imagine if a real company did this... The outrage would never end


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Protocols should not have CEOs

nostr:note1ttam8lf7rzul39tpz0084lkf2zqsqhakrtkyffl5r7d6320848fq25v0x0


Current trend. https://image.nostr.build/84d65fdf83d2abdfe52be42cec13ef152673fba5e5083c62e0ae0f0230f789ac.jpg


“WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY LAST POINT FOR MY BLUE CHECK BITCOINER FRIENDS, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?”

- MILJAN BRINGING THE HEAT


Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France…

If there is a throat to choke, it will be choked.

If there is a head to cut off, it will be cut off.

Platform owners that bend the knee to totalitarianism will censor and deplatform you.

Platform owners that do not comply will be arrested and threatened with the full force of “The Law.”

Nostr is a Hydra. You cannot kill Nostr. There is no single throat to choke, no one head to cut off. Succeed in cutting off one head and two will grow in its place.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/telegram-messaging-app-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france-tf1-tv-says-2024-08-24/


must watch for anyone who feels anything about social media: https://youtu.be/XUsk7cqZyKU


Counter argument: we should start fetishizing privacy more


Also I'm not one for involving government into people's speech since I think that's a dangerous rethoric (I'm very much a free speech maximalist) but I'm totally for suing all of those completely irresponsible CEOs that don't understand anything about technology and may discourage the next big programmer from getting started on their careers


We've been hearing this for years, I'm sorry but a tool that doesn't know how many Rs there are in strawberry will never replace a programmer. REAL AI might, LLMs will not, EVER


👍
Private Nostr is equally important as public Nostr.


I used bitrefill literally last week (not in the us)


Depending on what the bills are I'd say probably nostr:nprofile1qqsdlpj77jpsf944q8htmzph0jg02g2xn4ru2wvhxq8zyk4trv5myeqprpmhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0llas62 ? You won't be able to pay for rent or electricity, but groceries should be fine


20% no need to go soft.


Freedom of speech is disappearing in the us too. Slowly all speech is being controlled, and the only place where you can have freedom of speech is nostr.


Consider Japan. Taxes are the only thing that will get worse (sigh), but everything else will be exponentially better


The control pentahedron:

Big Tech
The media
Big Pharma
Big Agriculture
Big Government


I've been considering going with the #carnivore diet for a while since many people are trying to convince me to do it haha what would you say are the biggest hurdles in adopting it? And what advantages so you personally see?


I know that amethyst on Android does

Example zaps to this note will go 90% to you and 5% to opensats (if zapped via amethyst and any other client that support it)


Appendix G: zap tag on other events
When an event includes one or more zap tags, clients wishing to zap it SHOULD calculate the lnurl pay request based on the tags value instead of the event author's profile field. The tag's second argument is the hex string of the receiver's pub key and the third argument is the relay to download the receiver's metadata (Kind-0). An optional fourth parameter specifies the weight (a generalization of a percentage) assigned to the respective receiver. Clients should parse all weights, calculate a sum, and then a percentage to each receiver. If weights are not present, CLIENTS should equally divide the zap amount to all receivers. If weights are only partially present, receivers without a weight should not be zapped (weight = 0).


Little tech is the best tech


Yes. NIP-57 itself
 https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/57.md#appendix-g-zap-tag-on-other-events


There are two types of economists, Austrian economists and those that should read a few books


Non Privacy Concious; it's the people that care so little about liberty that they'd throw it away for a pizza


Remember Big Tech (FAANG and co) companies are not real companies, they're a disease on our world. Whenever they do things like this it's because they know that their end is near and they're desperately trying to maintain their influence for just a little longer.

It just means that were winning; their methods will get more and more desperate, but in the meantime don't use Google play. Use zap.store and f-droid


If you just graduated from college and you told your grandma you got a job at #Google she'd be thrilled. Whereas if you told your grandma you were gonna work for a drug dealer your grandma would be upset with you. But how is that different than working for Google? It's kinda the same thing.

— Eron Wolf


it does now! (closed community network)


well, I'm working on that 😛


now add encryption for notes to that, file sharing, community pools and collaboration applications such as forums and voting platforms and complete offline/local first availability aaand you have the best community tool ever created


Make bitcoiners anarchists again 😑


switch the roles in discussion for a moment:

as a dude, let's say you have a female friend that you constantly pick up from the airport without telling your wife, and you fix things at this female friends' house without telling your wife, you go to her house and discipline her kids while your wife is not around/without telling your wife.

YES, IT'S A B S O L U T E L Y DISRESPECTFUL. In fact some people, may even call it cheating


Please shill me all projects that you know of that combine Nostr and Cashu.

No matter how big or small. Making a list for my talk at Nostriga. 🙏


Still very much in development (and will be for a long time before I release anything publicly), but Arx is a Closed Community Network Building tool built on Nostr that integrates everything any community needs, and it does so within a secure framework:

- Forums for large-scale discussions
- Voting and decision-making systems
- Member-to-member payments within the CCN (via Cashu)
- Community pools (multisigs that CCN members can vote to spend from)
- Microblogging (kind 0: similar to current Nostr applications)
- An integrated, community-wide WoT + ELO-based reputation system
- File sharing and synchronization
- Real-time chat (akin to Keychat, Simplex, or Signal)
- Offline and local-first capabilities (allowing you to work offline with automatic synchronization once reconnected to the network)
- and obviously 100% e2e encryption


macademia nuts are B tier? FAKE NEWS! A tier


ooor just switch to a non chrome browser


Geofence warrants are finally illegal, huge win for #privacy


I'd argue we're further behind than that. As a side note: does anyone else think that the old iOS interface and icon style still looks good today?


Nostr: what can be, unburdened by what has been 🤣


Not gonna lie, I love what you guys are building (and naturally I do understand the technology), but if you were to show this image to someone who doesn't, well... Let's just say it wouldn't make it clear lol


This is obviously not news to #bitcoiners, but I thought I'd share this anyway.

https://youtu.be/_X5hTxV8X1E

Fiat is a LIE.


The recent #CrowdStrike incident proves a few things:

1) You should AVOID deploying code on a Friday
2) You should NEVER use #windows for a server (just use linux, seriously, why make your life miserable?)
3) You should NEVER give kernel level access to software you do not fully understand
4) You should NEVER run code you cannot read on your machine


Here's the thing about scale. I've been seeing a few people talk about #nostr and saying that it won't replace the internet because it's just json over websockets.

The transport layer can change and nostr can still exist; it wouldn't be too hard to do nostr over raw tcp or udp sockets, nor would it be hard to change the data encoding protocol from json to something more efficient.

But right now is not the time to think about this; first we need to #buildstr, slowly, we need to take it to its extremes, and yes we need to get to a point where the transport layer really does become a problem, and THEN we can fix it.


It isn't, it's a gift for whoever redeems it first lol


Stay tuned for encrypted File Synchronization (think Dropbox or Syncthing) entirely through #nostr


With all due respect you're wrong on many levels.

First of all no, nostr devs aren't paid as much as you think and yes a lot of us are working for free with am expectation of making money later.

Second, "build something close source and sell your startup" is a horrible mindset. There is almost never a reason to build something closed source. Closed source code is a temporary pandemic we're in the midsts of dealing with.

And finally Satoshi didn't work for free. Satoshi has (rightfully) earned several BTC by mining Bitcoin at the start


Anyone who says nostr devs are not working fast enough doesn't know what they're talking about, plain and simple. Not to be cliche but don't worry about the haters. What we, the nostr devs are doing will at some point be in the history books.


So what's your problem with lightning? I see that you're commenting this to lots of people as soon as they mention zaps. Is there a reason why?


In medieval times, if you were part of the nobility, it was common place to bring in your own utensils (and even plates) to restaurants. High quality utensils were a way that nobles showed off their wealth and class. Some had numerous sets of utensils so intricate that they'd cost more than the average commoner made in salary.

I believe we should bring part of this tradition back, but not just for the bourgeoisie but for everuone. I don't think that carrying plates around is worth the inconvenience, but I'll say that I will personally start bringing my own personal utensils to restaurants. They won't be as intricate as those of yesteryear but I'd like to bring this tradition back.

Who's with me on this?


Make sure to setup lightning so we can zap ⚡ you


Sure, nostr can be used as the turn server or you can do UDP hole punching except rather than needing a third party server to coordinate the punch, it can be done using a real both sides agree on.


Remember when things are tough there is always Matcha soft cream. Matcha soft cream doesn't let you down till the last bite.

Matcha soft cream doesn't care about politics, matcha soft cream doesn't care about the price of Bitcoin.

Matcha soft cream keep on building (up it's flavor), matcha soft cream is awesome, be more like matcha soft cream.
 https://image.nostr.build/3b89fc374630e6994b4d3401d2725464d517f1d76ea48ee188e46c406c0e7e6b.jpg

#friendstr #buildstr


THE MONEY IS IN THE NOSTR!

👉 Create a new npub AND DOING NOTHING ELSE, no WoS, no nostr-wallet-connect pairing,... NOTHING

☑ receive zaps
☑ send zaps
☑ and most importantly ACCESS MY WALLET FROM ANY CLIENT ON ANY DEVICE

these zaps are verifiable, way faster -- they are immediate (since the sending of the ecash is the zap, instead of waiting for a LN node to, maybe, publish a zap receipt)

Just like our contact lists follows us around, just like our profile data and our shitposts pops up in any nostr application, now so does our sats.

the money is in the nostr!

https://m.primal.net/JOgu.mp4


That's clever! Could you share who built this? They deserve a lot of sats for this


why does satoshi have a sign with onion written on it? what meme am I missing?


so?


If I may, I think you phrased it a bit confusingly judging by the comments.

To clarify you can trust zaps to your own notes (so long as you can trust your lightning node), but you can't trust zaps in other people's notes.

So for example if I zap this note you know for sure whether or not it's real, and you can trust that the amount is real.
If however you see another person's note you can't really trust whether the amount zapped is real because their lightning node could just be lying


microsoft ~


No, same here, but if this was a real movie (not a crappy AI trailer with completely unnatural movement), it'd be pretty good


The AI is terrible, but I'd pay good sats to watch this movie if it was made by real people


Reminds me of the PGP days when people would share their private keys accidentally


The encryption keys are deleted, yes the data is still written on the device but if the keys are shredded there is no way to read that data.


I understand your perspective if you think of eCash as someone's sole method of interacting with Bitcoin. You're not going to have your life's savings in eCash, and if you are, well, let's just say that you'd be very unwise.

There are three areas where ecash is extremely useful:

1) Replacement for Custodial Lightning: This includes services like Alby (before they wisely shifted focus to NWC), Strike, Wallet of Satoshi, etc. For non-technical users, eCash is even simpler to use than Lightning and offers a higher level of privacy. Mints still operate a Lightning node, allowing users to receive Lightning payments.

It's also simpler to backup your ecash, or move it to a different device, and it doesn't require KYC.

Can you be rugged? Of course! But so can any custodial lightning wallet.

2) Replacement for User Accounts: I'm thinking of a future where Nostr and eCash are a complete replacement for any online account. I don't remember who made this argument originally, might have been nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg , but I thought it was genius. Imagine services like Netflix or Spotify accepting eCash instead of requiring an account. They could run an eCash mint and exchange tokens for Lightning. Users could then pay for n minutes of content with m sats.

This method is private, secure, and potentially better. While there is a risk of being rugged, this is already possible with current systems. Netflix, for instance, can close your account for any reason. At least with eCash, you maintain your privacy.

3) Gift Card or Points System: eCash can also be used as a modern gift card or points system, similar to airline miles or loyalty programs. Businesses could issue eCash tokens as part of their rewards programs, allowing customers to redeem them for goods or services. This system would be more private and flexible than traditional gift cards, and it could be easily integrated into existing loyalty programs.

Again, while there is a risk of being rugged, this is no different from the current risks associated with gift cards or points systems. At least with eCash, users benefit from enhanced privacy and ease of use.


please explain how somebody can stop me from generating random numbers


I believe you have a severe misunderstanding of nostr. Nobody can stop anyone from creating a nostr account, an account is LITERALLY just a public private key pair, there is nothing anyone can do to prevent someone from creating a nostr account


hexagons are the bestagons


damn.... missed an opportunity, I screwed up


from what I gather from his message, they run on your machine, think of it as custom private "feed algorithms" that you can use and you control and can sell to other users


Oh yeah, the savagery of Nostr... all those people being nice to each other and working together to build something great, how savage. The sheer brutality of forming supportive communities and fostering collaboration. Absolutely terrifying. I can just imagine the horror of people helping each other succeed and creating an environment where everyone thrives. Such a dystopian nightmare.

smh, in comparison mastodon (and every other activitypub implementation) feels like an even worse version of twitter or reddit


Any plans for this to be merged upstream?


when will this be released?


email or http.

Hear me out, I know that nostr is built on top of http (and websockets), but the best way to describe nostr is as an internet protocol.

Just like email, nostr is client agnostic, you can connect to an email server using any client, you can use web clients like roundcubemail or gmail, or you can use desktop clients like thunderbird or outlook, heck you can even use cli clients like mutt.

Nostr is client-agnostic. You can connect to a Nostr relay using any client. You can use web clients like primal or nostrudel, you can use mobile apps like damus or amethyst etc.

This flexibility is what makes Nostr so powerful. It’s not tied to a single platform or interface. You have the freedom to choose how you want to interact with the protocol, just like how email allows you to choose your preferred client without being locked into a specific service.

Even normies can get on board with this concept when they realize that it's all about choice and accessibility. Nostr gives users the autonomy to select their interface and client based on their needs and preferences, making the user experience as personalized and efficient as possible.

Imagine explaining email to someone for the first time: you wouldn't focus solely on the underlying protocols like SMTP or IMAP; you'd emphasize the practicality—how it allows you to send messages, attach files, and stay connected, regardless of the client or service you use. The same principle applies to Nostr.


The world has literally gone crazy. How is that different than saying

"Car manufacturers can be held responsible for criminal activity when criminals use their cars to commit crimes and cannot be stopped or identified"

"Book publishers can be held responsible for criminal activity when criminals use information from their books to commit crimes and cannot be stopped or identified."

"Camera manufacturers can be held responsible for criminal activity when criminals use their cameras to surveil and plan illegal activities and cannot be stopped or identified."


1) too much of a hassle compared to zaps
2) too centralized
3) too many fees, impossible for micropayments
4) non librejs

Nothing is as good of an experience as zaps for both sender and receiver


Zapping people for providing value to you if such a better system than anything else on the internet. Sometimes when i find some useful content on the internet outside of nostr I get angry because I can't zap it.

I need ideas #plebs, how do we solve this problem?

#askstr #growstr #plebstr


Here's my prediction In 50 years, generation gamma will study the centralized internet in history books and will make fun of us for ever entertaining such a stupid idea


nostrpill


nostr clients have emoji packs, not quite the same, but it's something


sure, webp works well on most nostr clients (in fact I'd be surprised if I saw one where it doesn't work)


> - There are going to be Cashu mints that will only be reachable via Nostr. They won't have IP addresses but npubs.

wait, that sounds f u c k i n g  a m a z i n g, how does that work?


Remember, don't just HODL, SPEDN too, bitcoin isn't just a store of value, it's primarily a currency, use it as a replacement for the ponzi scheme we call fiat


dude, gnome on a tablet looks A W E S O M E!


nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 was great this week, definitely going to the next one, and maybe  nostr:npub17yqgpat6e6ensd78jqhj4c3ef03uq04uqu3z05rhjnlk67lwm8wq9w5269 towards the end of the year


gotta go to more bitcoin conferences then man


who's going to nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 in two days?

#asknostr


orangepill


Welcome ~


what tool do you use for the translation?


what happened to samourai is the worst attack on free speech in recent memory in my opinion


Privacy is normal and good.

There has been an effort among authorities to make “money laundering” and “financial privacy” the same thing. That is, the mere act of moving money privately itself becomes a crime. That’s not okay.

Money laundering is when money that is obtained through crime is concealed by obfuscating it with clean money. The actual crime is the initial non-financial crime (say, mob stuff), and historically money laundering involves manual activity to work with the criminals.

Now that open source tech can make certain transactions private, authorities increasingly equate all private money transfer with money laundering, even if the developer of the open source tech had no direct involvement with criminals. Authorities target them regardless, and sanction the technology itself. Financial privacy becomes synonymous with crime in their minds, and in the minds of the public.


BREAKING: Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested & Charged with Money Laundering, Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses

- The charges include conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmitting business.
- The Samurai Wallet website has been confiscated, and a seizure warrant for Samurai's mobile application has been submitted to the Google Play Store.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/samourai-wallet-founders-arrested-and-charged-with-money-laundering/


those people will be left behind when hyperbitcoinization happens. it's also those people that ruined the word "crypto" imo


Turns out it happened, it was 6:09 am somewhere because it was at 00:09:32 UTC, so somewhere it was 6:09 am, we got the halving at 69 420


the halvening needs to happen at 6:09 (AM or PM) in some country. Think of the memes, it'd be 4/20 at 6:09


Definitely, #privacy matters!

nostr:nevent1qqsrm0hvz30umzrkxpqf0raaz9487sanlap6e4yntzqg2y2hqrp0s3sprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumtpwdek6atc9e3k7mf0qgs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccrqsqqqqqprs2yl3


well I mean it's not that far off from the truth lol you stare at it, sometimes recite incantations to yourself or something, sometimes you step through it which means staring at the screen even more and then a magic lightbulb pops up in your brain telling you how to fix it


My husband recently observed to me how important conditioning is for people to accept things as normal.

He said that when he first began reading my articles, he was like “Okay but I mean, fiat currency censorship isn’t really *that bad* as you describe”. But then in the years that followed, he was like “oh shit, it actually is. The fact that we have to ask permission to access significant amounts of our own money at banks and say what we will do with it is fucking insane. Why is this normal now?”

In Europe especially but also elsewhere, it’s increasingly common to make cash transactions illegal above a certain threshold value. Above that value, you have to go through centralized, surveilled, corporate/government systems, or you’re doing an illegal transaction.

That seems absolutely insane if introduced out of nowhere, but instead it has been introduced gradually through conditioning and so people are like, “well I don’t use cash anyway so that’s okay I guess, in fact I don’t even know that’s a law now”.

The same is generally true for social media. Filtering communications through centralized pipes is actually a radical position but it’s increasingly the new normal. In fact, the centralization of banking and communications in the hands of the state were two of their ten steps proposed in the Communist Manifesto. https://image.nostr.build/50bd5a957af0e91062c8a68c0848242fdf10e0c7207215b37d5845ff67843152.jpg


Haha, what do you mean by that? first time I had to use chopsticks I was pretty bad at using them too 😛, learned pretty quickly tho


it's not that hard man, you just have to get used to it


Ladies and gentlemen big tech


> Zaps are fun, but not the as important as we thought

I don't agree. Very often when outside of nostr I see something I like I wish I could zap it.

> Normies don't care about censorship resistance

they don't care about it YET, and that's ok, most people don't understand why something is important until it's too late

> DVMs are really really far out, testing with Unleashed.chat not even 1% of the userbase uses it.

I'm sure that's true but I don't see that as a problem; it's the 90-9-1 Rule


Craig Wright is not Satoshi. It would've been extremely easy to prove it's him.


It is, statism and authoritarianism


You should


it's possible that one of the relays you use (or one of the ones I use) doesn't respect NIP-09


Well I can't delete your notes, but I just deleted the one you replied to for example.

Naturally, it's up to the relays whether to respect NIP-09 or not, but for any relay that does my previous note has been deleted


I don't know man, it's not that cringe. I kinda liked it


Fiat price doesn't matter. Think in sats, not dollars.


Advertisers will always try to make it worse for the average person.

Roku for example has patented a "feature" where they inject ads into content served OVER HDMI that works by watching your screen and running it through an algorithm that figures out when you pause something or when it detects an "opportune time" to show ads.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/hdmi-customized-ad-insertion-patent-would-show-rokus-ads-atop-non-roku-video/


why not nostr? think about it ~


`cd ~`


ELON CAN TAKE HIS BLUE CHECK AND SHOVE IT UP HIS ASS.

NOSTR ONLY 🫡

https://m.primal.net/HpqJ.jpg


people used to call it the gossip model before, it's basically the same thing.

it's a way for smaller relays to get notoriety, basically to oversimplify by publishing a kind 10002 event to bigger relays, as described in NIP-65, you can mark your relay preference to any client that looks at those big relays


I still don't think I believe it entirely.... because based on their past actions they can't be trusted, but at least the legal system has, for once, chosen the correct side regarding Julian Assange.

And let's be real, without an official pardon from the president, he's likely to remain over vigilant for the rest of his life and even with a pardon, it seems he'll always have to be cautious. However, the fact that they've publicly acknowledged their mistake even in this basic way is significant.


Sadly this does match my experience, I wish I didn't engage into web3, but whatever, the past's the past


Fun, pocketbitcoin is another company to add to my list of companies I will never use, will never recommend others to use, and will very openly hope that they fail, and I've moved more BTC to mutiny.

If that's how they wanna play it, let's see who cracks first


I think that it's going to be interesting where japan goes with their monetary policy. There is an argument to be made that it's possible that japan will be one of the next few countries to adopt bitcoin.

While cash is undoubtedly still king in japan, it's becoming extremely normal for people of all ages to use different payment services, including multiple services at the same time.

Suica, passmo, etc which were initially only used for train fares are accepted at more an more stores.

Rakuten pay, dHarau, Line Pay, Pay Pay and many others are everywhere and are used a ton.

Also, bitcoin itself is becoming more acceptable (but not nearly widespread), one of the biggest technology retailers, Bic Camera has been accepting bitcoin payments for a long time (I think 2017, but don't quote me on the exact year), both online an offline. Recently we're also seeing a huge push from mercari (ecommerce site similar to amazon or ebay) to accept bitcoin (and sadly web3, but hey, still progress).

It's not commonplace YET to use bitcoin, but with the value of 10 sats being roughly 1 yen, people using more and more payment systems regularly, the widespread usage of point cards, people not being afraid to try new payment systems, the already existing and growing infrastructure for bitcoin, the upcoming monetary changes, the more well defined regulation (which to be clear isn't perfect for us bitcoin maxis, but at least unlike the us it's well defined) and naturally me hopefully moving there very soon (😛) I can see japan's adoption of bitcoin growing substantially in the next few years


This is how primal displays the two pictures, this is now a new species of bird, it's the two-colored longbird!

https://m.primal.net/HoDF.png


They say we don't live in 1984, then what is this? Disgusting, truly disgusting


This was originally a response to [Lyn Alden's note on her core values](nostr:nevent1qqs8u969xwx5wsflk73fdd9krw4vwte8vtx4t4rw3ep08vsk78z9vtgvecdul), but I thought it made more sense as a standalone long form post.

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Technology and Freedom are my two core values, and what I try to propel forward every day. I would call myself a Cypherpunk.

I love technology, the invention of the transistor has propelled humanity forward in an unparalleled way. We went from crude mechanical systems to sophisticated digital realms, reshaping how we live, work, and connect with each other. In the grand scheme of things, humanity has made more progress in the last 100 years than in the previous millennia, thanks to technological innovation.

But at the same time, we have lost a lot of our freedoms in the digital age. The very tools that have brought us together have also given rise to surveillance capitalism and governmental overreach.

Privacy was a given throughout human history, often assumed as just a natural part of daily life without much thought put into it. Communities were smaller, and while gossip might spread, the reach was limited to local areas. People could generally expect their letters to remain sealed, their conversations to stay between those present, and their whereabouts known only to a select few who saw them. This expectation of privacy was straightforward and just an obvious part of life that nobody would have ever thought of questioning.

Now, the concept of privacy has been profoundly transformed for the worst, somehow the majority of society has deemed it the case that privacy (and to some extent freedom in general) is a shady thing that only those with nefarious intentions want. Today, the concept of privacy is under siege, every click, every search, and every movement can be tracked, the notion of keeping any part of our lives private is somehow seen as immoral.

The proliferation of KYC policies, demands that we trade our privacy for convenience or "security" (a word which has lost its meaning over time), leaving us in a perpetual state of surveillance.

The societal shift towards "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" further complicates the situation. This mentality suggests a trade-off between privacy and security, implying that only those engaging in illicit activities would need privacy. It overlooks the fundamental human right to a private life, irrespective of one's actions being right or wrong. The aversion to anonymity online, driven by fears of nefarious activities, has led to a stigmatization of privacy measures. Using VPNs, encryption, or even insisting on cash transactions can raise suspicion, despite their legitimate purposes.

The irony is stark: in our quest for connection and convenience through technology, we've inadvertently surrendered the very essence of our freedom and privacy.  As a Cypherpunk, my commitment is to challenge this status quo. I champion the use of cryptography, secure communication, and privacy-enhancing technologies to empower individuals against this invasive trend.

Bitcoin and Nostr are, to me, the best solution to this problem. Bitcoin and Nostr exemplify the principles of creating closed community networks that reestablish trust and privacy in our digital age. By leveraging these technologies, we can recreate the essence of small, close-knit communities where privacy is respected and communication is secure, yet on a global scale made possible by the internet.

Bitcoin allows us to transfer value between any two individuals in the globe without anyone being able to stop it, giving people back some of their control and freedom.

Nostr, on the other hand, if used correctly, is a protocol that enables secure exchange of information, both to the entire world and exclusively to your close-nit community.

However, there's a pivotal piece of the puzzle still missing to complete this vision of decentralized, private, and secure networks or citadels. This missing element is a tool that empowers users to truly own and control their data in a closed community network, at a physical level, directly on a secure device that they control. This tool would not only facilitate intimate conversations and video sharing among trusted members but also lay the groundwork for localized economies, encapsulated within secure digital citadels.

That piece of the puzzle is what I am devoting most of my time building today.

Technology and Freedom: A cypherpunk's core values


Technology and Freedom are my two core values, and what I try to propel forward every day. I would call myself a Cypherpunk.

I love technology, the invention of the transistor has propelled humanity forward in an unparalleled way. We went from crude mechanical systems to sophisticated digital realms, reshaping how we live, work, and connect with each other. In the grand scheme of things, humanity has made more progress in the last 100 years than in the previous millennia, thanks to technological innovation.

But at the same time, we have lost a lot of our freedoms in the digital age. The very tools that have brought us together have also given rise to surveillance capitalism and governmental overreach.

Privacy was a given throughout human history, often assumed as just a natural part of daily life without much thought put into it. Communities were smaller, and while gossip might spread, the reach was limited to local areas. People could generally expect their letters to remain sealed, their conversations to stay between those present, and their whereabouts known only to a select few who saw them. This expectation of privacy was straightforward and just an obvious part of life that nobody would have ever thought of questioning.

Now, the concept of privacy has been profoundly transformed for the worst, somehow the majority of society has deemed it the case that privacy (and to some extent freedom in general) is a shady thing that only those with nefarious intentions want. Today, the concept of privacy is under siege, every click, every search, and every movement can be tracked, the notion of keeping any part of our lives private is somehow seen as immoral.

The proliferation of KYC policies, demands that we trade our privacy for convenience or "security" (a word which has lost its meaning over time), leaving us in a perpetual state of surveillance.

The societal shift towards "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" further complicates the situation. This mentality suggests a trade-off between privacy and security, implying that only those engaging in illicit activities would need privacy. It overlooks the fundamental human right to a private life, irrespective of one's actions being right or wrong. The aversion to anonymity online, driven by fears of nefarious activities, has led to a stigmatization of privacy measures. Using VPNs, encryption, or even insisting on cash transactions can raise suspicion, despite their legitimate purposes.

The irony is stark: in our quest for connection and convenience through technology, we've inadvertently surrendered the very essence of our freedom and privacy.  As a Cypherpunk, my commitment is to challenge this status quo. I champion the use of cryptography, secure communication, and privacy-enhancing technologies to empower individuals against this invasive trend.

Bitcoin and Nostr are, to me, the best solution to this problem. Bitcoin and Nostr exemplify the principles of creating closed community networks that reestablish trust and privacy in our digital age. By leveraging these technologies, we can recreate the essence of small, close-knit communities where privacy is respected and communication is secure, yet on a global scale made possible by the internet.

Bitcoin allows us to transfer value between any two individuals in the globe without anyone being able to stop it, giving people back some of their control and freedom.

Nostr, on the other hand, if used correctly, is a protocol that enables secure exchange of information, both to the entire world and exclusively to your close-nit community.

However, there's a pivotal piece of the puzzle still missing to complete this vision of decentralized, private, and secure networks or citadels. This missing element is a tool that empowers users to truly own and control their data in a closed community network, at a physical level, directly on a secure device that they control. This tool would not only facilitate intimate conversations and video sharing among trusted members but also lay the groundwork for localized economies, encapsulated within secure digital citadels.

That piece of the puzzle is what I am devoting most of my time building today.


paella is pretty good, but have you had Indonesian nasi goreng? very similar dish but in my opinion even better


I'd be willing to contribute to the Rust implementation of it!


GN

#gmprotocol


not your coffee, not your GMs

#gmprotocol


Look I'm a Bitcoin maxi, I believe 250k is low for Bitcoin but if you take financial advice from an LLM, then let's just say that you should consider learning how they work


That's actually pretty cool. Did you take my profile picture, turn it into grayscale and run it through QRCode Monster?


common sense license


Little Bitcoin, because it's his party!
Little Printer, because it needs a break!
Little Satoshi, because he created it!


oops that was meant to reference  nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q not sure why that didn't work on primal


you should try @npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q instead of medium, it works just as well (tho it can be buggy at times) and it's over nostr!

(I'm not affiliated with them)


DCA

https://m.primal.net/HmQV.png


I wish this was an easy question to answer, but lightning is still young enough where it isn't.

the answer is maybe*.

Lightning network supports routing, similar to how the internet works you send a payment and your lightning node will try and find an optimal path to get from you to the recipient of the money.

If there is a path, for example:

you -> third party -> recipient

the money will take that path, and the third party can ask for a fee to route the payment through.

There can be multiple third parties:

e.g.: you -> third part 1 -> third party 2 -> third party 3 -> recipient.

If there is a path, generally, you can send a payment without having to worry about opening a channel (which is great, for example for things like nostr zaps), but if there isn't you're out of luck and you have to open a channel to either the recipient himself or a big node that both you and the recipient have a channel with, so that it acts as a relay.

There is one more occasion in which the payment will not go through if you're directly connected to the recipient and that's if you the fees charged by the third parties along the way are higher than your wallet's configured limits.

Does that make sense?


knowing when to shut up and listen to contradicting opinions


receiving for the first time requires opening up a channel. this is a ONE TIME payment, after which it'll be exponentially cheaper


🎥 Watch now: #nostrdocumentary 🎥

See how NOSTR has the power to fix our broken social media landscape.
Link below 👇🏼 https://nostr.build/av/7171b28afe3d6d05b338c45091551f45ec711f8ad8513e3467096db79c69b78a.mov


just watched your video about nostr, truly great!


she actually did a really good job of explaining nostr to non technical people, we need more people like her who can explain nostr to "normies"!


I've never seen lightning fees that high.

What are you buying that fees are that high? Lightning fees are specified in PPM, with a lot of nodes opting for 100-1000, that's 0.01% to 0.1%. As a comparison visa and mastercard are close to 3% + some minimum amount


once routing gets better as lightning expands that also lowers a lot


but to be fair that's only a 1 time fee of $30 to open the channel, then you can transact with much lower fees


nostr:npub1qdsjkr46urkg6vqrr3zqhgy8l7dazc5k9hlm5jmwqg0vft7hzgtqamgfw3 yeah exactly!


lightning's fees are pretty acceptable I'd say, even 10ppm is perfectly fine


yeah, definitely agree nostr:npub1h2mgdyk2t4dmntrcwfd7c9l9hjfaw0mg77nhh7dqz8rgvtw0vnysswk7av


₿itcoin deserves an emoji

#Bitcoin #Plebchain https://video.nostr.build/5ed34c4828b55de827a43662095ce91fa1442a2b29e61ed40408028fc40cdfb3.mp4


For too long, our lives and activities have been surveilled and trackedby powerful third-parties like Big Tech platforms, banks, payment networks and governments. They have erected a panopticon prison of monetized monitoring, analyzing our most personal data and transactions for their own undisclosed interests. This is a fundamental violation of privacy and economic freedom.

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it is time to stop. A pivotal shift is underway and we need you!
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Free and open source software is the antidote to this suffocating climate of surveillance.

FOSS liberates code from the controlling grip of proprietary licenses, allowing users to examine, modify and truly own the software they run without informational monopolists looking over their shoulders. And Bitcoin takes away the government and banking sector's choke-chain over money itself.

This is a revolution, but we don't seek chaos, we don't seek destruction; we're not going to burn buildings down or engage in violent protests. We won't march down the street and demand change, instead, we'll code our way to freedom.

Our revolution is digital, fueled by lines of code and secured by cryptography. We will build decentralized systems and platforms where privacy is the default and freedom is non-negotiable. We shall rebirth genuine privacy rights.

Compare the transparent code of Linux's codebase to the opaque nature of proprietary software, compare the transparent mathematics governing Bitcoin's codebase to the concealed algorithms Big Tech Platforms use to surveil and manipulate. Bitcoin's rules are open for all to verify, while Microsoft's are a collusion-prone black box.

They will fight us, they always do, but we will persevere. The petty bureaucrats and Big Tech CEOs will keep fighting us how they can, they will fight to preserve their ability to monitor and control not because they have any real legitimacy, but because FOSS and Bitcoin threaten to make their invasive rackets obsolete.

We shall create amenable territories where true privacy is the default.

Does this terrify the corporatist data oligopolies and bureaucratic surveillors? It should! No longer will free individuals be tracked and traced without consent. Value exchange, speech and human action will be freed from the shackles of centralized control, operating in a world where trust is built into the system, not imposed from above.

We will not fight with guns or bombs, there will be no blood shed; instead we will fight with ideas. We will fight with the most potent weapon at our disposal: knowledge. Encryption is our shield, and open-source protocols are our weapons. We are simply restoring privacy as the bedrock, putting the individual squarely in control over what information gets optionally revealed rather than having our data surreptitiously expropriated by middlemen.

We are coding a future where privacy is sacrosanct, economic freedom is a given, and surveillance capitalism is a relic of the past. We are crafting tools that empower the individual, disempowering the surveillance state and the oligarchs of information.

This is our battle. Not fought with weapons, but with wisdom. Not with anger, but with algorithms. Our armor is anonymity; our shield, encryption.

So we call on you, the coder, the thinker, the dreamer. Join us. Take up the tools of freedom. Contribute to the code of liberation. In every line you write, see the chains breaking. Witness the old world of control and surveillance crumble.

Join us, join the revolution, start coding. Together, we will reclaim our privacy, our freedom, and our dignity.


A purple ostrich found a friend in the forest

#artstr #nostr

https://nostrcheck.me/media/66675158e6338fe89fda418e42a0bf2a7a2b132504dd347f015a18971b644430/d6e74f0568906cb853070412487296586634110679371c75799f4466c5fcd396.webp


懐かしいこれ！観たときから、１０年ぐらいだった


he never said anything negative about capitalism, only surveillance capitalism, which is completely different from real capitalism, and is closer to corporatism


We’re taking back the internet from the surveillance capitalists. We’re building a new foundation of open source, privacy preserving freedom tech. You are the resistance. https://i.nostr.build/ROAZ.jpg


Shitcoins, because that's what they are


Big Tech companies are all the same

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This is what 15 years of bad monetary policy does to a country. Europe and the US are next

#egypt #printer-goes-brrrrrrrr #money #inflation #BTCFTW


320 000 sats or 0.00 320 000 BTC

Let's use the satscomma standard, no other standard is as readable


tuttle twins is a series I would recommend to anyone who has a younger member of their family they want to teach about economics to.

I don't have children yet, but I've showed this to my younger brother recently and the series is both educational and entertaining, this is what kids shows should be like!


69k within the next 7h or I zap everyone who boosts this lovely Pepe Morning Coffee
https://image.nostr.build/ac85e1081c4812a2a99223426ab85da4934fc3ce0f18de3ba143614f607beb89.jpg


Boosted but also I think you're right! $69,000 memes, here we go!


remember, just because I was wrong about this number doesn't mean I'm wrong about USD being a shitcoin


1550 by the end of the day, calling it


1600 sats per dollar now, they dropped 60 whole sats in a few hours, what a rug pull! I'm telling you gentlemen, sell your USD, it's gonna crash another 100 sats in the very near future.

You will feel stupid when it crashes to 1000 and you haven't sold yet!

Stop with the fiat shitcoins, sell them and buy Bitcoin.


the value of the dollar dropped to 1660 sats.

This USD shitcoin is so volatile, the devs are pulling the greatest rug of the millennium


I know this is a meme, but man, that's a warcrime lol


Looking at git, no, rust with egui and eframe, much better performance than flutter (and depending on the device can be more performant than many "native" gui frameworks)


Yep and people's memories are extremely short


There is nothing shameful in not wanting to be tracked, there's nothing shameful in wanting privacy, including transactional privacy, and anyone who says otherwise is most likely even less squeaky clean than what they're trying to make you appear to be.

Privacy used to be the norm for most of human existence in this planet, the anti privacy stance you see today is nothing new tho.

Tyrants have controlled people by controlling their privacy for ages, the big difference is only that today they have much better tools for that than ever before.

Say yes to privacy!

#privacy #bitcoin


The "Free" Internet! A digital utopia where the price of admission is not your hard-earned Bitcoin but the very essence of your digital soul.

> You are not a customer, nor even a user, but a product meticulously crafted and packaged for the highest bidder, how does that feel?

"Free" services from big tech companies have redefined how we interact with the digital world, offering unparalleled convenience at seemingly no financial cost. It's a seductive narrative, promising access to endless streams of information, social connections, and entertainment without asking for a single penny in return. Yet, beneath this glossy surface lies a hidden transaction, one that demands not our money, but something far more personal: our privacy.

Welcome to the era of "free" services, where big tech companies are the benevolent providers of everything from email to endless scrolling on social media! Here, your movements are tracked, your preferences logged, and your interactions monitored. Not with malice, the tech giants assure you, but with the noble intent of tailoring their services to your desires. Yet, as these digital behemoths sift through the minutiae of your online life, a question looms large:

> What is the true cost of this convenience?

Every midnight dive into the rabbit hole of "just one more video" is meticulously logged in the great ledger of Big Tech. It's not for nefarious purposes, they whisper through the screens that illuminate our faces in the dark. No, it's for you, dear user, to enhance your experience, to ensure that the ads you see as you scroll are less about the miracle mop and more about the latest gadget you can't afford but desperately need, and who knew that your late-night searches for "why does my cat stare at me?" could be so valuable?

Big Tech plays the role of the benevolent overlord, promising to safeguard our digital kingdoms while subtly reminding us that the drawbridge can be pulled up at any moment. Your data, they claim, is encrypted, secured, and only used to make your life easier. But as any true Privacy advocate and Bitcoin maximalist knows, the centralization of power (and data) is the antithesis of freedom.

It's a bit like entrusting your life savings to a stranger because they promised to double it overnight if you just invested in their shiny new cryptocurrency coin.

> *Spoiler alert:* **they won't.**

So, what is the true cost of this convenience? It's the slow, creeping realization that in the digital marketplace, we've traded our privacy for a handful of magic beans — or, in this case, slightly more targeted ads and a feed algorithmically optimized to keep us scrolling until our thumbs go numb.

Do we continue down this path, blissfully ignoring the chains we wrap tighter with every click, or do we dare to imagine a different way? A way where the communities we build and the conversations we have are ours, truly ours, not data points on a corporate spreadsheet.

Enter the stage, the unsung heroes of our digital saga: FOSS, nostr, and the subtle nod to the concept of a fortress of privacy and freedom, almost as if we'd need an Arx, a citadel away from Big Tech's watchful eyes.

FOSS offers us the tools to build our digital realms, free from the prying eyes of those who would seek to monetize our every move. Nostr, with its decentralized approach to communication, hands the power back to the people, ensuring that our whispers across the digital void are heard only by those we intend.

And it is here, in this brave new world, that we find the essence of what it means to reclaim our digital autonomy. We are not content to be mere pawns in a game of data collection and targeted advertising. Instead, we champion the creation of digital communities that are owned and governed by the people who inhabit them. Communities where the value exchanged is not personal data, but trust, respect, and mutual support.

The journey to this digital utopia is not without its challenges. It requires us to rethink not just how we interact with technology, but the very foundations upon which our digital lives are built. It demands a shift away from the centralized powers that have come to dominate our online experiences, towards a more distributed, egalitarian approach. But the rewards, oh the rewards, are nothing short of revolutionary.

We stand at the precipice of a new era, one where our digital interactions are governed by principles of privacy, freedom, and individual sovereignty. An era where the communities we build online are reflections of our highest ideals, not the monetization strategies of corporate behemoths. It is a daunting task, but one well within our reach if we dare to imagine it. And so, we press on, guided by the light of FOSS, and our steadfast pursuit of freedom.

> This is the silent acknowledgment that the path to digital freedom is one we forge together, step by step, towards a future where our digital souls are once again our own.

Let's build the citadel of freedom, *together*.

The High Cost of Free Services: How Big Tech's Business Models Compromise User Privacy

Explore the hidden costs of "free" internet services and the trade-off between convenience and privacy in our digital lives.


Remember Big Tech: Your Customers Are Not Criminals; If You Keep Assuming They Are, You Might Be the Real Criminal

#kyc #drm #bitcoin privacy #Decentralization #BigTech #Freedom #FreeSpeech #OpenInternet #OpenSource #NoKYC #NoDRM #DigitalAutonomy #DigitalEthics #PrivacyByDesign


it's high time we address the elephant in the room: the pervasive attitude of big tech companies towards their user base. Yes, you—multinational conglomerates with your billions in revenue, it's time for a little heart-to-heart, delivered in terms you might find a bit more palatable than what you see people like me use online. Imagine we're discussing why you need to tidy up your room, except in this case, your "room" is the oppressive, privacy-invading policies you so dearly cling to.

> **Your Customers Are Not Criminals; If You Keep Assuming They Are, You Might Be the Real Criminal.**

Let's start with the basics, shall we? When a child reaches out with their allowance in hand, eager to exchange it for a toy or a treat, the shopkeeper doesn't start interrogating the child about where they got their money from, if they intend to use the toy for nefarious purposes, or demand a fingerprint for the transaction. Why? Because that would be absurd, not to mention a surefire way to scare off the child and ensure they never return. Yet, this is precisely the approach many of you take with your digital storefronts, slathering them in layers of digital rights management (DRM) and invasive know your customer (KYC) policies that treat every prospective customer as a potential criminal mastermind.

Now, I understand that in the grand playground of the internet, a tiny fraction of users might indeed be up to no good. But let's put things into perspective using a playground analogy: just because one child might occasionally break the rules, it doesn't justify putting the entire playground on lockdown, does it? Wouldn't it be more mature of you to call the parents of the misbehaving kids rather than punishing every single kid? The vast majority of users are just here to exchange their hard-earned money for a service. They're not interested in your hoops, hurdles, or the digital equivalent of a full-body search. They want a service, not an interrogation.

These practices do more harm than good, breeding resentment and driving users towards alternatives that respect their freedom and privacy. In modern societies trust is one the only two or perhaps three real currencies (the others being bitcoin, and maybe monero), and once it's squandered, it's incredibly hard to earn back. By implementing DRM and invasive KYC measures, you're not protecting your assets; you're alienating your customer base and eroding the trust that forms the foundation of any successful business relationship.

So, here's a novel idea: treat your customers with respect. Recognize that they come to you in good faith, seeking to engage in a straightforward transaction. Drop the condescension, the unwarranted suspicion, and the draconian policies that presume guilt until proven innocent. It's not a revolutionary concept; it's merely treating others as you would wish to be treated.

In the spirit of championing a digital landscape where freedom, privacy, and mutual respect are the cornerstones, I declare my readiness to not only abandon any service that insists on chaining its offerings with DRM but also to wholeheartedly embrace—and yes, even pay a premium for—platforms that treat me like a human being, not a suspect. Imagine, if you will, a child clutching their precious dollar, ready to exchange it for a coveted treasure. This child, much like any discerning customer, is infinitely more inclined to hand over their money to a cashier who greets them with a smile, acknowledges their presence, and appreciates their business, rather than to a surly individual who views them with suspicion and disdain.

It's a simple yet profound truth: we vote with our wallets, and my vote goes to businesses that understand the inherent value of treating their customers with dignity, as valued partners in our increasingly crazy world.

This commitment isn't just about choosing where to spend my money; it's a pledge to support those who recognize that in the grand scheme of things, respect and human connection are worth far more than any DRM-protected content could ever be. The key to success and customer loyalty isn't more restrictions; it's genuine respect and the acknowledgment of our shared humanity.

To the big tech companies: it's time to clean up your act. Consider this a gentle nudge (or a forceful push, if necessary) towards adopting policies that honor the principles of privacy, freedom, and basic human decency. Remember, your customers are not criminals, but if you continue to treat them as such, you might just find yourself on the wrong side of history.

**You still have time to change, big tech, are you going to take the correct path, or become a forgotten footnote in humanity's history books?**
*The choice is entirely yours*

In a world shadowed by towering tech giants, imagine a cozy nook where freedom and privacy bloom like a field of wildflowers. It's a heartwarming tale of unity and resilience, a tiny spark of defiance against the vast digital night.


Once upon a time, there was a small town known far and wide for its delectable bagels – Bageltown. In this quaint place, bagels were not just a food, but a way of life. The townsfolk of Bageltown took great pride in their bagels, which were known to be the tastiest and most exquisite in all the lands.

At the heart of Bageltown's bagel business was a grand establishment known as "The Bagel Connoisseur's Emporium," run by a sharp and shrewd merchant. This merchant had a peculiar way of doing business. He had convinced the town's elders that only he should sell bagels in Bageltown, and all bagels must pass through his Emporium for a 'quality check'. For this service, he took a hefty cut of 30% from every bagel sold.

Now, the Bagel Connoisseur was not just any merchant. His eyes could spot a sesame seed out of place from a mile away, and his nose could sniff out the faintest hint of an unapproved ingredient. Bagels that didn't meet his exacting standards were banished from Bageltown. And oh, the standards were many and ever-changing, often based on the Connoisseur’s whims.

But the winds of change began to blow in Bageltown. The townsfolk started to murmur.

    "Why can't we have bagels from outside Bageltown?", they asked.

    "What if we want a different kind of bagel, one that the Connoisseur doesn't approve of?"

Hearing this, the ruler of the land, President Goodbread, made a proclamation:

    "The people of Bageltown should be free to choose their bagels. The Connoisseur can no longer force his checks on every bagel."

The Bagel Connoisseur, upon hearing this, furrowed his brow in frustration but then smirked slyly.

    "Fine,"

he said,

    "let the people bring in whatever bagels they wish. But for every foreign bagel sold in Bageltown, I shall take a 27% tribute for maintaining the order and safety of our bagel market."

The townsfolk were in uproar.

    "This is absurd!"

they cried.

    "First, he monopolizes our bagels, and now he taxes them even when he has no hand in their making!"

The Connoisseur's rule was bizarre. If a baker in Bageltown wished to sell a bagel with a new twist — say, a sprinkle of magical fairy dust or a dash of unicorn horn powder — they had to tread carefully. For the Connoisseur might declare these ingredients 'unapproved,' forcing the townsfolk to travel to distant lands to savor such exotic bagels.

Under the Connoisseur's watchful eye, Bageltown became a place where freedom of choice in bagelry was but a dream. The streets, once filled with the delightful aromas of diverse and innovative bagels, now bore the scent of conformity.

    "Is this truly for the safety and quality of our beloved bagels?"

pondered an old wise baker.

    "Or is it merely a ploy to fill the coffers of the Connoisseur, under the guise of protection and order?"

As we leave Bageltown, with its streets lined with identical bagel shops and its air heavy with the scent of the same old bagels, one can't help but wonder: Does this remind you of anything else, perhaps something outside of Bageltown and in our world?

On a side note, I had some great apple pie yesterday!

You know, maybe in our world it's not about bagels but appliances to bake apple pies and other delicious pies?

Or maybe it's not at all about pies...

Who knows... ;)

PS: Story will be published on EscapeBigTech in one week; from now on all articles will be published on Yakihonne & Nostr before the main website #decentralization