got put onto bitmagnet (DHT crawler) by reading nostr and about a year and a half later my server has crawled and indexed 16 million+ torrents.
while it's mostly porn, my bitmagnet index getting to the point where it's pretty useful. it's fun to think of music or movies and be like "I wonder if my server can find that" before busting out search engines. I haven't needed to use normal torrent sites for awhile
An impressive display of dissidents circumventing state censor was the Hong Kong Billionaire Li ka-shing during the HK protests hiding a secret message in a newspaper ad
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Sadly, since 2019 didnt get anywhere..... "Laying flat" for "garbage time" has even less energy
Observing from across the Strait, i think in the mid 2000s the chinese internet slang felt very clever, but as censors expand the blacklisted words, trying to decipher what Chinese are trying to say gets harder 😅 its like a mixture of metaphors, folk tales, memes, english substitions -- keeping up with their slang isnt easy
A comment that stuck with me went something like this: "Will people of the future look back at our internet discussions and think we're all retarded cowards who cant speak straight?"
chinese in general is filled with homophones (many many characters share the same sounds) so its a common method of circumventing blacklisted words, but homophones can get blacklisted too 😅 (and using too many homophoes screws up context which chinese heavily relies on)
chinese netizens have to get even more clever than that, discussing gov officials using animals that resemble them (i.e. winnie the pooh and toad king ) would be evolution of that, and so on
when too many homophones get blacklisted (ie. Government 政府) they just start resorting to phonetic english abbreviation 'ZF', then they wait to see if the censors want to blow out two letters from the english alphabet 🤣 so far they havent cross that bridge
Chinese internet is a strange strange place
They're just obsessing over vibrating magnets, don't get scammed by the audiophiles 🙂↔️
(I transcode lossless files into 160kbps to play in $6 cHi-Fi ear phones - my opinion may be worthless 🤣)
Generally relays don't talk to one another. Users configure their clients on what relays to open websockets with; those configurations allow the client to either read events off relays or send relays notes. Notes can be all sorts of events, and clients are written support events they care about and relays accept notes for events they choose to support
Can't learn anything staring at shadows on your cave wall. Without engaging fully getting out of your comfort zone, how can one learn who's wrong?
15 years later alongside tens of thousands of examples in the trash heap, the scoreboard speaks for itself 🤷
'maxi' is a shitcoin term created to ignore the scoreboard and spout all sorts of nonsense.
it's as if the 'maxis' are onto something; plenty have been in your shoes 🤔
If not wanting to engage with people, try a book? Ethics of Money Production is a classic
When my cousin was little I let him sit in the front seat, he was so excited. Setting off, the seat belt alarm starts beeping, I decided to mess with him:
"OHMYGAWD WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! IF YOU DONT PUT YOUR SEATBELT ON, THE CAR WILL BLOW UP"
The beeping then gets more urgent
never going to forget watching him scramble🤣🤣🤣🤣 alarm still annoying though
Having a Bitcoin balance on an exchange (see: withdrawal limits) is no different than holding shitcoins 🙂↔️
Run a node and verify that you own what you think you own ... on your own
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