RebelOfBabylon

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2024-09-04 23:27:37

Any insect specialists, entomologists or just bug boiz able to tell me what these are? Found under a leaf on a tree outside the second story window where I live. #asknostr https://image.nostr.build/2030d39de8e2031a6c9bfb83b8af5c22f11df2daf72861b6c23f2109bb6f220f.jpg

2024-09-04 13:09:13

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Wow is this project alive?

2024-09-01 19:36:53

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Also the irony of claiming Elon has done more for freedom of speech than anyone else in the world when you're talking to the literal inventor of nostr is beyond hilarious

2024-08-31 19:24:28

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I won't speak for @nprofile…6hxm but I'm of the same opinion because I don't really find AI useful for me. Code generation AI is trash, I'm much more efficient without it. And to ask it questions for researching a topic is also a waste of time because you don't know if it provided factual information, omitted something key or just flat out fabricated the response. I end up needed to fact check it anyway. I do like it for exploring some creative ideas, for example asking for ideas to start a project or something and using it as a launch pad from there. Or for summarizing an email or something I've written (I don't trust the summaries generated for text others have written). But I rarely ever do those things.

2024-08-30 19:43:03

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It's true that freedom of speech comes at the price of people being able to spread misinformation and say hurtful things. But that is a fair trade off compared to the alternative which is allowing a group of people the ability to dictate what can and can't be said. That power when wielded in the wrong hands has proven time and and time again throughout history to lead to authoritarianism, tyranny and suffering far greater than anything free speech can enable. And I completely disagree with you that an AGI ruler will make this better as they will be subject to the same biases or worse, biases we don't understand. Not to mention that we are very very far away from AGI.
When it comes to disinformation, the best cure against that is education. It's time we as a society stop outsourcing our thinking to others. We must take the time to continue our learning every day, only then can we maintain freedom of speech and combat misinformation. Not by letting a group of elites decide what is the Truth™

2024-08-29 14:14:01

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What would that look like? As I understand it, you could run a relay behind a hidden service right now. Do you mean that?

2024-08-25 23:43:39

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Paging @nprofile…9929 @nprofile…cy6q

2024-08-14 23:44:14

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Good question, I don't know off the top of my head. Did a quick search and found this.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/todays-climate-change-proves-much-faster-than-changes-in-past-65-million-years/
About 10 times faster than previous warming periods in the last 65 million years. Would be cool to find papers talking about this and learn more.

2024-08-14 23:19:15

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Sure but normal warming during interglacial periods happens slow, slow enough for life to adapt. Unlike the current rate of warming which is far exceeding historical warming periods (outside cataclysmic events like volcanism/asteroid impacts). That is the concern.

2024-08-14 22:51:31

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I totally acknowledge and know that atmospheric CO2 levels and global temperatures have risen sharply in the past due to volcanism or asteroid impacts. And guess what? Those events coincide and correlate with mass extinction events. I am not making the claim that this is unprecedented, I'm saying it's concerning and why we don't generally include periods of time when the earth was warmer due to natural, slow cycles in the conversation about climate change because it's more comparable to other times in history when CO2 levels and temperatures rose sharply.

2024-08-14 22:19:42

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The first article you shared says this:
"The model calculated the monthly change in Earth’s energy balance caused by the eruption and showed that water vapor could increase the average global temperature by up to 0.035°C over the next 5 years. That’s a large anomaly for a single event, but it’s not outside the usual level of noise in the climate system, Jenkins said."
The second article says this:
"The study says that, before the eruption, there was a 50-50 chance that global temperatures would exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels at least once by 2026. In its aftermath, the likelihood of exceeding this threshold has increased by seven percentage points – making “imminent 1.5C exceedance” more likely than not."
So although it has temporarily warmed the planet further, the major underlying cause is still because of the major excess of GHGs. So sure, maybe once all the water vapour cycles out of the stratosphere, global temperatures will cool slightly, but then again the amount of warming the water vapour may have caused is within the usual level of noise in the climate system. So even if we assume the last two winters are exceptionally mild because of the volcano, more winters like it are likely to come as the planet continues to warm.

2024-08-14 22:02:52

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Sorry contradicts your claim that the last 2 years are warm because of the volcano*

2024-08-14 22:02:06

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The NASA source you shared directly contradicts your claim that the last 2 years have been unusually warm.
"In contrast, the Tonga volcano didn’t inject large amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere, and the huge amounts of water vapor from the eruption may have a small, temporary warming effect, since water vapor traps heat. The effect would dissipate when the extra water vapor cycles out of the stratosphere and would not be enough to noticeably exacerbate climate change effects."

2024-08-14 19:55:47

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I don't think that is omitted from the conversation especially because compared to previous warmer eras with no ice at the poles, the change in temperature occurred over millions of years so life had a chance to slowly adapt. Which is not at all the same as what's happening now.

2024-08-14 13:17:40

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Have you read three-body problem? If not, highly recommend

2024-08-11 22:17:29

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Interesting. So I suppose we definitely want to use proper sources of randomness and hope there aren't any bugs that can cause a pattern to emerge. Any thoughts on EdDSA and how it deterministically generates the nonce? Can this sort of thing be implemented in Bitcoin/nostr libraries (assuming it's good and solves the issue)?

2024-08-11 21:42:25

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If I understand correctly, you want to make sure that whenever you generate a nonce for your ECDSA signatures, they should be as random as possible and should never be reused because it's simple to derive the secret key from the signature and the nonce.
I imagine that in both nostr and bitcoin, this is known and applications are designed with this in mind? Is ensuring random, non-reused nonces that hard to do?

2024-08-06 15:17:12

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Similar problem here in Canada except that we don't have Zelle or Venmo and people don't use PayPal. Everyone uses e-transfers. Such a garbage UX. Or cash.

2024-08-05 22:56:39

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But this is exactly why you do want a purpose built device. I own a 2014 macbook pro and started using crypto currency in 2017. I started with shitcoins, now I'm only bitcoin. But regardless I had a wallet file saved to a USB stick but one day, I checked my funds and they were gone. I consider myself pretty computer literate and to this day, I still don't know how my wallet was swept. Was this laptop air gapped as you're proposing? No, but IMO that is way easier to fuck up than just using a HWW.

2024-07-29 01:28:48

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I'll be honest, my worldview changed after becoming interested in Bitcoin. Nothing wrong with changing your views when new information comes along. I'm still learning and changing my opinion on stuff today.

2024-07-25 15:47:37

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Oh if I understand what you're saying, if you have multiple values in the single letter tag
```json
{
"#t": ["gm", " bloom"]
}
```
The relay should interpret that as "events with the "gm" OR "bloom" as values for the "t" tag? And this proposal using "&t" would make "events with "gm" AND "bloom"?

2024-07-25 15:05:13

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This helped! Thanks. So I guess single letter tag filters just look like this?
```json
{
"#t": [
" gm"
]
}
```

2024-07-25 04:33:44

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Really random question: what do nostr tag filters actually look like? NIP-1 describes it but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Is there a sample tag filter somewhere?

2024-07-17 20:23:58

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Oh man I desperately want to see the salt in the comments but it's not worth making an account on that hellscape of a platform.

2024-07-17 14:33:51

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How is navigation? Better thanOsmAnd?

2024-07-12 06:17:27

@nprofile…xuyp is the vision with nostr that me as my families uncle Jim, run a relay that is friends & family, invite only and that Odell runs a bitcoiner relay? Each relay is like a forum for a niche topic like back in the day?

2024-07-05 21:23:14

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Refresh token so you don't need to log in every 15 minutes (because session token should not be long lived). There isn't much trusting to do with the ID provider. You have to trust that the software works. It's like using the "login with Google" or "login with Facebook" buttons. They also use OIDC. In those cases, you have to trust them with your personal info. With this nostr ID provider, you hold the personal info on your device. We can maybe have some sort of encryption scheme between the nostr app and your phone app to make sure the info doesn't leak in transit. And tbh so far nostr apps have asked for your name, username, maybe an email. You can always enter fake or burner info in your device app so that nostr ID provider gets nothing. Its a very low trust system IMO.

2024-07-05 21:12:51

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Why would it defeat the point entirely? The nostr ID provider gives the nostr app a session token, refresh token and ID token so that you don't continuously have to log in everytime you click a button on the page.

2024-07-05 21:02:20

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What if we use OIDC. You're building your app and you want to allow nostr login. Your app uses OIDC via a nostr ID provider. This nostr ID provider connects with an app you have on your phone which is where your nsec is. Whenever you click "login with nostr" the nostr app uses OIDC and pings the nostr ID provider. Nostr ID provider then provides a NIP-97 auth URI back to the nostr app. Nostr app displays this URI as a QR code. Using the app on your phone, you scan this QR code. This will then prompt you to confirm you want to log into this site, and even what info you'd like to share with this site. All your personal info is stored only locally on device in the app and you could even create different profiles for different sites. Once you confirm, your app sends that in the form of NIP-97 auth message to nostr ID provider. Nostr ID provider then creates session token, refresh token and ID token and gives it back to nostr app. Voila you're logged in and you never had to enter your nsec anywhere.

2024-07-04 16:44:52

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Ahhh yes I remember being where you are now in my social media journey. The next step is deleting your Twitter. It felt like storm clouds that were hanging over me finally gave way to the sunshine.

2024-07-03 22:25:17

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It's starting!

2024-07-03 01:28:20

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Damn your UI looks good. Is this a special UI framework?

2024-07-02 00:55:03

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Wow that's incredible. That is how Canadian bureaucracy works as well though I'm not sure if one decision allows this or if it's just constitutional. Regardless politicians defer to bureaucrats to do the heavy lifting and there's no accountability.

2024-06-28 00:21:08

Anybody else feel like the language we use with LLMs and neural nets in general is way too anthropomorphic? "It doesn't know X", " It understands Y". "it said Z". These things are glorified, n-dimensional curve fitting algorithms. They do not think. #asknostr

2024-06-25 02:58:48

Reddit is filled with posts from bots, I mean on the order of 100s that all link the same stream that requires an account. First link I click from nostr is legit. We are winning #nostr
#nevent1q…eeu7

2024-06-17 13:40:51

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This doesn't work on amethyst. Is the idea that it should just work or would I need to manually add the relay where this note is stored to my list of relays?

2024-06-14 12:30:19

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If it can't even perform simple tasks then why should we assume it can be used to push some agenda?

2024-06-10 14:26:14

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Will do!

2024-06-09 12:46:37

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Fuck, you beat me to it! I was gonna build this

2024-06-09 12:42:27

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ChatGPT is wrong about a lot of things. Ask it how many letter R are in the word strawberry and to tell you the index of the letters in the word. Or ask it to name ten fruit that end in 'ums': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXw4mZZXJNU

2024-06-06 22:32:59

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Works in Amethyst :)

2024-06-06 19:16:41

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I agree, it's an interesting theory you're implying here and worth consideration but applying scientific method: seek to disprove your own theory and see where it stands. Tbh I think its quite easy to pick this apart making it far more likely that ChatGPT isn't trying to sell you telegram but instead is just trained on text data that assumes it's good for privacy.

2024-05-22 16:06:42

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I switched to Linux Mint last year and haven't looked back. My gaming experience has been good. What games are you worried about?

2024-05-22 15:14:35

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I mean most of the "legit" AI stuff is kinda scammy anyway. It has its uses but its way over hyped and they promise the world.

2024-05-21 16:39:03

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The point I'm making is that many people have thought of this problem and implemented solutions like CDNs. And eventually the solution is so gargantuan, that it's no longer feasible to run a personal server. And we're back to square one. Personal servers aren't the solution, servers in general without a good way to rate limit/prevent spam are the problem.

2024-05-21 15:33:26

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I think we're underestimating just how badly shitcoins and all the crypto exchange scams, arrests, etc have tainted the reputation of all cryptocurrencies including bitcoin. Normies lump it all together, to them its all a scam or scam adjacent.

2024-05-21 15:28:39

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Weird, I had the tranny rebuilt once and it worked great. But who knows, it may have been a few 1000 kms away from needing to rebuild it again without knowing.

2024-05-21 15:11:07

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Hey I just recently got rid of my 97 sierra! Loved that truck. Only reason I let it go was because the frame was starting to rot and the dealer offered me 1000$ for it (scrap value)

2024-05-21 14:17:00

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What happens when your personal served gets DDoS attack?

2024-05-19 15:13:06

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I think it's about solving problems. UX is important but remember that at some point in time, the concepts of a username and password and email address were very foreign to everyday people yet email still achieved mass adoption. I think the problem email solved more greatly outweighed the novel UX.
For nostr, people who care about digital sovereignty and decentralized social media are coming/have come. They don't care about the UX. Normies don't care about digital sovereignty and decentralized social media and so for them the UX cons outweigh any benefit. Normies will come once nostr solves a problem for them.

2024-05-14 16:23:59

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Is git over nostr a thing? Or in the works?

2024-05-10 15:34:42

Hot damn, I just read that Stackoverflow is partnering with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into Stackoverflow. Regardless of how you feel about this move, it's certainly not coming from a place of strength. Stackoverflows traffic has been on the decline since early 2023 because of LLM usage.
This got me thinking, what if stack overflow can't be saved and the company shuts down. What happens to all those posts? This to me seems like a huge problem. Has anyone ever thought of 1. stackoverflow on nostr? 2. Archiving stackoverflow posts as notes? #asknostr #stackoverflow #openai #chatgpt

2024-05-07 17:27:37

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Any consideration for streaming video over websockets? I found the latency to be super low this way.

2024-05-01 13:31:16

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What about countries with multiple timezones?

2024-04-28 22:50:47

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Cast iron 100%. All those going off about Teflon, y'all need to look into PFAS.

2024-04-26 22:14:54

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I like to think I'm pretty smart. I've had a very hard time running my own LN node. Starting with raspibolt.org my node froze up without me noticing and all my channels were force closed.
Tried again with a small lenovo thinkstation, my ssd Mount didn't persist after restarts, didn't notice for almost a year, again channels are force closed.
I can hear the "skill issue" in the distance. But the truth is running a LN node is hard. Even without the sys admin problems, I never figured out who I should open channels to, how much in those channels to be a good peer on the network. Tbh, I just don't have the time or interest in running a routing node. I much prefer the LSP model.

2024-04-24 23:43:18

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You're probably gonna get a lot flack from people for complying but I applaud you for thinking ahead on this issue. Easy to say don't comply when you're not the one facing a lawsuit.

2024-04-24 14:38:28

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Where is this (country, no need to dox yourself :))? :o

2024-04-22 18:16:33

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People are actually using testnet for real projects????

2024-04-21 16:05:21

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-_- we have gitlab issues, JIRA, email, teams dms, teams channels, also microsoft word comments. Jira is the worst one though, absolutely hate that tool.

2024-04-21 14:58:46

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Lowkey, this is a banger

2024-04-13 16:26:33

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Is it actually rare that people fully switch from twitter to nostr? I deleted all my social media accounts and then joined nostr. Fuck Twitter/X (no offense Jack).

2024-04-05 05:12:27

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My vote is on NIP-97

2024-03-27 19:27:33

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Yeah that's true. Though we can probably get a ballpark figure based on doctor journals describing skin cancer lesions on patients and extrapolate. It's not accurate but the best we can get.

2024-03-27 18:40:57

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That's actually incorrect, the average life expectancy of people before modern medicine was low because of the high amount of infant mortality (bringing down the average). But if you survived childhood, you could easily live into your 50s, 60s even 70s for some.Its's obviously way more common today but it wasn't unheard of in the past.

2024-03-27 18:06:28

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I get where you're coming from, I've also felt this way about a lot of topics but I think he has honest intentions with his video. Like I've also wondered if before the last 100-200 years we spent most of our lives outdoors, why is sun exposure only now a concern? Especially considering that they didn't have sunscreen before. I'm not saying let's just never wear sunscreen and stare into the sun but I think this topic is worthy of some healthy skepticism.

2024-03-27 16:55:27

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Good video! I just have a few critcisms:
- I appreciate the effort to show both sides and seem unbiased but I couldn't help but feel like you had a bias towards sun lover from the get go.
- It also felt like you didn't steelman the sun hater very well. You picked someone with a pretty fringe opinion (wear sunscreen indoors everyday).
- I think this video could've benefited from a bit more detail, getting into more of the science behind what the sun does, the history of the research that lead us to our modern beliefs around sun exposure, etc.
- maybe this is a topic for another video but I would've loved to learn about if sunscreen can impact your health at all

2024-03-23 14:06:31

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Considering the vastness of the universe, there's likely other forms of life somewhere. Did the Creator make them too? Or does each planet with life on it have its own Creator?

2024-03-15 04:28:30

This is another test from obsidian
## Test Header
| Table | Test |
| ----- | ---- |
| 1 | 2 |

2024-03-15 04:04:36

# Test
## Sub Test
```json
{
"hail": "satan"
}
```
### meow
| Simple | Table |
| ---------- | ----- |
| x | 123 |
Some text
[Link](https://example.com)

2024-02-23 20:50:54

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I thought the same thing. His mannerisms strike me as very North American English. Yet another nail in the coffin for Craig.

2024-02-17 16:16:23

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Great write up! Thanks for doing this

2024-02-16 16:56:27

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This article is just reporting what the russian penal org said. I suppose they may have twisted the translation but there's not much here to believe or not believe.

2024-02-16 13:57:50

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Decentralized my ass

2024-02-15 00:45:39

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Javascript is the biggest pile of garbage ecosystem I've ever had the displeasure of working with and yet I can't escape it.

2024-02-13 22:46:24

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The meme doesn't say he doesn't provide sources. The meme says he fabricates evidence. Which he does.

2024-02-11 16:46:20

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I'm probably gonna get some flack for this but when basil isn't an option, oregano pesto is pree fucking good. Where my oregano fam at?

2024-02-11 15:42:58

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If I'm using a normal nostr client and I write a note with a link to a webpage and some other words, will it show up on satcom?

2024-02-10 20:04:50

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Dude this is so dope. Can't wait to see discussions on wikipedia pages or code blogs, etc.

2024-02-10 20:01:30

This game is filed with bangers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWjiVfUypJY

2024-02-04 21:57:27

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Idk man, it's hard to be excited for this when the world is already suffering from being addicted to our phones. This feels dystopian to me.

2024-01-21 15:50:16

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Fascinating

2024-01-19 02:09:19

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Something about this looks off. It looks like AI made it.

2024-01-14 16:52:49

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I'm not sure I agree. The fact that it has a price implies we value it (monetarily speaking). That value is essentially at the core of the networks security. If Bitcoin didn't have a price, then idk that Nakamoto consensus would work.

2024-01-07 21:01:50

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Are you locally hosting a text to image model? If so, which one are you using? Is it uncensored?

2024-01-06 20:23:43

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Is this supposed to be French? Jfc

2024-01-01 00:37:53

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Good tune!

2023-12-27 17:03:54

Anyone else seeing this on @npub1a2c…w83a's profile? When you visit nostrverified.com it mentions the domain name expired.
https://image.nostr.build/f7a8e04c3355c599d80155160c75c824bb12202ce124f87f291d680dd0bd2339.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x513&blurhash=Z471cq%7EXMxozInoyW%2Cs%2Bob-q%3FI%3FIxubaX5bEW9Ri00xv%3FbazxuV%40WUR%25NFo%7DNGIURPi_jFaxf%2Bbb&x=20806892e160860a8438c71184c9e9a1b34042ccc343ca41c51dce9cd42dbdde

2023-12-21 00:11:15

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Great summary! The whole aliens thing is a nothing burger IMO.

2023-12-15 02:04:27

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Oh egui!! What made you decide on egui? I'm experimenting with using Bevy to make a GUI.

2023-12-13 03:11:31

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How would this work? Could it be a future nostr event?

2023-11-27 15:10:31

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For search, isn't the solution really similar to building a search engine? A "note-crawler" to try and index notes on nostr? Or maybe search will be done on a specific relay, no need to index all notes across nostr

2023-11-21 20:37:13

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This as a loading animation would be cool

2023-10-26 15:32:45

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This is a 10 IQ take. The vast majority of the countries urban centres and population live on or below the 49th parallel because most of what's north of that line is swamp. Also just because European cities are at higher latitudes doesn't mean the Canadian experience the same weather. Ever hear of oceanic currents?
I agree that we tend to favour politicians who make the problem worse. It's a really difficult and long process to get building permits and that's a huge problem. But just telling people to go build in the swamp, away from where their families and jobs are is dumb.

2023-10-12 17:53:24

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Honestly, I think social media in general is the reason for the acceleration of polarization. People don't talk to each other in person anymore. This leads to people forming opinions about the world based on their online interactions, where people are more hostile. And that leads people to be more xenophobic. I think if people spent more time talking to their neighbours than they did on social media, we'd be less divided.

2023-10-06 16:20:53

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Honest question: is centralization a concern for you under this model? Is there a threshold like a percentage of total users using an LSP that defines the line between decentralized and centralized?

2023-09-21 01:05:01

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Stupid questions:
- if everything is in memory is there a concern of filling memory? If so how is that managed?
- if everything is in memory, won't the client need to populate the db after every restart of the app? Or is there some sort of persistent state carried across restarts?

2023-09-16 22:09:22

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Ah man, and you visited our worst city IMO. Montreal is much nicer. But glad you enjoyed it!

2023-09-12 02:55:11

I feel like there's synergy between Nostr and Obsidian. Would be cool to make the two work together.

2023-08-31 05:13:19

Hello World. I just finished making an implementation of RustyRussell's runes package in Go. Here it is: https://github.com/TheRebelOfBabylon/go-runes
#lightning #runes #golang #authentication