viktorvsk
Viktor Vsk

Building #saltivka 🇺🇦 Nostr Friendly Relay (https://saltivka.org)

Building #Knowstr — smart Nostr events aggregator (https://github.com/viktorvsk/knowstr)

Working to enable people have more activities through the word of mouth between friends, friends of friends and more 🤝 with https://recar.io and https://valent.network

Public Key

npub13f5edp5przy3sm0nnrrj205vgstuuul7s98datn7ekqahh54x6kqufgvmt

NIP-05 Address

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Profile Code

nprofile1qqsg56vks6q33zgcdhee33e986xyg97ww0lgznk74elvmqwmm62ndtqghw98u

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nos.lol

relay.damus.io

saltivka.org

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2024-07-23 20:43:45

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it seems to me, http is simpler

2024-07-02 00:04:52

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Its funny but pretty far from the peak of stupidity. Humanity can do much more stupid things:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7180945/X-rays-ravaged-Thomas-Edisons-assistants-hands-killed-him.html

2024-06-28 23:13:10

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Depends on your needs. Its based on postgres and redis at its core where basic configs can run even on coffee machines. And it has ruby to serve http requests which is a bit memory hungry.
But mostly it depends on your needs. I believe relays for your family and friends should be running fine on the cheapest $5 VPS
But you also can scale it up until postgres fails which I believe is much much higher than current nostr can demand.
However since its based on a couple of moving pieces (database, cache, background queue, scheduler, web server) unlike strfry which is just a single binary kinda, it requires more efforts to setup infrastructure to match your specific needs
Keep in mind that I’ve stopped working on it for now because I’ve failed to find real demand on user friendly relays

2024-05-05 09:29:04

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Reading those notes I realize how embarrassed mathematicians, physicians and other scientists should feel watching mainstream movies

2024-04-27 11:53:45

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Oh yeah, two camps never existed before 2014
Yin Yang
Good Evil
Black White
Nazis Allies
All came after 2014 👍

2024-04-24 11:29:26

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So you don’t have opinion on that?

2024-04-23 20:42:03

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So do I understand correctly that if you are saying that option 1 is not an option that you agree that it makes sense for Ukrainian govt and individuals to demand centralized exchanges, on ramps, off ramps, mining pools etc to limit rusians access to bitcoin/crypto?

2024-04-23 19:52:59

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Bitcoin helps to kill as well as dollars, knives and cars
Sanctions actually do minimize death (to minimal extent unfortunately, a lot of time disproportionally to some harm)
My question is what bitcoiners personal opinion on that. For example, put yourself on a place of Ukrainian bitcoiner who has a choice:
1) build infrastructure for bitcoiner to allow rusians sell more oil and buy more bullets that kill his family
2) try limit rusians abilities to sell oil for bullets using bitcoin

2024-04-23 17:58:29

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What my logic are you referring to? I stated the fact (do you think I’m wrong and bitcoin is not among the tools rusia uses in the war?) and asked for an opinion

2024-04-23 17:28:39

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Yeah its a well known mantra, but what is your personal opinion on that?

2024-04-23 17:24:57

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Bitcoin is one of the tools that helps rusia avoid sanctions (oil sanctions included) to be able to kill Ukrainians. Just curious, whats your take here, is it good for bitcoin?

2024-04-17 23:40:11

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Would be great to read a comprehensive write up on how it works legally in the very detailed way. Much more interesting than how it works technically tbh
For now it seems like in the veery simplified form you have money in the US bank and in the EU bank and once I come to you in the US and give you $100 you immediately buy bitcoin for $100 in the US, send it to someone in EU, the person in EU converts bitcoin to money in EU bank and sends it to my friend in EUR
Does it really work like this? How many gotchas in the process? What risks are managed and what are not? Extremely interesting!

2024-04-16 09:48:56

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I was trying to do it for a year or so and I gave up. I don’t think manual curation on social network (if we don’t call family/friends groups a social network ofc) is viable.
Today nostr is an echo chamber and only people who love this topic praise it. Do you mind to show active authors here you disagree with? Somebody saying nostr is shit, or US doing everything right or ETH >>> BTC or that palestine must not be free?

2024-04-16 00:35:48

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Idk, but 90% of my feed is propaganda: of nostr, bitcoin, antigovt, antitaxes and “us is bad”, “its not so obvious with rusia/iran” and “outbox model is the only path for nostr”
Almost nothing else. Just @npub1j7j…tdlk posting cool tech stuff from time to time that is interesting to read

2024-04-15 10:07:17

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You’d better listen to rusia arguments from Kharkiv and to iran’s probably from the inside of their country. Why are you still sitting in this awful West?

2024-04-14 17:17:30

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People not overthrowing their evil regimes must understand they can become wiped out at any point in time because if they help kill innocent people then why would one want to rescue them eventually when the board turns?

2024-04-14 17:15:43

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Well if you are privileged enough (last century it means you are living in the US mostly) - you can fight evil governments
The question is what happens to privilege - stays at the same place or floats elsewhere

2024-04-14 17:13:23

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The love is in the air. And in Shaheds flying in this air of course

2024-04-14 03:46:30

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Peacemakers are awesome:
“Iran only treats Israel”
“Iran only launched a couple of hundreds of missiles”
… you are here…
“Iran only used a single tactical nuke”

2024-04-13 21:57:34

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And how does bitcoin helps avoiding wars if not everybody uses bitcoin? Lets say you are right and everybody uses bitcoin in this utopia and suddenly there are no wars and no weapons
And then one state decides to go back and print this dirty fiat. How bitcoin stops wars in this case?

2024-04-13 15:20:25

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So do you want to force EVERYONE to use bitcoin?

2024-04-12 22:22:30

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Likes are identical, aren’t they? Or this is a joke I’ve missed?:)

2024-04-12 02:17:37

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Poor iranians, they are the most peaceful inhabitants on earth who just want to spread love through iron flying machines

2024-04-12 02:16:34

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People never experienced violence can never understand people who did. Entire world was confident rusia never attacked Ukraine between 2010 and 2022

2024-04-08 16:15:07

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Thats a path to become a gatekeeper

2024-04-07 20:28:20

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I mean, “social media experience” can’t be served through a single computer, even super computer. Only John Doe could become self sovereign with a single nostr node.
If some celebrity/politician who gets censored by major nostr relays wants to become self sovereign, a single rpi wont help
Or any dos attack if you are not a famous person but someone wants you off for some reason for example

2024-04-07 14:04:14

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On nostr your raspberry pi will grant you self sovereignty only until you reach a hundred of simultaneous honest readers or a single dishonest one

2024-04-06 21:58:09

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With no govt, who builds tanks?

2024-03-31 23:30:11

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Does free market exist?

2024-03-24 20:03:04

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There already were native americans before your ancestored settled there. And they were rather advocating for closed borders than for letting migrants in
And while I don’t have any sharp opinion on that because this topic doesn’t touch me at all and I realize that were different times… it seems completely incorrect that your ancestors had to deal with wilderness on their own and they built it with only their blood blah blah blah and thats why no migrants should be allowed
It sounds especially funny when 99% of people in the world claiming they are against migrants in developed countries don’t even think their lifestyle is possible mostly because there are a lot of migrants willing to work for pennies

2024-03-24 15:48:56

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Wait were your ancestors dealing with wilderness back then or rather those who wanted their border closed?

2024-03-24 00:04:37

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I would really appreciate to hear your normies friends experience how “AI” helped them! Would be great if this could be a longer article
Especially would be interested to hear stories from engineering and manufacturing since it seemed to me top-notch machine learning practices are getting adopted there for last decade and somehow without llm-level hype hysteria :) would be amazing to hear how “real engineers” prompting chat gpt to boost their productivity!

2024-03-23 17:47:52

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The thing is IMO that regulations are not evil per se, they can unfold for better or for worse, but they are still needed because society still doesnt have better ways of organization than having govts of different shapes
Also regulations a lot of time are just ways to protect from high impact of unknowns. Bitcoin is a huge unknown even for “bitcoiners” which are suuuper minority, what can we even say of normies
But I still believe humanity will find right balance in terms of regulations and progress and those who are more aware of the domain area should not fight but help others find ways IMO

2024-03-23 17:43:52

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No worries. I’m genuinely curious. I have yet to find people from software (other than those bound by VC funds chasing AI badge) who are as excited by “AI” as those who just admire musk/altman

2024-03-23 17:41:55

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100k-1kk* of course

2024-03-23 17:41:10

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If you only consume the content from your follows you are indeed safe but thats not a social network experience
If you want to potentially be exposed to content of follows of your follows its approximately 100k-100kk users which kinda could work on a moderate gaming pc but def not a regular tier-2/tier-3 smartphone
If you want to see more 🤝🤝🤝friends of friends connections you need a solid hardware cluster given that at least some activity happens

2024-03-23 17:33:59

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Do you have hands on experience in software development?

2024-03-23 17:32:56

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How much memory/cpu are you willing to allocate for your nostr client of choice?

2024-03-23 17:31:35

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Just curious do you also hate EU for forcing Microsoft allowing other options than IE, for forcing Apple allow fixing iPhones at home, making Apple allow custom appstores and even more evil regulations outside of software I’m not so aware of?

2024-03-23 13:00:44

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…we already have fake* text, photo…

2024-03-23 12:59:51

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I think its neutral, we already have text, photo, video and audio content for decades. Even though a lot of those contents are low quality people still become their victims.
So if it takes a little less resources to generate content of higher quality, I don’t see how it can dramatically change anything

2024-03-23 10:40:05

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This is a huge part of the domain area, there are a lot of research going on on this topic. There examples where it works, but today its difficult to say if they actually work or artificially assembled in laboratory environments

2024-03-23 09:24:06

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How is that possible? You said rusia never attacks nato, I assume it also means China never attacks Taiwan.
So what countries does this world include?

2024-03-22 19:19:17

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43 is not nothing, its kinda even more important than nip-42. Nip-43 - is Fast Auth

2024-03-22 08:56:06

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Well, I have my own views developed decades ago mostly and I consider them consistent across different topics/domains and it works for me most of the time.
And the fact that those views contradict views of 90% of loud majority on nostr who speak about social networks but have very limited experience there, only gives me confidence :)
So no worries

2024-03-21 19:48:13

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If you don’t vote, it means you vote for current govt

2024-03-21 19:47:31

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Recommendations (unless you mean they are a part of discoverability)
Tools for relay operators to control content
Tools for creators to analyze reach
Private messages
Private groups
Push notifications
At least basic safety features (i.e. not exposing your IP address to those who send you pics)
Better (some) history/archiving strategy
Some alignment on what is (main) nostr’s targeted auditory
Kinds navigator/explorer
A way to “easily contribute to entire nostr” by providing hardware
Thats just from the top of my mind

2024-03-17 20:53:07

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Also, I misunderstood you here and specifically for that I apologize. I thought you did your research before posting the initial note and still decided to only mention 2k price. In this case you would intentionally spread disinformation
But if you didn’t do the research before making this claim you are spreading disinfo not intentionally but because you are a victim of propaganda
You say shit that directly affect my country and me. How can you expect me to be nice with you?

2024-03-17 20:49:32

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I may sound like an ass sometimes for some people because most of the time people don’t like the truth AND most of the time they can only see the truth when showered with cold water

2024-03-16 22:11:19

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And do I read it correctly that even regardless of what price tag is real, in your initial post you decide to use the lowest one without even mentioning there may be doubts?

2024-03-16 09:50:15

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🤦🏻

2024-03-16 09:49:34

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Its just a propaganda that their drones cost 2k and it costs 2kk to hit them. The same was for iranian drones rusians launch in Ukraine (perhaps the same drones itan supplies houthies with). But recently people started realizing drones cost closer to 200-300k at best

2024-02-29 20:11:15

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“A small set of possibilities” in that case is when you mix 2 lego boxes each with its own orders, mix it for a minute and get 2 layers one completely red and other one completely blue - thats what a small set of possibilities mean in this case
Otherwise probability is always 50/50 either yes or not

2024-02-21 09:14:04

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The funniest thing in this case that NATO would be frozen for months of decisions most likely because rusia would say they don’t invade anyone — thats crazy Ukrainian nazis attack Poland and rusia is actually trying to protect Poland

2024-02-20 22:25:13

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I’m asking pretty trivial question which you dodge by some reason.
If the world does not owe anything to Ukraine, why does it owe anything to Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Germany and Poland?
I don’t care here about any propaganda or capabilities. Simple question. Are those mentioned countries are in the same situation as Ukraine in terms of paper agreements or by some reason “its different”?

2024-02-20 22:09:48

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Why? Because article 5 “is different” compared to budapest memo?
It doesn’t have to invade it even. Just put a couple of wagner terrorists near Latvia border and start “training” and occasionally “miss” some drones/missiles/bullets over Latvia border. Or simply launch kalibrs from Baltic sea over nato members and accidentaly make it fall in the middle like it happened many times in RO and BG and TR already with drones and sea mines
I just want to understand where your hopium comes from that europe is safe? Looking at every country bordering with rusia how it rapidly militarizes, seems like they don’t share your positive attitude there

2024-02-20 22:06:10

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😔

2024-02-20 22:05:45

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The real reason why the world becomes less stable is that after ww2 many people in the world decided that democracy works and humanity agrees on some basic rules. And then a bunch of terrorists decided to challenge this assumption. And the more those people hesitate the less stable this world becomes by showing other terrorists that democracy doesn’t want to fight for its freedoms and it would better give up as much as possible in exchange for some hopium that “this is different”

2024-02-20 22:01:58

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So, answering a simple question, you assume that article 5 would not be used in case rusia invades european nato members, do I get you right?

2024-02-20 20:51:00

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Interesting, if you think budapest memo is useless, what makes you think nato article 5 is not?
Budapest memo being useless make Ukrainians fall in fear, as well as a perception of article 5 being useless would put entire europe be scared af
Do you also think europeans, Australians, Japanese should really consider article 5 to follow the destiny of budapest memo or “this is different”?
Yes, entire world is somewhat stable due to global agreements (on paper) and the US military is the most important factor there, thats a fact

2024-02-19 23:30:06

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Imagine what Ukrainians feel [on nostr] when they see people posting something like “nah, thats all because of the US/globalists/WEF/nazis” when rusians committ genocide

2024-02-14 08:51:25

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Does it mean that if your entire life sell toothpicks then closer to retirement you will be giving them away for free?

2024-02-11 20:32:57

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Hard to disagree

2024-02-11 16:18:46

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I wouldn’t recommend to go all in into coding even 10 years before. Its just a tiny skill that probably allocates around upto 10% of software development

2024-02-10 20:14:17

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Usually you wanted to pile books up because they contain distilled, clean, deep and verified information because in the majority of the cases published information stays true for decades or centuries with just small adjustments from time to time
Its probably incorrect to compare llm to books and considering one in favor of another
It could be a super cool offline-first swap for the majority of your google queries like “how many continents are there”, “what is the time in Sydney right now” etc, those question-answers pairs should have its own term

2024-02-09 23:37:42

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Of not discovery. Or a late discovery. Or a wrong discovery.
If thats your nostr feed that could have a couple of hours or days or months of being affected, thats probably ok
If your banking app got updated from another source and your WoT helped to discover it in an hour - it may already be too late
So in case if you don’t actually care of the consequences of the attack - thats ok. If you do care, you want as much control as possible. And today WoT could give much less control than Apple

2024-02-09 22:57:24

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Sounds great… if you don’t actually care of the consequences

2024-02-09 22:53:16

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😬

2024-02-09 22:52:41

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I rather refer to software development case when you have multiple open source dependencies in your project and one day one of the dependencies becomes controlled by an attacker
In case of a web of trust it may mean one of your friends becomes the attacker, or they are sold to an attacker or they get hacked by an attacker etc

2024-02-09 22:49:48

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It should. But even being very optimistic I can’t see any sense in it. rusians are stupid and all, but they are still just on another level of availavle resources

2024-02-09 22:47:11

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Sounds freaking cheap. Or you are way too pro. It was 70 UAH for me to get my car a bit more fresh but still dirty and 250 UAH for a fresh, clean but have stains back into 2021 😂

2024-02-09 22:44:13

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And then you learn a term “supply chain attack”

2024-02-09 22:41:29

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And tbh unfortunately I don’t think it currently makes a big difference. The main part is “partners” support, and not even only US and NATO but all of them. Without it, even Genghis Khan or Caesar unlikely could make a difference :(

2024-02-09 22:39:25

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Well, there are different opinions. I personally don’t like this change at all, but I’m completely not an expert and certainly don’t have enough information to judge

2024-02-09 18:52:52

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First of all, you have to understand not only bitcoin is at risk — our ENTIRE life is dependent on the same math that assumes bitcoin is not hackable. So if there is something able to hack bitcoin, then we anyway have MUCH bigger problems and bitcoin is itrelevant
Second, quantum computing is a myth. Quantum resistant algos is a myth. They do not exist. There are even no working theories. There are a couple of math theories and some practical experiments in this area but its just scientists having fun. Today, even if something like this gets developed, nobody knows will it be more efficient at hacking bitcoin than an ASICS fleet or less efficient. Nobody knows how those quantum algos (to attack and to defend) would look like. Thats all speculations
Indeed, its an extremely interesting area of science which has a chance to change our lives significantly in future. But today its probably less real than flying cars back into 1960x

2024-02-09 17:46:33

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And those people want developers to protect their “free speech” with technical solutions, amazing

2024-02-09 15:38:55

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I translate: “I don’t know anything about neither rusia or Ukraine but I don’t like US/CIA/NATO and I know they all don’t like rusia so I stand with rusia”
Thats actually a pretty valid and okish position. But only like 100 years in the past and before. With the amount of available information a person making such claims looks plain stupid, because it could take at max couple of says to educate themselves. But they don’t want to spend their time and they better chose to become genocide supporters instead of admitting they are blessed to just don’t give a fuck yet and stay ignorant

2024-02-09 13:18:32

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Its great to not support any type of war or even violence. But do you understand that war and violence sometimes are not bidirectional ?
There are cases when people just want to commit violence and go to the war with you irregardless of who you are, what you do and what you want
And in this case you can’t “turn your other cheek” like in bible or smth, you could chose between:
1) die
2) become a slave
3) fight back/hate back/war back
And funny here is only your inability to answer my question which you are hiding behind some philosophical considerations :)

2024-02-09 07:41:52

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Could you remind me when was the last time NATO fired strategical weapon into residential area?

2024-02-09 07:39:31

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Overestimating your enemies is as bad as underestimating them

2024-02-09 07:18:22

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Of course, that makes sense, I’m just a guy whos country is being destroyed, I don’t have a wing of TU-95 under my command or a suitcase with the red button otherwise you would interview me
Force and violence is the ultimate law and this kind of “free speech” demonstrates it amazingly

2024-02-08 23:59:00

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Free speech doesn’t work until people who are _curious_ to hear what pootin says exist. It just doesn’t worth it to have such free speech for humanity

2024-02-08 14:39:06

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I bet he uses his notes to store lmdb

2024-02-08 08:15:24

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So, you are insulted that dictators pocket propagandist is a called a liar because iof free speech and stuff but once hitting arguments you resort to sending people to die - I can smell free speech through the wires:) don’t worry, if democracy is defeated in Ukraine entire world will become a frontline and I’ll be there right after you
And you should learn the difference between demanding others to do something instead of you and calling them out to hold their own liabilities ;)

2024-02-07 22:12:52

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And thats the key. For everyone who has experienced rusian imperialism on their skin - there is one and the only villain.
For people blessed to only watch those genocides online - its easier to believe “nothing is so obvious” instead of the fact that there is a 100+ million nation in the 21th century that just want bring death and destruction instead of doing science and progress

2024-02-07 21:08:10

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pootin can only say lies. If you are blessed to not have to listen to him for decades, you are very lucky and I really glad for you that our current world order is able to give you a peaceful life. Thats actually one of the reasons why ukrainians die today
But if after so many events, so much first hand information, so many possibilities to verify on your own whats actually going on you still think something is not really clear. And especially given that you mention here US and rusia and don’t even mention Ukraine here (the main reason why this interview happens) - then you must understand you clearly show unbelievable signs of disrespect to every victim of this genocide and every person who knows on its own whats going on. And you can think whatever you want but in the eyes of those people (me included) you look like an ugly guy watching netflix series “ru-ua conflict” and hoping for some crazy conspiracy theories instead of a super mainstream scenario with a villain known from the first episode. And you must be prepared whatever you think about it, in out eyes you will always be just another genocide supporter. And unfortunately, history shows there are just more and more victims of rusian genocide lovers each year, so be prepared.

2024-02-07 20:34:06

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Its weird what surprises you here. Its an equivalent of “I don’t want to have business with murderers”, “I don’t want criminals visit my home”. The most logical step in modern politics in fact that reflects EU electorate opinion

2024-02-07 20:08:00

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So tens of millions of people for decades from chechnya, georgia, ukraine, syria and many others tell you everywhere that rusians are straight murderers. Almost every international organization (even those which partially sponsored by bloody rusian money) have to admit it. President of this terrorist state is prosecuted by international court. Since 2022 you have every possible evidence online to ensure levels of genocide. You can go to ukraine on your own to verify it.
But you still think something is not clear and its all because of propaganda, right?
Jfyi In the world where every person can share their content with millions of people online, there are no more journalists, there is no such things as journalist ethics etc.

2024-02-07 17:54:46

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Clowns are scared of strategical strategic genocide, bombarders and nuclear weapons? Well, I’m definitely a clown, aren’t you?

2024-02-07 08:59:59

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Yeah, avoid evil emails but force users install custodial lightning wallets or run their own lightning nodes 😂
You won’t believe it of course, but you are allowed to use nostr without email/phone/account (by relays) only because nobody actually uses nostr today

2024-02-07 08:56:48

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Oh, that sounds cool, huge respect to tether

2024-02-06 21:26:39

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Then you probably support all next statements:
1) accusing someone is a free speech
2) mining bitcoin is a free speech
3) firing kalibr missiles onto a sovereign country residence area is a free speech
4) writing software code is a free speech
Right?

2024-02-06 21:23:30

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Do you honestly believe this is a good thing and you support this interview been taken and people all over the world to discuss it?

2024-02-06 09:22:15

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Well it means you support talking to a terrorist. Just for a sale of a talk and entertainment of some people who watch genocide in the same way they watch new netflix series. Because those talks don’t help in any way but they show him and other dictators and genocide supporters he is not isolated.
Those talks show democracy is weak and it would rather talk than defend itself. So if another dictator starts another war in your country, just recall those talks and enjoy watching a new episode

2024-02-03 17:15:04

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Mind sharing a couple of accounts that produce interesting content (according to your definition of interesting of course)

2024-02-03 00:34:47

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Lol evil corporations vs holy books is an epic fight

2024-02-03 00:26:11

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Is this fact somehow related to complete absence of good content here wdyt?

2024-02-01 10:19:35

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Yeah, its so fan, it probably pootin who should be nominated right?

2024-01-30 09:46:57

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People really apply terms “controversial” and “censorship resistance” to revenge-porn deepfakes? Congrats, deep fakes worked, you are their victims

2024-01-29 21:35:51

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Yeap, and thats the exact reason for a relay name btw (https://github.com/viktorvsk/saltivka)