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2024-06-01 14:20:06

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If you have your private messaging link in your profile, that can work. On other services, I’ve had people give me their banking info, their legal names, their addresses, their cellular phone numbers via DMs, despite knowing the owner / admins could see it if they desired. I would rather they contacted me via XMPP for that.

2024-05-23 22:31:12

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We had SEO when Google was just an idea in some college students’ heads. It got a whole lot worse once there was a centralized monopoly, but I remember when metatag stuffing was a thing, and microscopic invisible text after that.
As always, it mostly gets used to elevate garbage.

2024-05-20 19:14:20

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/so-long-richard-shelby-and-thanks-for-all-the-pork/
Seeing discussions about Shelby’s outsized influence on NASA’s decision making … implying that Artemis was part of that.

2024-04-16 04:58:28

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html
If you use PuTTY, read this.

2024-02-04 05:27:07

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The IP address my ISP gives sometimes points to my exact city and sometimes to cities over 50 miles away.

2024-02-04 05:22:12

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Alex, You're missing out on the ever-present fear that what you're chewing on will start wiggling in your mouth.

2024-01-31 00:40:52

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All on-screen keyboards that I've ever tried stink. I want a phone with a physical keyboard again.

2024-01-27 02:00:41

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You’re not old until your son’s beard turns gray.

2024-01-27 01:51:13

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I’m blocked because they think I have an adblocker running.

2023-12-28 20:21:34

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Oh, happy birthday, jb55. Same day as Linus Torvalds.

2023-12-20 00:20:37

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Maybe if there's a link to tbe source so we can read the whole story. It is hard to have discussions about the headline without the whole story.

2023-12-19 21:38:32

I was on G+ briefly at the beginning, when it was a Diaspora clone without federation. When they got intrusive about personal information, I completely closed my Google account. I think that happened even before I closed my Facebook account.

2023-12-19 21:33:59

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"Get over yourself" was a little rough. If I had to summarize, I'd say they meant you're not posting regularly enough to gain a following.

2023-12-19 21:31:53

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I've never seen your posts before now.

2023-12-19 21:30:33

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Every national government is going to consider and consider again before making such major changes in their financial system. They have to think about who benefits, but also about who gets harmed.

2023-12-19 21:23:43

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It is important, to realize that we're not really in competition with other decentralized social networks. We're trying to break the stranglehold that the corpocentric socnets have over online social. Everyone that uses any decentralized socnet instead of the big corporate centralized networks helps chip away their dominance.
That's also why I favor bridges between decentralized protocols and multiprotocol sites. If I don't have to join $NETWORK in order to interact with my contacts there, that benefits me and means we don't have to maintain a centralized fallback.
I think the instance model used by the Fediverse is too vulnerable to petty dictators, so they'll eventually need something closer to peer-to-peer (possibly Nostr or similar, as P2P that works as the network grows does not seem to be a solved problem). But it is a good intermediate step for people leaving centralized platforms.
TL;DR: The goal at this stage is to weaken the centralized platforms, not pick the eventual winner. Every decentralized user gained is progress.

2023-12-17 02:36:54

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Hey.

2023-12-16 05:14:11

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I drove 4+ hours to visit a Krispy Kreme in Kansas City once. Of course I also picked a friend half way there and went to MicroCenter and then a BBQ place.

2023-12-15 23:42:48

What's going on with Alby? I've seen a couple of posts mentioning it.

2023-11-15 18:00:25

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I only heard of fentanyl a few years ago. The question is: are we sure that a significant portion of street fentanyl is imported? If it is being made in backyard drug labs, then trying to block it at the border is a waste.

2023-11-15 04:31:33

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It's pretty scary that they can be that ignorant about the necessity for anonymous and pseudonymous "speech".

2023-11-14 20:15:41

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18 is an adult in the US

2023-11-14 19:57:20

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I really do hope they figure out how to host economically ... and how to federate without losing their paid userbase. If former President Trump's motive was being deplatformed from #corpocenric socnets, he should consider that a non-federated platform leaves his users in the same boat.

2023-11-14 19:49:10

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Thank you, @npub108p…yev6 for what you are doing. If I ever make it to Austin TX, I will try to meet.

2023-11-14 19:11:46

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I'd say it is a vanishingly small percentage of people who "designed" society by enforcing their choices on the rest of us. I also disagree that said designers were all male.
To some degree, society is just today's ruling choices laid atop the prior day's ruling choices with near infinite recursion.
That said, we can and should be trying to make society better for all of us.

2023-11-14 04:16:35

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I remember reading something about crazy high hosting costs. Maybe someone should tell them to shop around for reliable hosting that doesn't break the bank.

2023-11-09 21:19:24

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I used to just add books to their returned stack. No need for plaques or someone to approve the donation.

2023-11-09 20:57:21

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McD's is the market leader by far. They can and do set prices, even when inflation was low.

2023-11-07 03:04:57

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There was some issue at a private ACH processor (contractor for the Fed?). The banks have to re-send those transactions.

2023-11-07 03:02:56

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Yes.

2023-11-04 02:31:24

I don't expect to repeat it, but my phone says I took half a million steps in October.

2023-11-04 02:29:00

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With the unstable management over there, any dependency on Twitter is a bad thing.

2023-11-04 02:25:00

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Happy birthday. My granddaughter turned 12 yesterday.

2023-10-27 20:58:10

Remember when XenSource (Xen) was going to catch up with VMWare (pre-Citrix)?

2023-10-25 02:57:43

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Yes, that was something most pump.io clients figured out. Hopefully nostr clients also figure that out.

2023-10-22 22:17:05

Certain BOTS belong in BOTcatraz. Others can be okay in limited quantities.

2023-10-21 00:49:27

McDonald's has terrible food, but today feels like 90⁰F and they sell 'frozen Coke' slushies.

2023-10-21 00:45:52

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Most boycotts don't last long, but according to the article, this one is still hindering ABInBev's sales months later. This may become a case study for business schools.

2023-10-20 21:15:28

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Whenever I'm shopping with / for one of my granddaughters, I send lots of photos to a female friend. She responds with get this, don't get that. It really helps.

2023-10-20 21:00:54

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Improved easy-to-use filtering (possibly including autofiltering of potentially illegal content) in clients would go a long way toward solving that. It could be decided during initial set up.
Also, relay operators could be on the hook for such content. Hopefully the developers of relay software are already working on moderation tools.

2023-10-16 08:46:47

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First you invent a time machine. Then you go forward in time to the desired date, generate the encryption key, tell you of that time what the key is, then come back in time and encrypt the data.
So yeah, you’ve posed some significant challenges. I suppose zero knowledge proofs have already been considered for the second one.

2023-10-16 08:33:47

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There’s room for both of them, but extremists on both sides refuse to concede that neither group has anywhere else to go and that therefore any solution must include BOTH of them living there in the land.
And this means that Hamas (with its kill all the Jews and others living there goal) is a major obstacle to any lasting peace.

2023-10-14 09:45:00

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I don't play games enough to have any recommendations.

2023-10-12 19:14:11

#Amethyst is the only #Nostr client in F-Droid so far.
I may give up phone posting.

2023-10-11 08:01:21

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If you’re trying to “make your vote count”, you need to be that one vote that puts the winner ahead. On the other hand, if you want your vote to help make things better, vote for the one candidate most aligned with your views, even if the candidate is not part of the #twin_parties ™️.

2023-10-10 02:48:51

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> We don't need ...
There's a reason people create new socnets all the time. The old ones don't meet all their needs. It's time for bridges, multiprotocol servers and multiprotocol / API clients, so people get the benefits of their desired protocol and can still reach their contacts who use other protocols.
The goal is to take away enough people so corpocentric networks lose their ubiquity and begin to collapse. Being partisan about AP or Nostr or ATProto doesn't help. We're all in it together.

2023-10-10 02:37:37

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He's being myopic again. Protocols, not sites / apps. One site can speak multiple protocols and be part of multiple networks. And bridges can help where the app developers don't.
Every person who uses a decentralized network--any decentralized network--helps all others by legitimizing protocols instead of #corpocentric social sites. Each network can learn from the others and evolve closer to each other.
If we think the protocol is unchangeable, we'll fail to fix its most annoying flaws, which will eventually start chasing devs and admins away, taking users with them.

2023-10-08 19:56:14

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I don't remember Hulu having any public domain content, but I remember watching lots of 1960s and 1970s shows.

2023-10-06 20:32:56

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26455
This is not the way to persuade developers to change their software's behavior. Not for Mastodon, not for Nostr, not for Bluesky.
Try it with Twitter / X and see how it gets.

2023-10-02 03:26:46

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Wow. You're about the same age as my kids. I thought you were older.

2023-10-02 03:18:49

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I'm still active over there, so I do follow a few of my contacts across the bridge.
That said, I think Fediverse people have different privacy expectations than Nostr people, so bridge blocking is also happening via various fedi instances.

2023-09-30 20:00:19

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What's Reddit?
;-)

2023-09-29 04:37:34

Remember when http://homepage.tinet.ie/~leslie/testpage.htm was the main speed testing page?

2023-09-29 04:34:22

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No. If the movie is that bad, I'll leave the theater / turn off the stream.

2023-09-28 23:26:20

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0.77.0 does that occasionally.

2023-09-28 21:25:18

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It tastes better immediately after baking

2023-09-28 21:22:50

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You are quite the risk taker

2023-09-28 21:21:16

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I don’t think T-rump stands to gain anything from participating in those debates; it is the other candidates who need him there so they can look relevant and prove they can win
No one except political junkies is paying attention or even knows who is running yet

2023-09-27 04:05:01

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It was awful.

2023-09-27 01:53:33

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Make sure your pants cover your underpants and your underpants cover your personal parts? What else do you need?

2023-09-27 01:42:58

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I used Identi.ca, lnxwalt.status.net, 280.status.net, 300.status.net.

2023-09-27 01:39:31

I closed my Mastodon account (Vivaldi.social). I still have multiple Pleroma / Akkoma / GnuSocial accounts, so I'm still active in the Fediverse.
I just don't like the MastoUI and I didn't feel that my direction is compatible with Vivaldi's.

2023-09-24 19:02:01

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Uh oh. Alex got hired by the FBI.

2023-09-23 18:59:51

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I said in another conversation that corporate CEOs can give up an extra mansion so their employees can afford to buy homes.

2023-09-23 17:53:42

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@npub1jlr…ynqn @npub18am…p424 Nostr isn't failing at all. The future is bright. Most of the people fleeing #Twitter seem to be choosing decentralized alternatives such as Nostr or the Fediverse, or #BlueSky which isn't decentralized yet, but promises to become decentralized in a later iteration. We may seem to be in a death match against other decentralized networks, but every user that replaces a corporate centralized network with a decentralized network strengthens the whole sector. #DecentraLife is always preferable to #CorpoCentric life.
If trends continue, each of these networks will grow some form of interoperability with the others. The mostr.pub bridge is just a beginning. And in the meantime, people keep building. New clients, new ways to present Nostr (like #Reddit, like #Instagram, etc).
Recently, #Minds, which already has its own #Nostr relay, added #Fediverse capability. Once again, we see the two growing together. The future is bright.

2023-09-21 03:13:49

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They'll make them sign a contract as long as the Affordable Care Act that prevents the patients and their families from suing when their head swells up like a watermelon.

2023-09-21 03:04:40

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Maybe someone should write a NIP that defines a suggested minimum featureset (list of NIPs to be implemented) for microblogging type clients. Then, clients can claim NIP-XYZ compliance and users can have an idea what they can do.

2023-09-17 18:41:34

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I think I took one of my kids to see that. I don't really remember the movie itself, just the kid's excitement.

2023-09-17 18:37:48

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Last minute wins can stun everyone.
I see that Mizzou beat K State with a last minute 61 yard field goal.

2023-09-17 18:32:51

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You could use something like https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ to come up with a name.

2023-09-17 18:26:07

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It can also mean they came from a direction that wasn't being watched. For example, in #CFB, a quarterback can be looking to see where to pass and a tackler comes from another direction and sacks him.

2023-09-17 18:22:37

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You'd have to ask @npub108p…yev6 for details, but I hear Deno WONTFIXed a security issue.

2023-09-17 18:19:13

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There used to be a raw milk dairy in SoCal. Is it gone now?

2023-09-17 17:46:08

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I am only hearing about it from you.

2023-09-02 09:39:16

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I don’t know if there is one “correct” way anymore, but I learned “okay” when I was in school, so that’s what I always use.

2023-09-02 09:36:51

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Going on adult Summer camp?

2023-08-27 21:01:15

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I want gun safety. That means getting rid of unarmed victims zones, so potential targets can shoot back. UVZs encourage these sort of acts.
Also, the sheriff said Dollar Tree in the news conference. Is there confirmation that it was Dollar General instead?

2023-08-27 20:50:36

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Are you considering a recursive scan for imports, then doing an ordered import? Or are you just importing as the compiler encounters them?

2023-08-23 04:45:36

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Lincoln gambled with slave states.

2023-08-23 04:34:48

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I did not realize you were so young.

2023-08-11 22:59:19

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What did you expect? Knowing about "credible threats" and not reporting them is asking to be prosecuted.

2023-08-11 01:45:13

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I have to admit I do not understand this post.

2023-08-10 03:07:53

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I tend to wonder about parents who let younger kids do things like this. Fame and fortune are corrosive enough for fully grown adults. I cannot imagine their effect on youngsters.
And is she and her brother died as the parents squabbled over control of their funds, that's just more proof these things are corrosive.

2023-08-07 23:26:45

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Someone is spending too much time in truck stop restrooms.

2023-08-07 23:21:50

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RIP

2023-08-06 02:12:21

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It's good to see people using software without obsessing about the creator's politics.

2023-08-05 22:28:36

Replies still mostly spammers.
At least Amethyst has "report and block". Some clients don't even have that yet.

2023-08-02 10:53:38

https://fortune.com/2023/08/01/oceangate-co-founder-venus-expedition-titanic-deepsea-vehicle-submersible/
People living on Venus? I don’t see it myself. Maybe they can send sulfur eating bacteria, but not people.

2023-08-02 10:30:05

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Someone said that about half their users already stopped using it.

2023-07-31 08:04:19

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About as many as they've caught by X-raying crotches.

2023-07-27 04:53:32

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The biggest letdown was Forrest Gump. Good movie, but nowhere near what everyone had told me.

2023-07-27 04:51:27

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Also, there was one I think it was "A River Runs Through It" that I tried to watch in the 1990s. It was long and boring. I turned it off. Same for "Water World", but I plan to try to watch WW again.

2023-07-27 04:48:20

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Napoleon Dynamite was really bad. I tried to watch once. I will try again some time.

2023-07-27 04:42:50

So I spent a little time reading the #Worldcoin white paper. Despite that, I am not convinced that "privacy preserving" and "biometric verification" ever belong together. I think it has to show how that is true beyond "trust us". I don't think they succeeded.
Maybe this is secretly backed by the TSA or something.
You can read it yourself at https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/

2023-07-22 05:35:20

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I saw The Godfather (the one with the horse's head) and found it so uninteresting that I went to sleep. Even Rocky and First Blood weren't that bad.

2023-07-22 05:33:27

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Episode IV, episode VI, and a couple of the Disney versions were good. Episode I wasn't as bad as people pretend. I think it was better than episode V.
These days, I go see one if the kids go, so we can discuss it. If they don't go, I wait until I buy the DVD.

2023-07-22 00:20:27

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I only recently heard of those.

2023-07-22 00:15:37

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Works on Amethyst / Android.

2023-07-21 10:59:30

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brazilian-cbdc-allows-government-freeze-174630324.html

2023-07-21 05:03:26

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Is that a real boy scout or just photoshop. That's a lot of merit badges.