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Funny story: I was trying to pay for an online service with a credit card (my mistake, right?) and I tried something like 4 different cards and none were accepted. In the end, I did get it to work, but compare that to paying an LN invoice: just copy, paste and send. Lightning is so much easier to use than a credit card and it's much more private as well...

2024-05-24 21:31:42

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I will say this much, though: a vocal part of the set of trans people make a huge deal about it, like being trans gives them entitlement to who knows what.

2024-05-24 18:35:47

#nevent1q…typ5
#asknostr

2024-05-24 18:35:32

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Does anybody have a suggestion for a nice (non-gui?) desktop Nostr client?

2024-05-24 18:33:26

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For one thing, it goes to show that filial succession does *not* work.

2024-05-24 18:32:48

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They also don't really change the world, and are not significant in the grand scheme of things. If people are fine with that, great. But if everyone were like this we'd have no improvements in our society.

2024-05-24 18:22:17

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But since *they* rely on government enforcement, if we don't fight back in kind then we'll get trampled and for no good reason.
Also, MIT does require enforcement: it says that the copyright notice must be preserved in all distributed copies. That requires enforcement.

2024-05-24 18:20:15

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I think it was called Jester.

2024-05-19 20:21:57

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Well, we wouldn't need free software licenses if there weren't governments to enforce copyright laws in the first place.

2024-05-10 00:38:01

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Gentoo go brrr...

2024-05-10 00:37:21

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Since starting to use nostr, I've become more annoyed with having to provide information like email or birthdate. I guess I'm used to the permissionless internet now.

2024-05-10 00:35:13

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I found this article quite amusing:
https://sysdig.com/blog/fishing-for-hackers
He basically does the *opposite* of recommended security practice and sees what happens.

2024-05-09 04:51:19

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Nice. Which one?

2024-05-06 21:35:42

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How is Monero sacrificing security and decentralization?
Actually, I can kinda see the decentralization part, since the blocks can be bigger.

2024-05-06 21:34:04

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Is there any web cashu wallet that supports NWC?

2024-05-04 20:49:31

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Or we could consider using a coin that has privacy at the blockchain level (like Monero).
Note that I'm not saying that Monero is better or that it is the solution, just that I'd like to know what the problem with it is.

2024-05-04 20:47:17

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What do you mean?

2024-05-04 20:46:39

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OK, then maybe I should talk to him. 😉

2024-05-04 20:45:42

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Your neighbors can impose a cost on you with no need for a government.

2024-05-04 20:43:36

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Anarchy is only orderly and safe if the people are willing.

2024-05-04 20:41:32

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I forgot that Orthodox still use the Julian calendar. To any Orthodox reading, will you people consider changing to Gregorian please? Thanks.

2024-05-04 20:39:00

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Money has to be made. Making requires work.

2024-05-04 16:20:34

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What're we going to do about it?

2024-05-04 16:19:33

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Hunt turkeys.

2024-05-03 22:18:22

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Sorry, what happened?

2024-05-03 22:17:04

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You're wrong. Your mind has now been changed.

2024-05-03 22:16:35

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How'd you crack in?

2024-05-03 22:14:34

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Blastr?

2024-05-03 22:14:02

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Right, but what gives any government a right to demand your submission?

2024-05-03 22:09:10

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No. It's attractive to people who see that all governments have eventually gone bad.

2024-05-03 18:08:39

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> But transparency at the base is a pain for the corrupted.
What do you mean?

2024-05-03 18:07:50

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Saying something is already in a certain way means that nothing ever improves. If there's an improvement to be had, there's a change to be made.

2024-05-03 18:07:07

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You know what else has a record of being as it is? Government.

2024-05-03 17:59:25

Is there Push Notification support in #nostrudel?

2024-05-03 17:43:00

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How?

2024-05-03 17:41:28

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WTF?

2024-05-03 17:40:27

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Use Tor for actual privacy.
Mullvad is still subject to the government.

2024-05-03 17:37:17

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Why not have privacy on the base layer?

2024-05-01 23:36:14

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See Garet Garrett's article "The Revolution Was"

2024-05-01 23:35:05

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Why?

2024-05-01 23:33:47

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I never understood why either.

2024-05-01 23:24:56

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0. He looks stupid, lol.

2024-05-01 23:24:28

Just watched this dude spread FUD about Bitcoin.
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=0AAUrMuMPlo
He says that Bitcoin can't be used as a currency and that people promoting Bitcoin are either Ponzi scheme pushers or people who have no frens outside of Bitcion.
What BS.

2024-04-29 21:16:15

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And Android would be more like a shitcoin. Pinephone is true freedom.

2024-04-21 17:57:45

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Actually, now that I think about it, maybe we should just have some kind of p2p-distributed list of relays and then have relays use the normal protocol to get notes from each other.

2024-04-21 17:54:47

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Ooh, nice. I’ve had a good experience with BuyVM so far (once they actually had stock).

2024-04-21 17:54:09

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One of the reasons I won’t join the U.S. military is because then I’d have to swear to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Not sure I’d want to have to decide that those people are enemies of the Constitution (which they probably are).

2024-04-19 23:37:41

A quick contribution to the #zapathon:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=A8kGxcBdXYs

2024-04-19 23:35:47

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I just moved on, partly because I don’t have the sats to open any channels. Right now I’m using a cashu wallet, which works pretty well for me.
#cashu

2024-04-18 00:23:29

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Wow, that is insane.

2024-04-17 05:21:08

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Thanks. Of course, though, tonight just had to be the night I'm having trouble getting to sleep on.

2024-04-17 04:53:07

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First, thank you for doing what you did.
Second, yeah, follower count on Nostr will always be a little uncertain. In my book that’s a feature, since it means influencers will have a harder time knowing how many people they’re influencing.

2024-04-17 04:50:48

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GN. I should get to sleep. Got the SAT tomorrow.

2024-04-17 04:49:36

#nevent1q…u964
I remember seeing some criticism of blastr in connection with the gossip model. What are everyone’s thoughts on this? #asknostr
#blastr

2024-04-16 04:48:01

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Thanks.

2024-04-16 04:47:16

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I don’t have a ton of time to dedicate to this and also I’d have to use Github to make the PR.

2024-04-16 04:33:55

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That long? How?

2024-04-16 04:33:16

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Nice. How long’s the window?

2024-04-16 04:29:40

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Why? (Sorry if I’m dense) Is it because of the halving?

2024-04-16 04:28:17

I feel like Nostr relays should have a relay-to-relay note-sharing protocol kind of like Usenet servers did.
I’d be willing to help out with a NIP for that (as long as I don’t have to use Github for it).
What do you all think?
#grownostr #asknostr #nostrdev

2024-04-16 04:26:49

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OK, thanks.

2024-04-16 04:25:36

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But swapping ecash tokens from the same mint (avoiding lightning all together) would be anonymous, right?

2024-04-16 04:21:39

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Such as? Or do you mean using an L3 like Cashu?

2024-04-16 04:19:52

#asknostr question about #lightning:
If I pay a merchant (or even zap a pleb), does the recipient know my LN address? If not, how does it remain confidential?

2024-04-16 04:18:26

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Is the Rupee’s inflation that bad?

2024-04-16 04:16:10

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Because they’re blind to all lessons, both past and present. Something like that, IG.

2024-04-15 17:41:33

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And the decline of the desire for freedom in average Roman from the Republic to the end of the Empire kinda looks like the decline in the U.S.…

2024-04-15 17:39:36

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And this is why the government should have as little money as possible (preferably none).

2024-04-15 17:37:43

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How??

2024-04-15 17:37:23

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GM!

2024-04-15 17:36:44

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This. Using SQLite is often simpler and this shows that it’s also faster (at least in some cases).

2024-04-15 17:36:03

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Nice. SQLite is awesome.

2024-04-15 17:35:05

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I read it as “Cow worker showed up”. 🤣

2024-04-14 20:14:51

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What exactly do you mean by “server backend tech?”

2024-04-14 20:13:30

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Ah. Okay. I’ll be on the lookout for it.

2024-04-14 18:34:59

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Where’s more info on the Damus Productivity Suite?

2024-04-14 18:34:16

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We need to do more with Git collaboration over Nostr.

2024-04-14 16:57:38

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This was the selling point of the Fediverse, but the Fediverse gives too much power to the servers. Also, identities can't really be transferred. With Nostr, identities aren’t centralized and individual relays don’t have that much power.

2024-04-14 16:50:47

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Spread the news!

2024-04-14 16:50:28

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This is how I got here. Not through the Bitcoin aspect.

2024-04-14 16:49:57

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At first I misread this and thought you were saying that no buffets were good. I was going to get angry. 🤣

2024-04-13 05:23:49

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I guess what I’m trying to say is this: it’s probable that not everyone will be able to understand all that code. Even the ones who could (including me) would rather spend that significant amount of time doing something else. A better analogy would be a C compiler: you don’t need to read the code of a C compiler to be able to write C. If you had told programmers at the time that C was being adopted that they had to read and understand the compiler in order to use the language, they probably wouldn’t have used the language.
I’m not arguing that we should enstupidify Bitcoin. I’m against enstupidification of any sort. I’m saying that if we want “people” to use Bitcoin, we need to make it possible to understand without requiring weeks of study. If we want Bitcoin to be adopted, it has to be as easy to use as the fiat it’s replacing.

2024-04-13 05:18:36

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Well, my problem is that my wallet is only on my laptop.

2024-04-13 05:10:10

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Well, enough of them would have to stop helping the system.

2024-04-13 05:09:32

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What kind of information leakage is there? Do you know?

2024-04-13 05:08:44

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Wouldn’t that cause some kind of conflict between the state and the federal governments? I don’t think the feds would take it lying down.

2024-04-13 05:07:40

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It’d be even funnier if it was in Celsius.

2024-04-12 23:04:50

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Room temperature in Fahrenheit or Celsius?

2024-04-12 23:01:03

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At first I was just going to say that they’d put us all in jail, but then I remembered that if we all do stop, there won’t be anyone left to enforce it.

2024-04-12 21:01:10

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Bro can’t do math, lol.

2024-04-12 21:00:43

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Haven’t looked into Mutiny in particular that much myself. What are your thoughts on all the third parties it connects to when you use it?

2024-04-12 20:58:37

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Statistically speaking, at this point it’s probably some Dan.

2024-04-12 19:12:22

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But my wallet's only on my laptop...

2024-04-12 19:11:51

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I like the concept, but when I'm just scrolling through on my phone it's a little annoying to reply to everything. A reaction is a single tap.

2024-04-12 16:39:28

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By your reasoning, everyone should study medicine enough to understand every medical procedure they undergo.

2024-04-12 05:57:49

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No problem. Although I still feel like a noob myself.

2024-04-12 05:50:45

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Not everyone can read code. Even if everyone could read code, not everyone would be able to read code of that complexity. Even among people who could read code of that complexity, do you think that they would all want to read all of that code? No. That's like rewriting code instead of using a library. It's unnecessarily repeated work. If we want Bitcoin to be adopted by the average person, it has to be usable by the average person.

2024-04-12 05:40:28

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I'm American and I don't like the wearing of shoes in the house.