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2024-06-13 20:34:53

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I usually hear it more like "this is what is called a quote unquote asymmetrical response" which, to your point, is off.

2024-06-13 20:15:19

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For java, The Maven Central Repository is the de facto centralized repository. But it is not official. For C and C++, is there any package management system at all?

2024-05-07 17:10:26

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I know your point was about the bond market, but I'm curious about this fast food that is literally to die for. What restaurant was it?

2024-05-07 17:07:34

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Remember wheresgeorge.com? I expect cash has been tracked for some time now. It wouldn't be that expensive: make the banks and NCR do it. The tracking wouldn't be complete, however, and some privacy is still there in those untracked hops.

2024-05-07 16:58:39

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I think at some point electronic dollars became money and paper notes became claims redeemable in electronic dollars.

2024-05-07 16:56:24

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Consider the saying "cold, hard cash." Cash pre-dates banknotes.

2024-05-07 16:50:02

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This was probably part of the warmongers' "compassionate" strategy.

2024-04-30 15:43:03

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SIBO is a thing and SIBO tests are too.

2024-04-24 21:01:21

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It comes from the idea that we must tie a real identity to every online persona. No, we don't have to.

2024-04-21 01:19:35

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Yes.

2024-04-20 02:08:20

Happy Halving!

2024-03-09 21:27:22

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I don't think it requires KDE, it's a Qt5 app. Your original point was "simplest" though and given the dependency tree of kdeconnect, you're right. Perhaps kdeconnect is easier.

2024-03-08 21:17:53

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And you will find your home IP address is now on a bunch of naughty lists.

2024-03-06 19:32:09

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More free/libre games of note: Yorg, Hedgewars, OpenTTD. I haven't played OpenTTD, though.

2024-03-06 19:15:09

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What's wrong with silver?

2024-03-06 19:09:58

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Suppose she had 0 USD, 100 BTC, and 0 grams silver. Not bad in that case. Money is for using, including to buy other money. Suppose she had 10000 USD, 1 BTC, and 10000 grams silver, I agree, not a great move.

2024-03-06 19:02:01

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Another option: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatic-reader-view/

2024-03-06 18:58:09

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* Use curl, wget, links2
* Use Firefox with images disabled: https://kb.mozillazine.org/Permissions.default.image#2
* Use less web, more gemini, more desktop Nostr
The extension to specify particular faces to censor would be pretty neat, though.

2024-03-04 20:51:19

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Did you find any good racing games? I liked the Trackmania series before the free/libre switch.

2024-03-04 20:35:37

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Me too. It's still a medium of exchange and to me not quite money. "A medium of exchange which is commonly used as such is called money." says Mises. Maybe I do not use it enough and maybe you do. "The notion of money is vague, as its definition refers to the vague term 'commonly used.' There are borderline cases in which it cannot be decided whether a medium of exchange is or is not 'commonly' used and should be called money." Meh. You say tomato I say tomato. Fair enough.
How about this, though: the purchasing power of Bitcoin (based on the entire array of prices of all the goods and services in the market) keeps rising to new highs regardless of which money is used for calculation. Right?

2024-03-04 19:53:48

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Xonotic is pretty good.

2024-03-04 19:47:45

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😆 It still is is not money yet.

2024-03-04 19:30:25

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Look at the home pages for Google Wallet and Apple Wallet. Yuck.

2024-03-02 21:22:29

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I assumed you were asking about 0 AD here, that's what I am talking about.

2024-03-02 21:21:17

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As far as I know, yes. I have watched a few matches live from the lobby.

2024-03-02 20:52:33

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I never played AoE but 0 AD is pretty fun. Free/libre. Check it out.

2024-03-02 02:23:16

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I think it would saturate the bandwidth of any/all relays that are trying to serve it. And fill their drives if there are many streams. That and I doubt there is a video streaming protocol on top of nostr yet. But I mean even if there were. I suppose you're right that a paywall would help pay for the bandwidth. Then again, https://zap.stream/, how does that one work?

2024-03-02 02:18:22

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I think it means that if you're a target, they can get it. None of the mobile baseband software is free/libre. They probably attacked his phone rather than breaking Signal or its protocols directly. At least that is what I hope: active target (screwed) vs passive collection (secured). Another explanation could be that Signal is a US company and is therefore subject to National Security Letters. Not much Signal could do about those, I imagine. So it could be completely compromised. I hope not.

2024-03-01 18:27:23

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I know you meant it rhetorically. But it is probably too much data, right?

2024-03-01 17:54:44

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It is also confusing to say "store of value" because value cannot be stored in a thing. Value is exclusively in the mind of the valuer. On the other hand, LvM argued that there is objective purchasing power of money, so I might be picking nits.

2024-03-01 17:44:19

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This is going to be so 2023, sharing my conversation with an LLM. The follow-up is an important point, I think.
I said "Bravo. But Ludwig von Mises points out that the commonly quoted "store of value" function of money is superfluous. Store of value is already present in medium of exchange. In order to use a medium of exchange, there must be one exchange followed by the passage of time followed by another exchange. In order for the medium of exchange to work as one would expect, the medium must be valuable at the moment of the earlier exchange and at the moment of the latter exchange. Thus, to say "store of value" is unnecessary and distracting. Money is simply a medium of exchange, right?"
Answered dolphin-mixtral dutifully:
> You're correct that Ludwig von Mises argued that the "store of value" function of money is superfluous when you consider that a medium of exchange must already possess this property to be effective. The reasoning behind this is that for money to serve as a medium of exchange, it must hold its value over time between transactions. If people were unable to reliably use their money in the future, they would not accept it as payment, rendering it an ineffective medium of exchange.
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> So yes, while money does indeed have a "store of value" function, this can be seen more as a necessary consequence of its role as a medium of exchange rather than a distinct function. In summary, according to Mises' viewpoint, money is primarily a medium of exchange that inherently possesses the property of being a store of value.

2024-03-01 16:54:30

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I got a pleasantly surprising answer from dolphin-mixtral. I was expecting it to follow the IRS or ETF crowd and say "stock."
> Bitcoin is more like money than stocks because it functions as a medium of exchange and a store of value, similar to traditional currencies. While there are some similarities with stocks (such as being subject to market fluctuations), the primary purpose of Bitcoin is not for investment or ownership in a company but rather for use as digital cash.

2024-03-01 16:51:38

Is Bitcoin more like a stock or more like money?

2024-03-01 16:01:00

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What makes Fennec (or Firefox Focus) not useful?

2024-03-01 15:43:47

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Stack whatever you regularly use.

2024-02-29 19:56:54

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You can lower the bar to such systems if you want. When can I use it as money?

2024-02-28 17:28:22

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I mean do you know of anybody who received this or a similar letter, lawyered up, and fought it in the courts?

2024-02-25 00:51:13

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Do you know anyone who has fought this? This is too much.

2024-02-24 20:53:06

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Fair. Or the Tax Courts might recommend bringing back the firing squads or something.

2024-02-24 02:18:35

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A growing movement to go to prison? I suppose if a large enough proportion did it, they couldn't build prisons fast enough.

2024-02-23 21:00:07

https://image.nostr.build/cfef2718f02e30a3fb026f986af1e6670df66442cae81426b8b4c8c2bf7dc2fc.png

2024-02-23 18:49:08

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TIL I need to use a new git alias: pushf = push --force-with-lease

2024-02-22 18:12:12

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🤔

2024-02-21 20:55:36

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I see. Yes, I can be among those cynics, too. Especially when it comes to placing hope in politicians. The silver lining is that regardless of who is in authority, it is ultimately public opinion that enables (and disables) those authorities.

2024-02-21 19:15:42

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What do you mean by 50%+ allocation? Ongoing basis allocation of savings or existing allocation across all assets? Or allocation of spending using bitcoin?

2024-02-21 19:11:35

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I guess very few. It is convenient to host many domains on one machine with one IP address. But running on bare IP address would remove the DNS-takedown censorship opportunity, right?

2024-02-21 17:03:56

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Context?

2024-02-21 16:55:49

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I had to look it up, yes. It appears to be a nice device. But I can't trust a company that sells privacy or security related products while they use Google Analytics on their site.

2024-02-21 16:25:02

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Verification is "free": it only costs your freedom. To support privacy and freedom, check out @npub188x…gcqf by @npub1tut…mv92.

2024-02-16 17:04:32

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Have an electrical engineer compare the device with the free/libre hardware designs, have a security person review the hardware and software designs, and maybe run some tests. In short, it's hard to know with certainty but we can increase confidence. I haven't heard of a Coldcard, though.

2024-02-15 17:42:33

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I have yet to read the protocol(s) in-depth, but what would stop a relay from offering an alternative transport and falling back on WebSockets?

2024-02-15 17:36:26

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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

2024-02-15 16:42:21

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I have been scratching my head about the WebSockets too. But here we are. And it seems to work fine.

2024-02-13 19:12:05

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Does this mean folks are 24x as gullible toward custodial bitcoin as they are toward custodial gold? Therefore with gold about 13x the so-called market capitalization of bitcoin it means bitcoin is 1.8x oversold. Prove me wrong.

2024-02-13 00:17:21

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Gold and silver make sense in this list. But not the stocks and ETFs. Where are the fiat currencies?

2024-02-08 04:13:39

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Amen.

2024-02-04 22:48:55

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Settlement is instant. The exchange and ownership are private. Gold works when the Internet is down. Gold works when the power is out. The gold supply is limited by God, not by social agreement. I think Bitcoin is a nice complement, especially for online or long-distance exchange, but I never bought into the whole "Bitcoin is better than gold" narrative that started a few years ago. I'm not sure where that line came from. The important thing is to let people choose their own media of exchange, regardless. Some will prefer this, some will prefer that.

2024-02-04 21:51:48

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Yes. Gold and silver are the original decentralized fungible non-custodial moneys.

2024-02-04 03:21:15

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"Fact checked" 😆

2024-02-04 02:33:22

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Maybe don't test in production. Way easier said than done in this context.

2024-02-03 17:52:03

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The inflators usually blame producers and the weather.

2024-02-03 17:47:18

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This is a nice approach to plausible deniability. And yes, fun!

2024-02-03 02:07:45

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The Abbott solution for cat theft?

2024-02-02 19:38:05

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My sense significant qualitative and quantitative differences.
If I recall correctly, and I don't have any sources, any business in China is technically owned by the CCP. A business might operate like it's free and private while it's small, but once it gets big enough, the state really does take it over. In the USA, the businesses are technically owned by the owners. The state might meddle using regulations or national security letters or things like that, but for the present the businesses are still owned and operated by their owners. If somebody has a source confirming or denying this I would appreciate it.
As for the totalitarianism, I think China is only worsted by North Korea, right? This difference with the USA is more about scope. The USA tracks, surveils, imprisons, assassinates, etc., but perhaps the latter two in a less broad manner. It's hard to tell because the USA officially denies doing a lot of that stuff. My sense is that everybody in China knows they operate under such a regime whereas in the USA the state denies it and people don't want to believe it happens here too.
If you look at the measures recommended in the Communist Manifesto's second chapter, it has been argued that most or all of them are present in the USA. So you're right that it's difficult to say "communist" applies to China but not the USA. We have to be more specific.

2024-02-02 19:16:20

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"It depends." - Academic

2024-02-02 19:15:13

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Indeed. I don't have a Glock in .45 and don't remember any experience with them in .45 but I've heard nothing bad about them. I have heard bad things about 1911s from James Yeager and have seen a couple of them malfunction in easy conditions. I have not seen any Glocks or XDs malfunction in easy conditions. Not that I have seen a lot of either, I'm talking a handful.

2024-02-02 16:46:32

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Ruger supports gun control.
Cost: filling a G17 mag is a little cheaper than filling a G21 (currently).
More rounds: a G17 mag has 17, a G21 has 13.
I like to pick a round and then use it across the board. Total cost of ownership is mostly ammo not the firearms. So if you are already in a bunch of 9mm and have little-to-no .45, it probably makes sense to stick with 9mm. If you are already in a bunch of .45 and have little-to-no 9mm, it probably makes sense to stick with .45. Along these lines you might want to get rid of the .380 because it's similar to 9mm but is almost as expensive as .45.
Pistols and/or shotguns are probably fine for home defense. I don't know how one can avoid hearing loss in a home defense situation.

2024-02-01 22:35:57

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They probably had to show up. Physical presence is a high bar but sometimes it happens.

2024-02-01 20:21:27

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This is the crux.

2024-02-01 20:08:18

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Simpler is certainly better. In the case of "me and my one machine" it can naturally be simple. A lot of complexity might be self-inflicted but some of it comes from the natural complexity of "my team and our machines serve many people." If it's "me and my one machine" I might use version control because it's useful to just me, but there isn't strictly a need for it and it would be simpler without it. Likewise I might or might not have a dedicated test machine or an automated build if it's just "me and my one machine." But those latter things start to make more sense once other people are involved.

2024-02-01 19:59:42

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Command and Control (2016)
Wormwood (2017)
Coup 53 (2019)

2024-02-01 19:50:17

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I agree in general. But to play devil's advocate: people like the convenience of payment tools such as Venmo and do not like the inconveniences of government tools such as 1099-K. The more people who have assets frozen by governments the more people will be interested in unfreezable assets. Do these three ideas combine to swing the norm to private, decentralized payments? Perhaps it depends on the frequency and scope of seizures by governments.

2024-02-01 16:46:11

"Ergo abolendo rumori Nero subdidit reos et quaesitissimis poenis adfecit quos per flagitia invisos vulgus Christianos appellabat. auctor nominis eius Christus Tiberio imperitante per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum supplicio adfectus erat; repressaque in praesens exitiabilis superstitio rursum erumpebat, non modo per Iudaeam, originem eius mali, sed per urbem etiam quo cuncta undique atrocia aut pudenda confluuunt celebranturque. igitur primum correpti qui fatebantur deinde indicio eorum multitudo ingens haud proinde in crimine incendii quam odio humani generis convicti sunt. et pereuntibus addita ludibria, ut ferarum tergis contecti laniatu canum interirent, aut crucibus adfixi aut flammandi, atque ubi defecisset dies in usum nocturni luminis urerentur. hortos suos ei spectaculo Nero obtulerat et circense ludicrum edebat, habitu aurigae permixtus plebi vel curriculo insistens. unde quamquam adversus sontes et novissima exempla meritos miseratio oriebatur, tamquam non utilitate publica sed in saevitiam unius absumerentur." - Tacitus
Translated to English: "Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular. Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty; then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind. Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired. Nero offered his gardens for the spectacle, and was exhibiting a show in the circus, while he mingled with the people in the dress of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car. Hence, even for criminals who deserved extreme and exemplary punishment, there arose a feeling of compassion; for it was not, as it seemed, for the public good, but to glut one man's cruelty, that they were being destroyed." - Tacitus

2024-02-01 16:16:12

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"He who controls the spice..."

2024-02-01 16:07:11

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Do we only believe the ancients because we have current witnesses and photographs?

2024-01-31 16:28:16

"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." - Paul

2024-01-31 16:19:29

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Nice. It does use those in-band comments. But is there a free/libre locally-running alternative implementation?

2024-01-31 16:11:49

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Ironically hosted on GitHub.

2024-01-30 23:56:07

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And I guess I missed the memo that the .NET SDK and runtime are now proper Free Software. TIL https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/blob/main/LICENSE.TXT and https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/LICENSE.TXT
So I guess it's OK? Kind of?

2024-01-30 23:18:05

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But that's only one client, right? Nothing against CoinJoins.

2024-01-30 23:11:30

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I stopped reading at "Get .NET 8.0 SDK: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download"

2024-01-30 22:55:30

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@npub1tut…mv92 made a nice list of alternatives: https://github.com/@npub1tut…mv92/awesome-privacy?tab=readme-ov-file#chatgpt
ollama is nice.

2024-01-30 20:42:59

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I meant to say "without restarting anything."

2024-01-30 20:41:44

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If there were only one log statement per log level in a given class and you use the typical hierarchy of loggers (one per class), logback lets you do this even restarting anything. https://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#autoScan

2024-01-30 20:28:59

"Ruger is coming out with a new pistol in honor of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. It will be named the 'Congressman'. It doesn't work and you can't fire it." - Larry Pratt

2024-01-30 20:17:41

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Has Ruger stopped hating liberty? I see a 5.7mm version too but they're missing a 9mm version.

2024-01-29 02:42:11

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@npub188x…gcqf by @npub1tut…mv92 has a nice list (and a big pending list) of KYC-free services.

2024-01-29 02:32:32

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https://nitter.unixfox.eu seems to be working at the moment.

2024-01-28 16:58:13

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Enemy of the State

2024-01-24 21:37:50

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Relevant: https://invidio.us/watch?v=dZDsLaKI3M4
A rake with a telescoping pole, perhaps?

2024-01-24 17:03:31

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We depend on normies to live. Check out some episodes of "Alone" to see what life is like outside of exchange with normies. That said, yes, it's difficult to relate to people, especially people with whom we disagree. Figuring out how to not completely separate and at the same time not completely conform is a challenge. 🫂

2024-01-23 20:08:20

"Truth is treason in the empire of lies." - Ron Paul (paraphrasing George Orwell)

2024-01-23 15:59:05

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The video is from above, so there's an aircraft or satellite looking down. What are some defense possibilities? Smoke? Radio jammer? Warm moving decoys? Spring-loaded net? Another drone to intercept?

2024-01-22 16:18:58

"Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution." - Allen West

2024-01-19 18:01:46

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A nice thing about markdown is its legibility in raw form. My nostr client presented the raw markdown and it was easily readible.

2024-01-19 16:31:36

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I think he said he would end the endless wars. While he did not end them, it appears he did not start any new ones or escalate existing ones. The previous president to achieve that I think was Ford.

2024-01-18 17:04:04

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Bravo! Do you withdraw your consent to be governed?

2024-01-09 17:30:54

"Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice! What is theory, if it be not a knowledge of the laws which connect effects with their causes, or facts with facts? And who can be better acquainted with facts than the theorist who surveys them under all their aspects, and comprehends their relation to each other? And what is practice without theory, but the employment of means without knowing how or why they act?" - Jean-Baptiste Say

2024-01-08 23:02:55

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I agree the "news ... tends to be the bad stuff", true everywhere.
I did not mean to suggest the USA has more respect for property than NZ, but rather the goal is to find a place that does respect property. I would not have guessed NZ is better than the USA in this regard. Your examples suggest NZ may have slight superiority in some regards.
We agree on this: "the people next door matter FAR more than the people in some city far away ..."

2024-01-08 22:01:40

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Those are admirable qualitites. Unfortunately, I think it's fair to say elections (even fair ones) are a poor predictor of good government. I would rather have a system with respect for property than a choice among rulers.
My (perhaps unfair) impression of NZ is people elected a tyrant Jacinda, right? But then she resigned? My other impression is the Kim Dotcom raids where the NZ government is complicit with USA government. Oh and five eyes.
I hope I'm not coming down too harshly on NZ, I am genuinely curious to know. Perhaps the past three years have lit a flame of liberty in the minds of the NZ people and things will get better. I hope the same for the whole world.