Last Notes
I'm thinking about a technical advancement with the hardware. Privacy phones have been tried in the past, and for various reasons, best to keep any and all corporate interest away from it.
Anyway, I said about a decade ago that the only groundbreaking advancement in phones left on the horizon are better batteries.
Still waiting on that, but I'll be the first to admit I am awful at physics.
The EU is the most regulation happy body I've ever seen, but at least they slide a good one or two in there every now and again.
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Husker for Life
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Weak. If they’d only asked me, I would have gotten back in shape.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-06/vatican-cricket-uk-tour-king-charles-england-seniors-windsor.html
Say what you will about Joe Biden, but one of the things he did this term was to fund high speed Internet to rural communities. That's likely why I have the best Internet I've ever had in a town of 5,000. 😂
I live in a rural town in one of what they call the "collar counties" of the Chicago suburbs. They put in fiber last summer, but I'm unsure of the adoption rate. Most of the time, the pipe is wide open to me.
Below is what the router does raw, and the Speed Test in the quote post reflects what I can get via WiFi to my Mac Studio.
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Tested mine also through the Orbi app.
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Fiber. And I live in a really rural town technically outside the Chicago suburbs.
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This is sad. Though MTV died a long time ago, the good work they did back in my formative years at the spearhead of music and culture was still relevant.
https://www.showbiz411.com/2024/06/25/paramount-shuts-down-mtv-website-wipes-history-after-20-plus-years
Dip on the ole commodity eh?
Just as I dreamt it up in 3rd grade. Beautiful.
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One problem with @npub10qd…arpj -- I can load everything exactly once in Brave browser, before it sends me to a perpetually loading circle that never ends. Close browser tab and you're out of luck.
Oooh... @npub10qd…arpj looks great on desktop.
A STORY FROM THE LIFE OF ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA:
According to the story, the funeral of a rich man was being celebrated with great pomp in a city in Tuscany. Anthony was present, and is said to have commented that the dead man did not deserve such honour since he had exploited and oppressed the poor. “His heart is in his money-box”, said the Saint, echoing our Lord’s words that “where your treasure is, there your heart will be too”.
So far, so good; but the story goes on to say that, following Anthony’s words, a surgeon was called in, who cut open the dead body and found no heart! A little later, when the family opened the dead man’s treasure chest, there was the heart! As a result, the dead man was not buried in the splendid mausoleum that he had prepared for himself, but in a cave by the river.
I would use this, because I'm a 40 something nerd with a gut.
That's why I say: if it works in actuality the way they present it in theory, I'm fine with it.
It's the one I'm familiar with from my back pages.
It's fine and I'll live with it, IF a) it actually works as advertised, and b) submission of content is voluntary, instead of automatically working in the background with every piece of input.
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"every tool is a weapon -
if you hold it right." - Ani DiFranco
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Ripping off actual artists to train the robot artist the actual artist fears will replace him.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/adobe-defends-terms-of-service-changes-amid-gen-ai-explosion/
Of course the vampires came after @npub180c…h6w6. Of course they did.
The beautiful thing about what you people are building is that it's above politics, or the political views of any one of us. I've seen people with chasms between them in politics work and build and joke respectfully via this protocol. That won't change, no matter how much the world around Nostr wants to drag it back into the status quo.
1) Subscribed to TIDAL yesterday because they did us Nostriches a solid.
2) Went down the rabbit hole of how audiophiles utilize high quality streaming.
3) Spent a bunch of money.
At least it'll all sound great.
Not only is it Signal spam, it's Bitcoin Signal Spam.
Double Gross.
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Glad I ordered when I did. And glad your effort is now paying off!
🤣 It's always been controlled government tech. Might as well just make it official.
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Angel Hernandez has retired. For #MLB fans, the temptation is to perhaps rejoice this day, but consider: we need our villains, and they need us. By the metrics, he wasn't the worst of umpires, but he drew the most ire. A generous and godly man, it seems he's always comported himself as a gentleman.
But boy howdy, could he have bad games, and we all let him know it. It was part of the fun, and now that chapter is closed. That he never backed away from bad calls or accepted responsibility for them sealed his fate as a hated character, a permanent heel on our beloved diamond.
Fare thee well, Angel, and thanks for the memories. C. B. Bucknor will have to do, for we who remain.
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Bill Walton. What a character. RIP.
'Furiosa' is, apparently, worth seeing.
Brilliant book. I think you may just need to finish it and give it a couple days to marinate.
The only aesthetic.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/f732b6e16fae9de35b33f6933e27fc6a7b93be35df40829dd10e3973a05d891c.mp4
Of course, nothing excuses the fact that it's just a bad machine by comparison. The M series running macOS (the rest of my machines) is unlike anything else.
I bought a MacBook Air i7 just months prior to the release of the M1, and let me tell you: it's aged like milk. It sits in my bed (celibate's privilege) and is the absolute worst machine I work with.
And I know it's intentional. Apple what's that i7 MacBook Air dead.
Definitely thinking noStrudel is the best we have on Desktop. For now.
I nostr from an Onyx Boox Palma. Good stuff.
Happy 83rd to the GOAT. Ad multos annos, Bob.
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As silly as this strike is, a sobering moment with regard to the normie's view of crypto: everything it touches is a "scam."
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If true, glad I got out of gaming while the gettin' out was good.
https://www.guru3d.com/story/microsoft-reportedly-readies-billion-bid-to-acquire-valve-steam/
So good, I've committed to the manga version the kids are talking about.
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Color me not impressed. They had a chance to build it right, but decided to concede to the Twitter defectors.
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Windows Recall under the stage name of """AI""" is probably the most disturbing thing I've seen in my 30 years of computing. What's more disturbing is that this will become a trend, and you won't be able to opt out.
Time for everyone to get really familiar with Linux. Unfortunately.
Decks and lists are why I hold that we don't *really* need default algorithms: what users really need is sorting and organizational utilities, with the algorithms aiding in discovery alone.
I do have to hand it to Zuck -- the pivot over to a deck mode is enticing. Decks and lists are the only way to sort social media in a way that makes sense for those who follow multiple interests.
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Thanks! This is what I've wanted/needed to utilize Nostr in the way I do Twitter.
They don't extend too far south in the U.S. because we have the terrible Starbucks and the moderately better Dunkin, and they feel they cannot compete.
Too far north for Waffle House, too far south for Tim Horton's. The Midwesterner's Burden.
Re: GPT-4o... Good gravy. I can think of no greater waste of time than talking to the bot on your phone. LLMs are growing on me as a means to obtain quick baseline info, but that's it.
grugq breaks down what I've always said about Telegram: it's like IRC, essentially. Or we might even think about it like Nostr, to a centralized degree. It's all public, and should be understood as such.
https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1790027250680709440
Getting serious about learning chess, realizing I'm about 30 years late.
Though I'm mostly here now, I still drift between worlds.
Mandatory reading in the ongoing "Signal vs. Telegram" stupidity.
https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/1789687898863792453
Good morning, praying it's a great one for you all!
Everybody wants to control the sandbox.
Reading the replies, they tend to make Jack's point for him, but they don't realize it because they're not tech people -- just looking for an anti-Twitter.
Which further makes Jack's point about the pressure Jay and the rest of the team are under, given a demographic that is unfortunately hostile to the reality of open networks.
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Agreed. My choice is to opt out. And that should be a choice open to all.
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Feeling bullish on Nostr after the incorporation with Bluesky.
MLB Vault just posted an official copy of 2016 World Series Game 7 -- the only baseball game that ever made saline leak from my eyes.
https://youtu.be/9uHdvAqwsg4?si=iaiZFmszBEHPjEQx
To my knowledge, no perfumer has ever captured the true scent of man.
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Bluesky bridge, eh. Nice.
I don't understand it either.
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Tokens will have the opposite effect, I guarantee you. Nostr already has to fight against a negative mainstream perception of Bitcoin: let's avoid giving them an actual reason not to use this platform.
Looks like they detected you as a spam bot and deleted you automatically. Which means Telegram is doing exactly what we all knew it was.
Not too many people in their 20's right now. That's where the biggest gap is.
Quite a few young people, yes. We're headed in the wrong direction, though.
Yes. For almost 14 years.
I was just a kid back then, but yep!
So am I. Nadim is a cryptographer who audits stuff professionally. If there's a vulnerability, the client side (which is open source) would have to show it, which is why E2E encryption is a must for the tools I use.
I'm all for decentralization in everything, but as one who attempted to get friends to use PGP back in the 90's (I failed), I know what that has to look like. Signal is the best option for now.
I saw that a couple of days ago, and am calling it out specifically. It's FUD based upon nothing, even if it does in fact call into question why this person is associated with Signal.
That's why the FUD makes me suspicious of the ones posting it, more than anything.
At the same time, though, it's reasonable to be concerned that someone on the Signal board has values antithetical to Signal's primary aim.
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Agree with the sell order or not, TikTok is doing a really bad job of making their case.
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Primarily, reading. Very easy to keep the Liturgy of the Hours on the thing, which I have to daily. In general, tablets are good for content consumption. As for production, if you go any bigger, meh… just use a computer.
Simplex is going in the right direction, and may be a viable option one day. It’s never going to have the normie draw of the others, though.
Bummed that we didn't get a refreshed iPad Mini. The only one I find useful.
I was worried about the project after Moxie left, but my concern abated over time.
Moxie is (or was, who knows how he's changed), by the way, a kind of leftist anarchist, the type I'd probably agree with one out of ten things on, the need for secure comms being one.
So a Board of Director government pawn who runs NPR and apparently failed freshman philosophy is not a concern to me. All that matters is the integrity of the app, which I currently presume -- by its open source status and by the audit of their encryption -- is not compromised.
I find it amusing how, every year or so, we're served a fresh dose of FUD on Signal app, but nobody really talks about Telegram.
Maybe it's not for everyone, but for those of us who post publicly and have an old Google account hanging around, this is fantastic.
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A social network doesn't necessarily need to attract "normies" to grow in the long term.
What it does need, though, is normie posting, topics not associated with crypto or the Nostr project.
White Sox are now 6-24, which makes them 97 losses away from history. You can either be just another bad team, or you can be the worst team of all time. #MLB
The NFL Draft is a scam, placed in late April to stretch out football's relevance. And it works, apparently.
The irony is not lost: TikTok hides behind "the constitution" and notions of free speech to protect their cash cow, while at the same time heavily censoring simplistic things like criticism of their product... or the Chinese government... all on an app not allowed in China.
TikTok is brain rot, and even though it will likely be salvaged through sale, I wouldn't be sad to see it go. Meanwhile, I'm interested in what the government knows and isn't telling us about the nature of the app. We know it's incredibly invasive from a data collection standpoint, but what else is there? Any time both of our terrible political parties agree on something with so little front-facing disclosure, my ears perk up.
As it stands, the most troubling thing about this censure is that our government officials aren't concerned about the terrible consequences of privacy-invasive data collection, so much as they are which country siphons the data and is in control. If they were truly friends of the American people, they'd enact better privacy laws to protect the people from the companies stateside who track our digital lives (and then sell the data to the CCP, among others).
In reality, it's about control. The federal government has every major American company in their back pocket, and can call upon them at any time to do their bidding. If there's going to be a targeted psyop via social media, you'd better believe it's going to be as American as apple pie. In the end, maybe this the only motivation both parties needed.
Switched over to Kagi for my search engine needs, and it'll be hard for me to look back. (and yes, they accept lightning payments)
https://kagi.com/
Quiet (mostly) on the socials but ever-lurking. 👀
He's ready. Insistent upon not being caught unawares.
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Weird sense of humor this morning. Forgive me.
As much as I laughed at Fedi Zuck, just its existence is an amazing testament to what BlueSky is building.
Leaving aside the vaccine debate: Baxter Dmitry is my favorite artist when it comes to completely fabricated "news." Whether he's a subversive liberal, a satirist, or a vampire just looking to feed off the gullibility of others via impressions, I do not know.
In reality, though, my friends in the Amish community face unique challenges with the health of their children that are genetic in nature, tying in with the exclusivity of their communities.
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Many can smell nonsense from a mile away.
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sxsw-crowd-boos-ai-promo-video-19034370.php
I been all around this country, boys, and ain’t nothin better than the Midwestern Knights of Columbus Friday fish fry.
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Awesome story about the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthrone, whose cause for canonization advanced on Monday.
https://www.osvnews.com/2024/03/15/rose-hawthornes-remarkable-life-story-in-the-spotlight-as-sainthood-cause-advances/
I promise to share them as zaps!
The best way all of us can support the newbie influx: post normie stuff. Get creative. Have fun and show 'em what you're doing out there.
Me? Naw, perfectly disciplined. It's my muse -- who wakes up after 10pm -- that is the problem.
If China wants the data of American citizens, apparently they have to pay for it just like everyone else: they can't just harvest it with their app. </s>
The TikTok ban is misguided, and if it does anything, it proves why we need actual privacy protections against data harvesting.
On the other hand, I believe TikTok supports brain rot , so lol git reckt (until, of course, a properly American company begins to monetize the very same data).
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Lots of cranky, tired people today. My dog has no idea what his meal times are. Abolish time tyranny.
Time belongs to God, not the American government. Enjoy your "extra" hour of sunlight, as if it matters what time it comes.
Typical midwestern pre-Spring: ears clogged, sinuses going crazy
If "we will ban TikTok" doesn't bring em to their feet tonight, I don't know what will, folks.
We're on the brink of a TikTok shutdown in the United States and I am here praying for it.
72 one day, 42 the next. Sinuses always murdered.
I’m not convinced they’ll have the guts, but I sure hope they continue the Dune story with more movies.
John Prine. The singing mailman from Maywood, IL. Gone from us too soon for my liking.
What I mean by that: free and open, held together by a loose civility. You found that most places back in the day... and of course the occassional gunfight broke out ;).
Love this. For my part, I end up spending more and more time around these parts as the weeks go by. Nostr still has that Wild West feeling of the early Internet days. The way it should be.
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I know how this goes. "Hmm... I think I'll wear the black one."
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Today is the "Global Day of Unplugging," apparently. If such a thing might benefit you in "elevating human connection over digital engagement," I fear you're going to need more than just one day.
Clawing my way out of the Matrix in the early 80's.
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Yeah, I use Brave Browser so haven't endured a YouTube ad in years 😃
Just in case you needed any further clarification on where Bluesky is headed.
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The exchanges are the weak point. Always have been, always will be.
RE: Coinbase's shenanigans... Sounds like a warning to this skeptic.
Telegram has always struck me as the epitome of the word "honeypot."
And dubious self-rolled encryption. And not open source. Not good.
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FreeTube isn't bad actually. Played with it last night. I don't tend to use mobile for videos. In general, I'm so hardened against tracking, I'm not sure it really matters how I view it.
The value here is in decentralization. That needs to be at the forefront of it all. *whispers* not currency deriving utilitarian value from USD.
Forced update via browser refresh and she's working fine now.
The war rages on: YouTube is apparently not working properly with uBlock Origin.
My favorite sound is the crack of a ball off a bat. So great to hear that sound again. #MLB
First good night's sleep in a while -- but did I sleep too long? Always a balancing act.
Morning Cindy. You're not alone in the migraine club! This time of year hits me hard. Keep going strong.
Vice rose to relevance because it took a neutral look at things in the world, and died when that perspective went skewed. They may be closing down, but they lost what made them great a long time ago.
Expect sportsball posts, nerds. We start with a crucial lesson: team owners and GMs are mostly liars. Never complain about what a player makes, versus what the owners bring in and horde. #WhiteSox #MLB
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Signal is in good hands. I was worried after m0xie (one of us from the olden times) stepped away, but she's great.
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Been waiting for the self-hosting part of Bluesky, but now I just don't care. Nothing decentralized about some janky "protocol" one has to literally register on Discord (lol).
If the people I trust (like Nadim here) can't audit the code, it's a no-go every single time.
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Rabble's presentation at Nostrasia was really good. He understands the "normie" perspective and what's necessary to appeal to the masses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pGZ2epF8ZY
Yeah, due to its closed source nature and their weird roll your own encryption, I trust Telegram about as far as I can physically throw it.
I printed some today! We both went to the same place. Too funny.
A Catch-22 in the Priestin' World:
A lot of priests hand out their personal cellphone numbers. I don't like this, because I have a hard enough time keeping track of phone calls on one centralized phone in the office. Can't handle two "business" lines.
And yet, I'd not be opposed to receiving texts. Except texts are awful for privacy, namely because there isn't any (and only nominally so with iMessage). The things people communicate to a priest are often sensitive: privacy should be guaranteed, rather than placing it at the whimsy of the NSA's full access to SMS/MMS.
I forced my family and friends on Signal years ago, but it was never an option for parish contacts because... then they'd have a voice number to call me at, which would guarantee disorganization and non-returned phone calls.
Until today. UNTIL TODAY.
How many people will I be able to strong-arm on to secure coms? That remains to be seen, but at least it's an actual possibility today. Thanks @npub1n03…h0ky.
Seeing the relief sitewide at this announcement is why I love Nostr.
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I liked the first season. The second season in LA was unwatchable. Third was pretty decent, though slow developing.
It's... not good. S1 & S3 are fantastic. They can't make a good even season, apparently.
Done with True Detective: Night Country and I'd like a time refund, please.
A happy Sunday to all! Fading fast here. Rare nap in my future?
I pray for parents. There's something almost countercultural about becoming one these days. I see you and love your sacrifice.
About right, random Brave Browser load up image.
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For good Mexican food, there is no substitute.
Will check it out. I've been reading Wright's stuff for years.
I was probably the last American who hadn't seen "Interstellar." Pretty good scifi.
I've known this for decades. I've been telling people for decades that recycling plastic is a waste of time.
If I knew about it, but the Green people kept pushing the line anyway, who's really responsible for any deception?
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/16/plastic-industry-knew-recycling-was-a-farce-for-decades-yet-deceived-the-public-report-rev
The world was bound to pass me by eventually. Agree with this fellow old fart.
https://medium.com/@alex.suzuki/im-an-old-fart-and-ai-makes-me-sad-06003bfb6750
Good to see the Russian state get creative here: can't very well roll with the "he fell out a window" default when the windows have bars.
Being a Russian dissident is reminiscent of the reality of the martyrs: if you're in, you're in, and you know what happens if the governor finds out.
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It is, of course, indicative of the main disease rotting the country away, that the one (1) thing all people support goes ignored by the political ruling class.
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Need this. Decking is absolutely important, just as important as lists.
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Remember that you are Dust, and unto Dust you shall return.
Ate too much hot sauce at lunch. Worst Mardi Gras ever.
We won trivia tonight, but on a total guess. Not old enough to remember when they snatched Charlie Chaplain's remains, and Switzerland responded by burying him under feet of concrete.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/12/charlie-chaplins-body-snatched-from-his-grave-archive-1978
A toy that will eventually end up sitting on a chair permanently, because the AR does not actually boost your productivity.
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I love St. Josephine Bakhita, whose memorial we celebrate today. A slave from the age of 9, tortured and abused in every way you'd expect for an unfortunate female slave.
But her heart never grew bitter, and her soul remained open to Christ when she finally learned of Him. It's so very easy for the external darkness inflicted upon us to consume us, but she never let it.
St. Josephine Bakhita, pray for us.
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https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-josephine-bakhita/
It's always a tough balance between the right amount of hot sauce and needing a box of Kleenex.
The only way to use Twitter now is to use Tweetdeck, which requires a subscription. It's been the most efficient way since the beginning of Tweetdeck, but is an absolute must now. Whether it's worth the money or not... probably no.
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Many have no concept of what the Internet was like before Big Tech built the walls around the prison. They stay there because it's designed to be easy for the nominally tech-literate to engage with, even if the service itself is awful.
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It's amazing how much further along Nostr is over Bluesky. No GIFs, videos, DMs... They capitalized on a desire to transition away from Elon, but gave their users nothing to work with. Just one reason I love all you hard-working devs out there.
Why is this season of True Detective so committed to being boring?
Solid review by MKBHD. At one point he calls it a "toy," which is probably accurate analysis at this point. I can't see myself accomplishing anything with Vision Pro that I couldn't do more comfortably and quickly in a traditional computing environment.
Which is sad. If this brand of tech is really going to catch on, it needs a hook beyond entertainment or just the cool factor.
https://youtu.be/86Gy035z_KA?si=1rVajIW-NNTa36jA
WoTC is just a bad company. I hate to say it, because I trust Tencent about as far as I can throw them, but maybe they'd be a good home for D&D since Eastern companies tend to pay zero cares to nonsensical Western "culture wars."
So this is why all my pen caps disappear.
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It's an absolute masterpiece. Season 3 is great too. Season 2 is a solid skip. And Season 4 is turning into one huge snooze fest.
You're right. In '97 I tried to listen to "Ok Computer" because it was widely considered the second best record that year. I got it, but like it? Nah.
A Dick Cuckerson masterpiece
RIP Carl Weathers. He was a real one.
And the Fantasy Baseball nerds make fun of the Fantasy Football nerds because they're playing with auto assist turned on. Yep.
Yes. This. I am a nerd and a jock, but it's all really just saying I'm a nerd.
TIL Chicagoland has its own Punxsutawney Phil knockoff. Goes by the name Woodstock Willy.
Apparently, they filmed the movie Groundhog Day in Woodstock, so I guess it makes sense we'd spawn a local offshoot.
Here's a picture of my favorite comic book character holding a Pomeranian to get you through the day. (Google Bard AI testing)
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It’s really John 20:22-23 that cinched it for me years ago (outside of studying the history of Christianity, when I was baptized but essentially atheist). The ability to forgive and retain sins via apostolic succession prior to the Ascension is a pretty good indicator of precisely what these men went forth and did, and what they assigned their bishops (and later priests) to do as well.
In the early days of Christianity, we actually did; Mass would not start ca. 1st Century without the entirety of the community confessing sins; the priest would offer absolution, and on the Mass went.
Obvious problem with that: Molly might hold a grudge against Mary for emptying her slop bucket on her stoop. Community resentment ran pretty high, as you can imagine. So the Irish engineered a private penitential system, one at a time, with a priest (who represents the community). The priest in turn then went to another priest in the community for confession, and this is the system we have today.
I keep a log of movies I’ve watched (because nerd) in a Wiki I keep (because bigger nerd), and upon review, Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color is my highest rated film in two years.
Was excellent, especially around the Godzilla scenes. Much more visceral experience when they emphasize the shadows around the monster. #note17rt…9j8d
The chance is higher than is good for any of us.
One thing I appreciate about Nostr is that I’ve encountered zero dialogue about Taylor Swift. Thank you, everyone.
Excited to see Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color tonight. Saw the original release and was skeptical that this is a cash grab, but the color grading looks great and I’ve heard positive things.
Bravo to Team Damus for the transition to Purple. None of this stuff develops itself, and I’m glad to be supporter 27.
Still not impressed by anything I see about the Apple Vision Pro. It's that classic device you buy for the cool factor, but are in reality too busy to use. It's like an iPad for your face.
In fact, Nostr is the best social network out there. You can nitpick and post grievances -- Lord knows I do -- but make no bones: nothing comes close to the spirit of an open Internet like Nostr does.
Remember when Google's motto was "Don't be evil?" Sooner or later, such a motto becomes nigh impossible to maintain when your supposed moral duty is to maximize profits for shareholders.
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Yep, and also: bitcoin. The enthusiast dreamer must reckon with the absolute fact that people don't give two squirts about your bitcoin enthusiasm.
What holds us back here isn't the tool: it's the fact that we've made it all about the tool.
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Wanted it for the Lions, but the 9'ers were there to capitalize on their errors.
Two of my childhood favorites to square off in the Super Bowl, so I reckon I can't lose.
$680 to fix the blower motor in my car. Turns out, while at a conference in a wooded area in November, a woodland creature decided to inhabit this particular space in my car.
I presume this creature died a glorious death.
What I love about evangelical cringe is that it can often come across as completely sincere. I watched this video a few days ago and actually laughed out loud.
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Primal Wallet has been a joy to use, no bullsquash in between. Thank you for including it in Android, which I also run!
Wearables like Apple Vision Pro, which make you interact with non-material objects in a contained system, miss the point of how this tech has the potential to augment lives and workflow. Imagine using such a thing to supplement the work you're performing on your laptop/desktop.
Now we're talking productivity boost.
It'll never be that, though, because they want to lock you into an immersive experience. You're bound to find this clunky and ineffective, UI management and app flipping leaching creative energy.
It's a solid pass for me, but I hold out hope that one day, they figure out what augmenting reality really looks like.
On the one hand: Glad for my 9'ers.
On the other hand: Green Bay would have been easier for the Lions.
Sadly true. Was hoping for better, but it's clear now that all they're concerned with is recreating Twitter.
In the end, I expect very little about Bluesky to end up in true decentralization. They're re-creating a silo'd Mastadon, and are doing so poorly.
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Have a beautiful day, Nostriches
Err, make that 30 for yours truly.
Whatever did we do for 20 years, without the EU mandating the terms of Internet censorship?
https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1747311428019671521?s=20
The damage done by NFTs to the normie's perspective on legit BTC application will take a long... LONG while to wear off.
Twitter ending support for profile pictures is a solid start.
https://m.primal.net/HXRX.jpg
A kind of Instagram alternative built on Nostr would be awesome.
(those moments where you regret never learning to code).
Fantastic goals! I'll keep these intentions in mind at the altar tomorrow morning.
Goodnight, Nostr! Rant though I did about you earlier, you're still the best.
It's not wrong. I saw the topic of Nostr and normies trending the other day, and... forget about it. You will never attract a normie crowd when Bitcoin is such a prevalent topic on this site.
Between the Monkees and shitcoin, the normie views all of digital currency with suspicion, and a Bitcoin-enthusiastic environment currently reinforces the cringe they've endured on other sites where the pump and dump spam is unending. It doesn't matter that Nostr is also against these things: it's guilt by association.
If you want to promote Bitcoin here, use the writer's trick: show it, don't say it. Stop talking economic rainbows and unicorns like communists awaiting some glorious revolution, and focus on the tools here -- then use them for normal things. Crypto should be an aid to the normative, not an end in itself.
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The Keychron Q1 Max with Gateron Jupiter Bananas. Very nice typing experience on top of a very nice sound. Happy with my Christmas gift.
Veritas. When most people talk about "fixing social media," what they're really talking about is putting their tribe in control of it.
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Started in Nebraska. Went to school at Illinois. But somewhere in between, I lived near Ann Arbor.
Proud of the Wolverines tonight. Now get it done.
Last day of the Octave. A very well attended Mass at noon, good local food, and now evening football. Doesn't get much better on this side of the coffin.
A blessed new year to all!
Jerry Jones has been an old man all my life. I'm convinced they've found some sort of alchemy that keeps this man alive.
Usually they load us down with some nonsense game on Saturday nights, just because they can, in their unending mission to saddle us with a game every night of the week.
Not tonight, though. Go Lions!
Usually they load us down with some nonsense game on Saturday nights, just because they can, in their unending mission to saddle us with a game every night of the week.
Not tonight, though. Go Lions!
I've grown fascinated with the mechanical keyboard scene. These people are great. Snobbish about some little thing they've spent hours (and thousands of dollars) investigating, they're like me in the 90's with my mountain of CD's, recordings from the 1920's on down. I love them all.
A fair criticism of the drink it itself; for the rest of us, however, the martini is an excuse to drink an excessive amount of olive juice in public.
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Killers of the Flower Moon redeems itself in the last hour; too bad it took 2.5 to get there.
Today's dragging on so thoroughly, I even wrote Daily Mass homilies.
One of the pitfalls of a secularly conceived Christmas is that today is the fall-off day as Christmas is now"over." In reality, Christmas is an Octave: the 25th is repeated 7 days in a row.
All this to say: live it up and keep the party going!
I don't care if the Simpsons got worse over time. Every episode is like slipping into a familiar pair of shoes. Long may it prattle on in its middling state.
Cannot describe through powdery orange fingers how delicious these things are. https://image.nostr.build/6278875fa079dd14f9d19a596202e4b20f06128d883b9863699d3622cf480293.jpg
From what I can tell this has nothing to do with user-end interactions; this policy seems to apply to third party services (like Broadband) interacting with the T-Mobile network, and the aim is to cut down on spam.
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Two hours early, but this staunch traditionalist only has so much self-control.
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Getting sick this time of year is an inevitability. I'm just grateful that it isn't this week.
Nakatomi Plaza is saved. Christmas may begin shortly.
Good. No capitulation. It’s never good enough anyway. #note1ahd…80du
Nostr: People here building things, focused on decentralization.
Bluesky: Oh hey look, our app icon is a butterfly now.
Point reached, in which every project is now officially dated for completion in 2024.
Nostr is still the platform I want to check, versus something I feel like I have an obligation to check. Big difference.
Some of us want nothing to do with algorithms. I've seen them lead to decline, first on Facebook and then everywhere else. Chronological order or nothing.
The coolest thing about Nostr is that you can disagree with me, and we'll both be happy with our user experience.
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Just awful. Too many innocents dead. I hate that it was predictable from the start, and I hate that it was all sewn in the slaughter of innocents to begin with. God help us.
https://image.nostr.build/d67a0891282f4ead352c2446d714084104385a82684cfba7039fb6946cd15673.jpg
Godzilla Minus One is solid. Recommended.
Excited to read about the upcoming whisper model. That’s what we need right there.
My favorite of the civil holidays, we all have a lot to be thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate.
CHEERS: Twitter is demonetizing any post hit with a community note. JEERS: The process of adding a community note takes forever, and whatever idiocy someone spouts has long since made its way through the pipes.
Whatever nuked my follows list… please don’t do that again.
My follows list got nuked.
re: Amethyst, delete it clean and install from a different source. May fix it.
Might try forgetting your wifi network and seeing if reinitializing it on the phone causes a necessary reconfig.
Sinus meltdown in Fall: a tradition unlike any other.
AI was cooler when we called it AskJeeves
Confirmation tonight. It'll take a miracle to keep me awake.
Not even caffeine will be able to pull this day out of the fire. Yikes.
So many talented people working on Nostr. Blows me away every time I stop and think about it. If we had this kind of drive in the Church, it wouldn't take decades to get something done.
#Coracle added an option to turn off replies!!
Twitter: "Starting today, we're testing a new program (Not A Bot) in New Zealand and the Philippines. New, unverified accounts will be required to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post & interact with other posts. Within this test, existing users are not affected."
Death by a thousand cuts continues.
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#Gmail - been around 20 years and still can't make a proper dark mode. #Nostr - every dev got it right instantly.
#noStrudel could just be my daily desktop driver. Nice features.
We all need to axe Twitter -- just not for the reasons mentioned in that guy's video. Nostr's the only place I belong.
Only the predictable ones. The food and beer were good. We were first going into the final jeopardy style question and we missed it. Such is life.
Two of these did in fact occur.
Off to the local pub to eat, drink, and win the weekly trivia. At least two of these things are guaranteed.
Speaking of "misinformation," a clarification on the #Signal App copy pasta going around a couple of days ago.
https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/signal-debunks-online-rumours-of-zero-day-security-vulnerability/
The more free the network, the more susceptible it is to falsehood.
Most have no recollection of a time when the mainstream viewed the totality of the Internet with suspicion. In the early/mid 90’s, it was extremely difficult to pass off online research as legitimate within academic circles because “anyone can say anything on the Internet.” In those days, if it couldn’t be corroborated by a print resource in the library, you didn’t bother.
The skepticism was partly justified: outside of university-hosted Gopher servers, verifying sources was extremely difficult. We gleaned digital information with a raised eyebrow, and our “built-in bullshit detector” (as Hemingway described it) was always set to ten. It was the Wild West, a time where anything went, and it became even wilder after the invention of the Web Browser.
The mainstreaming of the Internet brought with it “legitimate” information channels, and general attitudes regarding online information relaxed. For about 15 years (2000-2015), we lived in a mixed world where the establishment colonizers existed alongside we wild natives.
And then those colonists attempted to take it all. Every pleb is familiar with this period, and this era is at least partially responsible for why you’re here. The move on centralized networks by political and corporate interests introduced an online tyranny I never thought possible, and with it, a new notion: everything you read on the Internet *has* be true. Of course, by this they simply meant vetted and approved as “true” by one of your self-appointed betters, who likely scoffs at the notion of absolute truth to begin with. I scare quote "disinformation" because the term evokes a slimy dishonesty in itself, signifying an attempt to control information rather than to safeguard truth.
Twitter’s increased “disinformation” is a direct result of a more free platform. That Elon’s policies incentivize falsehood is immoral and stupid, pouring gas on the fire — but make no mistake here: my favorite con man of the last decade has loosened the reigns at Twitter significantly, and blatant falsehood is a byproduct.
If, overnight, Nostr became Twitter, we’d have the same flood of disingenuous clowns tap dancing for sats, hurled at them by a population of applauding fools looking for confirmation bias. Nostr will not revolutionize the monetization of online identity, nor will it fix stupid. If you’re looking for a change in online social interaction, you won’t find it here either. Those who build on Nostr are akin to Prometheus stealing fire: as helpful as it is, one must accept that a lot of stuff is going to burn as a result.
If we are truly committed to an open, uncontrollable protocol, then we must accept “disinformation” as one of the consequences. In fact, we must embrace it with a principled optimism, noting firmly that it is *not* the responsibility of the protocol to do a person’s thinking for them. That responsibility resides with the individual alone.
So turn that bullshit detector back up to ten, and use the brain God gave you. The free exchange of ideas is worth it.
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An idea as old as the Greeks, who preferred the notion of a multiclass character; one should be familiar with many things, and proficient in nothing.
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A flood of bot follows: nothing to be concerned about, or Jesuit assassins?
A poor night's sleep, gonna be a long day. Hope yours is smoother than mine is bound to be!
I've had no problems. Are you installed through F-Droid or the Play Store?
A friend once picked this up for me and claimed I reminded him of the fox. Fair enough, I've been called worse.
https://m.primal.net/HNdN.png
Had a minute, so started with Mutiny Wallet. Pretty easy, pretty cool.
A wonderful reminder that the writer primarily does so for him/herself.
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woot, now that I can quote a post on Primal, it's looking good.
So in the end, the “vote” doesn’t matter. At least in parishes it matters to some degree; while always a recommendation to the pastor (and not a democracy) it impacts real decision making.
Not here. I have not nor will I pay attention to this joke going on right now because at the end of the day it doesn’t matter.
Except, in classic E.S. fashion, he misses the point entirely:
The purpose of the synod is to provide the *appearance* of listening, so as to pacify a certain element of the Church, all the while decreeing whatever you'd like.
The documents are already written.
Definitely didn't just ingest too many Sausage McMuffins.
Morning everyone, hope it's a blessed day.
At a conference I attended a year ago, someone asked the priest presenter if he had any advice for other priests. He thought about it for five seconds and said, "Don't pay attention to the news."
Best advice I've received in a while.
We share the same tendency towards Monero, and even then I see it more as a practical solution than an ideological one.
The lean towards BTC is a problem for this network, because it is an ideological enthusiasm most do not share. This ideology contains dubious claims towards freedom and sovereignty through crypto which are patently false. In reality, it is a technology. Some will use it and some won’t. I was never interested in it as a useful thing until the lightning network, because it solves a technical problem with crypto in general, making these minute transactions possible.
What I love about Nostr is the notion of owned identities and the censorship resistance. I don’t think people grasp how cool and how necessary this actually is. We need decentralization. Nostr provides a solution to an actual problem, and that’s why I should be using it above all else even if I’m not exactly bullish on the protocol’s ability to onboard and retain given the prevalence of BTC idealism here. What Nostr needs is a flood of normies who see past the noise long enough to build a stable presence.
Too many boring playoff games. Both of today's were early blowouts. At least yesterday's offerings were competitive. #MLB
A good way to think about it, while everyone interacts with it through other front ends ;-). Would be cool if Nostr powered the tools everyone called something else.
I watched this a couple of months ago. I think he's right on a couple of points and wrong on others. Thing is, his criticisms I agree with are actionable.
The only real Achilles Heel (which has stunted adoption) is the tie to crypto. That isn't going away.
We will in fact likely be using Nostr in 5-10 years. The question is whether this is doomed to be the Linux of social networks.
Is there any way that, through #Coracle , I can disable replies showing in the main feed? I really like it and want to continue using it.
He's right, and it's to be expected given the infancy of the platform. Still, normie posting is absolutely important to Nostr making that leap to a tool more people adopt. You and I likely don't care much about engagement, but the average person does.
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Turning on a ball game and hearing a Bob Costas call is like running into that neighbor you generally try to avoid. #MLB
I pray for all involved, but also note that we often forget about the Palestinian Christians, who have been caught between hammer and anvil for more years than I’ve been on this planet. Many civilians have already died, and many more are about to die — and both sides are morally culpable.
There are no heroes in this conflict. It enflames every few years and people die, then the cycle repeats itself after we in the West go on with our lives. It’s all a great and perpetual sadness.
I see no end to the cycle after this. Hamas will rebuild, and then we (mostly) detached onlookers will have the same conversation a few years from now. This isn’t even the fourth rodeo for most of us who have been on the Internet for 30 years. Some of you are old enough to know what I’m talking about.
Putting on the I-come-from-a-military-family hat for just a moment, however: is there anything different about this one? Not with regard to short-term outcome: a lot of Palestinians are about to die. In the long term, however, perhaps Hamas’ actions will force Israel to re-evaluate the feasibility of colonization into Gaza, slowing growth. At the same time, given the tenacity Israel displays with regard to settling this region, I remain skeptical.
Yet another reason this cycle is doomed to repeat itself, with no real solution in sight.
Accidentally scheduled for the delivery of a computer on my day off. Which isn’t a bad thing, except my whole office staff is off too, which means I’ll be waiting who knows how long for my gear.
https://olympics.com/en/news/chicago-marathon-2023-kiptum-smashes-kipchoge-world-record-sifan-hassan
A potential Men’s World Record unfolding at the Chicago Marathon.
One of the reasons Chicago has seen so many World Records set: the weather for the race is almost always perfect. It’s 47 degrees and dry in the city, which is perfect running weather.
One of my favorite jokes: “I used to run 10 miles a day. Can’t you tell?” https://image.nostr.build/80db4ff6c2cd4f856117057e8147bf29eff5bc72745a92ecd6744f9d815e2752.jpg
Morning folks! 48 degrees and rainy in the collar counties of Chicago, and all is well.
Not bad advice. I've always marveled at how NYC contains its own self-criticism: among the most valuable real estate in the world they build a huge park and guard it as essential, but no one in a rural area ever feels the need to build a fake city.
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MLB Playoffs Round Predictions: Texas, Houston, Atlanta, Los Angeles.
Hope I'm wrong with Astros/Dodgers.
Blessing of the animals. I made a new friend. Meet Dolly Llama. https://image.nostr.build/9e390675b053eb265ddc2f2b0e4bef03134d8f3d238881e8b20e9c16a7229daf.jpg
Hate it when apps destroy my relay list.
Here's to hoping you have (or are having) a beautiful Saturday
Until I see confirmation by security researchers auditing the open source, it is all FUD.
The worst part about this one is that they're going to crown a winner. #Huskers #Illini
Nebraska vs. Illinois in the Battle of the Bad.
100% -- I think it's a few permutations away from being something attractive to normies. Whether it'll ever get there or not, who knows. I'm just convinced that I should be using it above anything else.
New hat. Like that old timey style, from before the Refball era.
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