I mean… I guess thats true. Or at least its less likely to work.

I just think people dont really examine the real meaning of what they believe. Socialism is essentially taking voluntary cooperation and imposing a State over the top which controls people through the implicit threat of violence. Its tyrannical on its face.

I have no problem with people deciding they want to pool some of their resources to fund things for the whole group. The problem i have is how many people dont have a problem deciding the next logical step is to force everyone to do something “for the common good” under threat of violence. Its insane.

Im just surprised there are so many React boiler plate clients and almost no emacs, vim, or ncurses clients. I guess that speaks to the make up of early nostr dev culture.

for the Linux users out there, what window manager and desktop environment do you use and why?

Really? We’ve government agencies that regulate water to make it safe to drink, require licenses in order to drive vehicles, make roads that are smooth with rules about speeds and the like. We’ve got a government agency that keeps bridges from falling down, which I’m quite keen on.

I’m a smash the state anarchist, but I can also see that governments can and do perform many useful functions. Most of them are so painfully boring we forget they exist. Governments decided that primary education should be a public service, so they setup and pay for schools. They regulate companies so they don’t send out chemicals in our environment that cause cancer.

Most of what governments do in the west is supremely boring. They’re just trying to follow their stupidly complicated regulation. They’re not being authoritarian.

git pull

I don't understand OpenTimestamps.

The cost you mention for PoW only matters for protecting the history of transactions, it is irrelevant for spam, it actually protects the history of spam as well. PoW works because someone trying to redo transactions would have to have more PoW than the cumulative PoW of all others.

There is no cumulative PoW in nostr, unless you are proposing to turn nostr into a blockchain but that sounds absurd to me.

Maybe I'm missing something so don't let me stop you, if you find a way that works I'll even implement it in Nostur, but I'm not convinced right now.

Just a coincidental anecdote, yesterday I was trying another nostr website and was wondering why the submit button was so slow, when I looked at the produced JSON I understood why when I found a nonce in there 🤷

The cost you mention for PoW only matters for protecting the history of transactions, it is irrelevant for spam, it actually protects the history of spam as well. PoW works because someone trying to redo transactions would have to have more PoW than the cumulative PoW of all others.

There is no cumulative PoW in nostr, unless you are proposing to turn nostr into a blockchain but that sounds absurd to me.

Maybe I'm missing something so don't let me stop you, if you find a way that works I'll even implement it in Nostur, but I'm not convinced right now.

Just a coincidental anecdote, yesterday I was trying another nostr website and was wondering why the submit button was so slow, when I looked at the produced JSON I understood why when I found a nonce in there 🤷

Nostr enables the ONLY social network that has a chance at gaining mass market adoption AND has the potential to utilize POW for spam deterrence. No other clown world VC-funded ESG company will ever even consider using proof of work for anything.

One of the first arguments I always hear against POW is that raising the cost of posting a note will make it so only those with large amounts of hashpower will be able to post notes, and they will dominate the protocol with spam and psyops.

This argument doesn't make sense because if large entities will see value in expending their hashpower to spam nostr, then why aren't they spamming nostr right now while the cost to do so is absolutely free? They should be here already if it is worth their time to be, but it is not dominating nostr at all.

The fallacy is the assertion that those with great hashpower actually care to spend it spamming nostr only when it isn't free. In reality, they would rather spend that hashpower on ROI, like mining bitcoin. The ROI on spamming nostr will likely never match the ROI of spamming other social networks that have no POW cost.

When a normal user posts a dozen notes per day, the cost of adding a modest POW requirement is barely noticeable — roughly a webpage load time worth of waiting. But for a spammer, this cost becomes a material electrical expense that will reduce their capacity to spam. And with a dozen other social networks more popular than nostr, where do you think they will spend their time? Spamming the networks with zero POW costs, of course.

But, putting this POW barrier over nostr would allow legitimate users to flee to nostr for a spam- free experience while keeping spammers out. It could actually help nostr grow in its network effects.

Overall, I am shocked at how bearish people are on proof-of-work, especially bitcoiners.

I agree with what you're saying here. To add to it though I consider paid relays to be a streamlined version of PoW.

In the nostr PoW scenario, a normal computer or phone would not have enough power to quickly solve for a note with high PoW, there would be providers of PoW services which you would have to pay for them to solve your note. Same with Bitcoin, when you aquire it, you're essentially paying for the miners to solve the PoW for you since your own computer does not have the hash power.

So I think that in nostr, simply paying for a relay with lightning, *is PoW. (because it's Bitcoin) and it cuts the complexity down because you don't have to build specialized alternate PoW services. So the only reason you would want the nostr only style PoW would be if you didn't want to use Bitcoin/lightning.

Although one additional upside of a PoW nostr standard catching on would be that you could post to more relays, as your PoW service would be like a pass to multiple 'paid'(PoW) relays. Which is also something I think would be cool for paid relays to do is that when you pay for one, you can post to more than just one..

So yeah, we got options! 🚀

Genuine question: If you make your "nostr" account on ZBD, there's no way to use your account with another nostr client? And if you have a separate nostr public/private keypair, it is not possible to use that on ZBD?

I don't get really what's the point of using nostr then. they didn't read up on the spec before implementing?

nostr:note1tul909994vk5sjdkkplc25zu372yyhwfhg8snmd3cf5kmwsgtl8ssxwj7

my sex drive as a male peaked when i was 15 or so and every decade it gets halved or so ...

i already stopped dating women a decade ago ( in my early 30s ) as i was enjoying it less and less and they were demanding more and more ( house, status etc. ) ...

still jerk off to porn though. in fact i'm watching Hentai right now.

my sex drive as a male peaked when i was 15 or so and every decade it gets halved or so ...

i already stopped dating women a decade ago ( in my early 30s ) as i was enjoying it less and less and they were demanding more and more ( house, status etc. ) ...

still jerk off to porn though. in fact i'm watching Hentai right now.

The Virgin Leaving a Will Vs the Chad Dying With Your Bitcoin Seed Phrase in Your Head and Taking It to The Afterlife Like a Pharaoh

Why does my car charger have a sim card in it? Why is there an on/off switch behind the front cover? Dropped it, front fell off, wtf?

I might have grown to hate Go's

```go

if err != nil {

// Throw stuff here

}

```

system for handling errors - it feels repetitive, so utterly copy-pasta... But, I still want to do more with it, because the rest of the syntax is super easy to pick up on. o.o

Next target is Rust. Way more complex, but I just gotta Box my knowledge in something nice. :) And hopefuly I don't forget to borrow the space for it...