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Is it your first time for garlic? We've grown it for a bunch of years but lapsed this year. I miss it and am still getting used to having garlic now instead of just having an infinite supply hanging in the garage :(

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I think PGP and asymmetric encryption is nice. (Also not too deep in cryptography)

My main problem with PGP is it requires a keypair from the receiving side. It is not a big deal, though how do you start a communication with a partner who has no keypair? It seems easier to send them a password on a different channel. Then to get them setup PGP on their side....

True that doing it via PGP would be more secure as in theory, only they have their private key.

What do I miss?

Also we might have different views on what "does not support" mean. Even a notepad supports encryption, I can just write the encrypted text in it. What I meant with not supporting is, I would have to use a separate extension to encrypt my gmail emails e.g. I could send them. Gmail could not read them, but I need extra steps to use it. This is what "does not support" mean to me.

Also re: "how do you start with someone" - agreed that's the perennial problem. Keyservers are one unideal solution. The other is people doing things like this: https://vinneycavallo.com/contact

And a third is networks like Nostr, Bitcoin, and other crypto networks (.eth, ie) where people associate their identities with public keys.

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I think PGP and asymmetric encryption is nice. (Also not too deep in cryptography)

My main problem with PGP is it requires a keypair from the receiving side. It is not a big deal, though how do you start a communication with a partner who has no keypair? It seems easier to send them a password on a different channel. Then to get them setup PGP on their side....

True that doing it via PGP would be more secure as in theory, only they have their private key.

What do I miss?

Also we might have different views on what "does not support" mean. Even a notepad supports encryption, I can just write the encrypted text in it. What I meant with not supporting is, I would have to use a separate extension to encrypt my gmail emails e.g. I could send them. Gmail could not read them, but I need extra steps to use it. This is what "does not support" mean to me.

Very fair

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Thanks for pointing out. So everyone has pgp keys already so you can use their public key to encrypt an email for them?

Unfortunately no. That's what providers like Proton are good for (doing this for you). But ideally all people would be able to use GPG/PGP. Of course that's a lot to ask (hence e2e encrypted providers like the aforementioned)

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Context: mainly you can't make sure how the reciever's email server handle your sent emails. It might support pgp or might not.

So your best guess can be to password protect the email content, and send the password on a different channel. Or you are fully restricted to send to users of known email servers.

Encrypted the text. The recipient decrypts it.

All this password talk is a tangent.

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Not all providers support it.

I'm talking about PGP encrypting a message body and attaching the public key. Old school style. Every provider supports this, it's just plain cyphertext.

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Why is still #email the official communication channel if it is purportedly unsecure?

Don't send personal or secret information over email! If you need to send it, send it encrypted!

#grownostr #nostr #plebchain

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Encrypted email.

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Joel Walbert

To explain further, he wrote two bots that monitor posts and sends data to MS to check against their mean word database and will flag your post if it catches you cursing or even the word retard can trigger it. He claims he is doing it to comply with google/apple app store ToS. For no reason.

Thanks for the explanation btw. #iDidntKnowstr

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Nice and Kind Vic

Hit me up if you need a 0s and 1s transmitter license

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atyh

I have reached the point where I bought a floppy sun hat.

I don’t know what the implications of this are, but I will ponder them with less sunburn.

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I've got a vetyver floppy sun hat and it rules for gardening and stuff. Supposedly keeps bugs away but I dunno

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Joel Walbert

To explain further, he wrote two bots that monitor posts and sends data to MS to check against their mean word database and will flag your post if it catches you cursing or even the word retard can trigger it. He claims he is doing it to comply with google/apple app store ToS. For no reason.

"flag" post how?

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Joel Walbert

#meme #memes #memestr

What is Rabble?

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That's fair, in general though the effects of deflation are fairly well understood and they absolutely kill economies, since people are incentivized to hold on to their bucks instead of spending them.

My argument is not that Bitcoin is useless, but rather that it's a speculative asset which makes it unfeasible as a currency.

https://fountain.fm/episode/mbr4S8mAzSq71wkOniav

Listen to this episode. When the money is fixed and things actually become cheaper over time (as they should) you could _still_ hold onto many of your bucks/sats **and** spend many of them while on the whole coming out richer than you would doing the same thing in fiat/inflation world.

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GrumpyGardener

Depends on your school of thought and by what metric you use to measure an economy. Deflation is catastrophic to debt based systems.

We know, that's why we Bitcoin.

The goal is not to drive the Lambo... it's to stop the erosion of our purchasing power and remove the power of the central banking system. Full stop.

Perhaps you are too young to understand the implications, but real wage growth stopped in 2001 and the affects of our exploding monetary system has been the erosion of the middle class and the expansion of government.

If you're measuring the economy based on GDP alone, then yes. Inflation is good.

But if you stop to consider the deteriorating quality of life form the middle class... the answer is obvious.

Not to mention the fact that GDP is completely misleading. Fake govbux printed to pay itself on its own debt comes out as "GDP increase" in the numbers, while that phenomenon is actually making 99% of people effectively poorer.

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True, though at the same time it's one of its downsides, surely there must be more power efficient ways of PoW consensus than warehouses full of ASICs.

Maybe. But even if not, it's still better and more peaceful than the current system of military and fiat hegemony.

Compare the Bitcoin network's energy use to the US government and military-monetary industrial complex and I think you'll see who comes out more favorably.

Have you looked into how people are using Bitcoin mining operations to balance the electrical grid in places and reduce waste?

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There are plenty of other cryptos that are technically just as good, some quite a bit better, and that aren't just speculative assets.

The choice really isn't between USD and BTC.

Just look around Nostr, everyone here is buying Bitcoin for the lambo in the future, not to do their shopping with it.

I'll give you this, but that's mostly an environment/adoption weakness.

I have a Coinbase debit card that I keep topped up with recurring buys of USDC and I use that card for purchases from in-person vendors. It feels sort of pointless/circular aside from being fun and having slightly better interest rate yield.

I've made a few purchases with Bitcoin (some car parts, a few other things online only) but don't use it in stores because there is nowhere in my area that accepts it natively. But if every store in my area took Bitcoin you can be absolutely sure I would be using it for my shopping rather than dollars.

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I mean for starters, there are hundreds that are literal technical clones of Bitcoin, how are they any worse?

Bitcoin is just the one that gained perceived value, it's only better because it's a speculative asset.

Monero for example, while not perfect, is superior in almost every way.

The clones don't have the network. A large part of Bitcoin's potency is the massive network of hashpower it commands.

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Tatum Turn Up

Casual reminder that if you’re a man, you do not have to be a macho super dude 24/7. You’re human. You can cry. You can ask for help. You can be soft. You can be vulnerable. None of that makes you any less of a man. You have many many many dudes that have felt what you’re feeling that are still dudes. And all of those dudes are here for you.

I love you, dude.

Emotionally soft, physically hard.

This is good man.

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cryptowolf

All smartphones do this to some extent, Samsung just does it it better...