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Leo Wandersleb
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https://walletscrutiny.com https://nostr.info Working on Bitcoin, Nostr and being a good dad.

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Dishonest money makes honest people fail to charge the right price. It's no fault of their own that the measuring stick shrinks.

If you encounter a modest tradesman or handyman who hasn't raised their prices in years, encourage them to raise prices.

Blind Signatures could make one-vote-per-account polls interesting in nostr.

If clients would blind-sign secondary accounts for all their follows, each would get one vote, they all would vote publicly but nobody would know who voted what. The blind signatures could be public, so others would know which are valid votes by follows and which are not.

Yes because it's all zoned for single family homes, not apartment towers. Flying across the US I found it so irritating to see these vast areas of houses with gardens and pools. All like clones.

I totally agree on the implications for our freedoms but all modern cars appear to be surveillance tools, not only the self-driving ones. Cars that estimate your fitness to drive by filming your face, cars that unlock with your fingerprint and store your whereabouts in real time, ...

But given almost all of use are using either Google or Apple phones all the time, all this is not really tilting the scale much.

We already live in a panopticon.

I predict that in a few years, driving will be considered a high risk sport, only.

With autonomous cars already driving x10 safer than humans, people getting hurt or killed by human drivers will be considered avoidable victims of selfish, thrill-seeking idiots.

The article you quoted here describes a case where apparently somebody was thrown under a self-driving car by a normal car. That doesn't sound like the "robo taxi" did anything wrong or worse than the best driver could have done.

FORKING GOSSIP to change the UI:

Gossip is MIT licensed and so you can do anything you want with it, including forking it.

I don't mind. I don't consider it a slight against me, and I won't push back. In fact, I recommend forking gossip if you want to change the UI, and I will even help you by supporting new backend functions that you need to get your UI to work (presuming you will be merging in upstream changes outside of the UI).

I've had lots of requests to change gossip substantially. Every single one of them has been with regards to it's UI. Nobody suggests changing the storage engine, or creating async functions that wait on relay responses. Everybody seems to care only about the UI. Well guess what? I consider the UI a necessary evil, a thing that must be coded, but not something I have any real interest in, and generally a distraction from the much more interesting work. That is why I partnered with several other developers who are more keen on UI development.

The problem I have with all the requests to change gossip's UI is that they all go in different directions. They can't all happen. Everybody has a different vision for how they want the gossip UI to work. Which is why I think forks are a good idea. Everybody can get what they want, if they put in the effort.

So here is the thing: gossip's UI is cleanly divided from the rest of the code. The UI reads from global structures and sends messages to the overlord (but you could call overlord functions directly if your UI isn't immediate-mode and is async). It is currently designed for worst case: single thread, not async, immediate mode rendering. But that means it could easily handle all the other cases. You could rip it out and put in an entirely different UI... tauri, gtk4 ... you could probably even get it running under WASM and make the browser the UI.

Most people with grand UI designs don't also write rust code, so I'm not sure if anybody is going to take me up on this. But if anybody was thinking about it and hesitating because they didn't want to make waves, maybe this post will smooth that over.

Reminds me of Bitcoin. Satoshi's first client had a checkbox to do mining and there even was code for a market place which was not exposed in the UI yet.

Mining was the first part that was ripped out. I'm not entirely sure how the repos are organized but I think, many want to split the consensus from the wallet from the UI from the networking but it's a long way to go.

For Gossip, maybe moving the UI into a separate repo makes your point more clear.

🚨 YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I LEARNED IN THIS VIDEO! 🚨

I follow you for content you did in the past but this one is itself such a cheap dopamine hit with a click-bait visual, setting expectations way too high for your story of what you did yesterday to get some likes and follows.

How to reliably find my X follows without falling for fake accounts these days?

Blocked and reported "her" and I hate to still have doubt if it was actually an LLM but "she" also left our common group and ... what the hack, of course it was spam.

We humans are so fried. Democracy is fried for sure. Can't remember the source but it went about like that: Humanity doesn't lose when the best AI beats the world champion in [whatever]. It loses when AI beats some weakness of most humans.

I found the future of CAPTCHAs! If it effortlessly jumps between three languages of your choice, it's an LLM.

https://void.cat/d/J7Zy2wHKCtgwPdKr9tvxhz.webp

If only https://nostr.directory/ would work as it did before :(

I found so many of my follows thanks to it but now I can't sign in with Twitter anymore.

Have you checked if it's really them? Many scammers out there ...

I'm a bit surprised how my daughter prefers moving and flying castle over cute Totoro and the cat bus.