Republics usually have some founding document and a formal system for changing that. A Basic Law or Constitution or a history of common laws, usually with protections for basic human rights like property and free speech.

In a democracy, the majority (or the loudest, angriest demographic) just says what they want, usually with polling, protests, and voting, and the government gives it to them. Mob rule.

A republic is rule by law and a democracy is rule by majority.

Democracy is what republics decline to.

He's right, but fuck democracy.

Give me my republic back.

There is no such thing as a perfect product. Lifetime of an app's codebase is usually 2-3 years. After that, the app either starts feeling outdated or, more frequently than not, another app does the same thing in a more modern way.

Ok, Everybody wants Amethyst Purple now. But hold your horses.

I want to first try a release-based donation model that goes straight to the devs/designers/translators who helped in that specific release. It's similar to what we do today in my release notes where your zap splits go straight to the devs.

The goal of the model is to align the right incentives with the finances: we only get paid when we have something new. If we don't ship, nobody gets anything. That will keep the wheels turning and avoid the usual product stagnation.

On top of that, I don't want to make Amethyst a company. At least not yet. Companies are too centralized and complicated for my current taste. I want to see if we can stay as a humble open-source project while collecting the same amounts a company would but through your direct payments/donations to what would have otherwise been employees.

Basically, an extreme version of value 4 value.

We will see if the idea works. It's still early and we already collect a good amount per month (~$1700/mo combined). So, it should be possible. Fingers crossed.

Good. Fuck’em

ROUNDABOUT WAY

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GOOD MORNING NOSTR, WAKING UP EARLY IS A SUPER POWER 🫡

May the thirst be with you. 😉

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I'm old enough to remember when nostr global was all dicks and tits

Wow... You just gotta do /everything/ yourself. xD

I bought the live stream ticket to the DEMO show, and both on the page and confirmation email, it listed a starting time in germany - so I took that, put it into my mind and calender, and went with it.

Turns out it was a whole hour off - and the show itself, is but one hour long! My time difference to japan is 8 hours, the start time in their local time was 18:50 ... but the time listed for germany was 11:50.

Do you see the mistake? 18 - 8 = 10; 10 != 11! So, by the time I went to open the stream (11:50 my time, as per the schedule given in the E-Mail) (and having just crawled out of my bed), the show was almost over XD aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

Now I have to wait for another email for the VOD. But I am actually a little pissed, so I will straight up feed that into yt-dlp >_>

Oh and I paid 19 € for the ticket. Not a lot by any means, but I did pay so...

I committed myself to see if V4V is a valid monetization for being a creator.

If it doesn’t work this year - V4V will be dead for me and only remain a fun gimmick.

NGL being a V4V creator is the hardest mode of being a creator.

If a pleb only values my content for 2sats it’s ultimately on me to make better content so next time he’ll zap 20.000 sats.

I believe by going the hardest way this will ultimately yield in the best result. I don’t know yet what these results will be but I am here for the journey and the revolution.

Now it’s up to me - let’s make V4V fucking work 🫡 🤝 nostr:note1m7zhcqyq75qv5z5v4juw683fpc9hyl7nsvf9antsz5gdac0cl24qcfjhdu

My mother was telling a family story about my grandmother from when my grandmother was a kid, back before WWII.

The summary is, there was this bully that kept harassing her brothers and sisters, so she went and just beat the shit out of him.

She was known as kind of a hard woman in her later years. For example if her adult children came to her with problems, she'd be like "I dunno, go fix it rather than tell me about it."

Into her old age, this grandmother kept her hair extremely long, like four feet long. She made a ritual out of brushing her ultralong pure white hair each night. I met her only a few times when I was a toddler, and that's the image I remember, her hair.

She died due to a heart attack while shoveling snow because even when she was old she wanted to do it herself each time.