it is passive aggresive

and it is not gamification, it's low friction payments, that's the whole point of it

nobody gets kudos for zapping themselves, i mean, circle zapping, or whatever, do they?

yeah, i'm not following anymore you seemed so reasonable and i suppose you don't know that lightning uses onion routing

nope, really, i talk about dev and psychology and history and all kinds of science on here much of the day

you are just butthurt that nobody is talking about your favorite shitcoin, which is probably monero cos i know this style

i think it just will take a little more pushing at the guys in client dev most likely to get it working - nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn and nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr

in fact hodlbod is further ahead at getting NIP-42 working, and he is also the most advanced on markets, but nostrudel has got outbox model working which is also critical because relay development needs to not be a black box,

nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 has contributed in a big way with building the khatru framework to make it easier for relays to be built, and i've worked on making proper CLI interfaces using direct messaging and cleaning up the organisation of his nostr library so it is more easy to understand, and fixing several concurrency bugs and improving the json processing

i think interacting helps a lot too

yeah, i honestly can't really say how much of a good idea it is because it resembles many other forms of consensus i've seen and i think it is reinventing the wheel because it could be implemented with RGB

ah yes i forgot the name of these things... manometer... and you have to get one that is made to tolerate temps in the range of 120-150'C

well, the temperature and pressure are more or less the same given an excess of water, a la boyle's law, you can just use a temperature sensor and calibrate off it, the only time the pressure is gonna go down is if you run out of water and if you run out of water the temperature will probably drop quite dramatically

yes, a little laggy but it would work, you can tune the PID to compensate for that lag with the P and I factors

then you need an electronic barometer

very often with control systems you want a PID controller for pressure and regulation, doesn't require AI, just simple statistical analysis

this is using a gaussian blur and then creating a sharp contrast threshold

not sure if it will scan with the image in the middle, let's see

idk if you know how to use blur and levels/contrast on it, if you take the QR code, blur it out to about the diameter (using gaussian) of half one of those pixels, then alter the curve of the black to white so you sharpen up the edges and make the squares blend into each other a bit it looks nicer

you can also even overlay a grid through all the pixels, wiping out a few bits either side of everything, except for those marker squares, they must remain intact, you may have seen this dotty style, it also works, and is more pretty than your basic style

the contrast ratio has to be fairly high, and the dark/light parts must remain dark and light, you can't invert the image, it won't decode in many decoders

yes i am a bit of a graphic artist and i also wanted to make pretty codes like this once that's how i learned all these things

i made one with maximum error correction but the reality is with these codes they are not designed to be mangled pictures those little marker squares are alignment points and the bits are redundantly encoded with reed solomon encoding and the particular way they used to do this precludes wiping out more than the central 1/9th of the image

it would be possible to devise other ways to make it look prettier, for example you can blur and then round the edges of the shapes so it's a bit more pretty but that is the limitations of the encoding

definitely you can't make the edges round, and you can't leave out the margin around the square... that is how the algorithm finds the shape it needs to straighten into a square and aligns where all the bits are placed

the first version destroys too many bits i guess

this works

you can probably do it relatively easily if you massively increase the error correction rate so the overlaid image can mangle much of the data but still scan

you probably have seen the ones with the icon that takes up the centre 1/9th, well, if you increase the error correction rate you can probably have it take up the central HALF of the image

it likely will also need to have 4 or even 9 marker squares sectioned up as well to achieve this

this is with maximum error correction generated with qtqr, i'd say you can probably do this to it

if that scans, and you like it, of course use it!

haha that's my profile image mangled into a coffee shop

yes, paying for services is a big interest of mine which is why you'll find the term NIP-42 repeatedly in my notes, because almost no clients actually implement it properly and fully

i'm working on a relay that properly supports it but actually testing this feature is currently nearly impossible... the client implementations are very very patchy

getting more clients to fully support NIP-42 is critical to enabling pay-per-use and subscription models and modular storage back ends and search engine systems as they call them DVMs

until this support is widespread we are all depending on donations and grants and investors paying devs to build

there is a problem in the nostr dev culture that sprung out of the coming of jack and opensats that needs to be moved on from, the whole point of this system is exactly making it self-funded, as i see it

looks like garbage to me, the longer i look at it

also look at the columns on either side... they don't seem to be continuous either, and i just can't imagine someone paving a floor like that without a straight line across the opening, it's a mess... and on the left, there is what looks like a water drain pipe, but then half way up it suddenly disappears

i don't think it's a photograph i think it's an AI generated picture... if you look closely at the tables and chares they seem off somehow

i use nostr because i control my feed

nowhere else is this possible, even the fediverse systems have moderators who limit who can see what

i even run my own infrastructure, currently in development, but it's practically my daily driver

this hasn't been possible since the gigacorps took over forums and messaging on the internet... when it was just IRC and ICQ and email lists things were better... nostr is a return to that same DIY, see what you want to see, be in control

the constant curation and filtering and manipulation of the social media is so boring if nostr went offline today somehow (which is very unlikely) i wouldn't be looking for any other place to fill the hole... this is the only way, and none of the companies seem to give a damn about what people actually want

quite weird how there seems to be a continuity of that circle in the way the shadows and dark shapes line up around the chairs, is that deliberate?

well, wireguard VPNs are very cheap, like 2-3$/month for more or less unlimited 100mbit, i use cryptoho.st and they have this and you can play via btcpay server (lightning and bitcoin) and i've seen a russian provider i used before that also does

uh hu, stay away from my yet to be born daughter

you should get a wireguard VPN set up that puts your traffic outside of their juris my diction

yeah, nah, it's the client, amethyst may be the most used android client but the (some of) web devs are more skillful - plus the mobile devices have all kinds of strange limitations related to being low power devices

depends on your client... i find both #coracle and #nostrudel work perfectly at this (nostrudel is the best except NIP-42)

nostr is a true decentralised, autonomous organisation #DAO

nobody is in charge, we have many leaders whose position is always under threat and largely meritocratic, we have many developers building projects, which are not always efficiently using resources but are almost all self-funded or funded by donations, and a growing userbase that keeps on growing the more time passes

by the time we pop up on the radar of the propagandists who want to control speech there is gonna be more nostr activists than there is on any other platform, and the reason is that #nostr 's time has come

now more than ever people are realising that everything they are being told is to sell them on someone's agenda, and more and more people are learning just how much the centralized social media are not only a form of constant census and opinion poll but also a way to reach back into people's lives and alter the way they think, a mechanism of covert mind control

i became alert to this some years back when i read a study from people researching how facebook's algorithm was filtering people's feeds, and it turned out if they had cast you as a "right winger" - ie, anything right of the Democrat platform, and was increasingly including thinking moderates and centrists, they would deliberately make your feed boring and repetitive

this is why as soon as i heard of this thing i had to try it

been involved with steemit in the past, which showed a lot of promise at first, and watched on while discord, matrix, mastodon and other federated social systems clearly showed that you were only going to at best change a big hitler for a little hitler, and this place is a swarm, and its early adopters are cyberhornets and are delighted to have a place where the only thing that controls your visiblity is mostly other people finding you, and nothing else

i'm not the only one with similar background here... 20 years ago my political position was called "centre-left" and now it's "far right" or "alt right", and i've not changed my position at all, the measuring stick has been changed

a great majority of all of us with more than 30 years incarnated who are here also can say the same thing, and probably recognise names like Jello Biafra, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, and all the old alt celebs like Janes Addiction, RHCP, maybe some of you also knew Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) and Robert Anton Wilson and Terence Mckenna and Osho and so many others i know of who all represented centre-left philosophies and now are all increasingly either coopted (eg boingboing.net and the extropians) or cancelled, or the heros turned into shills for nonsense, like Torvalds, Stallman, Schneier, and others

just naming the stars of the past who i know many here will recognise and have at least previously admired, to show the point that we are actually a very very large, very pissed off group of people and we are without any central organisation creating a media system that will obsolete the entire edifice of the intels-funded facebook, google and others, built to spy and manipulate people