Just a heads up for anyone who posts media and especially for those who want to be nice to nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 servers:
This video started as 184 MB, but I did the quick conversion I always do for web media, and the mp4 version was 3.9 MB.
That’s a 97.9% reduction in size!
Handbrake is a free tool that I use constantly, and you can use ffmpeg CLI if that works better for you (or you want to build an auto-tool with Ai to do it with a simple drag and drop function). But you can convert video to vastly more efficient formats without even being able to see the difference in quality, *especially* if you did a screen capture.
Many don’t realize how important that step is, so it’s good to remind people who don’t think about it. nostr:note1xxxwl894ee3pf8zcmvf3r4axugk5wz00ne5um2fad92266ry6wjsgwe382
Just learning about Handbrake now. Thanks!!!
It's the Audacity of video. Kinda.
Bitcoin will expose your weaknesses.
If you wish to hide them, stay away.
If you wish to conquer them, start stacking.
Almost forgot...
GM
The TLDR is it's conceptually like Spirit of Satoshi, but for philosophy more broadly rather than just bitcoin.
Instead of training it solely on the gruel of the modern web, let's train it on the ancient wisdom of the western canon.
And instead of optimizing it for utilitarian economic outcomes, let's optimize it for human flourishing... as defined by that previously mentioned ancient wisdom.
I don't put much stock or interest in politics, but it's unavoidable and it DOES have a real impact on our lives.
As teams and policies accumulate on either side of the 2024 Presidential race, I've honestly never been more hopeful AND more terrified for an election outcome.
Point taken. It’s hard to shake my current paradigms sometimes.
The older I get the less I can stand this guy.
But HOOBOY does he hit this one right out of the park.
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I don't disagree with Gmail being a major culprit.
Maybe I'm catastrophizing, but given the interconnected nature of the economy, infrastructure, and livelihoods, I would think such a move would be more than the mere inconvenience of having to switch to protonmail or something.
There would be big ripple effects that do real damage.
Maybe that level of pain is inescapable if we want to tear free of the surveillance state. But it makes for a pretty effective lever of influence in the meantime.
There would be tremendous pain in that situation. Consider the businesses, infrastructure, and livelihoods that are built atop email addresses.
So that would be a pretty effective lever with which to coerce people.
All I'm saying is it would be nice to have some leverage against that, to prevent that suffering, not simply a protocol that will weather the damage.
Man am I excited about nostr.
It's a desperately bulwark against censorship.
And the community is 🔥 🔥 🔥
But the level of nostr prognostication is starting to sound like the early days of bitcoin.
Many got rekt thinking it was inevitable and the dollar would die next Tuesday.
Even in our meme-ified times, change takes time.
We still have a few Thanksgiving dinners in our future where nostr is roundly derided.
Here's the thing about a store of value...
you eventually have to SELL at least some of it, otherwise you're not STORING it, you're DISPOSING of it. You're locking it up and then throwing away the key.
The question is
how much to sell,
when to sell, and
for what purpose.
And that's an individual value judgement.
It might not be the end of email, but do people really think that would have zero effect??
Made all the more difficult if one's income is at least somewhat reliant on fitting in and respectable social standing.
People seem to be fighting a straw man with nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw right now due to some simple phrasing.
Is he really saying "the protocol doesn't matter"?
Or is he saying that "there is more than one route to censorship (e.g. censoring apps that sit atop the protocol), and IN ADDITION TO THE PROTOCOL it would be great if there was a way for companies to resist those pressures as well."
What am I missing here?
How analogous is this to browsers and the http protocol?
No one is gonna shut down "the web"
But would there be no material impact on the flow of information over the web if the state were able to, let's say, shut down Chrome, Firefox, and Safari?
The more of-the-moment the post = more engagement but less reusable.
The more eternal the post = less engagement but more reusable.
What's your experience?
Not a bad idea. Treat nostr as the "members only" platform and offer similar benefits... advance access, members only content, live streaming or AMAs, etc.