I've always been a Firefox guy myself. It's open-source, it's the best-supported browser after Chrome, and it's not built on Chromium. I think keeping that alternative in play is important to keep Google from completely dominating the web.
I'm not terribly familiar with Brave, but the crypto stuff always seemed a bit gimmicky.
Deneen's argument is that liberalism is based on radical individualism. When you pursue that to it's end, you sever yourself from all historical and social support structures, and as a result you end up depending on a totalizing state to provide for your needs.
I appreciate the friendly community and the value for value economy being built on Nostr, it seems like the start of building a system of trust between individuals that isn't mediated by government.
There's a tangential question here about what sort of reality the digital space actually possesses, but that's a different discussion for a different time
Related to that, it seems to me the biggest weakness of Bitcoin is that it is not a tangible asset. Bitcoins exists purely in digital space, which is removed from the physical reality in which we daily live and move. It appears to be a good digital solution for a digital world, but I'm not sure it's the end-all and be-all.
Decentralizing the Internet makes it harder to control, but that doesn't stop a jack-booted thug from knocking on your physical door.
#asknostr #bitcoin
So you're saying Bitcoin allows people to vote with their feet, so to speak, and removes government's coercive power.
I've thought a lot about government and political philosophy lately. Patrick Deneen's book "Why Liberalism Failed" pilled me (not sure what color lol), and I've been trying to work out what might be a just replacement for classical liberalism. So far I think the answer will involve trust, strong community, and subsidiarity.
I've seen a bunch of discussion on here around creating an all-Nostr internet. The browser projects, calendars, etc. are certainly super cool. I'm just not sure that asking people to ditch Web 2.0 entirely will have a broad appeal in the short term.
What is voluntaryism? I don't think I've encountered that term before.
My initial thought was that LLMs will help solve this problem, because they can munch through large inputs quickly. That just pushes the problem out a step, though. You have to trust the LLM.
What do people think about browser extensions as a means of interfacing
with Nostr? I'm starting work on one to help solve the problem of
making it easier for newcomers to start interacting with the Nostr
network.
Some features I'm considering:
- One- or two-click
interactions to create a new note that quotes text found anywhere on the
web, complete with a link to the source.
- A "share to Nostr" button
for articles that lives in the right-click context menu, or perhaps as
dynamic content injected into the page itself.
- Nostr search integration in the browser address/search bar.
#nostrdesign
I also got into Nostr first (and only recently at that). As a web developer, I am fascinated by the technology, and hoping to find a way to contribute to the growing ecosystem. I've learned a ton about Bitcoin, almost by osmosis, just from being on here.
The Dark Horse podcast recently discussed a paper on climate change and possible causes. The paper suggests that urban heat islands and insufficient consideration of solar variability is interfering with our picture of global climate change. In short, it's quite difficult to say for sure what portion of observed warming may be caused by human activity.
The podcast discussion was great, and I'm planning to peruse the paper when I have time. I'm curious what others think on the subject.
Virtue is an underrated concept these days. We should bring it back in general discourse.
#catholic #politics #life
Doesn't accept spammy notes my ass.
I just had to block a bunch of bots on nos.lol spamming the Catholic tag (and a ton of others) with anime girls.
#meme #memestr
We're finally getting some rain here in Austin, praise God
I agree that if the trend towards decentralization and privacy continues, then everyone benefits. My concern would be the new technology adoption outpacing the adoption of privacy-focused and/or decentralized technologies or protocols.
If the majority of people adopt a new device or technology that is more revolutionary than a phone without adoption the corresponding decentralization and privacy protocols like we see here on Nostr, that could be a danger. And it seems inevitable to me that big corporations or governments will try to sell the next revolutionary thing in a way that forces you to buy into their ecosystem, just like Apple has done with their i-devices.
It seems to me there is a lot of risk in that if the technology is not sufficiently decentralized. It's still possible today, if you want to unplug, to just turn the smartphone off and leave it at home. We can pay for things in cash and use public phones (or borrow someone else's) to make calls.
The more indispensable, unobtrusive, and portable the tech becomes, the harder it gets to escape from it. Done poorly, I could see it becoming an avenue for unprecedented centralized control.
I suppose with a friend or family member I'd tell them to ask me a question that we both know the answer to, but no one else would.
That's what online auth is fundamentally trying to do, isn't it?