Here in Bangladesh neither play store nor F-droid offers 5.3.1 September 25, 2023 update.

What's wrong with me?

Simplex is not what you want and need. Getsession.org is what you want.

There are few, but real use cases for storing and exchanging Nostr events in paper, inside QR codes directly. An extreme version of P2P privacy.

A legally-binding contract signature for instance, doesn't need to be online or even be stored digitally. The entire signed event can be printed inside a QR code, exchanged offline and erased from electronic existence to only come back online when absolutely needed.

Once you give people private keys and a common data model, the ways to exchange those payloads are endless.

Remember when everyone started Googling "mass formation psychosis" and Google put up this disclaimer?

Never forget.

Oh, the attack on Nostr being a 'problematic, far-right misinformation' platform is inevitable.

There are a couple of nice ones. Have to look up their names first, though...

There are a couple of nice ones. Have to look up their names first, though...

I'm a sucker for motivational books. I find that blasting through one every now and again pumps me up to stay on task, get shit done, and try new things. Really enjoyed both David Goggins books recently.

Are there books like this that you've really enjoyed? Drop your suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

Will be interesting to see the list of most muted words and phrases when this gets implemented.

I would go for bitcoin and 'stack sats' as my most obvious choice lol.

Wondering if there will be also be some sort of AI recognition in the future which would detect bitcoin meme posts too 🤔

Update: it looks fine on Firefox but is messed up on chromium

Great image.

One on cognitive dissonance:

Sort of noobish #question that has never really hit me before: how do you change your icon / widget theme from the command-line?

Usually I just copy the theme files to ~/ and choose the theme with lxappearance, but it seems that package isn't included in #AlpineLinux 3.18 (it is in testing). Huh.

Guess it's not a very magical thing in the end? But all answers I find searching around are specific to Ubuntu.

I often encounter people who reject everything that the "mainstream" is telling them. They do this because humans are partly pattern machines. We see a pattern and extrapolate it. So if the "mainstream" lies over and over, it's tempting to just believe everything they say is a lie.

But the reason all you hear from mainstream are the lies and the evil is primarily that your input feed is curated to bias for such things. You are being focused onto things that are not representative. Making statistical inferences like "it's all lies" is actually a bad inference because it is only your feed that is all lies.

Sure, there is enough data to day that Biden is probably guilty of corruption. But you should also leave room for doubt. Maybe Ray Epps wasn't an FBI agent.

Case in point is global warming. IIn fact, that is my litmus test. People who say the whole thing is a scam to have an excuse for world government socialism... they have this thinking problem. They are the ones who cannot actually find truth because they are relying on simple statistical patterns that don't represent reality, rather than going and looking for themselves at actual evidence. They are also the most confident and comfortable in their ignorance, which makes total sense. If they weren't comfortable in their ignorance, they might have discovered the truth. This is probably the underlying cause of the Dunning-Krueger effect.

The world is complex. Simple answers are probably wrong. Epstein might have killed himself. Steel does soften and lose structural holding ability well below it's melting point. The UFO pictures are probably reflections or other artifacts. Most people are not malicious. But many people are highly deluded. And the global mean temperature is increasing primarily due to more CO2 being in the atmosphere than ever before.

Feel free to disagree but this is not a thread I want to have arguments in. This is just a thought I wanted to put out there. And agree or disagree, I'll keep working to make gossip the best nostr client I can make it.