I hereby rescind my signature on the social contract.

wow, so, i made a trial for youtube premium and their downloads are

dun dun dun

stuck in the browser PWA cache

not on your disk

technically both but it's uberghey fake marketing

i can already download it, i'm canceling my trial, this fakery just kills me

they can rug me at any time, that's not a download

The news that gets out of NZ tends to be the bad stuff. No country is the magical mystical libertarian or anarcho-capitalist utopia. I wouldn't consider New Zealand to be close to such a thing. But it is a sane, safe, mostly free, democratic, liberal and productive place to live with fewer crises going on.

When the left is in power they have crazy bad ideas (take from the whites to give to the browns, control the media so that nothing bad is said of the government, restrict guns of lawful people, lockdown to save grandma, try to compete in the real estate development market, try to run a railroad, try to run a bank, try to build public transport on massive scales, shut down oil and gas exploration and rely on unreliable wind power - later necessating importing coal from China to keep the lights on, etc), but they are highly incompetent so they can't actuate most of their ideas. Basically they waste a bunch of money and get nothing done except marketing of themselves. At least they get nothing done. When the right is in power, they are much more competent and their ideas are more sane so there is less to worry about. But they want more power for themselves, more support of US and Israel, disrespect freedom of association, they lockdown for grandma too. Nobody is perfect but they are far better.

I don't think the U.S. has more "respect for property" than NZ does. The U.S. has high levels of civil asset forfeiture without judicial review, anything law enforcement claims was involved in a crime... and indeed that isn't even necessary anymore. Most states also permit local prosecutors to take personal property from people who haven’t been charged with a crime. In NZ they generally can only take the proceeds of crime and only after conviction.... civil asset forfeiture requires a high court ruling that the asset in question was indeed part of a crime before it can be taken.

Jacinda was an authoritarian. That wasn't obvious from the start (although some of us had seen the young-socialists videos). She had her way of seeing things. I don't think she was evil, she just had a different opinion and one that many of us did not want to live under. She wanted to protect everybody and punish people who interfered with that. She couldn't handle the feedback though so she resigned.

The NZ government is very subservient to the US regulations, including banking, five-eyes spying, extradition of Kim Dotcom, etc. That is because we have virtually no military and depend on the U.S. to protect us. It is why we are getting off-sides with China even though China is our largest trading partner. We are kind-of fucked in this regard. I think we need to push back against the U.S. to stay neutral, but this government wont be doing that.

The media was locked-up by the last Labour government who paid only certain media companies based on (unwritten) favorable coverage of the government. But all the people I know were wise to what was happening. Hardly anybody I know watches the news anymore. Lots of people listen to underground radio like Reality Check Radio (which can't get a license... funny that) or to podcasts like Joe Rogan.

COVID woke up tons of people. There is quite a resistance movement and liberty is on the rise.

And where I live, amongst farms, people are very independent and libertarian minded. And the people next door matter FAR more than the people in some city far away who think they are running the show.

We have fair elections. And we don't have a police state targetting the political opponents of the people in power.

What framework are you using to run the models?

I just started testing privateGPT.

The possibility to feed local documents is interesting, but it seems they are managed as a separate knowledge base.

I think a time will come when right-leaning and libertarian Americans who are not in agreement with the establishment will realize that their country is captured beyond any hope, that Trump 2016 was the last anti-establishment presidency and the people are no longer represented. It has not happened yet, there is still hope. But once you all come to that understanding, just remember this: There is not enough room for you all in New Zealand.

Anyone know where to find an accurate representation of CPI calculations based on “original” 1980s logic?

To all those haters of data storage on #bitcoins blockchain

15 years ago today the first data was stored on chain.

Well I'm actually being a touch unfair. I think Whitney is highly useful in the sense that she is good at looking at situations from a different perspective and loves to turn over or look under rocks. We need those people. What I think Whitney sometimes gets wrong is the 'connecting of dots'. Or at least she makes connections using severely incomplete data that really leaves her conclusions exposed. I think this happened most recently with Neuralink.

The thing we all need to guard against is the tendency to dig only deep enough to make the data fit our narrative bias.

No one is perfect and I certainly can't expect perfection from Whitney when she is forced to operate in the dark with hands tied behind her back given the nature of the topics she tries to expose.

Having written this reply I think I've realised my frustration is perhaps more directed at those who interview her and are not more robust in their interrogation of her conclusions.

Honestly stay the fuck away from Whitney Webb.

They’ve printed trillions and those trillions have not been changing hands as is evidenced by the collapse in the velocity of money.

This chart proves the COVID stimulus checks were nothing more than bread and circuses.

This is your monetary system on fiat. Abject favoritism.

GOSSIP 0.9.0 has been released

git: branch '0.9', tag 'v0.9.0'

Upgrade Instructions

- SQLite 3 code has been removed. If you are running version 0.7.x of gossip, you need to run a 0.8.x version of gossip at least once in order to keep your old data. Otherwise you can just start fresh.

New Features

- Person Lists:

Curate your own lists of people

View a feed of just those people

Save to nostr events, synchronize with other nostr clients.

Mark members private to save secretly in encrypted contents.

- Onboarding wizard: Steps a new user through what is needed to get set up

- Support for the new nostr CLOSED message.

- Tagging now works by just typing an '@' and the name and picking from a popup list.

- Restyle of DM Chat

- Restyle of Profile pages

- New login page

- Improvements to event deletion (multiple issues resolved)

- "show more" on long notes

- scrolling improvements

- name improvements (which name to use)

- Better tracking of threads and replies (reposts, replies via 'a')

- Command line commands: reprocess_recent, print_followed, print_muted, bech32_decode, bech32_encode_event_addr, print_relay, add_person_relay, print_person, import_event, print_person_lists, add_person_list, rename_person_list,

- Relay communications are kinder to relays

- Documentation reworked

- TLS now defaults to rust code, but native (operating system provided) root certificates.

- Restructured as a library and a binary, so that people who want a different UI are free to replace the UI while continuing to use the underlying library.

- Lots of little things I didn't bother to add to this list. See the git history for the whole truth.

SHA256sums:

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It may well be that 2024 will be the year of Nostr as the turmoil of geopolitics begins to roil.

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