Our pets get a little bit of dry and a little bit of canned, sometimes some (non-garlic, non-onion) added broth, sometimes some canned meat instead of the canned pet food.

Using a VPN can be no worse than your ISP. Your ISP sends you a "privacy policy" that lists all the ways they violate your privacy. A VPN claims to protect your privacy. You are guaranteed to be violated by your ISP because they told you they would. In the worst case, your VPN would act like your ISP except against their own advertising and their own interests. You share an IP address with others. You can control whether you want to exit here or there at any time. Your protection with a VPN is not perfect, but it's a damn good step in the right direction.

Mullvad just posted they are partnering with Obscura.

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I agree it will allow us humans to create more and blunder more. It will not be able to empathize with humans because it is not human and that is why it will always be horrible at entrepreneurship, even worse than mediocre human entrepreneurs.

The very purpose of a censorship-resistant communications network is to permit some forms of "illegal and dangerous" content because "illegal" varies with time and jurisdiction and "dangerous" varies with time and culture. Nostr doesn't host non-text media, websites do. I am not trying to minimize the real issue at hand. My suggestion is not about nicely and politely. I suggest we build incentives into clients and relays for people to honestly label their content. Those who do not label at all can be easily exiled. Even posts without a label can be easily blocked. Those who label dishonestly can be (admittedly less easily) exiled.

Nostr doesn't relay images, only links to them, but you probably could report it to the image host (see the domain name in the URL).

TLDR: encourage honest text captions.

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It will still only be a summary of what was. I do not see a day anytime soon where we will say "LLM, take these 10 BTC, create a company, develop a product, launch it, and profit, send me half the profits and reinvest the rest, I am no longer giving you any direction or input besides that."

I don't have images displayed by default and I don't have any way to tell (other than the person I'm following) whether to display the image or not. Once I see it I cannot unsee it.

I think encouraging self-publication of honest text descriptions of non-text content is the way to go. I recently encountered someone who did not wish to publish a content warning so my recourse was to mute that person. If we repeat this process continuously, where both clients and relays can try to evaluate whether a description of media is honest or not, and block dishonest descriptions, that would go a long way.

In other words, use classification systems not to identify one particular type of content on a scale from 0.0 to 1.0, but rather have it judge whether the attached description of an image or video is honest on a scale from 0.0 to 1.0. Then everybody can block dishonest npubs and filter what they wish to see or not see based on descriptions. If an image or video URL does not have a description alongside it, score it 0.0. I don't know which NIPs this would use or add. And the classification systems would not be required to be used by anyone, but they might help identify dishonest sources.

The venerable passphrase/PIN/pattern aka something you know, must not be destroyed. There seems to be an active campaign to eliminate the something you know bit, especially if it's only you that know it.

The purchasing power of one cent used to be more than that of a present dollar. It is more trouble than it's worth.

We can resume using cash by using real cash: gold and silver coins. One tenth of an ounce of gold is comparable in size to a US dime and has several times the purchasing power of a present one hundred dollar bill. Precious metals are not heavy or junk when compared to the current coins.

N[sic]GOs.

The gossip client I use seems to proactively seek out folks' relays as it goes, so I am connected to sixty plus relays at a time even though I only configured less than half that. It works well enough most of the time.

Fast forward a few years and Carrington is doing four years in prison (different judges) for fabricating evidence, lying, not showing up to court, or some combination. That is a sad story any way you cut it.

Trump ought to be asking the Fed to raise Fed interest rates to inifinity percent while cutting spending far below US Treasury income. That way market interest rates would prevail and people can work on making some honest money replacement ready for prime time when a future administration totally destroys the dollar. Unfortunately that is not happening.

Huh.

"Judges are normally protected by Judicial Immunity, but Carrington makes a strong argument in the new complaint that Judge Failla should not be immune, because she acted in the complete absence of all jurisdiction. The Supreme Court has stated that when a judge operates in a different court system than there are authorized to, this meets the standard of 'complete absence of all jurisdiction'. In my opinion, Judge Failla created her own independent, foreign court system, and should not be immune." https://www.pmjmp.org/post/judge-failla-and-the-21st-century-show-trial

"The presidency must be destroyed." - Lew Rockwell

As it should be! Godspeed!

Oh, explicitly positioning a TOC in the doc with `:toc:` is that the differentiator?