El de la pila de la izquierda debería estar tumbado en un sillón tomando un whisky y fumando un habano mientras observa el paisaje, para mayor efecto.
That's true, but if your relay is not technically able to censor at least you have a chance at plausible deniability. If you technically can, or they may misconstrue it to make it look that you can, control your users' content, then they will 100% use that against you.
Just one of my usual rants.
I don't know how to solve this technically, other than with pure "dumb" relays, and that is only because I think you would have a chance at plausible deniability when they arrest you, at least. But even that may be insufficient, as we're seeing with the kangaroo courts that are being organized to jail people for writing software, as State bureaucracies become more and more brazen and drop all pretense to even act as a law-based regime.
The bad actors we need to worry about are State actors, not mobs of blue-haired bitches with hormonal disorders.
So you'll be responsible for whatever your clients, who give you money for your services, post?
What will you do when the EU tells you that your paid "relay" is publishing anti-vaccine disinformation and that you have to ban and permanently block those accounts who do? And that you have to give assurances that you will no further allow them to do it?
What if they decide that you're committing financial crimes because you could prevent them from zapping, and you don't? Will you KYC and report to the tax authorities your clients? Will you keep a centralized database of the transactions? What if some of them are zapping people in Russia or China, or in a tax haven?
People in the Nostr space are very smug.
It seems they somehow believe that they're superhacker opsec ninja gods that will forever live in the shadow and no government bureaucrat will ever be able to touch them. Then some random Twitter bitch doxxes one of them in like ten minutes from her home computer and everybody freaks the fuck out.
If totalitarian bureaucracies like the UK, Australia, the EU haven't come after Nostr relays yet, it's simply because they don't even know Nostr exists. It's not even a blip on their radar. The moment this gets any traction, they will turn their eyes on us, and the extortion will begin. KYC zaps, content removal by judiciary order, geoblocking...
The only way to prevent this is to implement true relays. That is, dumb relays that cannot in any way alter the traffic and don't do anything other than RELAYING. And even then, it will be tough if the EU for instance decides relays are still responsible.
But don't listen to the paranoid anti-government anarchist, he's exaggerating and we're superspy hax00rs in the shadows and no three letter agency, or transnational bureaucracy will ever find us...! They will not be convinced until we have our own Nostr Ross Ulbricht.
In this case, it's not really a matter of opinion but of definition...
Units of measurement are used to quantify physical properties. Weight (a.k.a. mass) is a physical property. There is no advantage in using the medieval systems over metric-decimal to measure weights, regardless of whether it is the weight of a person, of a planet or of an atom. And vice versa, using the metric-decimal system is very advantageous for that purpose and to keep track of magnitudes.
I doesn't even need to be decimal. The point is having a fixed magnitude factor is beneficial for progress, which is the opposite of having to convert fractions of inches to feet, to yards, to miles with different multiplying factors at each step, introducing errors that may compound at each step.
This has nothing to do with separating commercial and daily life consumption items in convenient sets on base 12.
Of course there is a difference. Measurement units are for quantities -- physical properties: length, volume, mass, forces, etc. Counting sets of discrete objects is a completely different thing.
Hahah I was waiting for that comment.
There is a difference between counting eggs in a commercial setting, and measuring stuff.
I keep being told by Nostr pro-censorship relay runners and client devs that if I don't like their censorship, I should run my server. Pro-censorship users also often argue that censhorship on Nostr is not possible because "you can run your own server". So there's that.
Which always reminds me of the uncanny wisdom of old people who already thousands of years ago figured out that a set of 6 units, and even better, 12 units, is in fact a lot more divisible in different sub-sets than one of 4, or 5, or 10 units. Which promotes trade, social harmony and progress.
Bone and muscle loss in the space are caused by lack of gravity. We're terrestrial animals, so our skeletal system growth is contingent on NEEDING one. No gravity pull, no need for bones. This has nothing to do with any nonsense about "radio signals from Earth".
Same in Europe. It's true though that the illiberal right has coopted the label very successfully. It doesn't mean they defend liberty, because they don't. But neither does the left.
As long as irresponsible relay owners continue to push for censorship, running a non-censored relay is suicidal.
The pro-censorship relays will inevitably attract the attention of regulators and State actors, because they are in fact not relays but publishers, and will be forced into submission and compliance, under threat of prosecution.
Their irresponsible actions and obsession with replicating centralized social media practices "for the good of
the protocol", "for adoption", "for common sense", etc., endangers everybody else and is the single worst point of failure of Nostr and what will effectively kill it, in time.
Then do not cry when big bad government comes knocking to dand that relay owners also KYC people, or any other legal requirement they come up with.
Not the second, which is a gross simplication of how natural selection and evolution work, but absolutely and definitely not the first in any way shape or form.
It's super simple -- thus the need for really good ingredients.
The classical recipe uses:
Raw Marcona almonds, garlic, bread (only the white part, no crust, as an aid for thicker texture, so it's not completely necessary), water, olive oil, white vinegar, salt. That's for the base cold soup.
For toppings, it's usually some roasted almonds, cured ham and grapes, but probably the actual original recipe wasn't that fancy.
The concept is to combine the subtle acidity of the dash of vinegar with something sweet and something salty, so you can go really wild here in terms of combinations.
For 120 g of almonds I used one large garlic clove and half a melon (only the flesh of course) instead of water. Half of it (so, one quarter melon) I just added to the other ingredients and blended them to help with the thickness so I could use less bread. The rest of the half melon, I blended it separately and then filtered the juice, then added it and blended the whole thing. In total, all this yielded almost three plates like the one in the picture. Extra virgin olive oil is a must, doesn't need a lot really, just a quarter of a cup or less even. Vinegar is a matter of taste, usually a couple of tablespoons are enough, but the melon, cherries, etc. may require a little extra.
Once everything is thoroughly blended, some people like it even thinner and run it through a colander to remove even the finest pieces of almond and other solids.
It's important to use cold ingredients and to serve it cold from the fridge in any case. The toppings are added only right before serving.
This is not a recipe that's native from where I'm from, and I only tried it for the first time a few years ago. But it's become extremely popular among chefs and in many modern restaurants here the dish has now evolved from a cold soup to a cold sauce of sorts that they serve with stuff like vinegar-cured mackerel.
#cookstr
Today for starters I made one of my favorite Spanish recipes - ajoblanco.
I gave it a sophisticated twist, using fresh melon as a replacement for the water, and added fresh cut cherries as topping to go with the cured ham chips.
Even though it's literally called "white garlic", the main ingredient of this cold soup are raw almonds.
If you don't use Marcona almonds though, and I mean the real ones from the Mediterranean, not California, you're doing it wrong 🤷🏻♂️