Subnostr

Replying to

Yaël

just the nostrich house folks

mIX 1y ago

Ahh.

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Marty Bent

Just recorded a monster rip with nostr:npub1g0587hzzckcncxfm78n0996qe2s58nspy29wf02tqcj5sdzcpj4q6j40hv and Mark Goodwin. Drops tomorrow morning.

We’re going to win.

mIX 1y ago

I'll be listening.

Replying to

Peter McCormack

We did it, we won another league 🏴‍☠️

mIX 1y ago

Congrats!

Replying to

Yaël

nostr's not fun when your only responses come from the bots, mates

mIX 1y ago

I rarely see any. Maybe it's your relays? I blocked a few alt coin ones back in the day, but lately the only one I've seen in the past few weeks is the fake Lyn Alden (now blocked).

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Nosnevets

https://youtu.be/4zH9Zca1vRM?si=xrmvOFvTLjuxG-ef #tunestr

mIX 1y ago

Haha, what the?! Had to check out some of their other stuff, it's amazing! Loving it. Amazing musicians. I haven't heard stuff this technical in a while. Loving the bass and drums on Do Hot Girls Like Chords https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ois3gfcwKSA

Replying to

The Daniel 🖖

There is someone panicking right now over this.

mIX 1y ago

Phhf. Rookie numbers.

Replying to

Robert Allen

You added two zeros. It would be $182.50 saved in one year at $0.50/day.

mIX 1y ago

zeros are worth nothing, so adding them makes no difference.

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boston wine

I know I haven’t spent enough time on Nostr this week because I don’t know what #dan is and now I’m afraid to #asknostr

mIX 1y ago

I'm not sure if anybody really knows.

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Uno

1,000 Dans (Don't Expand)

Dan

mIX 1y ago

And den?

Replying to

Fabian

1 year of building Nostur

https://nostur.com/v/nostur-1y.mp4

Looking forward to the next year! Enjoy the holidays all

mIX 1y ago

That is a cool visual way to see your progress.

Replying to

utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻

God why is steak so good 🥩😊

mIX 1y ago

Because it's got what the body craves.

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FRANCIS - BULLBITCOIN.COM

The blocksize war wasn't so much about the blocksize (or, even, scaling Bitcoin). It was really about who controls the consensus rules and how we upgrade the protocol.

For context, a bunch of startups raised tons of money between 2013 and 2016 based on ridiculous user sign-up projections and then we had a long and painful bear market and they were looking for scapegoats (the developpers that were "throttling the network") to justify the lack of growth. I am thinking here specifically of Coinbase, Bitpay and Blockchain.info.

The vibe I got is that they thought of Bitcoin itself as a corporation, that they were the equivalent of Bitcoin's board of directors because they represented the interest of VC investors, and thus they were entitled to decision making power over the network.

I don't doubt that a few people were genuine about scaling p2p e-cash (e.g. Roger Ver) but I suspect what really motivated them is that they believed control of the Bitcoin network would be an asset to their business interests, and lack of control was being used as an excuse to why their interests weren't being satisfied.

There was also a bunch of developers that I believe may have been afraid of losing their relevance (Gavin and Garzik specifically). Regardless of their intentions or psychology, it seemed clear to me that the consortium of vc-backed startups (particularly Bitpay, Coinbase, blockchain(.)info and Roger) had picked a team of developers they thought they could control and wanted to appoint them as a technical management team whicn would execute their strategy, and these guys were willing to step up for that role.

I was physically in the room when the CEO of Blockchain.info (with the very obvious support of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong) announced that Bitcoin Core devs were being fired and would be replaced. This was after a couple days of failed discussions with other industry people. This was the moment when I realized what was really going on.

And finally, you had a Bitcoin mining giant (Bitmain) controlling both asic production and mining pools with a vested interest in promoting the idea that Bitcoin was a democracy and the way to vote was to buy hashing power. The main ideology being pushed here was that a formal governance mechanism of the protocol needed to be established and that hashrate was the only objective measure of who makes decisions.

The underlying big blocker ideology was that the chaos of spontaneous consensus of nodes is unpredictable, flimsy, bad for business. The absence of a formal governance process was seen as the root cause of the issue.

These companies really believed they could control the protocol, and controlling development of the protocol was seen as a very valuable asset to your company. I imagine they thought of themselves as the founders of a new consortium that would solidify itself into a permanent institution. The business interests would pay developers and set the goals, and the mining interests would ratify their decisions with hash power voting. That was their plan.

This became blatantly obvious when Bitmain used its refusal to activate segwit as leverage to get what it wanted (a blocksize increase and recognition of its hashpower as a vote mecanism) even though Bitmain iself acknowledged it was not really opposed segwit.

It was classic traditional politics: I'll give you segwit if you give me something in return.

This is the language the VC suits, investors and tech startup people understand and they were very happy to "negotiate" and find "consensus".

This eventually materialized into the New York Agreement, negotiated literally as a backroom deal during theConsensuss shitcoin conference. I was there and I refused to attend.

This (private) meeting consecrated the alliance of startups/investors and bitcoin mining interests in their appointment of a technical management committee. If you think this sounds like Jekyll Island, you're not alone.

They packaged segwit with a blocksize increase (Segwit2x) and decided to force a hard fork as a condition to "allow" us to have Segwit.

We know the rest of the story: we ended up activating anyway via UASF (or more precisely, the miners activated Segwit after they New York Agreement signatories became scared UASF would lead to a chain split which they were going to lose). And the blocksize increase was also abandoned shortly after when they realized their hard fork would cause a chain split and that they would not be able to claim that their new shitcoin is the real bitcoin.

All these people were subsequently were very pissed off they couldn't control the network, which they thought they were entitled to. Some ragequit, others created a bunch of shitcoins out of spite, Roger went on to spearhead BCH as the real Bitcoin, all these fools realized they might as well make some money off of it, everyone went all-in on the shitcoin casinos after that. The "small blockers" eventually went on to evolve into the Bitcoin Maximalists and cypherpunks that today tell you to run your own node and own your own keys.

mIX 1y ago

Thank you for the history lesson.

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Cyph3rp9nk

Many people are unaware of BSD systems.

BSD is an authentic Unix, Linux is a clone. I will tell you that part of the success of Linux was due to the legal problems that BSD faced in the late 80's and 90's by AT&T.

If BSD had not faced these legal problems, perhaps Linux would not exist today.

The BSD operating systems are excellent, the main branches are:

- FreeBSD, the BSD system par excellence, is where more innovation in all aspects, to consider its magnificent integration with ZFS (the best on the market), its virtualization system and isolation Jails that predates docker and derivatives and its ports system (package manager). It also stands out for its performance, where in some aspects it surpasses Linux as in web servers.

- OpenBSD, the most secure operating system in the world, as it is the one that reports the fewest vulnerabilities, only followed by AIX.

- NetBSD, one of the systems that supports more architectures. Pioneer in integrating certain technologies such as IPv6, a great quality, a very well written and organized code and compliance with standards and a great file system such as BSD FFS.

- DragonFLY BSD, a great unknown but a great operating system, many FreeBSD nerds have switched to it. Hybrid kernel like Macos, Hammer file system (snapshots, compression and deduplication), LWKT (Light Weight Kernel Threads) implements lightweight threads in the kernel for better concurrency management, native virtualization in the kernel with vkernel and native swapcache.

Some fun facts that will interest you.

BSD licenses are more permissive than the GPL, allowing your code to be included in other projects and the resulting code to be licensed under other licenses, including proprietary or closed licenses.

Macos is a derivative of FreeBSD and uses many parts of it, although the core of Macos called Darwin is opensource (APSL). Macos on the other hand is a certified Unix.

Other systems that use FreeBSD are Playstation 3, Playstation4 and Nintendo Switch.

Netflix, WhatsApp and FligthAware are other examples of companies using FreeBSD in their infrastructures due to the incredible performance of their TCP/IP stack under high loads and web servers.

When Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft, they were using FreeBSD servers, no need to tell you what an ordeal it was for Microsoft to migrate their architecture to Windows Server.

Finally, the integration and cohesion of BSD operating systems are due to their development as a complete system, with the kernel and user space designed and maintained by the same team. This contrasts with Linux, which is primarily a kernel around which distributions add software and tools to form a complete operating system.

Long live BSD, the UNIX.

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mIX 1y ago

Thanks for the informative post.

mIX 1y ago

https://youtu.be/NLN7BSSgltA?si=CIG4HthaTNLReANm

Oh, British Canadia... er Columbia. What a joke... another government scam you say? I'm so surprised! 🙄

Edison Motors seems interesting.

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47

“The best works divide the audience”

mIX 1y ago

For some reason this just makes me think the following... I'm not sure why exactly.

Playing people against each other is how it's done. Just engagement farming. It's not that the works are good or bad, because often the works are forgotten about. It's all about the drama of getting people to talk about their dumb crap. Mainly so they can soak up the self-interest and feed their narcissistic ego.

This also seems like the saying of a henchman or side-kick who has no other role than to feed the ego of the someone who made something that's garbage, but thinks it's great.

Maybe I'm just in a weird mood tonight. 🤔

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The Fishcake (nostr.build)

PSA: I just finally decided not to wait until a proper implementation of a new account page for nostr.build and “fixed” the biggest headache I and other people had with folders. Hope you like this quick hack and it will help you survive until a proper replacement. 🐶🐾🫡

https://v.nostr.build/M5Vka.mp4

mIX 1y ago

Thank you.

mIX 1y ago

Nice! I was able to zap all of the Amethyst devs this time via my node. Got through the whole list without it forgetting what was going on. 👍 #value4value

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nostr.build

nostr.build Account usage metrics.

Thank you Account holders for your continued use and support over the last year! Not only are we now a free, sustainable nostr media service, we can continue adding new features for all users (TOR, AI, media search and Primal integration coming soon!)

A reminder that a storing media isn’t cheap, especially with video, backups, reviews, maintenance, global CDN, DBs, growing usage, no ad sales, etc. nostr:npub137c5pd8gmhhe0njtsgwjgunc5xjr2vmzvglkgqs5sjeh972gqqxqjak37w did an incredible job optimizing everything but we still have expenses and every Account makes a difference!

https://nostr.build/plans

mIX 1y ago

Thank you for the service. The one thing I would really like to see is an easier way to move files between folders. Checking a box and then double clicking on the folder that you want it to be into his not very intuitive, especially when there are no instructions or tool tips.

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ODELL

mIX 1y ago

Tis a silly place.

mIX 1y ago

Used it again today, so going to share it again. Informative video of a full side of beef and all the cuts of meat and where they come from. #foodstr #steak #beef #beardedbutchers

https://youtu.be/1qReSsWr7Gw?si=mOCaTLHA9BFLV3NI