> Get the last word in, tell them they are going to be muted and then mute them
This is by far one of the lamest things you can do on social media (Nostr included).
It's the Internet equivalent of plugging your ears while screaming things so you can't hear the response. If you are interested enough in the conversation to "get the last word in" and the reason they are the "last words" is that your ears are plugged, you have lost that debate in the least respectable and most childish way possible.
Being muted by randos on Twitter on Nostr isn't a loss in any sense. The only value in telling someone they are getting muted is for their own sake (so they know why they won't receive further responses in that thread).
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Followed, specifically for not having a lightning address set up.
What kind of point is this? Anyone can make AI slop.
It can however make sense to generate abstract images that look good (just gradients or shapes), but that can be done, and better, by programs written for that purpose, rather than AI-based image generators.
They are absolutely not expected to have a cover image, you can just publish articles without cover images.
I do not hate the wide and nobile field of AI, a field of computer science old nearly as modern computer science itself.
I do detest OpenAI, the fact that some idiots actually believe their shit, the fact that morons think "vibe coding" is as good as knowing how to code, the whole aesthetics of AI-generated images (generated by the tasteless), those who ruin social media by posting AI-generated text, the whole "in the next 6 months" that has been going on for years and, more generally, the whole recent "AI" business.
As usual, researchers do something good, but businesses make it shit. Money ruins everything.
Personally I do care, in the sense that, everything else being equal, I'd use software written by hand rather than written by AI. This is especially true for open source software.
Software programs are works of literature. If a program has been written by humans, it's pretty clear what the "source code" is and what should be shared. We know it's intelligible to humans because a human wrote it.
But what if a program has been generated by an illiterate vibe coder? In that case it may go to production without anyone ever understanding the program in full. The prompt isn't source code either, since models behave randomly and may generate different programs with the same input.
To this, you should add that many "vibe coders" depend on specific models offered by specific companies through an API. This effectively adds a dependency on those companies for the development of the program.
It matters to have people that understand programs and, for that, it makes sense to prefer programs that have been written and continue to be written by hand.
The use of prompts in natural language is not akin to using high level languages. Natural language is inherently imprecise, while all programming languages, no matter how high level, communicate ideas precisely and are formal languages.
It depends on what you value more.
You have more right to portability than in any (other) platform (it's trivial to pull your events from many relays).
Whether those who access your data will use it for illegitimate purposes isn't a technical question. Doing so would be illegal regardless of the technology.
In that case, thanks feds for running relays, we need relays.
You don't even need to run a relay, you can just fetch from other relays continuously.
Nostr is better for data mining than practically anything that ever existed.
Privacy isn't about secrecy, it's about ownership of personal data.
Because Nostr gives you more control, it gives you more privacy. Does it give you more secrecy? No, unless you remain anonymous, which his account is not (he may have a separate anonymous account for all we know. That we can't know is the point).
Some clients truly are the Internet Explorer of Nostr: just do random undocumented shit and hope other clients adapt.
They are the ones pushing AI shit none asked for, they don't care about users and they won't do this.
Would many ask for it? Of course. Many asked them to reintroduce dislikes, one of the best features of YouTube, but YouTube didn't do so.
There is a lot of really high-quality content on YouTube. It's up to us to find and share high-quality content and stop watching shit.
For example, there is a lot of truly good educational content, both well-known (the usual: 3Blue1Brown, PBS Space Time and a lot more), but also many lesser known ones that are very good (channels explaining how some things in video games work, made by game developers, for example).
There are however a lot of """educational""" channels that are just straight-up slop and misinformation. There have been for longer than this idiotic surge of AI slop. The usual flashy "top 10 things you didn't know" that are just 10 things you couldn't have known because they are false. Or just random "facts" written to make idiots feel smart.
For entertainment, it's kind of the same thing: there are genuinely good and funny channels and brain-rot channels that somehow manage to catch our attention for hours without being genuinely funny or even pleasant, like a hack of the brain.
We truly need to promote high quality and call out brainrot, in all forms, especially videos.
As for a genuine AI filter, you can't actually build one and the existing ones are scam (which I hear even some teachers and professors are relying on, I think they should be fired).
I wonder why the fuck Primal does this.
I wish clients would stop misusing tags. If they have a special usecase for a tag, they should just make up their own tag, instead of misusing existing ones.
Your note data contains "r" tags pointing to relays, despite your text containing no link to any relay.
I'm not aware of anything in the "standard" this is supposed to mean, what client are you using that does this?
Ode to Blender.
https://www.functorfault.net/posts/ode-to-blender/
#b3d #Blender #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Floss #Christmas
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Ode to Blender.
https://www.functorfault.net/posts/ode-to-blender/
#b3d #Blender #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Floss #Christmas
They actually replied to me!
They told me we'll have to wait none knows how long for the licenses to be evaluated (BSD-1-clause is *clearly* FLOSS IMO), but they replied.
INAL, but note that patents don't need to be reversed (they have to be public) and that reverse engineering doesn't need to infringe copyright.
So do reverse engineer them: what you'll find is not patented (if it were it couldn't be secret) and if it's limited to ideas, not implementations, is not subject to copyrights.
Reverse engineering isn't illegal in on itself. In fact, some (mild) legal exceptions even exist to support it (they may not be as strong as they should be).
I wrote to the licensing team.
I suggested that they review the CeCILL 2.1 license (they reviewed 2.0 and approved it as free and GPL-compatible), as well as the 1-clause BSD (which is clearly free).
Isn't proton just PGP that you pay for?
Hey, nostr:npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p, what is the "ping" message for on the Ditto relay?
I know the client is supposed to reply "pong", but I don't get the utility of it.
> This is why I cleanly define atheism as an absolute negative claim on the existence of God.
So you redefine your opponent's position? Is this how you win?
I define your position as asserting there absolutely cannot be a teapot orbiting Earth. Can you prove your position, which I just defined?
Actually people deserve to watch what they want without authoritarians having a say in it.
That's why Nostr exists, too.
nostr:npub1wp2lcskf5cu2k44dq4cpdgk7lt8f0d0wecc68fayvun6mprcn8js8qhpv0 and nostr:npub17kyn2rjwfegmr3ff3gwtsllksmkguphqnnhx9snaht4sft7c8esqssg0pz, what do you think about this?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kode/kode-dot-the-all-in-one-pocket-size-maker-device
I asked them and, while they are not sure about the specific, the licenses will be free and open source for both hardware and software.
It was really about the kind of interactions typical of old reddit, not the specific functionality of communities.
I know about Lemmy, but I was referring to the kind of trollish, irreverent and fun community that reddit used to be (when its name was spelled lowercase), not really about communities vs microblogging.
That said, Nostr does have communities, and so does Plebbit. Lemmy is ActivityPub-based, so decentralized but not censorship resistant and the overall culture is possibly worse than that of Mastodon.
Some accounts on Twitter/X spread some seriously dangerous misinformation.
As we promote freedom of speech on Nostr, we should seek strategies to combat misinformation. Not through censorship, I do not support censorship. What do we do?
You can't "zap" me because I am not a bitcoiner.
Thank you for the reaction.
No, this is a bad take.
I wasn't talking about governmental censorship. Governments (plural because there is more than one) do censor, but so can private parties. I was talking about corporate censorship.
Incidentally, corporate censorship is also the problem addressed by Nostr.
Nostr isn't resistant to governmental censorship, on its own, but it's resistant to corporate censorship, which is a worthwhile goal on its own.
Payment processors absolutely do censor.
The problem is that Mastercard and Visa are imposing arbitrary restrictions, which Stripe and PayPal have to follow. In turn, Stripe and PayPal impose those restrictions on Itch.
If they used cryptocurrencies, they would bypass Visa and Mastercard, as well as PayPal and Stripe, altogether.
Furthermore, the current situation shows the risk of relying on payment processors. Having alternative ones is better, but it doesn't necessarily remove the risk, especially if they need to cooperate in some way.
Not necessarily.
Nostr keys can be used generally for asymmetric encryption and related task.
The Nostr protocol is a client/server communication protocol, as well as a data format.
Regardless, images aren't being hosted "on Nostr", in any sense, when nostr.build is used.
Cloudflare doesn't taste good, bad comparison.
I'm not sure valuing "zaps" as a metric would achieve the goal of reducing the percentage of Bitcoin-related content, since the ones using Bitcoins are also the ones zapping and getting zapped. This seem like it would just make the problem worse.