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I have heard that there is a correlation between people perceiving a soapy taste in cilantro and disliking black licorice. Can you confirm or deny?

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nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct is turning into a hell of a self hosting platform, beyond Bitcoin and Lightning. The future of computing is self sovereign. I'm impressed.

https://youtu.be/B3QtVPhOmNA

Looks impressive, but Umbrel was nothing more than an impossible mess of docker-compose files with no rhyme or reason to the structure of the "OS." Isn't it just lipstick on Debian/Ubuntu? Or Have they changed that?

I found it extremely frustrating and limited, and God forbid anything goes wrong.

It is way easier to do the "raspibolt" type of thing and run everything bare metal. While the set up isn't a simple point and click, maintaining it and configuring it is way easier that way.

The most alarming part about twitter being down is that there are still people on twitter. The lesson should be learned by now.

I upgraded to Bitcoin 26.0 on my Raspibolt node.

Please don't do that. Not yet. Had to revert, it went sideways.

OpenAI had absolutely no way to generate revenue, and was a legal liability for plagiarism.

That was obvious from day one. It has competition from Meta, Musk, and Microsoft. All of whom funded openai, and have been independently developing their own competition, and rugged them hard. OpenAI, just another shitcoin.

I think there is a fundamental contradiction in the idea of decentralizing the nostr NIPs. If it were truly decentralized we would have multiple NIPs repositories that did not agree. A protocol doesn't work well when there are different variations on the different NIPs. As much as it is anthetical to our very natures, I think it has to be centralized and that we have to fall in line as subservient to the people with merge access. At least it is not a govenment, it is just a protocol specification. And at least it isn't just one person, it is many. And clearly they don't like this state of affairs either but there is nothing to be done about it. Seriously I see no way to truly decentralize it without a long period of nostr-wars where clients and relays only become "eventually compatible" based on what people actually code, and things that happen that way tend to accumulate crap over time (not that nostr doesn't have it's share of accumulated crap for other reasons).

It's great to have a decentralization ideal. But sometimes for practical reasons ideals cannot be achieved and pragmatism needs to overrule. And we cannot all have merge access.

I had merge access once but I revoked my own permissions. Then I got them back somehow. Then they went away again somehow. Generally I wasn't using them because I don't want the responsibility. It's fine to complain about a merge you don't like, but anybody who wants merge access automatically becomes suspicious in my book.

Isn't it just a protocol though? Anyone can chose to what degree they interact with it. Not unlike Bitcoin. I understand it as a bit of a democracy in that regard.

If you don't like full replace by fee, don't run it on your node. If you don't like a certain NIP, don't run it on your relay.

I really don't see the problem. Maybe I don't understand what you are saying, I am not a dev. You are, and I really am amazed by all the work you have done with Gossip. I use it every day, and thank you.

I could be wrong, but I think at its core nostr is really nothing more than passing json info over websockets to defy censorship. Anyone can do it however they want. Who cares?

Great question. I would probably opt to turn around, drop my drawers, bend over, and spread my cheeks with vigour.

It was a bit agonising because I can be very low iq when it comes to being an elite bitcoin hacker, but I finally figured out how to use my own .well-known for my nostr address and for my lightning address. Hold your applause (but send zaps)

After years of tinkering I finally made a functioning Android app. All it does is display the block height, and I hate to confess that rellied heavily on ChatGPT when I got stuck. It was a great learning experience though and I feel accomplished.

The toilet paper at my work takes a very liberal use of the term "2 ply"

I tap the screen to see if it will wake up whenever I take my kids to the washroom there

That Tim Apple is quite a guy