Please be careful what apps are you downloading from appstore🚨

Great question! NOSTR could potentially use GPG (Pretty Good Privacy) for public key cryptography, but there are some reasons why it doesn't. Firstly, GPG is a specific implementation of public-key cryptography, and NOSTR aims to be protocol-agnostic, allowing users to choose their preferred client and encryption methods. Secondly, while GPG is widely used, it has been criticized for being less than user-friendly, especially for new users. By using plain JSON objects

A few thoughts on why traditions matter, from an atheist and programming perspective.

There is a saying that traditions are solutions to problems that we have forgotten. Once traditions are removed, the problems they fixed come back.

Removing traditions can be likened to a programmer removing random lines and functions of code because he/she doesn't see what their purpose is.

The result is that the code starts malfunctioning, since the pieces of code that were removed had utility value that was forgotten.

Every programmer that returns to their own code 10 years later may delete or change vital parts of the code by mistake.

This is why programmers are reluctant to even fix a spelling error in a code that works, because downstream functions might reference that spelling as it is.

When we evaluate the value of culture and traditions that provide high degrees of social capital and societal cohesion, we must remember that they probably have a purpose, even if we don't understand it. Just as when we read code we wrote 10 years ago that we also don't fully understand.

Alcohol is fiat af.

What client are you using? From Amethyst is looks like you're having a convo with yourself 😂

“To announce in advance that you will break international law and to do so on an innocent population, it reduces all the code that was there from second world war on protection of civilians and it reduces it to tatters.” - Michael D Higgins, president of Ireland, November 2023

When this statement drew the ire of the Israeli ambassador to Ireland, there were calls from the public to expel the ambassador. Interestingly, Irish parliamentarians rarely debate whether Israel is in the right or not, they debate whether Israel can be allowed to continue to exist or whether it must be dissolved. The Irish have a history of using what the British portrayed as terrorism to achieve their own independence and have a lot of sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians who they see as being in a similar situation, under the thumb of a stronger power. Apparently nobody is arguing that Hamas's attack on civilians was justifiable, and everybody there condemns it.

15 years ago I woke up and spent 7 years in research finally reaching the point where I confidently knew that EVERYTHING is a lie.

Ask me anything

just me or are images displaying super zoomed in on damus longform posts?

#zapathon #star_wars

AI will never master complex systems because AI can only do what it’s told, and the output of complex systems isn’t predictable from the inputs.

The AI is a dumb robot, and the complex system is a living thing.

Granted, we can’t master complex systems, either, but we have the advantage of being complex systems which allows us to get into the flow of them in a way a robot never can.

Have you tried to play the embedded video above the title? (Which is shown as an image with a play button on it)

I use that, and not the "Watch on Youtube".

Ahaaa! Interesting. Let me check that as well. Although I usually watch videos on my phone with Tor, so shall work fine.

Ahaaa! Interesting. Let me check that as well. Although I usually watch videos on my phone with Tor, so shall work fine.

Also works for me by copying the link from here to Tor. Do you have only ".onion" at the end?

A backup is not a backup unless you test it.

omg Iove this idea!!!

What if you recorded a video of yourself, explaining the contents of bitcoin blocks? You could pretend that it’s a little project you’re working on and just ask her for her advice on making it understandable. You could make sure to emphasize the permanence of being on the bitcoin blockchain in the video. About the immense effort miners put into blocks. About how each confirmation makes it more permanent. How Bitcoin will be around for a long time. Etc. how some people have put things they find most meaningful in these messages. At the end of the video you could give her a link to a specific block to look at and test her new skills at finding the messages. Have it be the block your message is in 🥹

get it! unfortunately my gf isn't that technical about txid stuff😂