That's certainly a valid point -- we should not be dis-integrated as persons.
But it seems to me we should still be prudent online. We are not morally obligated to let everyone know our thoughts on everything.
In real life, I share some things only with my wife. Other things I share with close friends. Still others with friendly acquaintances. But it's wise I keep a certain distance with most coworkers (especially HR!). And I'm especially guarded against those I might consider enemies who could look for ways to "get" me based on something I share.
I don't meant to say we should be deceitful or two-faced (or three- or four-faced); but I'd say it's wise to compartmentalize our audiences based on what we choose to share. I'm suggesting we pattern our fake digital social life after our real-life social life.
How do I know which Nostr ID is the real one for Ross Ulbricht?
I see at least a couple of them.
May God grant him mercy -- and that when my time comes, I won't be known as a "Prince of Darkness."
Harper is a grammar checker that is on-device and open source
"When it comes to grammar checking, Grammarly is the premium tool for it. It's a proprietary tool and it was among the first one to make a mark as a web-based Grammar checking tool. Then there is LanguageTool that is/was open source, made in Germany and offers hosted service for free or for a price (you get additional features). LanguageTool was acquired a couple of years back and since then it's privacy policy has changed as it processes data on US servers, instead of European ones."
I'm trying out Harper and although it works fine, it is a very new product (less than a year old), so there are some improvements that can be made. For example, I'd like to see auto-correction rules we can add ourselves for whenever I type teh to be changed to the. But it is being updated regularly I see.
Right now too it only supports English (but being open source I think that will change soon).
It has plugins for Firefox, Chrome, Obsidian, WordPress, and it can be integrated into various code editors as well as into JavaScript/TypeScript/Rust codebases.
There are no mobile apps as the view is that most keyboards have their own built-in spell and grammar checkers.
But the privacy-first approach does mean no data going into someone's cloud, and does mean also better speed and even working offline. That would also mean right now no syncing of personal dictionaries across devices, but I'm sure that can be added in time to use Nextcloud, Dropbox, and other personal cloud services.
See https://itsfoss.com/harper-grammar-checker and GitHub site at https://github.com/Automattic/harper
#technology #opensource #spellchecker #privacy
Sweet. FOSS solutions are the way to go. Exciting news. Thanks.
Heat advisories are not cool. 😓
It makes sense to me, due to the nature of Nostr, that people should have two or three Nostr IDs.
With one, you should have the freedom to say whatever is on your mind in the presence of contacts you don't know in real life -- but that one should be an anonymous ID. It can be reserved for potentially controversial posts that could be used against you, like those that express certain political, pharmaceutical, or religious views.
Another ID might be a more measured, professional one, a public face of sorts, where you are well "behaved" and won't get in much trouble with the thought police.
Thirdly, one could have a personal ID for contacts you know in real life. (Better yet, don't be on social media with your real-life friends -- actually be with them! Or send personalized direct messages through Signal.)
All the while, in any case, it's important to keep in mind that whatever you say will likely stay on your "permanent record."
You don't want to post stupid things in your 20s, for example, and have it haunt you in your 40s.
Sometimes when I use another Nostr client meant for the same purpose (such as microblogging), I feel like I'm cheating against the one I normally use.
Of course that's silly. But the experience just shows that the protocol is decentralized and user-centric -- it's not meant to tie us down to one centralized platform.
I hope Nostr developers continue to make strides in their great work. It's already cool; I just want it to be extra, extra supercool in five years.
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Isn't Bitcoin also an invasion of privacy -- even though it's not directly controlled by a gov't like CBDCs?
It's why Monero makes more sense to me. I don't want regular people, data analysts, or governments being able to see all my transactions.
We can't judge -- one way or another.
Does this not mean that Pope Francis deliberately and repeatedly lied to us all?
https://dianemontagna.substack.com/p/exclusive-official-vatican-report
I'm glad Catholics are not actually meant to fulfill the caricature of "believing whatever the [current] pope says."
If Francis only did one good thing, it was to remind us that we cannot be "papal maxis." We have to understand his role as the keyholder, which does not guarantee moral impeccability.
It's extra scandalous for the person who should be a visual representation of Christian unity to be a major source of division.
We have to keep the old Faith of our Fathers -- not the new faith of a particular father.
One can love Mexico and still not want its citizens (and other nationals) to break our border security laws.
It is right to deport them for their crimes, no matter how tasty anyone's tacos are.
It's not good for any innocent civilians to cry. The whole situation is a tragedy. We should pray for everyone, mourn with them, forgive our enemies. That's the Catholic thing to do.
I might be kind to a random woman in town, because we should love our neighbor as ourselves.
But God forbid that we worship her!
I should love my mom in a significantly greater way, because we are to honor our mother and father.
But God forbid that we worship her!
We should love the Virgin Mary more than any other woman, because she is Jesus' mother -- i.e., the Mother of God -- and because Jesus gave her to us at the Cross to be our mother, too.
But God forbid that we worship her!
Catholics are big on both reverencing Mary and having no other gods before the true God.
It's been hard to hang out on Nostr because of the non-stop Bitcoin chatter.
But I come back today after a few months, and I see people are mostly taking about normal human things. That's great.
I also learned of a new Linux client and the existence of remote signers. Super cool.
I love KeePassXC. I have it on my Linux computer and have it syncing to cloud, so I'm OK even if computer dies.
I feel my encrypted KeyPass file is safe enough in the cloud -- safer than LastPass or even Bitwarden. With it on my computer, phone, and cloud, I'm not worried about losing access to my passwords.
That *is* good.
Despite the last 12 years of F1, I'm willing to reboot my hope for L14.
I will pray for him every day.
Make a video about this. If you would.
I would be happy with Pizzaballa.
I'm still afraid we'll be stuck with a Francis 2.0, though. I hope I'm wrong.
On the morning of Good Friday (yesterday), my brother had a heart attack, and his heart stopped beating.
He was resuscitated. He was given a stent and it's believed he will make a full recovery.
Not sure, but he might rise up out of the hospital on Easter Sunday: his own personal triduum.