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I didn't expect anyone to take this seriously but even if it was sunnah to do what I said, that wouldn't apply if you only intend to wear one. All the cases where you go right first are cases where you

Put the right earbud in first. It's sunnah. Allegedly.

Why are you such a fan of Nick Land? I've not seen almost anything from him. What original ideas does he have? What should I watch or read that isn't a whole book?

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Just had a NIP idea that would go hard with noornote as its first implementation.

NIP: Book Reference

Specifies a markdown format that is human readable in plaintext, but in supported clients, will fetch the referenced passage from your library relay.

New kind: Subdivided Book

author: string of author name

title: string of book title

content: a single or multidimensional array of strings, making up the entirety of the book.

original language: ISO 639 code string of the original language of the book

translated language: ISO 639 code string of the language of the content of this note, leave empty if this is in the original language

If you like the idea, I'd be happy to write a full spec and even help with the coding to implement it. The potential is great for UX. When someone quotes something, you can be sure that they didn't change the quote, since it came from your own choice of library relay. Also, it would start the uploading of books to Nostr which would open the way to implement ereader clients and bring a whole new set of people.

Crashout incoming:

Online "Linux users" deserve all the hate they receive, and much more. I hate these fuckers with a passion. These fuckers do nothing but jerk themselves off over the distro they use and the shitty open source software they run on top of it. They are either unemployed, or work in IT, so they have the time or knowledge to make these shitty softwares actually work and look upon everyone with disdain for having a job. If you ever ask for help, you will only receive help from the unemployed faction and not the knowledgeable faction. They will point you towards using a shitty broken project instead of one that actually works, because it probably had a single feature that they care about that the other didn't at some point. You can't install it for shit. The documentation is from many versions ago and even the getting started section doesn't work anymore. It is entirely made to be used by the 3 people developing it. They don't have a settings menu but a conf file that they don't have a complete list of options for at any point in their docs. No one uses it. Even fewer people have ever asked for help using it, leading to chatgpt not being able to help you even install it.

And if you try to get those same people to help you, they don't. They have nothing but chatgpt advice for you and your stuck with your shitty broken install. They all glaze their broken softwares with 15 total users that take 10 hours and 15 years of unemployment experience to install and then waddle around acting like they are smarter than all the normies for choosing this way. This same experience has happened to me like 4 times with different Linux communities each time and every time it's a complete waste of time for me and when I get it barely working I'm asking if it was worth it.

There are good open source projects that just work. Stremio is amazing. Newpipe is amazing. GrapheneOS is amazing. But there's so many open source projects that are made entirely to be used by the developer themselves and other people using it are an afterthought. FFS the thing I'm trying to make work now doesn't even have release binaries. I'm trying to fucking install something on a headless Linux box and they don't even have compiled binaries on their github. Their fucking documentation has instructions to download and check signatures and they supposedly have a mirror that hosts binaries but the link is broken. Complete unusable dogshit.

Yeah, just a 30% TX fee.

And theres no way it's no kyc.

Also this will get damus banned in NY.

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Better to not have zaps.

Buying No is free money since the files will identify the flying objects and they are no longer UFOs

Japan is interesting because they had the most insanely productive economy on earth for decades after rebuilding from WW2 due to multiple factors that should be studied by western corporations and states. That being said, they made the mistake of believing the Keynesian lie and it led to them stagnating ever since. They jumped head first at the policy level into the idea that they need a positive inflation rate. This lead to the case where they printed and printed endlessly, trying to make prices go up, as their beast of an economy was pulling prices down. This is how they saw very minimal inflation despite massive debt and QE. They essentially sucked their whole lead out of their economy by money printing, leaving them as a still above average developed nation today, but nowhere near where they were in the 80s and where they were headed. Now they killed off all their gains from the good times and they have nothing but debt to help them deal with the oldest population in the world.

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What if the world as you knew it consisted of infinite rooms and staircases, each partially flooded and filled with strange statues, and it only had two living people in it? That would be nuts right?

Anyway, I read Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke, and that’s the world in which the titular character finds himself.

Notably, Clarke has only written two novels in her career, they were 16 years apart (“Jonathan Srange and Mr Norrell” in 2004 and “Piranesi” in 2020), and both were award-winning massive bestsellers, beloved by critics and readers alike.

Piranesi lives in a realm of infinite rooms and staircases, inhabited by birds and fish and shined on by the sun and moon and stars, and in which seawaters routinely rise and fall. He has a rather meager existence as he lives off fish and seaweed and catalogues the various rooms, and he is grateful that the world is generous enough to provide for him. For the most part he’s the only person around, except occasionally he runs into one more guy he calls “The Other.” He also knows of 15 human skeletons that he has names for.

Clarke did plenty of historical research and makes a lot of allusions in the work. It’s rather literary, and the whole thing is quite a surrealist artsy story and it’s much loved by people who enjoy sophisticated things.

I am, perhaps, not very sophisticated.

To me this felt like the kind of book I’d be assigned to read in high school. It was rather dry and boring to my unsophisticated palate, though short enough to breeze through in several sittings. I predicted most of the mystery in advance, and as things happened I’d be like, “alright.” When something occasionally did surprise me, it was always mildly to the downside. Like someone tells you lunch will be a mystery, and then come lunchtime it’s revealed to be a sandwich.

I know a lot of people who rave about this book, so it’s been on my to-read list for a while, and now I have that good feeling of finished homework. When people talk about Piranesi I can be like, “Ah, yes, Piranesi. Fine literature, that is.”

This sounds identical to the vibe and viewing experience of the anime Sonny Boy, which sounded like it could be very interesting and deep but I stopped watching because of how boring it was.

Rather than an arbitrary minimum to be counted, how about in the grey area where it could be a real user with the follow, count it as a fractional follow. This might require some statistics counted with manual classification, but you could develop a weight curve where each follower is counted as the probability that someone of their WoT score is a real person.

I have never wanted to see a group of relays but I guess it could be useful

Either quantum physicist or schizophrenic

Who do I zap for this feature? I remember opening a issue with a bounty for this but never got a comment on it.

Theres already a large spam of to-do list apps. The whole open source ecosystem is built around scarcity. No one was ever trying out your to-do list. I guess some like you try out all kinds of apps because you wanna see what's being built with nostr, but normal people only try apps they need. And if no other app like yours exists, your target users will find and try yours, not even questioning if you vibecoded it or not.

Amateur open source developers have always and will continue to be relevant on the margins of software, in the niche use cases that companies and more experienced developers haven't got to yet. The masses of additional software from vibecoding might push out the margins into smaller and smaller niches, but there will be just as much opportunities there as there ever was.

Honestly it's no different than the influx of Indians into open source projects trying to build up their github resume with shitty commits. In terms of both volume and code quality, I'd say vibe coding is a smaller problem.

Productivity gains are good for society. Though he is hiding the fact that the biggest wins will be from the open source AIs and not whatever he is building.

Yeah, it doesn't make sense for the damus relay or whatever, but I do use it for a relay that by design is for a certain type of user, it costs a tiny amount to join, doesn't curate, but it does have certain guidelines for notes. Its more like browsing the notes of a follow list and its great because I want to occasionally see posts from those people, but not follow them all, or have them clutter my main feed.

I don't know if its wise for these relays to use the same interface as a take everything relay, but I don't see the downside, but also, there is no way to really draw a line between the 2.

What I'm saying is, let the market handle it and cast your vote based on what you wish to see on the chain. Don't make up complicated hypotheticals to explicitly do something against your values for the greater good.

If the current fee rate is 10 s/b, a spammer isn't gonna pay 30 s/b to mara. They will just pay 11 and broadcast to the libre relays. The more of a gap there is, the more incentives for miners to defect and mine these span TXs. It's market incentives all the way down.

I don't think you need to go out of your way to prop up a libre relay network. If you run knots, there's no difference to you whether a spammer uses core or Mara pool. Its gonna be negligible on fee rates (and thus miner centralization) unless theres more spam as a percentage of transactions, than miners willing to mine them as a percentage of global hashpower.

Mara, in running a private mempool, is gonna have to take personal responsibility for what they mine, and their gains from mining spam will probably be outweighed by losses from filtering out non OFAC compliant TXs.

There's no problem with there being multiple decentralized mempools. If every user is filtering to their own standards, it's perfectly fine for transactions to drop if almost no nodes want to relay it. And I would make this argument for any filter. Even those I disagree with. If every participant chose their own filters and literally no one wants to relay a terrorist TX, this isn't a failure of bitcoin. Bitcoin allows very small minorities to bypass both mempool and mining censorship. 3% of relays can propagate a block that the rest censor. If not even 3% of the network wants anything to do with you, you might be the problem.

Seems like they felt remorse for the Sana'a bombings and did the al-jawf bombings to compensate

This is why I'm a firm believer in [Great Man Theory](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory). There is so much entropy inside of every person's mind, and the world is so volatile, that very few decisions (rational or irrational) from a few people (sometimes just one) can change the course of history drastically. We'd live in a very different world, had a lot of improbable things we saw hadn't happened, and there's just as many potential events that you can't even consider, that could change the future we will see. This makes all geopolitical predictions impossible if your trying to predict more than a single black swan event in the future.

This should be the biggest whitepill for everyone. Literal nobodies have changed the course of history completely and utterly, many times. The only thing it takes is dedicating your life to it. You have the power to change the future for the whole world, but it ain't a part time gig. You will die in the process or become a household name, no in between.

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This reminded me to add back noornode since reinstalling amethyst

The most lacking aspect of the Muslim space here is deep Islamic fundamental knowledge. We can ridicule these ignorant fatwas all we want, but I don't think anyone here has the ability to do Sheikh Assim's job. We need to spend time genuinely learning the ilm of hadith, fiqh and tafsir etc. We need to form decentralized institutions of study for these fields that can raise scholars that rival the oil funded Sheikhs giving fatwas for the governments that pay them. The ummah can't thrive without it.

What's the intended use case? Is it specifically for chats to the recipient or is it for things you want others to see? And if you want others to see and reply to it, why not a kind-1 note? If you dont care if others see it, it doesn't have any benefit over an encrypted DM so why would anyone specifically want it instead of an encrypted message? Currently looks like the only use case is for low key virtue signalling. What were you trying to do that made you type this up?