I live in Sweden. I wrote a post on Stacker News a while ago: https://stacker.news/items/402596

In that case, it seems like it could replace many centralized services, while giving us something technically better, if I understand it correctly. If the people developing such a service keep their hands out of the DRM, user-hostile, side of things, perhaps we could have something similar to a Youtube with automatic youtube-downloader, not as a workaround but as a part of how the system functions. A video "site" without the copyright strikes that has killed a lot of good content on YT. That would be awesome if it catches on.

Seems interesting. Does it automatically download the app in question, and seed (to use torrent terminology, I don't know what it's called here) it to others? In that case, can it be used as a distribution channel also for stand-alone non-internet apps (e.g. single player games), and could such apps then be taken out of it to be distributed by other means, such as a USB memory, if needed?

Listened to your latest episode today, the one particularly about it. That explained some things, although I'm missing a lot since I'm not a programmer.

Have I understood it correctly that it is some kind of "base-tool" for programmers to include in their programs, a kind of basis for establishing p2p connections that different programs then can use for different purposes?

I guess it depends on the country, but in many places it would be a list of zero, due to government mandates. (for example E-call, emissions reduction, etcetera). I think old cars will be the only option for the foreseeable future, which will become a problem as they eventually rust out or break down.

From scratch, but what scratch? There seems to be endless different variants of what is claimed to be the truth about what is nutritious and not...

True, but not many people will understand that. I think it - or rather the information - may become a catch 22: maybe Nostr and similar technologies could be free (as in freedom, regardless of if as in beer or not) ways for people to discover this, but they will first need to know such things exist, and also experience a reason to use them. For obvious reasons, it's in centralized social media platforms' interest to shadowban the information as hard as possible. I'm actually surprised that for example Reddit's r/nostr still seems to exist.

It may also be in governments' interest in the future (or already) to force social media to shadowban all information on Bitcoin's benefits, and things that may lead people to finding out, such as information about Nostr.

I realize I'm still doom-and-glooming about things that aren't certain, it's probably a result of two decades of privacy mainly going in the wrong direction... I just don't have much hope that people in general are going to have any strong desire and/or ability and/or knowledge, or whatever it is that has been lacking in the privacy matter, to make any difference in any other important matter either.

Anyway, I'll listen to the episode some time in the coming week.

Good. It was just that it was such a strange choice of words in an ad for such a system. Like an ad for organic, grass-fed beef, made with regenerative farming and the only added things are salt and a bunch of high fructose corn syrup...

I don't know more about this technology, where the system's design ends and the users' setup begins in deciding these things, than the video and that you have mentioned it on Bitcoin Audible (which I listened to at work, so it's possible I missed the details if you explained it, if I was doing something that required attention).

"...where artists connect directly with their audiences, retaining full rights and profits"

So, DRM-crippled and paywalled and/or full of ads? If that's the case, especially the DRM, then no thanks. Copyright and its associated technologies has, in my opinion, caused incredible amounts of harm, and the only way forward without continuing to cause this harm is to abandon it.

In this question, these are my opinions (pretty much copied from the early Pirate Party):

DRM is very wrong. Toxic, dangerous.

Paywalls for data that is free to copy (okay, a fraction of a cent in connection and electricity - that the person copying it pays...) is morally wrong. Probably an unpopular opinion here, but I'm firm in it. (Paywalls for AI computation is a different thing - that's a cost per usage for the provider.)

Paying the artist for a commission work, paying the artist a tip, etcetera, is great, and Bitcoin - especially layers two and up - is great for that.

It will probably not pay as much as paywalls for zero-cost-to-copy data, but that only means that things requiring that in order to be produced, shouldn't have been produced in the first place.

The decline of torrenting is one thing that bothers me regarding the "certain" future of Bitcoin. Torrenting wasn't (and still isn't) hard, but still most people - the same people - who did it daily just switched over to Spotify and Netflix. I don't think it was morals that caused them to do so (I don't agree one bit that piracy is immoral, for the record), nor do I think it was fear of legal action - everyone knew that it was rare, and VPN:s have existed for a long time - I think it was simply that it requires fewer clicks and can start playing when just a little bit has been downloaded. Today it's hard to find stuff on TPB. Far from everything gets there, while back in the day there were usually at least three torrents of everything I wanted to download. This huge decline despite the fact that the streaming services monitor everything and sell data, and if they decide you can no longer listen to a certain song or see a certain movie or series, you can't.

If the CBDC apps are one bit easier to use, say, automatically determine where to pay to by some form of geolocation or Bluetooth beacons in the stores, or just the fact that more stores accept CBDC than BTC (because they are mandated and/or subsidized to), I'm afraid the vast majority will happily accept complete surveillance and control. We have already seen it go from cash to cards and mobile payments (here in Sweden, it's extreme. Very few people use cash, and many places don't even accept cash).

Sorry for sending out black pills, but I don't like it when everyone ignores a potential problem (and usually then blame me for pointing it out. If someone reading this feel the need to do so, please instead explain why I'm wrong. That helps. Calling me a fiat shill etcetera only convinces me you don't want to look at the problem. Problems exist regardless if you can solve them or not.).

Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning.

What I would HOPE to find in it would be the insight that I'm doing most things right and that things will get better, some advice on a better job to get, that is more enjoyable than my current job, and can partially pay me directly in bitcoin, although that I would soon be set for life anyway with the bitcoin I already have.

What I would EXPECT to find in it would be "there's no future, the rest of your life will only be suffering, and there's nothing you can do about it, it's best if you end it ASAP". (And no, I'm not doing that, as I haven't received any such letter yet, much less verified it's from future me... (Future me, please include future Bitcoin block hashes and a signature by my keys, regardless of message))

Now it's very important to spread the fact to the "normies", that KYC and centralization are the CAUSES and NOT the SOLUTIONS. Before the mainstream media does the opposite.

I wonder if the moisture helped keep the belts from drying out, or if they were made from better rubber back then. I need to get a new belt for my cassette recorder, and it's only in the order of 15-20 years old. Just a regular crappy Tanashin mechanism, or maybe even a copy, but it works well enough for my use case for it.

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https://stacker.news/items/402596

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Yeah, I wouldn't worry about the fans, usually it's not much more than a Hall effect sensor and a couple of transistors in them, IIRC. Depending on bearing type, there might be places that trap water though, potentially causing rust if it remains, so I'd shake them thoroughly in different directions and let them dry for an extended time.

Oof. Sorry to hear that. The motherboard might be possible to save, the way Tico said, though I'd recommend a couple of more steps first to maximize the chances and avoid possible problems in the future: First, if it's installed, remove the BIOS battery as soon as possible, to minimize any electrolysis corrosion, then rinse the board with distilled water to get off any salts or dirt in the flooding water, that otherwise later might absorb moisture from the air and start conducting, then put it to dry according to Tico's instruction.

What is Nostr? baby you can't censor, can't censor, no more... :-P

Mostly agree.

All owned by someone else, gathering data about this aspect of the users' lives. Perfect for blackmail, whether by the owners, data buyers (including govt.) or data thieves...