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This is our world now, the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color or religious bias. You, wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good. Yet, we’re the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker and this is my manifesto. You may stop me, but you can’t stop us all.

That doesn’t bother me so much because I know what you’re saying. That’s just creating clever ways to create the same phonetic sound.

Replying to Avatar DefiantDandelion

Do you remember that the dawn of the social web was information organized by users?

That was the innovation. Prior to it, everything you saw was chosen by an editor. A curator who decided for you using their judgment. It has its place, but it’s also expensive, and slow. And would never scale to user generated content.

The “like” or the “upvote” was a way of letting the “wisdom of the crowd” act like the editor. Small preferences aggregated to recommendations. It’s a way of distributing the cost of curation to many individuals. And it’s absolutely necessary when more content exists and is being created than any human can consider. *With that volume of content it’s literally impossible to manage and organize without an algorithm.* Things would just become a long list of jumbled content. And you would have to wade through the irrelevant and bad content to find anything remotely worth your time.

Algorithms enabled that. Likes enabled that. Zaps are the same, but louder, clearer than a like due to the cost. They both have a place as a tool to wade through every event to find the things worth your time.

The anti algorithm crowd Doesn’t realize what they are saying. Their follow list is an algorithm just a simple one that is transparent and in their control. But their hearts are clearly against manipulative algorithms and there we can agree. You should be empowered to use algorithms that you choose and control to find the stuff worth your time.

Some in The “zaps only” crowd would have you believe that likes are inherently manipulative, some tool in the attention dopamine industrial complex. It isn’t. Those algorithms are not using likes alone anyway, they are watching comments, and length of time on the page, and a bunch of other metrics. To maximize attention for ad revenue. The “like” is not evil, but they can be used for manipulative ends. So can zaps. #grownostr #nostr

BBS’ for the win. 😎

It’s a complete paradigm shift when you come here.

I left xitter in 2020 and the only reason I was on at that point, was to hear Patrick Stewart’s daily poems. I think he thought the pandemic would be over a lot sooner because he went through the whole book. 😂

That was probably the most constructive use and enjoyable moment I ever had in there.

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That’s pretty slick

So, I have mentioned this before and earlier today was a good reason why.

One of my pet peeves is people who feel the need to shorten everything to an acronym.

Seriously, is it that difficult to actually type out a few words? I was ready to go off on someone earlier because, in one of his replies he wrote GFY fren with the hugging emoji and I was a bit confused. Why would he tell me to Go Fuck Yourself but call me a friend and then virtually hug me?

Then it dawned on me, he was saying Good For You. Spelling out a couple words can be the difference between a conversation going pear shaped when communicating online.

I shouldn’t have to decipher what you’re saying because you’re too damn lazy to use the technology given to you to complete a proper sentence.

It was different when you had to use a keypad for messages (I think this would’ve driven zoomers mad 😂), but now, between full keyboards, swype and voice to text, there’s no excuse for not spelling out your messages completely.

It’s a bit different when you’re using ubiquitous terms, like LOL, WTF, SMH, but I shouldn’t have to do a google search to determine WTF a POC is…

Rant over, time for bed. Good night, all.😴

I wholeheartedly agree with that part. This generation is socially inept thanks to hanging out in the consequence free internet. Keyboard warriors need a few fat lips to humble them.

If that’s its purpose, it’s pretty genius. Otherwise, I’m not sure I would want to drink water that people have been swimming in, on top of the chemical to keep the water clear.

Honestly, it sickens me when I think about how much money is wasted on elections. That money could be put to better use, like building affordable housing for the homeless and food banks, for the food insecure, and so much more.

You actually don’t have to follow anyone on Nostr, just use hashtags about subjects you’re interested in. Once every couple weeks I stop following everyone following me, just to see if I have missed anything or anyone.

Bluesky is just twitter with a new paint job, same assholes just a different platform. Thankfully, they usually don’t diverge in this direction because it’s not trendy enough for them.

I’m pretty sure the blunder with the dude with the funny mustache is probably what most people will remember Germany for. 😜 This will probably be forgotten about in a month or so.