Chat control, digital ID, and age verification are all badly designed attempts at treating the symptoms of the real issues our societies are facing.

Real solutions treat root causes and only come from the distributed consciousness and intelligence of all of us.

Precisely. 3GB is nothing.

Would you keep 2GB worth of other people's contact lists in the disk of your phone so that Amethyst could compute WoT natively in the client?

That would be on top of the current 3Gb for the current caching (videos, pictures, AI translation models) and not include any of your own posts/dms or notifications.

And likely that will grow as nostr itself grows.

How much storage can the app use?

Mt Everest had its first documented climb in 1953.

The first person went to space in 1961.

It's kind of crazy to think about how "new" mankind's spread over the world is. My father was already a teenager the first time someone climbed Everest, and in his twenties by the time someone went to space.

If we start the "modern era" as roughly coinciding with the telecommunications age (ie the dawn of the cross-continental telegraph in the1860s), it's less than two consecutive human lifetimes old.

Everything is new.

We used to wrap code at 80 columns to make things easier to read on a terminal. Graphic text editors and large monitors eliminated the need for it.

But now we need to wrap at 47 to make code readable in phones, which is where most people will be able to read it.

Brave is so unstable for me atm, always crashes when a popup window opens like nos2x or bitwarden, so annoying.

Also it just fails to open websites after a while and i have to restart it otherwise it just gets stuck loading forever, what a piece of shit...

Are there any good browsers?

When he started to host DnD games, that's when I threw in the towel.

Big respect for PAYWITHMOON for providing a valuable no-KYC Visa card service until now!

Sorry to see that it's over...

Also sie wollen alle privaten Telefonnummern und Accounts aller Beamten erfassen? Let's go

One needs a name

I know that many of you already know this, but I’m really amazed at how much of a difference it makes towards my mental health to get my heart rate above 130 for 20 minutes within an hour of waking up. Every time I do that I always feel so much better than I would anticipate I would.

It’s a strange illusion to feel in a funk and then to simply extricate oneself from it by a brisk walk. I somehow always forget that doing that allows for me to feel so much better and be able to take on the day from a place of feeling empowered, rather than being tired and cranky.

I really got to remember these little hack for myself to make my life a bit easier.

I scrolled Facebook #AMA

But do we want them here? I’m torn. I’d love to onboard my extended family but I see what they post and engage with and sometimes think it’s better to leave them in the trad SM mental asylum than bring them and their troubles here 🫤

Hello dear Nostr people

I had been thinking about joining Nostr for a while, inspired by nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7cnjvghxjme0qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcqyp78vh2q05af6h4pzl9chp5ev2zkq7rlczz2p3m2l2jyn0aazgwcgs0270c and nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqtxwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tmwwp6kyvtjw3k8zcmp8pervct409shwdtwx45rxmp4xseryerdx3ehy7f4v3axvet9xsmrjdnxw9jnsuekw9nh2ertwvmkg6n5veen7cnjdaskgcmpwd6r6arjw4jsqgq6lcx8fc7h0p8t4ya9u0a92jnwavqe9rgjwwdw3wjgxfuxsz8rd5mths8c (thanks Jor and HODL!). It took me a few weeks to research Nostr, and another few weeks to create a profile and download the Primal app to my phone.

Now, after a month on Nostr, I can say I use it more than my X profile. The general atmosphere here is SO much more positive and constructive compared to the insanity on other social media platforms. My sense is that Nostr attracts many grounded free thinkers and people with a positive outlook on the world (well, maybe positive about the world slowly being built with Bitcoin… patience my friends!).

My mission is to spread some beauty and invite contemplative reflections through my nature photography hobby. The positive responses and nice comments I have received have motivated me to pursue it even deeper.

TL;DR - I know, I know. Just want to say thank you to you all - you are my kind of people, and I think I have found my digital tribe here on Nostr.

#naturephotography #photography #nostr #nostrpeople #hodl #artonnostr #nature #staypositive #stacksats

New Tahoe UI is soooo ugly, is this VTech design?

Data is just 0s and 1s. If you choose to interpret and decode it as a JPEG that’s your problem…

When nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgkwaehxw309a5xjum59ehx7um5wghxcctwvshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qrxnfk designs a car..

Omg a mask wearer just walked into my shop. Wtf? How? Like in what fucking universe is this wookie living 🤣

You can just paste your npub from your profile on Amethyst

A letter to the OGs

For the early adopters who now sit on many Bitcoins but never really got involved: the truth is, you were never just supposed to be spectators. Looking back, we can see that waves of adoption came not only from number go up, but from people building, educating, experimenting, and putting their coins on the line to create real use cases.

Now the danger is clear: if Bitcoin is captured by paper markets, "walled gardens", and custodians, then the dream of self‑sovereign money simply dissolves into the same old system - except with orange branding. Sitting on coins, waiting for retirement will not defend against this capture. What will, is action.

Action in showing people how to self‑custody, not just telling them.

Action in building tools and wallets where sovereignty is the norm, not an afterthought.

Action in pushing back against the narrative that Bitcoin’s destiny is to be a Wall Street derivative zoo. It is only true if we let it be true.

Action in experimentation, even at the messy edges, so Bitcoin does not calcify into a dull savings asset to be milked by regulators and investment bankers.

We do not know if the time to act is exactly now. But it might well be. What we do know is that if the people who understand Bitcoin’s original power do not act, nobody else will.

Bitcoin needs its OGs! Not as passive holders. Not as rich ghosts from the past. But as active defenders of its principles and builders of its future. There are plenty of projects around self‑custody - my WalletScrutiny included - and early adopters have the resources to make a material difference in Bitcoin’s future today. And they can do that without showing their faces or writing code themselves.

When WalletScrutiny received 1.7 BTC out of the blue from an anonymous donor, I quit my day job and started focusing fully on WalletScrutiny. That 1.7 BTC was less than 0.00001% of all Bitcoins, yet it enabled me to dedicate my time 100% to self‑custody. Since then, Spiral has stepped in to finance us, but those who got rich from Bitcoin and understand what is at stake could support thousands of such projects without losing any meaningful share of their wealth.

Because if we do not fight for "free‑range Bitcoin", it is guaranteed that "walled‑garden Bitcoin" will win.

So: if you feel the disgust, if you see the capture, and if you cannot bear the idea of letting it rot undisputed, then take that feeling as the call to act.

Bitcoin is not over. But it does need you!

I love this. Can’t imagine a harder and longer project to take on. You know what’s best for you kid and I respect disregarding the opinions of the herd. I’m sure I’ll face this same challenge one day

Wanted to inform Neal about nostr but he censors replies 😬

The way I look at it, whether writing fiction or nonfiction, it’s not about writing what the audience wants- it’s about successfully landing what’s in your head into the audience’s head.

That means understanding the audience. If there are inadvertent frictions between you and the audience, the work is less likely to spread the entertainment, ideas, themes, and so forth as the creator sees it.

Watch me fork bitcoin and get listed on exchanges.

I put together a checklist of actionable steps you can take to improve your digital privacy and security. Work through them as you get the time.