I've come to realise eink is mostly a meme, it's really cool tech and probably has some use cases but upon realising I comfortably read social media on my laptop for hours I've realised I could just do the same with books, download an epub and drag+drop to apple books (syncs progress and book with phone) then just read on whatever device I'm using, tools even exist to import highlights from books into obsidian or whatever else - most portable eink devices are laggy and janky as far as battery life goes I can't remember the last time my phone or laptop ran out of charge and if it did I wouldn't be too concerned with reading books and apple books doesn't seem to drain my iphones battery to a point of being a concern
Finished reading: Doing Good Better by William MacAskill 📚
Interesting but uncomfortable book, if you ignore local issues and focus on objectively more important ones you’ll do more but be stuck feeling like you’re doing less compared to action that you instantly see the results of
Theres currently protests, counter protests and riots happening in my city - all of which are pointless since neither protests have specific demands - I think most "politics" is just entertainment, fantasy fulfilment or an emotional outlet for adults who can't deal with their emotions properly, instead of wasting your time being angry about nothing focus on fixing problems or healthier
activities like going on a hike
Exactly, you might like or retweet stuff that makes you unhappy (because it might be important) but it seems very unlikely you'll zap it, exchange of currency only seems to happen on posts that make you feel good, no other social media platform has a metric for "positive value" brought by a post, just metrics that measure "want others to see this" and "agreement"
exo ( https://github.com/exo-explore/exo ) allows you to cluster your devices to run AI, it's only a matter of time before people start sharing compute, you setup a VPN server running exo, then each device you want to contribute to the cluster you route to that VPN - a group of 5 friends doing this would essentially provide a decent level of compute for running AI at literally no cost (excluding the vpn server which could just be a dirt cheap one)
semi related I saw this post yesterday and found out backing up nostr is a thing, then last night by pure chance my profile/following got nuked but I backed up yesterday on a whim so was able to recover
Give updates if you do, curious to see how it goes
Does anyone have a strategy for organising and compartmentalising your notes on nostr? Right now all I can think of is having one master account then sub accounts for each thing
people will say piracy isn't theft because it's a digital file then complain about AI stealing peoples art lmao
For the longest time I was incredibly pessimistic then a friend convinced me optimism vs pessimism is more of a habit than a trait - I didn't believe them at first but as the years have gone on and I've become a much more optimistic person I wish someone would have told me sooner
Marginalised people being left out of financial systems is a huge issue, most homeless people I've spoken to has expressed a lack of being able to bank as a contributing factor, can't get a house without a bank, can't save money without a bank, can't get a job without a bank, if you only hold cash you're a target for robbery and robbery can deplete you to a much larger degree, a homeless person could memorise the words or store off person, have a QR code on a sign which would even allow use of things like block explorers to "know" they're not a fake homeless person (fairly common in the UK and is a cited reason why a lot don't give ot homeless people) not only that but post covid a much larger amount of people are cashless leading to homeless people getting given a lot less money
I think you're right that for normies it'll be tough to get them to understand but I onboarded a normie to bitcoin last night, got him to download a wallet and show me the qr code then sent him some sats, instantly received, entire process took probably under a minute - it was quicker for him to download a bitcoin wallet (muun) then make a wallet and show me the qr code than it would have been for him to find and send me his bank account number and sort code - normies need a usage for it and right now it's usage as a currency is fringe, since me and a few other friends like placing bets on random things going to try and get them to swap over to bitcoin for it, bet in sats instead of gbp
I'm looking forward to when people switch from saying 1btc = $x and instead say 1btc = 1btc
it feels like nostr has a much lower rate of posts compared to other social media, at first it annoyed me but it's kind of growing on me, makes you less compulsive about checking it cause I know as long as I check it every 1/2 days I'll still see most of the content I want