Heh, never watched that movie.
Hell, I've seen women over 18 wear _their_ former school uniform for Halloween.
It's a popular fantasy item. I've known adult woman who wore it, eg for Halloween, costume parties, etc.
I'm saying it's not surprising that adults would continue to have fantasies based on what they fantasized about (and actually did) as teens. Indeed, "schoolgirl uniforms" are pretty popular with adult women too.
Whatever teen girls wear is inevitably going to be sexualized by teen boys, because teen girls is exactly what teen boys are going after.
Those teen boys grow up...
To be pedantic, I'm not personally paying for OpenTimestamps transaction fees. There's a community fundraiser for that: https://geyser.fund/project/opentimestamps and the calendars themselves accept funds directly to their wallets.
Last time I pushed for donations was in January, and I got enough donations to last until now (most donations, by value, were not sent through geyser).
I'll probably run out of donated funds again in another 2-4 months. FWIW I share the funds donated to my calendars (and through geyser) with the other calendars.
nostr:nprofile1qqsw3znfr6vdnxrujezjrhlkqqjlvpcqx79ys7gcph9mkjjsy7zsgygpr9mhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarjd93kztnrdaksz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ekk7um5wgh8qatz7tvu4p donated 500,000sats! That's enough to keep the two calendars I run going for another 4 months at current fee rates (I have a sponsor for server expenses).
I've started a new Geyser fund for Libre Relay: https://geyser.fund/project/librerelay
I've ported Libre Relay to Bitcoin Core's new v28.0rc1 release, and I'm trying out Geyser to see if I can get my time paid for. I'll release the code if I do.
There's a list of the four calendars on https://opentimestamps.org/; each calendar has a website showing you stats.
The most frequent transactions at the moment are done by https://alice.btc.calendar.opentimestamps.org/, on average once every 5 hours at a cost of 20,000sats/week.
Pro-tip: this is only good advice for things sufficiently safe that you can probably do them twice.
nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm Would you be willing to share the full details of the application? Perhaps the basis wasn't very well communicated.
I don't have a copy. It's a web form, and OpenSats doesn't give you a copy of what you submitted.
In theory... In practice the calendars themselves aren't horizontally scalable, so with enough load they'll fail. We're not at that point yet. But a DoS attack would do it.
This can be fixed with improved code. But I haven't been able to find any funding to spend the time to actually fix this.
I gotta pay rent after all...
No, I'm not doing these, but still all that goes on Bitcoin is a 32 byte merkle root every couple of hours or more.
Also nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm is paying, so we don't have to worry.
To be pedantic, I'm not personally paying for OpenTimestamps transaction fees. There's a community fundraiser for that: https://geyser.fund/project/opentimestamps and the calendars themselves accept funds directly to their wallets.
Last time I pushed for donations was in January, and I got enough donations to last until now (most donations, by value, were not sent through geyser).
I'll probably run out of donated funds again in another 2-4 months. FWIW I share the funds donated to my calendars (and through geyser) with the other calendars.
nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm brought up a really good point (though I know very little details beyond their response to this thread https://primal.net/e/note1d9ca5vcpyrlhw7npt6mx2p3vh043zfzxfgj68takdnmjy96x94zsnevj5d)
If someone's application is rejected, isn't it within their right to broadcast the contents of their application, and to voice their frustrations with the OpenSats system?
Again, I don't have all the details here, but I'd think a bit of open criticism, or, ahem, "bitching" as a direct quote from nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8, would potentially improve the system by putting a bit of public attention on a failing point of OpenSats?
Hell, I barely even "voiced my frustrations" beyond mentioning that you just don't get any feedback on how to improve.
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nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f is a unpaid 100% passthrough volunteer organization.
The whole team genuinely cares about the mission.
We have extremely very diverse opinions and backgrounds and very limited operational resources for the volume of applications.
No application is decided by a single person. We also have committee of also volunteer peers who also opine and vote. Once the committee votes with soft ACKs. We have a minimum of 5 positive votes by the board for approval policy.
Everyone and their applications are considered! But we are not going to fund everything. After careful volunteer time is used for reviews a vote is made.
There are many orgs with different methods.
No one is entitled to be funded. Pro tip, be graceful. Aside from being extremely unprofessional to shit on OpenSats in public, you are shitting on unpaid ppl who are trying to do their best and are not perfect. We simply don't have the time and resources (and shouldn't waste money) on giving each and everyone a very detailed feedback. we are talking about hundreds of applications and a dozen ppl here.
Criticism is very much always welcomed and encouraged. We need to know what we can do better.
If you truly care about improving, send a fucking EMAIL. Bitching in public only hurts the ppl who are doing the work.
The FOSS funding will continue until freedom improves ✌️
OpenSats is in part funded by the general public – donations are solicited from everyone, and accepted via BTC and fiat. That's one reason why grants are made public: it'd be absurd for OpenSats to be spending money without disclosing who is getting it.
But it's also absurd if the _rejected_ applications are entirely private too. Which is the status quo. Funders should have some idea of what they could have spent money on, and didn't.
All I did was reveal two rejected applications. If that is enough to constitue serious drama, you should rethink what you're doing...
I need funding for that and haven't been able to get it.
Ironically this reply guys are a really nice example of a problem with Nostr's decentralization claims...
To be exact, IIRC I estimated it at 153 billable hours at $150/hr. Billed like lawyers do, with only time spent directly on the task. So for a "days" work that means 4 hours billed like that.
I also offered doing it as a fixed price contract.
This is precisely why we need competent people to analyze Nostr's centralization story properly.
More relays is irrelevant with the current protocol.