This app is really coming along nicely!
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"Called Veilid, and pronounced vay-lid, the code can be used by developers to build applications for mobile devices or the web. Those apps will pass fully encrypted content to one another using the Veilid protocol, its developers say. As with the file-sharing software BitTorrent, which distributes different pieces of the same content simultaneously, the network will get faster as more devices join and share the load, the developers say. "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/02/encryption-dead-cow-cult-apps-def-con/
āBitcoin is the mycelium of moneyā ā Sir David Attenborough https://nostr.build/av/f5a5407e461075db60fc844ee92e0e8f49fc0861ab1579899d11350c4a98e2c4.mov
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We've added support for Bitcoin donations to the non-profit GrapheneOS Foundation via a BIP47 payment code and PayNym due to high demand:
https://grapheneos.org/donate#bitcoin
We'll need to regularly sweep these to a fresh address from our hardware wallet since we can't yet use it directly.
Great step in the right direction, in light of the PayPal incident. I hope Graphene accepts Lightning soon, which I know was being looked into.
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This just proves my point. You're assuming I'm against things that are outside what a/theism is.
I don't disagree with what you're describing. Nor do I disageee with the likes of Alan Watts or eastern philosophies. I just wouldn't call it God. Many eastern "religions" are also referred to as philosophies. There are atheists who have mindfulness apps that have entire lectures and interviews about these subjects.
I don't like when a conversation breaks down into semantics, but there needs to be a basic definition of a word which we start from. Otherwise you get this.
I didn't say I've never heard anyone associating "God" with "The Cosmos", or "Energy", or bunch of other things.
I'm talking about the definition of a word. A word which is part of a common language that we speak in order to communocate with one another.
I'm in agreement with the following two definitions.
Theism:
Belief in the existence of a god or gods
specifically : belief in the existence of one God viewed as the creative source of the human race and the world who transcends yet is immanent in the world
Atheism:
Disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or a supreme being or beings
All this is to say that I agree with OP. Don't use the term God with a capital G when you're talking about something more philisophical.
The philosophic burden of proof lies upon those who make unfalsifiable claims, not on those who reject them.
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"The cosmos" is not part of any definition theism I've ever heard.
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I missed it. Thanks for recording!
Some big media account on Twitter asked people what they think the best music album ever was, front to back.
While some albums are more iconic than others, the fascinating thing about the question is how it tends to be a sign of what era someone came of age in (i.e. which decade they grew up as a teenager), and what cultural part of that era they were more in line with. Sure, some people go back and find older iconic music and appreciate it the most, the absolute greats of the past, but the more typical outcome is that someone finds music from their coming-of-age years to be what somehow sticks out.
For me it was rock in the 2000s, and my mental answer to the question of "best album?" was Meteora by Linkin Park.
While it was a very popular album and also well-remembered, it doesn't generally go down on the ageless list of greats. In other words, it's always kind of a top two or three genre item. I could argue why other more iconic albums are better, and why they "should" be my answer. For example I could go a little bit before my time, but still close enough, and say Nirvana's Nevermind was better. That would poll better.
But basically, as a product of my time, Meteora is just the one that struck the right chords at the right time when I was a teenager. It's the one that spoke to me. I would listen to it casually, and then also listen to certain songs in it before martial arts tournaments to get myself in the combat zone. Even as my musical tastes changed over time, that's the album I listened to the most of all time, and so when I hear it in the present day, I still appreciate it a ton.
The fact that they crossed genres appealed to me a lot. Their main vocalist, Bennington, struck their melodic and emotional aspect. The other vocalist, Shinoda, was their hip-hop guy, with a rougher or more practical aspect. Mr. Hahn brought an electronic aspect, and Delson brought the rock guitar aspect. Some of their stylization was anime-aligned, and I was into anime at the time. Basically whatever vibes I might be feeling as a teenager at the time, there was something in Linkin Park that spoke to it, with Meteora being among their best and which came out at the right time when I was 15. It's like Bennington would speak to my emo aspect and help me acknowledge it, while Shinoda and the others would pump me back up, and tell me to not fuck around and get back out there, and boost my confidence. Yin and Yang.
Another reason I thought of this is that here in 2023, Linkin Park released a 20th anniversary edition of Meteora, which included a couple songs like "Lost" that didn't make it into the original. It all hits a bit harder for us fans based on the fact that the lead singer, Chester Bennington, is no longer with us. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NK_JOkuSVY&ab_channel=LinkinPark
Anyway, Iām doing a series of āreal thoughtsā uniquely on Nostr, and this is the second one.
Conclusion: Sometimes what hits harder subjectively is worth appreciating, rather than just whatever can be argued to be the best objective answer. Somewhere on that border between "objectively good" and "came out at the right time and hit the spot for you and imprinted itself" is your answer that is worth exploring and sharing.
What's your answer?
Has to be an Alice in Chains album for me. I hate picking between them, but it's probably Dirt. Thembones, Down in a Hole, Rooster, Angry Chair... And then to finish the album with Would?, it always made me want to listen to the whole thing all over again.
The singer, Layne Staley, had a pretty sad story behind him. A long, slow death. I didn't know of Mad Season, a side band of Layne's, until later, but the song Wake Up is chilling in retrospect.
SL is great, but occasionally a service will not accept it. I got rugged by Carrot app after amassing many sats because they didn't like my SL email address š¤£
We haven't hit peak surveillance tech yet š