They have completely different vibes. I wanted a solid language for low-level tasks, and Zig seems to be the closest match.

I love how simple it is-nothing mysterious happens behind the scenes. Its memory management is straightforward and flexible.

Rust, on the other hand, always keeps me on my toes. Maintaining it is even more painful.

Awesome, good luck! Rust is great for cryptography stuff, btw have you tried Zig?

Building something cryptography related?

The thing is that I fucking empathize with people who believe in a language and are frustrated with the pace of its uptake. Obviously. But I don't use that discomfort and frustration as an excuse to attack anyone who criticizes my language. It's pretty hard not to, given how personal those attacks tend to be, but ultimately I respect people as engineers making the right decisions for themselves and if that means my work isn't applicable to their needs then so be it.

Gm.

It seems that it will be very hard for Brazil to identify and enforce the fines on VPN usage for Twitter/X. But it’s a powerful scare tactic.

When the United States banned gold ownership in the1930s (which lasted for four decades all the way into the 1970s btw), they didn’t really enforce it at the household level. They just had large prison terms that were rarely ever applied, which effectively dried up liquidity in the gold market.

Some people have pointed out that Nostr relays could be blocked by Brazilian internet providers if Nostr was big enough to matter. However, more relays could spin up, so they’d have to keep adding to the list.

Brazil’s government could then say it’s illegal to use VPNs for any Nostr app around internet censoring. The defense against that is to make Nostr as ubiquitous as possible. The more apps that tie into Nostr in some way, the harder it is to ever ban it in practice. Some people might not even know their favorite app uses Nostr. Imagine if everyone’s favorite short form app, long form app, podcasting app, reviews app, wallet app, recipes app, picture app, music app, and tons of other stuff are tied into Nostr, and how hard that would be to ban.

If Nostr becomes big enough to really matter, it’s because it’ll be tied into so many different things. That’s super powerful. And the devs keep building rapidly.

freedom of speech must be balanced with other human rights

If you need to use an app that requires GPS (Google play services) you can install a second profile on the phone and keep all the spying apps there away from your private stuff.

There are YouTube videos explaining how to do this

#nowPlaying PJ Harvey

#i3wm #debian #linux

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Each client publishes 1-3 relays they are writing to, and 1-3 relays they are reading from. Your feed comes from subscribing to the write relays of those you follow. People communicating to you send to your read relays.

That was a spectacular gubmint failure, but this is what happens when people elect to escape the chaos of freedom for the hope of some savior.