OK, so I can sell my work. How is that not the exact same thing as selling my labor? And that work can be more than doodads, it can be things people actually need. How is that not me owning the means of production?

> As for disrupting infrastructure, I'll give an example. Let's say we develop nice, fast 3D printers that can print metal in a durable way. Say there's some widget used in future tech that can only be 3D printed and must be made of metal for some reason. Under a communist state, if production capacity wasn't meeting the needs of the people, the government would have the authority to confiscate capable printers and reallocate them to production of those critical goods.

Why not just, pay those people to produce them with their printers?

You just said you don't understand communism enough to explain it to me. Maybe you're the one that's wrong about communism here?

OK so you're not advocating for it, I misunderstood.

OK so I can produce things, just not mass produce them. Can I sell the things I produce to people?

What does that mean, "disrupt infrastructure"?

So in communism, I can't make anything of consequence without having a boss first? I can only make and own doodads?

Wait, you have to be an expert to understand communism? So you're telling me you wholeheartedly believe in something you don't understand?

So I can own a 3d printer, unless I want to make anything consequential with it, then I can't, do I have that right?

If I'm not free to sell my labor at my discretion, do I really own it?

If I own a business, doesn't that mean I privately own the means of production?

So I can sell 3d printed doodads, but not apples at the farmers market?

So I can own funko pops but not 3d printers?

Hey man where's your garnet address? You're slipping on these streets.

Oh snap, what perfect timing for me to chime in, I'm actually working on a little piece of software for people to automatically generate and seed torrents and publish magnet links as nostr notes. The idea is that we can reduce our reliance on http servers in nostr for media hosting and sharing, and turn nostr into a tube site replacement of sorts. So you'd replace an RSS feed with a nostr key and hosting with a torrent.

What? From my understanding, 3 failed pin attempts wipes the device, it doesn't brick them. Coldcards straight brick permanently after 14 failed attempts.

So, I just overwrote my entire configuration file with a blank file for emutube and I don't have a backup...

Guess it's time to see if I can write it again from memory.

So two things here.

First, if your goal is to make fiat gains, of course you've got to pick the best performing asset. Now, we don't know the future, so that could change in a second, but btc has the best Sharpe ratio in cryptocurrency. This constant argument from the btc guys though tells you their true goals, it's to stack fiat.

Second, youre right, if your goal here is to protect yourself from debasement, to store value, long term XMR has done great. It's really only this year that it's been a little wishy washy, and I expect this time next year people won't be making this silly argument calling xmr a stablecoin and all this nonsense.

Oh OK. I thought they wanted simplex integrated the way monerujo is. A simplex field in your bio is easy.

A problem with these custom fields is that other clients can't show them. I wish clients would just show everything. There's too much rigidity in the wrong places with nostr UX, a client ought to show all fields it finds, even if it doesn't know what they are.

Dude how do you get them to be big?

Yeah I thought so too. I'm big on composability, and I've never been keen on every social type client needing it's own image viewer, media player built in, I like to click something and have it open in it's own thing, I already have a dedicated media player on my machine. And I'm big on leveraging existing tools to solve problems. I'm also not big on web apps, I loathe them.

Actually I was brainstorming with nostr:npub14slk4lshtylkrqg9z0dvng09gn58h88frvnax7uga3v0h25szj4qzjt5d6 and came up with the idea trying to help him solve a problem and loved the idea so much I started working on it. I haven't talked much about it with anyone outside of that and I wanted to have it done a few months ago, but I've got the software right now to a point where it's doing all the nostr stuff, I've got the options and command line arguments specced out and partially implemented, now I just have to interface with a torrent daemon and do the torrent stuff, creating torrents, seeding, connecting to remote daemons over RPC, publishing to trackers and DHT, that whole part. Once that's done and it is working I'm gonna publish it and begin shilling it here.

Yep, any torrent streaming application will do. Popcorntime works on android, but it comes with a pirate movie catalog built in. I might make a bounty for a fork of it that just plays links and has no catalog, I don't know yet. What would be best is of course a utility tthat opens the stream in your media player of choice, popcorntime has a built in media player, but it would work. I don't know if you've ever used Scrambled Exif, it's an application that strips exif data from images before sharing them, no UI, just share to it and then it opens the share dialog again, something that worked like that that just had a dialog open up asking which media player to stream to. I'm not an android developer.

For desktop there's peerflix, there's also a popcorntime client that doesn't have the catalog anymore as that's fetched remotely but it can still stream magnet links just fine.

What happens to the video... Same thing that happens if a host doesn't want to host anymore. Ultimately hosting costs money. "Free" hosts make their money in other ways. They censor, they delete old content. I would think a person who has a personal interest in their content being available would be more adamant about ensuring that, especially since all it takes is a seedbox. You can rent seedboxes if you want to pay for hosting. The goal isn't to ensure perpetual availability, as that is impossible. The goal is to make it easy for content creators to host and share videos without complex setups, and with nostr that includes a route to monetization which is spectacular, it's a big problem with every other approach to self hosting video content.

What if there was a piece of software, you record a video, run a command, and it created a torrent for the video and then sent a nostr note out with the magnet link? What do you think of that idea?

I ask because I'm building it slowly but surely as we speak.

The Gemma 2b model.

I've tried this on your recommendation, and so far I've asked it several questions. I've asked it a range of questions, normal questions, controversial, how to do simple things. So far, all I'm getting is corporate speak word salad that doesn't actually answer my questions, provides no insight, just talks about nothing and then refers me to online resources.

I'm not expecting a genius or a thing that knows everything, but at least something that gives me something useful. The only informative answer I got was how to boil an egg.

So far, most of the time I get the sense I'm being lectured by an HR lady, and the rest of the time I feel like I clicked the wrong link on a google search.