big tech software is no good!

Try and get rid of google completely

Stay away from closed source chat apps

Stay away from closed source cloud apps

If you can, move away from Github

Stay away away from closed source social media apps

Stay away from closed source operating systems on desktop and mobile

If you have the privileges and resources, run your own chat apps, cloud, bitcoin node and lightning node

Even better, try and make it easy for folks to run their own systems as well.

1. Offer to help

2. Create DIY guides

3. Keep your software open source

4. Give education on privacy software and measures

5. Compile education resources for people to read

big tech KYC is going to get worse and worse

Before and after #foodstr

I sleep on a yoga mat

Has anyone here done a bunch of research on mattresses?

I am buying a new one and want something comfortable that's low toxicity. Medium firm probably.

I know one of you geniuses has looked into this 🧠

Nah. Entangled is indeed like ying and yang, but this photo is not a photo of two entangled photons. The original paper was demonstrating a new method of photography. For that, something had to be photographied. It could have been a cross, a star-and-crescent, a smiley, or any other famous symbol, but they chose the ying-yang.

That's not what the image shows if you read the paper. They modeld it into a Ying Yang shape.

For those with eyes to see, let them see

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO NOT POISON MYSELF

LIKE WHAT IS THIS, WHY DO I WANT TO DESTROY MY BODY, I GET NOTHING OUT OF IT

Not fast enough. I know its not directly connected, but a state that imprisons people for speech should fail as fast as possible, by any means possible.

Good day! This is #InkblotArt, the note that lets your imagination fly!

Today is August 7, 2024. Block height of 855,755

What do you see in the blot? Comment and get a zap!

Didn't get a helping hand from the CIA?

That's how all got rich in a fiat system. Max leverage, mean tactics to stay alive and always the risk to go personally bankrupt.

Amazon is also deeply fiat and only won because of fiat. Their initial growth was funded by never ending cheap debt. They always just skirted the line of maximizing the debt they held while still bring able to make the payments.

Only cheap debt makes it possible to grow that fast. The speedy growth is how you crush all of your competition who wasn't enough of a degenerate gambler to take on reckless levels of debt to fund rapid growth at all costs.

Fiat funds and reinforces the first mover advantage.

I feel the same way about npubs, events, zaps and relays. Entirely new approach, but not sure what the killer use case will be. Bezos understood the tech and had the faith to apply it to a business model with an entirely new possibility. It took 20 years to be profitable, but he did it. Likely similar pattern for #nostr, hopefully not as long.

Let's be clear here.

Nostr is an unfinished beta of multiple technologies being tested simultaneously in realtime. It's buggy. Things break often. You'll probably lose some money, or time, or both to it. I know I have 😂

But I love the passion, the attitude and the vision for the future I see here. It's worth putting up with the bugs to be around such great people, so I keep coming back.