if the speakers are showing up from far away someone's gotta pay for that.

yeah, it's always been like that in melbourne, you can barely walk 50 metres in the CBD in any direction without seeing some celebration of unions and socialism.

i have family back in oz, but they all live in small places or even right out in the bush, i can't imagine living in the big cities of australia now since 2020. fuckin fascist hellhole.

yes, absolutely there should be nostr browsers. most of them will be built on top of the electron chrome engine of course, and this makes embedding regular web pages easier, and apps that use other GUI systems (gtk, qt) will likely system web views in a similar way.

getting around ISPs is not gonna be an easy one because they are thoroughly embedded with the government regulations. they opened the monopolies up in the 80s, breaking up the telephone/telegraph/post government companies and then opening those all up to competition, we are still quite a long way from having any realistic chance of people managing the bulk of the last mile of internet access at a community level, and really, the backbones are always going to be managed by specialists, same as specialists in road building build the roads.

it will just be a matter of market forces and activist users using their power to vote with their feet to concentrate demand high enough to yield such breakthroughs.

small, mostly autonomous regions like here in Madeira are places where this has a greater chance of catching on. that's why it is one of the places that is rising in this way, Boracay in the phillipines also has some potential for going this road with the very active LN activity there.

it's a thorny problem. it's going to hinge entirely upon reputation and identity authentication as far as the average user is concerned, that's, unfortunately, how humans manage the division of labor, leadership is our vulnerability.

as for whether it is practical for the big silos to adopt the small, horizontal model at all, that remains to be seen. i'd say it will end up being similar to CDNs et al, with distributed databases enabling massive relays with single DNS names.

this is the sort of detail that will be important in the "verify" thing.

if they use the protocol but don't retain the openness, is it really nostr?

you could have said the same exact thing about http/s comparing the late 90s openness (not even encrypted mostly!) to now.

the expression 'world wide web' once had the same connotations of freedom.

it was in contrast to things like AOL and Compuserv silos of the 80s and 90s.

don't despair - we are making sure that they don't get the same monopoly on software distribution that would be critical to strangling free relays and clients.

and by the way, this is going to, by definition, extend to web browsers, capturing them is going to be easy, relatively speaking, once they capture the githubs and atlassians etc.

personally, i can see even linux and git itself being targets of regulatory/oligarchy capture as well.

so, yeah, we are already on the case, doing what we can.

with all the scum and villainy around teh internet, it can be hard for those with funds to identify those with the vision, ethics and capacity to build the solutions to this kind of capture, so it takes time for the chaff to be shaken out and the resources gotten to those who are going to do the right thing.

but the only way for it to happen is to prove it with some real solutions deployed on one's own back. this is where i am at in my work currently.

the way they didn't even bother to use the correct french idiom 'en masse' makes it look like a scam all by itself to me.

in mass, there not their, could of not could've, marks of american miseducation system.

i have stopped using my russian owned IP address based VPNs, and magically alby is working

nostr:nprofile1qqsq2gwmj5csjm0lwqxu7sgtq8d502m9nr08uhhjck3t6ls3vqc4haspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcc9dy5l is there some reason why the server is refusing to allow connections from arbitrary IP addresses?

i get it that malicious actors often use proxies to reduce the possible counter-actions but as a small actor there is plenty of large actors who are using every bit of data generated by small actors to oppress them also.

i don't think that per se the commodification of interactions is a problem, it's the harvesting of this data without due compensation, and the deliberate manipulation of the data to manipulate the people.

true data, number one, and direct compensation for input, number two.

both are inherent properties of the nostr/lightning combo.

what if you don't believe he did that thing?

the whole story sounds too much like babylonian sun god mythology to me, and a documented man exists who did get nailed up and was at first popular and then hated for his rebellion against Rome.

but the rest of the story doesn't sound like a fabrication. especially once you read the Book of Enoch and learn where he studied and that many of his quotes are not really his.

haha.. xapo bank just sent me an email to tell me they now have a 14.99/month option rather than the 150/year option.

today mine runs out, and i literally can't pay any fee on it but i don't have any sats anyway to speak of so it's not a problem per se, but good to know i can pay a little more, more often, while things are difficult as now.

this is why both africans and irish cultures outside of their homelands are so musical, it's like a scar from slavery, like a pearl.

i'm glad to not be putting any chemicals in my body without them having a net benefit.

one observation i made was that weed relaxes the muscles that tense up when you should be punching someone.

and in general, caffeine, nicotine and alcohol make you tense and stopping those can relax you much better.

not happened often but i just shove them right back to where they belong.

also, don't sleep with animals in the bed. they don't share your sleep cycle. cats and dogs have 4-5 hour cycles and this will fuck up your 8 hours every time.

peeople who hate words are in a hurry and because they don't let the words be said wind up with problems from underspecification.

nostr:nevent1qqsxvncwfnaffuqtsht50snrhzr0kygraj4es04a004lms9r307mhmspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnfdenx7tcpypmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuampd3kx2ar0veekzar0wd5xjtnrdakj7qgdwaehxw309a38yc3wd9hj7qghwaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8yetvv9uk2u3wwdjj7qglwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxxunewp6xjcm5dpex2cty0ghxxmmd9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd46hg6tw09mkzmrvv46zucm0d5hsz8nhwden5te0dehhxarj94c82c3wwajkcmr0wfjx2u3wdejhgtcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgun9d3shjtnev4nksun09eekjar99uq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvd6hyun9de6zuenedyhsahqsad

i hate artificial light, i hope i can soon live in a space where the nearest artificial light is more than 2km away and the sky is not lit up with sodium lamps.

IMO, street lights are an incredible waste of power and really only exist to save power generator maintenance costs, not prevent crime.

dogs are always eating wrong things.

and they are like horses in that there is no circuit for satiety, they eat everything they can find that smells like food.

you need to make sure you control the space they are in very well, because anything resembling food is going to get eaten.

one of the first tittilating demonstrations i saw in highschool chemistry was watching elemental sodium react with water.

lithium is even more reactive.

i personally am all for hybrids, because they let you get more torque without having to tweak the engine for it and lose cruise efficiency, but lugging a giant battery around is going to lead to more and more frequent incidents of unstoppable chemical reactions because lithium metal will oxidise with everything, nitrogen, CO2, and release enough heat to make sure that there keeps on being more reactive species it can oxidise on.

hybrids could even skip the dangerous lithium battery and use a more bulky but far safer carbon based supercapacitor.

those who are against electric cars are mainly taking issue with the clear danger of both lithium and even hydrogen itself, which also has a lot of dangerous properties compared to gasoline or especially diesel.

part of the reason why lithium is so hard to extinguish is exactly because it can reduce water to hydrogen and that can then burn as well if the temp is high enough and the mix is right (hydrogen is probably safer than lithium because its combustion ratio is a lot more fussy).

i should also add that the anger, when expressed in this way, is a vice as well.

all who follow the laws of man in defiance of the laws of God commit evil.

but defying it openly isn't a law of God. fighting it in effective ways is, and fighting an over-powered enemy with open combat is suicide, which is a sin.

only if you follow the quoter it could be a notification, just to be clear.