Yeah... I am going to have to relearn tagging though. As long as the UI presents the data I want to see in a readable way I'm happy. I spend most of my time in the terminal so the modern fascination with large round buttons hasn't reached me.

Finally figured out and set up Gossip by @nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c on my desktop. The UI is unapologetically bad, but it's still a fantastic client with a ton of features that matter. Can't wait to watch it improve.

No, I believe there are public lists of all major VPNs and Tor out nodes.

What benefit do you see from only using a laptop? I can’t deal with the limited screen size so I always hook it up to an external monitor.

Yikes. Google definitely has a thing against privacy. Don’t they realize many people rely on Tor to not be surveilled by their government?

I set up Tor on my laptop for all my internet traffic. It’s amazing how much Google hates Tor. They just serve up endless Captchas until you go away.

Colds suck

Very true. Just because something is open source doesn’t mean it’s good. What you may be missing is when you combine an extremely good free speech protocol and open source you get a killer product.

To all the builders on Nostr, the sad part about your brain is that a single criticism will outweigh multiple compliments. I’d like to help balance out that ratio.

Thank you to every single person on Nostr building with code, memes, and art to make the world a better place. We see and appreciate you.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

Have you tried setting up a Lightning address? I think you’ll find it’s a lot less disappointing then.

Nostr is not bitcoin

Nostr is not blockchain

Nostr is cryptography

Nostr is free speech

The reason Nostr and bitcoin are closely related is because they were both designed in the cypherpunk ethos of free and open information secured by cryptography.

Hmm. Just looked this question up and apparently George Lucas agrees with you. I guess the Force would make it more fantasy.

What makes Star Wars fantasy and Dune sci fi?

True, but it pretends to have its own science and technology. Dune may be the greatest sci-fi series but it’s also not really based on our current science and technology.

Why do you say that? I think of fantasy as more Lord of the Rings style.

I was confused by the Star Wars posts for a few minutes before realizing it was May 4. I sincerely ask everyone’s apologies for disrespecting the second greatest sci-fi movie series.

May the 4th be with you!

Sitting and enjoying the greatest film scores of all time on some massive and ancient speakers. Never realized how good the Star Wars main theme sounds on a large stereo setup.

I have a cousins who know German, English, and Italian and they seem to be alright.

I just realized that this payment terminal is running buggy Powershell scripts. Why would you write an app that’s going to be deployed out in the wild in Powershell instead of a real language? nostr:note1t0lwwtlvl95mvvk6ztp424d455e8hdeshwajm6dvc504kknfmrlquz3xnj

I’m pretty sure now we could replace almost every dev with a few dozen more Pablo’s.

Lol. I have absolutely no idea how a windows terminal works.