The Dec spike can be also the unlocking of the EU region that was kicked out since the summer ’23 till Dec.
The Nostr boom was a year ago. Now, it’s Bluesky and Farcaster.
The team haven’t slept much. The server load is too much at the moment.
”Bluesky has gained almost 800,000 new users (or, “newskies“). Now, the platform is slated to break 4 million total signups later today, whereas it hit 3 million only last week.”
You can cross-post to Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr simultaneously.
If you add https://connect.nos.social/ to the mix it can auto-post your Nostr posts to X.
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You can do that with Yubikey or TOTP. It saved me from the IG hack that exposed the passwords from the backend.
Is this becoming a thread
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”They have prioritized graphics fidelity and responsiveness, and taken the hit on battery life, weight, and heat. Given how important the experience is to Apple’s AR experience, this is probably the right choice for a first generation device.”
https://www.ifixit.com/News/90137/vision-pro-teardown-why-those-fake-eyes-look-so-weird
”The platform has about 3 million sign-ups. Now that anyone can join, the young platform faces a challenge: how can it meaningfully stand up to Threads’ 130 million monthly active users, or even Mastodon’s 1.8 million?”
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/06/bluesky-is-now-open-for-anyone-to-join/
Automated algos make no exceptions to founders
Wherever you get your Nostr
“being able to say, "wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience.”
https://www.anildash.com/2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/
The age of innocence is over.
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”Throughout 2023, some 5.2 million barrels of refined petroleum products that had been produced from Russian crude oil were imported to the UK.
Most of the fuel imported - 4.6 million barrels - was jet fuel, which the group's researchers suggested was used in one in 20 UK flights…
the so-called loophole indirectly provided the Kremlin with more than £100m in tax revenues.”
The US builds and, the EU regulates
”The Gemini app…will be available in Japanese, Korean, and English globally except for the UK, Switzerland, European Economic Area countries, and associated territories.”
👺 a web course, and 1000x
“Rather than painstakingly crafting a fake ID by hand—a highly skilled criminal profession that can take years to master—or waiting for a purchased one to arrive in the mail with the risk of interception, OnlyFake lets essentially anyone generate fake IDs in minutes that may seem real enough to bypass various online verification systems. Or at least fool some people.”
“Google will no longer be keeping a backup of the entire Internet. Google Search's "cached" links have long been an alternative way to load a website that was down or had changed, but now the company is killing them off.”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages