Posted in January... where has this dude been? is he still active on nostr? oh just checked nostr:npub1xr7t5h0l25ej73pm04zgz9afeexyzsjx67s5v0xxf2sshjn4sx6sep2gqh and last post was 8 months ago. Guess he didn't get the kind of engagement he expected.
We need more people creating and curating content on forums. Reddit has become awful, but https://chorus.community is a great decentralized alternative.
If Chorus isn’t your thing, I’d love to know why? What’s it missing? What could make it better?
Here is a list as a iOS mobile user using a nip-7 extension login:
Weird UX/UI
Main App and Navigation Menus
- The Home and hamburger menus are on the left side to the right of the main app icon--quite small for mobile too. Weird UX but still usable.
- When a user clicks the hamburger menu icon on the top navbar, instead of a menu appearing it navigates the user to the group list. Unexpected and a little weird, but it works.
- Profile Picture appears and disappears as I navigate through the app. One moment it is there one moment it isn't. Not a big deal just adds to the general jank factor which leads to distrust and discourages users from investing time into adding content that may or may not be viewable/usable in a few months years as it is unclear whether or not this will be maintained and whether other clients will pick up the Nostr event kinds used in this app.
- It is unclear to me how notifications are surfaced. I only had one notification from 20 days ago and I couldn't click on it to figure out what note it was on or the context or what the reaction was etc., just "{User Display Name} reacted to your post".
Group View
Layout
- In the group view, I'm initially greeted by 3 tabs of seemingly the same weird and importance? Posts Members and Send eCash. 90% of the time people are going to look here for Posts, not members and not send eCash. Where do you send eCash? To the group of course? To the moderator's wallet? Okay but a little weird and a little weird to prominently feature it. Members list and Send eCash should be side menu nested menu options not front row options.
eCash
- It appears users can send 0.00 use worth of eCash. Cool?. Clicking the Send eCash button launches a modal which after the user closes it, the tab switching state isn't restored. So users who view the Send eCash modal have to hard refresh before they can switch back to the members tab or posts tab.
- Pressing the $ dollar sign action button freezes the application and prevents any navigation from that point.
Posts
- Post cards are not selectable. If a user taps the text, the comments section doesn't appear as users of reddit might expect. The user needs to tap the comments icon to view them. And instead of navigating the user to a dedicated page for the post, the replies simply expand down in an accordion style which the user can scroll down right into the next post. Maybe some people like this but I think it is weird. It makes it difficult to simply swipe back or go deeper into a thread then swipe back up and out of it. The layout of the comments section also expands horizontally off mobile screens if more than 4 or 5 replies are nested. A better UX would be like reddit where a user can tap anywhere in the text content of a post and view that post with the comments under it in a dedicated view.
- The action buttons under a post are left aligned leaving a lot of space on the right where a share and report button could easily fit, but the share and report buttons are nested in the dot menu. Why leave the empty space, leave the action bar uneven, and hide the share button behind a dot menu?
- there is a little green dot to the left of the dot menu. does this mean the user is online? does this mean the user is an approved member? that they are nip-5 validated? idk.
- If the user expands a post with lots of replies, the write a reply input shows up at the very bottom of all those replies so it is unclear if the user is replying to the last reply or the initial post. And if the user wants to reference the initial post while typing their reply, they have to awkwardly scroll up past the other replies to the initially post then back down to continue editing their reply. It's an unpleasant experience.
- typing an extended reply in the tiny nested reply input is annoying. If this is supposed to be for longer form forum level writing this isn't going to work.
Trending
- The Trending hashtags section is sad looking when trends do show up ... showing +3 and below "trends" of porn and smut tier trends and a lot of the time trends just didn't show up. The time frame selection on trends doesn't always affect the displayed trends--select last day, last week, last month doesn't matter the trends all stay exactly the same... a bit suspect.
If the content and community was there and really useful people, would push through to make it work. Worse UIs have been made and been successful. However, the lack of UX thought and unreliable execution adds a lot of friction.
Just thought I'd write this out for you because of the small subset of people that will actually log in and try it, a even smaller subset of people will write their experience for you.
Allocate a little more time to UX, Testing, and spend a bit more time vibing and perfecting it before promoting it. Because, even if you fixed all this stuff next week, this application has lost my trust and I'm not sure it is worth my time to go back and do more QA on it... given what I already said above about how uncertain the dedication of its vibe stewards is and the open question of whether this app will be supported and improved.
which clients still support badges? Haven't seen many of them around lately... but I haven't been looking for them to be fair.
I definitely don't want any of their 'emotional energy' invested.
River is a good one to mention--was going to mention their mobile app as it is excellent.
yeah that's really nice--love the look of this site.
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I am a retard, but Odell is definitely still an influencer, thought-leader, talking-head pundit etc.Thank you for your consideration in this matter.
this is a good idea--I might just run with it.
seems like he is trying to find that influencer middle-ground. The only reason he had said before was that knots didn't have as many eyeballs on it in the review and release process as core. That can be easily fixed though--especially since he gives out dev grants with opensats.
but muh number go up!
Ahhh now I understand why I shouldn't run knots and should upgrade to the latest core version. Very insightful.
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If someone obfuscates data that software prevents when not obfuscated, that absolves the software of liability for the obfuscated data. It would be considered an exploit of the software, not a feature.
For example: If a website allows users to upload and store text files but blocks video and and music files, and a user decides to upload text files containing base64 encoded video files in parts with the titles of the text files establishing the order that when joined back together can with some effort be parsed back into a playable video. This doesn't mean the website is allowing video uploads now. The user doing so is exploiting the terms of the website. That's very different from a site owner saying "well people are going to upload text encoded video files in pieces and we can't stop them, let's just allow video file uploads".
Now they have some obligation to run scans on the video uploads for illegal content and have to have to update their terms of service to make the users agree not to upload illegal video content etc. Simply preventing the video uploads in the first place prevents them from having to deal with that liability.
This is how I interpret what Luke is saying here. It doesn't seem stupid at first face--how are you reading it that it seems stupid?
It's hard to know what to do when you know this to be the case--both right and left, children of liberalism, differing on the means but seeking the same goal. I don't like being an "everything is psy-op " guy but I'm left with no choice. The wells are poisoned. The Bolsheviks famously executed this playbook by running the revolution and fake counter-revolutions at the same time. I think we're seeing the same playbook executed in a slightly different form now. The current faceless apparatchiks have done this in our day by funding every lane in the American political system. It's hard to know which political movement is a real grass-roots one and which is just another psy-op (and when one turns into the other). Anyway this has a paralyzing effect, politically--but only politically, which I don't think will be effective anyway for the reason displayed in this meme.
The enemy is so vague, multifaceted and obfuscated. How do you begin to fight back against such generalities as "The Libs", "The Leftists", "The International Elite", "The Capitalists", "The Borgueoisie", "The Jews" etc. I'm sympathetic to people on here posting like Hodl (nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs) in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination. But reacting to the events quickly will most likely result in attacking one of their proxies as designed--the planted trans-related material is by design and I'm encouraged to see Hodl lean into the Dad and family posting.
I think the only way to fight this central-banker meta-national intel-mafia, is to inoculate yourself to the degeneration that make you susceptible to their control mechanisms--you need hone your intellect, build virtue and environments conducive to education and virtue in young people--whether your own kids or those in your family or local networks. A common sense formed like this is resistant to ideology of the likes these globo-homo-financiers need to perpetuate among the general population to retain control. It is not dramatic or newsworthy. It is quotidian, but this kind of vague nameless tide of average families raising children in faith and virtue is the only thing I can think of that can effectively combat the source of the ills which plague society today.
I see a lot of well meaning people wanting to do something now, politically... to identify the enemy etc. As I said previously, they will only succeed in identifying the decoy or if they get close to the target, will themselves become the decoy for another group under false pretenses, a blackmail target, or simply an assassination target if the other two fail. The ways and means are numerous but if you've followed the typical examples given in books like "One Nation Under Blackmail" by Webb or to get a good high level summary (https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-jeffrey-epstein-the-franklin-scandal-pedophilia-and-political-blackmail) they don't surprise you anymore: plane crashes, suicides, heart-attacks, sniping, assassins disguised as ups delivery drivers who after shooting their target get shot themselves and immediately the case goes cold. Any DAs or investigators that touch cases like these commit suicide or die in plane crashes etc. The list is long. If they don't kill you, they will try to smear your name and imprison you. Look at the false rape charges brought against Assange--or the wikipedia of the CIA engineer who leaked the Vault 7 documents to wikileaks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Schulte). Nobody wants to start a campaign to help free him because he is a dirty evil pedo etc.
I think it is much smarter to stay humble, stack sats and kids and find ways to humanize yourself and the culture--make it more beautiful, make yourself more human, resist the shallow calls to action in the media and find a connection to authentic tradition that preceded this liberal decay and has withstood it intact. That's the only way forward. Don't focus on the enemy until you have a solid foundation on which you can build a replacement their order and don't start the fight until you know you can win.
Bitcoin doesn't fix this but it can help a lot in the right hands.
being hardcore on solana and nfts... he probably knows a thing or two about debt.
for real -- I thought calle was a shadowing supercoder not normie vscoder. probably programs in light mode too
yeah that account had a perfect summary of what I've seen going around. I copy it below for others:
"The individual spotted on top of the roof before the shooting (the person who appears to have been the actual shooter) might not have been the actual shooter either. The exceptionally graphic video evidence of the attack might be playing tricks on the eyes; the wound that was visible in the video evidence so far may have in actuality been an exit wound for a shot that came from Kirk's 4 o' clock position. Some video evidence supports this, however much higher quality footage (such as from the professional media equipment recording the rally) will be necessary to determine if that is a viable line of investigative effort.
Again, focusing on details that can help find the killer and eliminate future threats is worth the speculation, especially as the FBI has stated that they recovered the rifle used to conduct the attack from a wooded treeline near the campus. This rifle appears to have sported an optic which was mounted too far too the rear to provide a feasible shooting platform. This detail has caused many to doubt that this rifle was the one used in the shooting (as in, it's yet another decoy), or that the shooter did not have the experience to know that the scope was in the wrong position for it to be used properly. In short: If this rifle was used, the suspect is either of a very small body type (much smaller than the suspects sought so far), or they are now sporting a facial wound caused by the recoil of the firearm driving the scope into their face. Or, this rifle was not used at all, and whomever staged it did not have the forethought to position the scope correctly.
As with most high-profile events like this, some discrepancy among the initial details is very much expected. However, there is a LOT of debate right now regarding whether or not the murder of Charlie Kirk was a professional assassination. Right now, all of the evidence in the public eye suggests that Kirk could have been killed in a more coordinated manner (as in more than one person might have been involved), but also by someone displaying very amateur tradecraft. On the other hand, if the multiple misdirections were deliberately planted to confuse and slow down investigative efforts, this would be a strong indicator of more organized planning.
Sometimes the most likely explanation is the simplest, and based on the sheer number of people celebrating his murder the chances of this being one of the usual suspects is rather high, even though the door must remain open to other possibilities. The cold hard truth right now is that regardless of how Kirk was killed, he was killed for a reason. And right now there are millions of people celebrating his murder, both online and in the real world. It is this important observation that will have lasting impact for some time, both in terms of societal shift, but also in terms of real-world threats and security concerns."
I made a little html document loop with the Umbrellino prayer for technology:
https://saintmaker.xyz/university-library/tradition/machine-prayer/landing-dark.html
A while ago I made a bash script of the prayer (https://techpriesthub.xyz/forgejo/terrantechpriest/prayer) and ever since wanted to make something easier to access.
Exciting thing for me is the html docs and the pixel art amount to no more than 45 kB, so it's incredibly lightweight, and that's with two color themes!
#catholic
the return symbol on the Chi Rho is a nice touch. very nice!
more testing
testing
debugging blossum uploads
the America worth fighting for!
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we vibe coded too hard -- the poor primal relay can't take it anymore.
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There is another figure, more spectacular still than a hold; it is the forearm smash, this loud slap of the forearm, this embryonic punch with which one clouts the chest of one's adversary, and which is accompanied by a dull noise and the exaggerated sagging of a vanquished body. In the forearm smash, catastrophe is brought to the point of maximum obviousness, so much so that ultimately the gesture appears as no more than a symbol; this is going too far, this is transgressing the moral rules of wrestling, where all signs must be excessively clear, but must not let the intention of clarity be seen. The public then shouts 'He's laying it on!', not because it regrets the absence of real suffering, but because it condemns artifice: as in the theatre, one fails to put the part across as much by an excess of sincerity as by an excess of formalism.
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forearm smash!
What is thus displayed for the public is the great spectacle of Suffering, Defeat, and Justice. Wrestling presents man's suffering with all the amplification of tragic masks. The wrestler who suffers in a hold which is reputedly cruel (an arm-lock, a twisted leg) offers an excessive portrayal of Suffering; like a primitive Pieta, he exhibits for all to see his face, exaggeratedly contorted by an intolerable affliction. It is obvious, of course, that in wrestling reserve would be out of place, since it is opposed to the voluntary ostentation of the spectacle, to this Exhibition of Suffering which is the very aim of the fight. This is why all the actions which produce suffering are particularly spectacular, like the gesture of a conjuror who holds out his cards clearly to the public. Suffering which appeared without intelligible cause would not be understood; a concealed action that was actually cruel would transgress the unwritten rules of wrestling and would have no more sociological efficacy than a mad or parasitic gesture. On the contrary suffering appears as inflicted with emphasis and conviction, for everyone must not only see that the man suffers, but also and above all understand why he suffers. What wrestlers call a hold, that is, any figure which allows one to immobilize the adversary indefinitely and to have him at one's mercy, has precisely the function of preparing in a conventional, therefore intelligible, fashion the spectacle of suffering, of methodically establishing the conditions of suffering. The inertia of the vanquished allows the (temporary) victor to settle in his cruelty and to convey to the public this terrifying slowness of the torturer who is certain about the outcome of his actions; to grind the face of one's powerless adversary or to scrape his spine with one's fist with a deep and regular movement, or at least to produce the superficial appearance of such gestures: wrestling is the only sport which gives such an externalized image of torture. But here again, only the image is involved in the game, and the spectator does not wish for the actual suffering of the contestant; he only enjoys the perfection of an iconography. It is not true that wrestling is a sadistic spectacle: it is only an intelligible spectacle.
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great post!
What is thus displayed for the public is the great spectacle of Suffering, Defeat, and Justice. Wrestling presents man's suffering with all the amplification of tragic masks. The wrestler who suffers in a hold which is reputedly cruel (an arm-lock, a twisted leg) offers an excessive portrayal of Suffering; like a primitive Pieta, he exhibits for all to see his face, exaggeratedly contorted by an intolerable affliction. It is obvious, of course, that in wrestling reserve would be out of place, since it is opposed to the voluntary ostentation of the spectacle, to this Exhibition of Suffering which is the very aim of the fight. This is why all the actions which produce suffering are particularly spectacular, like the gesture of a conjuror who holds out his cards clearly to the public. Suffering which appeared without intelligible cause would not be understood; a concealed action that was actually cruel would transgress the unwritten rules of wrestling and would have no more sociological efficacy than a mad or parasitic gesture. On the contrary suffering appears as inflicted with emphasis and conviction, for everyone must not only see that the man suffers, but also and above all understand why he suffers. What wrestlers call a hold, that is, any figure which allows one to immobilize the adversary indefinitely and to have him at one's mercy, has precisely the function of preparing in a conventional, therefore intelligible, fashion the spectacle of suffering, of methodically establishing the conditions of suffering. The inertia of the vanquished allows the (temporary) victor to settle in his cruelty and to convey to the public this terrifying slowness of the torturer who is certain about the outcome of his actions; to grind the face of one's powerless adversary or to scrape his spine with one's fist with a deep and regular movement, or at least to produce the superficial appearance of such gestures: wrestling is the only sport which gives such an externalized image of torture. But here again, only the image is involved in the game, and the spectator does not wish for the actual suffering of the contestant; he only enjoys the perfection of an iconography. It is not true that wrestling is a sadistic spectacle: it is only an intelligible spectacle.
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It is not true that wrestling is a sadistic spectacle: it is only an intelligible spectacle.
The physique of the wrestlers therefore constitutes a basic sign, which like a seed contains the whole fight. But this seed proliferates, for it is at every turn during the fight, in each new situation, that the body of the wrestler casts to the public the magical entertainment of a temperament which finds its natural expression in a gesture. The different strata of meaning throw light on each other, and form the most intelligible of spectacles. Wrestling is like a diacritic writing: above the fundamental meaning of his body, the wrestler arranges comments which are episodic but always opportune, and constantly help the reading of the fight by means of gestures, attitudes and mimicry which make the intention utterly obvious. Sometimes the wrestler triumphs with a repulsive sneer while kneeling on the good sportsman; sometimes he gives the crowd a conceited smile which forebodes an early revenge; sometimes, pinned to the ground, he hits the floor ostentatiously to make evident to all the intolerable nature of his situation; and sometimes he erects a complicated set of signs meant to make the public understand that he legitimately personifies the ever-entertaining image of the grumbler, endlessly confabulating about his displeasure.
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prescient!
Thus the function of the wrestler is not to win; it is to go exactly through the motions which are expected of him. It is said that judo contains a hidden symbolic aspect; even in the midst of efficiency, its gestures are measured, precise but restricted, drawn accurately but by a stroke without volume. Wrestling, on the contrary, offers excessive gestures, exploited to the limit of their meaning. In judo, a man who is down is hardly down at all, he rolls over, he draws back, he eludes defeat, or, if the latter is obvious, he immediately disappears; in wrestling, a man who is down is exaggeratedly so, and completely fills the eyes of the spectators with the intolerable spectacle of his powerlessness.
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so good!
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not a sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of Suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. * Of course, there exists a false wrestling, in which the participants unnecessarily go to great lengths to make a show of a fair fight; this is of no interest. True wrestling, wrongly called amateur wrestling, is performed in second-rate halls, where the public spontaneously attunes itself to the spectacular nature of the contest, like the audience at a suburban cinema. Then these same people wax indignant because wrestling is a stage-managed sport (which ought, by the way, to mitigate its ignominy). The public is completely uninterested in knowing whether the contest is rigged or not, and rightly so; it abandons itself to the primary virtue of the spectacle, which is to abolish all motives and all consequences: what matters is not what it thinks but what it sees.
GN Nostr
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