Agreed.
If there are enough people complaining, which I'm pretty sure there'll be, then there'll be a NIP about it and client/relay will implement the NIP.
Advertising will be a cat and mouse game where NIPs will need to constantly evolve to protect users.
Mine can’t convince herself to eat blueberries
I have no doubt that at least some Nostr client will cater to the needs of those who don't want to see all the microzaps-for-attention. If they don't, I'll build one for myself.
Awesome 👏 thank you
The funny part is he’s both a citizen of UAE and France.🍿
Best response to this?
nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub1qqqqqqyz0la2jjl752yv8h7wgs3v098mh9nztd4nr6gynaef6uqqt0n47m nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr nostr:npub1cmmswlckn82se7f2jeftl6ll4szlc6zzh8hrjyyfm9vm3t2afr7svqlr6f nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 
Nostr doesn't need as much relay decentralization as it needs relay replication and resilience. It's a real challenge but it looks achievable.
More work is needed to make relays easy to run and manage, and much more work is needed to make relay management in clients much easier (default+advanced modes).
2 years is only for one item in the list. By summing up the potential jail time for each "crime", I suppose you should get to approx 20 years.
oops, I wrote "up to 2 years in jail" but it's actually "2 years in jail"
I thought this law had been initiated by Macron, but it's from 2004, before his first mandate.
Failing to file a declaration for cryptology services used for confidentiality can result in up to 2 years in jail and 30k€ fine.
art. 35 "III. - Le fait de fournir des prestations de cryptologie visant à assurer des fonctions de confidentialité sans avoir satisfait à l'obligation de déclaration prévue à l'article 31 est puni de deux ans d'emprisonnement et de 30 000 Euros d'amende."
You can run a local relay called citrine on Android. nostr:nprofile1qqs827g8dkd07zjvlhh60csytujgd3l9mz7x807xk3fewge7rwlukxgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9usjfpck if you want to run a personal relay on a PC somewhere there are a bunch of implementations you can use. Getting it connected to your apps on your local network is pretty easy. Accessing it from anywhere is a little harder and there are a few options. There's so many ways you can do it that it's hard to make a recommendation. I think we need more self hosting relay guides.
ok, thank you for the details.
I'll check first how to run a personal relay (not Android).
But I'd like also to understand how public relay management works in general and what are the challenges. I want to understand how much of a help it is for nostr in general if I just start a new public relay.
I'm not looking at this to build a business. It's a war effort.
where do I start if I want to run a relay?
is there a handy how-to somewhere?
Even if there is a way to bypass it now, the trend is clear and soon enough, there'll be no way around.
My guess is that using Windows in 2024 is asking for trouble.
Agreed, 'decentralization' is probably not the right word in this context since single truth is not required across relays.
The expectation is not being censured and not losing notes because a relay went down. Sounds quite different from true decentralization.
Want to understand how inflation impacts your purchasing power?
Let's look at The New Yorker, which publishes the price of each copy right on the front of the magazine.
1925: 15 cents
2024: $8.99
What the heck happened to make The New Yorker so much more expensive?
It's important to understand that technology is naturally DEFLATIONARY.
Everything should be getting cheaper over time, including The New Yorker.
Think about it: printing, writing, & editing technology has improved tremendously since 1925.
So, why is the magazine more expensive now?
From 1925 to 1971, The New Yorker increased in price from 15 cents to 50 cents, an increase of 233.33%.
That's pretty dramatic, but not THAT bad...
But from 1971 to 2024, price increased from 50 cents to $8.99, an increase of 1698%.
So, WTF happened in 1971?
In 1971, Richard Nixon "temporarily" suspended the convertibility of dollars to gold, ending the Gold Standard.
This meant that the Federal Reserve could now print dollars out of thin air without restriction.
Increasing the money supply by creating new money out of thin air is literally "inflation."
"Prices rising" is the result of inflation.
When more monetary units are created, the purchasing power of the monetary units that already exist decreases.
When the government/central bank prints money out of thin air, they are STEALING your purchasing power.
Here's The New Yorker over a few decades:
1971: $0.50
1980: $1.00
1990: $1.75
2000: $3.00
The magazine did not become more valuable, our MONEY became LESS valuable.
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By looking at this example of The New Yorker, which cost 15 cents in 1925 and costs $8.99 today, we see that the U.S. dollar has lost approximately 98.33% of its purchasing power in less than 100 years.
This is what happens when you print money out of thin air...
When money is controlled by the State, you are powerless to stop the destruction of your purchasing power.
Technology should be making everything LESS expensive over time, but even something as simple as a magazine gets more and more expensive over time.
So, what can you do to protect yourself from the government/central bank printing money out of thin air and destroying your purchasing power?
Study #Bitcoin with nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8
There will only ever be 21 million bitcoin and no government or central bank can print more.
The New-Yorker example makes sense and I fully agree with the general idea of deflationary technology, but it can't be extended to every product and service. Technology by itself will not make everything cheaper.
Just look at a car made in the 60s and compare it to a current car. Sure, there's a tremendous amount of productivity stolen by inflation. But there're also safety improvements (ABS, airbags, structural design,..), regulatory changes ("safety", fuel efficiency,...), and hedonistic enhancements (AC, better seating, multimedia,...).
The same goes for houses.
The function has not changed though: drive from A to B for a car and shelter for a house.
Eventually, even if salaries had followed inflation, cars and houses have become less affordable for the average family.
Young children are an immense joy but later you might have moments of doubt when your children are in their teenage years.
By then, you're not their source of truth anymore. They'll rather rely on that guy on Tiktok, or on their buddy who dropped out of school or on their girlfriend's uncle. In the vicious culture environment we live in, you can quickly see your children spiraling out of control. It can be tough as a parent because you often feel powerless and you can never be happier than your unhappiest child.
I feel lucky because one of my children has now vigourously bounced back and is doing great as a young adult. But I have several friends not as lucky as me. And my second child has not made it yet to the other side, the jury is out.
All in all, I don't regret a single second having children, it's an incredible adventure, but it can be a very bumpy road.
yup, unfortunately we now have scientists and economists more driven by ideology than their craft, and then politician taking advantage of these publications for their own benefit.
Btw, in France it's still possible to buy one of the few remaining new Jimny on the market, but while the car will cost you approx €28k, the new special French CO2 tax will be around €30k on top of purchase price. We've entered crazy territory.
yup, no go for me.
I don't want yet another wallet with fiat rails.
Alby was great so far, but I'm not clear how the experience will be modified with Alby Hub. Let's be realistic though, they do need a business model to pay their expenses and keep building. They've really done a lot of great work over the past 2 years.
I've not tried that and I don't really want to be tinkering with browsers everywhere (I use 2 desktops, 2 laptops and 1 smartphone). I need something easy enough.
I initially hoped that ProtonMail = Gmail + privacy but in its current state and with a big archive, it's ProtonMail = Gmail + privacy - searchability, which is frankly less compelling.
So far, I've moved all communications with banks, shopping sites and private conversations to Proton, but Gmail remains important for the rest and I don't find it handy to need managing both.
The second best way to spend your Bitcoin is to get a nostr:npub1mea2vwcu06qf7e4x00wd902vj54qnn2jacq76ldntrgfhtvhlpqqrvqane account. I was skeptical at first, even complained about their free product making it a bit annoying to use. After I got a paid account, I became a Proton Mail maxi. It's such a good service and its really becoming an alternative to the Google Suite.
I have an account and I love the product.
But the big drawback is that you can't really search full-text in the body of emails because of encryption on server side. And searching in the subject is most often not enough.
I really wonder how people deal with that.
If you don't have many emails in your archive, you can use their web storage full-text search, but that's not scalable.
You can also use Proton Bridge with Thunderbird to import your emails locally and search full-text, but that's not handy through multiple desktops and mobile.
So you're left with over-engineering your email subjects, labeling and folders, which is not manageable.
I'd love to give up on Gmail and go 100% ProtonMail but I need to solve that problem first.
Understanding breathing is a master skill. It has transformed my life over the past 25 years with holotropic breathwork, pranayama, wim hof and others.
I don't know whether Bittr works with an id.
What I said was actually a comment that the Bittr founder wrote me in an exchange to explain that his system is not KYC-free per se because my name and bank account is still captured by the bank (and maybe by them for the conversion).
Thank you relai for all the light-KYC sats. It's the easiest way to buy sats with low fees in europe
Bittr is arguably easier, does not require KYC and is substantially cheaper.
Keep in mind they get your name and bank account nbr given that you need to wire to their account.
I'm not using #nos but I imagine that in the app settings you should find a way to connect your Primal wallet through NWC.
I guess it would require you to go to Primal where you would ask to create a new connection for your wallet, it would give you a QR code and you'd scan that QR code from #nos.
I don't have a Primal account but that's the flow that works through Alby to connect Alby wallet to a new nostr app.
this is quite certainly not obvious
the freedom to be inoffensive is no freedom at all