имо, если бы они реально хотели обрушить россию, первый пакет санкций был бы: полный запрет на алмазы, нефть, газ, металлургия, уран, а также целевые санкции против всех федеральных и региональных чиновников + запрет на экспорт в РФ предметов роскоши (и я о сумках гучи за миллионы долларов, а не о компьютерной технике дороже 300 баксов). Второго пакета санкций бы не было. Он бы не понадобился.

Но мы все прекрасно знаем, что такого бы никогда не случилось, и мы все знаем, почему :3

Это даже не санкции. Это псевдосанкции. Полистай хоть один документ США и ЕС — там не найти, что россиянам кто-то запрещал играть в игры и слушать музыку.

Это просто инициатива западных капиталистов ради пиара, мол, мы наказали россиян за то что они "выбрали" президента. Обман, чтобы набрать классы.

А санкций нормальных, по сути, и не было. Или они пришли уже слишком поздно.

была похожая история...

подруга: где ты пропадала?

вика: Вика спала

подруга: днём? А ночью кто спать будет?

вика: Вика. Вика спит всегда

сейчас вот тоже режим пошел непонятно куда, так что снова чувствую вайб этого диалога

I have mastered the art of picking relays for different functions in Amethyst. Those small buttons on every relay in the list are more useful than I thought.

It would be even better if one could indicate their home country, and zap suggestions would be scaled appropriately to the purchasing power parity.

Not everyone lives in the US. I would be broke in US, while I am much richer than my peers in my own country thanks mostly to how poor everyone is in comparison to my salary in the fiat mines.

True. This is how Internet censorship started in Russia. And now...you know what's happening in there.

is he being serious? because I have a sudden inexplicable desire to loudly croak and be a general nuisance 🤣 this cannot be anything other than satire

damn the global feed is eerily chill if you disable all free relays...

thank you o wise one! ✨

I think Amethyst would benefit more from having tighter controls over which relays to post to, e.g. being able to post a single post to only a subset of your relays.

Perhaps I ought to suggest this on the issue tracker. I would love for this functionality be accessible by holding the "Post" button in the creation UI.

Even better: tax vacant properties nobody lives in. If housing stands unused, it needlessly drives prices up for a commodity that, logically, should be abundant — look at how much land is around us everywhere, yet people say housing is scarce? Something's fishy here. Somebody's extracting surplus value from the housing, and clearly it hurts everyone.

why would you have a phone number

(mobile phone networks are insecure, calling is inconvenient and SMS is overly restrictive and also not suitable for purposes of authentcation (seemingly the most common use for it nowadays) and we should be pushing to abolish them)

So how does one detect these? Because to me all of this sounds like marketing fluff without the actual product being showcased anywhere. Which to me feels like this thing is as useful as an unborn child.

They should show the mainnet prototype or GTFO. (So we can devise a way to detect these VASP things, whatever they are.)

In the era of reifying "exposure" and lots of friction in donations, they're worried that machine learning-based image generators would overwhelm the feeds and suppress their reach. This is a problem created by lack of transparency in the social silos and the friction of fiat money.

In the era of social network silos being dead and the #zap mechanism on Nostr flourishing, they really have nothing to worry about. As long as they still got some rich patrons who will zap them and commission arts from them.

I would personally love to commission an artwork from a human artist — but due to me being cut off from the greater fiat financial system, I lack the pathways to do so — even though I have the money.

is this real? how does this guy still exist?

I feel like it's satire at this point

Audio CDs may or may not be the best invention in the #music industry.

You buy a slate of plastic and shine a laser on it whenever you wish to hear the tunes etched on it. Or you shine a laser on it once to copy the etched tunes onto a different storage medium, to keep them with you and prevent the disc from being worn-out.

And nobody can take it away from you. Ever.

#plebchain #tunestr

I've recently been thinking about claims on how #Bitcoin, according to Bitcoiners themselves, has the potential to stop wars by making it harder to finance wars with a finite currency supply that cannot be devalued by government-controlled inflation.

There's only one problem with this. If a country that hasn't adopted the #BitcoinStandard starts a war with another country, then the attacking country can inflate its own fiat currency supply ad infinitum (with obvious consequences for that country's citizens, who can be considered main holders of that country's currency, as most likely that currency is mandated to be the only legal tender — rapid inflation will most likely lead to massive poverty since nobody's actually gonna raise wages to keep up with inflation) and potentially have an economic edge over a country with a stable currency, that might have trouble assembling enough capital and human forces to fight off the attack.

This makes a country adopting a Bitcoin standard essentially fully subservient to the will of its own citizens, since in case of hostile policy people can just stop paying taxes (bitcoin doesn't go away if a single country collapses, assuming miners are spread out more-or-less uniformly — and it's rather hard to forcefully take possession of) or stop buying government bonds denominated in BTC, cutting off lending for the country. Which, in case of an attack by another country, could lead to the country's defenses being compromised — since you can't issue more currency, eventually you will run out of money to pay wages to cops and soldiers that could roughhouse people into giving up their money.

This subservience of a government to their own people may be a good or a bad thing, depending on your political views and whether you are the government or one of the aforementioned people.

They're scared of an overgrown statistical analysis tool. #AI doesn't exist.

It's a symbol of strength in unity. I believe it's appropriate in many contexts.

I did frequent restarts so it won't eat all of my RAM, combined with btrfs snapshots as insurance if I accidentally misstep.

And a TimeoutStopSec=infinity on the systemd service. That did the trick nicely.

Fully synced and fully worked. But I'm never going to sync from scratch ever again, it's just way too slow.

Half of it seems to be FUD. If you aren't a routing node, your funds are perfectly safe. To defraud a routing node, both sender and recipient of a payment need to collude, and also the attack doesn't have a 100% success rate, especially with the mempool-watching mitigations that node developers applied.

One of my theories:

1. Halving primarily affects miners, who spend fiat for their electricity and receive BTC. (The first ever exchange of BTC for fiat was derived from the price of electricity used to mine it — or so I heard!) They start receiving less BTC and therefore are forced to sell it for more to compensate for their loss.

2. Perhaps psychological forces such as "hype" also affect the price. Halving means less new bitcoins, therefore bitcoins become more scarce. More scarcity => higher price per unit. Even if it's purely psychological — humans have shown to be quite irrational sometimes. Humanity is quite vulnerable to irrationality.

3. There are also other factors unrelated to halvings that may amplify the effect — such as that, purely by coincidence, there are talks about Bitcoin spot ETFs, which may probably positively affect the price (since demand for Bitcoin raises, and market participants are going to extract their surplus value from the increased demand)

I'm sorry, what's "Windows"?

It sure did push me to research Lightning Network. To me it seems like an incredibly complicated nerd trap, but I did try a few test payments between my own wallets and even a zap, and it fucking works, I guess.

I am, however, concerned that lots of people use custodial wallets like Alby or so-called "Wallet of Satoshi". Call me a maximalist, but that kinda defeats the purpose of cryptocurrencies...