best p2p trades are with friends

Brave is so unstable for me atm, always crashes when a popup window opens like nos2x or bitwarden, so annoying.

Also it just fails to open websites after a while and i have to restart it otherwise it just gets stuck loading forever, what a piece of shit...

Are there any good browsers?

Opus 4.5 (Cursor) cost is only reduced for another four days… what are you building?

Even when using Python virtual environments?

Overheard at a school function:

“Sixxx sevennnn sixxxx sevennnn (in unison) omg we are the most brain rotted generation ever”

This level of self awareness is actually amazing lol 😂

The kids are alright.

Someone on the plane in front of me was watching The Pitt... Apparently it's popular but I can't see why. Every episode from start to end was like a montage of people suffering and dying in various ways while at a hospital.

Why do people watch this?

We say don’t trust, verify, but some people are literally waiting on some big name bitcoiner or cypherpunk to tell them what to think. Does anyone think for themselves?

Best old laptop to run Linux with all HW working from the box?

#askNostr

Did a privacy publication really just leak private DMs?

I donated to a democratic candidate a long time ago back when I was insane, and I still get emails from like 10 dems per day. Of course, I don’t use that email address anymore but it’s interesting to see it occasionally. I will never open them but you can preview the brain rot they offer. The fact that you cannot opt out of these emails is pure insanity.

Same impression. Was too short to form any major opinion. Probably budget constraint. The art and animations though was beautiful.

I just watched BAAN: 大人の彊界 (anime written by anituber gigguk)

The art-style and the animation were good, the voice actors did a decent job (don't be winning any awards but solid performance), and I enjoyed the world he has built.

But I'm a bit disappointed, not gonna lie. I understand that he probably had significant budget limitations, but it felt too rushed, too much happened at the same time, and simultaneously very little happened.

18 minutes wasn't enough time for me to be invested in any of the characters, the main characters Rin and Daichi have very any development (this is why the 3 episode rule exists).

I think of this were a 90 minutes movie, or a multi episode show, I would have seriously enjoyed it, I reckon.

The heart is there, no doubt about it; as is the world building, the writing is good, if it were serialized I'd buy the series.

But the whole package is maybe a 6/10, which is disappointing because it could have been a 9/10.

#animestr

This post contains spoilers to a somewhat popular anime: Code Geass.

I watched Code Geass many years ago but couldn’t really appreciate the ending at the time. The story is about a mysterious woman with a special power that can be weaponized. The military of a totalitarian regime was transporting her in an armored vehicle when a rebellion team (also referred to as terrorists by the ruling class) attacked the transportation vehicle trying to retrieve her and tilt the power dynamics of their resistance. During the attack, she comes across a young man who was caught in the crossfire. Under duress, she granted him the incredible power. This power allows him to compel anyone to do anything he says, but he has to look into their eyes to do it. And he can only use it once per person. With this new power, he begins accumulating resources and allies to overthrow the current political establishment. The problem is that now he is the enemy of the previous group of people he overthrew. He realizes that hatred and violence can’t stop if people keep trying to enact revenge on each other. The solution? He intentionally and openly becomes a tyrant: abusing people in order to literally make the world hate him. The ruler of the world is now the most hated man on earth. Then he plans his own public assassination. During a mandatory parade, he was murdered in front of everyone to see. He died as a martyr or at least fooled the world into believing that he is dead. The world celebrated. They were now free. The world’s common enemy and the collective hatred of all humanity was now gone. Instead of people directing their hatred at a specific race or nation, it was directed at this dead tyrant. Now people had a clean slate and the world doesn’t have any prior reasons to hate anyone. People of different cultures, races, and values could finally get along right?

This is where the anime ends. It allows the viewer to determine what happens next. This would presumably create peace right? Ultimately, I don’t think this solution worked or solved anything. To my understanding, people tend to create enemies even when there isn’t one. It’s a weird thing but humans seem to be wired this way. We are in constant conflict because of tribalistic tendencies we evolved with. There always seems to be any enemy out there. There is always a group creating problems for you or planning ways to control you better.

And if there isn’t a clear enemy, we create one. This is what it feels like being in bitcoin and nostr sometimes. There are certainly bad actors in these communities but, it seems that more than anything, we are creating some of them. Attributing malice toward others and calling them bad actors based on feelings instead of indisputable evidence. It’s a lot of speculating and jumping to conclusions. This creates tension. The tension leads to dislike. The dislike leads to hatred and people begin to draw enemy lines. Now the enemy is evil and we are at war.

I know the end of fiat will be a great victory for humanity. I know that a bitcoin standard will drastically improve the living conditions for everyone on earth and reduce a lot of suffering. But I don’t think conflict and violence will ever go away for good. I don't think psychopaths will stop trying to gain power and rule over others. I don’t think it will stop evil. The scale of violence will shrink and that’s a big win, but the violence will find its way into the world because it seems this is human nature.

Yeah I’m not even close to that chapter lol

Aww was that a spoiler?

What did his dad do?

And Luffy did what no one dared to do before

Behavior shows human societies on the whole don’t deserve Bitcoin.

Christ have mercy 🙏

It's a hard one, professional spammers can always out micro-spend regular users, just as they can out proof-of-work them.

They all earn from their spam, let's not forget. It's an industry. And a pretty lucrative one at that. So they'll always appear when the impression base is big enough, and they'll happily pay to play.

hmm I'm not sure what that site is about but I'll have to check it out.

I always thought torrent creators should start adding their lighting address so we could zap them for their hard work.

I don't torrent much anymore and I noticed torrenting has gone down a lot because it's easier to just buy the stuff but every so often i still torrent

You can use #keychat which supports extension login

It doesn't use amber?