10 years from now, we’re all going to look ₿ack at these times on Nostr and say:

“We were there, right in the thick of it, when it all happened. “⚡️

Reliance on the official app stores for mobile is also a single point of failure. F-Droid helps for Android but I'm not aware of anything for iOS.

Our society we live in is not possible without trust. Trust is everywhere - from the food you ingest, the vehicles you drive, the flights you take, so and and so on.

“Don’t trust, verify” while well intentioned is not meant to apply to everything, but some people seem to think it does. That’s just willful ignorance.

Thanks! I think the target audience completely ignored this note! 🐶🐾😂😂😂

Nostr is yours as much as it is anyone’s. Be yourself. Speak your mind. Do not waiver.

Otherwise, it’s just another twitter clone.

Little consumer education goes a long way. Here is a simple explainer why CDN is important. And why having media on relay is not scalable! 🐶🐾🫡

Imagine a grocery store as a website, and the items in the store as the content on the website. People visit the store to get the items they need, just like they visit a website to access its content.

Now, let's say this grocery store (website) is very popular and has customers from all over the city (users from around the world). The problem is that the store is located in only one part of the city (the website's server is in one location), so people from far away have to travel long distances to get their items, which takes time and can be frustrating (slow website loading times for users far from the server).

This is where a CDN, or Content Delivery Network, comes into play. Think of a CDN as a chain of smaller grocery stores (proxy servers) spread out across the city (world). These smaller stores hold a selection of the most popular items from the main store (copies of the website's content). When customers from different parts of the city want to get their items, they can now go to the nearest smaller store (proxy server) instead of traveling to the main store. This way, they get their items faster and more efficiently (faster website loading times for users).

In summary, a CDN is like a network of smaller grocery stores that distribute the most popular items from the main store to various locations, making it faster and more convenient for customers to access those items, just as a CDN helps deliver a website's content more quickly to users around the world.

Picking up a whole lot of Big Blocker energy on #nostr right now.

different clients do it different, which makes it kind of hard. you can either do a quote note via a button or you have to do it manually, by copying the noteid and then adding it to a new note with @ in front of it.

A short story:

So I've been trying to get a lot of renovations and work done on the house and trying to finish the basement. I've recently gotten an estimate for putting a fence around the yard for the dogs.

It was a little more than I hoped but I had intended to just move forward, but they wanted a significant deposit immediately to get started. This immediately ran me into the headache of going from Bitcoin to USD in a quick and inexpensive manner.

This was also while ACH transfers that I've done to move the dollars to Fold (no way I'm spending thousands and not getting sats back on it), are suddenly taking 3x as long. A problem that started when SVB blew up.

After realizing that this was going to take a 2% fee on CashApp to sell, an ACH to my bank, then another ACH to my Fold, I decided to give a pitch for them to save me all those steps and just accept Bitcoin directly with the 1% fee using OpenNode.

The guy I was working with was interested and on board with my argument, but the owner refused despite the fact that it would obviously save them money and mean I could pay the deposit in 10 minutes time with no selling fee at all.

At this point I decided I was going to do something, especially with these sorts of jobs that involve large transfers which are a huge pain in dollars. I was just going to take the time to find someone who would accept Bitcoin.

I politely declined to do business with them. My response:

"Thanks man, appreciate the reply. I'm gonna look for other contractors here for a bit because I'd rather not build a relationship with a company that makes me have to revert to using a banking system that I literally could not despise more, or trust any less."

"I may get back in touch with you in a few weeks if there seems no other good option. No hard feelings, I do appreciate you taking this to the owner."

I added some choice words about the banking system for flair. 😆

The worker I was chatting with immediately agreed and then we started a short back and forth about how corrupt the banks were, why Bitcoin (of course he said crypto, lol) was the future, and HE brought up how the Fed was going to push a CBDC.

"Same. The more we use Bitcoin, the more irrelevant their attempt to centralize it is.

If the day comes that they push a CBDC on us, I'll officially be refusing to do business with anyone who doesn't accept Bitcoin, because I'm not touching that crap."

He responded with "Agreed!"

... that's where we left it.

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I just got a text message tonight from the guy. He said the owner is willing to work with #Bitcoin if I hadn't found someone else yet.

I think it's time that I will start pitching the case for Bitcoin, in short and sweet bullet points, with every company I work with — & where it feels like it makes sense, I'm going to refuse to do business with anyone who doesn't accept Bitcoin.

We have weight in the market. We need to be the intransigent minority. Bitcoin won't save the economy if no one knows how to use it, or is too afraid and too panicked to try something new when the shit hits the fan. The time to push for integration is now.

"When did Noah build the ark? *Before* the storm... before the storm."

— Spy Game

Imagine if Lehman Brothers had waited until today to fail? It would be Lehman Sisters.

I’m growing more and more concerned about the reliance on GitHub.

And starting to think a bounty isn’t the right way to fund this work.

I can't speak for the experience on iOS, but ProtonVPN has a very good interface on Android. The secure core feature is pretty dang cool too.

This may be the best picture from the Starship launch.

Question for recently joined new users: what was your signup experience like? Impression? And what app/client are you using?

false common phrase: you might not be interested in politics but politics is interested in you

truth: you might not be interested in politics but politics is interested in appearing important

Using the written descriptions of things in fiction books for writing AI art prompts.

Just sayin’