Stop for a moment and think about the blossoming Nostr ecosystem we're witnessing:
- you can generate an account with zero effort and no permission
- you can post, interact, comment, exchange value with anyone else that has a nostr account
- you can move in zero time from a client to an another, every client has its strengths and you can simply leverage multiple clients at the same time
And remember that Nostr clients are free and open source software, usable for free. Most of the most famous one are very clean, nice UI and UX.
All of this was built in less than 4 years by independent developers, with no big tech corporation backing it.
Don't be mislead by the guys that look at the finger, take distance and appreciate that Nostr is genuinely aiming at the moon, with no financial hidden incentive nor scammy intentions.
We'll see a ton of additional use cases for the Nostr protocol in the next decade, I'm thrilled.
Nostr is THE open protocol for ideas.
Isn't it a bit too focused on censorship? That model results are heavily filtered
Firefox containers aren't useful in that regards?
i3 is genuinely the best WM out there...I highly prefer that WM approach to the classical DE approach. For several reasons I find myself now using Gnome and no tiling at all and it's painful XD. With i3 you push yourself to minimizing the amount of time spent in GUI and maximizing the terminal usage...that helps a lot to learn exponentially. That's why I like i3.
With regards to qutebrowser, have you tried it?
Can you point to some resources to understand better the matter? Why is it trash?
Agree on the goal, IMO it would be very very nice to work on top of a browser that is NOT chromium based...just to challenge the dominance of google. Thus, I would suggest Firefox
Mad and linux-ish suggestion: if you are very very very used to vim keybindings you can try qutebrowser, bit that's more a side-broswer than a daily driver.
Jokes aside, Mint is really good. My suggestion is to try to not to be dispersive with regards to the installation methods for the software you install, meaning that going with flatpak+.deb+snap+.AppImage+source ecc can make the update of dependencies and software very cumbersome. Instead, try to centralize into a few methods...for ideological reasons I would not recommend Snap, go for flatpak.
I don't know how the "windows emulator" market is for Apple products, for GNU/Linux you have mainly Wine. But overall Wine is not very good, try to avoid emulation if possibile. If you're using Gnome as a DE I suggest to proritize the utilities that Gnome bundles in its suite...they're very nice and well done.
They just approved AI Act in Europe purposefully to do it, I don't think they'll miss the opportunity now to actually do face recognition stuff
Psychologists call them "selective attention theories ", well said
#Nostr is very fascinating and is somehow the melting pot of privacy and freedom entusiasts with the "social network" people.
I really find it very strange and fascinating that these opposite and very different tendencies can exist together in one place.
I'm still trying to understand which one I want to be...
...or can I be both?
Stability is often worth it imo. That's the reason why humans are not generally nomads, why Sapens sapens embraced monogamy. The illusion of stability is what hurts: fiat is not stable but seems to be, democracy is not stable but seems to be.
Bitcoin monetary policy is stable and that's good...humans thrive thanks to stability, not having always to "figure out stuff" and being able to focus is a gift of stability.
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They always come up with children protection stuff whenever they try to push controversial rules. Who is going to pushback a law that protects children?
The "Bitcoin Standard" is blurred and vaporwave that exists for individuals. You can live in a bitcoin standard today, bitcoin already won in that regards.
The wole planet is not going to bitcoin-only payments and economic interactions anytime soon, arguably bitcoin will never have exclusive dominance over some fiat currencies either. Bitcoin needs its worst enemies to be alive to thrive, it needs fiat currencies.
Sorry, but monero does not solve the problem, it moves it from the privacy side to the auditability (and possibly scalability) side.
It's not that there's wallwt in every app hey! On the flip side, how can Nostr be proposing the "Zap" standard if there's no way for a new user to easily receive zap once the Nostr client is set up? If you were to tell him/her "hey, you need to download an another app and bla bla bla" he/she may be find it too much friction tp go through.
Yep, I agree. This is not an information-asymmetric market anymore, even shitcoins are somehow information-complete submarkets...the only info that lacks is if the project is a plain scam or if the scammy looking shape of the marketing is just a strategy for a long term slow draining of resources from investors to founders. Which is simply an another version of a scam, a more low-time preference one
It's unlikely for someone getting some free bitcoin from faucets to be still holding them today, just like the lucky fucker that finds a Van Gogh in the basement is going to immediately selling it. I think that most people now talking, using, whinging about bitcoin are relatively new to the matter. I'm not criticizing, I'm just saying that sometimes there's not even past financial returns in who's holding bitcoin, there's only hope for some future ones because of some extrapolations from the past gains.
I'm no exception to that in a sense, I think it's an interesting tool, probably very impactful from the political and social pov, if people will get it.
Other than that, it's pretty obvious that the overwhelming majority of wealthy people didn't get wealthy by hodling one specific asset, because from a statistical pov it's not a strategy that lower the variance of returns of you invested capital.
Again, not critizing bitcoin holders here, just stating facts