In the future, we won't be asking people to accept Bitcoin. We'll be lamenting that they won't accept anything else.

I am finding it entertaining at least that Musk is throwing stones at Buckingham palace over in Mordor. Even if he is just a deranged Orc. The more people who can wake up to the fact that the British empire never went away but rather just cloaked itself in the banking system, the better.

How he manages to see them all (from Starmer to Farage) as the enemy while still somehow being a Zionist is beyond me though. The Occupation is the wart covered dick of the empire, ravaging West Asia, while simultaneously being used to portray the Jewish people as everything the Nazis tried to claim they were. MI-6 has been quietly behind color revolutions and their subsequent regimes for centuries, and they've become very good at convincing people that it's some other group's doing.

Stirner's quote is why anarchist socialists and capitalists will perpetually be running around in a circle with valid points on all sides. Property is that which everyone agrees it is more harmonious to leave where it is than it is to take. Once you get rid of codification, it's either enforced only with violence or secrecy, and when it comes to physical items, secrecy gets harder and harder the bigger something is.

Non-aggression only really can be purely adhered to when nobody is left without the bare minimum of necessities -- if minimal food, water, and shelter become scarce, it's no more just to allow your family to die of deprivation than it is to kill another's so that yours may live.

Thankfully, humans usually have the option to cooperate, so that we can all be more prosperous together. But libertarian doctrine is a map that cannot be said to perfectly reflect the territory of any possible reality. Without the forceful assertion that "this is mine" one cannot have any property -- it is the fire in our forges that allows us to build prosperity that can, when managed properly, minimize the unrestrained fire of wanton looting. The just goal, then, is to ensure that our forges are built in such a way to keep that fire contained. Sometimes, you protect against looters with armed guards; sometimes, it's more efficient to hire them, so they needn't resort to looting. Wisdom lies in knowing which course is right for the situation at hand.

Curious if that gets around the blocking of miracast support or if that's built into the hardware somehow. I've loved my Pixels for years (and Nexus before them...better really), but the petty lack of support for open Miracast is particularly annoying, especially in a home full of Roku TV's and firesticks.

My Pixel is locked (came that way after the insurance claim on the last one) so I can't check it for myself just yet.

The kid learned how inheritance works quick, eh?

It's definitely annoying in the Linux user space, when people act like systemd isn't wrong.

Fwiw there though, the gripe there was the steamrolling, and the fact that it ate nearly every major distro (thank God for Slackware). Poettering is an ass. I'm sure there's a valid use case for systemd for people managing large numbers of machines. It's a trade off I'd not want to make for sure, but then, I'm not managing 100 systems. Some of us still cling to "do one thing and do it well," and "KISS."

Curious what subset of iOS users you're running into that don't. The number one reason I hear younger people insisting on iPhones is the dread of being "that one with the green bubbles." That, or "I can't figure out how to do things on Android." The former is admittedly more the under 25 crowd, the latter skews older but is always deeply unsettling when I hear it from someone in their mid-30s.

Here? No...we tend to like to tinker with things here. And not get told what software our devices can and can't run.

I think the first thing I would do if given an iPhone and told I couldn't sell it would be to work on making it run GrapheneOS. Definitely had an iPod photo that ran Linux (and Doom!) back in 2005 or so.

The only real case I've ever seen for iPhones has been the security one -- where they're marginally superior BECAUSE they don't run code. Sort of like how Bitcoin script > shitcoin scripts because it is less functional, and thus, less insecure. That's fine for a LIMITED use case product, but unless I'm gonna carry multiple phones or just not use my phone to do much, that's sort of a non-starter for me.

And while I could jailbreak...that breaks that one benefit, leaves me with a device that costs just as much as the higher end Android devices, and leaves me with a smaller base of available software to run.

So, while I'll admit the case is there for some people to want to use it (without it JUST being about "pretty logo" or "status symbol" -- which I'll absolutely make fun of people for choosing a $1000 device based on), I'm REALLY not surprised that most of those people aren't here.

I've heard people say it might just be the fastest growing Bitcoin podcast in the world.

It wouldn't be the client so much as the relay where this functionality would be built in. Wouldn't be too hard to take a paid relay, remove payment requirement, and build in whitelisting based on some other metric. Though if it's to be private read access that might take some modification given that Nostr defaults to world readable.

Beyond that groups and chat are implemented in a variety of ways on the client side.

Backin' dat hash up...

#Bitcoin 's a bubble all right. Just like J. Lo's butt. Which is why it's so expensive and in such high demand.

https://tenor.com/view/jlo-jennifer-lopez-dance-moves-gif-3359889237733644778

Jenny from the Block...chain.

As long as the Crown wants to treat the world like we're all its subjects, they should expect us to revolt as such.

Woodrow Wilson's presidency was an act of war by the Crown that has never been rectified.

It's not Terminator or The Matrix I worry about, so much as Brazil (the movie).

That said, there's hope in knowing that the only thing more boundless than the will to power and power's capacity to corrupt is the ineptitude for humans to achieve such a perfected state of control.

No less true today than it was when we constructed the Tower of Babel.

One of these days I'll catch you live.... Looking forward to this one after my fiat mining is done.

You can use Phoenix if you grab the APK from GitHub. If you're on iOS...you can go buy a real phone instead of the Fischer Price toy.

I was just informed Phoenix wallet IS available in the US if you install the APK, and that it works with Alby, but hearing about all the stability y'all have with the NWC world I'm not sure that I'm not better off just sticking with speed.app and a lightning address. It's custodial, but I'm not losing sleep over 10,000 sats or so.

Should have done it in 1776. Better late than never.

It is one of those things that I have to wonder why we need to reinvent with every single technology that arises. Email, IRC, XMPP, the 10,000 walled gardens, all feel the need to have direct messages. Surely at this point, we have enough forms of direct messaging that we can afford to have a new technology arise that doesn't need to provide this in addition to everything else it does.

Should have seen it coming. He was already the first Orange president.