once_aphysicist

A former particle physicist interested in empowering individuals to regain their agency.

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nos.lol

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2026-02-23 14:02:31 UTC

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I'm guessing timezone is GMT?

2026-02-05 15:39:04 UTC

Something's up with my #bitchat. It went through my mobile data quota (and probably also my battery) in just a few days. I have disabled the app for now. Anyone have any ideas?
Version: 1.7.0 from Zapstore
https://image.nostr.build/2a4bd861e5e83dd3033c3a5a52999a1024c7c2959ac8566d3c53333ef340ea4e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/64789e3fbc19e5a01c8f2d15a26f44ddcb43bbc42cd8c56d54f112944b4cf653.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9e690d8635fa68f86545f8d90660f5c27e6dce7f37784d8c14cfa422661feead.jpg
#asknostr

2025-09-29 14:10:20 UTC

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I wouldn't want to bypass the check, specially for something that directly deals with Bitcoin! I'll see if I can open a ticket with @nprofile…ewyk

2025-09-28 19:05:30 UTC

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Sorry for the late response. Here's a screenshot
https://image.nostr.build/983e8ffad5c82760cb330072298db15ed2757e7ac8db18e85321b9669dcff68a.jpg

2025-09-26 21:52:32 UTC

I'm trying to update @nprofile…ewyk, 0.5.5 › 0.69.0, via @nprofile…atcy, and I keep getting a failed integrity check and a possible malicious file warning!?
I'm guessing the file gets corrupted during download, not sure why. I'm on a decent Wi-Fi. Anyone has any thoughts?
#asknostr

2025-09-11 12:34:18 UTC

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Try to solve a problem that bothers you, search and see what's appropriate for that, start there.
Think of coding as a tool that helps you automate things you do repetitively. IMO that's a good enough mental model for a beginner.

2025-09-05 22:52:39 UTC

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Spelling words right ≠ building a PC right
Case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS27ol07bSo
This is from engineers who can most likely spell quite well.

2025-08-31 08:23:41 UTC

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From my experience in India (commercial establishments like malls and office buildings always turn it way down), big indoor outdoor temperature difference would make me sick. But then people are built different, maybe it doesn't affect everyone the same.

2025-08-31 07:37:08 UTC

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💯 and that's 100 exactly how a lot of industrial automation works! Specially since that 3% error rate could lead to accidents.

2025-08-30 09:38:28 UTC

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Ah, I have been using it from zapstore I think, maybe that wasn't the case for the zapstore version?

2025-08-30 09:25:41 UTC

Is this a new #Amethyst feature?
https://image.nostr.build/8c1afd75cd9e6770b3ee1fc611f747af5ee076ce4fba07ecaf8462a814345d67.jpg
Absolutely fantastic! All my years of using social media, this is the first time I've seen this feature implemented in a way that's zero friction. I can even configure or disable it!
Thanks, and job well done whoever implemented it 🙏

2025-08-27 17:07:48 UTC

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Proton wallet non-custodial, you can access it even if they go belly up.

2025-08-27 16:35:48 UTC

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I don't disagree with all your points, just some, 2 & 3 specifically. Both are related to attention, to some extent also the "bonus" remark. I don't think people need to rely on hooks or other unrelated elements in their content for people to be interested on a platform where the dynamics of advertising is absent. Here quality of the content is what matters most. So that should dictate length, detail, or style (which is also why I really liked your "ultra bonus" remark).
Maybe I should have led with that, and been more precise with my words in my original comment.

2025-08-27 13:44:42 UTC

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Are the zapstore releases out of sync? I only see 0.8.2

2025-08-27 13:34:35 UTC

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Everything you listed are rules that are a consequence of the advertising model, isn't it? Video as a medium is older than social networks, I would guess your professor was referring to rules about film making in general (FWIW, I've heard that quote as well).
Nostr is a fundamentally different kind of network. There are no central arbiters, or hidden incentives. No one makes money of off its users.

2025-08-27 10:06:53 UTC

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This is good advise on an advertising driven normie platform like Twitter / Insta / TikTok etc.
On Nostr, be genuine, do what your heart wants. Attention is not the currency, authentic connection is.

2025-08-22 13:20:48 UTC

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Canada and Switzerland

2025-08-21 15:39:21 UTC

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I would like the option to opt-out. As in my examples, if I can't access it, I should not be forced to contribute to it.

2025-08-19 17:55:52 UTC

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I agree with that as well 😆

2025-08-19 17:52:53 UTC

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Oh ya, I should remove you :P

2025-08-19 17:50:11 UTC

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Pension and social security is the biggest pyramid scheme. I'm an immigrant worker, and so far 2 different countries have basically kept my pension contributions without any reassurance or a clear way for me to access it, and the 3rd country where I spent the most time (8+ yrs) forces me to pay for social security, but when I need that security, I'm ineligible for the benefits. I'm quite certain they'll screw me over on the pension as well by changing the rules later.
No thank you, I'll manage my own security, and my own retirement. I don't need no state interfering.

2025-08-18 20:05:45 UTC

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I like the idea :)

2025-08-13 21:54:51 UTC

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You can use F-Droid and Zapstore on any Android phone

2025-08-13 12:55:13 UTC

This project also ended up winning in the new projects category at the #BHHB2025 hackathon. The rewards are distributed over Angor, a non-custodial crown funding platform built on top of Bitcoin and Nostr. The recipient gets their funds in stages, over a period of time. Very cool :)
https://hub.angor.io/project/angor1qhklyl9mw5zwzwynxv6ekaz5f9h5zv3wnd8dn2c
@nprofile…yqmh
#nevent1q…hvlq

2025-08-13 09:59:12 UTC

I'm a n00b at managing GPG keys 😶. The keys I use just expired. A quick search tells me I can extend the validity by editing it, but that seems wrong! Any pubkeys out there would still show the old expiry date 🤔
I mostly use my keys with software repos, and to encrypt sensitive files (locally). Can someone better versed at this point me in the right direction? 👉
#asknostr #gpg #pgp #keyrotation

2025-08-11 15:36:22 UTC

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Damn! That looks much more pleasant than the "boat" I'm on right now 😋

2025-08-11 15:33:03 UTC

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Ah thanks! Didn't realise this was more than just formatting 😀

2025-08-11 15:24:20 UTC

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Doesn't markdown allow quotes?
> Like this
Source: ...

2025-08-11 06:37:05 UTC

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Thanks for the wishes. And btw, when you were presenting, I was thinking to myself, this is so cool, why did he withdraw again ;)
Great work!

2025-08-10 22:15:54 UTC

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Thanks for bringing up signing. That's indeed another source of privacy leak. I'll have to think about how to approach this :)
I think what we need is unattended signing, or probably more likely, batch signing (sign once no matter how many commits) 🤔

2025-08-10 09:10:49 UTC

I made some improvements, so I resubmitted the project to the Hackathon at #BHB2025: @nprofile…j32w
#nevent1q…z40n

2025-08-08 15:54:11 UTC

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This project ended up winning, I'm overwhelmed! 😬
#nevent1q…j8je

2025-08-08 09:25:35 UTC

Just presented my 2 hr hackathon project at #btcpp privacy edition, Riga!
https://github.com/feuplebian/git-futz
With the recent attacks on developers of cypherpunk software bythe state and other malicious actors, developer privacy is becoming more important.
So I developed a command-line tool to fuzz location and time information from your unpublished git commit messages before you push your commits to a public branch.
Comments and suggestions welcome :)

2025-05-20 06:26:45 UTC

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Does Electrum's Lightning implementation require you to stay online all the time? I'm mostly interested in paying once in a while. Would be great if the UX is something similar to Phoenix.

2025-05-04 11:22:48 UTC

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I liked the music you posted :)
I would say post whatever you fancy with proper tags, and everyone can sort out their preferences client side.

2025-05-02 22:25:57 UTC

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It's anticheats that are holding it back. I don't think that's likely to happen any time soon.

2025-05-02 13:47:01 UTC

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Aren't we using the TEXT field in DNS records for lightning addresses?

2025-04-29 10:00:08 UTC

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Are you deliberately trying not to understand? You clearly understand p2p technology, @nprofile…um05 gave you a clear breakdown of what might be causing the differences, and yet you continue to repeat yourself without considering the points.
My only charitable take here is that you are not aware that Nostr is p2p, in that case have a read here: https://nostr.org/. Even after understanding that if you expect Nostr to be exactly like Twitter or whatever else, it's really not for you.
FWIW, I'll give you a follow because I generally liked when I saw your posts on Twitter.

2025-04-17 13:07:12 UTC

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Welcome!

2025-04-17 13:03:20 UTC

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You could also use F-Droid, specially along with some of the alternative repos like IzzyOnDroid and Guardian project, it's pretty much big tech free. I've been on @GrapheneOS for couple of months now, good stuff!

2025-04-16 17:21:35 UTC

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It doesn't conform to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, and that leads to issues with other external tools. Recently I had an issue with pip installing a library in a virtual environment that links to compiled platform libraries. It broke because the libraries weren't in the usual paths.

2025-04-04 04:39:23 UTC

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Thanks for the tip! I'm actively trying to use less of Google. I do have the sandboxed Google Play for my banking apps, but would rather not use it when possible. I'll give Organic Maps a go.

2025-04-03 12:09:44 UTC

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Switched to @nprofile…nztg recently, most things just work (including all my banking apps, from multiple countries!). You realise the things that you miss are Google services! E.g. contacts sync, maps, etc.
OSM based apps like OSMAnd~ are good, but coverage may not be uniform. Also I found search sometimes breaks because the data is slightly different. E.g. recently I couldn't find a cafe on OSM because the OSM entry did not have "cafe" in it, and I was searching for "cafe name".
Also sharing location links are a bit more tedious, because now you have to convert to GMaps links for the recipient to open it in their maps app.
And I don't like the default keyboard. So I've been using the Futo keyboard, which is mostly fine.

2025-03-31 15:56:45 UTC

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Ah didn't realise biometric passports are mandatory. It still doesn't seem to work for kids though.

2025-03-30 10:43:05 UTC

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Schiphol's security checking is probably among the smoothest currently. It had gone down soon after COVID, took about a year or so to recover.
The immigration experience is pretty bad though, there are fewer and fewer booths with staff, and longer queues. Of course if you are EU citizen, and willing to hand over biometric data, the automatic gates seem efficient. Although, doesn't seem to work for people traveling with kids.

2025-03-30 09:04:10 UTC

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Are you learning new things with AI in completely new domains, or still within your domain? If you are within your domain, you still have your experience to filter out the inaccuracies. Try with something very different.
Just couple of days ago I spotted a significant but subtle error in a somewhat straightforward summarisation task I was trying with Llama. It could have easily slipped past me if I were not careful.

2025-03-26 14:56:02 UTC

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The problem is more often than not these bots spit out hallucinations mixed with facts. It takes experience to spot the useful bits.
Also, using these tools early on also means you actually never learn to do it correctly. How are you going to spot mistakes, or debug? I think these tools should be used *after* gaining some experience.

2025-03-26 14:48:41 UTC

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Maybe include a public key in the downloadable attachments to the paper, and then use the corresponding private key to broadcast such a #nacklist on #nostr?
Is it possible to hide a public key in plain sight in the paper? That would be even cooler!?

2025-03-26 08:25:40 UTC

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One thing I miss on Nostr is that, under a post like this on Twitter, I could see some confused normies asking questions, some die hard idiots denying obvious reality. It gave me a reasonable pulse on what the rest of the world is thinking. I would also try to answer the honest questions with some learning material, and troll the idiots.
Sometimes it's too much an echo chamber here :-/

2025-03-24 12:35:38 UTC

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Where is this?

2025-03-20 14:10:05 UTC

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What do you mean by ethereal? Dictionary definition is other worldly. Energy isn't other worldly. It's a precise physical thing, that is well understood and clearly defined. Which is why it can be measured.

2025-03-20 12:58:16 UTC

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Energy isn't an ethereal thing. It is something you can measure very precisely.

2025-03-08 08:37:03 UTC

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My paranoia says the gov simping is enabling the govt to actually pull off a Bitcoin 6102 event in the future.

2025-03-01 17:21:00 UTC

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If you custody with a 3rd party, the state can focus their efforts on the custodians, and since the custodians are businesses, they would have documentation showing exactly how much they hold. Whereas individuals holding self-custodially is different, since unlike gold, Bitcoin is a digital asset, and much simpler to hide.
When it comes to using, the individual can always exchange P2P. Granted, in that case buying a house with Bitcoin would be difficult, but buying a used car or other services would be simple enough.

2025-03-01 08:46:46 UTC

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Maybe my comment below will give you a more interesting aspect to think about 🤔
I find the obsession to push for a govt held Bitcoin reserve quite dangerous. We are early on in adoption that if a prominent state like the US starts building a reserve, they can get a significant portion of the 21M coins.
The difference with other holders is, the state continues to be the only one with an exclusive license to use violence.
Since the general trend for larger private entities is to custody their coins with a third party, this puts a significant portion of the supply under a 6102 style confiscation risk. Existence of a significant reserve gives the state motivation to go through with it.
I would rather see Bitcoin remain black market money forever instead of price appreciation by losing the freedom money features.

2025-02-02 20:51:09 UTC

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Much cheaper than a laptop, and quite versatile, not just a console ;⁠-⁠)

2025-01-10 15:45:49 UTC

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If you are on Linux, you can get offline subtitles for any audio on your desktop with this: https://flathub.org/apps/net.sapples.LiveCaptions
Works quite well, except music.

2025-01-09 21:31:03 UTC

Dark mode on #olas seems to be not quite there yet. Any input text is still in black, so can't see what I'm typing.

2025-01-04 22:03:30 UTC

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I think this needs a dedicated bulk operations API.

2025-01-04 09:36:50 UTC

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Did you just chatgpt me!?
Well, either way, didn't help. Tried all that just now, the image does get into this special mode, where only that image is "selected", but I still can't pinch zoom.

2025-01-04 05:04:32 UTC

How do you zoom on the pictures in #olas? I tried tapping and pinch zooming, no bueno :⁠-⁠|
#asknostr

2025-01-03 15:28:11 UTC

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I like the 3rd bullet, I was also thinking something similar!

2025-01-03 15:26:07 UTC

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Pi OS has the broadest hardware support on a Pi, for obvious reasons of course. Other distros generally catch up in half a year.

2025-01-03 15:24:09 UTC

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Absolutely bonkers!

2025-01-03 11:21:45 UTC

1. Does #Olas support alt text?
2. Does it strip EXIF data before uploading? Would be nice for privacy. Only add explicit info (e.g. the location field that's already in the UI)
#asknostr

2025-01-03 11:17:04 UTC

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Unfortunately for not so common software, it's hard to switch. But for other things, I would suggest trying a more "ready to use" distro like Pop_OS, Mint, Fedora. I'm a full-time Fedora user for 10+ yrs.

2025-01-03 11:07:36 UTC

I found this curious, both LEGO sets have similar number of pieces (3600 vs 3900, i.e. about 8%), yet the price is almost 2x. Is the premium, licensing cost to Disney for dipping into Star Wars universe?
https://blossom.primal.net/e382aa73f91fd01ac0763783da57cd454701d08d0ac4d3a38cd0ac8fed82847f.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/b4c9c2a98ee5ff56cae6a373bcd434dbfc80c21b60a8c35de561fb913e5f7ed6.jpg

2025-01-03 10:43:43 UTC

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Ah sorry, didn't realise you were on windows land. Too bad.

2025-01-03 10:36:09 UTC

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I'm not visually impaired, so can't speak from experience. But on old mailing lists I have seen quite a few posters preferring the terminal, because screen reader support was better on the terminal. Maybe there are CLI solutions for this.
In any case, if you are securing important things, at least for yourself I would recommend choose an open source solution. There's nothing preventing a LastPass like breach happening to 1Password. Besides Bitwarden, you could also look at KeePass or KeePassXC with manual sync (after all, db changes are seldom). If sync is less important, the default keyring offered by Linux desktops (GNOME keyring/KWallet) might work. Unfortunately I have no experience with serious accessibility hurdles. Hope you find a solution that works for you. Good luck

2025-01-03 10:07:07 UTC

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I'm curious, why do you want to use a closed source application for your security? IMO that comprises your setup in a completely unbounded manner. You essentially rely on what the company claims the software does. That shouldn't be acceptable if you are securing really critical information.

2024-12-31 11:37:32 UTC

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You should generate your keys using SSH, maybe Putty has an option. You can't use any random key for SSH. It has to be in a form and crypto algorithm that SSH understands.

2024-12-31 00:02:48 UTC

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Sorry, was off nostr for a while. That doesn't answer my question. Of course you manage files with a file manager, but what kind of operations do you do to manage?
E.g. for me, I rarely move around individual files. It's mostly bulk operations or to find files. For bulk operations I either use compound commands like for loops, some path manipulation using pipes, etc, or use tools like find, grep, ripgrep to search. File managers are less efficient in comparison.
IMO using a file manager, be it in the terminal, or in the GUI, is wasting time if you are doing it too often. If it's occasional, that's understandable. I manage to keep that at a minimum by organising my files into broad top level directories, e.g. I have these broad categories at the top: code, notes, documents, multimedia, experiments, scratch space. Then depending on my need, I might have other subcategories, e.g. under docs I have one for taxes, another for id and other important documents, and one for ebooks.

2024-12-24 23:16:49 UTC

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Why do you need one?

2024-12-17 18:46:13 UTC

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I guess there's a typo, ~42~ should be 41.
Didn't realise it wasn't released, I was already using it! I upgraded when I upgraded my other machines. Only X11 broke, but it was somewhat resolved with some help from the Fedora discourse.

2024-12-17 18:30:57 UTC

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Mining yourself is always a good idea, but never leverage. Leveraged miners are the first to capitulate during difficulty adjustments.
Does getting a truck serve a utility for you? If it's a purely vanity wish, then stay humble and stack sats.

2024-12-17 09:06:05 UTC

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Pretty similar in NL

2024-12-06 14:10:28 UTC

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I'm hungry 🤤

2024-12-05 13:55:55 UTC

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I might get laid off from my fiat job in the coming months, but I don't seem to be too worried ;⁠-⁠)

2024-12-05 13:52:35 UTC

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Agreed, sadly need it to find fiat jobs :⁠-⁠(

2024-11-27 15:19:12 UTC

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You can also buy, and if it has DRM, use DeDRM to strip it. Downside is, you need windows for that.

2024-11-27 15:16:10 UTC

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Communities

2024-11-13 12:35:31 UTC

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The random order adds to the speed, if you take that away, the file download will be slower, or at least will need more seeders. Why would you use torrent in that case anyway, a simple mirroring system would be enough. Mirrorlists allow for updating the list of "currently online hosts", linux package repos use this setup, and it's very reliable.
As for random seek (what you describe at the end), you need an index. AFAIK, an index can't really work without the complete file.
Technology enables a lot of things, but it's not magic, can't really make things happen that are physically impossible.

2024-11-11 17:51:48 UTC

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The torrent protocol downloads chunks in random order. You can't play until a file is complete since there are chunks missing.
If it's a multifile torrent, then it's possible to, say, prioritise certain files over others, and when these files are complete, you may play them.
Download rates are not great unless there's a seedbox among your uploading peers.
Typically seed/leech ratios aren't great either, particularly for older stuff.

2024-10-23 15:20:26 UTC

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Yes, I have heard of them! Maybe I should give them a try as well :⁠-⁠)

2024-10-23 14:23:14 UTC

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Quite frustrating to see US politics poisoning every international collaborative effort
#nevent1q…4aed

2024-10-23 13:09:20 UTC

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Do you mean any internships, or unpaid internships? If you mean the latter, I agree. Any work for a corporation should be paid.

2024-10-23 13:07:15 UTC

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After using for a mere hour, I was so happy with the results I paid for it.

2024-10-23 13:04:55 UTC

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I found this reputation system pretty shit for beginners. It feels like pay-to-play, and selling is next to impossible as a new user. The old system that rewarded sustained good behaviour seems fairer to me.

2024-10-13 14:33:12 UTC

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This is typical shitcoiner behaviour, scaremonger "#btc is out of reach", propose "my shitcoin alternative". You are starting with a lie that the orange coin is out of reach. 1 USD ≈ 1600 sats, so it's most definitely not.
There are some rough edges when it comes to holding small balances, I'll grant you that. The solution to that isn't a shitcoin, but to get involved and try your ideas and *build* a solution.
If on the off chance you are actually sincere, I invite you to study more how Bitcoin works, particularly minining, the security it provides, and the various downstream consequences of mining incentives. Here's a resource for your reading: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/

2024-10-05 11:32:32 UTC

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Considering the messages are coming from different sources, doubt that there's much common text between them. It should be easy to do a quick analysis to figure this out.

2024-10-05 11:26:02 UTC

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Wrapping the links in <...> seems to make them not clickable (I'm on Amethyst)

2024-10-03 16:03:08 UTC

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Yes I did, the next step asks for confirmation, are you sure, confirm/cancel. Confirm is selected by default. Clicking confirm creates the account.

2024-10-03 13:22:36 UTC

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This is from 5 mins ago https://image.nostr.build/ecae0e40cb1658bb3c2d4010bff76855d9e760b07d21fba3a709b8641de8cdb8.jpg

2024-10-01 10:57:16 UTC

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The other email is optional, you can just skip it.

2024-09-18 23:47:22 UTC

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Emacs talks nostr!? Can you point me to the library?

2024-09-13 11:01:27 UTC

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Machete Order, if you want to watch everything
I would also say, it is okay to skip the new movies since Disney acquired the franchise. That said, some of the movies around side characters like the Rogue One is nice.

2024-09-11 09:27:20 UTC

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Do you really want to advertise to strangers you own Bitcoin?

2024-09-09 08:48:19 UTC

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The form asks for an X handle as participation proof. But we are here on Nostr. Can I enter my Nostr handle or npub?

2024-09-03 17:01:47 UTC

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Do you need the license? These days you can download the base image directly from MS, you'll also get updates.

2024-09-03 16:58:29 UTC

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After the oxidation issue, and their handling of it, hard to trust them.