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In principle, no.

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the_hh@getalby.com

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2024-09-11 17:14:43

Success at last.
Indeed, the problem was Snap (as it had been Flatpak on Mint). It finally just a matter of uninstalling the Snap Bitcoin Core package, and manually installing from the Bitcoin.org tar.gz file. I can't believe the massie waste of time and the stupid amount of grief and frustration that this piece of shit software has caused me.
It's a totally clean install, no weird directories and commands, no mess. Everything has the right name and is found in the right place and as a consequence even a layman like myself can get the job done by simply following the documentation and the freely available info online.
I instantly found the correct bitcoin.conf file under the correct directory, edited it to point at the already fully downloaded and synched datadir on my external SSD, and added/uncommented all the necessary extra settings. All flawless, no extra blocks directory in the wrong place, no conflicting config files.
As a matter of fact, with the clean install I haven't even checked if Bitcoin QT works, because all I ever really wanted was to be able to run bitcoind as a service.
I got my Wasabi wallet set up and in order, the node daemon is chugging along and set up to start up automatically, Proton VPN too. All running smoothly over tor (as is this browser now, although Cloudfare is kind of a pain in the ass).
Because Sparrow was continuously nagging me about using Electrum PS, I was studying how to do that next, but it's a bit confusing with all the forks and the multiple github repos and whatnot so I wasn't even sure which one is "the right one". In the end, having switched over to Wasabi, it's become a moot conversation. Ditto the idea of running a local instance of mempool dot space, which I just learnt requires humongous amounts of disk, so I've given up on that too. Probably better for my mental sanity overall.
Anyhow, the main task is done now and I can finally say I'm doing my part for the network.
cc @nprofile…du2k
#nevent1q…0a5k
https://image.nostr.build/c58f0f71cf2bf42638754dc202d3974f158c5398e50dab255c294e2e2f58492d.gif

2024-09-11 09:58:55

Happy National Day to all my fellow Catalans.
https://media.tenor.com/lO8HDuH86u4AAAAC/catalonia-dancing.gif

2024-09-10 17:34:08

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I never fail to hear him perfectly in my head.

2024-09-10 16:15:04

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Nope. I'm quite sure for some reason @nprofile…mf5f has me muted too :/

2024-09-10 15:31:36

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Wait a second though... I think I tried installing it on Mint too last year and had issues with the flatpak install now that I think about it... 🤦🏻‍♂️
And IIRC, Umbrel didn't allow for the datadir to be on an external SSD.

2024-09-10 15:27:14

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Ah, they run it on a Ubuntu Server machine. I'm not there just yet in my journey xD
I'd still like to use the computer it for other light stuff, and it's an old laptop anyway so I can't really use it as a server for my home network. That's something I was looking into recently, but I don't have time right now (and sats are at discount, so...)
BTW this last hour I have been trying to get rid of Snap in Ubuntu 22.04, and it's basically impossible, so I'm going to install something light and familiar that is Snap-free too: good old Mint.

2024-09-10 14:32:55

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https://image.nostr.build/435c16aa050ade9f9f18f4f40fe4a385609d0ec5988721ad96a0607c48b8df61.png

2024-09-10 07:35:57

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I do it the other way around.
I wake up, wash my face and mouth, make good quality filter coffee, sit on the sofa, open this app while I check my work email, then finally go to the gym. Buy fresh groceries, make lunch, eat, and work after that.
With this app open.

2024-09-09 17:18:35

FYI if you're thinking about running your own Bitcoin Core node, as of today, the full datadir is taking up 760.5 GB of space on an SSD.
I would have sworn it was like 600 not that long ago, just earlier this year. (I may be wrong).
Also, on Ubuntu, do whatever you must to avoid installing this MF through Snap. It fucks up all the names, paths, directories and commands. It's just not worth it and now that I have successfully synched the blockchain in full, I'm going to nuke it and reinstall it properly.
I don't understand how Bitcoin.org puts that Snap shit out there as a legit option, if after that ZERO of the documents and help cover its many specifics at all. Even on forums and other internet sources, it's very rare to find any references at all.
#note17w7…9wwr

2024-09-09 07:43:14

More bitcoin node self-hosting pain #AskNostr
Spoke too early... I ran Bitcoin Core QT, and all's good. I even set up Sparrow, Wasabi, Bisq, etc. and they all hook up to locally on the right port it and work fine. I have rebooted the system several times and nothing gets fucked in the process, so I'm happy.
Problem is, first, for some reason despite having selected the option on the GUI, this thing just won't run on startup. I have to manually open it every time. Annoying.
Anyway, now I'm trying to run this thing as a service to see if I can set up Electrum and eventually Mempool, and it's a hot mess.
First, after much figuring out just how to even run any of this on Terminal, because for some reason all the commands are different (I guess Snap's fault?), I can manually start "bitcoin-core.daemon", which shows up as "bitcoind" in the process list, so nice.
Problem is, it has ignored the previously set data and block folders and it seems to have begun a separate initial download, because I found the corresponding folders and files (including 25 Gb of blocks already) on my internal disk.
If I start QT as usual, it's using the correct ones, no new synch required.
I am now paralyzed scared shitless that if I point the daemon to the correct folders that qt is using, it will nuke them and restart the excruciating initial download again...
#nevent1q…7zc5

2024-09-08 21:01:09

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Took several hours of high cortisol-inducing stress, but it would look like
https://nostrcheck.me/media/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/a83088fb66746a99dc6d3ade01028d2c6e09de17bccf59cbbe3d603c0aabf829.webp

2024-09-08 12:19:03

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Is there a list?

2024-09-08 10:49:51

We gotta solve this whole "I'm verifying my Nostr identity by posting my npub on X/Meta/my local police station" situation.
#note15re…l3tq

2024-09-08 10:48:10

Show time
cc: @npub14qt…9htj @npub159w…csm3
@npub1k7v…7ehv @npub1azv…7kh8
https://nostrcheck.me/media/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/33f9fdebdfb6954c42c2170b5a3eb117583361947f360e0b2688daf31b38fa4c.webp

2024-09-08 08:09:27

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Also, as I explained, there is no "opting out" if you already have a passport. It contains your full biometrics and they are logged into the database every time you go through an airport, regardless of what booth you choose.

2024-09-08 08:03:10

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You can opt out, and I am sure it will be like that legally speaking for a long time. Doesn't mean they will tolerate that you exercise your legal right without making you pay for it, increasingly and inexorably.
Cash payments (under a certain threshold) are also guaranteed by law over here, and I just told you what happened to that guy.

2024-09-08 07:52:08

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What does "opting out of biometrics" even mean?
When you go through passport control at any airport, you are scanned for biometrics, full stop. Non-residents/citizens in the US have their faces scanned and their finger prints taken, and vice versa for non-EU resident/citizens when you come in. Same for Japan, Korea, Singapore, China and every single country in the world right now.
This has been going on for a decade or more, when all passports became biometrics-compliant. Your data is taken and put into the passport when you apply for it.
When you get to passport control, choosing to go through the human checkpoint instead of the machine doesn't make any difference whatsoever.
All European airports have "manual" checks for those who want to use them and you can "opt out".
Same for biometrics to board the flight. It makes no difference to "opt out" because your biometrics were already taken by airport security. You can, of course, but be ready to be inconvenienced and "nudged" to "comfort and common courtesy and civility (because if you cause trouble, you'll be messing up with every other passenger's "convenience")".
Legality is irrelevant, because the airlines and the authorities are totally coordinated in this, and you will be forced into compliance, or you won't fly.
There was a recent case in Spain in which a passenger who needed to pay for some extra charge (baggage I think) was not allowed boarding because he wanted to pay cash. It's a completely illegal action by the company, but they don't give a fuck, won't be penalized, and the passenger either complied, or he would miss the flight anyway. So compliance is enforced through discomfort.
The same will be done with everything else.

2024-09-08 05:26:46

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If Kamala wins, Trump will go to jail, and we will see what happens then. Widespread riots would be useless obviously, but they would fit perfectly in a plan to turn the censorship and totalitarianism up to unprecedented levels. Like nothing we've seen yet in the UK or Europe.

2024-09-07 12:50:17

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But in the video it looks like the target wallet is receiving as many UTXO's as Wasabi is sending, instead of consolidating them. That's what I don't fully understand.

2024-09-07 12:25:00

I did have one question though @nprofile…xq7v or whoever #AskNostr can illuminate me:
After the coinjoin is done, you have a bunch of private UTXOs, but then you send them all to another wallet. But wouldn't that normally mean that you're consolidating them all back into one single, breaking privacy?
On the other hand, in the video it would seem you are actually receiving as many UTXOs as you're sending. So would that multiply fees accordingly (while keeping privacy, maybe?)?
#nevent1q…hu2s

2024-09-07 08:14:44

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At least we can surmised that he hadn't until now, and that we shouldn't use it from now on.

2024-09-07 06:37:22

Bye
#note1v7a…zlcw

2024-09-06 18:43:39

Been #AskNostr -ing for months about what to do after the Whirpool disaster, and once again @BTCsessions comes to my rescue with this very timely and superbly done tutorial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52pSd3I1nac

2024-09-06 14:51:29

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I have no doubt *once it's running* it will work beautifully. The problem is bootstrapping the bloody thing.
It's not the CPU, it's not the RAM, it's not bandwidth, it's not SSD writing speed (the monitor says bitcoin-qt is writing at a mere 20 MiB/s). The only thing I see totally at full capacity is the swap, at 2.1 Gb.
Do you think tweaking the db cache setting will help? Is there any other setting to tweak?

2024-09-06 11:41:06

Blegh, fuck this shit.
It's not so much the time, but the fact that I'm 90% sure after the long ass wait, it will still fail (as it has always done in previous occasions).
I honestly think this is an untenable situation, if Bitcoin really "is for everyone".
It clearly isn't.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/34dae5b58b2b22d26c3311707eb8a388fb57753038d865f7a045bef2ee0747ec.webp
#note1cgz…zqnn

2024-09-06 10:36:14

"Content moderation", "fight spam", "protect the children".
#note12rs…0g28

2024-09-06 08:22:46

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That would be my absolute favorite option. But as long as we run on relays, I want relays to do exactly what their name says: to relay. They're not called "filters", "funnels" or "publishers".

2024-09-06 08:07:09

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I don't want any relay-side "solutions". That's what would make Nostr unsafe to use and, in fact, threaten its very existence.

2024-09-06 07:43:18

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WoT is a fucking disaster and incompatible with onboarding new users, at least as implemented by @nprofile…33km .

2024-09-05 05:27:58

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I did manage to run it last time. But every time I shut it down, it would not recognize the blocks and it would restart the download. After a whole month of this, I gave up.
Yesterday I found a toggle in Ubuntu settings to specifically give bitcoin-core permission to use external drives, so I've spent the night deep-formatting the SSD (took 7 hours) and today I'll start again.
I'll document whatever happens 👍

2024-09-05 05:00:58

So this past couple of days once again I've been trying to set up Bitcore on Ubuntu on an older laptop. Of course not enough disk space so I have to use an external SSD, yadda yadda.
Last time I tried, months ago, it was an abject failure. It just isn't something possible.
Last time I was able to modify the files and change the working directories and download the blockchain on the external drive, which took like a week working 24/7, only to have the stupid program restart the download every time it finished.
Boggles my mind that the "Bitcoin community" cares so little to fix something like this which would seem absolutely basic if they really wanted "adoption".
At this stage it seems impossible in practical terms to run your own node unless you shell a lot of cash for off the shelf hardware that let's not full ourselves is otherwise mediocre for what it costs. Nobody likes Bitcoin that much, sorry.

2024-09-04 21:11:44

Damn, in 24 hours he's practically caught up Elon's episode one month ago, 3.2 M views vs 3.3 M.
He did say at one moment that he would make Lex's number one video ever "and 10 times more than some" (he's already more or less there vs the average Lex vid...)
He does know and understand media. You gotta give him that.
#note1sr8…h86v

2024-09-04 18:21:15

Finally some AI art I can get behind of.
#note1trc…3s7j

2024-09-04 18:11:02

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I can't believe y'all have been at this the whole day, while FAILING to even mention the ONLY documented and proven Superman-worthy adversary and occasional reluctant cooperator.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/d8f7cb9fa44ef0b0960900a16d3c91bf06937fb1e6e197e914dabc991a7f621f.webp

2024-09-04 17:33:29

@npub1e3g…frly wen Drive for Linux?
https://media.tenor.com/oVnOAeQy3YwAAAAC/you-are-late-judge-judy.gif

2024-09-04 16:53:10

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"Extremist" and "radical" are two condemnatory buzzwords that are often applied against such people.

2024-09-04 10:41:58

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"Most people" is hard to define, but probably guns and not being a toxic Bitcoin maxi.

2024-09-04 06:58:55

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That's so last month though
https://media.tenor.com/Y-OZJ4OzBVAAAAAC/boring-kevin.gif

2024-09-04 05:59:13

Did anything specific happen to cause today's dip? Just curious if there's been any news or something.

2024-09-04 05:47:29

Jokes aside, Plato was a fucking communist, so prolly nah.
#note15tn…t0rk

2024-09-04 05:45:01

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That's not a Nostr problem, it's a people problem.

2024-09-03 16:50:27

Trump going full-on "How do you do, fellow kids?" and dropping a Lex interview as we speak 🤣

2024-09-03 16:45:48

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Oh, absolutely. My thesis is that in a free market, with excellent business people at its helm, Walmart would be a large regional grocer in the US. Maybe.
To become the behemoth it is, though, its leadership must necessarily excel not at business, i.e., at providing consumers with what they want at the cost they want it, but at regulatory arbitrage. In the process, it coopted itself.
It's not by chance that most of the news stories involving megacorps like Walmart or Amazon are always political in nature, and so are the PR stories they spin out for public consumption, as a form to pressure politicians and regulators in their favor ("think about the jobs", "think about the taxes", etc)

2024-09-03 09:31:05

#nevent1q…x3y6

2024-09-03 09:23:58

I hope BTC and Nostr also fix the disgusting fact that these people all seem to come to Spain to do their "Hen Do" and bachelor parties and basically be their worst possible versions for a weekend.
Don't misunderstand me: I'm not faulting them for taking advantage of the possibility, but the fiat country they come to vomit on and abuse for two whole days and nights, for 50 pounds like the cheap whore it is.
#nevent1q…3cwg

2024-09-03 09:14:37

This week I've booked two morning to go sailing, which I haven't done enough of these past couple months during the peak of the summer. I'm trying to cut my teeth, learn... the ropes... as much as possible while the good weather lasts.
September even this early is still hot, 30 C and above is normal, but because the sea is so warm after months of heavy sun, the arrival of a high altitude depression from the polar jet stream which are so hard to predict because they are not reflected in "normal" surface weather maps, can cause quite sudden and violent storms.
Similarly, this time of the year we start to get cyclones south from here, which bring in warm air from Northern Africa that go around the NW Med unimpeded, loading up with heavy rain, and turning into really bad north-easterly gales with very long fetch, i.e., really bad waves, 5-6 meter-high. Episodes with waves 8, 9 and even 10+ meter-high are relatively frequent.
People have this conception of the Mediterranean Sea as this sort of placid little lake, and it can be and often is. But I tell you, it can get very violent and very unpleasant, very quickly.

2024-09-03 07:03:59

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Let's lay some transatlantic cable while we're at it. I'll chip in.

2024-09-02 17:42:00

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Don't get emotional, I was simply adding some information to your note.

2024-09-02 16:54:24

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Being purposely daft about obvious concepts *isn't helpful*.
I guess you wouldn't feel censored if the client you use did the following every time you use the word "speech":
"IMMVSO
I get you're very emotional about this but it doesn't change the facts. An emoji added is information added. It's not suppression of free speech. But I am a fucking moron, who am I kidding?"

2024-09-02 13:12:38

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You're grasping, for some reason.
Adding the shit emoji to whatever word is not "adding" information but completely changing the meaning of the sentence. That's censorship, full stop.

2024-09-02 12:59:49

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Technically, it's the very definition of censorship.

2024-09-02 12:10:23

SimpleLogin is included with Proton's paid suite (VPN, email, cloud, etc). It's my favorite service actually.
#note1f79…5eq8

2024-09-02 09:42:18

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I wouldn't call it a decoupling, because IMHO it's just that every new ATH of the monetary mass sets a new floor for BTC's market cap. So it's BTC's price is still strongly correlated to the money printing in order to go up, just not so strongly when it's going down maybe.
I personally think this will continue until we reach the "natural" range in market cap at which BTC will finally become gold-like in terms of being seen as a risk-off investment.
Is that when we hit gold's market cap (at current prices, $800k-ish)? Before we do that, say at half gold's market cap ($400k-ish)?
Or given BTC's intrinsic nature, will we need to double gold's market cap and exceed $1.5M before we stop having "risk-on"-like behavior, and we are equally correlated on the way down as we are on the way up, but with a lot less volatility in both cases?

2024-09-02 09:28:14

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As seen here
https://nostrcheck.me/media/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/14ffca5fd7418bd458d20c6700adcd5b0b6ec7d19a7d8fd53d0b875d4266ddeb.webp

2024-09-02 09:26:29

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Nostur does this. It's the one I like and they only one I use on iOS, but I've called them out for being a bunch of fucking brats with incel dick breath with such retarded behavior.

2024-09-02 05:40:12

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I said "commercially". That's not what you're doing.

2024-09-02 05:31:35

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I ate dog in China once. Undetermined origin dog in a shanty town behind the Shanghai train station, by the way. Not the fancy farm dog that Korean eats.
Anyway, it was chopped up in small pieces, fried with tons of garlic and hot peppers, so meh, can't really have a strong opinion.
Haven't tried it stewed or some other way that may convey the taste more properly.

2024-09-01 13:58:39

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It's been proven many times now that the "enhanced" security at airports since 9/11 does exactly nothing for security.
It's just a racket to give billions of dollars in contracts to the cronies of the State, and to expand the powers of the State.

2024-08-31 20:07:36

Some handy presidential assassination tips from Mr James Reeves 😂
https://youtu.be/ulh88aBI0iU

2024-08-31 19:51:07

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I'll absolutely try that, minus the stevia.

2024-08-31 09:21:23

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Henry George wrote a whole book a out that pre-abandonment of the gold standard, titled "Progress and Poverty".
My point being, yes, trash money is part of it, but the root cause is deeper and older -- and solvable too.

2024-08-31 09:19:22

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So what worries you is dreaming about NIPs, not Jeff Bezos? 🤔

2024-08-31 09:08:34

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That's correct. Just not if we summarize it as "it's both + and -1/2 at the same time". That never happens. It's one single state with a 50-50% probability of being +1/2 or -1/2.

2024-08-31 06:56:01

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I don't think there's any. Or, at most, what so many Nostr influencooors did (I guess they still do) which was to publish their Nostr npub on their verified Twitter account. Oh, the irony.

2024-08-31 06:15:02

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Not arguing at all.
I'm just saying that the concept that "the answer can be both yes and no (simultaneously)" is simply not what's happening -- as per Schödinger's reductio ad absurdum with the cat.
A particle is never in two states at the same time, it's always in whatever state it is. What quantum physics tells us is that the state is probabilistic. So, a particle that can be either ON or OFF, is not ON "and" OFF, but 50% probably ON and 50% probably OFF.

2024-08-30 13:33:08

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It happens to Mao all the time too.

2024-08-30 13:25:02

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What tool does @nprofile…mf5f use to AI-dub his videos into other languages? This is a consistent problem I have over here onboarding people to BTC and all other freedom tools and technologies all the time. Complete lack of English literacy among all my family and friends. It's a huge barrier.

2024-08-30 13:18:52

Periodic reminder that Schrödinger came up with the thought experiment of the cat as a way to argue that quantum superposition (both "alive and dead at the same time") was absurd.
#nevent1q…7ve4

2024-08-30 12:39:07

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Been reading through their website (in Danish). It contains links to their social media too. No reference to that document.

2024-08-30 12:25:40

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Is there such thing as a "verified" Nostr npub?

2024-08-30 12:20:00

I'm obviously completely against any sort of censorship everywhere, but sometimes the Corporate State media really breaks my brain because there is ZERO logic to anything they do.
For instance, I'm watching a video right now where the words "rape" and "rapist" came up, but apparently those words are banned on YouTube, so they had to censor them out. It looks like "pedophilia" and "pedophile" are banned as well.
Why the fuck would these words be banned? Aren't we supposed to denounce rape and pedophilia?

2024-08-30 12:16:41

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Even if we ignore the fact it's written in English, that language does not feel State-like.

2024-08-30 11:45:24

I'm specifically thinking about something that teaches about BTC, and its lessons, not a poker deck with BTC lore characters.
Just like the original game of Monopoly (not the Parker Brothers, but the original Landlord's Game by Elizabeth Magie) was designed and published to teach about Georgism.
#nevent1q…gg0r
https://image.nostr.build/86f11fe5c643334dd45b8e38f63f32bbe95ae4fbba8b62c57e3a5e3a80fc1ff0.jpg

2024-08-30 10:29:10

A few years ago I helped a friend design, produce and launch a card game. I wonder if a BTC-themed game would somehow work, commercially.
Realistically speaking, producing anything under 10,000 units, even in Poland which is the physical card and board game producing hub of Europe, is not feasible if you want to sell the set for something like 25€.
#note1xms…ycs6

2024-08-30 10:12:54

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Me:
https://media.tenor.com/tv3Yr2A2I4kAAAAC/nerd-ackchyually.gif

2024-08-30 09:13:20

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This happens to me, except with any topic.

2024-08-30 09:12:42

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As you could see, I wasn't even denying that, but pointing out what happens next, when people move passed the obvious private Western State propaganda outlets, and fall into something equally egregious.

2024-08-30 08:42:46

That applies to the private leg of the Corporatist State media apparatus. Things like the CNN or Fox. They're propaganda in one way or another because that's "the deal" in a Corporate State regime. Private ownership is tolerated and rewarded with wealth beyond what would be possible in a free market, as long as you play along and spread and uphold the mandated ideology. Pointing out that those outlets are propaganda is nothing new or clever.
What about things like RT and Sputnik, or Al-Jazeera, for example?
These are full-on State propaganda organs, like LITERALLY State-funded, State-owned and State-directed propaganda. And not only they don't acknowledge this obvious fact, but for some reason independent/alternative media in the West insist on presenting them as independent/alternative media sources. Which they never do with Western exact equivalents of those two outlets, such as the BBC.
#nevent1q…u34g

2024-08-30 07:10:43

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You can keep it simple:
1. Follow everybody
2. Tell them what you think about what they post, engage in conversation. Yes, a gif meme is also conversation.
3. Post whatever you like. Just get it off your chest. Again yes, a gif meme does it.
That's all really. The rest is irrelevant.

2024-08-30 07:03:39

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> no one
... that we know.

2024-08-30 06:57:33

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Who have they killed now?
https://image.nostr.build/8ca03dc86c42d5629aba3bf69fe57dca0c4ea75b799b4024a45f1656bf1d7d1c.gif

2024-08-30 06:54:45

Human consciousness and reasoning are emergent phenomenon. The closer we
get to unconscious instinct, the more deterministic and homogeneous we
get.
As we go "up", the interactions between perceptual layers
and feedback systems in our brains (like memory) produce chaotic outputs
(which simply means too complex for us to find the pattern, not
necessarily random). But we can always trace any decision back to our
two fundamental instincts as living organisms: survival and propagation
in time and space.
Species-level generalizations and predictions
are possible at the base fundamental level (which is abstract), and get
muddy as we approach the concrete level: first community level which is a
bunch of individuals whose aggregate behavior may not coincide with any
individual's, and finally the individual, consciously deciding level
itself, which is in practical terms unique and unpredictable.
That's
why we get wildly diverging social and cultural institutions among
human groups that in reality solve for exactly the same issues
everywhere: how to use natural resources, how to protect genetic
inheritance, how to deal with death, etc.
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2024-08-30 06:53:35

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Human consciousness and reasoning are emergent phenomenon. The closer we get to unconscious instinct, the more deterministic and homogeneous we get.
As we go "up", the interactions between perceptual layers and feedback systems in our brains (like memory) produce chaotic outputs (which simply means too complex for us to find the pattern, not necessarily random). But we can always trace any decision back to our two fundamental instincts as living organisms: survival and propagation in time and space.
Species-level generalizations and predictions are possible at the base fundamental level (which is abstract), and get muddy as we approach the concrete level: first community level which is a bunch of individuals whose aggregate behavior may not coincide with any individual's, and finally the individual, consciously deciding level itself, which is in practical terms unique and unpredictable.
That's why we get wildly diverging social and cultural institutions among human groups that in reality solve for exactly the same issues everywhere: how to use natural resources, how to protect genetic inheritance, how to deal with death, etc.

2024-08-29 19:11:18

Did I hear right, that the Democrats are now saying that they cannot take RFK Jr off the ballots because REASONS?
Just after Kennedy himself said that he had polls showing that 66% of his voters said they'd vote Trump if he pulled out... So leaving him will cause a number of people to vote for him anyway, casting an invalid vote and subtracting from Trump's total.
The same RFK Jr that these pieces of shit fought tooth and nail to keep OUT of the ballots!
Is this for real? Can these motherfuckers any more corrupt? And how isn't the judiciary intervening?
This is truly third world level crookedness.

2024-08-29 17:15:42

People coming to watch the Americas Cup pay hundreds and thousands of euros these days to watch these guys.
I've been sailing among them the whole spring and summer while they were training, and now get to see them for free every time I want from the comfort of the bar terrace at my shooting club.
It's a pleasant life.
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2024-08-29 15:02:08

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Well, lots of schools were attacked. I was at one too. But I guess you mean the very famous videos of the cops assaulting people sitting on the stairs, dragging women by the hair and jumping on peoples heads. That was intense.
If you were a foreigner here during that time you probably got wrapped up in the honest and more wholesome wave of popular enthusiasm. I've been pro-independence since I was first politically aware, so I have always had a more cynical view of our "leaders", their intentions, and their behavior before, during and after 2017.
It's a sad state of affairs and I have long moved on with my life. Not interested in helping those who don't want to help themselves, and risking a lot in the process as I did those days.

2024-08-29 14:31:04

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Well, I have a rather complicated way of seeing what happened in 2017 and the repercussions. I don't blame the Spaniards.

2024-08-29 14:26:33

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I'm afraid we missed that train.

2024-08-29 14:23:01

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Indeed.

2024-08-29 14:01:15

Around these parts, on Nostr and Nostr-adjacent sphere, I see a lot more dishonest shills grifting off BTC than off any of the projects in that list.
An ETH shill will bamboozle you out of your dirty fiat. A BTC grifter will get your BTC, which is significantly worse.
#nevent1q…m7rq

2024-08-29 13:06:40

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"Tallat"

2024-08-29 12:46:43

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I do 👍

2024-08-29 11:34:54

If you follow me, and I don't follow you, please do let me know by replying here.
I usually reciprocate, but follower count/lists on Nostr apps are kind of flaky, so I may have missed you.
No DMs, I don't look at those.

2024-08-29 11:25:51

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Ah, you like the birbs. Fair enough.

2024-08-29 10:08:18

That was the excuse for this really.
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2024-08-29 10:05:12

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I actually don't shoot any type of living creature, flying or otherwise -- I do not hunt at all and have no wish to try.
I do fish for fun though. But what I catch, I eat.
So I understand and I am not opposed to people who hunt for food. It's just not my thing.

2024-08-29 09:41:03

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It was a self-deprecating joke implying how bad I am at shooting clays, but maybe it... flew over your head 🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-08-29 09:31:02

GM.
Are you having a good Thursday, anon?
Go out and shoot grass.
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2024-08-29 06:58:47

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Enjoy all that excess of bile up and down your throat while sitting there seething at your screen, knowing that you've been muted :)

2024-08-29 06:02:38

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More Bitcoin.