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Currently Run Bitcoin Node, Tor Exit Relay, Nostr Relay.
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NIP-05 Address

hellodarkness@nostr.chainbits.co.uk

NIP-57 Address

stockpillow82@walletofsatoshi.com

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2024-05-15 15:07:53

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Love it. I'm super stressed these days but managing to squeeze in a few workouts a week. Don't think I'd be functional without them. Really helps to get moving doesn't it!

2024-03-15 13:51:54

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Welcome! Yes you will find good discussions here. You need to curate your feed more, no "algorithm" but I prefer it here.

2024-02-13 00:10:38

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Pushups, if done properly, build core strength too and the kind of people who do those challenges would benefit from that.
Buy yeah, squats are good too.
Personally I like Burpees. Bit of everything.🤼😈

2024-02-03 13:37:21

In the future, everyone will want to be anonymous for fifteen minutes.
#privacy
https://image.nostr.build/d6be89e834f6354154d444385ce178077a9ace9210f024213bb90b177449708a.jpg

2024-01-29 21:36:43

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I agree. If it was just the relay/key model that was holding Nostr back, the Fediverse would be massive now. But people tried Mastodon instead of Twitter / Kbin instead of Reddit and very few people stayed.
Having to manually curate your feed means it's just less compelling.
I love Mastodon and check it once a day lol. My Facebook buddies have it open in a tab all day. It's addictive by design.

2024-01-24 12:55:38

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Totally agree on TG. I wish more groups would use Matrix. I know not everyone likes the federated model but in terms of ease of use Vs privacy and control etc it's a good balance and a huge step up from TG/WhatsApp/whatever

2024-01-23 20:01:43

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I'd go further. Don't trust commercial VPN or email providers and host your own. Low end boxes are cheap and can be paid for anonymously

2024-01-23 19:59:28

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Or just don't use Umbrel, etc and learn how to roll your own. Otherwise you're just trusting someone else anyway, just a different someone...

2024-01-23 19:56:43

I'd love to know whether the "qualified investor" stuff exchanges have to do in the UK now actually stops anyone from buying.
Seems ludicrous and pointless to me.

2024-01-13 23:31:12

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Thanks! Will give nostrpy a shot. It's a 1.6ghz netboox with a tiny screen so browser based clients aren't fun to use. But I have gomuks for matrix and aerc for email. Trying to get a full workflow just for fun 😁🖥️

2024-01-13 23:26:18

For fun I'm reviving a 32 bit machine. Any good cli nostr clients? #asknostr

2024-01-13 23:25:21

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Which clients do you recommend for Android?

2024-01-13 00:06:32

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Man, I know I'm late to the party here but sad I missed that. I listened to them all the time when I was a teenager

2024-01-05 20:00:06

OVH are driving me nuts. I know Hetzner aren't crypto friendly. Can anyone recommend a good dedicated server company for low-end dedis please?
#asknostr #dedicatedserver #hosting

2023-12-31 00:55:38

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Planned obsolescence:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1953639/western-digital-drives-ask-to-be-replaced-after-3-years-even-without-hardware-problems.html
Also, and this is just anecdotes, but I personally know three people who have had WD drives fail on them this year.
One of my lightning nodes is on a machine running platter drives and it serves its purpose well enough (it's not a routing node, just a wallet for bitrefill etc). I'm more comfortable with it than a raspi anyway :) but I wouldn't trust WD drives for anything important.

2023-12-30 23:07:38

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Can I add Western Digital platter drives to that list?

2023-12-27 20:20:45

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Agreed there. I remember back in the early bitcoin days it was being promoted as an option for micropayments.
Shame that sort of thing hasn't taken off :(

2023-12-27 18:17:47

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The "problem" isn't that the LLM creators don't know how to make micropayments. They just don't want to.
Much easier to pretend there are unsolved problems with payment processing and with identifying "who said it first" to know who to pay.
I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more good content behind paywalls as people try to recoup lost ad revenue

2023-12-27 17:55:50

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Done and joined

2023-12-23 12:43:46

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/22/britons-increasingly-turning-to-food-black-market-experts-say?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Kids with rickets and scurvy and adults buying stolen food. What's happening in my country :/

2023-12-21 12:46:46

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Welcome!

2023-11-20 14:18:36

Anyone got any opinions on Linode? OVH are irritating me at the moment. #asknostr

2023-11-19 19:26:11

Ok, late to the part with this one but wow I hate Netplan. Sure, for large networks it might be handy but I just found myself having to fix networking on a machine with no ifupdown for the first time.
Thanks. I hate it.

2023-11-15 22:26:23

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Neat but open to abuse if you tried to scale it. Would be 20 bots every time :(
I made an advent calendar for friends last year with a similar idea. Each day they click on a door and withdraw some sats.

2023-11-15 22:17:27

Wondering why I'm getting zaps when I haven't been on here in a bit because I've been up to my eyeballs in work...
AHH... The zaps have as notes 🤣🤔🤣
I needed some loose change to throw around and test my proper nodes so thanks for the spam ⚡🤗

2023-10-08 18:36:00

Any nostriches use #pinetime smart watch? Curious whether people prefer #waspos or #infinitime #privacy #righttorepair #asknostr

2023-09-29 06:56:22

https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-sandy-hook-shooting-bankruptcy-dde6b592159f3a7e77b7c6497d1ce1ae

2023-09-06 11:07:20

PV 🌄

2023-09-03 13:46:44

Nice to see CBDC protestors. Not too sure about some of the other stuff though.
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/fd6289c993055221ed7258610608166296ca746fa121d7e43c7a12aa1643dfb0.jpg

2023-08-29 18:26:59

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Abortion laws affect everyone. So does the climate change stuff. 15 minute cities, low emission zones, taxes on vehicles and fuels.... In my country we are being nudged to not heat our homes or do washing at certain times of day. That could become penalties instead of incentives easily enough.
I think people need to consider politics more, not less.

2023-08-29 11:27:06

Getting sick of airdrop spammers. Any suggestions for good paid relays please? Been a while since I looked...

2023-08-29 10:35:31

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Do elderly people who used to be sharp but are now experiencing cognitive decline deserve to be scammed? What about those with learning disabilities who can just about function but struggle in others, making them an "easy target"?
I'm not a fan of going full "nanny state" but not everyone can be hyper vigilant in all areas of their lives and it's not always their fault.

2023-08-28 21:09:13

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Some of the sources linked aren't exactly high quality. But a lot of the claims are things I've either seen elsewhere or noticed myself from digging into what Google gets up to.
I don't need much encouraging to degoogle myself even more than I am already trying to.

2023-08-28 20:54:30

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Bore them to death 🤔

2023-08-28 20:53:17

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I guess a white hand isn't "representative" 🤔🙄

2023-08-25 22:37:32

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Change for changes sake isn't good though. Sometimes it is ok to build on what came before, and those terms do describe what is happening accurately and intuitively IMO.

2023-08-25 22:35:26

Apple's built in obsolescence is infuriating. Just resurrected a MacBook air that was having multiple issues with SSL certificates/lack of support for modern SSL standards.
Hardware is fine. It's just an "Apple doesn't support this any more" thing. But the laptop was destined for the bin because fixing it is beyond most users. FFS.

2023-08-24 21:03:18

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The quality of real food in my local supermarkets has really gone down lately. Food deserts are becoming a thing everywhere

2023-08-24 20:33:53

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Sad thing is I've watched so many "free as in freedom" projects go corporate over the years :/

2023-08-24 20:29:40

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Go broke

2023-08-24 17:04:14

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Terrifying

2023-08-24 17:04:02

One for the python Devs ... Is dtale still the go-to for a web UI for pandas?

2023-08-23 09:20:05

PV 🌄

2023-08-21 19:43:52

These airdrop spammers are annoying. Would love to be able to filter out posts with certain keywords.

2023-08-21 19:41:44

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I pay for some web hosting in sats. Just annoying they use a centralised service to receive on-chain payments.

2023-08-21 19:19:26

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Should run one pretty darn well imo

2023-08-21 18:48:16

Lol I just had a blueskies invite come through.

2023-08-21 18:02:57

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History repeating itself
#nevent1q…0mnk

2023-08-18 12:21:41

Hmm Pret's wifi is even worse...I might start making a list of places that don't have filters on their WiFi #censorship #filtering

2023-08-18 10:19:44

Trying to work on the train. Took a different laptop with no VPN. It's terrifying to see how many sites are blocked. #censorship

2023-08-18 09:59:58

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/far-right-bit-getting-old
I'm slightly left of center, but that makes me right these days 🙄

2023-08-18 09:57:09

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Sorry for replying to an ancient post. Must have relay lag or something because it was top of my feed haha

2023-08-18 09:56:03

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I tend to be off social media Mondays and Tuesdays due to work, but check in most other days, including on weekends.

2023-08-18 08:47:39

Mission for the day, see what's changed with btcpay in the last year or so. Been a while!

2023-08-11 11:40:27

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It would be useful if they provided info about the normal rate. A quarter more is hard to judge wkthout context

2023-07-29 19:41:06

https://twitter.com/IncogNetLLC/status/1685359845505957888
Whatever you think about #kiwifarms #freespeech is important. Round of applause for these guys

2023-07-21 11:47:17

Every time I order online I get a reminder of how Yodel sucks.
(Sure UK Nostriches will understand!)

2023-07-17 06:32:07

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Half the humans online wouldn't pass the Turing test anyway. Not much difference 🤣

2023-07-09 08:44:40

Been off the scene for a while... Which relay server is seeing the most active development these days?

2023-07-09 08:37:05

GM all ☀️👋

2023-07-08 19:59:04

For those who are interested in fedi platforms...
https://kbin.melroy.org/m/updates/t/5756/Update-your-Kbin-instance-now

2023-07-08 19:25:32

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As others have said, Lemmy is a federated Reddit alternative. If you're open to Fediverse/ActivityPub, I prefer Kbin, which can federate with Mastodon and Lemmy pretty well.
I host my own instance. I know people are building reddit-like stuff on Nostr too but I like to check out everything. I can see the use case for both.

2023-07-08 17:57:42

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It's great in communities like this, but in bigger communities it just becomes noise again. Look at LinkedIn with its "super networkers" :(
I think invite only federated instances/nostr relays might be a good compromise, maintaining quality and the town square feel without creating perverse incentives about friend counts.

2023-07-08 13:38:22

Just had someone in my non-tech social circle express shock that I won't be using threads and that my minimal presence on social media in general is deliberate. I'm not completely offline, but I certainly make no effort to promote myself and I'm selective about what I post.
"I thought you knew about all that techy stuff"
Aww honey... Why do you think I avoid it 🥺

2023-06-30 15:12:58

https://nostr.build/i/1a09fbe10f69c5bd84d9ee187dafdec3fe841509b04d7cc464f266f9c24728e7.jpg

2023-06-21 11:03:24

Truth 🤔🤣
https://nostr.build/i/1942ca8dcf37753ea3d6436ddcbc4cca9cc77e31cc6e050802ad4a6dbf975c97.jpg