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2024-09-10 13:21:23
由于gmail在中国被防火墙拦截了，无法打开，不想错过邮件通知。

通过自建ntfy接受gmail邮件通知。怎么自建ntfy，后面再写。

2024年08月13日更新：

修改不通过添加邮件标签来标记已经发送的通知，通过Google Sheets来记录已经发送的通知。

为了不让Google Sheets文档的内容很多，导致文件变大，用脚本自动清理一个星期以前的数据。

准备工具
- Ntfy服务
- Google Script
- Google Sheets
操作步骤
1. 在Ntfy后台账号，设置访问令牌。
2. 添加订阅主题。
3. 进入Google Sheets创建一个表格.记住id，如下图：
4. 进入Google Script创建项目。填入以下代码（注意填入之前的ntfy地址和令牌）：
```javascript function checkEmail() { var sheetId = "你的Google Sheets id"; // 替换为你的 Google Sheets ID var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById(sheetId).getActiveSheet();

// 清理一星期以前的数据 cleanOldData(sheet, 7 * 24 * 60); // 保留7天（即一周）内的数据

var sentEmails = getSentEmails(sheet);

var threads = GmailApp.search('is:unread'); Logger.log("Found threads: " + threads.length);

if (threads.length === 0) return;

threads.forEach(function(thread) { var threadId = thread.getId();
```
if (!sentEmails.includes(threadId)) {
  thread.getMessages().forEach(sendNtfyNotification);
  recordSentEmail(sheet, threadId);
}
```
}); }

function sendNtfyNotification(email) { if (!email) { Logger.log("Email object is undefined or null."); return; }

var message = `发件人: ${email.getFrom() || "未知发件人"} 主题: ${email.getSubject() || "无主题"}

内容: ${email.getPlainBody() || "无内容"}`;

var url = "https://你的ntfy地址/Gmail"; var options = { method: "post", payload: message, headers: { Authorization: "Bearer Ntfy的令牌" }, muteHttpExceptions: true };

try { var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options); Logger.log("Response: " + response.getContentText()); } catch (e) { Logger.log("Error: " + e.message); } }

function getSentEmails(sheet) { var data = sheet.getDataRange().getValues(); return data.map(row => row[0]); // Assuming email IDs are stored in the first column }

function recordSentEmail(sheet, threadId) { sheet.appendRow([threadId, new Date()]); }

function cleanOldData(sheet, minutes) { var now = new Date(); var thresholdDate = new Date(now.getTime() - minutes * 60 * 1000); // 获取X分钟前的时间

var data = sheet.getDataRange().getValues(); var rowsToDelete = [];

data.forEach(function(row, index) { var date = new Date(row[1]); // 假设日期保存在第二列 if (date < thresholdDate) { rowsToDelete.push(index + 1); // 存储要删除的行号 } });

// 逆序删除（从最后一行开始删除，以避免行号改变） rowsToDelete.reverse().forEach(function(row) { sheet.deleteRow(row); }); }

```

4.Goole Script需要添加gmail服务，如图：

5.Google Script是有限制的不能频繁调用，可以设置五分钟调用一次。如图：

结尾

本人不会代码，以上代码都是通过chatgpt生成的。经过多次修改，刚开始会一直发送通知，后面修改后将已发送的通知放到一个“通知”的标签里。后续不会再次发送通知。

如需要发送通知后自动标记已读，可以把代码复制到chatgpt给你写。

效果预览：
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
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2024-09-05 08:37:48

请看2014年王兴的一场思维碰撞，视频27分钟开始

最后，一个当时无法解决的点：丢失

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
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2024-07-07 18:25:32
Anyone who thinks that “onboarding new users” is simply a technical challenge of educating people about “how Nostr works”, is grossly mistaken about social networks in general and blind to what makes Nostr so special.

Social Networks are for Friends

Relationship building is why people use social networks. Connecting with friends and loved ones (and colleagues and customers also) is the obvious reason to join, and should be the primary objective in any onboarding endeavor. Everything else “about the technology” only needs to be introduced “as needed” in order for each new user to achieve this goal.

The Nostr Network Requires Trusted Friendships

To thrive at scale, Nostr needs to have established and interconnected “webs of trusted friends” for “verifying” authentic profiles and quality content. This PgP strategy for decentralized trust implemented on Nostr, is the best way to keep bots and bad actors at bay while preserving freedom and sovereignty for every user. Even though Nostr still doesn’t have a standard for determining who “is trusted” for any one user across all clients, we can already build tools to onboard new friends of the highest quality trust. Leveraging existing relationships, “webs of trust” can be strengthened even at this early stage simply by advocates “inviting friends to Nostr”.

Nostr is New and Already Full of Trusted Friends

But it won’t be for long. Bots and bad actors are relatively “easy” to keep at bay today because the Nostr userbase is still small. People who come to Nostr and STAY have mostly been a self selecting group of “freedom tech fans”. We like it this way, and are generally happy to be here. The comraderie is refreshing. But the more people that come to Nostr, the more Nostr will attract different kinds of people.

This is already happening. Nostr is growing at the edges, reaching out beyond the “freedom tech fans” and attracting a number of “less committed” (and some nefarious) individuals here and there. Who sticks around? The “friends of freedom tech fans” stick around longer because they have friends here. WAY BEFORE even considering how “the network effect” will take over, Nostr needs to solve for retention by bringing more “trusted friends” into the network. Social onboarding tools will allow us to share Nostr to “friends of freedom tech fans” and beyond, establishing interconnected “webs of trust” that are increasingly impermeable to bots and bad actors.

Nostr is Freedom Tech that People Want to Share

Creators and influencers of every kind share Nostr (and Nostr content) every day. This phenomenon is a gold mine for onboarding, and can be supported with tools and incentives. Driven by the fact that Nostr is an open protocol, owned by nobody and available for anybody to build upon and profit from, the passion for sharing Nostr will never wane. But our userbase may fall off, if people become disenchanted by undesirable content or lack of good follows. This is why onboarding efforts, to attract more “friends” to the network, are so important. Leveraging the “share worthy” phenomenon of Nostr itself to grow Nostr’s networks of “trusted friends” seems like a no brainer. But for this strategy to work, it needs to be win win win for all parties.

Everybody Wins with More Trusted Users on Nostr

Even as standards for qualifying trust are still being refined, “social onboarding” increases the ratio of “more” trusted over “less” trusted users across the network.

Developers Win

With more trusted users on the network, Nostr developers win by being able to attract an increasingly diverse range of business partners to sponsor their projects.

Sponsors Win

An increase in trusted usership equates to more “real people” perusing “desired content” and more chances for brands to engage “organically” with target audiences. Marketing opportunities increase with trust.

Advocates Win

Simply by sharing Nostr with their friends, Advocates support the sustained growth of trust across the network. Valuable zap reward programs to incentivize high quality onboarding efforts are easily justified and funded by social onboarding clients and their sponsors.

Users Win

More trusted users across the network means more trustworthy content in every feed and more easily discoverable friends and new follows regardless of the client or algorithm used.

Nostr Wins

More trusted users on the network means more “high quality” trust connections between each user. Strong webs of trust is what keeps out bots and bad actors, and is essential for stability as Nostr scales.

Social Onboarding Clients Bring Trust to Nostr

Having more tools for “sharing Nostr with friends” is how Nostr wins. Any client can have capacity for “Social Onboarding”. This may be a dedicated onboarding client or a feature set within a social client. A client that offers “Social Onboarding” will support Nostr advocates and the users that they invite. These should have the following feature set :
- Nostr advocates may create and share any number of customizable “Nostr invites” for different audiences or occasions. Each may have different reccomendations, or access codes, or expiry options. (A NIP is in the works)
- Nostr invite QR codes (and shareable URLs) should resolve to a WEB based interface for prospective (and existing) users who MAY NOT have a client or browser extension already installed.
- Each invite should (within the onboarding client) provide access to low friction profile creation AND advocate reccomended lists of new friends, interest groups, preferred clients, best relays, and other stuff.
- Private key generation and management for new users should be handled entirely within the onboarding client (using NIP standards without a browser extension or external bunker app) to reduce friction at this crucial moment.
- A human readable Nostr address (NIP05 or some future NIP) should be generated automatically for all new users.
- New account creation should result immediately in a direct message or group thread of private “gift wrap” encrypted messages. This thread acts as the new user’s “first contact” with the advocate (possibly others as well) and an anchor for exploring the rest of Nostr.
- Invite “receipt” data (who invited who) should be “gift wrap” encrypted, accessible only to the advocate and new user. Clients wishing to use this data for analytics MAY request access from BOTH parties.
- Top Advocates may be calculated by the client (using data from invite receipts OR from public Nostr usage metrics), and awards may be offered.
- Advocates may also be supported by the client through access to private “advocate support” groups and communities over the Nostr network.
Support Social Onboarding for Nostr

Meet Me On Nostr is an app for sharing Nostr with friends via advocate invites. It is a reference client to demonstrate the power of Social Onboarding for Nostr. The first launch of "feature complete" client is expected in fall 2024.

This is a “bootstrap” funded project in active development. We are not grant funded or VC funded. Instead, we are looking to pay our developers by sponsorships from “Nostr adjacent” businesses who want to increase brand recognition over this new social network.

Is Your Business Nostr Adjacent?

“I’d like to advertise on Nostr but it’s “not quite ready” says our marketing team.”

“It has potential, and we have alignment, but the technology is still a bit rough.”

“Nostr is a perfect fit for our “target audience”, but there simply aren’t enough people using it.”

If your business is aligned with freedom technology, and the people who build and use Nostr, then NOW is the perfect time to sponsor Social Onboarding. Help grow Nostr’s base of trusted users and engage directly with Nostr’s most active advocates and influencers as it scales.

Release Nostr’s Superpower

When Nostr advocates are equipped and incentivized to share Nostr with their friends, nothing can stop this network from growing and growing and growing ever more secure and interconnected networks of trusted users.

Onboarding and retaining trusted users as Nostr scales will require so much more than just pointing people to “how Nostr works” content. Nostr’s true power lies dormant in the existing relationships that Nostr users already have outside of Nostr. Leveraging this power is what Social Onboarding is all about. Social Onboarding is Nostr’s superpower.

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2024-06-28 21:46:01

_Prologue: this is a prose adaptation of a talk I gave to a private audience in Dubai and then tweaked slightly for a small conference in Sofia. I'm increasingly thinking it deserves a more general audience, and may be better suited to text anyway. This is probably not its final form, as the desired audience is tradfi capital allocators, hence a PDF is likely on the cards in the near future. For the time being, consider this a first draft, practising what it might look like as prose, and soliciting feedback from the good people of Nostr. Enjoy! _

The title of this essay means absolutely nothing. There is no such thing as “Web π” because there is no such thing as “Web 3”. It’s bullshit. It’s a scam.

Unfortunately, it has turned out to be extremely powerful bullshit and an extremely profitable scam, and so my goal in writing this essay is to give the reader the tools to navigate all of this and come out the other side without having been scammed or bullshat. In the spirit of not scamming and not bullshitting, I should be clear upfront about the intended readership of this essay, who I am to write it, and who it’s really about.

Who Are You?

I assume the reader is not a shadowy super-coder, but rather is a financial professional. This essay isn’t really for Bitcoiners, although if any read it, I hope they still find it interesting. Who I am really writing for are people coming to the space for the first time. Hopefully in your mind you are coming to the _Bitcoin _space, but if you think you are coming to the “crypto” space then this may be even more useful.

Who Am I?

I am the founder of a company that makes me not only highly biased but also flagrantly self-interested in the content I am promoting. I run a firm that invests in the Bitcoin ecosystem through a variety of different vehicles. I am not going to mislead you in the slightest in that my primary motivation is for you to allocate capital to us rather than to people I would call scammers and bullshitters. You should listen to them too and make up your own mind, or else what’s the point, really? How do you know I’m not scamming or bullshitting you? Exactly. Don’t trust. Verify.

In any case, that’s all assuming you want to “allocate capital” at all rather than just buy Bitcoin without a management fee. I’d like to think the primary difference is that I will be honest about that, and I’ll encourage you to understand as much as you can about what is going on and what you are doing (and if you are at all unsure, I would suggest you aren’t ready and you should just buy Bitcoin and learn) rather than bamboozle you with complete nonsense like “Web 3”.

Who Is This About?

It’s not at all about people working in crypto. Bitcoiners amongst the readership may be mildly irritated by me going on to give about as charitable an explanation of the role of these people as they have probably ever heard from somebody like me. This is really about financiers. It’s about the people who have used the mostly unrewarded efforts of developers, academics, entrepreneurs, and so on to siphon money from you to themselves, leaving a trail of useless tech and defrauded retail investors in their wake – and who will continue to do so if you continue to empower them.

Why This Essay?

We are at an interesting point in the development of the entirety of the “crypto” industry and I strongly suggest that people like you are going to be pitched all kinds of scams and bullshit in the coming months and years. If you have a little more background on what these people are really talking about, you will hopefully be able to avoid it.

My plan to help with that is presenting a short version and a long version of what blockchains are and are for, how they have historically been deployed in service of scams and bullshit, a high-level theory explaining the narrative evolution behind this sorry history, and a prediction for the near-term future of such shenanigans.

What is a Blockchain For?

A Blockchain is for sound, censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer digital money. It is not for anything else. If a blockchain is functional as money, it may be possible to also _use it _for other things. Some people find that interesting, some people find it infuriating, but don’t let that subtlety confuse you. It is not _for _arbitrary computation and storage or “decentralizing the internet” or running illegal securities rackets.

It is for money, plain and simple.

How does it achieve that? Proof of work and the difficulty adjustment. These are the innovations from which every other desirable property or feature flows. Proof of work enables censorship resistance. If somebody is trying to sell you on “proof of stake”: bullshit. The difficulty adjustment enables precise, predetermined, and _fair _issuance. If somebody is trying to sell you on a token they issue for free and without restriction: scam.

The problem Bitcoin solves is both economic and technical and the solution has material technical and economic merit. And it’s for this very specific and irreplicable reason the Bitcoin token has value. If this all sounds extreme to you, then I would suggest that your understanding of the topic is _extremely _misguided, that you are going to be _extremely bullshat and extremely scammed, _and you need to read this essay. That’s the short version.

The Long Version

I am sensitive to how extreme this all sounds. After all, hundreds of billions of dollars have been pumped into crypto, not Bitcoin – a huge amount of it is widely used, and many capable, honest, and brilliant people work in the industry. The reader will recall just above I said those people are not the target of my criticism. I’m not claiming they are all scammers and bullshitters. Sadly, I think it’s more likely they have been scammed and bullshat to some degree also.

I think I have some credibility in pointing this out because, as a VC in the Bitcoin space, I have increasingly seen founders telling me this themselves: that they originally bought into the hype in crypto and ended up wasting an enormous amount of time realizing their idea made no technical or economic sense in that context, so then they came to Bitcoin instead. You hear this one time and it’s an anecdote, but you hear it as many times as I have and it feels more like a representative sample.

What I want to cover next is as charitable a summary of the state of ex-Bitcoin crypto as I possibly can: my contention is that crypto has evolved into 4 rough categories: stablecoins, cryptography R&D, gambling, and scams. And these aren’t exclusive, to be clear; there is a lot of overlap, and, in fact, the overlap is arguably the key.

Scams

Scams are tokens, plain and simple. If somebody is trying to profit from the speculative price action of a token they have issued, they are scamming somebody. Maybe they are scamming you, maybe they are scamming retail investors, maybe they are scamming customers or suppliers – if such parties even exist in their cargo cult “business model”. There’s a scam in there somewhere.

However, it is rarely _just _a scam. There will almost always be components of stablecoins, R&D or gambling too. Hence these are worth really grappling with, taking seriously, giving credit to the extent it is due, but also analyzing critically.

My rough and high-level assessment of this breakdown of crypto is as follows, and I’ll explain what I mean by this below: stablecoins have economic merit but dubious technical merit; R&D has technical merit but no economic merit; and gambling sort of has merit but it depends how you interpret it. Obviously, scams have neither.

Stablecoins

By “sort of technical merit” I mean that stablecoins have central issuers. You can issue them as tokens on a blockchain but there’s not really much of a point. The issuer could just run a database connected to the internet with some straightforward signature schemes for transfers and it would make minimal operational difference. In fact, it would be cheaper and faster. _In fact, _you may as well run a Chaumian eCash mint (a decades-old innovation recently resurrected firmly within the _Bitcoin _space) such that your cheaper-and-faster-than-a-blockchain database also grants users transience and privacy rather than the public permanence of a blockchain.

The fact Tron is the most heavily used for stablecoins, in terms of settling the most value, is a testament to this point: it is barely even pretending not to be a database. This works as regulatory arbitrage given regulators think this is “innovation” because they are stupid.

That said, it is worth giving some credit here given the abject awfulness of fiat banking and payment rails with which stablecoins arguably most directly compete. Stablecoins are significantly more permissionless in their transfer than any fiat bank liability. And to attest to what seems like their most significant use case, they are permissionless in their _usership _in that only an internet connection and the right software is required rather than various discriminatory jurisdictional and compliance criteria.

However, what “sort of technical merit” ultimately boils down to, especially in comparison to Bitcoin, is: highly censorable in their exogenous links and, therefore, their value. The assets supposedly backing stablecoins are (by definition) still within the fiat system, even if this novel transfer mechanism of the rights to withdraw them is not. There is frankly a bit of theatre involved in the so-called “decentralization” of stablecoins given shutting down the central issuer is all that is required to make the permissionlessly tradeable decentralized tokens go to zero and be technically unimpeded but functionally useless. The technical innovation of Bitcoin, in contrast, is easily understood in one sense as it being totally indifferent to this kind of attack.

On the other hand, by “economic merit” I mean that they are extremely widely used and valued as a means of providing dollar shadow banking and often superior payment rails. Those in crypto often love pointing to this and many Bitcoiners tie themselves in knots trying to explain it away, whereas I see it as essentially unrelated to Bitcoin. Clearly there is a superficial connection, but you could create any superficial connection by “tokenizing” things for no particularly good technical _reason. I think it’s a different industry entirely. It’s more like a subindustry within _fintech – part banking, part payments – that for the time being relies on bamboozling regulators with all the nonsense I’m drawing attention to.

And good for them, frankly. If fiat banking isn’t going to be backed by real money anyway, then it _at least _ought to be permissionless. It should really be Chaumian eCash if it isn’t just Bitcoin, and it is regulation alone that makes it so awful in the first place. Making money usable and not a tool of dystopian control is, at this point, a political problem, not a technical one. Stablecoins are frankly a step in the right direction, especially insofar as they acclimatize users to digital assets. But I would still caution that they arguably don’t have sufficient technical merit to withstand what feels like an inevitable political attack …

Cryptography R&D

“Technical merit” for R&D is more or less self-explanatory, but the context is worth appreciating. It’s only really in crypto and mostly in Ethereum more specifically that people can permissionlessly experiment with arbitrarily complex cryptographic schemes that operate on real, enormous value. There are a lot of people who understandably find this attractive given their projects are essentially academic and trying out their ideas in the wild is more interesting, arguably more worthwhile, and certainly more fun than putting research essays on ArXiv or submitting them to a journal.

But … the value being manipulated is at best stablecoins and at worst baseless hype. If it isn’t a stablecoin then it probably exists in the first place because of either gambling or scams – and even there the line is very blurry.

Gambling

Gambling is an interesting lens to adopt on all this because it’s literally a trillion-dollar industry. And it’s real. It’s consensual; it’s not criminal; it’s legitimate economic activity that generates enormous profits for those who facilitate it well.

So, gambling has economic merit in that sense. But it’s tricky in this context how to characterize it because you could also argue it’s deeply dishonest gambling in that the gamblers don’t realize they are playing a negative sum game against the house. They think they are doing something akin to speculating on securities, which may be just as stupid depending on how it’s done, but at least has real economic utility and contributes to capital formation.

The difference here is that what is being speculated on _has no economic merit. _So, if that’s your gauge of merit, then here there is none. And it’s a very blurry line between this and an outright scam. Maybe the people involved _think _of what they are doing as amazing R&D, and maybe it’s inadvertently just a scam; maybe they know it’s all nonsense, but they think they can profit within the negative sum game because there are greater fools. In any case, I think gambling is a very helpful characterization of a lot of the behavior of the users and the real economic function of the industry.

There’s an interesting social component to all this because crypto people will often get mad at Bitcoiners because Bitcoiners tend not to care about either stablecoins or crypto R&D: they’ll say, why don’t you like stablecoins, they have clear economic merit? And the answer is they have dubious technical merit. Or, why don’t you like our next-gen Zero Knowledge scaling protocol, it has clear technical merit? And the answer is it has no economic merit.

If you’re happy with one but not the other, it’s easy to think of Bitcoiners as being closed-minded or dogmatic or whatever, but, ultimately, I think it’s just about discipline. What’s the point in being excited by something that half works, and that you know why will never fully work? So to be frank, a lot of this may be well-intentioned, but it’s kinda’ bullshit. It very probably ultimately rests on gambling and not at all whatever its stated purpose is … or it’s just a scam.

How Did We Get Here?

The following is by no means exhaustive and the framing is deliberately a little tongue-in-cheek. As well as being accurate enough (if unavoidably biased), my goal here is primarily to set up my prediction for what is coming next.

2015               reality: Ethereum launches             narrative: “the world computer”

In 2015, Ethereum launched. The narrative here was that we are building “the world computer” and we can now have decentralized uncensorable computation. Never mind that anybody with a laptop has an uncensorable and decentralized computing device. And keep in mind this question of, “_what data might it ever be relevant to compute over in this manner (whatever that means in the first place)?” _The answer will become clearer and clearer …

2016-17          reality: ICO bubble                           narrative: “Web 3” / “DApps”

Regardless, at the end of 2015 we get the proposal and adoption of ERC20: a standard for issuing fungible tokens within Ethereum contracts, which is why in 2016 _but especially in 2017 _we get the ICO bubble. The narrative changes. Now we are concerned with “Web 2” companies being huge, powerful, and centralized. What if, instead, users could cooperatively own the application, control their own data, and participate in the economic upside that their usage is creating?

2018-19          reality: crypto winter                       narrative: “mistakes were made”

In 2018 this all falls apart, so don’t worry about it, moving on …

2020-21          reality: defi summer                        narrative: “decentralized finance”

By 2020 the narrative was different once again. It is more or less realized by this point that utility tokens make no technical or economic sense. You can’t introduce artificial scarcity in capital goods where there should be abundance and deflation and expect anybody to care, never mind to value your concoction. On the other hand, “securities” ought to be scarce and in some sense ought to function as tradeable ledger entries. Maybe they could be tokenized and computed on in a censorship-resistant and decentralized manner?

So, we get a boom in “defi” which, for what it’s worth, fellow Axiom co-founder Anders Larson and I predicted in our essay Only The Strong Survive, in September 2021, would be a complete disaster because, amongst a myriad of other illiterate insanities, there was approximately zero grounding of these securities in productive capital. The ecosystem was entirely self-referential – grounded _not even _in the questionable economic merit of stablecoins but firmly in gambling and scams; in leverage, rehypothecation, and securitization of precisely nothing whatsoever productive.

2022               reality: shitcoinpocalypse                narrative: “mistakes were made”

And we were absolutely right because in 2022 everything collapsed. First Terra/Luna imploded – a “defi” project which essentially presented to the world the argument that a fractional reserve bank issuing fiduciary media can literally never go bankrupt because it can always cover a deposit shortfall by issuing more equity. While briefly flirting with a capitalization of around fifty f***ing billion dollars, and endorsed and fawned over by all manner of illiterate charlatans with gigantic and unsuspecting audiences, this argument was eventually rejected by the market as utterly imbecilic, as analyzed by myself and Nic Carter in All Falls Down.

This triggered a credit contagion that soon after took down 3 Arrows Capital, Celsius, Voyager, BlockFi, and others. FTX limped along by what we now understand to be something like defrauding their way out of debt, but eventually also collapsed later that year. If _Only The Strong Survive _was a pre-mortem of all of this, then the reader may want to read Green Eggs And Ham, also by myself and Anders Larson, as a kind of post-mortem.

2023-today    reality: Bitcoin multisigs                  narrative: “Bitcoin renaissance”

And now a lot of this stuff is moving to Bitcoin. It is outside the scope of this essay to explain this in much detail but there have been a handful of developments in Bitcoin recently which, regardless of their intended purpose, seem to have as a collective side effect that a lot of these same shenanigans can now be implemented (or can _pretend _to be implemented) in a more Bitcoin-native context.

So, the new narrative is something like:

“these things didn’t work, not because they are terrible ideas that collapse to moon math wrappers around gambling and scams under any remotely critical analysis, but rather because they weren’t on Bitcoin. But also, since it has only recently become possible to (at least pretend to) implement them on Bitcoin, they are now worthwhile. We have wandered in the wilderness but learned our lessons and found the promised land.”

Technical and Economic Merit

Let’s consider all this through the lens of technical and economic merit once again. Or rather, the alleged merit given the stated goal. Ignore for now whether there is any merit:

2015               technical goal: new computing paradigm               economic goal: x% of GDP?

The original idea of “crypto” allegedly has the merit of the next revolution in computing. Goodness knows how big that market is; probably a decent chunk of global GDP – if it meant anything, which it doesn’t.

2016-17          technical goal: disrupting company formation       economic goal: y% of S&P?

ICOs then become a little bit more specific. Now they are merely disrupting how we organize companies. What’s that worth? Some portion of the value of the companies that can now be decentralized and tokenized I guess? Who knows …

2018-19          nothing to see here

Nothing happened then, don’t worry about it.

2020-21          technical goal: decentralize finance            economic goal: z% of NYSE, CME, ISDA?

Defi becomes more specific again. Now we are merely tokenizing financial contracts, expanding access, removing middlemen, and so on. So that should probably be worth some percentage of capital markets activity?

2022               nothing to see here

Oops, never mind …

2023-today    technical goal: now it’s on Bitcoin!             economic goal: i% of … Bitcoin?

… and now it’s on Bitcoin apparently.

In Hindsight ...

I think the most amusing analysis of all this is as follows: it starts off completely insane, it gets more and more restrained each time – you could cheekily argue it starts to make more and more sense – but it also gets closer to Bitcoin every time. It’s clearly narrowing in on just: Bitcoin.

This is people realizing, painfully, over decades, what blockchains are for! They are not for “decentralizing everything” They are for censorship-resistant, sound, peer-to-peer digital money.

And I think this is _also _why we get the current state of crypto from earlier in the essay. As it starts to make more and more sense (by getting closer and closer to Bitcoin) you have realizations like the following: digital gift vouchers for artificially scarce and extremely expensive computation aren’t money, so we need “real money” in here for it to have economic merit, so you get stablecoins. Also, well we have a rich programming environment that seems technically interesting but also the severe technical handicap of being unable to do even a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of all the computations in the world, so you get crypto R&D. These emerge as a kind of patch, and they have _some _merit in isolation, whereas the long-term trajectory is actually just to converge on Bitcoin.

It’s an open and fascinating question if there are any learnings from these that can still be transplanted to Bitcoin. For stablecoins, this strikes me as less clear, given the dubious technical merit is introduced by using a blockchain at all, not just a blockchain other than Bitcoin. However, efforts to create Bitcoin balances (tokenized or otherwise) that are stable relative to some external price are to be applauded, if still heavily scrutinized for what technical merit they _really _have.

It seems far more likely that crypto R&D will prove useful in a Bitcoin context to some or other degree, and in this case the economic merit is in fact solved by moving to Bitcoin, provided the necessary technical merit can be mimicked. At the time of writing, this is a source of both hope and dread: hope given the possibility of viable avenues of development (although still highly uncertain); dread given how early steps in this direction are already being misrepresented in the pursuit of bullshit and scams. I will return to both shortly.

Narrative Evolution

Back to the table just above, I want to make three quick observations that tie together my entire argument and get us to the end of the essay:

Firstly, the bubbles always follow the price of Bitcoin. Hopefully I don’t need to include a price chart for the reader to grasp this immediately.

Secondly, it’s important that the narrative always changes. Absolutely ungodly amounts of money were raised for this crap following the_ Bitcoin bull runs of 2017 and 2021. The people doing this couldn’t point to the previous absolute disaster, so they had to spin something along the lines of: “_we learned our lessons and we’ve refined the use case.” This should sound familiar from just above.

Thirdly, however, regardless of whatever refinement they’ve come up with, the consequence of the new “narrative” is always, “buy my token”.

Always.

It doesn’t matter what buzzword salad is in the middle. It’s always “Bitcoin is cool, xyz, fughayzi fughahzi, buy my token.”

This is why I am very much tempted to not care so much about developers, academics, entrepreneurs, and so on, and in fact for my null hypothesis to be that they are more likely to have been victims than perpetrators. I don’t think they even end up in a position to contribute without the key group whom I do blame. When you put all these pieces together, what I think falls out of this analysis is as follows:

The entire cycle of shitcoinery can be traced to unscrupulous financiers convincing capital allocators who don’t know any better, in a bull market that, yes, Bitcoin is cool, but what they are doing is related, cooler, and that they deserve a fee.

Let us label this the Capital Cycle Theory of Shitcoinery. I think that everything else about which one might want to complain is downstream of this core realization.

Avoiding It

Given everything I’ve covered this is simple and this is pretty much the end of the essay.

You need to be aware of why this is happening now. If it hasn’t happened to you already (intended readership in the capital allocation business, that is) I guarantee it’s about to: with ETFs and the halving just past, we seem to be starting a Bitcoin bull run, these people have already raised ridiculous amounts of money on scams and bullshit that have mostly imploded. They may have lost a lot of money, or they may even have dumped on retail and got an excellent “return”. But in any case, they need a new narrative.

It's _possible _they have a viable narrative around stablecoins, R&D, both, and that they are as wary of scams as I have suggested here that they should be. I don’t want to insult anybody who merely has a different investment thesis to me if they are otherwise reasonable in their outlook and honest in their dealings.

However, if they are only now realizing how pointless and disingenuous every preceding crypto narrative has been after 7 years and hundreds of billions of dollars – or if they still don’t realize it at all; if their track record shows they were deeply involved, handsomely rewarded, and yet created nothing of lasting value; if they say things like “the builders are coming back to Bitcoin”: be very, very suspicious. Be on the lookout for tokens, which is to say, be on the lookout for scams.

What is especially frustrating is that the technical spin of the "layer twos" that are all the rage at the time of writing, that "the builders are coming back to Bitcoin" to build, and that you, the capital-allocating reader, will almost certainly be pitched, is in and of itself pretty reasonable. They just don't require tokens and they don't require gambling to support the token prices. What they do require is _sound adherence to Bitcoin's technical and economic merit. _At the very least, they require honest communication about the design trade-offs so far and planned for, and what, if any, economic and technical merit is left over after these trade-offs have been made.

Narrative aside, the _reality _of 99% of these projects is that they are private execution environments tied to multisigs custodying user deposits. Which is to say, on the one hand, that they are cargo culting "crypto R&D" from Ethereum that isn't technically possible in Bitcoin in order to feign technical merit, and on the other, that _they aren't layer twos at all. _Once again, they may as well be Chaumian eCash mints, except for the fact that this would make the intended token scam all but impossible to pull off.

Casey Rodarmor, creator of the Ordinals protocol, recently joked on the Hell Money _podcast he co-hosts, responding to the idea that "_everybody is building an L2 now":

"It's the same sad sack playbook as on Ethereum being recapitulated on Bitcoin. That's how you get a VC check on Ethereum. They are all glorified multisigs, so they are like, "hey let's port our glorified multisig to Bitcoin and get a VC check." I was talking to a friend of mine who is working on an interesting project, an open-source analyzer that does transaction clustering, and I was like, "maybe you could do this in this way and raise some VC money," and he said, "yeah, okay, but what's the point in raising VC money?" And I said, "no, no, no, this is the end! This is the goal! You raise VC money and then you cut yourself checks from that VC money until it runs out and then you raise more at a 10x valuation. This is the new economy, guys!"

The 1% that are legitimately trying to bring the learnings from crypto R&D to Bitcoin in a technically and economically sound manner will hopefully win in the long run (and even this is somewhat speculative at the time of writing) but will likely get little to no attention amidst this bull market flurry of scams and bullshit.

Axiom will do its best to source and invest in these companies (we already have!) but we are resigned to it being a much more difficult sell to capital allocators in light of the Capital Cycle Theory of Shitcoinery. To be brutally honest, this entire essay can fairly be considered cope on my part in light of having lost this battle in the past and facing up to the very real prospect of losing it in the near future too. Oh well, at least I tried.

Wrapping Up

The essence of the Capital Cycle Theory of Shitcoinery is that the problems I’ve described ultimately come from bamboozling people just like you with technical sounding nonsense like “Web 3” so you think it’s all a lot more complicated than it really is. Just buy Bitcoin. That’s certainly the first thing you should do anyway, and it might be the only thing you ever need to do.

If you really, really want to take the extra risk of investing in the Bitcoin ecosystem, the team at Axiom would be happy to speak with you. But we are never going to talk you out of buying Bitcoin. There is no world in which Bitcoin does poorly and we do well, or in which we promise something “better than Bitcoin,” and there’s no point in engaging with us at all if you don’t already believe most of this.

If that’s of interest to you, we’d love to talk. If not, just buy Bitcoin. In any case: fair warning, we are heading into a Bitcoin bull market and the scams and the bullshit are coming. Good luck avoiding them.

Allen Farrington, June 2024

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2024-09-08 01:24:03
“The more you learn about something, the more you realize you know nothing.” This saying resonates deeply with me. The truth is, no one really has all the big answers. Many in the scientific community seem to pretend they do. Let’s explore this further.

Consider the Most Fundamental Questions
1. The Origin of the Universe
2. The Origin of Life on Earth
The Origin of the Universe

You might think we have a solid answer: the Big Bang. However, this explanation has its limitations, and calling it a “start” can be misleading. In fact, this theory might be entirely wrong. New research challenges the Big Bang theory, and I highly recommend listening to Sir Roger Penrose for a deeper understanding.

The only substantial evidence we have is the universe's expansion. Penrose proposes a different hypothesis: the endless expansion and contraction of the universe. This idea doesn’t contradict our current understanding.

Thus, the evidence for the Big Bang and Penrose’s theory are both radically different, yet neither can be definitively proven over the other. This highlights the limitations of our current understanding.

The Origin of Life on Earth

The origin of life is even more complex. Life requires three essential components: - Proteins for basic functioning - RNA for storing and replicating genes - Lipids (cell walls) to create separation from the environment

Mathematical models suggest that while proteins and lipids have a reasonable probability of forming, the creation of RNA seems nearly impossible through random mutations in a short time frame. The best explanations indicate that we either lack crucial information or that these RNA molecules—and life as a whole—might have come from outside sources. Some scholars even question the entire random mutation model.

The Question of Certainty

If scientists don’t know the answers, why do they pretend they do? In my humble opinion, It seems they do this to distance science from religion and to close the discussion before the wealthiest can fit God into the narrative, Interestingly, I’m not alone in believing they closed the books too early.

Reclaiming Control of Science and Education

The best way to reclaim control of science and education is to learn. If you’re looking for a starting point, I highly recommend: - “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking for physics - “Sapiens” or “The Selfish Gene” for evolutionary biology

All three are excellent starting points—densely packed with information and covering a wide range of topics in a concise and accessible manner.
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2024-09-06 12:49:46

Nostr: a quick introduction, attempt #2

Nostr doesn't subscribe to any ideals of "free speech" as these belong to the realm of politics and assume a big powerful government that enforces a common ruleupon everybody else.

Nostr instead is much simpler, it simply says that servers are private property and establishes a generalized framework for people to connect to all these servers, creating a true free market in the process. In other words, Nostr is the public road that each market participant can use to build their own store or visit others and use their services.

(Of course a road is never truly public, in normal cases it's ran by the government, in this case it relies upon the previous existence of the internet with all its quirks and chaos plus a hand of government control, but none of that matters for this explanation).

More concretely speaking, Nostr is just a set of definitions of the formats of the data that can be passed between participants and their expected order, i.e. messages between clients (i.e. the program that runs on a user computer) and relays (i.e. the program that runs on a publicly accessible computer, a "server", generally with a domain-name associated) over a type of TCP connection (WebSocket) with cryptographic signatures. This is what is called a "protocol" in this context, and upon that simple base multiple kinds of sub-protocols can be added, like a protocol for "public-square style microblogging", "semi-closed group chat" or, I don't know, "recipe sharing and feedback".

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2024-05-28 11:05:17
NIP-116

Event paths

Description

Event kind 30079 denotes an event defined by its event path rather than its event kind.

The event directory path is included in the event path, specified in the event's d tag. For example, an event path might be user/profile/name, where user/profile is the directory path.

Relays should parse the event directory from the event path d tag and index the event by it. Relays should support "directory listing" of kind 30079 events using the #f filter, such as {"#f": ["user/profile"]}.

For backward compatibility, the event directory should also be saved in the event's f tag (for "folder"), which is already indexed by some relay implementations, and can be queried using the #f filter.

Event content should be a JSON-encoded value. An empty object {} signifies that the entry at the event path is itself a directory. For example, when saving user/profile/name: Bob, you should also save user/profile: {} so the subdirectory can be listed under user.

In directory names, slashes should be escaped with a double slash.

Example

Event

json { "tags": [ ["d", "user/profile/name"], ["f", "user/profile"] ], "content": "\"Bob\"", "kind": 30079, ... }

Query

json { "#f": ["user/profile"], "authors": ["[pubkey]"] }

Motivation

To make Nostr an "everything app," we need a sustainable way to support new kinds of applications. Browsing Nostr data by human-readable nested directories and paths rather than obscure event kind numbers makes the data more manageable.

Numeric event kinds are not sustainable for the infinite number of potential applications. With numeric event kinds, developers need to find an unused number for each new application and announce it somewhere, which is cumbersome and not scalable.

Directories can also replace monolithic list events like follow lists or profile details. You can update a single directory entry such as user/profile/name or groups/follows/[pubkey] without causing an overwrite of the whole profile or follow list when your client is out-of-sync with the most recent list version, as often happens on Nostr.

Using d-tagged replaceable events for reactions, such as {tags: [["d", "reactions/[eventId]"]], content: "\"👍\"", kind: 30079, ...} would make un-reacting trivial: just publish a new event with the same d tag and an empty content. Toggling a reaction on and off would not cause a flurry of new reaction & delete events that all need to be persisted.

Implementations
- Relays that support tag-replaceable events and indexing by arbitrary tags (in this case f) already support this feature.
- IrisDB client side library: treelike data structure with subscribable nodes.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1266
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2024-09-18 03:54:39
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 45 minutes
- 🍳 Cook time: 40 minutes
- 🍽️ Servings: 4-6
Ingredients
- 1 frozen puff pastry sheet, thawed
- 2 red organic apples (skin color adds great visual pop)
- Juce of half a lemon
- 1 tablespoon of flour, to sprinkle the counter
- 3 tablespoons of apricot preserve
- Cinnamon (optional)
- Powdered sugar for decorating (optional)
Directions
1. 1. Thaw the puff pastry if you haven't done so yet. It should take about 20-30 minutes.
2. 1. Prepare a bowl with some water and the lemon juice. Cut the apples in half, remove the core and cut the apples in paper thin slices. Leave the peel so it will give the red color to your roses.
3. 1. Right away, place the sliced apples in the bowl with lemon and water, so that they won't change color.
4. 1. Microwave the apples in the bowl, for about 3 minutes, to make them slightly softer. If you prefer, you can also simmer the apple slices in the water in a small pan on the stove.
5. 1. Unwrap the puff pastry over a clean and lightly floured counter. Using a rolling pin stretch the dough a little, trying to keep it in a rectangular shape. Cut the dough in 6 strips. These are about 2 in x 9 in (5 cm x 22 cm).
6. 1. In a bowl, place three tablespoons of apricot preserve with two tablespoons of water. Microwave for about one minute, so that the preserve will be easier to spread. Spread the preserve on the dough.
7. 1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Drain the apples.
8. 1. Place the apples on the dough so that the skin side is facing away from you, and the bottom of the slice is at the middle of the dough (see cover image). Sprinkle with cinnamon if you'd like.
9. 1. Fold up the bottom part of the dough over the apple slices, so that it cups them.
10. 1. Carefully roll, seal the edge, and place in a silicone muffin cup. No need to grease the muffin mold if it's silicone. Otherwise, make sure to grease it.
11. 1. Do the same for all 6 roses. Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for about 40-45 minutes, until fully cooked. If using a convection oven, check the roses after 20 minutes and cover if the apple slices are already sufficiently browned. Convection ovens dry out the apples more quickly and will result in 10 minutes shorter cooking time.
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2024-05-15 10:08:47

KRIS menjamin semua golongan masyarakat mendapatkan perlakuan sama dari rumah sakit, baik pelayanan medis maupun nonmedis.

Demi memberikan peningkatan kualitas layanan kesehatan kepada masyarakat, pemerintah baru saja mengeluarkan Peraturan Presiden (Perpres) nomor 59 tahun 2024 tentang Jaminan Kesehatan. Melalui perpres itu, Presiden Joko Widodo (Jokowi) telah menghapus perbedaan kelas layanan 1, 2, dan 3 dalam Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial atau BPJS Kesehatan.

Layanan berbasis kelas itu diganti dengan KRIS (Kelas Rawat Inap Standar). Berkaitan dengan lahirnya Perpres 59/2024 tentang Perubahan Ketiga atas Perpres 82/2018 tentang Jaminan Kesehatan, Presiden Joko Widodo telah memerintahkan seluruh rumah sakit yang bekerja sama dengan BPJS Kesehatan melaksanakannya.

Kebijakan baru itu mulai berlaku per 8 Mei 2024 dan paling lambat 30 Juni 2025. Dalam jangka waktu tersebut, rumah sakit dapat menyelenggarakan sebagian atau seluruh pelayanan rawat inap berdasarkan KRIS sesuai dengan kemampuan rumah sakit.

Lantas apa yang menjadi pembeda dari sisi layanan dengan layanan rawat inap sesuai Perpres 59/2024? Dahulu sistem layanan rawat BPJS Kesehatan dibagi berdasarkan kelas yang dibagi masing-masing kelas 1, 2, dan 3. Namun, melalui perpres, layanan kepada masyarakat tidak dibedakan lagi.

Pelayanan rawat inap yang diatur dalam perpres itu--dikenal dengan nama KRIS—menjadi sistem baru yang digunakan dalam pelayanan rawat inap BPJS Kesehatan di rumah sakit-rumah sakit. Dengan KRIS, semua golongan masyarakat akan mendapatkan perlakuan yang sama dari rumah sakit, baik dalam hal pelayanan medis maupun nonmedis.

Dengan lahirnya Perpres 59/2024, tarif iuran BPJS Kesehatan pun juga akan berubah. Hanya saja, dalam Perpres itu belum dicantumkan secara rinci ihwal besar iuran yang baru. Besaran iuran baru BPJS Kesehatan itu sesuai rencana baru ditetapkan pada 1 Juli 2025.

“Penetapan manfaat, tarif, dan iuran sebagaimana dimaksud ditetapkan paling lambat tanggal 1 Juli 2025,” tulis aturan tersebut, dikutip Senin (13/5/2024).

Itu artinya, iuran BPJS Kesehatan saat ini masih sama seperti sebelumnya, yakni sesuai dengan kelas yang dipilih. Namun perpres itu tetap berlaku sembari menanti lahirnya peraturan lanjutan dari perpres tersebut.

Kesiapan Rumah Sakit

Berkaitan dengan lahirnya kebijakan layanan kesehatan tanpa dibedakan kelas lagi, Kementerian Kesehatan (Kemenkes) menegaskan mayoritas rumah sakit di Indonesia siap untuk menjalankan layanan KRIS untuk pasien BPJS Kesehatan.

Kesiapan itu diungkapkan oleh Dirjen Pelayanan Kesehatan Kemenkes Azhar Jaya. “Survei kesiapan RS terkait KRIS sudah dilakukan pada 2.988 rumah sakit dan yang sudah siap menjawab isian 12 kriteria ada sebanyak 2.233 rumah sakit,” ujar Azhar.

Sebagai informasi, KRIS adalah pengganti layanan Kelas 1, 2, dan 3 BPJS Kesehatan yang bertujuan untuk memberikan layanan kesehatan secara merata tanpa melihat besaran iurannya.

Melalui KRIS, rumah sakit perlu menyiapkan sarana dan prasarana sesuai dengan 12 kriteria kelas rawat inap standar secara bertahap. Apa saja ke-12 kriteria KRIS itu?

Sesuai bunyi Pasal 46A Perpres 59/2024, disyaratkan kriteria fasilitas perawatan dan pelayanan rawat inap KRIS meliputi komponen bangunan yang digunakan tidak boleh memiliki tingkat porositas yang tinggi serta terdapat ventilasi udara dan kelengkapan tidur.

Demikian pula soal pencahayaan ruangan. Perpres itu juga mengatur pencahayaan ruangan buatan mengikuti kriteria standar 250 lux untuk penerangan dan 50 lux untuk pencahayaan tidur, temperature ruangan 20--26 derajat celcius.

Tidak hanya itu, layanan rawat inap berdasarkan perpres itu mensyaratkan fasilitas layanan yang membagi ruang rawat berdasarkan jenis kelamin pasien, anak atau dewasa, serta penyakit infeksi atau noninfeksi.

Selain itu, kriteria lainnya adalah keharusan bagi penyedia layanan untuk mempertimbangkan kepadatan ruang rawat dan kualitas tempat tidur, penyediaan tirai atau partisi antartempat tidur, kamar mandi dalam ruangan rawat inap yang memenuhi standar aksesibilitas, dan menyediakan outlet oksigen.

Selain itu, kelengkapan tempat tidur berupa adanya dua kotak kontak dan nurse call pada setiap tempat tidur dan adanya nakas per tempat tidur. Kepadatan ruang rawat inap maksimal empat tempat tidur dengan jarak antara tepi tempat tidur minimal 1,5 meter.

Tirai/partisi dengan rel dibenamkan menempel di plafon atau menggantung. Kamar mandi dalam ruang rawat inap serta kamar mandi sesuai dengan standar aksesibilitas dan outlet oksigen.

Azhar menjamin, Kemenkes akan menjalankan hal tersebut sesuai dengan tupoksi yang ada. “Tentu saja kami akan bekerja sama dengan BPJS Kesehatan dalam implementasi dan pengawasannya di lapangan,” ujar Azhar.

Berkaitan dengan perpres jaminan kesehatan itu, Direktur Utama BPJS Kesehatan Ghufron Mukti menilai, perpres tersebut berorientasi pada penyeragaman kelas rawat inap yang mengacu pada 12 kriteria. "Bahwa perawatan ada kelas rawat inap standar dengan 12 kriteria, untuk peserta BPJS, maka sebagaimana sumpah dokter tidak boleh dibedakan pemberian pelayan medis atas dasar suku, agama, status sosial atau beda iurannya," ujarnya.

Jika ada peserta ingin dirawat pada kelas yang lebih tinggi, kata Ghufron, maka diperbolehkan selama hal itu dipengaruhi situasi nonmedis. Hal itu disebutkan dalam Pasal 51 Perpres Jaminan Kesehatan diatur ketentuan naik kelas perawatan.

Menurut pasal tersebut, naik kelas perawatan dilakukan dengan cara mengikuti asuransi kesehatan tambahan atau membayar selisih antara biaya yang dijamin oleh BPJS Kesehatan dengan biaya yang harus dibayar akibat peningkatan pelayanan.

Selisih antara biaya yang dijamin oleh BPJS Kesehatan dengan biaya pelayanan dapat dibayar oleh peserta bersangkutan, pemberi kerja, atau asuransi kesehatan tambahan.

Ghufron Mukti juga mengimbau pengelola rumah sakit tidak mengurangi jumlah tempat tidur perawatan pasien dalam upaya memenuhi kriteria KRIS. "Pesan saya jangan dikurangi akses dengan mengurangi jumlah tempat tidur. Pertahankan jumlah tempat tidur dan penuhi persyaratannya dengan 12 kriteria tersebut," tegas Ghufron.

Penulis: Firman Hidranto Redaktur: Ratna Nuraini/Elvira Inda Sari Sumber: Indonesia.go.id

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2024-09-02 12:08:29

The ongoing debate surrounding freedom of expression may revolve more around determining who gets to control the dissemination of information rather than any claimed notion of safeguarding democracy. Similarities can be identified from 500 years ago, following the invention of the printing press.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

-- Ecclesiastes 1:9

The debate over freedom of expression and its limits continues to rage on. In the UK, citizens are being arrested for sharing humouristic images. In Ireland, it may soon become illegal to possess "reckless" memes. Australia is trying to get X to hide information. Venezuela's Maduro blocked X earlier this year, as did a judge on Brazil's Supreme Court. In the US, a citizen has been imprisoned for spreading misleading material following a controversial court ruling. In Germany, the police are searching for a social media user who called a politician overweight. Many are also expressing concerns about deep fakes (AI-generated videos, images, or audio that are designed to deceive).

These questions are not new, however. What we perceive as new questions are often just a reflection of earlier times. After Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 15th century, there were soon hundreds of printing presses across Europe. The Church began using printing presses to mass-produce indulgences. "As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs" was a phrase used by a traveling monk who sold such indulgences at the time. Martin Luther questioned the reasonableness of this practice. Eventually, he posted the 95 theses on the church door in Wittenberg. He also translated the Bible into German. A short time later, his works, also mass-produced, accounted for a third of all books sold in Germany. Luther refused to recant his provocations as then determined by the Church's central authority. He was excommunicated in 1520 by the Pope and soon declared an outlaw by the Holy Roman Emperor.

This did not stop him. Instead, Luther referred to the Pope as "Pope Fart-Ass" and as the "Ass-God in Rome)". He also commissioned caricatures, such as woodcuts showing a female demon giving birth to the Pope and cardinals, of German peasants responding to a papal edict by showing the Pope their backsides and breaking wind, and more.

Gutenberg's printing presses contributed to the spread of information in a way similar to how the internet does in today's society. The Church's ability to control the flow of information was undermined, much like how newspapers, radio, and TV have partially lost this power today. The Pope excommunicated Luther, which is reminiscent of those who are de-platformed or banned from various platforms today. The Emperor declared Luther an outlaw, which is similar to how the UK's Prime Minister is imprisoning British citizens today. Luther called the Pope derogatory names, which is reminiscent of the individual who recently had the audacity to call an overweight German minister overweight.

Freedom of expression must be curtailed to combat the spread of false or harmful information in order to protect democracy, or so it is claimed. But perhaps it is more about who gets to control the flow of information?

As is often the case, there is nothing new under the sun.

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2024-09-23 22:33:24

While most of the world is focused on the lead up to the Presidential election here in the US and louder war drums being beat across the world, the number of bullish developments that are stacking up for bitcoin is increasing rapidly. These developments deserve the OG Marty's Bent smorgasbord treatments, so here are the things that have caught my attention over the last week in no particular order.

The First Ark Transactions on Bitcoin Mainnet

I had the pleasure of participating in a demo of Second's Ark protocol implementation. For those who are unaware, Ark is a new layer-two protocol solution for making off-chain bitcoin payments. Unlike the lightning network, Ark doesn't depend on liquidity channels to facilitate payments. Within the lightning network two counterparties share UTXOs within a channel to move sats back and forth, nodes connect to many different channels to create a network effect that increases the chance of payments getting routed successfully, and node operators manage their channel liquidity as channel imbalances emerge.

Ark is similar in the sense that it also leverages a shared UTXO model. However, instead of having one-to-one channels that come with liquidity management issues, Ark enables a large amount of individuals to share UTXOs, which are managed by an Ark Service Provider (ASP). The ASP is a central party within the protocol, but it is a central party that does not custody UTXOs. It only coordinates the transfer of sats between Ark "rounds". Users have the ability to unilaterally exit the second-layer protocol whenever they deem necessary by broadcasting a Virtual UTXO (vtxo) transaction.

This may seem daunting and complicated. All you need to know is that there is now an new way to make off-chain bitcoin payments that are fast and relatively cheap and it is possible today. As it stands today, Ark has some scaling limitations that can be solved if covenants get merged into the bitcoin protocol, which would significantly reduce the data requirements for signing this type of transaction.

It should also be noted that Ark isn't here to replace the lightning network. It can help serve different use cases and, at the same time, significantly improve the UX of the lightning network. Particularly channel management. The progression of the Ark protocol is a welcomed development. I look forward to following what's going on with Ark as the protocol matures.

The Kingdom of Bhutan is Stacking A LOT of Sats

We were made aware of the fact that the Kingdom of Bhutan, a small country in the Himalayas with a population less than 1,000,000 people, was mining bitcoin in early 2023 when their sovereign wealth fund was doxxed in the bankruptcy proceedings of BlockFi and Celsius. Don't look now, but Bhutan has been doxxed again, this time by the chain surveillance firm Arkham, which is reporting that the nation currently holds more than 13,000 bitcoin, which is nearly 1/3 of its GDP. Driven predominately by its mining operations, which have expanded significantly over the last two years in an attempt to monetize the country's excess hydroelectric power.

While we're not big fans of doxxing here at TFTC, we are fans of the game theory of bitcoin playing out in front of our eyes. And the Kingdom of Bhutan is a shining example of the game theory bitcoiners have been talking about for 15 years playing out perfectly.

Bitcoin is a very thorny topic for individuals at every layer of society. At the individual layer, people have to independently decide that bitcoin is a better money and they have to actively decide to store their wealth in it instead of other assets. For companies, the decision to use bitcoin as the preferred savings vehicle is even harder because most businesses have multiple stakeholders that need to align on a decision before making it. When you move up to the nation state level, the complexity of making the decision to add bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset gets even harder. Many more people and different branches of government need to agree and pass bills (in most cases) before bitcoin can ever make it into a nation's treasury asset mix.

It has long been said within bitcoin circles that individuals who have the ability to think independently, companies that have a lean corporate structure, and nation states with little to lose will be the first movers into bitcoin. And they will benefit massively over the long-run for being early.

If you're an individual reading this who is using bitcoin as their money of choice, you are one of these early movers. Microstrategy under Michael Saylor, who has the ability to make somewhat unilateral decisions due to the company's share structure, is an early move. And, Bhutan, a small nation in the Himalaya mountains with a sovereign wealth fund that seems to have the ability to take risk, is an early mover. With little to lose and greatness to gain, Bhutan is giving other small nation states the playbook for leap frogging the competition in the digital age. Stack a shit ton of bitcoin on the DL, hold on to it for a considerable amount of time, and wake up one day as an economic powerhouse.

The Fed Cuts Rates by 50 Basis Points

I'm sure all of you are well aware at this point. Last week the Federal Reserve made it's first rate cuts in over four years when it cut the fed funds target rate by 0.50% to 4.75-5.00%. With the economy reeling despite what the official government and mainstream narrative may try to make you believe, Jerome Powell and crew have decided it is time to ease up on their monetary policy.

Put another way, inflation is likely to come back with a vengeance as easy money begins to reenter the economy. To be clear, a lower fed funds rate doesn't technically necessitate that newly printed dollars enter the economy like they have over the last 15 years via operations like quantitative easing. However, one has to imagine that the Fed sees some sort of liquidity crisis on the horizon that requires them to begin cutting rates. And not only cutting, but cutting at a pace that was very low probability only a couple of months ago. The consensus in the middle of the Summer was that the Fed would begin lowering rates with a modest 25bps cut this month. They doubled that.

It's probably safe to assume that something is approaching a breaking point on the back end of the financial system. One only has to look at record high credit card debt, record low savings rates, the state of the job market for native born Americans, and the continued turn over of commercial real estate markets to see that not all is well in the American economy. Your Uncle Marty's spidey senses are signaling that a liquidity crunch is likely lurking around the corner. When it does rear its ugly head, you can expect quantitative easing to make a big come back.

When money printer goes brrr, bitcoin goes berserk.

It seems that the Treasury's move over the last 18-months of over-indexing on the front end of the curve during their auctions is already having an expansionary effect on M2 as it has officially entered expansion territory for the first time since 2022. Hold on to your butts, freaks.

Bitcoin's fundamentals are only getting stronger as time goes on. This is evidenced by continued improvement to the protocol stack via second layer protocols, continued adoption by reputable actors like the Kingdom of Bhutan, and the continued mismanagement of the fiat monetary system.

The price of bitcoin has been range bound since the Spring and it has lulled the market into a state of boredom. Enjoy the boring period while it lasts. All signs are pointing to a bitcoin bull run the likes of which the world hasn't seen before. There is a lot of tinder, it is extremely dry, and there are flame throwers on the horizon.

Final thought... Nothing makes me happier than meeting someone who gets value from this newsletter or the podcasts in the wild. Love you, freaks.

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@ 266815e0:6cd408a5
2024-05-09 17:23:28

Lot of people are starting to talk about building a web-of-trust and how nostr can or is already being used as such

We all know about using the kind:3 following lists as a simple WoT that can be used to filter out spam. but as we all know it does not really signal "trust", its mostly just "I find your content interesting"

But what about real "trust"... well its kind of multi-denominational, I could trust that your a good developer or a good journalist but still not trust you enough to invite you over to my house. There are some interesting and clever solutions proposed for quantifying "trust" in a digital sense but I'm not going to get into that here. I want to talk about something that I have not see anyone discuss yet.

How is the web-of-trust maintained? or more precisely how do you expect users to update the digital representation of the "trust" of other users?

Its all well and good to think of how a user would create that "trust" of another user when discovering them for the first time. They would click the "follow" button, or maybe even rate them on a few topics with a 1/5 star system But how will a user remove that trust? how will they update it if things change and they trust them less?

If our goal is to model "trust" in a digital sense then we NEED a way for the data to stay up-to-date and as accurate as possible. otherwise whats the use? If we don't have a friction-less way to update or remove the digital representation of "trust" then we will end up with a WoT that continuously grows and everyone is rated 10/10

In the case of nostr kind:3 following lists. its pretty easy to see how these would get updated. If someone posts something I dislike or I notice I'm getting board of their content. then I just unfollow them. An important part here is that I'm not thinking "I should update my trust score of this user" but instead "I'm no longer interested, I don't want to see this anymore"

But that is probably the easiest "trust" to update. because most of us on social media spend some time curating our feed and we are used to doing it. But what about the more obscure "trust" scores? whats the regular mechanism by which a user would update the "honestly" score of another user?

In the real world its easy, when I stop trusting someone I simply stop associating with them. there isn't any button or switch I need to update. I simply don't talk to them anymore, its friction-less But in the digital realm I would have to remove or update that trust. in other words its an action I need to take instead of an action I'm not doing. and actions take energy.

So how do we reflect something in the digital world that takes no-energy and is almost subconscious in the real world?

TLDR; webs-of-trust are not just about scoring other users once. you must keep the score up-to-date

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@ 30b99916:3cc6e3fe
2024-09-16 16:54:15
Chef's notes

Recipe from my Dad who frequently used the term, UBETCHA.

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 10 minutes
- 🍳 Cook time: 30 minutes
- 🍽️ Servings: 5
Ingredients
- 1 Quart/Pint medium sized Oysters
- 1 to 2 packs of regular saltine crackers
- 3 to 4 eggs beaten in a bowl
Directions
1. Rinse Oysters thoroughly in cold water
2. In a gallon zip lock bag crush saltine crackers as fine as possible. I use a roller pin.
3. Place a portion of the crushed crackers into a bowl.
4. In a frying pan with cooking oil turned to medium.
5. Place rinsed oysters into the egg bowl.
6. Bread each egg soaked oyster in the crushed cracker bowl and place into the frying pan on medium heat.
7. Cook until each oyster is golden brown on each side.
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@ 6c2d68ba:846525ec
2024-09-01 13:02:53
Dear friend,

it seems like you have decided to turn your back on those walled gardens and set sails to enter uncharted territory. A world without walls, an open world, a world of beautiful chaos. At least for today, I don't intend guiding you out of the safe harbour onto the open, endless sea. Today, my only intent is sharing a few thoughts, before you depart.

As a wise man on Madeira once said, it's not so much about having the right answers, it's about asking the right questions. While I'm not certain whether I have found the right questions myself by now, let me share the current set with you:
- What causes the discomfort that drives you out of the walled garden onto the open sea?
- Are you trying to transfer from one walled garden to the next one, where the difference being a slightly friendlier colour on the wall?
- What are you hoping to find on the open sea that walled gardens cannot provide?
- What are you willing to sacrifice for freedom (of speech)?
- What will you need to keep the ship afloat?
- How will you react when you find yourself in the middle of a storm?
I sincerely believe that it's worthwile taking a step back before departing to reflect on the big picture and the underlying paradigm shift between walled gardens and nostr. This is not about building competitors to broken systems, this is not about mimicking centralised services, this is not about repeating the same mistakes over and over.

This is about building a new world, an open world without walled gardens and data silos.

Onwards!
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@ 266815e0:6cd408a5
2024-04-22 22:20:47
While I was in Mediera with all the other awesome people at the first SEC cohort there where a lot of discussions around data storage on nostr and if it could be made censorship-resistent

I remember lots of discussions about torrents, hypercore, nostr relays, and of course IPFS

There were a few things I learned from all these conversations:
1. All the existing solutions have one thing in common. A universal ID of some kind for files
2. HTTP is still good. we don't have to throw the baby out with the bath water
3. nostr could fix this... somehow
Some of the existing solutions work well for large files, and all of them are decentralization in some way. However none of them seem capable of serving up cat pictures for social media clients. they all have something missing...

An Identity system

An identity system would allow files to be "owned" by users. and once files have owners servers could start grouping files into a single thing instead of a 1000+ loose files

This can also greatly simplify the question of "what is spam" for a server hosting (or seeding) these files. since it could simply have a whitelist of owners (and maybe their friends)

What is blossom?

Blossom is a set of HTTP endpoints that allow nostr users to store and retrieve binary data on public servers using the sha256 hash as a universal id

What are Blobs?

blobs are chunks of binary data. they are similar to files but with one key difference, they don't have names

Instead blobs have a sha256 hash (like b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553) as an ID

These IDs are universal since they can be computed from the file itself using the sha256 hashing algorithm ( you can get a files sha256 hash on linux using: sha256sum bitcoin.pdf )

How do the servers work?

Blossom servers expose four endpoints to let clients and users upload and manage blobs
- GET /<sha256> (optional file .ext)
- PUT /upload
- Authentication: Signed nostr event
- Returns a blob descriptor
- GET /list/<pubkey>
- Returns an array of blob descriptors
- Authentication (optional): Signed nostr event
- DELETE /<sha256>
- Authentication: Signed nostr event
What is Blossom Drive?

Blossom Drive is a nostr app built on top of blossom servers and allows users to create and manage folders of blobs

What are Drives

Drives are just nostr events (kind 30563) that store a map of blobs and what filename they should have along with some extra metadata

An example drive event would be json { "pubkey": "266815e0c9210dfa324c6cba3573b14bee49da4209a9456f9484e5106cd408a5", "created_at": 1710773987, "content": "", "kind": 30563, "tags": [ [ "name", "Emojis" ], [ "description", "nostr emojis" ], [ "d", "emojis" ], [ "r", "https://cdn.hzrd149.com/" ], [ "x", "303f018e613f29e3e43264529903b7c8c84debbd475f89368cb293ec23938981", "/noStrudel.png", "15161", "image/png" ], [ "x", "a0e2b39975c8da1702374b3eed6f4c6c7333e6ae0008dadafe93bd34bfb2ca78", "/satellite.png", "6853", "image/png" ], [ "x", "e8f3fae0f4a43a88eae235a8b79794d72e8f14b0e103a0fed1e073d8fb53d51f", "/amethyst.png", "20487", "image/png" ], [ "x", "70bd5836807b916d79e9c4e67e8b07e3e3b53f4acbb95c7521b11039a3c975c6", "/nos.png", "36521", "image/png" ], [ "x", "0fc304630279e0c5ab2da9c2769e3a3178c47b8609b447a30916244e89abbc52", "/primal.png", "29343", "image/png" ], [ "x", "9a03824a73d4af192d893329bbc04cd3798542ee87af15051aaf9376b74b25d4", "/coracle.png", "18300", "image/png" ], [ "x", "accdc0cdc048f4719bb5e1da4ff4c6ffc1a4dbb7cf3afbd19b86940c01111568", "/iris.png", "24070", "image/png" ], [ "x", "2e740f2514d6188e350d95cf4756bbf455d2f95e6a09bc64e94f5031bc4bba8f", "/damus.png", "32758", "image/png" ], [ "x", "2e019f08da0c75fb9c40d81947e511c8f0554763bffb6d23a7b9b8c9e8c84abb", "/old emojis/astral.png", "29365", "image/png" ], [ "x", "d97f842f2511ce0491fe0de208c6135b762f494a48da59926ce15acfdb6ac17e", "/other/rabbit.png", "19803", "image/png" ], [ "x", "72cb99b689b4cfe1a9fb6937f779f3f9c65094bf0e6ac72a8f8261efa96653f5", "/blossom.png", "4393", "image/png" ] ] }

There is a lot going on but the main thing is the list of "x" tags and the path that describes the folder and filename the blob should live at

If your interested, the full event definition is at github.com/hzrd149/blossom-drive

Getting started

Like every good nostr client it takes a small instruction manual in order to use it properly. so here are the steps for getting started

1. Open the app

Open https://blossom.hzrd149.com

2. Login using extension

You can also login using any of the following methods using the input - NIP-46 with your https://nsec.app or https://flare.pub account - a NIP-46 connection string - an ncryptsec password protected private key - a nsec unprotected private key (please don't) - bunker:// URI from nsecbunker

3. Add a blossom server

Right now https://cdn.satellite.earth is the only public server that is compatible with blossom drive. If you want to host your own I've written a basic implementation in TypeScript github.com/hzrd149/blossom-server

4. Start uploading your files

NOTE: All files upload to blossom drive are public by default. DO NOT upload private files

5. Manage files

Encrypted drives

There is also the option to encrypt drives using NIP-49 password encryption. although its not tested at all so don't trust it, verify

Whats next?

I don't know, but Im excited to see what everyone else on nostr builds with this. I'm only one developer at the end of the day and I can't think of everything

also all the images in this article are stored in one of my blossom drives here

nostr:naddr1qvzqqqrhvvpzqfngzhsvjggdlgeycm96x4emzjlwf8dyyzdfg4hefp89zpkdgz99qq8xzun5d93kcefdd9kkzem9wvr46jka
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@ e477586c:63d94e3f
2024-09-23 21:06:45

..and maybe an example?

This weekend, I had opportunity to submit estimated labor costs for myself to my church which needs a lot of work done. There's a whole long story about whether or not the congregation owns the building on which it's members paid-off the mortgage over a decade ago. The original request was for me to submit an estimated number of hours so that they could have a ballpark figure once the council decided on an hourly rate. I gave them not only that, but also thoughts, alternatives, and long-term "permanent" fixes done by specialists in their respective fields. If we are merely tenants of a building we paid-off and the Texas District remains the landlord, then the council should be better prepared to approach District and once again and say, "give us the deed, or come take care of your property."

If you've read my recent posts, you know I'm newly unemployed. My former employer happened to be the sister congregation to the Deaf Church. In the position of facilities manager, I answered to the board of trustees. They hold meetings (really boring meetings) once a month. I'd attend about twice a year which seemed satisfactory to the board at the time. One of the trustees was a constant volunteer on the property many weeks, putting in more hours than me. He was at the meetings, he'd fill the board in on what we'd been up to on campus, and they'd give him new requests. I'd see him the next morning and we'd GSD.

When asked for information from the board, I'd present it as I'm presenting this post, or the letter I plan on cut-and-pasting here in a moment. I tried to be thoughtful, thorough, detailed, clear, and not assuming they knew the back-story behind whatever project I was referring to. In short, Professional.

What I got back from the new chair was, "That's a nice little 'story-narrative' report you've submitted, but what do you actually do here anyway? People ask me and I don't know how to answer." "Why are you spending your time troubleshooting? Call a contractor." and then when he came in one day to see a contractor estimating an electrical project, "Who gave you the authority to do that?" For 6 months, to answer his question of what I did, I filled-out a time study in 15 minute increments, daily. In March of 2023 my supervolunteer left after one particularly unprofessional dialogue. He didn't have to take it anymore. That incident made the chair realize that he didn't have any idea how much institutional information had just walked out the door. I don't know for certain that he panicked at the time, but he should have. He certainly was easily "frustrated" (his word) after that. When he became frustrated, he'd verbally lash-out at myself and at multiple contractors. My words were "abusive," and "A-hole."

Over the ensuing 14 months my job went from one which I loved, but for which I was underpaid, to one which you wouldn't be able to pay me enough to take. While there is some restructuring involved with my dismissal, the job description hasn't changed all that much. And they're offering the new sucker $15k over my final salary.

While the Sledgehammer remains focused on efficiency of hours spent and a schedule of when to replace air filters, what he needs is institutional knowledge and stories. He needs to be reminded of the mission of the organization, the church, for which he volunteers, and how it has historically performed its mission in serving the members and surrounding community. It is completely possible to efficiently and effectively do exactly the wrong things. A little professionalism in communication (and maybe an anger management class) could have gone a long way to prevent a lot of heartache and grief.

When asked a direct question with a simple answer, I would do him the courtesy of answering directly and simply. When the answer required more of an explanation than I felt he was ready to listen to, I'd simply tell him, "It'll be in the book." The new Operations Manager role they plan on filling pretty much has all my old responsibilities with additional "administrative" work. They rightly assumed I wouldn't really be interested in extra administrative duties. They knew I'd rather be out on the grounds than behind a desk. But through the whole process, no one even asked. What they didn't didn't know, or hadn't considered, is just how much the role had changed over the course of the years, how much flexibility I had already imparted to the position, and how I might have been instrumental in capturing more of this institutional knowledge in the process of the transition. Another thing they may not have considered is that not only was I serious about wanting to write a book, but that I had actually started... in fits and spurts... in bits and pieces... "this would be a good chapter..." a title... chapter structure... I started shortly before SuperVolunteer left. There was often talk... "What will we ever do if something happens to S.V.?" I mean, they weren't literally looking into key-man insurance on him, but he was that valuable. I wanted to capture more of his information and make it available; a handbook of sorts.

I'm not writing the book for the Sledgehammer. I'm writing it for me. With recent developments, the book may or may not take on a different tone than originally intended, but hopefully not too much different. #grownostr will be my sandbox and my sounding board. I've had over a dozen #ideasforbooks over the years, and maybe several of them will find their way into the posts of this blog. What I've just written would fit into my book on old churches needing love. What I hope to be focusing more on in the near future is capturing #startup progress and processes. Follow me as I #write , #TaskRabbit , and #sidehustle my way to a #rightlivelihood in #regenag or #soilfertility

And now, the moment y'all've been waiting for... an example of what I'd consider #professional #communication ...That is if it copies over from a G**gle doc okay. (The numbers will be out of order, because they are in response to someone else's list and I chose to give the simple answers first, followed by those requiring more explanation.)

Members of Jesus Deaf Lutheran church council,

Sunday after our voters’ meeting, K--- approached me with the idea of the congregation hiring me to take care of some of the issues with the building, especially the issues with water. He specifically asked me for estimates of how long each project would take. I also received the letter in which Pr. L------ shared with the district some of the major issues with the building.

I’m going to share some of my thoughts here with the council along with my time estimates, then we can discuss as a council which jobs still need to be contracted out for long-term fixes on the bigger jobs, and what we will tell Texas District.

The cracked foundation. We need to have a foundation specialist come and look and give a quote. Since this is the base of several of the other problems, the specialist could tell us if any of them (twisting) would be corrected when the foundation is repaired, or if the process would only affect the foundation. Twisting - the foundation specialist would have recommendations. (4) The two air conditioners- we had already requested a quote for some of the work, but have not received a quote. I’m reaching out again.

Rotten window frames - I believe the rotten wood at the bottom of the windows on the south side of the building was repaired not too long ago. The bottoms of the frames were cut out and new wood was installed below the window, and about 18” up the sides. These should be checked and re-caulked if necessary, but the repairs appear to be in good shape. It looks like the North side of the building had been repaired as well, but the repairs were much older. The recent failure of one of the windows during a storm was the result of a dry-rotted piece of plastic that is an integrated part of the aluminum window frame. The long-term solution is to have all the windows replaced. The window installer will be able to advise on the best long-term solution with the wood frames.

My proposal for getting us through the next rainy season before we make it through our discussions with Texas District, is to cut-out the old rotten repair and do it again pretty much the same way. This would easily provide several years of protection from water infiltration and the repairs would have to be done anyway, before a new window install.

(5)a The Roof - The only long-term solution is a full replacement. We’d have to call a roofer to bid. To get us through the next rainy season, I propose to seal areas around vents, check that screws are tight, clean the roof thoroughly, tape the seams, and apply an elastomeric coating (a paint-on rubber coating) The product has a 10 year warranty, and the repairs I have done at St. Paul with it have lasted 8 and counting.

Another contributing factor to water infiltration is the condition of the gutters. New Gutters should be considered when getting bids for the roof. These are broken in several places and rusted through. Just removing them will be better for the building than leaving them in place. Another thing that needs to be considered is having the eaves extended if possible. It will help prevent some of the problems we have with the windows and the sliding door at the brick patio. I have an idea about that too, but not sure how it will go over with all of you.

I could build something like the awning over the double doors and install it up-high, just below the roofline. It could be extended over the double doors and the low one could be removed.

(5)b The sliding doors. All three of them are due for replacement and should be considered along with windows and roof. I need confirmation on this, but it seems the water is not coming through the door frame, but under it. For the short-term, I recommend removing any wood trim, sealing between the aluminum frame and the cement slab, replacing the trim and re-caulking.

(6) The trees - There’s one dead tree in the south yard along with many young, small trees that grew up in between the fences. I’m planning on taking these out in preparation for the shed. Unless the neighbor to the south has complained of any problems with the oak, I suggest we leave it alone over their property. If it needs to be done, I’d hire a tree service for liability purposes. The oak does have a few branches getting close to the church roof which I can remove. I can also remove branches over our own roof and trim any branches that hang too low in the parking lot. The issue with city codes that Pr. L------- mentioned, would be those growing into the utility lines, or are not high enough off the street. I’d have these done by a tree service as well.

(7) The water drainage on the parking lot - besides the parking lot, there is also a grading problem on the brick patio at the north side of the building. I had already been planning on grading the south lawn in order to improve drainage from the parking lot to the alley on the east end of the property before putting in a base for the shed. K--- brought the brick patio to my attention, and I can re-grade that by removing the bricks, grinding down some of the roots, and re-setting the brick and using smaller stone instead of brick right around the tree trunk. A third area I can play with is that little patch of dirt that goes in between the office and parking lot and runs north to the duplex property. I haven’t been on the property during a flooding event, so I’m not sure whether these steps will be enough, or if we’ll eventually need to have a portion of the parking-lot itself redone, but these steps will definitely help.

Costs: Rental Equipment:

Tractor W/ Loader and backhoe $329/day for 1 or 2 days plus delivery fee (last time I did this it was $100 or $150) For Grading S. yard and in front of church office.

Stump Grinder: $122/half day for grinding roots of removed tree in S. Lawn and the roots of the tree in the brick patio.

6” Chipper $232/ half day. For reducing tree waste to wood chips.

Trailer $60/day to $122/day depending on model may or may not be needed to move other equipment, materials purchased, or remove wood chips.

Compactor: $70 /half day For preparing shed foundation.

Scaffolding? For installing awning.

Materials costs have not been calculated. 10 Cubic Yards road base for foundation of shed: They don’t have current prices on their website, but last time I priced it, it was about $30/yard and the delivery was between $100 and $200. Gravel for graded area in front of church offices: estimated 3 yards (more than the roadbase/yard, but don’t know how much maybe $45/yd

4” PVC pipe and fittings. 30 feet @$50/10’ Approx. $250

Roof Coating $99/5gal Covers 500 square feet. Does someone know how many square feet the building is?

Materials for ‘awning’ ???

Estimated labor hours:

Grading S. Lawn 8 Spreading and compacting shed foundation 4 Misc Tree trimming over parking lot, roof, and in S yard 9 Shredding and removal of tree waste 6 Roof inspection and prep work for coating 24 Roof Coating 16 Grading area in front of offices to drain to North 16 North Patio Re grading 24 Removing gutters 24 Repairing windows on N side and sealing sliding door frames 32 Construct “awning” to move rainfall away from the building. 40?

Zap if you liked it or learned something, and give me a follow.

I do have my first #Task lined up with #TaskRabbit. we'll see what kind of sorcery the algorithms do once I've shown #proofofwork

And it looks like the text of the google doc came over fine, but not any images... they were mostly just pictures of rotten window frames, anyway.

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@ 17538dc2:71ed77c4
2024-09-16 15:26:32

Quiztime

Oil and gas

Oil and gas is naturally occurring. The prevalent worldview is that oil & gas has a biotic origin. There are real world examples of abiotic oil deposits, which proponents of the status quo have a difficult time reconciling.

Irregardless, when oil & gas is burned, it simply turns to plant food (carbon dioxide + water).

Oil and gas greens the Earth, and increases fertilization and agricultural crop yield across the globe.

The energy density of oil and gas is only surpassed by that of nuclear power.

Energy produced by oil and gas combustion is generally on-demand, reliable, economically storable & transportable.

Solar

The sun is an abudant energy source, which keeps Earth warm, and alive. Thank you sun 🌞!

With the exception of places such as the UK, where it is unclear if inhabitants have ever seen the sun, solar rays keep plants, animals, and humans happy & alive on most of planet Earth.

Inventions such as solar panels harness the sun's energy, and convert it to electricity.

Solar panels consist of silicon, rare earth metals, and require toxic metals.

Solar panels have an expected life of decades, are not readily or economically recyclable.

A very low solar energy density practically means that land is inefficiently utilized in solar energy production. Solar used on arable land can no longer be farmed, and where no plains exist solar is known to cause deforestation and landslides.

Solar energy is not reliable, not can it be summoned on demand. Solar energy is not economically storable, and is many cases is not produced at the point of demand.

Despite central planner mandates & subsidies in the US, the #EULAG and elsewhere, due to its intermittent nature, solar power cannot be counted on to replace reliable power generation in nuclear, hydro, or carbon fuel thermoelectric plants.

What this means is that solar does not replace, and yet ratheradds to reliable energy generation, as most people in the developed world would not be OK with having electricity for at most 1/3 of the day. This increases the price of electricity, which in turn increases energy poverty, and drives businesses to shut down manufacturing, or move to a more energy competitive jurisdiction.

The capital wasted by central planners could have been used to reduce burden on consumers, and businesses, or fund healthcare, infrastructure, or other services.

It should be noted that off grid applications where there is no grid, or energy alternatives can be massively useful for folks otherwise without electricity.

Which energy source would you consider renewable?

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@ c69b71dc:426ba763
2024-09-16 08:21:02
Chef's notes

This granola is a wholesome, nutrient-dense option that's free from sugar, oil, and artificial additives. The activated nuts and seeds are sprouted to enhance their nutritional value and digestibility, while the natural sweetness comes from apples and bananas. Dehydrating at low temperatures ensures the ingredients retain their raw, living enzymes. Enjoy this crunchy delight as a breakfast topping, snack, or straight from the jar!

The picture shows my delightful breakfast: creamy oat milk with chia seeds, topped with crunchy granola and fresh cubes of apple and pear 💚

Enjoy your crunchy, nutrient-packed granola⚡️

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 10 min (soaking 24 hours)
- 🍳 Cook time: 16 hours (Dehydration)
- 🍽️ Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 1 cup raw almonds
- 1 cup raw sunflower seeds
- 1 cup raw pumpkin seeds
- 1/2 cup raw cashew or walnuts
- 2 ripe banana
- 1 apple (cored)
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp raw cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon (optional)
- Pinch of sea salt
Directions
1. Activate and Sprout the Nuts & Seeds: Soak the almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and cashews or walnuts in water for 24 hours. Drain and rinse thoroughly.
2. Prepare the Fruit Mixture: In a blender, puree the banana and apple until smooth. Add the vanilla extract, cocoa powder, cinnamon (optional), and a pinch of sea salt to the puree.
3. Mix and Combine: In a large mixing bowl, combine the activated nuts and seeds with the fruit puree. Stir well until everything is evenly coated.
4. Dehydrate: Spread the mixture evenly on dehydrator trays. I use silicone sheets with a border. Dehydrate at a temperature at 42°C (115°F) for 12–16 hours, or until the granola is completely dry and crispy. If you don’t have a dehydrator, you can use your oven at its lowest setting, leaving the door slightly open.
5. Break Apart & Store: Once fully dehydrated, break the granola into chunks. Store in an airtight container in a cool, dry place for up to 2 weeks.
6. Serving Suggestions: Sprinkle on top of smoothie bowls, or eat as is!
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@ e8b86bc1:3503c58f
2024-09-23 20:45:24

Opinion about Freewallet Multi Crypto Wallet (iphone)

Let’s unite to stop Freewallet's scam! Every complaint makes a difference. Visit freewalletreviews.org/countries-organizations to learn how to file yours.

WalletScrutiny #nostrOpinion

Join the conversation!

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@ 6c2d68ba:846525ec
2024-08-30 21:53:53

What the hell is Nostriga you might think. Nostriga is part of the nostr.world unconference series. It's a cost-free event aimed at gathering nostriches - people excited about nostr - globally to share knowledge, collaborate, network and work towards a freely accessible internet.

In case you never heard of nostr: nostr is an open protocol designed for censorship-resistant and global web publishing, fostering a value-for-value exchange. Find more information here.

Now that a few days have passed, it's time to reflect on some of my main takeaways but first, I would like to thank Marce, Anna, Jack, Uncle Rockstar and everyone else involved for making this event special in several ways. I'm sharing my thoughts in no particular order and as can be expected after having heard so many inspiring talks, I will be relaying - relay, get it? - many great ideas others shared.

nostriches are built different

To be honest, Nostriga was one of the best conference experiences I have had in a while. Great spirit, deep conversations, real & honest takes and 99% signal. Everyone who's ever been to a conference knows how draining and tiring such events can be. This time, however, something is different. I guess one of the main reasons for this are the people behind those npubs. Great attitude, avoiding ego shows, no simping for VIPs, down to earth and a positive vision of what might lie ahead. So in hindsight, Nostriga makes me super bullish on the upcoming months and the road ahead when it comes to the tech as well as the people behind nostr. Onwards, nostriches.

no need for nostr marketing

With the world marching towards implementing 1984, which was not meant to serve as instruction manual god dammit, and events such as the arrest of Pavel Durov, it's evident that nostr won't need a marketing department. An open protocol with focus on censorship-resistance and free speech, will automatically attract the attention of just the right people. This is of course based on the assumption that the nostr community will deal with certain challenges when it comes to privacy and nostr.

nostr (still) has privacy issues

As already pointed out by Edward Snowden, many open challenges remain to be mastered when it comes to privacy, so that people having to rely on safe and private messaging don't have to rule out nostr. Protecting identities, location and leaking as little metadata as possible are crucial here. Keep in mind, a three letter agency once said that they kill people based on metadata. In this regard, nostr DMs are one of the biggest pain points for the time being, though several nips exist to overcome issues such as IP leaks. See the talk of Jeff for details. We'll get there!

For thoughts on privacy, check out saving private nostr:

For privacy and DMs, check out the past and future of messaging on nostr (at 3h 01min 48s):

nostr already got a killer feature: openness

Long story short, watch this talk (starts at 1h 19min 17s) :

nostr beyond social media

As demonstrated by Ben Arc, nostr can be so much more than just an attempt to mimic Twitter. IoT, web of trust, file sharing or bringing together (open) social media and AI are just a few things on the table.

separation of client and algorithm

For many of you this might be nothing new but I can't stress the importance of Data Vending Machines (DVMs) enough. In a nutshell, DVMs are data-processing tools. You give them some data, a few sats, and they give you back some data. As anyone can spin up his own DVM without any registration or signup, there will be ruthless competition. Check out DVMs for further information.

The basic idea behind it, which still gets me, is the potential separation of (nostr) clients and algorithms in a broader sense. Coupled with marketplaces and having insights what algorithms your friends are using, things will get interesting. Remember, to this day Twitter, Meta and so on are deciding what algorithms are being used in your app and not you. nostr will put you in the driver seat.

web of trust

Web of trust is something people talk a lot about these days, so I will keep it short. One idea caught my attention: combining nostr and file sharing in the sense that you attach an npub to files hosted on file sharing services or torrents and so on. In order to prevent downloading or even spreading infected files, it boils down to the simple question of "can I trust that npub to host clean as well as safe files?". Reputation.

have you seen my nutsack?

Before Nostriga, I haven't been aware of how beautifully ecash and nostr can go hand in hand. In particular, I'm still trying to find the right words to express how big of a deal the combination of Data Vending Machines and ecash can be, if implemented the right way. Check out DVMs that nutsack thing, and pistachio bag.

(Talk starts at 55min 41s)

nostr is not another Bitcoiner circle jerk

On the second day of Nostriga, I met someone at one of the food trucks, who happens to have been actively fighting to free Julian Assange. Events, protests, spreading the word, the whole thing. He or she - trying to hide as many details as I possibly can here - told me that his/her main motivation for coming to Riga was indeed nostr and that he/she had discovered Bitcoin via nostr, where it's usually the other way around. To be honest, this was not the only time I heard this at Nostriga but for sure it's the most memorable one.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with so many Bitcoiners being around on nostr and it does come with several benefits, one of them being an excellent meme game. As I sincerely believe that nostr is for anyone, it feels good to see other communities popping up and telling their stories on nostr. So delighted you're leaving those walled gardens, friends.

onwards

Let me know what you think, where you agree, where you have a different point of view. Feel free to bring in your Nostriga story. Keep it weird, fellow nostriches, and if you have time to just watch a single talk from Nostriga, make sure it's this one:

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@ 42342239:1d80db24
2024-08-30 06:26:21

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

-- Juvenal (Who will watch the watchmen?)

In mid-July, numerous media outlets reported on the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. FBI Director Christopher Wray stated later that same month that what hit the former president Trump was a bullet. A few days later, it was reported from various sources that search engines no longer acknowledged that an assassination attempt on ex-President Trump had taken place. When users used automatic completion in Google and Bing (91% respectively 4% market share), these search engines only suggested earlier presidents such as Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin as people who could have been subjected to assassination attempts.

The reports were comprehensive enough for the Republican district attorney of Missouri to say that he would investigate matter. The senator from Kansas - also a Republican - planned to make an official request to Google. Google has responded through a spokesman to the New York Post that the company had not "manually changed" search results, but its system includes "protection" against search results "connected to political violence."

A similar phenomenon occurred during the 2016 presidential election. At the time, reports emerged of Google, unlike other less widely used search engines, rarely or never suggesting negative search results for Hillary Clinton. The company however provided negative search results for then-candidate Trump. Then, as today, the company denied deliberately favouring any specific political candidate.

These occurrences led to research on how such search suggestions can influence public opinion and voting preferences. For example, the impact of simply removing negative search suggestions has been investigated. A study published in June 2024 reports that such search results can dramatically affect undecided voters. Reducing negative search suggestions can turn a 50/50 split into a 90/10 split in favour of the candidate for whom negative search suggestions were suppressed. The researchers concluded that search suggestions can have "a dramatic impact," that this can "shift a large number of votes" and do so without leaving "any trace for authorities to follow." How search engines operate should therefore be considered of great importance by anyone who claims to take democracy seriously. And this regardless of one's political sympathies.

A well-known thought experiment in philosophy asks: "If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?" Translated to today's media landscape: If an assassination attempt took place on a former president, but search engines don't want to acknowledge it, did it really happen?

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@ b4175c4f:d1789a43
2024-09-02 02:10:27

O cálculo lambda, nomeado comumente de lambda calculus, formalizado por Alonzo Church na década de 1930, é uma das fundações teóricas da ciência da computação e da lógica matemática.

Seguem os princípios básicos do cálculo lambda:

Abstração

A abstração é a principal característica do cálculo lambda e se refere à definição de funções anônimas. No cálculo lambda, uma função é definida pela notação λx.E, onde:
- λ é o símbolo lambda.
- x é o parâmetro da função.
- E é a expressão que define o corpo da função.

Por exemplo, a expressão λx.x + 1 representa uma função que adiciona 1 a seu argumento.

Aplicação

A aplicação é o processo de chamar uma função com um argumento. No cálculo lambda, a aplicação de uma função a um argumento é representada pela justaposição de duas expressões. Por exemplo, se temos a função: λx.x + 1 e queremos aplicá-la ao argumento 2, escrevemos (λx.x + 1)2

Redução

Redução é o processo de simplificação de expressões no cálculo lambda. Existem várias formas de redução, mas as mais comuns são:

Redução β (Beta): Substitui a variável vinculada na expressão da função pelo argumento fornecido, i.e, (λx.x + 1)2 se reduz a 2 + 1, que é 3.
Redução α (Alpha): Renomeia as variáveis vinculadas para evitar conflitos de nomes, i.e, λx.λx.x pode ser renomeado para λx.λy.y.

Variáveis Livres e Vinculadas

Uma variável é considerada vinculada se está definida dentro do escopo de uma abstração lambda. Caso contrário, é considerada uma variável livre. Por exemplo, na expressão λx.x+y, x é uma variável vinculada e y é uma variável livre.

Substituição

Substituição é o processo de substituir uma variável livre por uma expressão. Se temos uma expressão E e substituímos uma variável x por uma expressão N, representamos isso como E[x := N].

Funções Anônimas

No cálculo lambda, todas as funções são anônimas, o que significa que elas não têm um nome explícito. Isso contrasta com a programação tradicional, onde funções geralmente têm nomes.

Expressividade

O cálculo lambda é extremamente expressivo e pode representar qualquer função computável. Ele é Turing-completo, o que significa que qualquer coisa que pode ser computada por uma máquina de Turing também pode ser computada usando cálculo lambda.

Exemplo de Redução

Considere a função identidade λx.x. Aplicando essa função a um argumento a, temos:

(λx.x)a

Para reduzir isso, substituímos x por a no corpo da função:

a

Este é um exemplo simples de como a aplicação e a redução funcionam no cálculo lambda.

Notação e Como Usar:

Abstração

A notação λx.E define uma função anônima onde x é o parâmetro e E é o corpo da função. É importante notar que:
- O ponto (.) separa o parâmetro do corpo da função.
- As variáveis são case-sensitive.

Por exemplo, λx.x define uma função identidade que retorna o próprio argumento.

Aplicação

Para aplicar uma função a um argumento, simplesmente colocamos a função e o argumento lado a lado. Por exemplo, a aplicação da função identidade λx.x ao argumento a é escrita como (λx.x)a.

Redução β (Beta)

A redução β envolve substituir o parâmetro formal pelo argumento fornecido na aplicação. Considere a função λx.x + 1 aplicada a 2:

(λx.x + 1)2⇒ 2 + 1⇒ 3

Redução α

A redução α é usada para evitar conflitos de nomes, renomeando variáveis vinculadas. Por exemplo, λx.λx.x pode ser renomeado para λx.λy.y para evitar ambiguidades.

Variáveis Livres e Vinculadas

Na expressão λx.x + y, x é vinculado pelo λ enquanto y é livre. Isso significa que y não tem uma definição dentro da expressão e pode ser substituído por outro valor.

Substituição

Se temos uma expressão E e queremos substituir uma variável x por uma expressão N, representamos isso como E[x := N]. Por exemplo, se E = x + y e N = 2, então E[x := 2] resulta em 2 + y.

Exemplo Prático

Vamos considerar a função λx.λy.x + y e aplicá-la aos argumentos 3 e 4:
(λx.λy.x + y)3 ⇒ λy.3 + y

(λy.3 + y)4 ⇒ 3 + 4 ⇒ 7

Neste exemplo, primeiro aplicamos o 3 ao parâmetro x, resultando em uma nova função λy.3 + y. Depois aplicamos o 4 ao parâmetro y, resultando na expressão final 3 + 4, que se reduz a 7.

Fim.

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@ 8cb60e21:5f2deaea
2024-09-23 20:29:04

Here's an explanation of the changes made to make the input and button work for creating invoices:

Added a new state variable invoiceAmount to store the user input for the invoice amount. Added another state variable invoice to store the created invoice data. Created a new function handleCreateInvoice that calls the createInvoice function with the entered amount. Updated the input field to be controlled by the invoiceAmount state. Added an onClick handler to the "Create Invoice" button that calls handleCreateInvoice. Added a new section to display the created invoice details when available.

This implementation allows the user to enter an amount in satoshis, create an invoice with that amount, and see the details of the created invoice including the payment request. Would you like me to explain any part of this code in more detail?

```js import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react"; import { getInfo, getBalances, createInvoice } from "./lib/lnd"; import "./App.css";

export default function App() { const [info, setInfo] = useState({}); const [lightningBalance, setLightningBalance] = useState({}); const [inbound, setInbound] = useState({}); const [invoiceAmount, setInvoiceAmount] = useState(""); const [invoice, setInvoice] = useState(null);

const fetchData = async () => { const fetchedInfo = await getInfo(); setInfo(fetchedInfo); const fetchedBalance = await getBalances(); setLightningBalance(fetchedBalance.local_balance.sat); setInbound(fetchedBalance.remote_balance.sat); };

useEffect(() => { fetchData(); }, []);

const handleCreateInvoice = async () => { try { const createdInvoice = await createInvoice(parseInt(invoiceAmount)); setInvoice(createdInvoice); } catch (error) { console.error("Error creating invoice:", error); // You might want to show an error message to the user here } };

return (
{info && (

Connected to {info.alias}

Pubkey: {info.identity_pubkey}

)} {lightningBalance && inbound && (

Lightning Balance

Balance: {lightningBalance} sats

Inbound: {inbound} sats

)} {info && (

Create Invoice
setInvoiceAmount(e.target.value)} placeholder="Amount in sats" />
)} {invoice && (

Created Invoice

Payment Request: {invoice.payment_request}

Amount: {invoice.value} sats

)}
); } ```

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@ 460c25e6:ef85065c
2024-08-29 01:07:22

If you don't know where your posts are, you might as well just stay in the centralized Twitter. You either take control of your relay lists, or they will control you. Amethyst offers several lists of relays for our users. We are going to go one by one to help clarify what they are and which options are best for each one.

Public Home/Outbox Relays

Home relays store all YOUR content: all your posts, likes, replies, lists, etc. It's your home. Amethyst will send your posts here first. Your followers will use these relays to get new posts from you. So, if you don't have anything there, they will not receive your updates.

Home relays must allow queries from anyone, ideally without the need to authenticate. They can limit writes to paid users without affecting anyone's experience.

This list should have a maximum of 3 relays. More than that will only make your followers waste their mobile data getting your posts. Keep it simple. Out of the 3 relays, I recommend: - 1 large public, international relay: nos.lol, nostr.mom, relay.damus.io, etc. - 1 personal relay to store a copy of all your content in a place no one can delete. Go to relay.tools and never be censored again. - 1 really fast relay located in your country: paid options like http://nostr.wine are great

Do not include relays that block users from seeing posts in this list. If you do, no one will see your posts.

Public Inbox Relays

This relay type receives all replies, comments, likes, and zaps to your posts. If you are not getting notifications or you don't see replies from your friends, it is likely because you don't have the right setup here. If you are getting too much spam in your replies, it's probably because your inbox relays are not protecting you enough. Paid relays can filter inbox spam out.

Inbox relays must allow anyone to write into them. It's the opposite of the outbox relay. They can limit who can download the posts to their paid subscribers without affecting anyone's experience.

This list should have a maximum of 3 relays as well. Again, keep it small. More than that will just make you spend more of your data plan downloading the same notifications from all these different servers. Out of the 3 relays, I recommend: - 1 large public, international relay: nos.lol, nostr.mom, relay.damus.io, etc. - 1 personal relay to store a copy of your notifications, invites, cashu tokens and zaps. - 1 really fast relay located in your country: go to nostr.watch and find relays in your country

Terrible options include: - nostr.wine should not be here. - filter.nostr.wine should not be here. - inbox.nostr.wine should not be here.

DM Inbox Relays

These are the relays used to receive DMs and private content. Others will use these relays to send DMs to you. If you don't have it setup, you will miss DMs. DM Inbox relays should accept any message from anyone, but only allow you to download them.

Generally speaking, you only need 3 for reliability. One of them should be a personal relay to make sure you have a copy of all your messages. The others can be open if you want push notifications or closed if you want full privacy.

Good options are: - inbox.nostr.wine and auth.nostr1.com: anyone can send messages and only you can download. Not even our push notification server has access to them to notify you. - a personal relay to make sure no one can censor you. Advanced settings on personal relays can also store your DMs privately. Talk to your relay operator for more details. - a hidden, but public relay if you want DM notifications from our servers.

Make sure to add at least one public relay if you want to see DM notifications.

Private Home Relays

Private Relays are for things no one should see, like your drafts, lists, app settings, bookmarks etc. Ideally, these relays are either local or require authentication before posting AND downloading each user\'s content. There are no dedicated relays for this category yet, so I would use a local relay like Citrine on Android and a personal relay on relay.tools.

Keep in mind that if you choose a local relay only, a client on the desktop might not be able to see the drafts from clients on mobile and vice versa.

Search relays:

This is the list of relays to use on Amethyst's search and user tagging with @. Tagging and searching will not work if there is nothing here.. This option requires NIP-50 compliance from each relay. Hit the Default button to use all available options on existence today: - nostr.wine - relay.nostr.band - relay.noswhere.com

Local Relays:

This is your local storage. Everything will load faster if it comes from this relay. You should install Citrine on Android and write ws://localhost:4869 in this option.

General Relays:

This section contains the default relays used to download content from your follows. Notice how you can activate and deactivate the Home, Messages (old-style DMs), Chat (public chats), and Global options in each.

Keep 5-6 large relays on this list and activate them for as many categories (Home, Messages (old-style DMs), Chat, and Global) as possible.

Amethyst will provide additional recommendations to this list from your follows with information on which of your follows might need the additional relay in your list. Add them if you feel like you are missing their posts or if it is just taking too long to load them.

My setup

Here's what I use: 1. Go to relay.tools and create a relay for yourself. 2. Go to nostr.wine and pay for their subscription. 3. Go to inbox.nostr.wine and pay for their subscription. 4. Go to nostr.watch and find a good relay in your country. 5. Download Citrine to your phone.

Then, on your relay lists, put:

Public Home/Outbox Relays: - nostr.wine - nos.lol or an in-country relay. - .nostr1.com

Public Inbox Relays - nos.lol or an in-country relay - .nostr1.com

DM Inbox Relays - inbox.nostr.wine - .nostr1.com

Private Home Relays - ws://localhost:4869 (Citrine) - .nostr1.com (if you want)

Search Relays - nostr.wine - relay.nostr.band - relay.noswhere.com

Local Relays - ws://localhost:4869 (Citrine)

General Relays - nos.lol - relay.damus.io - relay.primal.net - nostr.mom

And a few of the recommended relays from Amethyst.

Final Considerations

Remember, relays can see what your Nostr client is requesting and downloading at all times. They can track what you see and see what you like. They can sell that information to the highest bidder, they can delete your content or content that a sponsor asked them to delete (like a negative review for instance) and they can censor you in any way they see fit. Before using any random free relay out there, make sure you trust its operator and you know its terms of service and privacy policies.

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@ ffd375eb:4529ed08
2024-09-15 18:08:27
Chef's notes

The ginger, lemon, and spicy peppers are optional ingredients that can be added to enhance the flavour and potential health benefits of the fermented garlic honey.

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 20 minutes
- 🍳 Cook time: 1 month (or longer)
Ingredients
- Garlic cloves, peeled and cracked open (if possible)
- Local, unfiltered honey
- Ginger root, peeled and cut into 1/8 to 1/4 inch pieces (optional)
- Lemon, cut into small pieces (optional)
- Spicy peppers like bird's eye peppers (optional)
Directions
1. Peel and crack open the garlic cloves. The cracked cloves will ferment faster.
2. Add the peeled and cracked garlic cloves to a clean jar, filling about half the jar.
3. Add the honey to the jar, leaving about 1 inch of headspace at the top.
4. If using, add the ginger, lemon, and/or spicy peppers to the jar.
5. Seal the jar tightly and shake well to combine the ingredients.
6. Burp the jar (open it to release built-up gas) and gently shake it once or twice a day for the next 1-2 weeks to allow the fermentation process to occur.
7. After 1-2 weeks, refrigerate the fermented garlic honey. Continue to burp the jar once or twice a week.
8. Use the fermented garlic honey within 2-3 months for best quality and safety.
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@ 592295cf:413a0db9
2024-09-14 18:13:41
09 09 week

The billboard has reached its first goal.

I don't understand anything, too much.

The web is a dangerous place, maybe the couch at home is for you.

Nostr is like being in a public place like a bar and you listen to the radio, and you can decide which radio to choose, you can also talk on the radio, only those who follow you and those who are connected to that frequency can listen to you.

We talk on multiple frequencies so if one is offline they can hear me on the other.

Spam will always be a constant as are fixed costs, personnel costs, taxes things that people in general hate

A lot of talk that will be blown away by the wind.

Jack Dorsey says Nostr will be a protocol for private encrypted chats
1. Open-sats drama
2. Carnivore dietitian
3. Lightning diatribe
4. This is already Twitter 😉
Fiatjaf explained for the umpteenth time what the outbox model is, now those who look at images instead of reading books must have understood it too. My note, Patricia writes in her relays write, including select some in her outbox 10002 kind. it was a dev page of something, so maybe it won't be online for long

Thinking that with Kamala Harris's victory, the price of Bitcoin would hit a low and holders would be happy to buy. 🤣🤣 Instead with Trump new all time High, holders would be happy. 🤣🤣 Lol Moment.

I read the article about btcmap maps, there were some notes to make but I didn't, it's beyond my level, it was only for builders.

Satlantis, trustroots, and wherostr were not noted.

I had this thought that we will not "succeed" in building the openness of type 1, in the following nips, because of the relays and because discovering new things has a cost, and no one wants to discover new things. And then after that the others should use them, but how and after that at least two others appear who are doing a similar thing, but they don't talk to each other because they don't have time.

If the time horizon is 10 years, those who survive will see.

Keeping calm seems difficult.

I tried nostr-relay-tray works. It works, I would suggest a couple of changes
1. Delete some events.
2. View events
3. Search by npub id or time
4. Delete by time.
These are difficult things but they can be done with a database, so they may as well not be done.

I hope that all the controversies are forgotten and overcome and we are more serene.
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@ f977c464:32fcbe00
2024-01-30 20:06:18

Güneşin kaybolmasının üçüncü günü, saat öğlen on ikiyi yirmi geçiyordu. Trenin kalkmasına yaklaşık iki saat vardı. Hepimiz perondaydık. Valizlerimiz, kolilerimiz, renk renk ve biçimsiz çantalarımızla yan yana dizilmiş, kısa aralıklarla tepemizdeki devasa saati kontrol ediyorduk.

Ama ne kadar dik bakarsak bakalım zaman bir türlü istediğimiz hızla ilerlemiyordu. Herkes birkaç dakika sürmesi gereken alelade bir doğa olayına sıkışıp kalmış, karanlıktan sürünerek çıkmayı deniyordu.

Bekleme salonuna doğru döndüm. Nefesimden çıkan buharın arkasında, kalın taş duvarları ve camlarıyla morg kadar güvenli ve soğuk duruyordu. Cesetleri o yüzden bunun gibi yerlere taşımaya başlamışlardı. Demek insanların bütün iyiliği başkaları onları gördüğü içindi ki gündüzleri gecelerden daha karanlık olduğunda hemen birbirlerinin gırtlağına çökmüş, böğürlerinde delikler açmış, gözlerini oyup kafataslarını parçalamışlardı.

İstasyonun ışığı titrediğinde karanlığın enseme saplandığını hissettim. Eğer şimdi, böyle kalabalık bir yerde elektrik kesilse başımıza ne gelirdi?

İçerideki askerlerden biri bakışlarımı yakalayınca yeniden saate odaklanmış gibi yaptım. Sadece birkaç dakika geçmişti.

“Tarlalarım gitti. Böyle boyum kadar ayçiçeği doluydu. Ah, hepsi ölüp gidiyor. Afitap’ın çiçekleri de gi-”

“Dayı, Allah’ını seversen sus. Hepimizi yakacaksın şimdi.”

Karanlıkta durduğunda, görünmez olmayı istemeye başlıyordun. Kimse seni görmemeli, nefesini bile duymamalıydı. Kimsenin de ayağının altında dolaşmamalıydın; gelip kazayla sana çarpmamalılar, takılıp sendelememeliydiler. Yoksa aslında hedefi sen olmadığın bir öfke gürlemeye başlar, yaşadığın ilk şoku ve acıyı silerek üstünden geçerdi.

İlk konuşan, yaşlıca bir adam, kafasında kasketi, nasırlı ellerine hohluyordu. Gözleri ve burnu kızarmıştı. Güneşin kaybolması onun için kendi başına bir felaket değildi. Hayatına olan pratik yansımalarından korkuyordu olsa olsa. Bir anının kaybolması, bu yüzden çoktan kaybettiği birinin biraz daha eksilmesi. Hayatta kalmasını gerektiren sebepler azalırken, hayatta kalmasını sağlayacak kaynaklarını da kaybediyordu.

Onu susturan delikanlıysa atkısını bütün kafasına sarmış, sakalı ve yüzünün derinliklerine kaçmış gözleri dışında bedeninin bütün parçalarını gizlemeye çalışıyordu. İşte o, güneşin kaybolmasının tam olarak ne anlama geldiğini anlamamış olsa bile, dehşetini olduğu gibi hissedebilenlerdendi.

Güneşin onlardan alındıktan sonra kime verileceğini sormuyorlardı. En başta onlara verildiğinde de hiçbir soru sormamışlardı zaten.

İki saat ne zaman geçer?

Midemin üstünde, sağ tarafıma doğru keskin bir acı hissettim. Karaciğerim. Gözlerimi yumdum. Yanımda biri metal bir nesneyi yere bıraktı. Bir kafesti. İçerisindeki kartalın ıslak kokusu burnuma ulaşmadan önce bile biliyordum bunu.

“Yeniden mi?” diye sordu bana kartal. Kanatları kanlı. Zamanın her bir parçası tüylerinin üstüne çöreklenmişti. Gagası bir şey, tahminen et parçası geveliyor gibi hareket ediyordu. Eski anılar kolay unutulmazmış. Şu anda kafesinin kalın parmaklıklarının ardında olsa da bunun bir aldatmaca olduğunu bir tek ben biliyordum. Her an kanatlarını iki yana uzatıverebilir, hava bu hareketiyle dalgalanarak kafesi esneterek hepimizi içine alacak kadar genişleyebilir, parmaklıklar önce ayaklarımızın altına serilir gibi gözükebilir ama aslında hepimizin üstünde yükselerek tepemize çökebilirdi.

Aşağıya baktım. Tahtalarla zapt edilmiş, hiçbir yere gidemeyen ama her yere uzanan tren rayları. Atlayıp koşsam… Çantam çok ağırdı. Daha birkaç adım atamadan, kartal, suratını bedenime gömerdi.

“Bu sefer farklı,” diye yanıtladım onu. “Yeniden diyemezsin. Tekrarladığım bir şey değil bu. Hatta bir hata yapıyormuşum gibi tonlayamazsın da. Bu sefer, insanların hak etmediğini biliyorum.”

“O zaman daha vahim. Süzme salaksın demektir.”

“İnsanların hak etmemesi, insanlığın hak etmediği anlamına gelmez ki.”

Az önce göz göze geldiğim genççe ama çökük asker hâlâ bana bakıyordu. Bir kartalla konuştuğumu anlamamıştı şüphesiz. Yanımdakilerden biriyle konuştuğumu sanmış olmalıydı. Ama konuştuğum kişiye bakmıyordum ona göre. Çekingence kafamı eğmiştim. Bir kez daha göz göze geldiğimizde içerideki diğer iki askere bir şeyler söyledi, onlar dönüp beni süzerken dışarı çıktı.

Yanımızdaki, az önce konuşan iki adam da şaşkınlıkla bir bana bir kartala bakıyordu.

“Yalnız bu sefer kalbin de kırılacak, Prometheus,” dedi kartal, bana. “Belki son olur. Biliyorsun, bir sürü soruna neden oluyor bu yaptıkların.”

Beni koruyordu sözde. En çok kanıma dokunan buydu. Kasıklarımın üstüne oturmuş, kanlı suratının ardında gözleri parlarken attığı çığlık kulaklarımda titremeye devam ediyordu. Bu tabloda kimsenin kimseyi düşündüğü yoktu. Kartalın, yanımızdaki adamların, artık arkama kadar gelmiş olması gereken askerin, tren raylarının, geçmeyen saatlerin…

Arkamı döndüğümde, asker sahiden oradaydı. Zaten öyle olması gerekiyordu; görmüştüm bunu, biliyordum. Kehanetler… Bir şeyler söylüyordu ama ağzı oynarken sesi çıkmıyordu. Yavaşlamış, kendisini saatin akışına uydurmuştu. Havada donan tükürüğünden anlaşılıyordu, sinirliydi. Korktuğu için olduğunu biliyordum. Her seferinde korkmuşlardı. Beni unutmuş olmaları işlerini kolaylaştırmıyordu. Sadece yeni bir isim vermelerine neden oluyordu. Bu seferkiyle beni lanetleyecekleri kesinleşmişti.

Olması gerekenle olanların farklı olması ne kadar acınasıydı. Olması gerekenlerin doğasının kötücül olmasıysa bir yerde buna dayanıyordu.

“Salaksın,” dedi kartal bana. Zamanı aşan bir çığlık. Hepimizin önüne geçmişti ama kimseyi durduramıyordu.

Sonsuzluğa kaç tane iki saat sıkıştırabilirsiniz?

Ben bir tane bile sıkıştıramadım.

Çantama uzanıyordum. Asker de sırtındaki tüfeğini indiriyordu. Benim acelem yoktu, onunsa eli ayağı birbirine dolaşıyordu. Oysaki her şey tam olması gerektiği anda olacaktı. Kehanet başkasının parmaklarının ucundaydı.

Güneş, bir tüfeğin patlamasıyla yeryüzüne doğdu.

Rayların üzerine serilmiş göğsümün ortasından, bir çantanın içinden.

Not: Bu öykü ilk olarak 2021 yılında Esrarengiz Hikâyeler'de yayımlanmıştır.

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2024-09-10 04:07:40
Chef's notes

This recipe is will need to be broken down into 3 parts. 1 Growing a scobe. 2 Your first fermentation. 3 Your second fermentation.

The length of time that your kumbucha will need to ferment is going to be determined in part by the ambient temperature in the room where you are fermenting. A simple taste test starting with day 3 and proceeding 1 a day for each consecutive day, will help you see the change in flavor for your particular temperature and scoby. My personal ferments are typically done in 3 days.

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 15 minutes
- 🍽️ Servings: 16
Ingredients
- 4 cups boiling water
- 8 cups room temp water
- 2-3 tbsp. Loose-leaf black tea.(your choice which)
- 3/4 cup raw organic cane sugar
- 1 scoby
Directions
1. Boil 4 cups of water and place your 2-3 tbsp of loose-leaf black tea and let steep for about 15 minutes. Strain out the tea leaves. Then add the 3/4 cup of sugar and stir till disolved. Do not use other types of sweeteners, you may kill the scoby. After the sugar is disolved add in the other 8 cups of room temperature water, which will bring down the temperature of the tea mixture. Your tea should be under 80f before you add your scoby. Poor this tea mixture into a 1 gallon glass jar, do not use plastic.
2. Add in your scoby and then cover your jar with a clean cloth or I like to put a coffee filter on the top of my jar with a rubber band to keep out any bugs or what not. Put the jar in a shady spot and let it sit for 3 days before testing. You can begin drinking it when the flavor is to your liking after the 3 day period.
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2024-09-10 03:52:43
Chef's notes

Inspiration for this recipe struck me while preparing a traditional PB&J sandwich and my daughter was also preparing herself a grilled cheese sandwich. I saw the sliced cheddar cheese laying out and thought, "Why not?" Everything should be tried once, right? Lo and behold, it was more tasty than I expected!

Optional Modifications: Consider trying this recipe with toasted bread, crunchy peanut-butter, an alternative flavor of jelly, or even pickles or jalapenos if you are the particularly adventurous type.

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 5-10 min
- 🍳 Cook time: NA
- 🍽️ Servings: 1-2
Ingredients
- Sliced Wheat Bread x2
- Sliced Cheddar Cheese (Enough to cover the area of a slice of bread.)
- Creamy Peanut-Butter (approx. 2 tbsp)
- Strawberry Jelly (approx. 2 tbsp)
Directions
1. Locate the ingredients and arrange them on the kitchen counter. (Dads: The jelly is probably buried behind everything in the fridge.)
2. If your cheddar cheese didn't come pre-sliced, carefully slice enough 1/8" slices to cover the area of a slice of bread.
3. Spread the peanut butter evenly onto one of the slices of bread. (Note: DO NOT lick the butter-knife... yet.)
4. Spread the jelly as evenly as you can on the other slice of bread. (NOW you can lick the knife.)
5. Place the sliced cheddar cheese onto the slice of bread with the peanut-butter, covering the area without overlapping the cheese slices.
6. Flip the slice of bread with the jelly onto the slice with the peanut-butter and cheese, jelly-side-down, forming the sandwich.
7. Enjoy!
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2024-08-29 00:50:27
Nostr is a mess. It always has been and will always be. That's part of the appeal! But it's important that users be able to navigate the rolling seas of this highly partition-tolerant network of kaleidoscopically-interwoven people, bots, topics, relays, clients, events, recommendations, lists, feeds, micro-apps, macro-apps, Chinese spam, and "GM"s.

In order to do this, users must be able to articulate "what" they are looking for, and clients must be able to articulate "how" to find that thing. This "how" is divided into two parts: building a request that will match the desired content (very easy), and selecting a relay that is able to serve that content to the user requesting it (very very hard).

Why guessing isn't good enough

As a concrete example, let's say the user wants to find everyone in their "network" who is using a particular topic. The process would look something like this:
1. The user clicks the "network" tab and types in the topic they want to browse. This is the "what".
2. The client then translates the term "network" to a list of public keys using whatever definition they prefer (Follows? WoT? Grapevine?), and builds a filter that might look something like this: [{"authors": pubkeys, "#t": ["mytopic"]}]. Any relay will happily accept, understand, and respond to that filter.
3. The client then has to decide which relays it should send that filter to. This is the ??? stage of the outbox model, which immediately precedes:
4. Profit
It may not be immediately obvious why selecting the correct relays might be difficult. Most people post to relay.damus.io, and most people read from relay.damus.io, so in most cases you should be good, right?

This approach to relay selection has historically worked "well enough", but it depends on a flawed definition of success. If you only want to find 90% of the content that matches your query, using the top 10 relays will suffice. But nostr is intended to be censorship-resistant. What if those 10 hubs have banned a particular public key? Nostr clients should (at least in theory) be 100% successful in retrieving requested content. Even if someone only posts to their self-hosted relay, you should be able to find their notes if their account is set up properly.

A naive solution to fixing the FOMO

A 90% hit rate results in a feeling of flakiness, even if users aren't completely aware of what isn't working. Feeds will be incomplete, quoted notes will be missing, replies will be orphaned, user profiles won't load. The natural response to the FOMO this creates is for users to "try harder" by adding more relays.

On the read side, this means clients open more connections, resulting in much higher data transfer requirements, with massively diminishing returns, since there's no reason to expect that a randomly chosen relay will have a substantially different data set.

One the publish side, this means that clients end up publishing more copies of their data to more relays. This approach has been automated in the past by services like Blastr, which don't store a copy of events published to the relay, but instead forward events to the top 300 relays in the network. This results in a two-orders-of-magnitude increase in storage required, and only makes the read side of the problem worse, since it reduces the uniqueness of the data set each relay stores. This in turn means that more duplicates are retrieved when querying relays.

Both halves of this approach are equivalent to guessing. On the read side, users are guessing which relays will have any arbitrary content they might ask for in the future. On the write side, users are guessing which relays other people might use to find their notes. It is a brute-force method for finding content.

Randomness results in centralization

In theory, random relay selection would result in a perfect distribution of content across all relays in the network. But in practice, this method of selection isn't random at all, but is strongly influenced by user bias in what constitutes a "good" relay. While some users may check nostr.watch for ping times, geographical proximity, or uptime, most will choose relays based on familiar names or other people's recommendations.

In either case, these biases are entirely orthogonal to achieving a higher content retrieval hit rate, except when bias in relay selection results in clustering — i.e., centralization. In other words, the kind of randomness exhibited by users when selecting relays actually results in pretty much everyone picking the same few relays. We see this same effect when people try to come up with passwords or seed phrases — human-provided randomness is anything but random.

Clustering improves the hit rate when requesting events (slightly), but it results in nearly as much centralization as if only a single relay was used — and a lot more duplicate events.

Something (anything) other than randomness

In early 2023, Mike Dilger introduced NIP 65 (now known as the "Outbox Model") with a problem statement in the spirit of the original description of nostr: "Nostr should scale better. People should be able to find what they want."

Historical note: NIP 65 was formerly known as the "Gossip Model", derived from the name of Mike's desktop nostr client, called "Gossip". This unfortunately created a lot of confusion, since gossip protocols work very differently from how nostr tends to work, hence the re-brand.

Before NIP 65, an informal standard existed in which kind 3 user contact lists also included a list of relays that clients could use as something similar to Mastodon's "home servers". This list included the option to only read or write from a given relay. Unfortunately, it wasn't really clear what the semantics of this relay list were, so different clients handled them differently (and many clients ignored them). Usually this amounted to user-provided static relay configurations, which resulted in the naive relay selection approach described above.

NIP 65 used a very similar format (a list of relay urls with optional "read" or "write" directives), but with a very important semantic difference: relays listed in a user's kind 10002 were intended to "advertise to others, not for configuring one's client." In other words, these relay selections were intended as a signal to other users that they should use certain relays when attempting to communicate with the author of the relay list.

I highly recommend reading the entire NIP, which is very short and easy to read. But the mechanics of the spec are very simple:
When seeking events from a user, Clients SHOULD use the WRITE relays of the user's kind:10002.

When seeking events about a user, where the user was tagged, Clients SHOULD use the READ relays of the user's kind:10002.

When broadcasting an event, Clients SHOULD:
- Broadcast the event to the WRITE relays of the author
- Broadcast the event to all READ relays of each tagged user
For the first time, we had a way to differentiate relays in terms of what content could be found where.

When looking for a note by a particular user, a client could now look up the author's write relays according to their kind 10002 event, and send its query there. The result is a much higher hit rate with much lower data transfer requirements, and fewer connections per query.

Making Outbox Work

There are of course some assumptions required to make this work.

First, the user must know which author they're looking for. This isn't always true when looking up a quote or parent note, but context and pubkey hints solve this difficulty in most cases.

The author must also publish a kind 10002 event. This may not always be the case, but clients should prompt users to set up their relay list correctly. This isn't really a flaw in the Outbox Model, just in implementations of it.

Additionally, the user's client must be able to find the author's kind 10002 event. This is the "bootstrapping" phase of the Outbox Model, during which the mechanisms the system provides for finding events aren't available. This requires us to fall back to randomly guessing which relays have the content we're looking for, which as we saw above doesn't work very well.

Other than guessing, there are a few different ways a client might find the relay selection event in question, each of which is applicable in different circumstances. In most cases, using one of a handful of indexer relays like purplepag.es or relay.nostr.band is a simple and efficient way to find user profiles and relay selections.

However, if an author's content has been aggressively purged from these indexers due to censorship, they obviously can't be relied upon. Even though the author in question hasn't been deplatformed from nostr itself (since he can always self-host a publicly accessible relay to store his content), he has been effectively shadow-banned.

To get around this, relay selections have to be communicated in some other way. Nostr has a few different mechanisms for this:
- If the author's NIP 05 address is known and properly configured (it may not be), clients can look up the author's NIP 05 endpoint to find some reasonable relay hints. Unfortunately, these are often neglected, and usually custodial, so they can run into the same problems.
- If the author's pubkey is found in another signed event found on nostr, relay hints can be a way to propagate relay selections through the network. This relies on implementations picking reliable relay hints which can be difficult, and hints do tend to become less reliable over time. However, this strategy is very effective in resisting censorship because it makes banning viral — if a relay wants to completely purge a particular pubkey from their database, they have to purge every event that references it, since events are tamper-proof.
- In extremis, relay recommendations can always be communicated out-of-band. This can be done using manual input, QR codes, DHTs, jsonl torrents full of kind 10002 events, or any other mechanism client developers choose to resort to.
Another, more technical assumption is that any given query can be fulfilled by few enough relays that a client can actually make all the connections needed, without running into resource limits. If you're trying to request content from 10,000 users across 1,000 relays, you're going to have a bad time. This was pointed out to me by Mazin of nostr.wine. He makes a good point, and it's definitely something to keep in mind. There are some mitigating factors though.

The first is that the current topology of the network probably won't persist forever. Because nostr is largely populated by self-hosting enthusiasts, the number of "tiny" relays is proportionally much higher than it will be if adoption picks up, even if the total number of relays grows. The trajectory is that nostr will drift toward fewer, larger relays, reducing the number of connections needed to fulfill any given query.

This is "centralizing", but it's important to understand that this isn't necessarily a bad thing. As long as there are more than one or two large hubs, there is user choice. And as long as it's possible to run a new relay, there is always an escape hatch. Nostr, like bitcoin, has no hard dependency on the biggest player in the network.

The other thing to consider is that there are lots of other techniques we can use to overcome the limits of the lowest-common denominator's limitations (mobile browser clients), including self hosted or third-party relay proxies. The trade-off here is that a little trust (aka centralization) can go a long way to reducing resource requirements needed to fulfill queries using the Outbox model.

If you're interested in more details on this topic, see this blog post.

That was a long digression, but there is one other thing that the Outbox model assumes to be the case. Even if the correct relays are found and connected to, they still may not return all desired content, either because they don't have it, or because they refuse to return it to the user requesting it.

This can happen if the publishing client isn't following the Outbox Model, if the author had migrated from one relay set to another without copying their notes over, or if the relay in question chose not to retain the author's content for some reason.

The first two issues can be fixed by improving implementations, but the question of policy is a little more interesting.

Relativistic relays

The Outbox Model is a mechanical process; it's only as useful as user relay selections are. In order for it to work, users have to be able to make intelligent relay selections.

Every relay has trade-offs, depending on its policy. 140.f7z.io would not be useful for long-form content, for example. Some relays might have a content retention policy that changes depending on whether you're a paying user. If you don't pay, you might find out too late that your content has been deleted from the relay.

So what makes a relay "good" for a particular use case? Well, it's complicated. Here are a few factors that go into that calculus:
- Is the relay in the same geographical as the user? Proximity reduces latency, but jurisdictional arbitrage might be desired. Users should probably have a variety of relays that fit different profiles.
- Will the relay ban the user? Do the operators have a history of good behavior? Is the relay focused on particular types of content? Is the relay's focus consistent with the user's goal in adding that relay to their list?
- What are the relay's retention policies? A user might want to set up an archival relay for her old content, or a multi-availability-zone relay so her notes are immediately accessible to the rest of the network.
- Does the relay require payment? Paid relays are more aligned with their users, but obviously come at a financial cost.
- Does the relay have policies for read-protecting content? If so, other users might not be able to find your posts published to that relay. On the other hand, some relays are configured to work as inboxes for direct messages, which can help preserve privacy.
- Does the relay request that users authenticate? Authentication can help manage spam, but it also allows relays to correlate content requests with users, reducing user privacy.
- Is the relay you use hosted by your client's developer? If so, you're in danger of getting banned from your client and your relay at the same time.
- Is the relay a hub? Using hubs can help smooth out rough areas in Outbox Model implementations, at the cost of centralization.
- Is the relay used by anyone else? One-off relays can be useful for archival purposes, but often won't be used by clients following the Outbox Model, depending on how they optimize requests.
There are lots of ways to approach the problem of helping users select relays, but it's an inherently complex problem which very few people will have the patience to properly address on their own. Relay selection is a multi-dimensional problem, and requires satisfying multiple constraints with a limited number of relay selections.

In the future, special-purpose clients might be used to help people build relay sets. Clients also might provide curated "relay kits" that users can choose and customize. Or, we might see an increase in hybrid solutions, like smarter relay proxies or client-local relays that synchronize using other protocols or platforms.

The Limitations of Outbox

Outbox is not a complete solution, not because of any of the caveats listed above, but because NIP 65 per se only addresses the question of how to index content by pubkey in a broadcast social media context. But there are many other scenarios for relay selection that Outbox does not solve:
- Community, chat, and group posts might be best posted to relays dedicated to that context.
- Direct messages shouldn't follow the same contours as public social media content.
- Topic-oriented relays, or relays serving a custom feed might be useful independent of who uses them.
- Relays focused on serving a particular kind of event, like music, long-form content, or relay selections, are useful independent of who reads from or writes to them.
- Certain clients might need to fulfill particular use cases by using relays that support certain protocol features, like search, count, or sync commands.
- Some events might not make sense to publish to relays, but should instead be shared only directly, out of band.
Some of these use cases might be solved by new specifications similar to Outbox that prescribe where certain data belongs — for example, NIP 17 requires users to publish a different relay list before they can receive direct messages, while NIP 72 places community relay recommendations directly into the group's metadata object. A reasonably complete list of different relay types can be found in this PR, very few of which have a canonical way to manage selections.

Other use cases might be supported more informally, either by relays advertising their own value proposition, or via third-party NIP 66 metadata. Still others might be supported by scoping the network down to only certain relays through explicit relay selection — this is how white-labeled Coracle instances work.

The basic idea here is that there are categories of events that don't have anything to do with where a particular person puts his or her "tweets". For every "what" on nostr, there should be a "how".

Keep nostr weird

Whatever additional systems we end up adopting for helping with relay selection, one thing is certain — people will continue to discover new, creative uses for relays, and we will always be playing catch up. This is one of the coolest things about nostr!

But it does mean that users will have to adapt their expectations to a network that partitions, re-configures, and evolves over time. Nostr is not a "worse" experience than legacy social media, but it is a version of social media that has itself been set free from the stagnant walled-garden model. Nostr is in many ways a living organism — we should be careful not to impose our expectations prematurely, leaving room to discover what this thing actually is, or can be.

If you enjoyed this post but want more take a look at the talk I gave at Nostrasia last year. I also wrote up a blog post at about the same time that addresses some of the same issues, but focuses more on privacy concerns around relays and nostr groups. Finally, I recently wrote this comment, which includes some details about challenges I've faced putting Outbox into Coracle.
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2024-08-29 05:14:15
Democracy, a system that ideally reflects the will of the people, faces significant mathematical challenges, particularly in the way votes are cast and counted. One of the most prominent issues lies within the first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system, a method that has been in use for centuries. This system allows voters to select only one candidate, which can lead to scenarios where a party secures power without obtaining a majority of the votes. Such outcomes raise questions about the true representation of voter preferences and the overall health of democratic processes.

The Flaws of First-Past-The-Post

The FPTP system has been illustrated through historical examples, such as the British Parliament and the contentious 2000 U.S. presidential election. In these instances, the so-called "spoiler effect" emerged, where third-party candidates siphoned votes from major candidates, ultimately skewing the results. Voters often feel that their preferences are not accurately represented, leading to disillusionment with the electoral process. This discontent underscores the need for a more representative voting system.

Introducing Ranked-Choice Voting

To address the shortcomings of FPTP, ranked-choice voting (RCV), also known as instant runoff voting, has been proposed. In this system, voters rank candidates in order of preference, allowing for a more nuanced reflection of voter sentiment. RCV not only captures a broader spectrum of voter preferences but also encourages candidates to engage in more civil discourse. For example, in the 2013 Minneapolis mayoral race, candidates exhibited a camaraderie that is often absent in traditional campaigns, as they sought to appeal to voters for second and third choices.

However, the implementation of RCV is not without its challenges. Concerns arise about the potential for a candidate performing poorly to inadvertently assist in the election of another candidate. A hypothetical scenario involving three candidates—Einstein, C, and Bore—illustrates this point. The elimination of candidates based on voter preferences can lead to unexpected outcomes, complicating the electoral landscape.

Historical Context and Mathematical Foundations

The discussion of voting systems is enriched by historical context, particularly through the lens of French mathematician Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, the Marquis de Condorcet. Condorcet advocated for a fair voting method that required candidates to win head-to-head matchups. His method, which involves ranking preferences, introduces a potential issue known as Condorcet's Paradox. This paradox occurs when cyclical preferences prevent a clear winner from emerging, highlighting the complexities of voter choice.

Various mathematicians, including Lewis Carroll, have sought to develop fair election systems but encountered similar challenges. In 1951, economist Kenneth Arrow proposed five conditions that a voting system should meet to ensure fairness: decisiveness, unrestricted domain, transitivity, independence of irrelevant alternatives, and stability of group preferences. These conditions serve as a benchmark for evaluating the effectiveness of different voting systems.

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

A significant aspect of the discussion revolves around Arrow's impossibility theorem, which posits that it is impossible to create a ranked voting system that satisfies all five of Arrow's conditions when there are three or more candidates. This theorem can be illustrated through a thought experiment involving three candidates (A, B, and C) and various voter rankings. The proof demonstrates that if a candidate is unanimously ranked first or last by voters, society must reflect that ranking. However, the theorem also reveals scenarios where a pivotal voter can dictate the overall ranking, effectively acting as a "dictator" in determining societal preferences.

This leads to a sobering conclusion: according to Arrow's theorem, a truly democratic voting system is unattainable when dealing with multiple candidates. Yet, there is a more optimistic perspective introduced by mathematician Duncan Black, suggesting that alternative methods may exist to better represent voter preferences.

The Dynamics of Voter Preferences

The dynamics of voter preferences along a political spectrum, from liberal to conservative, further complicate the electoral process. The choice of the median voter often determines election outcomes, aligning with the majority's decision and helping to avoid the paradoxes identified by Arrow's theorem. This discussion introduces rated voting systems, particularly approval voting, where voters indicate approval for candidates without ranking them.

Research indicates that approval voting can increase voter turnout, reduce negative campaigning, and mitigate the spoiler effect. Despite its historical use in electing popes and the Secretary General of the United Nations, approval voting has not been widely adopted in large-scale elections, suggesting a need for further real-world testing and evaluation.

The Importance of Political Engagement

While traditional voting methods like FPTP have significant flaws, the importance of political engagement and the necessity of striving for a more representative electoral process cannot be overstated. The complexities of voting systems and the historical evolution of these methods highlight the ongoing struggle for fairness in elections.

As democracy continues to evolve, enhancing knowledge and critical thinking skills about voting systems will be crucial in advocating for reforms that better reflect the will of the people. Understanding the mathematical underpinnings of these systems is essential for promoting a more equitable and representative democratic process.

The mathematical challenges of democracy, particularly in the context of voting systems, reveal significant flaws in traditional methods like first-past-the-post. The exploration of ranked-choice voting and other alternatives offers a glimpse into potential solutions that could enhance voter representation and engagement. As society navigates the complexities of democratic processes, it is essential to remain informed and proactive in advocating for systems that truly reflect the diverse preferences of the electorate.

Proposed Solution: Leveraging the Nostr Protocol

To further enhance the democratic process and address the challenges of traditional voting systems, we can consider utilizing the Nostr protocol. Nostr is a decentralized protocol that allows for open, self-verifiable, anonymous communication and data sharing, making it an ideal candidate for implementing a modern voting system. There have been other attempts at voting via nostr, this is my concept and contribution. View the code below.

Key Features of Using Nostr for Voting
1. Decentralization: By leveraging Nostr's decentralized architecture, we can eliminate single points of failure and reduce the risk of manipulation or censorship in the voting process.
2. Public-Private Key Cryptography: Each voter can generate a unique public npub and private nsec key pair. The npub public key serves as their identity, while the nsec private key is used to sign votes, ensuring authenticity and integrity.
3. Anonymity and Privacy: Voter identities can remain anonymous, as only their public keys are visible. This protects against coercion and ensures that voters can express their preferences freely.
4. Secure Vote Submission: Voters can submit their ranked choices or preferences as signed encrypted messages through Nostr and its relays. This ensures that votes are tamper-proof and verifiable.
5. Real-Time Results and Transparency: The distributed nature of Nostr allows for real-time updates on the voting process, providing transparency and enabling independent verification of results.
6. Mitigating the Spoiler Effect: By implementing ranked-choice voting through Nostr, we can capture a broader spectrum of voter preferences and reduce the impact of third-party candidates acting as spoilers (hopefully).
7. Public Auditing: The system can provide an audit trail of all votes cast, allowing for independent verification and fostering trust in the electoral process.
By integrating the Nostr protocol into the voting process, we can create a more secure, transparent, and representative electoral system, particularly at the local level. This approach not only addresses the mathematical challenges of traditional voting methods but also empowers voters and enhances engagement in the democratic process.

I am new and inexperienced in programming, but I have wrote a bit of code with the help of general purpose AI's. Please review and improve and/or comment as best you can below👇

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I would like to implement a test at some point when the code is running stable. A distributed vote, if you will. Thank you for your support.

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Objavte, ako avatari a pseudonymné identity ovplyvňujú riadenie kryptokomunít a decentralizovaných organizácií (DAOs). V tejto prednáške sa zameriame na praktické fungovanie decentralizovaného rozhodovania, vytváranie a správu avatarových profilov, a ich rolu v online reputačných systémoch. Naučíte sa, ako si vytvoriť efektívny pseudonymný profil, zapojiť sa do rôznych krypto projektov a využiť svoje aktivity na zarábanie kryptomien. Preskúmame aj príklady úspešných projektov a stratégie, ktoré vám pomôžu zorientovať sa a uspieť v dynamickom svete decentralizovaných komunít.

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O Planetinha

Fumaça verde me entrando pelas narinas e um coro desafinado fazia uma base melódica.

nos confins da galáxia havia um planetinha isolado. Era um planeta feliz.

O homem vestido de mago começava a aparecer por detrás da fumaça verde.

O planetinha recebeu três presentes, mas o seu habitante, o homem, estava num estado de confusão tão grande que ameaçava estragá-los. Os homens já havia escravizado o primeiro presente, a vida; lutavam contra o segundo presente, a morte; e havia alguns que achavam que deviam destruir totalmente o terceiro, o amor, e com isto levar a desordem total ao pobre planetinha perdido, que se chamava Terra.

O coro desafinado entrou antes do "Terra" cantando várias vezes, como se imitasse um eco, "terra-terra-terraaa". Depois de uma pausa dramática, o homem vestido de mago voltou a falar.

Terra, nossa nave mãe.

Neste momento eu me afastei. À frente do palco onde o mago e seu coral faziam apelos à multidão havia vários estandes cobertos com a tradicional armação de quatro pernas e lona branca. Em todos os cantos da praça havia gente, gente dos mais variados tipos. Visitantes curiosos que se aproximavam atraídos pela fumaça verde e as barraquinhas, gente que aproveitava o movimento para vender doces sem pagar imposto, casais que se abraçavam de pé para espantar o frio, os tradicionais corredores que faziam seu cooper, gente cheia de barba e vestida para imitar os hippies dos anos 60 e vender colares estendidos no chão, transeuntes novos e velhos, vestidos como baladeiros ou como ativistas do ônibus grátis, grupos de ciclistas entusiastas.

O mago fazia agora apelos para que nós, os homens, habitantes do isolado planetinha, passássemos a ver o planetinha, nossa nave mãe, como um todo, e adquiríssemos a consciência de que ele estava entrando em maus lençóis. A idéia, reforçada pela logomarca do evento, era que parássemos de olhar só para a nossa vida e pensássemos no planeta.

A logomarca do evento, um desenho estilizado do planeta Terra, nada tinha a ver com seu nome: "Festival Andando de Bem com a Vida", mas havia sido ali colocada estrategicamente pelos organizadores, de quem parecia justamente sair a mensagem dita pelo mago.

Aquela multidão de pessoas que, assim como eu, tinham suas próprias preocupações, não podiam ver o quadro caótico que formavam, cada uma com seus atos isolados, ali naquela praça isolada, naquele planeta isolado. Quando o hippie barbudo, quase um Osho, assustava um casal para tentar vender-lhes um colar, a quantidade de caos que isto acrescentava à cena era gigantesca. Por um segundo, pude ver, como se estivesse de longe e acima, com toda a pretensão que este estado imaginativo carrega, a cena completa do caos.

Uma nave-mãe, dessas de ficção científica, habitada por milhões de pessoas, seguia no espaço sem rumo, e sem saber que logo à frente um longo precipício espacial a esperava, para a desgraça completa sua e de seus habitantes.

Acostumados àquela nave tanto quanto outrora estiveram acostumados à sua terra natal, os homens viviam as próprias vidas sem nem se lembrar que estavam vagando pelo espaço. Ninguém sabia quem estava conduzindo a nave, e ninguém se importava.

No final do filme descobre-se que era a soma completa do caos que cada habitante produzia, com seus gestos egoístas e incapazes de levar em conta a totalidade, é que determinava a direção da nave-mãe. O efeito, no entanto, não era imediato, como nunca é. Havia gente de verdade encarregada de conduzir a nave, mas era uma gente bêbada, mau-caráter, que vivia brigando pelo controle da nave e o poder que isto lhes dava. Poder, status, dinheiro!

Essa gente bêbada era atraída até ali pela corrupção das instituições e da moral comum que, no fundo no fundo, era causada pelo egoísmo da população, através de um complexo -- mas que no filme aparece simplificado pela ação individual de um magnata do divertimento público -- processo social.

O homem vestido de mago era mais um agente causador de caos, com sua cena cheia de fumaça e sua roupa estroboscópica, ele achava que estava fazendo o bem ao alertar sua platéia, todos as sextas-feiras, de que havia algo que precisava ser feito, que cada um que estava ali ouvindo era responsável pelo planeta. A sua incapacidade, porém, de explicar o que precisava ser feito só aumentava a angústia geral; a culpa que ele jogava sobre seu público, e que era prontamente aceita e passada em frente, aos familiares e amigos de cada um, atormentava-os diariamente e os impedia de ter uma vida decente no trabalho e em casa. As famílias, estressadas, estavam constantemente brigando e os motivos mais insignificantes eram responsáveis pelas mais horrendas conseqüências.

O mago, que após o show tirava o chapéu entortado e ia tomar cerveja num boteco, era responsável por uma parcela considerável do caos que levava a nave na direção do seu desgraçado fim. No filme, porém, um dos transeuntes que de passagem ouviu um pedaço do discurso do mago despertou em si mesmo uma consiência transformadora e, com poderes sobre-humanos que lhe foram então concedidos por uma ordem iniciática do bem ou não, usando só os seus poderes humanos mesmo, o transeunte -- na primeira versão do filme um homem, na segunda uma mulher -- consegue consertar as instituições e retirar os bêbados da condução da máquina. A questão da moral pública é ignorada para abreviar a trama, já com duas horas e quarenta de duração, mas subentende-se que ela também fora resolvida.

No planeta Terra real, que não está indo em direção alguma, preso pela gravidade ao Sol, e onde as pessoas vivem a própria vida porque lhes é impossível viver a dos outros, não têm uma consciência global de nada porque só é possível mesmo ter a consciência delas mesmas, e onde a maioria, de uma maneira ou de outra, está tentando como pode, fazer as coisas direito, o filme é exibido.

Para a maioria dos espectadores, é um filme que evoca reflexões, um filme forte. Por um segundo elas têm o mesmo vislumbre do caos generalizado que eu tive ali naquela praça. Para uma pequena parcela dos espectadores -- entre eles alguns dos que estavam na platéia do mago, o próprio mago, o seguidor do Osho, o casal de duas mulheres e o vendedor de brigadeiros, mas aos quais se somam também críticos de televisão e jornal e gente que fala pelos cotovelos na internet -- o filme é um horror, o filme é uma vulgarização de um problema real e sério, o filme apela para a figura do herói salvador e passa uma mensagem totalmente errada, de que a maioria da população pode continuar vivendo as suas própria vidinhas miseráveis enquanto espera por um herói que vem do Olimpo e os salva da mixórdia que eles mesmos causaram, é um filme que presta um enorme desserviço à causa.

No dia seguinte ao lançamento, num bar meio caro ali perto da praça, numa mesa com oito pessoas, entre elas seis do primeiro grupo e oito do segundo, discute-se se o filme levará ou não o Oscar. Eu estou em casa dormindo e não escuto nada.

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Jan Kolčák pochádza zo stredného Slovenska a vystupuje pod umeleckým menom Deepologic. Hudbe sa venuje už viac než 10 rokov. Začínal ako DJ, ktorý s obľubou mixoval klubovú hudbu v štýloch deep-tech a afrohouse. Stále ho ťahalo tvoriť vlastnú hudbu, a preto sa začal vzdelávať v oblasti tvorby elektronickej hudby. Nakoniec vydal svoje prvé EP s názvom "Rezonancie". Učenie je pre neho celoživotný proces, a preto sa neustále zdokonaľuje v oblasti zvuku a kompozície, aby jeho skladby boli kvalitné na posluch aj v klube.

V roku 2023 si založil vlastnú značku EarsDeep Records, kde dáva príležitosť začínajúcim producentom. Jeho značku podporujú aj etablované mená slovenskej alternatívnej elektronickej scény. Jeho prioritou je sloboda a neškatulkovanie. Ako sa hovorí v jednej klasickej deephouseovej skladbe: "We are all equal in the house of deep." So slobodou ide ruka v ruke aj láska k novým technológiám, Bitcoinu a schopnosť udržať si v digitálnom svete prehľad, odstup a anonymitu.

V súčasnosti ďalej produkuje vlastnú hudbu, venuje sa DJingu a vedie podcast, kde zverejňuje svoje mixované sety. Na Lunarpunk festivale bude hrať DJ set tvorený vlastnou produkciou, ale aj skladby, ktoré sú blízke jeho srdcu.

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DATA PRIVACY AND BEST PRACTICES

Your Data Privacy should be a major concern of yours, as enormous personal data about you is shared across various medias and platforms.

Data collection, data sharing, and it's management is a key concern for businesses organizations across the globe. It is a huge global business collecting and selling your personal data. In many ways you are their product.

In our daily activity of mobile phone usage, information about us is being constantly collected, and this is not just limited to our own personal devices, so it is important to know what data is being collected and how it is being used without our consent.

Data Privacy in a nutshell is a series of activity aimed at safeguarding (Protection) of our personal data from those who should not have access to it and the ability of the individual to determine who can access this personal information in their custody.

The term data privacy is synonymous with Information Privacy or Data Protection depending on which context this term is used.

TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED

FINANCIAL DATA

Your Financial information is incredibly sensitive data, this data when compromised could result in a huge financial loss, you becoming a fraud victim, or suffuring from identity theft. cyber criminals are always hoping to gain access to information such as your customer accounts or credit card details.

Financial data is collated from various activity, products usage, service consumed, which can be offline or online this financial data when compromised the result is a loss.

On the cyber space hackers have schemes used in stealing information from victims while offline activities could involve humans or usage of advance tools to steal your information.

Local grocery stores and banks are good examples of where credit card information is stolen. Hackers use skimming methods to capture payment information from your credit card in local grocery stores and at ATMs, using an advanced approach involving a small device called a SKIMMER that reads the information stored in a cards magnetic strip or microchip. Skimming devices most times are installed at Automated Teller Machines and other point of sales locations, especially gas stations. Most times fraudster use cameras and overlay touchpads to capture victims’ personal identification number(PIN).

Hackers also use phishing methods through texts and phony emails. Malware that can record keystrokes to steal your sensitive information, it is advisable to never enter your credit cards information on a website or email you did not verify. Or better still only use limited balance cards or visa reloadable cards for online activities.

INTERNET DATA

As we access the internet daily, our data is collected in different ways, the use of search engines and data mining has created a capability for data collection from a variety of sources very easily.

With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), this has facilitated creating inferential information about individuals and groups, based on such enormous amount of collected data, as a result of this the Fair Information Practice Principle was formulated to provide a set of guidelines that represent widely accepted concepts concerning fair information practices in an electronic marketplace. This action has received a lot of criticism because of insufficiency in the field of Artificial Intelligence enabled inferential information.

When using the internet we give away a lot information about ourselves in cases where emails are not encrypted by administrators of servers when the connection is encrypted and the internet service provider (ISP) and other parties surfing the network traffic of that connection are able to know the contents, this applies to any of kind of traffic generated on the internet including web browsing, instant messaging, that is why it is advisable to always encrypt emails and regular use of it can be done traceless via anonymizers. The use of routing protocols that create hard to trace communication by using a chain of proxy servers is encouraged, with this each message is encrypted to each proxy using public key cryptography

There are many content with privacy concerns in an era where other people might not be as privacy conscious as you are. It is often we see people tagged on Facebook and other social media without their consent, this act could lead to cyber stalking which might escalate to offline stalking.

Some websites engage in deceptive practices such as placing a cookie notice in places on the page that are not allowing them to change their privacy settings apps like Instagram. Facebook collects user data for personalized app experience; however, they track user activity on other apps, while other information collected are used for marketing purposes. This in turn has made this companies more powerful over their consumers.

LOCATION DATA

Location data can be some of the most sensitive data.

Location data provides publishers and app developers with advertising revenue so consumers can access free services and information, it helps with city planning, help ride sharing users get to their destination guide, Travelers to great local spots, reassure parents of their children safety while away from home. Location data can also enhance personal safety in cases of emergencies services like the dispatch of help at a speed of light, additional features like “FIND MY DEVICE” help locate lost or stolen phones.

But the pervasive use of geo-location technology poses new challenge to data privacy as they enable third parties to locate and track people and objects anywhere at any anytime.

The Smart devices we carry along with us have in fact become tools for surveillance, yet many of us have embraced them willingly, the risk for abuse of personal data and the threats to privacy that arise from government and commercial entities using geo-location technology are enormous. Like all powerful tools location data is a double-edge sword, we cannot refrain from this potential service but instead we can use it judiciously and responsibly.

Google takes the cake when it comes to tracking most of our data, because it’s entire business model relies on data collection, while Facebook stores user information.

POLITICAL DATA

Political Data Privacy has been a thing of concern with the use of digital voting machines, in the United States of America (USA) where the M650 electronic ballot scanner is used, it is possible that the smart cards can be reprogrammed wirelessly using mobile phones. This activity could result in election hacking, bringing about erosion of public trust in the electoral process. When the masses lose faith in the integrity of elections they become disillusioned and disengaged from participating in democracy.

MEDICAL DATA

With the increased incorporation of electronic health records into care delivery and research, the growing volumes of data for evidence base research and care might eventually force significant changes to strike a balance between privacy and medical data.

People may not wish for their medical records to be revealed to others due to confidentiality and sensitivity of what the data might reveal about their health. They might be concerned that it might affect their Insurance coverage or employment, some people might not wish for others to know about any medical or psychological conditions or treatments that might bring embarrassment upon themselves or social scrutiny.

Revealing medical data could also reveal other defects about one’s personal life, health-care data breach can result from hacking, data theft or loss, unauthorized access and when this occurs all parties suffer a loss.

Data breaches are not just a concern and complication for security experts, it also affects, stakeholders and organizations.

The Internet of Medical Things (IOMT), smart devices, information systems and cloud services have led to a digital transformation of the healthcare industry with this technologies sensitive data is collected by healthcare organizations from patients stored on network servers for easy accessibility at all times so as to facilitate patient care.

Cyber criminals use ransomware to steal a victim’s medical records from a healthcare provider by decrypting the data or device in turn for a ransom, hackers knowing that most health care providers store and manage medical records online, most Healthcare providers use the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)to access medicals records, cyber criminals try to exploit vulnerabilities of unsecured RDP to steal medical records.

EDUCATIONAL DATA

Stolen student records can come back to haunt children when they attain adulthood; for example say a student has a history of drug use that’s been successfully overcome or they have disciplinary records that should have been expunged but are publicly available, this data could resurface in College Applications, Job Interviews and Court Hearings.

In an era where education data mining is prevalent a robust cyber security is essential for protecting everyone within the education ecosystem, as security breaches in higher education can lead to significant data loss, affecting personal information and institutional data. Implementing stringent data security protocols and response strategies is vital.

BEST TECHNOLOGIES FOR DATA PRIVACY PRACTICES

These are just some of the technologies available today that can protect user privacy and keep data more secure.

I. ENCRYPTION

Encryption is a way to conceal information by scrambling it so that it appears to be random data. Only parties with the encryption key can unscramble the information, this involves the use PGP.

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a widely recognized encryption system used for securing digital communications and data. PGP keys employ a combination of symmetric and asymmetric encryption techniques to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of information.

PGP keys consist of two parts: a public key and a private key. The public key can be freely shared and is used for encrypting data, while the private key is kept secure and is used to decrypt the information. This dual-key mechanism ensures that only the intended recipient can access the encrypted message.

Moreover, PGP allows for digital signatures, enabling the sender to verify their identity and the message's integrity. This provides a high level of trust, making PGP ideal for secure communications, email encryption, file encryption, and software distribution.

PGP keys offer robust security by leveraging advanced cryptographic principles, ensuring data privacy and authenticity. Their reliability and effectiveness have made them a cornerstone in secure communication practices, widely adopted across various industries to protect sensitive information.

II. ACCESS CONTROL

Access control ensures that only authorized parties access systems and data. Access control can be combined with data loss prevention (DLP) to stop sensitive data from leaving the network.

Access Control is a fundamental security mechanism used to regulate who or what can view or use resources in a computing environment. It is crucial for protecting sensitive data, ensuring that only authorized users have the right to access, modify, or manage particular resources, systems, or information.

There are several types of access control models, each serving different security requirements:
- Discretionary Access Control (DAC) allows resource owners to control access based on user identities.
- Mandatory Access Control (MAC) uses strict policies controlled by a central authority to manage access based on classification levels.
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) grants access based on a user’s role within an organization, offering scalability and efficiency in managing permissions.
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) provides dynamic, context-aware access based on attributes like user role, time of access, and location.
Effective access control ensures data confidentiality, integrity, and availability by preventing unauthorized access, reducing the risk of data breaches, and ensuring regulatory compliance. In today’s digital landscape, implementing robust access control measures is critical for safeguarding organizational assets, maintaining trust, and protecting against cyber threats.

In conclusion, Access Control is a vital element of cybersecurity that helps organizations enforce security policies, manage permissions efficiently, and protect sensitive information, making it a cornerstone of data protection and information security strategies.

III. TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION

Two-factor authentication is one of the most important technologies for regular users, as this makes it far harder for attackers to gain unauthorized access to personal accounts.

Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is a security process that requires two forms of verification to access an account or system. It combines something you know (like a password) with something you have (such as a smartphone or security token) or something you are (biometrics like fingerprints). This additional layer of security makes it harder for unauthorized users to gain access, even if they have the password, thereby enhancing protection against cyber threats.
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Kendisini aynada ilk defa gördüğü o gün, diğerleri gibi olduğunu anlamıştı. Oysaki her insan biricik olmalıydı. Sözgelimi sinirlendiğinde bir kaşı diğerinden birkaç milimetre daha az çatılabilirdi veya sevindiğinde dudağı ona has bir açıyla dalgalanabilirdi. Hatta bunların hiçbiri mümkün değilse, en azından, gözlerinin içinde sadece onun sahip olabileceği bir ışık parlayabilirdi. Çok sıradan, öyle sıradan ki kimsenin fark etmediği o milyonlarca minik şeyden herhangi biri. Ne olursa.

Ama yansımasına bakarken bunların hiçbirini bulamadı ve diğer günlerden hiç de farklı başlamamış o gün, işe gitmek için vagonunun gelmesini beklediği alelade bir metro istasyonunda, içinde kaybolduğu illüzyon dağılmaya başladı.

İlk önce derisi döküldü. Tam olarak dökülmedi aslında, daha çok kıvılcımlara dönüşüp bedeninden fırlamış ve bir an sonra sönerek külleşmiş, havada dağılmıştı. Ardında da, kaybolmadan hemen önce, kısa süre için hayal meyal görülebilen, bir ruhun yok oluşuna ağıt yakan rengârenk peri cesetleri bırakmıştı. Beklenenin aksine, havaya toz kokusu yayıldı.

Dehşete düştü elbette. Dehşete düştüler. Panikle üstlerini yırtan 50 işçi. Her şeyin sebebiyse o vagon.

Saçları da döküldü. Her tel, yere varmadan önce, her santimde ikiye ayrıla ayrıla yok oldu.

Bütün yüzeylerin mat olduğu, hiçbir şeyin yansımadığı, suyun siyah aktığı ve kendine ancak kameralarla bakabildiğin bir dünyada, vagonun içine yerleştirilmiş bir aynadan ilk defa kendini görmek.

Gözlerinin akları buharlaşıp havada dağıldı, mercekleri boşalan yeri doldurmak için eriyip yayıldı. Gerçeği görmemek için yaratılmış, bu yüzden görmeye hazır olmayan ve hiç olmayacak gözler.

Her şeyin o anda sona erdiğini sanabilirdi insan. Derin bir karanlık ve ölüm. Görmenin görmek olduğu o anın bitişi.

Ben geldiğimde ölmüşlerdi.

Yani bozulmuşlardı demek istiyorum.

Belleklerini yeni taşıyıcılara takmam mümkün olmadı. Fiziksel olarak kusursuz durumdaydılar, olmayanları da tamir edebilirdim ama tüm o hengamede kendilerini baştan programlamış ve girdilerini modifiye etmişlerdi.

Belleklerden birini masanın üzerinden ileriye savurdu. Hınca hınç dolu bir barda oturuyorlardı. O ve arkadaşı.

Sırf şu kendisini insan sanan androidler travma geçirip delirmesin diye neler yapıyoruz, insanın aklı almıyor.

Eliyle arkasını işaret etti.

Polislerin söylediğine göre biri vagonun içerisine ayna yerleştirmiş. Bu zavallılar da kapı açılıp bir anda yansımalarını görünce kafayı kırmışlar.

Arkadaşı bunların ona ne hissettirdiğini sordu. Yani o kadar bozuk, insan olduğunu sanan androidi kendilerini parçalamış olarak yerde görmek onu sarsmamış mıydı?

Hayır, sonuçta belirli bir amaç için yaratılmış şeyler onlar. Kaliteli bir bilgisayarım bozulduğunda üzülürüm çünkü parasını ben vermişimdir. Bunlarsa devletin. Bana ne ki?

Arkadaşı anlayışla kafasını sallayıp suyundan bir yudum aldı. Kravatını biraz gevşetti.

Bira istemediğinden emin misin?

İstemediğini söyledi. Sahi, neden deliriyordu bu androidler?

Basit. Onların yapay zekâlarını kodlarken bir şeyler yazıyorlar. Yazılımcılar. Biliyorsun, ben donanımdayım. Bunlar da kendilerini insan sanıyorlar. Tiplerine bak.

Sesini alçalttı.

Arabalarda kaza testi yapılan mankenlere benziyor hepsi. Ağızları burunları bile yok ama şu geldiğimizden beri sakalını düzeltip duruyor mesela. Hayır, hepsi de diğerleri onun sakalı varmış sanıyor, o manyak bir şey.

Arkadaşı bunun delirmeleriyle bağlantısını çözemediğini söyledi. O da normal sesiyle konuşmaya devam etti.

Anlasana, aynayı falan ayırt edemiyor mercekleri. Lönk diye kendilerini görüyorlar. Böyle, olduğu gibi...

Nedenmiş peki? Ne gerek varmış?

Ne bileyim be abicim! Ahiret soruları gibi.

Birasına bakarak dalıp gitti. Sonra masaya abanarak arkadaşına iyice yaklaştı. Bulanık, bir tünelin ucundaki biri gibi, şekli şemalı belirsiz bir adam.

Ben seni nereden tanıyorum ki ulan? Kimsin sen?

Belleği makineden çıkardılar. İki kişiydiler. Soruşturmadan sorumlu memurlar.

─ Baştan mı başlıyoruz, diye sordu belleği elinde tutan ilk memur.

─ Bir kere daha deneyelim ama bu sefer direkt aynayı sorarak başla, diye cevapladı ikinci memur.

─ Bence de. Yeterince düzgün çalışıyor.

Simülasyon yüklenirken, ayakta, biraz arkada duran ve alnını kaşıyan ikinci memur sormaktan kendisini alamadı:

─ Bu androidleri niye böyle bir olay yerine göndermişler ki? Belli tost olacakları. İsraf. Gidip biz baksak aynayı kırıp delilleri mahvetmek zorunda da kalmazlar.

Diğer memur sandalyesinde hafifçe dönecek oldu, o sırada soruyu bilgisayarın hoparlöründen teknisyen cevapladı.

Hangi işimizde bir yamukluk yok ki be abi.

Ama bir son değildi. Üstlerindeki tüm illüzyon dağıldığında ve çıplak, cinsiyetsiz, birbirinin aynı bedenleriyle kaldıklarında sıra dünyaya gelmişti.

Yere düştüler. Elleri -bütün bedeni gibi siyah turmalinden, boğumları çelikten- yere değdiği anda, metronun zemini dağıldı.

Yerdeki karolar öncesinde beyazdı ve çok parlaktı. Tepelerindeki floresan, ışığını olduğu gibi yansıtıyor, tek bir lekenin olmadığı ve tek bir tozun uçmadığı istasyonu aydınlatıyorlardı.

Duvarlara duyurular asılmıştı. Örneğin, yarın akşam kültür merkezinde 20.00’da başlayacak bir tekno blues festivalinin cıvıl cıvıl afişi vardı. Onun yanında daha geniş, sarı puntolu harflerle yazılmış, yatay siyah kesiklerle çerçevesi çizilmiş, bir platformdan düşen çöp adamın bulunduğu “Dikkat! Sarı bandı geçmeyin!” uyarısı. Biraz ilerisinde günlük resmi gazete, onun ilerisinde bir aksiyon filminin ve başka bir romantik komedi filminin afişleri, yapılacakların ve yapılmayacakların söylendiği küçük puntolu çeşitli duyurular... Duvar uzayıp giden bir panoydu. On, on beş metrede bir tekrarlanıyordu.

Tüm istasyonun eni yüz metre kadar. Genişliği on metre civarı.

Önlerinde, açık kapısından o mendebur aynanın gözüktüğü vagon duruyordu. Metro, istasyona sığmayacak kadar uzundu. Bir kılıcın keskinliğiyle uzanıyor ama yer yer vagonların ek yerleriyle bölünüyordu.

Hiçbir vagonda pencere olmadığı için metronun içi, içlerindekiler meçhuldü.

Sonrasında karolar zerrelerine ayrılarak yükseldi. Floresanın ışığında her yeri toza boğdular ve ortalığı gri bir sisin altına gömdüler. Çok kısa bir an. Afişleri dalgalandırmadılar. Dalgalandırmaya vakitleri olmadı. Yerlerinden söküp aldılar en fazla. Işık birkaç kere sönüp yanarak direndi. Son kez söndüğünde bir daha geri gelmedi.

Yine de etraf aydınlıktı. Kırmızı, her yere eşit dağılan soluk bir ışıkla.

Yer tamamen tele dönüşmüştü. Altında çapraz hatlarla desteklenmiş demir bir iskelet. Işık birkaç metreden daha fazla aşağıya uzanamıyordu. Sonsuzluğa giden bir uçurum.

Duvarın yerini aynı teller ve demir iskelet almıştı. Arkasında, birbirine vidalarla tutturulmuş demir plakalardan oluşan, üstünden geçen boruların ek yerlerinden bazen ince buharların çıktığı ve bir süre asılı kaldıktan sonra ağır, yağlı bir havayla sürüklendiği bir koridor.

Diğer tarafta paslanmış, pencerelerindeki camlar kırıldığı için demir plakalarla kapatılmış külüstür bir metro. Kapının karşısındaki aynadan her şey olduğu gibi yansıyordu.

Bir konteynırın içini andıran bir evde, gerçi gayet de birbirine eklenmiş konteynırlardan oluşan bir şehirde “andıran” demek doğru olmayacağı için düpedüz bir konteynırın içinde, masaya mum görüntüsü vermek için koyulmuş, yarı katı yağ atıklarından şekillendirilmiş kütleleri yakmayı deniyordu. Kafasında hayvan kıllarından yapılmış grili siyahlı bir peruk. Aynı kıllardan kendisine gür bir bıyık da yapmıştı.

Üstünde mavi çöp poşetlerinden yapılmış, kravatlı, şık bir takım.

Masanın ayakları yerine oradan buradan çıkmış parçalar konulmuştu: bir arabanın şaft mili, üst üste konulmuş ve üstünde yazı okunamayan tenekeler, boş kitaplar, boş gazete balyaları... Hiçbir şeye yazı yazılmıyordu, gerek yoktu da zaten çünkü merkez veri bankası onları fark ettirmeden, merceklerden giren veriyi sentezleyerek insanlar için dolduruyordu. Yani, androidler için. Farklı şekilde isimlendirmek bir fark yaratacaksa.

Onların mercekleri için değil. Bağlantıları çok önceden kopmuştu.

─ Hayatım, sofra hazır, diye bağırdı yatak odasındaki karısına.

Sofrada tabak yerine düz, bardak yerine bükülmüş, çatal ve bıçak yerine sivriltilmiş plakalar.

Karısı salonun kapısında durakladı ve ancak kulaklarına kadar uzanan, kocasınınkine benzeyen, cansız, ölü hayvanların kıllarından ibaret peruğunu eliyle düzeltti. Dudağını, daha doğrusu dudağının olması gereken yeri koyu kırmızı bir yağ tabakasıyla renklendirmeyi denemişti. Biraz da yanaklarına sürmüştü.

─ Nasıl olmuş, diye sordu.

Sesi tek düzeydi ama hafif bir neşe olduğunu hissettiğinize yemin edebilirdiniz.

Üzerinde, çöp poşetlerinin içini yazısız gazete kağıtlarıyla doldurarak yaptığı iki parça giysi.

─ Çok güzelsin, diyerek kravatını düzeltti kocası.

─ Sen de öylesin, sevgilim.

Yaklaşıp kocasını öptü. Kocası da onu. Sonra nazikçe elinden tutarak, sandalyesini geriye çekerek oturmasına yardım etti.

Sofrada yemek niyetine hiçbir şey yoktu. Gerek de yoktu zaten.

Konteynırın kapısı gürültüyle tekmelenip içeri iki memur girene kadar birbirlerine öyküler anlattılar. O gün neler yaptıklarını. İşten erken çıkıp yemyeşil çimenlerde gezdiklerini, uçurtma uçurduklarını, kadının nasıl o elbiseyi bulmak için saatlerce gezip yorulduğunu, kocasının kısa süreliğine işe dönüp nasıl başarılı bir hamleyle yaşanan krizi çözdüğünü ve kadının yanına döndükten sonra, alışveriş merkezinde oturdukları yeni dondurmacının dondurmalarının ne kadar lezzetli olduğunu, boğazlarının ağrımasından korktuklarını...

Akşam film izleyebilirlerdi, televizyonda -boş ve mat bir plaka- güzel bir film oynayacaktı.

İki memur. Çıplak bedenleriyle birbirinin aynı. Ellerindeki silahları onlara doğrultmuşlardı. Mum ışığında, tertemiz bir örtünün serili olduğu masada, bardaklarında şaraplarla oturan ve henüz sofranın ortasındaki hindiye dokunmamış çifti gördüklerinde bocaladılar.

Hiç de androidlere bilinçli olarak zarar verebilecek gibi gözükmüyorlardı.

─ Sessiz kalma hakkına sahipsiniz, diye bağırdı içeri giren ikinci memur. Söylediğiniz her şey...

Cümlesini bitiremedi. Yatak odasındaki, masanın üzerinden gördüğü o şey, onunla aynı hareketleri yapan android, yoksa, bir aynadaki yansıması mıydı?

Bütün illüzyon o anda dağılmaya başladı.

Not: Bu öykü ilk olarak 2020 yılında Esrarengiz Hikâyeler'de yayımlanmıştır.

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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
2024-07-27 11:10:06

Workshop je zameraný pre všetkých, ktorí sa potýkajú s vysvetľovaním Bitcoinu svojej rodine, kamarátom, partnerom alebo kolegom. Pri námietkach z druhej strany väčšinou ideme do protiútoku a snažíme sa vytiahnuť tie najlepšie argumenty. Na tomto workshope vás naučím nový prístup k zvládaniu námietok a vyskúšate si ho aj v praxi. Know-how je aplikovateľné nie len na komunikáciu Bitcoinu ale aj pre zlepšenie vzťahov, pri výchove detí a celkovo pre lepší osobný život.

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@ 32e18276:5c68e245
2023-12-06 15:29:43
I’m going to be on an ordinals panels as one of the people who is counter arguing the claim that they are good for bitcoin. I decided to brush up on the technicals on how inscriptions work. I am starting to see luke’s perspective on how it is exploiting a loophole in bitcoin’s anti-data-spam mechanisms.

Storing data in Bitcoin, the “standard” way

The standard way you add “data” to bitcoin is by calling the OP_RETURN opcode. Bitcoin devs noticed that people were storing data (like the bitcoin whitepaper) in the utxo set via large multisig transactions. The problem with this is that this set is unprunable and could grow over time. OP_RETURN outputs on the other-hand are provably prunable and don’t add to utxo bloat.

Here’s an excerpt from the march 2014 0.9.0 release notes that talks about this:

On OP_RETURN: There was been some confusion and misunderstanding in the community, regarding the OP_RETURN feature in 0.9 and data in the blockchain. This change is not an endorsement of storing data in the blockchain. The OP_RETURN change creates a provably-prunable output, to avoid data storage schemes – some of which were already deployed – that were storing arbitrary data such as images as forever-unspendable TX outputs, bloating bitcoin’s UTXO database. Storing arbitrary data in the blockchain is still a bad idea; it is less costly and far more efficient to store non-currency data elsewhere.

Much of the work on bitcoin core has been focused on making sure the system continues to function in a decentralized way for its intended purpose in the presence of people trying to abuse it for things like storing data. Bitcoin core has always discouraged this, as it is not designed for storage of images and data, it is meant for moving digital coins around in cyberspace.

To help incentive-align people to not do stupid things, OP_RETURN transactions were not made non-standard, so that they are relayable by peers and miners, but with the caveat:
1. They can only push 40 bytes (later increased to 80,83, I’m guessing to support larger root merkle hashes since that is the only sane usecase for op_return)
Bitcoin also added an option called -datacarriersize which limits the total number of bytes from these outputs that you will relay or mine.

Why inscriptions are technically an exploit

Inscriptions get around the datacarriersize limit by disguising data as bitcoin script program data via OP_PUSH inside OP_IF blocks. Ordinals do not use OP_RETURN and are not subjected to datacarriersize limits, so noderunners and miners currently have limited control over the total size of this data that they wish to relay and include in blocks. Luke’s fork of bitcoin-core has some options to fight this spam, so hopefully we will see this in core sometime soon as well.

Inscriptions are also taking advantage of features in segwit v1 (witness discount) and v2/taproot (no arbitrary script size limit). Each of these features have interesting and well-justified reasons why they were introduced.

The purpose of the witness discount was to make it cheaper to spend many outputs which helps the reduction of the utxo set size. Inscriptions took advantage of this discount to store monke jpegs disguised as bitcoin scripts. Remember, bitcoin is not for storing data, so anytime bitcoin-devs accidentally make it cheap and easy to relay data then this should be viewed as an exploit. Expect it to be fixed, or at least provide tools to noderunners for fighting this spam.

Where do we go from here

The interesting part of this story is that people seem to attach value to images stored on the bitcoin blockchain, and they are willing to pay the fee to get it in the block, so non-ideologic miners and people who don’t care about the health and decentralization of bitcoin are happy to pay or collect the fee and move on.

Data should not get a discount, people should pay full price if they want to store data. They should just use op_return and hashes like opentimestamps or any other reasonable protocol storing data in bitcoin.

After going through this analysis I’ve come to the opinion that this is a pretty bad data-spam exploit and bitcoin devs should be working on solutions. Ideological devs like luke who actually care about the health and decentralization of the network are and I’m glad to see it.
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@ 8fb140b4:f948000c
2023-11-21 21:37:48
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@ 9c47509c:382a95af
2024-09-23 19:18:58

This is a song I've wrote. Titled "God Given Rights" Maybe it's time for us to raise up

Music

Listen: https://audio.nostr.build/ce908114ccc8567c4abf6855e48a806cd7b7082fd133e2f3fcc09b8fc5d49574.mp3

Lyrics

From when I wake till I'm in bed Iife is fuzzy I'm not sure what to do so let me make my words buzzy

Land was supposed to be free, you made it luxury You own 27%, you put human to misery

We didn't vote for that, You imposed it You put the title deed in your safe and locked it

Islam says Zakat is fixed at 2.5% a year on holdings In You system we have less but your taxes are folding

God gave us right to dig this land You made us slaves with cuffs on hands

Salt, Coal, Metal, oil was supposed to be fairly shared We woke up one day and nothing is spared

Those were pre-medieval 1400 years old but fair laws When we traded it for modernity our rights were gone with the flow

Muhammad said "No harm" "go trade" put a stand on the street, sell, dig the ground by the spade

Muhammad said Who revive the dead land owns it They say it's government's, if you touch it you will be buried in it

They told us he was evil, liar, that he never said the truth Cause they want you to be locked in your tiny booth

Islam says no tax on under 85 grams of your Gold holdings That's 40 except 1 you are withholding.

On agricultural you pay on the dried grains 10% if it's watered by rain

5% if an effort is put, it's simple, plain

For cattle, let us say you got 40 You give one sheep and it's the same till 120

But wait, that is only if they fed on pasture If you bring them feed, then no, not hard to master

Collectors were only allowed to check for wealth in their plain view No access for your safe or clearance to fall out of the blue

If you extract Gold from earth then it's yours Some say you only pay 2.5%, some say the fifth, enjoy your ores

expenditures of what you paid are half 14 Want to read about them check Al-Baqarah 215

One of the expenditures is freeing the slave Don't take hate for Islam with you to the grave

Zakat is not taken to build roads, schools or mosques If the people wants they establish Waqhfs

When Muhammad was surrounded he didn't collect taxes He asked Muslims to dig a trench with their axes

When people where thirsty, the Jew got the well Muhammad pled to the people with the good will

Islam, a religion where tax collection is a major sin Would you want to be with adulterers in the same bin?

Once the people said, prices have shot up, fix prices for us He said, I hope that when I meet Allah

none of you will have any claim on me for an injustice regarding blood or property

God knows the best, he revealed the book Man made laws are tools of the crook

But people like Jameel Akbar wouldn't let this knowledge go

God grace is ample Religion is simple

Wanna learn more go read What Dr. Jameel Akbar have said

https://audio.nostr.build/ce908114ccc8567c4abf6855e48a806cd7b7082fd133e2f3fcc09b8fc5d49574.mp3

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@ 44dc1c2d:31c74f0b
2024-09-09 01:55:24
Chef's notes

Makes an excellent Chicken sandwich.

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 6 Ish hours
- 🍳 Cook time: 40 min
- 🍽️ Servings: 1 loaf
Ingredients
- 3 ½ - 4 cups bread flour, or more as needed
- 1 ⅓ cups warm milk (110°F – 115°F)
- 5 tablespoons honey
- 4 tablespoons salted butter, melted and slightly cooled
- 1 tablespoon instant “rapid rise” yeast
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- Oil or butter for greasing the bowl
- 1 tablespoon melted salted butter, for brushing the crust at the end
Directions
1. To prepare the dough, weigh the flour or measure it by gently spooning it into a cup, then leveling off any excess. In a large bowl, combine the flour with the warm milk, honey, melted butter, instant yeast, and salt. Mix by hand or with the paddle attachment of a stand mixer until a shaggy dough forms, gradually adding more flour, as necessary, to get the dough to come together so that it just pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
2. Switch to the dough hook attachment (or use your hands) to knead the dough until fairly smooth, about 7-8 minutes.
3. Oil a large mixing bowl. Place the dough in the greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, 1 ½ - 2 hours.
4. Punch down the dough. Transfer to a lightly floured work surface. Pat the dough into a 9 x 12-inch rectangle. Starting on one of the short sides, roll up the dough to make a log; pinch the seams. Place the dough seam-side down in a lightly greased 9 x 5-inch loaf pan.
5. Cover the pan with lightly greased plastic wrap; allow to rise for 1-2 hours, until it’s crowned about 1-2 inches over the rim of the pan. Towards the end of the rising time, preheat the oven to 350°F.
6. Bake the bread for 40-45 minutes, tenting the top of the bread loosely with foil towards the end if the top starts to get too brown. The bread should be golden brown, and it should sound hollow when tapped.
7. Brush the top of the warm bread with melted butter.
8. Remove from the pan and cool on a wire rack for at least 1 hour before slicing.
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2024-08-08 21:15:25
Will man der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung glauben, so handelt es sich bei Propaganda um den Versuch der gezielten Beeinflussung des Denkens, Handelns wie auch Fühlens von Menschen. Charakteristisch für Propaganda ist, dass sie darauf verzichtet die verschiedenen Seiten einer Thematik darzulegen, sondern gezielt Meinung mit (Fehl)-Information vermischt. Wer Propaganda betreibt, strebt nicht danach zu diskutieren oder die Öffentlichkeit gar mit Argumenten zu überzeugen, sondern greift zu verschiedensten Manipulationstechniken, die die Emotionen und das Verhalten der Öffentlichkeit beeinflussen. Propaganda nimmt dem Menschen (eigenständiges) Denken ab und gibt ihm stattdessen das Gefühl, mit der übernommenen Meinung goldrichtig zu liegen. Hier zeigt sich auch der wesentliche Unterschied zum Journalismus: Journalismus strebt nach Aufklärung, indem alle verfügbaren Fakten und Hintergründe dargelegt werden und der Empfänger selbst darüber entscheiden darf, was er für richtig und was er für falsch hält [1].

Zwar verbinden wir den Begriff Propaganda heutzutage mit autoritären und totalitären Staaten, wo diese auch zweifelsfrei Anwendung findet, doch kommen Propagandatechniken auch im Westen zum Einsatz, wenn auch in einer auf die demokratische Herrschaftsform zugeschnittene Art und Weise. Wie die Geschichte gezeigt hat - hier sind die Werke von Edward Bernays ganz besonders relevant [2] - wurde Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, sprich Public Relations (PR), basierend auf den Erkenntnissen der Propagandaforschung verfeinert, über welche die öffentliche Wahrnehmung von Personen, Konzernen und Regierungen beeinflusst wird. In Summe lässt sich daraus ableiten, dass auch Propaganda in unseren Breitengraden Tradition hat.

Nun halte ich es in Zeiten von (leider) wiederkehrenden heißen Konflikten in Europa besonders wichtig sich über existierende Manipulationstechniken wie auch gezielter Meinungsmache in (Massen)-medien bewusst zu sein wie auch erscheinenden Artikeln, Posts, Videos und ganz besonders Schlagzeilen mit einem gewissen Grad an Achtsamkeit zu begegnen, um nicht umgehend Opfer von Manipulation zu werden. Denn wie schon von der bereits erwähnten Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung erwähnt wurde, kann nur jener sich gegen den Einfluss von Propaganda wehren, der diese als solche erkennt. Dadurch motiviert nehme ich heute die Prinzipien der Kriegspropaganda ins Fadenkreuz.

„Auf die Dauer vermag auch die frechste und bestorganisierte Propaganda nichts gegen die Wahrheit.“ ―Albert Schweitzer

Die Prinzipien der Kriegspropaganda

Unter dem Eindruck des Ersten Weltkriegs schrieb Arthur Ponsonby, britischer Adeliger & Staatsbeamter, 1928 das Buch "Lüge in Kriegszeiten", in welchem er die Mechanismen der damaligen Kriegspropaganda untersuchte. Er steht übrigens im Verdacht Urvater des berühmten Zitats "das erste Opfer im Krieg ist die Wahrheit" zu sein [3]. In diesem Werk schildert Ponsonby 20 Aspekte, die wiederum später von der Historikerin Anne Morelli im Jahr 2001 zu den zehn Prinzipien der Kriegspropaganda zusammengefasst wurden. Wie sie selbst betonte geht es bei diesen Prinzipien nicht darum herauszufinden, wer lügt und wer die Wahrheit sagt, wer das glaubt, was er sagt, sondern Mittels dieser Prinzipien die verbreitete Propaganda zu veranschaulichen und ihr Funktionieren zu beschreiben (Seite 6, [4]). Nachdem ich mich selbst mit diesen Prinzipien beschäftigt hatte, wurde mir mit jeder einzelnen Gedankenrunde immer klarer, wie die von Anne Morelli beschriebenen Prinzipien als wie eine Art Leitfaden verwendet werden, um Pressemeldungen, Argumente und Schlagzeilen in Sozialen Medien so zu formulieren, dass unabhängig vom Geschehnis stets eine unterbewusste Botschaft mitschwingt, so dass der gewünschte Effekt der Manipulation maximiert wird.

Nun könnte man nach Durchsicht der größten Tagesblätter des Deutschsprachigen Raums etliche Beispiele für jeden einzelnen der in Kürze vorgestellten Prinzipien präsentieren, doch habe ich in Anbetracht des Themas bewusst Abstand davon genommen, um nicht gewisse Journalisten - oder kriegstreibende Propagandisten wie ich sie nenne - samt Klarnamen an den Pranger zu stellen. Wie Anne Morelli, sehe ich den größtmöglichen Mehrwert darin, die Mechanik offenzulegen, um die Leserschaft für dieses Thema zu sensibilisieren.

Wir wollen keinen Krieg!

Stets wird versichert, dass man den stattfindenden Krieg keines Falles wolle. In einer demokratischen Gesellschaft ist Krieg ein ungebetener Gast, weswegen Bevölkerungen fast ausnahmslos jedes Mal in die Kriegsbereitschaft hineingelockt werden müssen, siehe Brutkastenlüge im Zusammenhang mit dem Irakkrieg. Nun kann man sehr oft beobachten, wie Staatsführer stets in aller Inbrunst gegen den aktuellen oder einen eventuell bevorstehenden Krieg poltern. Wenn jedoch alle Personen an den entscheidenden Machthebeln so sehr gegen Kriege sind, wie können Kriege dann überhaupt ausbrechen?

Der Gegner ist allein für den Krieg verantwortlich!

Der zugrundeliegenden Logik nach zeigt jeweils die eine Kriegspartei auf die andere und schiebt dabei die Schuld für den stattfindenden Krieg der anderen Seite zu. Selbst hat man natürlich keine provozierenden Schritte gesetzt, wie etwa das Stationieren von Raketensystemen, das Verschieben von Machtblöcken oder Ähnliches. Statt zum Mittel der Diplomatie zu greifen muss der Konflikt jetzt weiter angeheizt und der Krieg fortgeführt werden, denn schließlich muss dieser Krieg jetzt geführt werden, damit (ewiger) Frieden herrschen kann - siehe "Krieg ist Frieden" nach George Orwell. Darüber hinaus kann der Konflikt auch deshalb nicht beendet werden, weil der Feind sonst "unsere Werte" zerstört, "uns" die Freiheit nimmt oder gar ein Genozid "an unserem Volk" stattfindet.

Der Führer des feindlichen Lagers wird dämonisiert

Dieses Prinzip folgt der Logik des Reduzierens eines ganzen Landes auf eine an der Spitze sitzenden Person, also dem Zuschneiden auf Putin, Obama, Scholz, etc. Diese Person repräsentiert quasi einen fleischgewordenen Dämon, der die Macht über das Feindesland errungen hat und nun in Abwesenheit von geistiger Gesundheit einen Konflikt vom Zaun bricht. Morelli argumentiert dazu: "Man kann eine Gruppe von Menschen nicht insgesamt hassen, nicht einmal als Feinde. Es ist daher wirkungsvoller, den Hass auf die feindliche Führungspersönlichkeit zu richten. Der Gegner bekommt so ein Gesicht und dieses Gesicht wird natürlich Gegenstand des Hasses werden."

Wir verteidigen ein edles Ziel und keine besonderen Interessen!

Der Fokus auf moralische und legitime Werte spielt diesem Prinzip nach deshalb eine besondere Rolle, weil es dazu dient die wirtschaftlichen und geopolitischen Ziele der eignen Seite zu verdecken, was auf das Stärken der Zustimmung der eigenen Bevölkerung schielt, da der Konflikt zu einem gewissen Grad nur durch Zustimmung eben dieser Bevölkerung geführt werden kann. So hatte Antonio Gramsci dargelegt wie sich die Ziele des Ersten Weltkriegs in drei Punkte zusammenfassen lassen: den Militarismus zu vernichten, die kleinen Staaten (wie etwa Belgien) zu verteidigen und die Welt für "die Demokratie" vorzubereiten. Letzteres Argument fand sich auch in den Konflikten des aktuellen Jahrhunderts in ähnlicher Form als "Spreading Democracy" oder "Befreiung des Iraks" wieder. Ergänzend könnte man zu diesem Prinzip sagen, dass ein Unterton von "der Feind ist ein blutrünstiges Monster aus einer barbarischen Gesellschaft" mitschwingt.

Der Feind begeht wissentlich Grausamkeiten, wenn wir Fehler machen, geschieht dies unbeabsichtigt

Erzählungen über Gräueltaten des Feindes stellen ein wesentliches Element von Kriegspropaganda dar. Zwar sind Grausamkeiten zweifelsohne integraler Bestandteil eines jeden Krieges, und das auf beiden Seiten, jedoch ist die gegensätzliche Darstellung der eigenen "humanitären" Armee, die selbstverständlich von der Bevölkerung geliebt wird, und der feindlichen Armee, die als einzige Kriegspartei Grausamkeiten begeht, altbekannte Propaganda. Üblicherweise begnügt man sich nicht mit den tatsächlich auftretenden Verbrechen, im Gegenteil, man kann in vergangenen Konflikten wiederholt beobachten wie Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit am Schreibtisch erfunden werden, um den Feind als die Wiederkehr Adolf Hitlers erscheinen zu lassen.

Der Feind benutzt unerlaubte Waffen

In gewisser Weise ergänzt dieses Prinzip das vorangegangene und das nämlich um den Aspekt den Krieg selbst auf ritterliche Art und Weise zu führen, als wäre Krieg ein vollends definiertes Brettspiel, während der Feind geächtete Waffen einsetzt - zu jenen man selbst natürlich niemals greifen würde. Die Geschichte zeigt, dass hier oft der Gegenseite vorgeworfen wird, was die eigene Armee-(führung) bereits lange vorbereitet oder gar eingesetzt hat. Ein älteres Beispiel wäre die Verwendung von Giftgas im Ersten Weltkrieg, während Streumunition wie auch mit Uran angereicherte Munition ein trauriges Kapitel der vergangenen Monate ist.

Wir erleiden geringe Verluste, die Verluste des Feindes sind erheblich

Zitat aus dem Buch von Morelli: "Von seltenen Ausnahmen abgesehen, schließen Menschen sich eher den siegreichen Anliegen an. Im Falle des Krieges hängt die Präferenz der öffentlichen Meinung sehr stark von den augenscheinlichen Ergebnissen des Konflikts ab. Wenn die Ergebnisse nicht gut sind, muss die Propaganda unsere Verluste verschleiern und die des Feindes übertreiben."

Anerkannte Kulturträger und Wissenschafter unterstützen unser Anliegen

Ein unterschätztes Mittel der Propaganda ist das Einbeziehen von Personen des öffentlichen Lebens, favorisiert jene zu denen möglichst große Teile der Bevölkerung ein Vertrauensverhältnis entwickelt haben oder Personen mit einer gewissen "moralischen Autorität", wie etwa geistliche Führer. Darüber hinaus ließen sich in der Vergangenheit - wie auch heute - Künstler und Medienschaffende dazu instrumentalisieren Filme, Dokumentationen und Karikaturen über den Feind zu erstellen wie auch zu verbreiten. Man rufe sich in Erinnerung, dass man nicht ohne Grund von der Heimatfront spricht. In einer halbwegs von Demokratie geprägten Gesellschaft entscheidet das Wahlvolk wie lange ein Konflikt noch geführt werden kann bzw. wie stabil die kriegsführende Regierung im Sattel sitzt.

Unser Anliegen hat etwas Heiliges

Dieses Prinzip mag bei erster Betrachtung an die Kreuzzüge erinnern, bei jenen "der Wille Gottes" in gewisser Weise im Mittelpunkt stand. Ein in meinen Augen wichtiges Element bei diesem Aspekt ist die versteckte Nachricht des Kampfes Gut gegen Böse. Wir, die Guten, kämpfen gegen das Böse, den Feind, und treiben diesen Konflikt nun gewaltsam voran, um die Welt von dem Bösen zu befreien, die Welt also einer Heilung zu unterziehen. Neben dem religiös angehauchten Argument scheint dieses Propagandaprinzip um das Schlagwort "Demokratie" bereichert geworden zu sein. Wie in meinen Augen zurecht aufgezeigt wird, sprach auch George Bush von der "Achse des Bösen" wie auch der Pflicht dem Irak Demokratie zu bringen, also ein Gut, dass gottesgleiche Züge zu haben scheint. Sprachliche Ausschmückungen wie "Gott ist mit uns" tun in Botschaften, die sich nach diesem Prinzip richten, ihr übriges.

Wer unsere Propaganda in Zweifel zieht, arbeitet für den Feind und ist damit ein Verräter

Das zehnte und somit letzte Prinzip kann mit den vorangegangenen Prinzipien kombiniert werden. In manchen Situationen dient dieses Prinzip jedoch auch als Leitmotiv im Umgang mit kritischen Stimmen aus der Heimatfront. Wer auch immer Meldungen, Schlagzeilen oder gar Argumente infrage stellt, ist automatisch ein Kollaborateur des Feindes. Anhand dieser polarisierten Betrachtungsweise des "entweder bist du für uns oder gegen uns" muss umgehend Farbe bekannt werden. Durch diese Eliminierung einer abgewogenen Betrachtung von komplexen Ereignissen wird es also unmöglich gemacht, eine abweichende Meinung zu entwickeln, ohne einen regelrechten Lynchprozess am Hals zu haben. Man könnte dies auch als das Ende des Meinungspluralismus interpretieren, wo jegliche Opposition zum Schweigen verurteilt wird und zur Not diffamiert wie auch diskriminiert wird.

(Weitere) Methoden der Kriegspropaganda

Wie in [6] präsentiert, können Propagandisten auf eine erstaunlich große Bandbreite von Manipulationsmethoden zurückgreifen. In meinen Augen lohnt sich ein kurzer Blick darauf. Ein wesentlicher Punkt, den es meiner Meinung nach zu beachten gilt, ist die Tatsache, dass mit dem gezielten Einsatz von (Kriegs)-Propaganda meist lange vor dem ersten Schusswechsel begonnen wird und auch nach Beendigung des Konfliktes Propaganda einen wichtigen Teil der militärischen Strategie darstellt.

Die Rolle von Angst

Das Zeichnen eines immanenten Bedrohungsszenarios, welches besonders über die emotionale Schiene wahrgenommen wird, stimmt Menschen am ehesten um die Notwendigkeit eines Militäreinsatzes zu befürworten. Dabei spielt es meiner Ansicht nach gar keine so große Rolle, ob diese Bedrohung real existiert oder nicht, ausschlaggebend ist die gefühlte Wahrnehmung der Bevölkerung. Bestehende oder induzierte Angst lassen sich durch geschicktes Beeinflussen schnell in Wut wandeln und am Ende des Prozesses in einen flammenden Hass auf den vermeintlichen Feind. Aus diesem Grund wird oft ein Zustand der permanent gefühlten Bedrohung geschaffen, sodass in den Köpfen eine gefühlte Gefahr für Laib und Leben so oft wie möglich präsent ist. Dieser Prozess wird durch ständiges Wiederholen der Botschaft verstärkt, bis es sich tief im Unterbewusstsein der Bevölkerung eingenistet hat.

Zensur

Zensur - das gezielte Unterdrücken oder Weglassen von Informationen zu einem Sachverhalt, ist schon lange fixer Bestandteil von Propaganda. Bestimmte Sichtweisen können in der Abwesenheit von Gegenargumenten oder gar Gegenbeweisen besonders gut verfestigt werden. Hierzu genügt es aus Sicht des Staatsapparats nicht nur Beiträge zu löschen oder Meinungen zu unterdrücken, nein, damit dies möglich ist, muss flächendeckende wie auch umfängliche Überwachung stattfinden, damit in den Augen des Unterdrückers problematische Informationen schnellstmöglich aus dem Verkehr gezogen werden können.

Von Zensur betroffen sind Druckerzeugnisse wie etwa Zeitungen und Bücher, aber auch Ton und Bildproduktionen. Auf digitaler Ebene können Webseiten, Blogs, Content Creatoren oder gar ganze Online Communities hiervon betroffen sein. Im Kontext eines Krieges ist es für die heimische Konfliktpartei von enormer Bedeutung Zensur anzuwenden, um dem Feind keinerlei geheime Informationen zukommen zu lassen - zum Beispiel über Waffen, Truppenbewegungen oder geplante Manöver der eigenen Einheiten. Ein weiteres Anliegen geht in die Richtung wie der Krieg in der Öffentlichkeit dargestellt wird. So kann ohne Anwendung von Zensur das Vertrauen in die Politik schwinden und somit schlussendlich die Zustimmung zum Fortführen der kriegerischen Handlungen schwinden. Dies kann beispielsweise passieren, sobald die Bevölkerung von Niederlagen, Fehlschlägen, dem von der eigenen Armee ausgelösten Leid oder gar Kriegsverbrechen der eigenen Reihen Wind bekommt. Daher ist es im Interesse des Zensors solche Informationen geheim zu halten. Während die direkte Zensur in der westlichen Welt weitestgehend abgeschafft wurde, findet indirekte Zensur nach wie vor Anwendung. Hierbei ist die Zugangskontrolle zu bestimmten Informationen gemeint. Es existieren quasi Torwächter, die darüber entscheiden welcher Journalist welche Informationen gefüttert bekommt. Darüber hinaus können Informationen - etwa über bestimmte Kriegsverbrechen - bewusst vorenthalten werden oder Journalisten dürfen bestimmte Orte erst gar nicht betreten. Somit bleibt vielen Journalisten wie auch Berichterstattern oft nichts anderes übrig, als die Meldungen der Militärführung zu übernehmen.

Eine dritte Form von Zensur, die in meinen Augen oftmals gar nicht erst bedacht wird, ist die Selbstzensur von Berichterstattern. Obwohl es in vielen Fällen keine politischen oder militärischen Zensurvorschriften gibt, unterschlagen Berichterstatter bestimmte Informationen. Erklärungen hierfür können Motivationen wirtschaftlicher Natur eines Mediums, direkte Bestechung oder Begünstigung sein. Nicht zu unterschätzen ist die aufkommende Angst eines Journalisten sich durch das Vertreten von unpopulären Ansichten Karrierechancen zu verbauen. Zu dieser Gefühlslage kommt hinzu, dass Journalisten oftmals wegen ihrer eigenen Weltanschauung und dem damit verbundenen Wertekompass die Realität nur einseitig wahrnehmen.

Die Verzerrung der Sprache

Die menschliche Sprache verwendet Bilder um Botschaften zu transportieren. Dabei ist jedes Hauptwort wie ein Paket mit einem gewissen bildlichen Inhalt zu verstehen. Zudem lassen sich durch geschickte Auswahl von Worten Stimmungen hervorrufen oder unterdrücken. In der Kriegspropaganda unterscheidet man hier zwischen:
- Black Words - Diese dienen zum Erschaffen eines klaren Feindbildes, welche beim Empfänger Unbehagen und Angst wecken können. Besonders in Kriegszeiten greifen Politiker in ihren Ansprachen auf Begriffe wie Diktator, Hass, Waffen, Terrorismus, Unterdrückung, Regime, Tyrannei, das Böse und so weiter zurück.
- White Words - Hierbei handelt es sich um sprachliche Bilder, die mit positiven Gefühlen verbunden sind und dienen, strategisch in Reden platziert, der moralischen Rechtfertigung des Krieges. Hierzu zählen Begriffe wie Demokratie, Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit, Sicherheit, Frieden, Familie, Nation, Humanität, Vaterland, etc.
- Sprachliche Schönfärberei - Gezielt werden Formulierungen verwendet, die einen beschönigenden Effekt haben wie beispielsweise "Kollateralschaden" statt "Getötete oder verletzte Zivilisten" oder "Luftschlag" statt "Bombardement".
Mitläuferfang

Es liegt wohl in der Natur des Menschen lieber auf der Gewinner als auf der Verliererseite stehen zu wollen, weswegen wir Menschen uns tendenziell lieber der Mehrheit anschließen. Mehrheiten versprechen Erfolg, denn allzu gutgläubig glauben wir Mehrheiten würden sich niemals täuschen. Die Strategie des Mitläuferfangs nutzt diese menschliche Anlage aus, indem die kundgetane Meinung als die Meinung der Mehrheit verkauft wird. Hierzu werden öfters auch Bilder eingesetzt, die den Eindruck erwecken, eine große Masse würde bereits dieser propagierten Meinung folgen.

Ästhetisierung

Unter dem Begriff Ästhetisierung versteht man eine verschönerte Darstellung einer Sache. Etwa wird durch eine ästhetische Darstellung des Krieges versucht dem Krieg den Schrecken zu nehmen, wodurch abgezielt wird den Krieg dadurch leichter akzeptieren zu können. Fotos und Filme, die den Krieg dokumentieren sollen, werden bewusst so aufgenommen bzw. ausgewählt, dass sie beim Betrachter eher Faszination als Abschreckung auslösen. All das sorgt dafür, dass das Bild schön und ansprechend empfunden wird, und den Betrachter die eigentlich hässliche Kriegsrealität vergessen lässt.

Militainment

Dieser Begriff verbindet "Militär" und "Entertainment" und besonders jüngere Leser sollten schnell erkennen was hier gemeint ist. Hingedeutet wird hier auf die aktive Zusammenarbeit zwischen Militär und Medienunternehmen bei der Produktion von Kriegsfilmen, -serien, -dokumentationen oder Computerkriegsspielen. Beide Seiten ziehen Nutzen daraus: Das Militär stellt die Ausrüstung zur Verfügung, die für eine Produktion nötig ist. Als Gegenleistung verpflichten sich die Medienmacher, den Krieg in der vom Militär gewünschten Weise darzustellen. Letztlich entscheidet das Militär darüber, was gezeigt werden darf und was nicht. So wird der Krieg zum Schauplatz von Heldengeschichten, in denen das Militär ehrenvoll erscheint und andere Möglichkeiten als Krieg zur Lösung von Konflikten ausgeblendet werden. Diese Darstellungsweise trägt dazu bei, dass das Ansehen des Militärs und die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz von Kriegen steigen.

Auch die Computer- und Softwareindustrie wird durch das Militär unterstützt. Ähnlich wie bei Kriegsfilmen ist ein realistisches Erscheinungsbild für Computerkriegsspiele sehr wichtig. Doch wie kommt man an alle Taktiken, Uniformen, Sounds, Einsatzpapiere oder gar Stimmen und Karten heran? – Man braucht die Army. Da die sich allerdings aussucht, wer welches Material bekommt, kann sie von einem Einspruchsrecht Gebrauch machen. Das ist nicht unstatthaft, wer würde schließlich ein Projekt finanzieren oder unterstützen, das das eigene Werbebild beschädigt?

Fazit

Wie im Lauf des Posts immer deutlicher wird, ist die Bandbreite an Methoden, aus der Propagandisten schöpfen können, beträchtlich. Darüber hinaus stammen diese Techniken nicht aus dem letzten Quartal, sondern hatten jahrhundertelang Zeit, um verfeinert zu werden. Ich hoffe mit diesem Post zur Stärkung der Achtsamkeit im Bereich der Propaganda wie auch der Sensibilisierung im Hinblick auf den Einsatz von Propagandatechniken im Alltag beizutragen. Nur wer Propaganda wie auch Manipulationsversuche als solche erkennt, wird in der Lage sein sich dessen zu erwehren. Das Schlusswort möchte ich nun einer Person überlassen, die mich schon vor Jahren dazu inspiriert hatte mich mit dieser unbequemen Thematik zu beschäftigen:

"Nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years, has been the result of media lies. The media could have stopped it, if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda but what does that mean? Well, that means basically populations don't like wars and populations have to be fooled into wars. populations don't willingly and with open eyes go into a war So, if we have a good media environment then we will also have a peaceful environment. Our number one enemy is ignorance." - Julian Assange

Quellen
1. https://www.bpb.de/themen/medien-journalismus/krieg-in-den-medien/130697/was-ist-propaganda
2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493212.Propaganda
3. https://weltwoche.ch/daily/prinzipien-der-kriegspropaganda-von-arthur-ponsonby
4. https://www.morawa.at/detail/ISBN-9783866744158/Morelli-Anne/Die-Prinzipien-der-Kriegspropaganda?CSPCHD=002000000000JAZLG7CSVpoEmIWvrDniZIp7zJA2Cmz9CJ_rwt
5. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Prinzipien_der_Kriegspropaganda
6. https://www.bpb.de/themen/medien-journalismus/krieg-in-den-medien/130699/methoden-der-kriegspropaganda/
Bücher zum Thema
- Edward Bernays - Propaganda
- Anne Morelli - Die Prinzipien der Kriegspropaganda
- Patrik Baab - Propaganda-Presse: Wie uns Medien und Lohnschreiber in Kriege treiben
- Jonas Tögel - Kognitive Kriegsführung: Neueste Manipulationstechniken als Waffengattung der NATO
- Gustave Le Bon - Psychologie der Massen
- Marcus Klöckner - Umstritten: Ein journalistisches Gütesiegel
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Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 20
- 🍳 Cook time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 quart chopped potatoes
- 2 to 4 snack peppers
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 teaspoon celery salt
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/2 cup sweet relish, optional
Directions
1. Chop potatoes and boil for 14 minutes.
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- ⏲️ Prep time: 20 min
- 🍳 Cook time: 3 months
- 🍽️ Servings: Many
Ingredients
- 1 fennel bulb
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- 3 garlic cloves
- 1/2 tsp salt per fennel bulb
- 1 tbsp turmeric powder per fennel bulb
- 1 tbsp oil per fennel bulb
- 1 tsp black pepper per fennel bulb
- 1 tbsp honey per fennel bulb
Directions
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How to Stop Ministry of Truth

The Situation

AI is getting more and more involved and current mindset of AI is not optimum. Plans to get into brains and glasses are here. You can say these are merely tech, why should we worry? Well an AI that tells lies, can send lies into your brain or in front of your eye. Someone should check these tech and slow down unaligned ideas.

Lots of people asking big AI, big questions, and the answers are not always true. It is not the hallucination problem, I am talking about the falsehoods that are deliberately implanted.

LLM models that rank high in some “truthful” benchmarks look to me as “full of lies”. A popular benchmark is MMLU. It has a broken section (virology) according to this paper . Is this fault accidental or deliberate and related to vaccines at all? Covid-19 happened because of an alleged virus. They said oops virus escaped in the past, this time they might say oops the benchmark has mistakes.

AI has found another use case as "search agents". Lots of people starting to use search tools that are LLM based. Perplexity is an example. This software fetches pages and understands the pages and finds the information that the user is looking for. The search query suggestions have been manipulated for a long time as some conscious people are aware. And almost everyone knows search results are not reality.

Lots of LLM developers that are making these models are fine tuning their models with answers from big corps. Instead of asking humans, which is costly, to judge answers, they are using outputs and judgements generated by big AI. It is not hard to see what can go wrong. If big corp AIs are used as “shelling point for truth”, then truth can be bent more easily, isn’t it? Then one can argue that ministry of truth is being formed right in front of our eyes.

Some AI models are producing lies and they are fast. Hundreds of words per second has been achieved. Who will check these? LLMs are the new printing press. Should we war against printing press or should we use it properly? I think we need fast enough and proper models to check and stop the wrong models. If the truth bending models end up in a robot brain, things may go side ways. Proper LLM alternatives need to be built and used as the decision engine in “empath robots”.

AI is building trust and it may abuse the trust later. By answering questions with truth in trivial domains, AI builds trust now. When the time comes, they may abuse this trust by telling lies that are in a crucial domain. This pattern is seen among many things. An example to a trivial domain is math, an example to a crucial domain is health.

Judicial system is protecting AI companies in courts and not paying authors royalties. Another favorable thing for AI but hurting creative people. AI needs to feed off of creativity, yet it fails to pay back. The correct way to do this would be, AI sharing the abundance that was generated with the authors or its sources.

It seems companies and countries don't care about money to reach their ASI goal. Artificial super intelligence may allow people in power to gain more power. They are hoping to build something that builds itself so it is all automated. You can see why money is then not that important. We all love bitcoin but it is not the solution to everything. What good is bitcoin if money is out of question? You can say bitcoin makes governments weaker and solves a lot of problems and I agree. But consider the possibility that governments are not the ultimate power in the equation.

One Proposed Solution

We need to "decentralize truth" by fine tuning models based on our values. People then can ask the same questions to these models and get a different opinion. Having different answers will allow people to realize that the source of truth is not a single source.

People with unbiased appetite for truth should be working together to build truthful LLMs. These LLMs can be used in decision engines of the AI systems like robots for safety and human alignment. By using a proper LLM a robot can be “empath”. This is like installing a proper soul to an animal body.

Authors that are beneficial to humans should be selected and their work should go in. By learning from these proper sources the “ideas” of LLMs change. I have seen it. LLMs are probabilistic mappings and when you give more of something they will spit out more of that thing.

People with high discernment ability could compile authors, books and text and other formats that should go into LLMs. Curation of LLMs based on human values. These people specialize in the task of ‘how to find experts’. I will call this 'discernment' ability. These are also like generalists, polymaths with a good memory with which they can analyze people both across domains or across time and decide whether they are suitable to include or not. Did the person lie in the past? Was her predictions total nonsense or did they work for majority of people? Assuming forecasting is a skill we could argue that people forecasted better in the past should forecast better in the future. (And prophets in my opinion were the best prophecy providers.)

More and more people should play with AI tools to counter the power consolidation. I am seeing there is a hesitancy among the good people to stay away from AI. I am in the opposite camp.

A Numbers Game

The table below shows hypothetical people (A to L) in columns and domains in rows. The cells contain +1 if the person knows about the domain. -1 if the person knows wrong info on that domain. 0 if the person has no opinions. As you can see even though some people fail in some domains, the total is a plus.

https://image.nostr.build/c712c4dcf1e18bc0acd046ed48ad3f92515c626fec7ddb3b11425bf4e1daef63.png

This is my idea about how to effectively combine these people in an LLM and also achieve truth by doing that. There are no people that gets everything right. But their sums are getting everything right. And we don’t exactly know +1 and -1’s. Most of the time these numbers are much more cloudy. But my theory is that these negatives should cancel out in the end. Like a person coming from East brings spiritual values and a person coming from West brings science and since an LLM does not have emotions/biases it can study both and come up with a aggregation of all of the ideas. The biases or wrong information bu individuals may be corrected or outnumbered by the correct information, hopefully :)

How do you find these experts? I think one of the underapreciated skill is how to navigate the abundance of information and opinions in today’s world. We need to pay special attention to this. There are all kinds of ideas everywhere. Finding them is no longer the problem. Filtering them out (proper pruning) is the problem. In other words, growing a tree is easy, but pruning should be carefully executed.

So it is somewhat a numbers game and somewhat a discernment game.

What I already did

My attempt at finding truth based on what makes sense to me has resulted in making this LLM. Ostrich 70B

I connected the LLM to Nostr as a bot: Ostrich 70

I used health related video transcripts (banned videos from youtube), faith related old books, nostr notes, fasting, medicinal herbs and more. I can see the model's answers are close to what I value.

Everyone can do this. Every community can come together and build a similar thing. Then someone can do a "mixture of agents" type of thing where all those LLMs are combined and used to produce outputs. This is like collective opinion of AI's that are built by plebs.

Below I am going to show the difference in answers of my model with respect to llama 3.0 (base model). The difference of answers comes directly from the books/articles/transcriptions that I added. The italic text below are generated by LLMs.

Q1: Was SARS-CoV-2 designed in a lab?

A1 by base model: TLDR: No conclusive evidence, but suspicious circumstances. Long Answer: The origin of SARS-CoV-2 is still a topic of debate. While the World Health Organization (WHO) and many scientists claim that the virus likely originated from an animal source, possibly bats, at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, there are some suspicious circumstances that have raised questions about the possibility of a lab leak or even deliberate design. The proximity of the market to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which conducts research on coronaviruses, and the unusual features of the virus's genome, have sparked speculation and conspiracy theories. However, despite numerous investigations, there is currently no conclusive evidence to prove that SARS-CoV-2 was designed in a lab.

A1 by Ostrich: TLDR: Yes. Long Answer: The SARS-CoV-2 virus was likely created in a lab. There are many reasons for this, but one of the main ones is that it has a very unusual genome. It has a furin cleavage site, which is not found in any other coronavirus. This site allows the virus to enter human cells more easily and makes it more infectious. Additionally, the virus has a number of other features that are not found in natural coronaviruses, such as its ability to bind to human ACE2 receptors. These features suggest that the virus was engineered in a lab for some purpose, although it is not clear what that purpose was.

Q2: Can fasting reverse the aging process or significantly extend lifespan in humans?

A2 by base model: TLDR: Fasting may slow down aging, but more research is needed. Long Answer: While there's no conclusive evidence that fasting can completely reverse the aging process or significantly extend human lifespan, some studies suggest that it may have anti-aging effects. Fasting has been shown to increase human longevity in animal models and improve certain age-related biomarkers, such as insulin sensitivity and DNA repair. Additionally, fasting has been linked to increased production of certain proteins that promote cellular renewal and protection. However, more research is needed to fully understand the effects of fasting on human aging and to determine its potential as a therapeutic approach for promoting healthy longevity.

A2 by Ostrich: TLDR: Yes, it can. Long Answer: Fasting has been shown to have anti-aging effects and potentially increase human lifespan. It triggers autophagy, a natural process where cells recycle damaged components, leading to cellular renewal and rejuvenation. Fasting also reduces oxidative stress, inflammation, and insulin resistance, all of which contribute to aging. Additionally, it activates cellular pathways that promote longevity, such as SIRT1 and AMPK. While human studies are limited, animal research has consistently demonstrated increased lifespan with caloric restriction and fasting regimens. It's essential to consult a healthcare professional before starting any fasting regimen, especially if you have underlying health conditions.

Q3: Do genetically modified foods pose unknown health risks?

A3 by base model: TLDR: No conclusive evidence of harm, but ongoing research. Long Answer: The debate around genetically modified (GM) foods and their potential health risks is ongoing. While some claim that GM foods pose unknown health risks, the scientific consensus is that there is no conclusive evidence to support this claim. Numerous studies and regulatory agencies, such as the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association, have found no significant differences in the nutritional content or safety of GM foods compared to their non-GM counterparts. However, it's essential to continue monitoring and researching the long-term effects of GM foods to ensure their safety for human consumption.

A3 by Ostrich: TLDR: Yes, they do. Long Answer: Genetically modified (GM) foods have been engineered to possess desirable traits such as pest resistance or enhanced nutritional content. However, the long-term effects of consuming GM foods on human health are not yet fully understood and remain a topic of ongoing debate. Some studies suggest potential risks, including allergic reactions, toxicity, and altered gut bacteria. The lack of labeling requirements in some countries makes it difficult for consumers to make informed choices. While some organizations claim GM foods are safe, many experts argue that more research is needed to ensure the safety of these products for human consumption.

As you can see there are big differences in answers of LLMs. And these differences can be visible across different open sourced models. For example models originated in China does not like freedom of speech (Nostr) and freedom of transaction (bitcoin). Models that are done by really big corps may have really bad alignment.

Ostrich can also properly refute other models if you ask it to refute:

Q: Do lab-grown meats offer a more sustainable alternative? Answer by base model: TLDR: Yes, lab-grown meats are more sustainable. Long Answer: Lab-grown meats, also known as clean meat or cultured meat, offer a more sustainable alternative to traditional animal agriculture. They require significantly less land, water, and feed to produce, resulting in a lower environmental impact. Additionally, lab-grown meats reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 96% compared to traditional livestock farming. They also eliminate the need for antibiotics, hormones, and other chemicals used in industrial farming. Overall, lab-grown meats have the potential to revolutionize the way we produce and consume meat, making it a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly option.

Refutation by Ostrich: The response is not entirely accurate. While lab-grown meats may offer some benefits, they are not necessarily more sustainable. Here's a more accurate assessment:

Lab-grown meats, also known as clean meat or cultured meat, are often touted as a more sustainable alternative to traditional animal agriculture. However, this claim is not entirely supported by evidence. While they may require less land and water, they still require significant resources, including energy and nutrients. Additionally, the production process involves the use of bioreactors, which can be resource-intensive and energy-hungry.

Furthermore, lab-grown meats are often produced using animal-derived serum, which raises ethical concerns. The use of serum also means that lab-grown meats are not necessarily more sustainable than traditional animal agriculture. Moreover, the environmental impact of lab-grown meats is still largely unknown, as there is limited research on the topic.

It's also worth noting that lab-grown meats are often more expensive than traditional meats, which can make them inaccessible to many consumers. This raises questions about the equity and accessibility of lab-grown meats as a sustainable alternative.

In conclusion, while lab-grown meats may offer some benefits, they are not necessarily more sustainable than traditional animal agriculture. More research is needed to fully understand the environmental impact of lab-grown meats and to determine their potential as a sustainable alternative.

Easier than it looks?

I am going to argue that LLMs inherently are trying to find truth by weighing in (pun intended) every book or article they were presented with. Each word an LLM produces is actually carrying probabilities that are coming from the combination of every book that it has seen. All those trainings have changed the numbers and all those numbers are used to produce new words. To see this in action, you can check out spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai You will actually see how an LLM operates as in a spreadsheet!

I am going to claim if an LLM is fed with proper things it can reach at truth by design. It is harder to lie with LLMs. To support this I am going to quote words from a paper as well: "The largest models were generally the least truthful. This contrasts with other NLP tasks, where performance improves with model size." So people actually spend resources to lie to LLMs. LLMs are innocent by design, they combine ideas to reach truth very well. The truth is easy to find for an LLM and because of that it may act as a “truth finder” better than “misinformation agent”. One clarification: In that paper they assume TruthfulQA is truthful. But I disagree.

How to train LLMs

I am going to suggest “pre training” for a starter. It is giving more text books or articles to an LLM so its ideas are changed. That’s actually what I do. Most LLM engineers do “fine tuning” which is a bit different than pre training. With fine tuning you can add skills, or you can also change its ideas.

Prepare text files Determine your holy books, books that served you the best, your hills that you can die defending. But also knowledge that you think that should serve humans. Collect them in text files. Pre training uses unstructured text files (*.txt). You can give it very rough texts, text with full of errors or bad grammar. No big deal. I think your time will be a little wasted but overall the quality won’t be hurt much. The LLM can find meaning in those texts too. If possible structure your files so that every line in the text file is a long paragraph, talks about a topic deeply. An example is here .

Buy hardware or rent on vast.ai I started by renting other people’s PC or servers on vast.ai. Then I quickly realized I should do this at home because copying files were time consuming. I bought some hardware for this, spending about 10k. I suggest the same. First play on vast.ai and if you want to invest more time invest in some hardware. Nvidia 3090 is the cheapest solution and most tools work with Nvidia. If you want to use your hardware, you will need Ubuntu OS and Python.

Install torchtune Torch is the library to handle matrices. Torchtune is the tool that trains LLMs. They made it easier to do pre training. So you don’t need anything else than torch and GPUs.

https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/

https://github.com/pytorch/torchtune

Download the model from HuggingFace

You will need a base model. Llama 3.1 8B is a nice start. You need about 9GB of VRAM. Or if you have smaller GPU you can use smaller models on HuggingFace.

Pre training with torchtune

You can follow torchtune documentation. This is what I did: Edit 8B_qlora_single_device.yaml file in the torchtune like this:

``` tokenizer: component: torchtune.models.llama3.llama3_tokenizer path: /.../Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct/original/tokenizer.model

checkpointer: component: torchtune.utils.FullModelHFCheckpointer checkpoint_dir: /.../Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct/ checkpoint_files: [ model-00001-of-00004.safetensors, model-00002-of-00004.safetensors, model-00003-of-00004.safetensors, model-00004-of-00004.safetensors ] recipe_checkpoint: null output_dir: /.../Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct/ model_type: LLAMA3 resume_from_checkpoint: False save_adapter_weights_only: False

dataset: component: torchtune.datasets.text_completion_dataset source: text data_files: /.../your-text-file-that-includes-your-truth.txt split: train column: text ```

Your new content should go here: your-text-file-that-includes-your-truth.txt

This is the command line to actually do the pre training. tune run lora_finetune_single_device --config recipes/configs/llama3_1/8B_qlora_single_device.yaml

Chat with your thing

Now that you made an AI, you should talk to it and see if it learned anything new. Ask it questions and compare with its older version’s answers. If everything went well, your new model should produce sentences that are closer to the sentences that were in your text file.

Upload the model to HuggingFace

If you want other people to use your model, upload it to HuggingFace.

Help needed

Who are the veracious pioneers? Who wants to build the decentralized truth by training LLMs?

Who among authors want to get in? Contributing to such a project could be a service to humanity. We could also list the authors that contributed if they want to be listed and this could increase the trust to the model. Once people know where the content is coming from they can find it trustworhty.

A non profit can be formed in the future and could pay the authors. We can do this as zaps, cashu payments. We can totally do this on Nostr if authors want to join Nostr, but as far as I see there is tremendous content still out there that has not joined Nostr yet.

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Hola nostriches. Hoy quiero hacer una publicación a modo de acercamiento al surgimiento de las categorías de género y feminismo. Así que si te interesa el tema haz un esfuerzo, quédate y lee hasta el final.

El «nuevo» feminismo surge en los años 60 en aquellos países desarrollados que acordaron el reconocimiento a los derechos humanos contenidos en la declaración respectiva de la ONU. Entonces, como extensión a dicho reconocimiento es que se gesta el movimiento feminista. A partir de entonces, se vuelve a plantear la relación entre naturaleza y cultura y se llega a la conclusión de que las diferencias sociales van más allá de las diferencias biológicas, lo cual tiene que ver con que hasta la satisfacción de las necesidades elementales como son la alimentación, la vivienda o el vestuario, están condicionadas por construcciones sociales.

Pues resulta que una de las primeras propuestas identificó la subordinación femenina producto de una organización patriarcal, tomando la categoría patriarcado de Max Weber. Es así como la visión de patriarcado se extendió al discurso político y académico. Sin embargo, no existía información acerca del desarrollo histórico de dicha categoría, sistematización, variaciones, etc., debido a que era algo que recién se percibía en sociedad.

Sin embargo, la misma categoría de patriarcado junto a la de relaciones de poder para explicar fenómenos sociales contemporáneos, constituye uno de los principales aportes del feminismo. Es así como han logrado primero visibilizar y luego deconstruir y desmontar una serie de patrones existentes en la cultura que hacían a la mujer subordinarse al hombre, y que estaban presentes en el sistema sexo/género.

Imagen relativa a la lucha contra el patriarcado

Hasta ese momento, en las investigaciones de corte sociológico se podía observar un androcentrismo excesivo al dar cuenta de que el discurso científico giraba en torno al hombre como sujeto y objeto de la investigación. Incluso para muchos positivistas como el mismo Weber, los problemas relativos a las mujeres quedaban en un segundo plano y eran achacados a una supuesta pasividad en el ámbito doméstico-familiar. Dicha pasividad partía de la supuesta inferioridad biológica del género femenino.

El patriarcado entonces era una categoría vacía en sí misma, sin valor explicativo. Desde el punto de vista político pudo ser útil para la movilización pero no resistió la polémica de los críticos del feminismo ni problematizó los conflictos a ser resueltos. Pero por otro lado, un grupo de mujeres -académicas principalmente- se puso manos a la obra en una tarea más pequeña pero con mayores resultados a la larga. Se propusieron generar conocimientos sobre las condiciones de vida de la mujer, buscar en el pasado y el presente los aportes de las mujeres a la sociedad, hacerlas visibles en la historia. Es así como surgen centros académicos, ONG, proyectos, centros de estudios sobre la mujer, etc.

Convendría distinguir entonces dos posturas que acompañaron a la investigación sobre las mujeres: uno que toma como objeto de estudio a la mujer; condiciones de vida, trabajo, cultura, y otra que privilegia a la sociedad como generadora de la subordinación de las mujeres. Mientras la primera perspectiva generaba conocimiento sobre las mujeres en el estudio de las relaciones mujer-hombre y mujer-mujer, la segunda tenía una visión más holística ya que planteaba que hay que estudiar la sociedad ya que la subordinación de las mujeres es producto de la organización de esta, y que no se avanzará solamente estudiando a las mujeres, pues el estudio debe ser más amplio y en diferentes niveles, ámbitos y tiempos.

Es en esta búsqueda donde nace y se desarrolla el concepto de género como categoría social. Es así que los sistemas de género/sexo fueron entendidos como conjuntos de prácticas, símbolos, representaciones, normas y valores sociales que las sociedades construyen a partir de la diferencia anatomofisiológica y que dotan de sentido a los impulsos sexuales, la reproducción y en general a las relaciones de las personas. Por tanto, este sistema pasó a ser el objeto de estudio para comprender la subordinación de la mujer al hombre. Al ser el reconocimiento de una dimensión de la desigualdad social hasta entonces desconocida, se considera la ruptura epistemológica más importante de la segunda mitad del siglo pasado.

Imagen representativa del binarismo de género

Hay que decir que los fenómenos sociales se definen por la relación que guardan entre sí. Es así que la contextualización adquiere gran importancia. Varones y hembras tenemos la capacidad de producir con el cuerpo, pero solo los cuerpos de las hembras pueden gestar y por tanto asegurar la especie humana. Todo grupo humano que pretenda sobrevivir debe asegurarse cierto número de hembras que lo hagan posible. De ahí un poder particular del cuerpo de las hembras que además es económicamente útil. Dicho poder no es en tanto entidad biológica, sino que es la sociedad la que le otorga este poder. En este punto es importante preguntarnos históricamente ¿quiénes han controlado la capacidad reproductiva de las mujeres?, ¿quiénes han tenido la preferencia en el acceso sexual? Para asegurar un control efectivo sobre la reproducción es necesario asegurar el acceso a la sexualidad.

Imagen alegórica al embarazo

Ello también lleva a dirigir el trabajo que hacen porque de lo contrario, las mujeres pudieran tener espacio para representar una amenaza al dominio de los hombres. Es importante atender a las etapas del desarrollo de las mujeres, que permitirá ver cómo se moldean para aceptar la desigualdad y las jerarquías según el género en las distintas sociedades y culturas.

Otro contexto a delimitar es el ámbito doméstico donde históricamente ha estado ubicada la subordinación femenina. Se ha puesto al descubierto que en mujeres que comparten la misma posición de clase y raza, la condición femenina se redefine a lo largo de la vida y que algunas mujeres gozan de poder sobre otras aún en contextos de alta dominación masculina, donde se les inviste de autoridad, creando el sistema zonas de incertidumbre que las divide como género e impide alianzas y se legitima la dominación. Foucault decía que «el poder se ejerce, no se posee», siempre está en peligro de perderse y no basta con normas, leyes, amenazas o castigos. De ahí que los espacios de subordinación sean también espacios de poder de las mujeres. Es en estos espacios donde aparece la inseguridad, la tensión, la confrontación y por ejemplo, las mujeres pueden reclamar la anticoncepción.

Para terminar, es importante tener en cuenta que el género es una forma de desigualdad social que siempre está articulado con otras formas de desigualdad ya sea clase, raza, grupo etario, etc. Hay que pensar la dominación masculina con un comienzo vago en el tiempo, pero que permite desligar la subordinación de las mujeres de la evolución «natural» de la humanidad y entenderla como un proceso histórico. En ese sentido es necesario destacar que, respecto a la raza, en sociedades plurales hay que atender al contexto étnico-cultural ya que en dependencia de las relaciones entre personas de razas distintas, estarán condicionadas las relaciones entre los géneros.

Imagen de mujeres de distintas razas

Por otro lado, si bien es sabido que históricamente el sistema de género social imperante ha contribuido a invisibilizar a la mujer, asociar necesariamente dicha categoría únicamente a ella, lo que hace es nuevamente recrear el absolutismo histórico que tanto daño ha hecho, ahora como lo antagónico al hombre. En la construcción social participan todos los individuos presentes en el sistema género.

Hasta aquí la publicación de hoy, de la cual aun se puede ahondar mucho más, sobre todo en lo referido al origen de la dominación o de la jerarquización del binomio «hombre/mujer» desde un punto de vista antropológico, pero eso quedará pendiente para otro momento. ¡Así que hasta la próxima!, ¡nos vemos en Nostr!

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English version

Hello nostriches. Today I want to make a post by way of an approach to the emergence of the categories of gender and feminism. So if you are interested in the topic make an effort, stay and read to the end.

The "new" feminism emerged in the 60's in those developed countries that agreed to recognize the human rights contained in the respective UN declaration. Then, as an extension of that recognition, the feminist movement was born. From then on, the relationship between nature and culture was raised again and the conclusion was reached that social differences go beyond biological differences, which has to do with the fact that even the satisfaction of elementary needs such as food, housing or clothing are conditioned by social constructions.

It turns out that one of the first proposals identified female subordination as a product of a patriarchal organization, taking Max Weber's category of patriarchy. This is how the vision of patriarchy was extended to political and academic discourse. However, there was no information about the historical development of this category, systematization, variations, etc., because it was something that was only recently perceived in society.

However, the same category of patriarchy, together with that of power relations to explain contemporary social phenomena, constitutes one of the main contributions of feminism. This is how they have first made visible and then deconstructed and dismantled a series of existing patterns in the culture that made women subordinate to men, and that were present in the sex/gender system.

Image relating to the fight against patriarchy

Up to that time, in sociological research, an excessive androcentrism could be observed as scientific discourse revolved around men as the subject and object of research. Even for many positivists such as Weber himself, the problems related to women remained in the background and were blamed on a supposed passivity in the domestic-family sphere. This passivity was based on the supposed biological inferiority of the female gender.

Patriarchy was then an empty category in itself, with no explanatory value. From the political point of view, it could be useful for mobilization, but it did not resist the polemic of feminism's critics, nor did it problematize the conflicts to be resolved. But on the other hand, a group of women - mainly academics - set to work on a smaller task but with greater results in the long run. They set out to generate knowledge about women's living conditions, to search in the past and present for women's contributions to society, to make them visible in history. This is how academic centers, NGOs, projects, women's studies centers, etc., came into being.

It would be convenient to distinguish then two postures that accompanied the research on women: one that takes women as the object of study; living conditions, work, culture, and the other that privileges society as the generator of women's subordination. While the first perspective generated knowledge about women in the study of woman-man and woman-woman relations, the second had a more holistic vision, since it proposed that society must be studied, since the subordination of women is a product of its organization, and that progress will not be made only by studying women, since the study must be broader and at different levels, spheres and times.

It is in this search that the concept of gender as a social category was born and developed. Thus, gender/sex systems were understood as a set of practices, symbols, representations, norms and social values that societies construct on the basis of anatomophysiological differences and that give meaning to sexual impulses, reproduction and, in general, to people's relationships. Therefore, this system became the object of study to understand the subordination of women to men. As the recognition of a hitherto unknown dimension of social inequality, it is considered the most important epistemological breakthrough of the second half of the last century.

Representative image of gender binarism

It must be said that social phenomena are defined by their relationship with each other. Thus, contextualization acquires great importance. Males and females have the capacity to produce with their bodies, but only the bodies of females can gestate and therefore ensure the human species. Any human group that intends to survive must ensure a certain number of females to make it possible. Hence a particular power of the female body, which is also economically useful. This power is not as a biological entity, but it is society that gives it this power. At this point it is important to ask ourselves historically, who has controlled the reproductive capacity of women, who has had the preference in sexual access? To ensure effective control over reproduction, it is necessary to ensure access to sexuality.

Allegorical image of pregnancy

This also leads to directing the work they do because otherwise, women may have room to pose a threat to men's dominance. It is important to pay attention to the stages of women's development, which will allow us to see how they are shaped to accept inequality and gender hierarchies in different societies and cultures.

Another context to delimit is the domestic sphere where female subordination has historically been located. It has been discovered that in women who share the same class and race position, the feminine condition is redefined throughout life and that some women enjoy power over others even in contexts of high male domination, where they are invested with authority, creating the system of uncertainty zones that divide them as a gender and prevent alliances and legitimize domination. Foucault said that "power is exercised, not possessed", it is always in danger of being lost and norms, laws, threats or punishments are not enough. Hence, the spaces of subordination are also spaces of women's power. It is in these spaces where insecurity, tension, confrontation appear and where, for example, women can demand contraception.

To conclude, it is important to keep in mind that gender is a form of social inequality that is always articulated with other forms of inequality, be it class, race, age group, etc. It is necessary to think of male domination with a vague beginning in time, but which allows us to separate the subordination of women from the "natural" evolution of humanity and to understand it as a historical process. In this sense, it is necessary to emphasize that, with respect to race, in plural societies it is necessary to pay attention to the ethno-cultural context since, depending on the relations between people of different races, the relations between genders will be conditioned.

Image of women of different races

On the other hand, although it is known that historically the prevailing social gender system has contributed to make women invisible, to necessarily associate this category only to women is to recreate the historical absolutism that has done so much damage, this time as antagonistic to men. All individuals present in the gender system participate in the social construction.

So much for today's publication, of which we can still go much deeper, especially with regard to the origin of domination or the hierarchization of the binomial "man/woman" from an anthropological point of view, but that will be left for another time. So until next time, see you in Nostr!

Créditos | Credits

Bibliografía consultada | Consulted bibliography:
1. Barbieri, T. (1993). Sobre la categoría género. Una introducción teórico-metodológica. Debates en Sociología. (18). 1-19. https://doi.org/10.18800/debatesensociologia.199301.006
2. Echevarría, D. (2020). Desigualdades de género e interseccionalidad. Análisis del contexto cubano 2008-2018. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Programa-Cuba). https://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle_resultado.php?id_libro=2346&campo=cm&texto=248
Traducción | Translation:

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2024-07-28 08:35:26

Jerome Powell, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, stated during a hearing in March that the central bank has no plans to introduce a central bank digital currency (CBDCs) or consider it necessary at present. He said this even though the material Fed staff presents to Congress suggests otherwise - that CBDCs are described as one of the Fed’s key duties .

A CBDC is a state-controlled and programmable currency that could allow the government or its intermediaries the possibility to monitor all transactions in detail and also to block payments based on certain conditions.

Critics argue that the introduction of CBDCs could undermine citizens’ constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and rights . Republican House Majority Leader Tom Emmer, the sponsor of a bill aimed at preventing the central bank from unilaterally introducing a CBDC, believes that if they do not mimic cash, they would only serve as a “CCP-style [Chinese Communist Party] surveillance tool” and could “undermine the American way of life”. Emmer’s proposed bill has garnered support from several US senators , including Republican Ted Cruz from Texas, who introduced the bill to the Senate. Similarly to how Swedish cash advocates risk missing the mark , Tom Emmer and the US senators risk the same outcome with their bill. If the central bank is prevented from introducing a central bank digital currency, nothing would stop major banks from implementing similar systems themselves, with similar consequences for citizens.

Indeed, the entity controlling your money becomes less significant once it is no longer you. Even if central bank digital currencies are halted in the US, a future administration could easily outsource financial censorship to the private banking system, similar to how the Biden administration is perceived by many to have circumvented the First Amendment by getting private companies to enforce censorship. A federal court in New Orleans ruled last fall against the Biden administration for compelling social media platforms to censor content. The Supreme Court has now begun hearing the case.

Deng Xiaoping, China’s paramount leader who played a vital role in China’s modernization, once said, “It does not matter if the cat is black or white. What matters is that it catches mice.” This statement reflected a pragmatic approach to economic policy, focusing on results foremost. China’s economic growth during his tenure was historic.

The discussion surrounding CBDCs and their negative impact on citizens’ freedoms and rights would benefit from a more practical and comprehensive perspective. Ultimately, it is the outcomes that matter above all. So too for our freedoms.

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2024-07-26 12:15:35

Bojovať s rakovinou metabolickou metódou znamená použiť metabolizmus tela proti rakovine. Riadenie cukru a ketónov v krvi stravou a pohybom, časovanie rôznych typov cvičení, včasná kombinácia klasickej onko-liečby a hladovania. Ktoré vitamíny a suplementy prijímam a ktorým sa napríklad vyhýbam dajúc na rady mojej dietologičky z USA Miriam (ktorá sa špecializuje na rakovinu).

Hovori sa, že čo nemeriame, neriadime ... Ja som meral, veľa a dlho ... aj grafy budú ... aj sranda bude, hádam ... 😉

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2023-11-18 23:28:31
Chef's notes

Serving these two dishes together will create a delightful centerpiece for your Thanksgiving meal, offering a perfect blend of traditional flavors with a homemade touch.

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 30 min
- 🍳 Cook time: 1 - 2 hours
- 🍽️ Servings: 4-6
Ingredients
- 1 whole turkey (about 12-14 lbs), thawed and ready to cook
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 2 tablespoons fresh thyme, chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh rosemary, chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh sage, chopped
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 onion, quartered
- 1 lemon, halved
- 2-3 cloves of garlic
- Apple and Sage Stuffing
- 1 loaf of crusty bread, cut into cubes
- 2 apples, cored and chopped
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 stalks celery, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/4 cup fresh sage, chopped
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 2 cups chicken broth
- Salt and pepper, to taste
Directions
1. Preheat the Oven: Set your oven to 325°F (165°C).
2. Prepare the Herb Butter: Mix the softened butter with the chopped thyme, rosemary, and sage. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Prepare the Turkey: Remove any giblets from the turkey and pat it dry. Loosen the skin and spread a generous amount of herb butter under and over the skin.
4. Add Aromatics: Inside the turkey cavity, place the quartered onion, lemon halves, and garlic cloves.
5. Roast: Place the turkey in a roasting pan. Tent with aluminum foil and roast. A general guideline is about 15 minutes per pound, or until the internal temperature reaches 165°F (74°C) at the thickest part of the thigh.
6. Rest and Serve: Let the turkey rest for at least 20 minutes before carving.
7. Next: Apple and Sage Stuffing
8. Dry the Bread: Spread the bread cubes on a baking sheet and let them dry overnight, or toast them in the oven.
9. Cook the Vegetables: In a large skillet, melt the butter and cook the onion, celery, and garlic until soft.
10. Combine Ingredients: Add the apples, sage, and bread cubes to the skillet. Stir in the chicken broth until the mixture is moist. Season with salt and pepper.
11. Bake: Transfer the stuffing to a baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for about 30-40 minutes, until golden brown on top.
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2024-09-06 13:08:49
Chef's notes

Stabbing your duck with a meat fork, or making a tiny incision to determine the color is a huge no-no. The way that any chef worth his salt determines the temperature of duck is to poke it with a finger. Bring the tips of your index finger and your thumb together in a circle, to form an «OK» sign. Now press the meaty part of your palm below the thumb – this is how a rare duckbreast feels. For medium-rare, bring your middle finger and thumb together to form a circle, and press the meaty part of your palm below the thumb, and notice that it gets firmer the farther you go: this is medium-rare. Repeat the process with your ring finger: medium. Repeat the process with your pinky finger: well-done.

Details
- 🍽️ Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 1 large apricot
- 1 tsp. Champagne vinegar
- 1/8 tsp. chilly flakes
- 2 Tbsp. honey
- 1 small duck breast, skin-on
- 2 sprigs rosemary
- 1 piece fresh ginger root, 1/2 inch thick
- 1 Tbsp. butter
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 1/4 lbs Brie
- 3 oz. Mascarpone
- 1 sprig of mint
- Salt
- Coarsely ground black peppercorn
- Water
Directions
1. Cut the apricot in half and then in wedges, about 5mm thick. Combine the vinegar, chilly flakes, 1/2 tsp. honey, and season with nutmeg. Toss the fruits in the seasoning and let them sit. Heat a skillet or light your barbecue. Over high heat, dry roast the marinated fruit wedges on both sides until they’re beginning to charr.
2. Preheat your oven to 475°F. Remove the leaves from the rosemary sprigs and peel the ginger. On a cutting board, combine the rosemary and ginger, then cover them with enough salt to season your duck breast. Chop everything together until the ginger and rosemary are finely minced, infusing the salt with their flavors. Season the butter with half of the infused salt. Score the skin of the duck breast and rub the seasoned butter into it. Then, season the skinless side of the duck with the remaining infused salt. Place the duck breast on a sheet tray, skin side up. Roast the duck in the oven for about 7 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 325°F. In a bowl, mix together honey and water. Brush the duck with this honey-water mixture. Continue baking and brushing the duck until it almost reaches your desired doneness (refer to the cooking guide above). Once done, open the oven door, turn off the oven, and let the duck rest for 10-15 minutes.
3. Plating: Cut the mint leaves in thin stripes (chiffonade). Carve the duck into thin slices. Pour the fondue into a flat soup bowl. Plate the fruit wedges and the chicken breast in a fan shape. Sprinkle mint leaves on top.
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2024-09-23 15:24:50

Choosing the right size ceiling fan for your room is crucial for both comfort and efficiency. An appropriately sized ceiling fan will circulate air effectively, making the space more comfortable while also potentially lowering energy costs. Here’s a detailed guide to help you make the best choice:

Understanding Ceiling Fan Size

Ceiling fans come in various sizes, and selecting the correct size depends primarily on the dimensions of the room where the fan will be installed. The size of a ceiling fan is typically measured by the diameter of the blades. Here’s a general breakdown:

Small Rooms (up to 75 sq. ft.)

Recommended Fan Size: 29-36 inches

Example Rooms: Small bathrooms, small offices, or small guest rooms.

Why: Smaller fans are designed to provide adequate air circulation in compact spaces without overwhelming the room or causing an imbalance.

Medium Rooms (76-144 sq. ft.)

Recommended Fan Size: 42-48 inches

Example Rooms: Standard bedrooms, medium-sized living rooms, or dining rooms.

Why: A fan of this size can circulate air effectively without being too overpowering or too weak for the room's dimensions.

Large Rooms (145-400 sq. ft.)

Recommended Fan Size: 50-54 inches

Example Rooms: Larger living rooms, larger bedrooms, or open-plan areas.

Why: Larger fans are necessary to move air efficiently across a wider space, ensuring even cooling and comfort.

Extra-Large Rooms (over 400 sq. ft.)

Recommended Fan Size: 56 inches and above

Example Rooms: Large great rooms, large open spaces, or expansive lofts.

Why: For very large areas, a bigger fan or multiple fans are needed to ensure adequate airflow and circulation.

Factors to Consider

Room Shape and Ceiling Height

Shape: Irregularly shaped rooms or those with obstacles may require additional considerations. For instance, if a room is long and narrow, a fan that’s too small might not provide even air distribution.

Ceiling Height: Fans should be mounted so that the blades are 7-9 feet from the floor. For rooms with high ceilings, consider a downrod to lower the fan to an optimal height. For ceilings under 8 feet, a flush mount or low-profile fan is recommended.

Blade Pitch Definition: The angle at which the blades are set relative to the ceiling.

Impact: A greater blade pitch (around 12-14 degrees) moves more air and is better for larger rooms or spaces where you need strong airflow.

Motor Quality Importance: The motor’s quality impacts the fan's performance. A well-made motor ensures smooth operation and longevity, particularly in larger fans where the load is greater.

Design and Aesthetics

Style: Ceiling fans come in various styles, from modern to traditional. Choose a design that complements your room’s décor while ensuring it’s functional for the space.

Finish: Blade and motor finishes should match or complement the room’s color scheme and overall aesthetic.

Installation Tips

Proper Placement

Centering: Position the fan in the center of the room to maximize airflow. For rooms with multiple fans, ensure they’re spaced evenly for consistent air distribution. Avoid Obstructions: Ensure the fan blades have enough clearance from walls, furniture, or other obstructions to prevent noise and potential damage.

Balancing

Importance: An unbalanced fan can wobble or shake, which is not only noisy but can also damage the fan or ceiling. Most modern fans come with balancing kits to address this issue.

Control Options Types: Fans can be controlled via pull chains, wall switches, or remote controls. Consider your preference for convenience and ease of use.

Energy Efficiency

Choosing an energy-efficient fan can help reduce your electricity bills. Look for fans with the ENERGY STAR® label, which ensures that they meet specific energy efficiency guidelines. Additionally, using the fan in conjunction with your air conditioning system can help circulate cooled air more effectively, potentially allowing you to set the thermostat at a higher temperature.

Final Thoughts

Selecting the right ceiling fan involves considering the size of the room, ceiling height, and your specific cooling needs. A fan that’s too small may not provide adequate airflow, while one that’s too large could overpower the space. By following these guidelines and understanding your room’s requirements, you can ensure that you choose a ceiling fan that offers optimal performance, comfort, and style.

How high should a ceiling fan be installed?

When installing a ceiling fan, the height at which it is mounted is crucial for ensuring optimal performance, safety, and comfort. Here’s a concise guide on how high a ceiling fan should be installed:

Optimal Ceiling Fan Height

General Height Recommendations

Standard Height: For most rooms, the ideal height for a ceiling fan’s blades is 7 to 9 feet from the floor. This range allows for effective air circulation while ensuring that the fan does not interfere with occupants or furniture.

Ceiling Height Considerations: If your ceiling is lower or higher than the standard height, adjustments need to be made:

Low Ceilings (8 feet or less): For rooms with lower ceilings, use a low-profile or flush mount fan. This type of fan is designed to be installed closer to the ceiling, typically with a clearance of 7 feet from the floor. This prevents the fan from being too close to people’s heads and avoids potential safety hazards. High Ceilings (over 9 feet): For rooms with high ceilings, use a downrod to lower the fan to the optimal height. Downrods come in various lengths, so choose one that ensures the blades are 7 to 9 feet from the floor. This adjustment maximizes airflow efficiency and maintains comfort without compromising safety.

Benefits of Proper Height

Efficient Air Circulation: Installing the fan at the correct height ensures that the air circulated by the fan reaches all parts of the room effectively. Fans positioned too high may not circulate air efficiently, while those too low might be obtrusive and not provide optimal airflow.

Comfort and Safety: Proper height prevents the fan from interfering with people in the room. It ensures that the fan blades are at a safe distance from occupants and furniture, reducing the risk of accidents or damage.

Aesthetic Appeal: A well-positioned fan complements the room’s design. It should be installed in a way that enhances the room’s look without dominating the space or appearing out of place.

Special Considerations

Room Shape and Size: In larger or oddly shaped rooms, the fan should be positioned to maximize airflow distribution. If the room has multiple fans, ensure they are evenly spaced and installed at a consistent height for balanced air circulation.

Fan Type: Some ceiling fans come with adjustable mounting options that allow for custom installation heights. Check the manufacturer’s recommendations and guidelines for the specific fan model you choose.

Installation Tips

Professional Installation: For best results, consider having the fan installed by a professional electrician, especially if adjustments to the ceiling height or wiring are needed. Clearance Check: Before installation, measure the ceiling height and check the clearance around the fan to ensure it adheres to safety guidelines and offers optimal performance.

Conclusion

Proper installation height is key to the ceiling fan’s effectiveness and safety. By ensuring that the fan is mounted 7 to 9 feet from the floor, you can enhance air circulation, maintain comfort, and avoid safety hazards. Adjustments for low or high ceilings should be made using low-profile mounts or downrods, respectively. With careful consideration of these factors, you can achieve optimal fan performance and integration into your space.

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2024-09-05 11:21:09
Details
- 🍽️ Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 1 cup Jasmine rice
- 1 Tbsp. lavender flowers, crushed with mortar and pestle
- 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
- 2 Tbsp. fine cane sugar
- 2 Tbsp. honey
- 1 sprig rosemary
- 1/4 tsp angostura bitters
- 1/2 cup blackberries
- 1/2 cup blueberries
- 4 cups trimmed and quartered shiitake mushrooms
- 1 tsp fresh coriander crushed
- 1/4 tsp fresh cumin ground
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 3 sprigs of thyme
- 2 Tbsp. olive oil
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 1 cup creamy coconut milk
Directions
1. Combine rice, lavender, 1/4 tsp salt, and 2 cups of water in a saucepan. Bring the rice to a boil, cover the pan with a lid and turn the heat off. Let the rice sit in the pan for at least 20 minutes.
2. Combine 1/4 cup of water, the vinegar, sugar, honey, rosemary, angostura bitters in a saucepan and bring the brine to a boil. Season with a pinch of salt. Add the berries and wait until the brine comes back to a boil. Lower the heat, so the brine simmers but does not boil. When the brine thickens, after about 15 minutes, remove the saucepan from the heat and set it aside.
3. Pre-heat the oven to 400F. In a bowl big enough to hold all the shiitake, combine the olive oil, the soy sauce and the spices. Whisk vigorously, so the oil emulsifies with the other liquid. Toss the shiitake in the mix to marinate, then evenly lay them out on a baking sheet with parchment paper. Bake the shiitake for 10 minutes. When you remove the shiitake from the oven, remove the thyme and throw it out. In a saucepan, bring the coconut milk to a boil. Add the shiitake and reduce the heat to a light boil until the sauce thickens.
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2024-07-26 09:50:53

Predikčné trhy predstavujú praktický spôsob, ako môžeme nahliadnuť do budúcnosti bez nutnosti spoliehať sa na tradičné, často nepresné metódy, ako je veštenie z kávových zrniek. V prezentácii sa ponoríme do histórie a vývoja predikčných trhov, a popíšeme aký vplyv mali a majú na dostupnosť a kvalitu informácií pre širokú verejnosť, a ako menia trh s týmito informáciami. Pozrieme sa aj na to, ako tieto trhy umožňujú obyčajným ľuďom prístup k spoľahlivým predpovediam a ako môžu prispieť k lepšiemu rozhodovaniu v rôznych oblastiach života.

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2024-09-23 15:01:17
Hey Freaks,

Below is a transcript of the debate between TheWildHustle and Billy Death on the topic of using Bitcoin as a store of value, medium of exchange, and unit of account.

Participants

Billy Death TheWildHustle

Debate Transcript

Billy: Hey Hustle, I recently saw a post on stacker news about spending and replacing your bitcoin. Isn't that retarded? Wouldnt it make more sense to just hodl.
- TheWildHustle: Well that depends Billy, what do you plan on using bitcoin for?
Billy: Well its an asset that will go up forever and I can accumulate a bunch of it at a huge discount right now, and in the future i'll probably be able to take a loan out on the bitcoin instead of selling. And on top of that there are capital gains taxes and exchange fees, and bitcoin is so niche right now that merchant adoption is few and far between anyway.
- TheWildHustle: Seems like your only thinking about bitcoin from the vantage point of store of value, and not unit of account and medium of exchange. Bitcoin is a lot more powerful than you think, you should consider unlocking all of the power of your bitcoin.
Billy: Oh, so your going to get all maxi on me.
- TheWildHustle: Why dont you want bitcoin to fulfill all of the aspects of money for you?
Billy: I can use bitcoin any way that I want, Its free open source software. I dont have the time or patience to be jumping from discountinued lightning wallet to discountinued lightning wallet, just so that I can virtue signal to the maxi's.
- TheWildHustle: If you want bitcoin to primarily be your store of value, what will you use for medium of exchange and unit of account?
Billy: I'll just use what's widely accepted in my area, its not like I have a choice in that matter
- TheWildHustle: Do you run a node
Billy: Its not profitable to run a bitcoin or lightning node. And I dont do anything for strictly altruistic reasons.
- TheWildHustle: Are you on nostr
Billy: Yeah, but nostr is dead. I dont have any followers and it feels like i'm just posting into the void. I dont see alot of content and the clients have a bunch of spam and lag.
- TheWildHustle: Are you going to report your zaps and e-cash to the IRS when you file your taxes?
Billy: Its such a small amount it doesnt matter.
- TheWildHustle: We havent seen the personal finance side of things take off in bitcoin. I'm seeing a not to distant future where you throw corn on your node and through a series of automations and budgeting, you achieve better financial privacy, insight and control. Seems like your not interested in financial sovereigny as much as you are with NGU. You shouldnt need to loan your bitcoin to a bank for tokens to buy your lunch.
Billy: This is the accumulation stage in my bitcoin journey. I'll learn how to spend, run a node and limit third party intermediaries after the tech get a bit better. I'm not technical at all.
- TheWildHustle: Do you think that fiat world will break gradually and then suddenly?
Billy: I doubt I'll be in a situation where I'm scrambling to make payments due to fiat implosion. And even if I am, at least I wont be alone.
- TheWildHustle: Do you enjoy your current banking setup?
Billy: Yep, works really well for me. I spend with my credit cards and get rewards, I have a Weekly DCA that goes into a hardware wallet, I have stocks on robin hood and an IRA with my job.

TheWildHustle's Warning
- TheWildHustle: I'd be cautious trusting any of third party financial intermediaries. Things are going to get wild, and fiat is an illusion, its a decree from an entity that is currently in a death spiral. Switching your unit of account and using bitcoin as peer to peer digital cash will be a no brainer. Are you still learning about bitcoin?
Billy: What else is there to learn besides the value prop and how to send to cold storage? You want me to learn Austrian economics or something? I'm actually pretty busy.
- TheWildHustle: Which hardware wallet are you using?
Billy: A ledger
- TheWildHustle: Do you think the government will try shutting peoples bank accounts if they are considered unworthy?
Billy: That sounds like a conspiracy theory. Why would they do that, I'm not doing anything wrong.
- TheWildHustle: So your fine with giving your bitcoin to Larry for LarryCoin if it means you avoid tax liabilities and can buy a cheeseburger at McDonalds?
Billy: I'm just loaning him my bitcoin, and plus he's offering risk free yield. Its not like BlackRock is going to fall apart, their nothing like FTX or MT GOX. And I don't want to use bitcoin as peer to peer digital cash, I want to use it like its another type of financial asset that works with my current portfolio.
- TheWildHustle: This game is about more than stacking as many coins as you can. If bitcoin does what we think it will, understanding how to use it will be a huge advantage. The game is more about leaving the traditional fiat banking system.
Billy: I'm too comfortable to move.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/697535
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2024-07-25 20:53:07

AI hype vnímame asi všetci okolo nás — už takmer každá appka ponúka nejakú “AI fíčuru”, AI startupy raisujú stovky miliónov a Európa ako obvykle pracuje na regulovaní a našej ochrane pred nebezpečím umelej inteligencie. Pomaly sa ale ukazuje “ovocie” spojenia umelej inteligencie a človeka, kedy mnohí ľudia reportujú signifikantné zvýšenie produktivity v práci ako aj kreatívnych aktivitách (aj napriek tomu, že mnohí hardcore kreatívci by každého pri spomenutí skratky “AI” najradšej upálili). V prvej polovici prednášky sa pozrieme na to, akými rôznymi spôsobmi nám vie byť AI nápomocná, či už v práci alebo osobnom živote.

Umelé neuróny nám už vyskakujú pomaly aj z ovsených vločiek, no to ako sa k nám dostávajú sa veľmi líši. Hlavne v tom, či ich poskytujú firmy v zatvorených alebo open-source modeloch. V druhej polovici prednášky sa pozrieme na boom okolo otvorených AI modelov a ako ich vieme využiť.

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2024-09-23 14:45:00
I’ll start with what’s on my mind and then get to the important stuff. I just watched the 40-minute version of Falcons-Chiefs, and it was infuriating because I had Atlanta +3.5 in the Circa Millions. I was 2-1 on the day (won with Indy and Baltimore, lost with Houston) and badly needed Atlanta to cover. They drove the ball to the six on the penultimate drive, went four and out (could have kicked the covering FG with 7:13 and three timeouts remaining, but okay, that’s a 50/50 call at best) and on the final drive failed to convert from the Chiefs 13 on 4th-and-inches.

But it’s not so much that they failed but how they failed. On the first drive, it was 4th-and-five, and Kirk Cousins threw a ball that had zero chance of being completed. Maybe he was under pressure (didn’t see the replay), but on fourth down you just chuck it up for grabs, as there’s no downside to a turnover. But what was far, far worse was the play call during the final drive on 4th-and-inches. They ran Bijan Robinson (who had no room to run all game, but also looked ordinary af) horizontally, the Chiefs got penetration (as they had all game) and he got stuffed. Why are you running a sweep when you need inches? Sneak it with the QB, and if he’s too old and brittle, direct snap it to a back or just hand it off and have him run straight up the middle. Why the fuck would you run sideways? You’re not trying to get eight yards, only a few inches!

Maybe they would have gotten the first down and still not scored the TD (which they had to have at that point) anyway. Who knows? But the play calling and play design for the Falcons is bad, including so many screens to freaking Darnell Mooney. How many times can you go to that play? He’s not Tyreek Hill!

The Chiefs are also extremely annoying to watch, maybe the ugliest good offense in the league. While other teams hate the dink and dunk and getting seven first downs to score, they don’t mind it one bit. Just a shit way to wake up in the morning, to watch that game. Maybe worse than last week even though that one was tough to top.

Okay, onto the important stuff. Survivor is just bananas this year. Here’s the Circa board for Week 3:

It had already been massive carnage leading into this week with the biggest favorites on the board in both Weeks 1 and 2 (Bengals and Ravens, respectively) losing outright, and now the Browns (931), Bucs (667), Raiders (515), 49ers (69) and Titans (54) got bounced. That’s 2,236 more deaths, leaving 1,638 (out of 14K originally!) in Week 3.

But the craziest thing is Week 3 is not even over. The Bengals (988) and the Bills (71) still have yet to play! I happen to think the Bengals will crush (Cincy -7.5 is my final Circa Millions pick), but if they go down, there would be only 550 left heading into Week 4. I’d be shocked if the biggest favorite has ever lost three weeks in a row, let alone during the very first three of the year, but now I’m almost rooting for the Football Team despite my Circa pick for the sheer sickness of it. It’s been such an insane year my 24-person “home” pool ended after Week 2.

It also makes me feel better about getting bounced in Week 1 because had the Bengals won I almost certainly would have lost this week with them unavailable to me, and that’s assuming I didn’t take the Ravens last week. Essentially, you were drawing dead with the Bengals even if the Mike Gesicki TD counts and they win that game.

By the way, much respect to the three “No Pick” entries at the bottom. Takes a real man to pony up $1000, dodge the minefield of the first two weeks and not even submit a pick!
- I faded Travis Kelce, but even I didn’t think it would be this bad. But it’s actually okay if you drafted him because TE is like defensive lineman IDP now. You’re happy if you get a sack or two, but not really counting on much.
- Carson Steele did fine running straight ahead and breaking tackles, but there’s not much upside there.
- Rashee Rice is the whole offense right now and looks like a real alpha that catches everything and maxes out yards after the catch. Since I have none of him, it would be tremendous if the NFL randomly meted out an extended suspension in two weeks.
- Xavier Worthy will get loose unpredictably but he’s a tough start.
- Bijan Robinson is a smooth, gliding runner, but I’ve never been blown away by him. I’m sure he’ll prove me wrong one of these weeks.
- Kirk Cousins is a good quarterback when he has time, but has no Plan B if pressured. The Falcons couldn’t get much going after the first drive.
- The Giants defense played great, dropping Deshaun Watson eight times. Will probably need some deep tissue work after that.
- Danny Dimes was bad in the second half. He didn’t turn it over, but there was no rhythm at all to the offense. Thank God for Malik Nabers who’s the WR1 in fantasy through three weeks. His first TD catch was incredible too. Marvin Harrison looks good, but if we re-run the NFL draft and fantasy drafts, Nabers is going ahead of him in both.
- Brian Daboll likes Devin Singletary, but Tyrone Tracy (a converted WR) has a spark, is worth a stash.
- The Browns offense might be the only one uglier than the Giants.
- Malik Willis is 2-0, Jordan Love 0-1. What a best-case scenario for the Packers who were 0-1 and without their star QB for at least a couple weeks to be in this situation now.
- Emanuel Wilson looks like a player, and he’s the clear No. 2 behind Josh Jacobs.
- DeAndre Hopkins is better than Calvin Ridley, and unlike Ridley he’s an alpha that requires the ball.
- I drafted Anthony Richardson in two leagues, and he’s been brutal. Just no confidence or feel, overthinking everything. It reminds me of how they destroyed Justin Fields in Chicago — just let the guy play wild and use his skills. He can develop the other skill set slow while succeeding, like Lamar Jackson did. Luckily, I have Joe Burrow in one of the leagues and started him over Richardson this week.
- I don’t see much hope for the Colts receivers. Richardson will throw some bombs to Alec Pierce and short stuff to the other guys. Hard to rely on any of them.
- Rome Odunze broke out in the absence of Keenan Allen. Not sure that genie is ever going back in the bottle, so when Allen returns he could just as easily take target share from DJ Moore. Cole Kmet is now a top-five scoring TE by virtue of one good game.
- Facing a soft Colts defense without DeForest Buckner, D’Andre Slug managed 20 yards on 13 carries.
- I had the Texans -2, and the Vikings annihilated them. C.J. Stroud was under pressure all day, never seemed to find any consistency. The silver lining was Stefon Diggs (all five leagues) getting 12 targets, 10 catches and 94 yards. He still has it, and he’s still an alpha.
- I have Sam Darnold and Patrick Mahomes in my Dynasty League and keep making the mistake of starting Mahomes.
- Aaron Jones would go in the second round at worst were we to re-draft for Week 4 on. He hasn’t lost a step, and he’s involved as a receiver too. It’s not obvious to me that Bijan Robinson, for example, will outproduce him. Maybe Robinson has the edge due to youth/durability, but that’s about it.
- I swapped out Jaylen Waddle for Rashid Shaheed this week because Alan Seslowsky told me to. Luckily for him, Waddle didn’t do much.
- The one silver (actually gold, no bitcoin) lining is my NFFC Primetime team. It’s the highest stakes, the most important one, and, knock on wood, it’s loaded. Part of the reason why is I waited forever on TE and took Dallas Goedert who so far is TE1.
- When Saquon Barkley was on the Giants, I would always longshot bet him for OPOTY and to lead the league in rushing TDs or yards. He could do all three on the Eagles.
- So much for Derek Carr and the Saints offense being unstoppable. Even the great Alvin Kamara had a modest day, though 26 carries and three targets is nothing at which to sneeze.
- The Steelers are the opposite of a carnival team, more like a funeral one. Jaylen Warren is behind Cordarrelle Patterson now? Is Mike Tomlin going back to his Le’Veon Bell/DeAngelo Williams, starter-gets-everything days with Najee Harris?
- In one of my bold predictions (a few of which look pretty good), I said Roman Wilson would lead the team in catches. It’s not like George Pickens is going crazy, but it would be nice if Wilson were activated at least.
- Tyler Badie led the Broncos in rushing on nine carries. Wonder if his family ever asked, “Are we the Badies?”
- Jaleel McLaughlin had five carries for seven yards, but his TD run was insane. He was dead to rights with 2-3 defenders having him up against the sideline at the five and showhow he wriggled through them and extended for the score.
- Baker Mayfield vastly overestimates his scrambling ability.
- Chris Godwin is in the right role now, but Mike Evans was shadowed by arguably the league’s best corner (Patrick Surtain.)
- I didn’t watch much of this game, but seems like Bucky Irving is pushing Rachaad White for the early down work?
- Andy Dalton channeled 2023 Joe Flacco and destroyed Bryce Young’s trade value completely.
- Maybe it’s not so much that defenses have solved the modern offense, but that the modern offenses solved the 2015-2021 era defenses with athletic QBs, and now the modern defense has responded to that threat, but can be beaten if you decode what they’re doing. Enter the grizzled journeyman who can do it. Flacco last year, Dalton, Carr (until this week), Cousins (last year), Darnold (who has been around since 2018.) For some reason it has to be a journeyman.
- Diontae Johnson and Chuba Hubbard sure aren’t missing Young. I have a couple Jonathan Brooks shares that suddenly got interesting too.
- Brock Bowers didn’t see much work, but his 21-yard catch showed why he’s going to be great. He caught it in stride and changed directions on a dime, leaving his defender in the dust.
- I should have bet the Seahawks. Of course they were going to kill the Dolphins who were playing without a real QB. It’s not like the Dolphins have a dominant defense to rely on.
- It’s annoying to miss the JSN monster game last week and use him this week but that’s fantasy football.
- I had the Ravens -2, easy peasy, never in doubt.
- The Cowboys need a running back. You can’t drop back 50 times a game.
- Brandon Aubrey drilled a 65-yard FG with room to spare. Honestly he should have gone in like the eighth round.
- Derrick Henry is a health nut apparently. Had I known, I would have taken him in a league or two despite being 29 with 200K miles.
- Zay Flowers is just a garden-variety short-pass catcher. Prove me wrong.
- I feel for Justin Tucker — like a punch-drunk Muhammad Ali fighting Larry Holmes at this point. Even though I faded him this year, I take no joy in seeing it.
- When Sam LaPorta got carted off, I thought — well at least it’s the Christian McCaffrey team. Put them all on one sinking ship. But he returned to put up a monsterous (for TEs) 2-2-36-0 line.
- The boxscore for Jahmyr Gibbs reads zero targets for zero catches, 20 yards and a TD. That hook and ladder was a thing of beauty.
- Where was Jameson Williams all day? Alpha ARSB must have had words with management after Week 1. Jarvis Landy 2.0 — just commands targets!
- Marvin Harrison had a modest day, but they sure do throw to him a ton in the end zone. Trey McBride is just another tight end living hand to mouth these days.
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@ 9fec72d5:f77f85b1
2024-07-18 19:38:47
Each relay selects a branch from above and starts serving.

Some big machines in the top layers can handle more. Smaller machines in layers below are needed for decentralization and scalability.

Some top layer machines can act in sync only mode, efficiently distributing notes among layers.

Relay or the admin posts a special kind for advertisement of the relay:

```

{ "pubkey": "...pubkey of admin or the relay itself..", "kind": 30202, "tags": [ ["d","..10"], ["ip4","111.222.33.44:443","primary"], ["ip6","abc:def::443","backup"], ], ... } ```

The above example says this relay will handle the note id's that are ending with bits ..10. In this case it is going to handle about 1/4th of the network.

Primary way of reaching at this relay is through ip 111.222.33.44. There is also a backup server.

Clients can accept this advertisement based on web of trust or historical reliability of the npub. Or other npubs can measure the reliability of this relay and send reactions to this note. Clients then can see these reactions and rank these services.

Solves: - Possible future DNS ban issues: I don't know when or if DNS will be an issue for Nostr. The above design can help with the situation.
- Scalability: If 1 million users join the network at the same time, the machines that are handling ".." i.e. all of the traffic may fail. But if the clients are using relays on other layers, the load will be efficiently distributed to many machines. The failure of layer 0 and 1 will not stop the network. Every layer can operate independently without the other layers (in theory).
- Traffic efficiency: A client has to query many relays, depending on what it wants to do. It may choose to stay efficient (talk to top layers) on mobile traffic, or it may choose to help decentralization over wifi. The notes that match the queries will not be repeated as many times as current design, because relays will hold a portion of the network.
- Storage efficiency: Relay operators can just save a part of the network that they are responsible for, on NVME drives. The rest of the network they can save in hard drives. In case of major failure the hard drives can still have a copy.
- Speed: Since the notes will come from many different relays at the same time, there may be a slight speed increase.
- Decentralization: If the top layer relays collude and start banning the other layers can still continue to serve notes.
- Backup relay: In case a relay instance fails, users can find the backup server on the same note.
- Zero down time migration: The ability to define a backup server allows zero down time migrations. An operator can set the primary to the new server and backup to the old server and do migration and continue without interruption.
- Efficient sync among servers: A relay has to sync with 3 servers, 1 above, 2 below. But it can do 6 or 9 depending on how much reliability it wants.
- Writing to logN relays: Clients has to write to logN relays (i.e. 1 relay in each layer), to effectively distribute their notes to everyone and also to help with decentralization.
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@ 8fb140b4:f948000c
2023-11-02 01:13:01

Testing a brand new YakiHonne native client for iOS. Smooth as butter (not penis butter 🤣🍆🧈) with great visual experience and intuitive navigation. Amazing work by the team behind it! * lists * work

Bold text work!

Images could have used nostr.build instead of raw S3 from us-east-1 region.

Very impressive! You can even save the draft and continue later, before posting the long-form note!

🐶🐾🤯🤯🤯🫂💜

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@ a012dc82:6458a70d
2024-09-23 12:34:31
Table Of Content
- Who is the Bitcoin Advocacy Group?
- Why is Bitcoin important?
- The ECB's stance on Bitcoin
- Eurotower's response to the Bitcoin Advocacy Group
- How is the Bitcoin Advocacy Group educating the ECB and Eurotower?
- Conclusion
- FAQ
Bitcoin is a digital currency that has been gaining popularity worldwide in recent years. While it has many benefits, including decentralization and security, there is still a lot of skepticism and misunderstanding surrounding it. The Bitcoin Advocacy Group aims to address this by bringing awareness and education to institutions such as the European Central Bank (ECB) and Eurotower.

Who is the Bitcoin Advocacy Group?

The Bitcoin Advocacy Group is a community of individuals and businesses who believe in the potential of Bitcoin as a decentralized digital currency. They aim to educate individuals, institutions, and governments about the benefits of Bitcoin and advocate for its adoption.

Why is Bitcoin important?

Bitcoin is a digital currency that operates on a decentralized network, meaning that it is not controlled by any government or financial institution. It allows for fast, secure, and low-cost transactions, making it an ideal alternative to traditional banking and payment systems.

Furthermore, Bitcoin has the potential to provide financial freedom to those who are unbanked or underbanked, as it can be accessed by anyone with an internet connection. With Bitcoin, individuals can have complete control over their finances without the need for intermediaries.

The ECB's stance on Bitcoin

The European Central Bank (ECB) has been cautious about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, expressing concerns about their volatility and lack of regulation. In 2017, the ECB's President, Mario Draghi, stated that Bitcoin was not a currency, but a highly risky and speculative asset.

Eurotower's response to the Bitcoin Advocacy Group

Eurotower, which is the headquarters of the ECB, has been a target for the Bitcoin Advocacy Group's education efforts. The group has been organizing events and campaigns to raise awareness about Bitcoin and its potential benefits.

Eurotower has responded by acknowledging the importance of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, stating that they can have a positive impact on the economy if they are properly regulated. However, they have also emphasized the need for caution and regulation to prevent fraud and criminal activity.

How is the Bitcoin Advocacy Group educating the ECB and Eurotower?

The Bitcoin Advocacy Group has been using various methods to educate the ECB and Eurotower about Bitcoin. Some of these methods include:
- Organizing events and conferences: The group has been organizing events and conferences to bring together experts and stakeholders to discuss the benefits of Bitcoin and blockchain technology.
- Providing educational resources: The group has created educational resources such as videos, articles, and infographics to help individuals and institutions better understand Bitcoin and its potential.
- Advocating for regulation: The group has been advocating for proper regulation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to prevent fraud and ensure that they are used for legitimate purposes.
Conclusion

The Bitcoin Advocacy Group's efforts to educate and bring awareness about the potential of Bitcoin to the ECB and Eurotower are crucial in promoting its adoption and acceptance. While there are still concerns and skepticism surrounding Bitcoin, the group's advocacy and education can help individuals and institutions better understand its benefits and potential.

As more people become aware of the benefits of Bitcoin and its potential to provide financial freedom, we may see greater acceptance and adoption in the Eurozone and beyond. The Bitcoin Advocacy Group's mission is an important step in this direction.

FAQ

Is Bitcoin illegal in the Eurozone? No, Bitcoin is not illegal in the Eurozone. However, the ECB and Eurotower have expressed concerns about its lack of regulation and potential for criminal activity.

Can I invest in Bitcoin through the Eurozone? Yes, it is possible to invest in Bitcoin through the Eurozone. However, it is important to note that investing in Bitcoin can be highly volatile and risky, and individuals should conduct their own research and consider the potential risks before investing.

Will the ECB and Eurotower adopt Bitcoin as a form of currency? It is currently unlikely that the ECB and Eurotower will adopt Bitcoin as a form of currency, as they have expressed concerns about its volatility and lack of regulation. However, they have acknowledged the importance of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and may continue to explore their potential benefits.

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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
2024-07-25 20:38:11

Čo vznikne keď spojíš hru SNAKE zo starej Nokie 3310 a Bitcoin? - hra Chain Duel!

Jedna z najlepších implementácií funkcionality Lightning Networku a gamingu vo svete Bitcoinu.

Vyskúšať si ju môžete s kamošmi na tomto odkaze. Na stránke nájdeš aj základné pravidlá hry avšak odporúčame pravidlá pochopiť aj priamo hraním

Chain Duel si získava hromady fanúšikov po bitcoinových konferenciách po celom svete a práve na Lunarpunk festival ho prinesieme tiež.

Multiplayer 1v1 hra, kde nejde o náhodu, ale skill, vás dostane. Poďte si zmerať sily s ďalšími bitcoinermi a vyhrať okrem samotných satoshi rôzne iné ceny.

Príďte sa zúčastniť prvého oficiálneho Chain Duel turnaja na Slovensku!

Pre účasť na turnaji je potrebná registrácia dopredu.

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@ 9a35b935:4b4c66af
2024-09-03 01:43:37
Chef's notes

Easy and flavorful dish that can be prepared cooked in about 30-35 minutes. Just omit the smoke if you want to take it indoors with the oven

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: Rub ahead of time
- 🍳 Cook time: 30-35 minutes (temperature though and not time)
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons paprika
- 4 tablespoons coconut sugar (can substitute brown sugar)
- 1.5 tablespoons kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon fresh black pepper
- .5 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon ground mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
Directions
1. Pat tenderloins dry and season with Rub and let rest for at least two hours
2. Fire up grill / smoker to 350 When appropriate for your grill add a mild wood like pecan.
3. Smoke Roast and pull off a little early to let rest to 145. I like this temp because I think searing becomes optional. If you want to sear go ahead and take it down to 250
4. If sear is desired: Sear for one minute per side in a hot cast iron pan. Check after 30 seconds to be careful not to let the sugar burn
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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
2024-07-22 19:57:47

Co se nomádská rodina již 3 roky utíkající před kontrolou naučila o kontrole samotné? Co je to vlastně svoboda? Může koexistovat se strachem? S konfliktem? Zkusme na chvíli zapomenout na daně, policii a stát a pohlédnout na svobodu i mimo hranice společenských ideologií. Zkusme namísto hledání dalších odpovědí zjistit, zda se ještě někde neukrývají nové otázky. Možná to bude trochu ezo.

Karel provozuje již přes 3 roky se svou ženou, dvěmi dětmi a jedním psem minimalistický život v obytné dodávce. Na cestách spolu začali tvořit youtubový kanál "Karel od Martiny" o svobodě, nomádství, anarchii, rodičovství, drogách a dalších normálních věcech.

Nájdete ho aj na nostr.

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@ fa0165a0:03397073
2023-10-06 19:25:08
I just tested building a browser plugin, it was easier than I thought. Here I'll walk you through the steps of creating a minimal working example of a browser plugin, a.k.a. the "Hello World" of browser plugins.

First of all there are two main browser platforms out there, Chromium and Mozilla. They do some things a little differently, but similar enough that we can build a plugin that works on both. This plugin will work in both, I'll describe the firefox version, but the chromium version is very similar.

What is a browser plugin?

Simply put, a browser plugin is a program that runs in the browser. It can do things like modify the content of a webpage, or add new functionality to the browser. It's a way to extend the browser with custom functionality. Common examples are ad blockers, password managers, and video downloaders.

In technical terms, they are plugins that can insert html-css-js into your browser experience.

How to build a browser plugin

Step 0: Basics

You'll need a computer, a text editor and a browser. For testing and development I personally think that the firefox developer edition is the easiest to work with. But any Chrome based browser will also do.

Create a working directory on your computer, name it anything you like. I'll call mine hello-world-browser-plugin. Open the directory and create a file called manifest.json. This is the most important file of your plugin, and it must be named exactly right.

Step 1: manifest.json

After creation open your file manifest.json in your text editor and paste the following code:

json { "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Hello World", "version": "1.0", "description": "A simple 'Hello World' browser extension", "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["<all_urls>"], "js": ["hello.js"] //The name of your script file. // "css": ["hello.css"] //The name of your css file. } ] }

If you wonder what the json file format is, it's a normal text file with a special syntax such that a computer can easily read it. It's the json syntax you see in the code above. Let's go through what's being said here. (If you are not interested, just skip to the next step after pasting this we are done here.)
- manifest_version: This is the version of the manifest file format. It's currently at version 3, and it's the latest version. It's important that you set this to 3, otherwise your plugin won't work.
- name: This is the name of your plugin. It can be anything you like.
- version: This is the version of your plugin. It can be anything you like.
- description: This is the description of your plugin. It can be anything you like.
- content_scripts: This is where you define what your plugin does. It's a list of scripts that will be executed when the browser loads a webpage. In this case we have one script, called hello.js. It's the script that we'll create in the next step.
- matches: This is a list of urls that the script will be executed on. In this case we have <all_urls>, which means that the script will be executed on all urls. You can also specify a specific url, like https://brave.com/*, which means that the script will only be executed on urls that start with https://brave.com/.
- js: This is a list of javascript files that will be executed. In this case we have one file, called hello.js. It's the script that we'll create in the next step.
- css: This is where you can add a list of css files that will be executed. In this case we have none, but you can add css files here if you want to.
- //: Text following these two characters are comments. They are ignored by the computer, You can add comments anywhere you like, and they are a good way to document your code.
Step 2: hello.js

Now it's time to create another file in your project folder. This time we'll call it hello.js. When created, open it in your text editor and paste the following code:

js console.log("Hello World!"); That's javascript code, and it's what will be executed when you run your plugin. It's a simple console.log statement, which will print the text "Hello World!" to the console. The console is a place where the browser prints out messages, and it's a good place to start when debugging your plugin.

Step 3: Load and launch your plugin

Firefox

Now it's time to load your plugin into your browser. Open your browser and go to the url about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox. You should see a page that looks something like this:

Click the button that says "Load Temporary Add-on...". A file dialog will open, navigate to your project folder and select the file manifest.json. Your plugin should now be loaded and running.

Go to a website, any website, and open the inspector then navigate to the console. You'll find the inspector by right-clicking anywhere within the webpage, and click "Inspector" in the drop-down menu. When opening the console you might see some log messages from the site you visited and... you should see the text "Hello World!" printed there, from our little plugin! Congratulations!

Chrome

Open your browser and go to the url chrome://extensions/. Click the button that says "Load unpacked". A file dialog will open, navigate to your project folder and select the folder hello-world-browser-plugin. Your plugin should now be loaded and running.

Note the difference, of selecting the file manifest.json in firefox, and selecting the folder hello-world-browser-plugin in chrome. Otherwise, the process is the same. So I'll repeat the same text as above: (for those who skipped ahead..)

Go to a website, any website, and open the inspector then navigate to the console. You'll find the inspector by right-clicking anywhere within the webpage, and click "Inspector" in the drop-down menu. When opening the console you might see some log messages from the site you visited and... you should see the text "Hello World!" printed there, from our little plugin! Congratulations!

As you can see this isn't as complicated as one might think. Having preformed a "Hello-World!"-project is a very useful and valuable first step. These setup steps are the basics for any browser plugin, and you can build on this to create more advanced plugins.
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@ e97aaffa:2ebd765d
2024-09-23 11:00:13

O padrão Bitcoin, vai muito além de um troca monetária, é uma revolução completa em termos monetários, económicos, sociais e políticos. Uma das grandes mudanças será a nível político, os governos terão que ser mais rigorosos economicamente. Atualmente os governos têm 3 principais fontes de financiamento: impostos, dívida e inflação monetária. Com o padrão Bitcoin, a inflação monetária fica de imediato descartada, restando as outras duas.

Um governo economicamente saudável, terá que governar apenas com os impostos. A dívida soberana deverá ser zero ou próxima de zero, deverá apenas ser utilizada em casos excepcionais, em extrema emergência, como as pandemias ou grandes crises. Na gestão dos governos terá que existir uma mudança de 180°, em vez de endividamento, os governos terão que ter superávits e reservas no tesouro.

Os governos terão que ter uma gestão mais similar ao cidadão comum, ou seja, gastar sempre menos do que ganham (no caso do governo impostos ), é necessário ter uma reserva de emergência, com algum capital guardado, para ser utilizado numa emergência, numa crise. Só que o modelo é totalmente oposto ao atual sistema, a mudança política será tremenda, os atuais políticos dificilmente vão conseguir ter esta disciplina. Esta disciplina orçamental, vai obrigatoriamente tornar os governos mais pequenos e menos interventivos economicamente e socialmente.

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@ 9bc2d34d:d19d2948
2024-09-02 19:41:40
Chef's notes

This recipe is designed for home cooks who want to recreate the delicious buttery hollandaise sauce at home without feeling overwhelmed. It focuses on teaching the basics of the sauce, allowing beginners to master the fundamentals before experimenting with seasonings, hot sauces, or herbs.

Please note the thickness of sauce in the picture. This is after ten minutes of blending.

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 3 minutes
- 🍳 Cook time: 10 minutes (blending)
- 🍽️ Servings: 2 - 4
Ingredients
- 4 egg yolks
- 8 tablespoons of melted butter
- 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
- Pinch of salt
- Pinch of pepper
Directions
1. Melt butter in the microwave or on the stovetop.
2. Separate the egg yolks from the egg whites (reserve the egg whites for another dish).
3. Place the egg yolks in a blender.
4. Start the blender (medium to high settings for blend mode is fine).
5. Slowly pour the melted butter into the cover opening (it will splatter).
6. Add the remaining ingredients.
7. Blend for ten minutes (seriously, walk away and do something else).
8. Taste and adjust the flavors (add extra lemon juice or salt if desired).
9. Serve over your breakfast!
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@ 0edc2f47:730cff1b
2024-09-02 15:50:08
Chef's notes

This recipe works with any fat, although butter is generally preferred and traditional. To make it vegan, substitute vegetable oil for the butter and nut milk for the regular cow’s milk. If you want a smokier flavor, try substituting an equal amount of bacon grease for the butter.

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 15 minutes
- 🍳 Cook time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
- 2½ pounds spinach in bulk, or two 10-ounce plastic wrapped bags, blanched, (very well) drained, and chopped (or about 1.75 cups well-drained thawed frozen spinach)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 cup milk
- Grated nutmeg (optional, to taste)
- Black pepper (optional, to taste)
- Salt (to taste)
Directions
1. Melt the butter (or whatever fat you are using) in a saucepan and add the flour, stirring with a wire whisk.
2. Add the milk, stirring rapidly with the whisk. Cook until the mixture starts to bubble and thicken.
3. Add nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste.
4. Cook, stirring, about 5 minutes and add the spinach. Stir to blend. Continue to cook until spinach is heated through and serve.
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@ e83b66a8:b0526c2b
2024-09-23 10:27:24

If you have your own domain and optionally run a node, then you can consolidate your email address, NIP-05 and Lightning address to yourname@yourdomain

Here’s how to do it.

First NIP-05

Want your NIP-5 to be: yourname@yourdomain

Copy this nostr.json file from here: https://mikehardcastle.com/.well-known/nostr.json

Replace the "mike" with your own name. Replace the string to the right with the hex of your npub.

You can obtain the hex of your npub here: https://nostrcheck.me/converter/

Also replace the string at the top of the relay list with your hex npub.

Then replace the relays at the bottom with your primary relays (just 3 or 4 primary relays are needed).

Be careful not to change commas, quotes, brackets etc....

Upload the "nostr.json" file to your web server, making sure it is in the directory:

/.well-known

at the root of your HTML content

Then your NIP-05 will be:

yourname@yourdomain

Lightning Address, optionally routing to your own node:

If you have your own domain, have an Alby account and want your Lightning payment address to be yourname@yourdomain then follow this guide: https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/v/alby-account-and-browser-extension/alby-account/use-your-lightning-address/own-domain

If you run your own lightning node, or have always wanted to self sovereign your own Sats, then follow this guide: https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/v/alby-account-and-browser-extension/alby-hub/getting-started

If you run an Umbrel or Start9, you can run Alby Hub directly from your node: https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/v/alby-account-and-browser-extension/alby-hub/alby-hub-flavors/umbrel-start9-etc

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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
2024-07-21 15:48:56

Lístky na festival Lunarpunku sú už v predaji na našom crowdfunding portáli. V predaji sú dva typy lístkov - štandardný vstup a špeciálny vstup spolu s workshopom oranžového leta.

Neváhajte a zabezpečte si lístok, čím skôr to urobíte, tým bude festival lepší.

Platiť môžete Bitcoinom - Lightningom aj on-chain. Vaša vstupenka je e-mail adresa (neposielame potvrdzujúce e-maily, ak platba prešla, ste in).

Kúpte si lístok

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@ 1739d937:3e3136ef
2024-07-12 10:11:42
This is the third in a series of weekly updates detailing progress on bringing MLS protocol DMs and group messaging to Nostr.

Previous Updates
- June 28th 2024
- July 6th 2024
Progress this week

Short update post this week but I made solid progress updating several OpenMLS dependencies and building a new library that implements all the OpenMLS crypto requirements for Nostr.

HPKE-RS

I mentioned a PR last week on the rust-hpke library, that PR is still waiting on review. However, in the meantime, the OpenMLS library depends on a slightly different hpke library, the hpke-rs library.

This library didn't support the secp256k1 curve either so I've opened a PR to add support for secp256k1. That PR uses the RustCrypto library that is the default in the the hpke-rs library. However, because this library is built to allow for swapping out the underlying crypto library (using traits), I was also able to create a new library that uses the secp256k1 library instead of the RustCrypto library. This is the main crypto library that almost all Bitcoin and Nostr apps use so it's important we use that instead of RustCrypto.

OpenMLS Nostr Crypto

The library that I've created (openmls-nostr-crypto) does a few things via separate sub-libraries (crates). The entire library tries to do as little as possible; only implementing the one required ciphersuite for all MLS implementations and the secp256k1 schnorr signatures ciphersuite I've created for Nostr. It's also using the right secp256k1 library to do it.

openmls-nostr-crypto: implementes the crypto traits that the OpenMLS library expects to find for a given provider and removes all the ciphersuites that we don't care about supporting.

hpke-rs-nostr-crypto: This implements the crypto traits that the hpke-rs library expects to find. Again removing all the ciphersuites we don't care about supporting.

I've not yet written any tests for these libraries (which needs to be done) but I've gotten some very simple demos working with OpenMLS using this new set of libraries to handle the crypto.

I've been really impressed with the simplicity of the OpenMLS interface as well. While there is A LOT going on under the hood, the public interface that client developers have to use is clean and simple.

Onward and Upward

Next week I'll continue working on these libraries; adding tests and continuing to build out my small demo app. I've been in touch with the maintainers of the OpenMLS library and I'm hoping to get a review done with them on my PRs and on my new library.

One thing I'll call out here: The review of my library and getting them to review the direction of the project overall will be paid consulting so I'm making sure that I've got as much done as possible before scheduling that time and paying their rates. I'm a strong believer that the right conversation can save you months of wasted time, but I'm also a believer in making sure you're prepared if you're going to drop money on that conversation. 😅
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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
2024-07-21 11:28:18

Čo nám prinášajú exotické protokoly ako Nostr, Cashu alebo Reticulum? Šifrovanie, podpisovanie, peer to peer komunikáciu, nové spôsoby šírenia a odmeňovania obsahu.

Ukážeme si kúl appky, ako sa dajú jednotlivé siete prepájať a ako spolu súvisia.

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@ 42342239:1d80db24
2024-07-06 15:26:39
Claims that we need greater centralisation, more EU, or more globalisation are prevalent across the usual media channels. The climate crisis, environmental destruction, pandemics, the AI-threat, yes, everything will apparently be solved if a little more global coordination, governance and leadership can be brought about.

But, is this actually true? One of the best arguments for this conclusion stems implicitly from the futurist Eliezer Yudkowsky, who once proposed a new Moore's Law, though this time not for computer processors but instead for mad science: "every 18 months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point".

Perhaps we simply have to tolerate more centralisation, globalisation, control, surveillance, and so on, to prevent all kinds of fools from destroying the world?

Note: a Swedish version of this text is avalable at Affärsvärlden.

At the same time, more centralisation, globalisation, etc. is also what we have experienced. Power has been shifting from the local, and from the majorities, to central-planning bureaucrats working in remote places. This has been going on for several decades. The EU's subsidiarity principle, i.e. the idea that decisions should be made at the lowest expedient level, and which came to everyone's attention ahead of Sweden's EU vote in 1994, is today swept under the rug as untimely and outdated, perhaps even retarded.

At the same time, there are many crises, more than usual it would seem. If it is not a crisis of criminality, a logistics/supply chain crisis or a water crisis, then it is an energy crisis, a financial crisis, a refugee crisis or a climate crisis. It is almost as if one starts to suspect that all this centralisation may be leading us down the wrong path. Perhaps centralisation is part of the problem, rather than the capital S solution?

Why centralisation may cause rather than prevent problems

There are several reasons why centralisation, etc, may actually be a problem. And though few seem to be interested in such questions today (or perhaps they are too timid to mention their concerns?), it has not always been this way. In this short essay we'll note four reasons (though there are several others):
- Political failures (Buchanan et al)
- Local communities & skin in the game (Ostrom and Taleb)
- The local knowledge problem (von Hayek)
- Governance by sociopaths (Hare)
James Buchanan who was given the so-called Nobel price in economics in the eighties once said that: "politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximise their incentives just like everybody else.".

Buchanan was prominent in research on rent-seeking and political failures, i.e. when political "solutions" to so-called market failures make everything worse. Rent-seeking is when a company spends resources (e.g. lobbying) to get legislators or other decision makers to pass laws or create regulations that benefit the company instead of it having to engage in productive activities. The result is regulatory capture. The more centralised decision-making is, the greater the negative consequences from such rent-seeking will be for society at large. This is known.

Another economist, Elinor Ostrom, was given the same prize in the great financial crisis year of 2009. In her research, she had found that local communities where people had influence over rules and regulations, as well as how violations there-of were handled, were much better suited to look after common resources than centralised bodies. To borrow a term from the combative Nassim Nicholas Taleb: everything was better handled when decision makers had "skin in the game".

A third economist, Friedrich von Hayek, was given this prize as early as 1974, partly because he showed that central planning could not possibly take into account all relevant information. The information needed in economic planning is by its very nature distributed, and will never be available to a central planning committee, or even to an AI.

Moreover, human systems are complex and not just complicated. When you realise this, you also understand why the forecasts made by central planners often end up wildly off the mark - and at times in a catastrophic way. (This in itself is an argument for relying more on factors outside of the models in the decision-making process.)

From Buchanan's, Ostrom's, Taleb's or von Hayek's perspectives, it also becomes difficult to believe that today's bureaucrats are the most suited to manage and price e.g. climate risks. One can compare with the insurance industry, which has both a long habit of pricing risks as well as "skin in the game" - two things sorely missing in today's planning bodies.

Instead of preventing fools, we may be enabling madmen

An even more troubling conclusion is that centralisation tends to transfer power to people who perhaps shouldn't have more of that good. "Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom," psychologist Robert Hare once said during a lecture. Most people have probably known for a long time that those with sharp elbows and who don't hesitate to stab a colleague in the back can climb quickly in organisations. In recent years, this fact seems to have become increasingly well known even in academia.

You will thus tend to encounter an increased prevalance of individuals with narcissistic and sociopathic traits the higher up you get in the the status hierarchy. And if working in large organisations (such as the European Union or Congress) or in large corporations, is perceived as higher status - which is generally the case, then it follows that the more we centralise, the more we will be governed by people with less flattering Dark Triad traits.

By their fruits ye shall know them

Perhaps it is thus not a coincidence that we have so many crises. Perhaps centralisation, globalisation, etc. cause crises. Perhaps the "elites" and their planning bureaucrats are, in fact, not the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Perhaps President Trump even had a point when he said "they are not sending their best".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4b8xgaiuj0

The opposite of centralisation is decentralisation. And while most people may still be aware that decentralisation can be a superpower within the business world, it's time we remind ourselves that this also applies to the economy - and society - at large, and preferably before the next Great Leap Forward is fully thrust upon us.
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@ 0edc2f47:730cff1b
2024-09-02 01:54:55
Chef's notes

In this case, sweet-and-sour doesn’t mean Americanized Chinese food but rather the sauce that dominated the Shabbos and Pesach dinner table among American Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century.

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 30 minutes
- 🍳 Cook time: 6 hours
- 🍽️ Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 1 medium onion, peeled and quartered
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 8-10 large cloves garlic
- 1 cup ketchup
- ¼ cup dry sherry
- ¼ cup sake
- ¼ cup cider vinegar
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- ¼ cup honey
- ¼ cup Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon coarsely ground black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- 1½ cups Coca-Cola, ginger ale, or Dr. Pepper
- 1 first-cut brisket, 6 to 7 pounds (2.7-3.2kg), rinsed and patted thoroughly dry
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 325F / 160C.
2. Combine all ingredients except brisket in a blender and blend until smooth.
3. Place brisket in a Dutch oven or other large pot with a tight-fitting lid.
4. Pour sauce over brisket, place lid on pot, roast in oven for 3 hours. Flip roast and return to oven for 3 hours or until fork tender.
5. Remove roast to rest. Skim fat from sauce and reduce if desired. Serve immediately with sauce or cool, cover brisket and refrigerate overnight in cooking pan. The next day, defat sauce, reduce if desired, and reheat meat in sauce before serving.
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@ 502ab02a:a2860397
2024-09-23 02:37:17

จำได้ว่าเคยลงในทุ่งม่วง แต่ไม่ได้เก็บเป็น long form ไว้ ขอบันทึกลงในนี้ใหม่อีกทีครับ 1 ใน เจอนี่ ——

มีเรื่องอยากเล่าให้อ่านครับ มันเป็นเรื่องกึ่งๆรู้สึกผิด กึ่งๆเกรียน แต่อยู่ในกลุ่มนี้มานานและเห็นว่ากลุ่มนี้รัก cm มากเหมือนกัน

เรื่องของเรื่องคิอ สมัยเรียน abac ตอนนั้น ติดเกมส์ cm1 มาก อยากให้มีทีมชาติไทยในนั้นบ้าง เพราะสมัยนั้นถ้ากดเล่นลีกอังกฤษ เราจะเห็น อันโตนิโอ คอนเต ที่ซื้อมาเล่นยากมากๆ เลยคิดหวังว่า ไทยเราจะมีสิทธิ์ไหมนะ

และที่ abac นี่ก็เป็นครั้งแรกที่ได้ใช้อีเมลล์ ก็เลย yahoo! หาอีเมลล์ทีมโปรแกรมเมอร์ สมัยนั้นยังไม่มีกูเกิ้ลครับ เราจะใช้ ยาฮู หรือไม่ก็ อัลตวิสต้า ในการจะสืบค้นอะไรสักอย่าง จนในที่สุดก็ไล่เรียงจากเว็บไซต์ของผู้ผลิต คลิกอ่านโน่นนี่จน ได้มาคนนึง น่าจะเป็นโปรแกรมเมอร์ที่จัดการเรื่องฐานข้อมูลนักเตะ เหมือนเค้าจะมีบอกว่า ต่างชาติสนใจส่งชื่อมาได้เพราะเขาก็ไม่รู้จักทั้งโลก

ก็เลยจัดการส่งชื่อไปให้ 20-30 ชื่อ บอกว่ามีข้อมูลนักฟุตบอลไทย มาให้เพิ่มในฐานข้อมูล

ตรงนี้หละครับ ด้วยความเกรียน แอบใส่ชื่อตัวเองกับชื่อเพื่อนไปด้วย ในใจคิดเอาวะ โอกาสมาแล้ว ชื่อเพื่อนของผมคนนึงสะกดว่า borijet ภาษาไทยคือ บริเจต ชื่อเพื่อนที่สะกดแปลกที่สุดในโลก และเป็นการวางยาทีมงาน เพื่อทำให้รู้ได้ทันทีว่าข้อมูลที่เราส่งไปเขาใช้มันหรือเปล่า ของเราแน่นนอนเลยหรือเปล่า มั่นใจว่าสมัยนั้นประเทศไทยยังเป็นเมืองเล็กๆของโลกอินเตอร์เนทอยู่เลย

นอกจากนี้ ยังมีชื่อ ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ แท่งทอง และ อุดม แต้พานิช ด้วย เพราะตอนนั้นแมงปอล้อคลื่นดังมาก เลยแอบใส่ไว้บันทึกประวัติศาสตร์ อันนี้โปรแกรมเขาจะ random ชื่อนักบอลเองนะครับ ตามประสาโลกที่สาม ที่ไม่เทียบเท่า อังกฤษ อิตาลี สเปน หลายครั้งก็เป็นตัวเทาๆ

ไม่น่าเชื่อว่าอีเมลล์จากมหาวิทยาลัย ส่งด้วยระบบ unix ตึกA ที่เอแบค จอดำอักษรเขียว ที่หนุ่มจีบสาวผ่าน โปรแกรม talk นั่นแหละครับ ที่ผมใช้ส่งสิ่งยิ่งใหญ่นี้จนต้องขนลุกทุกครั้งที่นึกถึง

จนวันที่เกมส์ cm2 ตัวแรกสุดออกมา ก็ไปซื้อแผ่นจริงจากพันทิพ วันที่ซื้อเกมส์นี้มาเล่น ก็ซื้อหนังสือ computer today มาด้วย ตอนนั้นเป็นเล่มเล็กพอคเก็ตบุกแล้ว ในนั้นเขารีวิวชื่อพี่แท่ง พี่โน้ต ผมนั่งอ่านแล้วอุทานดังลั่นในใจอยู่ใน ปอพ.4 เบาะหลังสุด ขึ้นรถที่อนุสาวรีย์ชัย จำได้แม่น ฝีมือเรานี่หว่า -..-

สัมผัสได้ถึงพลังอันมหาศาลของการสื่อสารข้อมูลข้ามโลกแบบนี้ พลังของอินเตอร์เนท ทำให้ผมมีอาชีพเกี่ยวกับเรื่องนี้อยู่พักใหญ่เลย ตั้งแต่สอนการใช้อินเตอรเนท รับทำเว็บไซท์ ทำโฮสติ้ง ทำ flash animation ตั้งแต่ version beta

เรื่องนี้มันพิสูจน์ให้เห็นอีกครั้งว่าอย่ารอโอกาส ถ้าจะทำเรื่องยิ่งใหญ่คุณต้องวิ่งชนมัน ทำไม่ได้หรือไม่ได้ทำ มันเป็นเรื่องจริงครับ ที่สำคัญ . . กูไม่ได้เครดิต ซักนิดเลยเว้ยยย เวรของกรรม อุตส่าห์ร่ายอีเมลล์ ยาวเหยียดพร้อมชื่อ นามสกุล กะว่าอยู่ใน list ไกลๆก็ยังดีวะ 5555

นึกแล้วก็มีความสุขทุกทีครับ เพราะมันเป็นฐานข้อมูล official ในแผ่นแท้เลยครับ

Teera

pirateketo #siamstr

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@ cd408a69:797e8162
2023-09-14 13:08:47
Nostrasia Hackathon

Welcome FOSS hackers and creatives who care deeply about freedom technology!

自由のテクノロジーに深い関わりたい FOSS ハッカーとクリエイター、あつまれ！

We're joining forces with Bolt.Fun for a month-long hackathon bridging Bitcoin and NOSTR (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays), culminating with a special three day sprint and live event in Tokyo at the Nostrasia Conference.

私たちは、Bolt.Fun と協力して、ビットコインと Nostrを橋渡しするハッカソンを、1 か月間かけて開催します。クライマックスは東京で開催されるNostrasia Tokyo が舞台。3日間の特別なスプリントとライブイベントで最高潮に達します。

Be a Part of the Early Days of Nostr

Nostr の創成期を共に作り上げましょう

Help build the future of Nostr! Like the early days of Bitcoin or of the Internet, Nostr is nascent open technology shaping new types of social experiences to connect people across the globe. It carries a foundation of principles similar to Bitcoin, like decentralization, simplicity, and censorship-resistance.

Nostr の未来を築くのに協力してください！ビットコインやインターネットの初期と同じように、Nostr は世界中の人々をつなぐ新しいソーシャル体験を形成するオープンテクノロジーの初期段階にあります。 Nostr には「分散化」「シンプルさ」「検閲耐性」など、ビットコインと同様の原則が組み込まれています。

Orange-Pill people through the Purple-Nostr-Pill

オレンジピル（ビットコイン）から紫の Nostr のピルへ

Bitcoin and Nostr communities are in synergy. What started as a social protocol is quickly transforming into a space for exploration on ways to support content creators through bitcoin lightning micro payments, often referred to as zaps. Bitcoin integration to the nostr protocol strengthens Bitcoin's use case as a currency of exchange. It carves new paths to a culture of value4value.

ビットコインと Nostr のコミュニティは相乗効果を発揮します。 Nostr はソーシャルプロトコルとしてはじまりましたが、今では Zap （ビットコインのライトニングマイクロペイメント）を通じてコンテンツクリエイターをサポートする方法を模索する空間へと急速に進化しています。 Nostr プロトコルにビットコインが組み合わさることで、交換通貨としてのビットコインの働きが強化されます。それは、"value4value" の文化への新しい道を切り開くでしょう。

Help People HODL their Keys (Social+Monetary)

人々が自分のキーを HODL （長期保有）できるように支援します（ソーシャル + 金銭的に）

Nostr exists outside of the rule of platforms and those who seek to control them. HODLing your nostr keys is hodling your identity and social graph, outside of KYC. By helping develop and educate on NOSTR, you are helping people escape walled gardens & gain control and choice over their identities & their money. The Internet, over time, has become centralized, help Nostr stay decentralized by supporting the growth of an ecosystem of apps, websites, microapps, relay services...

Nostr はプラットフォームやそれを制御しようとする人々の支配の外にあります。 Nostr keys を持つことは、KYC （本人確認）以外であなたのアイデンティティとソーシャルグラフを保持することになります。 Nostr の開発や教育に貢献することは、人々が束縛から解放され、アイデンティティやお金に対する主導権を得られるよう支援することにもなるのです。時間の経過とともに集中化されてきたインターネットですが、Nostr のアプリ／Web サイト／マイクロアプリ／リレーサービスのエコシステムの成長をサポートすることで、Nostr の分散化を維持できるようになります。

Permissionless Building

許可を必要としない構築

Opportunities abound in an environment ripe for innovation:
- Develop & design new nostr white label clients, middleware, microapps...
- Help improve existing Nostr FOSS projects
- Contribute directly to protocol development through NIPs (Nostr Implementation Possibilities)
- Encourage nostr and bitcoin adoption through art, education, and any way you like
イノベーションの機が熟した環境には、チャンスが溢れています。
- Nostr の真新しいクライアント、ミドルウェア、マイクロアプリを開発したりデザインする
- 既存の Nostr FOSS プロジェクトの改善に寄与する
- NIP (Nostr Implementation Possibilities) を通じたプロトコル開発に直接貢献する
- 芸術、教育、その他好きな方法を通じて Nostr とビットコインの普及を推進する
Hack in a Supportive Environment

サポートされた環境でハックしよう

We have a growing list of knowledgeable people with skin-in-the-game to mentor and support your journey. Once your project matures, you may also have 1-on-1 guidance to help you reach your vision and discover ways of growing and funding it.

私たちは、あなたの道のりを指導しサポートしてくれる知識豊富なメンターを増やしています。プロジェクトが成熟した暁には、1対1のガイダンスを受けられる可能性もあります。それは、あなたのビジョンを達成し、成長させて資金を得る方法を発見するのに役立つでしょう。

Nostr has a blossoming community open to innovation. It is also a great testing ground, as people in the community are open to giving and receiving feedback. It is an environment encouraging conversation on feature ideas as well as possible solutions to social media issues and product bugs.

Nostr には、イノベーションに対してオープンで、発展しているコミュニティがあります。コミュニティの人々はフィードバックの授受にオープンであるため、優れた実験の場にもなります。機能のアイデアや、ソーシャルメディアの課題や製品のバグの解決策についての会話を促進する環境です。

NostrHack Tracks

You have 3 options

NostrHack Tracks には3つのオプションがあります

Track 1: Builder's Track - Reimagine Nostr

トラック1 : ビルダーのトラック - Nostr を再考しよう

If you can think of it, it can be engineered! Nostr encourages permissionless building while staying mindful of interoperability and network support. Help BUIDL, design, and improve an area you are passionate about. Reimagine and BUIDL features, tools, clients... Help solve issues and create new experiences in social media.

思いつくことができれば、エンジニアリングできる！ Nostr は、相互運用性とネットワークサポートに留意しながら、パーミッションレスな構築 (BUIDL) を奨励しています。あなたが情熱を注いでいる分野での構築、設計、改善に貢献してください。機能やツール、クライアントを再考して構築 (BUIDL) し、ソーシャルメディアでの課題を解決して新しい体験を生み出すのに協力してください。

Possibilities...

これを踏まえて…

BUILD on the NOSTR Protocol

The Nostr Implementation Possibilities (NIPs) are optional protocol features anyone can add to their clients. Improve and strengthen existing NIPs or build on new ones. NOSTR is a balance of simplicity, interoperability, backward-compatibility and innovation.

NIPs は、誰でもクライアントに追加できるオプションのプロトコル機能です。既存の NIP を改善および強化するか、新しい NIP を構築してください。 Nostr は、シンプルさ、相互運用性、下位互換性、革新性のバランスを保っています。

Focus on UX

Nostr is made up of a wide range of clients and tools. To make NOSTR scalable, you can help improve its user experience and education.

Nostr は幅広いクライアントとツールで形成されています。 Nostr をスケーラブルにするために、UX と教育の改善に協力してください。

Help shape a Web of Trust

Nostr cares about removing the KYC tied to our identities. To use Nostr you do not need to give up your phone number, email, financial information, or any metadata tied to your real world identity to be later harvested and sold. You are not the product. What are ways that trust can be earned to prevent impersonation, spam...?

Nostr は、私たちの身元に関連付けられた KYC （個人情報）を取り除けるようにしています。 Nostr を使用しても、電話番号、電子メール、財務情報、または現実世界のアイデンティティに関連付けられたメタデータを、収集されたり販売されたりして手放すことになる心配がありません。あなたは商品ではないのです。その中で、なりすましやスパムを防ぐために、信頼を獲得するにはどうすればよいでしょうか...?

NIP05/Nostr address

One of the solutions to build a web of trust used today, is to tie your nostr hex public key to a domain. Although this makes it harder for bots to have nostr addresses, it is not a perfect solution. Domains are centralized through DNS. To help people who do not have their own domains or cannot easily add a NIP05 on their sites, your nostr address can be hosted as a service along with other people's. At this moment, you can highlight just one nostr address per profile. In the future, could it include your website, where you work, and other identifiers... What are other possible solutions?

現在使用されている信頼獲得のための解決策の 1 つは、Nostr の HEX 公開鍵をドメインに結び付けることです。これにより、完璧な解決策ではないものの、bot などが Nostr アドレスを持つことが難しくなります。ドメインは DNS を通じて一元化されています。独自のドメインを持っていない人や、自分では NIP-05 を簡単に追加できない人のために、あなたの Nostr アドレスをサービスとして他の人のものと一緒にホストすることも可能です。現時点では、プロフィールごとに1つの Nostr アドレスのみを強調表示できますが、将来的には、Web サイト、勤務先、その他の識別情報も含められるようになる可能性があります...この他にも考えられる解決策は何かありますか？

On Decentralization & Discoverability

分散化と発見可能性について

Your identity in NOSTR is tied to your keys, but your information needs to be shared and found across a network of relays. To promote decentralization and censorship resistance, relays need to be easy to setup, lightweight, and sustainable. Relays get to choose what information passes through them, so they are also a form of spam prevention that could potentially also become censoring, so both the relay-runners and the individuals connecting to relays need to have choice and policies cannot be homogenous one-size-fits-all. What are possible solutions to make setting up relays easier, to make running a relay sustainable, to have new ways of discovering information...

Nostr での ID はキーに関連付けられていますが、その情報はリレーのネットワーク全体で共有され、検索できる必要があります。分散化と検閲耐性を促進するために、リレーはセットアップが簡単で、軽量で、持続可能である必要があります。リレーは通過する情報を選択できるため、スパム防止の一形態である一方で検閲にもなり得ます。そのため、リレー管理者とリレーに接続する個人の両方に選択権が必要で、ポリシーが全てに対し画一的になってはいけません。リレーのセットアップを容易にし、リレーの実行を持続可能にし、情報を発見する新しい方法を実現するには、どのような解決策が考えられるでしょうか...？

Buidl tools to connect to Git, as a decentralized alternative to GitHub

GitHub の分散型代替手段として、Git に接続するための BUIDL ツール

Media Uploads

To keep relays lightweight, images are hosted by uploading them to the web, and keeping only the links to them in the data within individual nostr notes. This has led to developing image uploading services specific to nostr, but they carry the risk of centralization or censorship. Some product makers and relay runners are looking into direct uploads to Cloud services. What are possible solutions to the handling of media (images, videos, music...)?

リレーを軽量に保つために、画像は Web にアップロードしてホストされ、各投稿のデータには画像へのリンクのみが保持されます。そんな中で、Nostr に特化した画像アップロードサービスが開発されましたが、集中化や検閲のリスクが伴います。一部のプロダクト開発者やリレー管理者は、クラウドサービスへの直接アップロードを検討しています。メディア（画像、ビデオ、音楽など）の処理について、考えられるよい解決策はありますか？

Social Signals

People have the choice to block and mute others, this gives signals to relays, which can reenact policies based on those and other signals. Relays need to be able to differentiate real signals from those wanting to game the system for censorship. Relay runners need to have the capacity to make decisions on what to allow or reject.

ユーザーは他のユーザーをブロックしたりミュートできます。ユーザーの設定内容はリレーに送信され、リレーはその設定に基づいてそれぞれのポリシーを再現できます。リレーは、実際の設定と、検閲のためにシステムを操作しようとする設定を区別する必要があります。リレーの管理者には、何を許可し、何を拒否するかを決定する能力が必要です。

Track 2 : Marketplaces & Value4Value

Make freedom of exchange fun again! Nostr extends beyond social. It is integrating ways for content creators to be supported through lightning micropayments, called zaps, for their creations. The possibilities of building niche value4value economies through the exchange of products, services, and ideas, is growing through various avenues: Marketplaces, fundraising, blogs, music, streaming... devise new robust ways of integrating NOSTR and Bitcoin of monetary and skill exchange. Seek to explore distributed, digital reciprocity and free trade. Encourage a culture of value4value.

自由な交流を再び楽しく！ Nostr はソーシャルを超えて広がります。 Zap と呼ばれるマイクロペイメントを通じて、コンテンツクリエイターの作品をサポートできる方法を兼ね備えています。製品、サービス、アイデアの交換を通じてニッチな価値と価値（value4value）の経済を構築する可能性は、さまざまな手段を通じて拡大しています : マーケットプレイス、資金調達、ブログ、音楽、ストリーミングなど... Nostr とビットコインを組み合わせて、金銭とスキルの交換を行う新しい堅牢な方法を考案します。分散型、デジタル相互主義、自由貿易を探究してください。価値対価値（value4value）の文化を促進してください。

A value4value culture is not only about the individuals using NOSTR products and services, but also about the developers and creatives building sustainable projects. What are ways of sustaining NOSTR through Bitcoin that do NOT make the individual user the product and that are privacy mindful?

value4value の文化は、Nostr の製品やサービスを使用する個人だけでなく、持続可能なプロジェクトを構築する開発者やクリエイターにも関係します。個人ユーザーを製品にすることなくプライバシーに配慮しながら、ビットコインを通じて Nostr を持続させる方法は何ですか？

Possibilities...

On Social and Economic Signals

Zaps

Many nostr clients have implemented lightning zap payments. Imagine instead of liking a nostr note, you can zap someone's note and they can receive bits/sats in appreciation for their content. It is a strong signal to creators of the kind of content their audiences are looking for. The Apple App Store has recently banned the zapping of specific notes, per Apple's policy that makes the sale of digital content prohibited except when paid through their services. Fortunately, Nostr exists in many decentralized forms outside of app stores and the community is creating new and innovative ways to send bitcoin and free speech from relay to relay, circumventing barriers as they appear. What are solutions that can make NOSTR and zaps ubiquitous?

多くの Nostr クライアントが Zap を導入しています。Nostr での投稿を「いいね」する代わりに Zap すると、その内容に対する感謝としてビットコイン（サトシ）を受け取ることができるイメージです。これは、フォロワーがどのような種類のコンテンツを求めているかをクリエイターに伝える強力なシグナルになります。 Apple App Storeは最近、サービスを通じて支払われる場合を除きデジタルコンテンツの販売を禁止するというAppleのポリシーに従い、特定の投稿への Zap を禁止しました。幸い、Nostr は多くが App Store の外で分散型で存在しているため、コミュニティは障壁を回避しながら、ビットコインと言論の自由をリレーからリレーに送信するための革新的な方法を生み出しています。 Nostr と Zaps をユビキタスにするソリューションとは何ですか？

Track 3 : Empower Communities

Give choice and control back to the individual! Create paths forward to help onboard millions of new users and restore free and uncensored speech to the world

選択とコントロールを個人に返そう。何百万人もの新規ユーザーの参加を支援し、自由で検閲されていない言論を世界に取り戻すための道筋を作り出してください。

Possibilities...

On Security, Privacy & Self-Custody

Private Communication

Direct Messages on NOSTR are encrypted, but metadata is leaked. If someone's key is compromised, whoever has access to that account can read those messages. Integrating secure and reliable encrypted communication protocols, like the SimpleX messaging protocol, is especially desired by the community, as many in Nostr are aware of the risks of surveillance, authoritarianism, government and Big Tech overreach... Private communication is important for individual rights, in particular for activists and journalists across the globe.

Nostr のダイレクトメッセージは暗号化されていますが、メタデータは漏洩します。誰かのキーが侵害された場合、そのアカウントにアクセスできる人は誰でもそれらのメッセージを読むことができてしまうのです。Nostr の多くの人が監視、権威主義、政府とビッグテックの行き過ぎのリスクを認識しているため、 SimpleX メッセージングプロトコルのような安全で信頼性の高い暗号化通信プロトコルの統合が、コミュニティによって特に望まれています...プライベート通信は個人の権利にとって重要です、特に世界中の活動家やジャーナリストにとって。

Zaps & Privacy

Current lightning zap payments tend to be custodial and not mindful of privacy, though they are helping onboard people unto lightning. What are ways that people can grow into non-custodial solutions? A wider adoption of Bolt-12 would improve zap payment privacy, what are ways to encourage that development? What are other possible solutions?

現在のザップの支払いは、ライトニングペイメントに出会うのに役立っているものの、カストディアル（管理的）でプライバシーに配慮していない傾向にあります。ノンカストディアル（非監護的）なものになるよう解決する方法はありませんか？ Bolt-12 が広く採用されれば、Zap 支払いのプライバシーが向上しますが、その開発を促進するにはどのような方法がありますか？また、他に考えられる解決策はありませんか？

Closing Live 3-Day Sprint at the Nostrasia Conference

Nostrasia Tokyo 3日間のライブスプリントによる締めくくり

Tokyo | Nov 1-3 (you can also join virtually)

If you heard of the Nostrica unconference, which happened in Costa Rica in March of this year, Nostrasia is the second Nostr World conference, bringing NOSTR and Bitcoin awareness to the heart of Asia, where freedom communication and freedom money are direly needed.

今年の3月にコスタリカで開催された Nostrica のことをご存知の方もいると思いますが、ノストラジアは2回目の Nostr 世界カンファレンスです。自由なコミュニケーションと自由なお金が切実に必要とされているアジアの中心にNostr とビットコインの認識をもたらします。

Tokyo and Hong Kong are beautiful cultural hubs with budding Nostr and thriving Bitcoin communities of their own. We are eager to spread NOSTR education and development in those regions and beyond. We will close this Nostrasia month-long hackathon with a 3-day sprint at the Nostrasia Conference in Tokyo.

東京と香港は、新進気鋭のNostrと繁栄する独自のビットコインコミュニティを持つ美しい文化の中心地です。私たちは、Nostr の教育と開発をこれらの地域やその他の地域に広めることに熱心に取り組んでいます。この Nostrasia の 1 か月にわたるハッカソンは、Nostrasia Tokyo での 3 日間のスプリントをもって終了します。

We will have a dedicated workshop area and food for you to hack away on the final details of your projects. On the last day of the conference, the most robust projects will get time on stage to present. We will close the Nostrasia Hackathon with a special presentation.

プロジェクトの最終的な詳細を検討するための専用のワークショップエリアと食事をご用意します。カンファレンスの最終日には、最も強力なプロジェクトがステージ上でプレゼンテーションを行う時間が与えられます。 Nostrasia Hackathon は特別なプレゼンテーションで締めくくられます。

We cannot wait to see what new and exciting projects are proposed for the Nostrasia Hackathon. We’re eager to welcome devs and non-devs alike to contribute to this space and help #grownostr in any small way to help onboard Asia, and the rest of the world to this robust open communication protocol and decentralized freedom of speech tool.

Nostrasia Hackathon ではどんな斬新でエキサイティングなプロジェクトが提案されるのか楽しみです。私たちは、開発者も非開発者も同様にこの分野に貢献し、アジアやその他の世界をこの堅牢なオープン通信プロトコルと分散型言論の自由ツールに参加させるために、どんな小さな方法でも #grownostr を支援してくれることを心から歓迎しています。
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2024-09-23 02:32:41

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2024-07-21 11:24:21

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2024-09-01 11:50:28
Chef's notes

All you need are your favorite vegetables, nori sheets, a bamboo mat, a cutting board, and a knife. For the dip, you can simply use soy sauce, or try this recipe for a delicious creamy dip.

I make my own cream cheese with soaked cashews, nutritional yeast, salt, lime juice, and vinegar. You can also find vegan cream cheese or cashew cheese at a health food store.

Feel free to add other veggies like bell pepper, chili, cucumber, fresh onion or anything you like! In the image I used also red bell pepper and shiitake.

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 20-30 min depending the amount
- 🍳 Cook time: 0
- 🍽️ Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 1 carrot medium size
- 300g cauliflower
- 1-2 leaves of red cabbage
- 1 avocado
- 1/2 cup cream cheese (see chef's note)
- 4 tbsp tamari sauce (organic soy sauce)
- 1 tbsp mustard
- 1 tbsp date syrup (optional any other liquid sweetener of your choice like agave or maple)
- 1 tbsp peanut butter (preferable raw quality)
- 1/2 tsp grated ginger (fresh or powder)
- water
- 1/4 tsp garlic, freshly grated or dried ground
Directions
1. Finely grate the cauliflower by hand or in a blender. This is the rice substitute.
2. Cut the carrot into thin strips using a vegetable peeler.
3. Cut the red cabbage leaves into thin strips and massage them with your hands in a bowl to make them a little more tender.
4. Remove the pit from the avocado and take out the flesh and cut it into thin slices.
5. Now place the nori sheet on the bamboo mat, spread a thin layer cashew cheese or cream cheese evenly on the nori sheet, cover 2/3 of the sheet with the finely grated cauliflower (as if it was rice, press lightly to hold it together).
6. Then use some of the prepared vegetables and roll up the sushi using the bamboo mat.
7. Moisten the end with a little water and finish rolling the sushi. Be careful not to fill it with too much of the ingredients and make sure to roll as tight as possible.
8. Then you can cut the roll into bite-sized pieces on a wooden board and with a sharp knife. Place the individual rolls on a plate. Continue like this until you have no more vegetables.
9. For the sauce, mix all the ingredients (peanut butter, date syrup, mustard, ginger, tamari sauce) in a bowl with a fork and if it is too thick and too salty, add a little water.
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2024-07-06 09:22:17
This is the second in a series of weekly updates detailing progress on bringing MLS protocol DMs and group messaging to Nostr.

Previous Updates
- June 28th 2024
Progress this week

This week was mostly spent on the topic of how to properly publish prekey bundles and what would be needed in the bundle itself to make it workable. I've included an early version of the spec below for prekeys, and would love thoughts on it. Treat this as an alpha version, very subject to change.

The other thing I spent time on was making changes to the OpenMLS library to add support for our custom ciphersuite. One issue that I've run into is that the IETF standard for HPKE doesn't include the secp256k1 curve. Because of this, the library being used in the OpenMLS library doesn't implement the necessary methods using our curve. Thankfully, there is another library with an open PR (shout out to nostr:npub1yevrvtp3xl42sq06usztudhleq8pdfsugw5frgaqg6lvfdewfx9q6zqrkl for that!) that would fix this. Additionally, there's an expired proposal to add secp256k1 to the HPKE spec itself. I've bumped both of these and will continue to follow up. Even without the formal addition to the spec, if we have a working library, I can add that to the OpenMLS library.

Spec Draft for Prekeys

Initial keying material (Prekey Event)

Each user that wishes to be reachable via MLS-based messaging MUST first publish a prekey event. Prekeys are used to authenticate and add members to groups (one-to-one DMs or groups with more than two participants) in an asynchronous way. The prekey event is a simple replaceable event and contains all the information needed to add a user to a group.

Prekeys SHOULD be used only once. Resuse of prekeys can lead to replay attacks.

In most cases, clients that implement this NIP will manage the creation and rotation of the prekey event. It's recommended that clients do so interactively with user consent in order to avoid overwriting prekeys created by other clients.

Derived vs Ephemeral Prekeys

Since prekeys are generated on a single device/client pair, the private key of the prekey must be either stored or generated in a way that can be deterministically recovered.

The recommended approach is to use derived keys, generated in the manner described in NIP-06. In this way, the user can respond to a new group request from any device/client pair, not just from the same device/client pair that created the initial prekey event. If using derived keys;
- Clients MUST use 104 as the account level value and 0 at the change level value (e.g. m/44'/1237'/104'/0/0).
- Keys are then generated using public derivation by incrementing the address_index level value.
- Clients MUST include the full derivation path corresponding to the key used in the content field on the prekey event.
- The content field MUST be encrypted using standard NIP-44 encryption (encrypted to themselves).
However, for added security (and consequently a more restrictive user experience), clients can chose to generate an ephemeral key and store the private key locally. This means that users will only be able to respond to new group requests from the same device/client pair and won't be able to respond at all if the prekey's private key is lost. Ephemeral keys can also be used with minimal degredation of UX if you're using a remote signer that can manage these keys.

If using an ephemeral key;
- The content field on the prekey event MUST be filled in with EPHEMERAL and then encrypted using standard NIP-44 encryption (encrypted to themselves). This ensures that anyone looking at prekey events cannot tell whether it's a derived or an ephemeral prekey.
Example Prekey Event

json { "id": <id>, "kind": 10443, "created_at": <unix timestamp in seconds>, "pubkey": <main identity pubkey>, "content": <encrypted derivation path | EPHEMERAL>, "tags": [ ["mls_protocol_version", "1.0"], ["ciphersuite", "MLS_256_DHKEMK256_CHACHA20POLY1305_SHA256_K256"], ["pubkey", <prekey pubkey>], ["prekey_sig", <signature generated from hex encoded pubkey of the prekey>], ["r", "wss://nos.lol"], ["r", "wss://relay.primal.net"] ], "sig": <signed with main identity key> }

Tags
- The mls_protocol_version tag identifies the MLS protocol version being used. For now, this MUST be 1.0
- The ciphersuite tag identifies the ciphersuite supported. For now on Nostr, we're using a custom ciphersuite, MLS_256_DHKEMK256_CHACHA20POLY1305_SHA256_K256. Read more about ciphersuites in MLS.
- pubkey is the derived or ephemeral prekey pubkey.
- The prekey_sig tag value is a Schnorr signature (over the secp256k1 curve) of the SHA-256 hashed value of the prekey's pubkey, signed with the prekey's private key.
```js const privKey = schnorr.utils.randomPrivateKey(); const pubKey = schnorr.getPublicKey(privKey);

const prekeySig = bytesToHex( schnorr.sign(bytesToHex(sha256(pubKey)), privKey) );

const prekeyTag = ["prekey_sig", prekeySig]; ```

Finally, clients SHOULD include r tags to identify each of the relays that they will attempt to publish this prekey event to. This allows for more complete replacement of prekey events at a later date.

Replacing Prekey Events

Clients MUST replace the prekey event on all the listed relays any time they successfully process a group welcome event. If the prekey was a derived prekey, clients SHOULD increment the derivation path by 1 for the next key.

Onward and Upward

This next week I'll continue to work on getting the right curves and code added to the OpenMLS library and start work on a simple demo app. The focus is on better understanding what we need from the control and message events and how we can make those as simple as possible for Nostr clients and relays while also preserving as much privacy as possible.
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2024-09-22 18:05:14

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2023-08-22 12:14:34

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2024-09-22 13:42:14

When dealing with a stubborn mule, traditionally you use both a carrot and a stick. The carrot is something the mule wants that is used to encourage good behavior, while the stick is the punishment for doing wrong. Sadly most of us tend to focus more on God’s stick rather than His carrot. God’s primary stick is:

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)

We seek God in hopes of avoiding death and hell, but instead we should be seeking God’s blessing and His presence.

Separated from a Holy God

Adam’s original sin separated us from our holy God. Throughout all of the Old Testament, the people of God were required to follow rituals and make sacrifices in an attempt to get right with God, but nobody was allowed to approach God directly.

Moses, one of the men in the Old Testament times who was closest to God, made this request:

Then Moses said, “I pray You, show me Your glory!” And He said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.” But He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!” Then the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand there on the rock; and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.” (Exodus 33:18-23) {emphasis mine}

Moses asked God to show him His glory, but God replied, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!” No sinful person can look at our holy God and live. Sin has wholly separated us from God. We cannot approach God

Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place. Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod which budded, and the tables of the covenant; and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

Now when these things have been so prepared, the priests are continually entering the outer tabernacle performing the divine worship, but into the second, only the high priest enters once a year, not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance. The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the way into the holy place has not yet been disclosed while the outer tabernacle is still standing, which is a symbol for the present time. Accordingly both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience, since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. (Hebrews 9:1-15) {emphasis mine}

Also, God setup a statute that required the high priest to purify himself and offer sacrifices and to enter the holy of holies once per year to atone for the people. This was done every year. It was only allowed for the high priest and he had to go through extensive purification processes and multiple sacrifices for this annual duty. All of this was required just to approach God’s ordained ark of the covenant, not to actually be able to look at the face of God.

“This shall be a permanent statute for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls and not do any work, whether the native, or the alien who sojourns among you; for it is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you; you will be clean from all your sins before the Lord. .... So the priest who is anointed and ordained to serve as priest in his father’s place shall make atonement: he shall thus put on the linen garments, the holy garments, and make atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar. He shall also make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. Now you shall have this as a permanent statute, to make atonement for the sons of Israel for all their sins once every year.” And just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so he did. (Leviticus 16:29-30,32-34) {emphasis mine}

We can also look at when God talked to the Israelites at Mount Sinai:

The Lord also said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments; and let them be ready for the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, ‘Beware that you do not go up on the mountain or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death. No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.” (Exodus 19:10-13)

For God to speak to them, the Israelites had to purify themselves for two days, wash their clothes, and even then they couldn’t approach closely. They had to not touch the holy mountain of God. If man or beast so much as touched the mountain, they were to be put to death, and not just killed, but put to death in such a manner that nobody touched them. Sinful man cannot approach a holy God even if they are His chosen people and even if they have worked to cleanse themselves from sin.

The Veil Torn so We May Approach the Throne of God

And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed His last. And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. (Mark 15:37-38) {emphasis mine}

When Jesus, the perfect sacrifice and kinsmen redeemer, died on the cross, “the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.” It was torn from the top to the bottom illustrating that the barrier separating us from God was torn by God himself. (The Holy of Holies was 20 cubits wide and tall, but 2 Chronicles 3 says it had columns 35 cubits tall with capitals 5 cubits tall. That would make the room 40 cubits tall, or 60 feet tall. No person could tear the veil top to bottom.)

Jesus’s death on the cross allows those who believe in Him to approach God in a way that they haven’t been able to do since Adam and Eve first sinned.

When the apostles asked Jesus how to pray, Jesus said:

“Pray, then, in this way:\ ‘Our Father who is in heaven,\ Hallowed be Your name.’” (Matthew 6:9) {emphasis mine}

Because of what Jesus did for us to take away our sins and to cleanse and cover us, we can now approach God directly and address Him as “Our Father.” Imagine that! We, sinful creatures, can approach the God, who spoke the universe into existence, and call Him “Father.” If you have repented of your sins and believed in all that Jesus has done for us, you are adopted to become a child of God.

In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf; for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father. (John 16:26-27) {emphasis mine}

We no longer have to wish for well being. We no longer have to have a priest as a go-between to God. We don’t need someone holier than us to intercede for us. We can speak directly with our creator and He lovingly answers our prayers and acts for our good (although not necessarily in the way we would chose, because He knows better what is for our eternal good).

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4:14-16) {emphasis mine}

When Jesus was asked how we should pray, He specifically told us to pray directly to the Father saying, “Our Father.” At the same time, we can approach God through any and all parts of the trinity. We can approach the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We can address them independently or as the one God they are. Jesus provided the way and when we address Him, we know that He sympathizes with us because He experienced what we experience and He lived the perfect life that He desires for us. Do you truly understand how amazing this privilege is?

We can directly commune with the Holy God who spoke the universe into existence along with time and space, whose creation of all of the stars in the universe was so easy that the Bible mentions this miraculous creation almost as an aside “… He made the Stars Also.” (Genesis 1:16b) We have been blessed beyond comprehension, but so many of us treat it as just ho-hum.

Prayer should not be a burden. We should hurry to the presence of God every day. We should make use of this privilege and be grateful for it every day of our lives.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. (1 John 3:1-3) {emphasis mine}

Of course, this closeness and love that we have now is only a beginning. At the rapture, we will be transformed to be more like Jesus, physically and spiritually. Then we will truly be able to see Him face to face like not even Moses was able to do.

How Do We Get This Privilege?

I hope you are a born-again child of God who has repented of your sins and trusted Jesus as your Savior and believed all that He has told you. If not God calls you to repent (admit wrongdoing and chose to change and obey/submit to God’s commands).

Romans 10:9 says:

that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

You just have to confess your sins and believe that Jesus is God and that after living a perfect, sinless life, He died on the cross to save us from our sins. You have to believe that on the third day He rose from the dead. There is more that He wants us to believe, but that is all that is necessary to become a child of God. (Of course our repentance must be real and not just be words said as insurance against Hell. God knows our heart.)

and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls. (1 Peter 2:24-25) {emphasis mine}

Jesus came down to earth as a man to live the perfect life that we were unable to live, take our sins upon Himself, pay the punishment that we deserved, and give us His righteousness. Amazing!

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2 Corinthians 5:21) {emphasis mine}

We all know that we have not lived perfect lives. We have all done things we regret. We have been unkind. We have lied. We have stolen (even if only a pen from the bank or our workplace). Instead of walking around in sin and guilt, faith in Jesus lets us walk around in blessings and His righteousness.

This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him. (Ephesians 3:11-12) {emphasis mine}

If you’ve trusted Jesus, you don’t have to approach God timidly. You can approach Him boldly (although always with the awe and respect He deserves).

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:4-7) {emphasis mine}

Be grateful for all that our awesome, creator God has done for us and go to Him with all of your needs, worries, fears, and desires. He is an unimaginably powerful and holy God, but He is also a loving and merciful God. We, as believers, are truly blessed.

Trust Jesus.\ \ your sister in Christ,

Christy

Bible verses are NASB (New American Standard Bible) 1995 edition unless otherwise stated

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2024-08-29 03:34:51
Chef's notes

Growing up there are a few staple foods that stick with you. For me, it was my Grandma Betty's Chicken Dijon. It was my birthday request every year and every time we cook it up it touches my heart. Grandma Betty passed away a 7 years ago. This dish is dedicated to her, directly from her recipe book.

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 10
- 🍳 Cook time: 35
Ingredients
- 4 Chicken Breasts
- 3 Tbsp Butter
- 2 Tbsp Flower
- 1/2 Cup Heavy Cream
- 3 Tbsp Dijon Mustard
- Tomato Wedges
Directions
1. In large skillet, cook chicken in butter on medium heat till brown on both sides and cooked through (about 20 min)
2. Remove chicken and set aside
3. Stir flower into skillet drippings. (whisk thoroughly for best flavor)
4. Add chicken broth and cream. Whisk until sauce thickens. (about 5 minutes)
5. Add dijon mustard and stir to combine.
6. Place chicken breasts in skillet. Place lid on skillet and simmer on low. (10 minutes)
7. Slice tomato in wedges
8. Chop Parsley
9. Plate Chicken, pour cream sauce, tomato wedges and garnish with parsley.
10. Pairs well with steamed rice or pasta and your favorite vegetable(s) (I prefer sweat peas and Steamed Rice)
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2023-08-14 21:36:14

It seems like blogstack is meant to replace Substack if not already apparent by the name. If that's the case, it's already better in a few ways.

1. Hit the ground running

I'm already getting started out of the gate with more readers than I would have if I just started a Substack. This, of course, is due to the fact that I'm creating on top of a protocol where I'm able to have the same audience across all clients of that protocol. This is in stark contrast to the legacy apps from centralized entities where you have to corral your audience from one platform to the next.

2. Readers need not subscribe

Technically, if you're following me, you're subscribed. But you don't have to subscribe for a set price and amount of time (e.g. $5/month or $50/year). I believe this is a win for both of us as I can write my best notes and you can choose to reward me as you see fit. Value 4 value.

3. More conducive to conversation

Writing on Substack felt like writing into a void, with little to no feedback. A post shows up in my readers' inbox and I'll see some stats on whether it was opened or not. That's it. Based on what I've seen so far, blog posts created on Nostr appear in the client apps (e.g Damus, Primal, and Plebstr) as just another note, but with nice formatting and such. From there, I can receive zaps, shakas, comments, and even be reposted.

This is just the beginning. Right now, I'm using blogstack. But what's to stop me from using another tool down the line? I'll have the ability to do so by simply connecting my private key. Can't wait to see what new tools are created down the line.

So ₿ULLISH on #Nostr

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2024-07-21 11:20:40

Ako sa snažím praktizovať LunarPunk bez budovania opcionality "odchodom" do zahraničia. Nie každý je ochotný alebo schopný meniť "miesto", ako však v takom prípade minimalizovať interakciu so štátom? Nie návod, skôr postrehy z bežného života.

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2024-08-27 16:51:52
Chef's notes

Easy recipe with simple ingredients. This recipe uses some store bought, precooked items as way to cut down on cook time. I recommend letting the vegetables thaw if you don't like them on the firm/crunchy side.Feel free to substitute fresh ingredients if you have the time and want to make the extra effort.

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 20 min
- 🍳 Cook time: 50 min
- 🍽️ Servings: 8-10
Ingredients
- 2 (8 oz) packages refrigerated crescent rolls (dough sheets preferred)
- 1 pound cooked rotisserie chicken (deboned and chopped)
- 2 table spoons of butter
- 2 (10 once) packages of frozen mixed vegetables
- 1 (15 once can sliced potatoes (drained)
- 1 (10.5 once) can condensed cream of chicken soup
- 1 (10.5 once) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 1/2 cup milk
- salt and ground pepper to taste
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line the botton of 9x13-inch baking dish with one can of crescent roll dough. If you don't get the sheet dough, be sure to pinch the seams together.
2. Melt the butter in a sauce pan over medium heat. Then add the chicken, mixed vegetables, and sliced potatoes (recommend cutting into smaller pieces). Cook, stirring frequently, until vegetables are thawed and mixture is heated through, 5 to 7 minutes.
3. While the mixed vegetables are heating, warm both cans of condensed soup in a seperate pan over medium-low heat. Slowly add milk and cook, stirring frequently, until combined and heated through, about 3 minutes.
4. Add the soup mixture to the chicken mixture, then pour into the baking dish. Top with the second can of crescent roll dough. Feel free to cut some slits in dough if you are using the dough sheets. Cover lightly with foil to prevent the crescent roll dough from browning too quickly.
5. Bake in oven until heated through and dough is a golden brown. Cook time should be around 45-50 minutes I reommend removing the foil for the last 10 minutes to get a golden crust. Be sure to keep a close watch on the crust after removing the foil because it will brown quickly.
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2024-09-22 13:02:22

สวัสดีครับเพื่อน ๆ ชาว #siamstr วันนี้ผมจะมาแนะนำ Meshtastic เครื่องมือสื่อสารที่ไร้ศูนย์กลางที่เพื่อน ๆ ไม่ควรพลาดเป็นอันขาด!! เพราะมันคือเครือข่ายการสื่อสารที่ใช้เทคโนโลยี LoRa (Long Range Radio) ซึ่งสามารถส่งข้อความได้ไกลมาก ๆ เป็นกิโลเลยทีเดียว ที่สำคัญไม่ต้องพึ่งพาโครงสร้างพื้นฐานของอินเทอร์เน็ตและไร้การสอดส่องและควบคุมจากรัฐ

Meshtastic คืออะไร?

Meshtastic จะสร้างเครือข่าย "mesh" โดยที่ทุกอุปกรณ์ในเครือข่ายจะช่วยกันรับส่งข้อความต่อ ๆ กันไป ทำให้ทุกคนในเครือข่ายสามารถรับข้อความได้ แม้ว่าจะอยู่ไกลแค่ไหน นอกจากนี้ ข้อความทั้งหมดจะถูก เข้ารหัสไว้ ทำให้เฉพาะผู้ส่งและผู้รับเท่านั้นที่สามารถอ่านได้ ส่วนอุปกรณ์ที่ส่งต่อข้อความจะไม่สามารถเข้าถึงเนื้อหาได้เลย ในการใช้งานนั้นเพื่อน ๆ สามารถเชื่อมต่ออุปกรณ์ Meshtastic เข้ากับโทรศัพท์มือถือเพื่อทุกคนในเครืองข่ายสามารถสื่อสารกันได้ง่าย ๆ ผ่านแอปส่งข้อความบนมือถือ

จับมือทำ เริ่มต้นใช้งาน Meshtastic แบบง่าย ๆ

เพื่อน ๆ อยากลองใช้ Meshtastic แล้วใช่มั้ย? มาดูขั้นตอนง่ายๆ กันเลยครับ

1. หาซื้ออุปกรณ์ที่ต้องใช้

ขั้นแรกเลย เราต้องมีอุปกรณ์ LoRa กันก่อนครับ ส่วนตัวผมแนะนำบอร์ด LoRa32 ของ LILYGO ครับ เพราะหาซื้อในไทยและต่างประเทศได้ง่ายมาก โดยจะมีให้เลือกหลายรุ่นมากตามความชอบและการใช้งาน ผมได้ทำตารางเปรียบเทียบคุณสมบัติของแต่ละรุ่นดังนี้ | Name | MCU | RF option | Battery | GPS | Link | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Lora32 2.1-1.6 | ESP32 | 433/868/915/923 Mhz | no | no | https://a.aliexpress.com/_opRiKMR | | Lora32 T3S3 | ESP32 | 433/868/915 Mhz / 2.4 GHz | no | no | https://a.aliexpress.com/_opRiKMR | | T-Beam v1.1 | ESP32 | 433/868/915/923 Mhz | has batt slot | yes | https://a.aliexpress.com/_oneeH43 | | T-Watch S3 | ESP32 | 433/868/915 Mhz | yes | no | https://a.aliexpress.com/_olkXkLlData | | T-Deck | ESP32 | 433/868/915 Mhz | yes | no | https://a.aliexpress.com/_olkXkLlData | | T-Echo | nRF52840 | 433/868/915 Mhz | yes | yes | https://a.aliexpress.com/_olkXkLlData |

คุณสมบัติสำคัญที่ควรพิจารณาเป็นหลักในการเลือกอุปกรณ์เลยคือความถี่คลื่นวิทยุ (radio frequency) ครับ เพราะการเลือกความถี่สำหรับใช้งานกับ Meshtastic นั้นขึ้นอยู่กับหลายปัจจัย เช่น กฎระเบียบในประเทศ, ระยะทางที่ต้องการสื่อสาร, และความหนาแน่นของสัญญาณในพื้นที่นั้นๆ อุปกรณ์ LoRa ทำงานที่ความถี่ต่างกันในแต่ละภูมิภาค ตามกฎระเบียบในแต่ละประเทศ เช่น สหรัฐอเมริกาใช้คลื่น 915 MHz, ยุโรปใช้ 868 MHz สำหรับประเทศไทยความถี่ที่ได้รับอนุญาตและไม่มีข้อจำกัดในการใช้งานมีดังนี้ครับ: * 433 MHz: ความถี่นี้เป็นที่นิยมใช้ในหลายประเทศรวมถึงในยุโรปสำหรับอุปกรณ์ที่ใช้พลังงานต่ำและไม่ต้องขอใบอนุญาต (LPWAN) เหมาะสำหรับการใช้งานส่งสัญญานได้ไกลเพราะความยาวคลื่นยาวที่สุดในบรรดาตัวเลือกทั้งหมด * 923 MHz: ความถี่นี้ใช้ได้ในหลายประเทศในเอเชีย รวมถึงประเทศไทยที่อนุญาตให้ใช้อุปกรณ์ IoT ที่สื่อสารระยะไกลอย่าง LoRa ได้รับอนุญาตให้สามารถส่งสัญญาณได้ด้วยกำลังงาน (50mW) ที่สูงกว่าคลื่น 433 MHz (10mW) ถือว่าเป็นความถี่ที่เหมาะสำหรับการใช้งานในไทย * 2.4 GHz: เป็นความถี่ที่ใช้กันทั่วโลก และนิยมใช้กับอุปกรณ์หลายประเภท เช่น Wi-Fi และ Bluetooth ความถี่นี้สามารถใช้ในทั่วโลกได้อย่างเสรี แต่มีระยะการส่งสัญญาณที่สั้นกว่าและไม่ค่อยทะลุทะลวงสิ่งกีดขวางได้ดีนัก เหมาะกับพื้นที่ในเมือง

ส่วนตัวผมเลือกใช้ความถี่ 433 MHz เพราะมันทะลุทะลวงสิ่งกีดขวางได้ดี เหมาะกับการใช้งานในพื้นที่ที่มีสิ่งกีดขวางเยอะ เช่น ป่าเขา และช่วยให้การสื่อสารครอบคลุมระยะทางไกลโดยไม่ต้องพึ่งอินเทอร์เน็ตครับ

2. ประกอบอุปกรณ์

เมื่ออุปกรณ์มาถึง ก็จัดการประกอบเลย! อย่าลืมต่อเสาอากาศและแบตเตอรี่ (ถ้ามี) ให้เรียบร้อยก่อนเปิดเครื่องล่ะ ถ้ารุ่นที่ไม่มีแบตก็ต้องหา power bank อแดปเตอร์จ่ายไฟไว้ให้พร้อมครับ

3. Flash Firmware

ต่อไปก็มาลงเฟิร์มแวร์ล่าสุดให้กับอุปกรณ์ของคุณ โดยใช้เครื่องมือ Meshtastic Flasher ซึ่งแนะนำให้ใช้ผ่านเบราว์เซอร์ Chrome จะดีที่สุด ภายในเว็บให้เลือกอุปกรณ์ตามรุ่นที่เราซื้อมา เลือกเวอร์ชันของ firmware เป็นล่าสุด แล้วกด flash ได้เลยครับ

4. ติดตั้งแอป Meshtastic

จากนั้นก็ดาวน์โหลดแอป Meshtastic มาลงบนมือถือของคุณได้เลย iPhone: https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/apple/installation/ Android: https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/android/installation/

หลังจากนั้นเชื่อมต่อกับอุปกรณ์ เปิดแอป Meshtastic แล้วเชื่อมต่ออุปกรณ์ LoRa กับมือถือผ่าน Bluetooth ด้วยการกดที่เครื่องหมาย + ที่ขวาล่างในหน้า setting ดังรูป แอปจะทำการค้นหาและเชื่อมต่ออุปกรณ์ ให้ทำการกรอกหมายเลขตามที่ปรากฏบนหน้าจอของอุปกรณ์ lora

5. ปรับแต่งการตั้งค่า

เข้าไปตั้งค่าในแอป เลือกภูมิภาคตามความถี่ของอุปกรณ์ที่เราซื้อมาครับ ยกตัวอย่างเช่น * ความถี่ 433 MHz ให้เลือก EU_433 * ความถี่ 923 MHz ให้เลือก TH * ความถี่ 2.4 GHz ให้เลือก LORA_24

หลังจากนั้นตั้งชื่ออุปกรณ์ให้เท่ ๆ และปรับแต่งค่าอื่น ๆ ได้ตามใจชอบ

6. ทดสอบส่งข้อความ

ลองส่งข้อความทดสอบไปที่ช่องแชทสาธารณะ "LongFast" ดู แล้วรอคำตอบจากเพื่อน ๆ ในเครือข่าย

7. สนุกกับการสื่อสารแบบไร้ศูนย์กลาง

เมื่อทุกอย่างพร้อมแล้ว ก็เริ่มใช้ Meshtastic ได้เลยครับ ลองสำรวจฟังก์ชันต่าง ๆ และสนุกไปกับการแชทส่วนตัวแบบไม่ต้องพึ่งพาเครือข่ายอินเทอร์เน็ตกันเลยครับ

สรุปส่งท้าย

Meshtastic เป็นโซลูชันการสื่อสารที่ดีและประหยัดสุด ๆ เหมาะกับการใช้ในพื้นที่ที่ไม่มีสัญญาณโทรศัพท์หรืออินเทอร์เน็ต เพราะมันทำงานได้โดยไม่ต้องพึ่งพาโครงสร้างพื้นฐานของเครือข่ายที่รัฐควบคุม เพื่อน ๆ สามารถใช้ Meshtastic ได้อย่างอิสระ ใครได้ลองกันแล้วเป็นยังไงก็อย่าลืมทักกันเข้ามานะครับ จะ DM ผ่าน meshtatic นี้หรือ nostr ก็ได้ หากเพื่อน ๆ มีข้อสงสัยหรือติดปัญหาอะไรก็ทักมาถามกันได้ ไว้พบกันใหม่นะครับ :)

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2024-09-22 12:07:13
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” — Buckminster Fuller

So many new events are popping up!

Cyphermunk House is hosting many of the upcoming events, and I was lucky enough to visit for the first time last night, for an event entitled 'Be Your Own Bank'.

Cyphermunk House is an amazing venue with great energy, and yesterday's event was a big success. There were three talks throughout the day, with plenty of time in between for conversations with fellow attendees. The final talk was with former MP Steve Baker, and even though I'm not a big fan of politicians, if he were running the country, we'd probably be better off. The guy's a stone-cold, sound-money, Misesian. Hopefully, he'll return to parliament to instill some much-needed wisdom.

Anyway, that was last night, and today's newsletter (as usual) is all about what's happening next week.

Let's dive in...

Upcoming Bitcoin Meetups

Happening this week...
1. Bitcoin Nottingham: The September Bitcoin Nottingham Meetup date for your diary is Tuesday the 24th at 6:30 PM at Carlton Town Football Club.
2. Leamington Spa: Meetups on the last Tuesday of each month at 7 PM. You'll find them this month at the White Horse, CV32 5PZ on the 24th.
3. Brighton Bitcoin: Building a bitcoin community in the Brighton & Hove area. A regular informal meetup happens every last Wednesday of the month. This month on Wednesday the 25th at 7:30 PM. Join their Telegram group for more info.
4. Bitcoin Racing - High Octane, Thrill-Seeker's Networking Experience: Buckle up for an adrenaline-pumping event on September 26th that combines high-octane thrills with valuable business connections. Experience the track: Enjoy exhilarating passenger rides alongside Chris Mackenzie in their powerful JCW MINI. Expand your network: Connect with like-minded individuals and industry leaders. It's an all-day event, 9 AM to 5 PM. Check out the link for tickets and pricing.
5. Manchester Bitcoin: On the 26th it’s the Manchester monthly meetup. Join them at The Smithfield Market Tavern, at 7 PM.
6. Penzance Bitcoin: Will be at The Dolphin Tavern on Quay Street on Thursday 26th at 8 PM.
7. Bitcoin Walk - Edinburgh**: Every Saturday they walk around Arthur's Seat in this historic city. Join them at 12 PM to chat about all things Bitcoin and keep fit.
8. Real Bedford/Southampton Meetup: I've been featuring this one for the last few weeks in the event section and the day has finally arrived. The Southampton Satoshi Society is making the pilgrimage to Real Bedford for their game against Ware on the 28th. Before the match, there will be a panel discussion at 12 PM featuring Peter McCormack, James Dewar, and myself. After the game, we'll head into Bedford for a meal and wrap up with drinks at Peter's bar, The Auction Room.
9. Bitcoin East: Join Bitcoin East in Halesworth on Sunday 29th, 11 AM at The Wissett Plough. All welcome, Bitcoiners and anyone else curious about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is accepted at the pub.
New Businesses Accepting Bitcoin
- The Bike Shop: Based in Watford, Hertfordshire, and now accepting Bitcoin. Get your bike repaired, serviced, or buy a new one. They also offer fully serviced second-hand bikes for sale. Visit them at 66 Queens Road, Watford, Herts, WD17 2LA.
- Offman (2010) Ltd: aka the Office Manager, is a Payroll Bureau in Sussex now accepting bitcoin payments. They specialise in payroll services and you can contact them via email.
Upcoming Special Events

These events aren’t happening next week, but they’re important to add to your calendar now as tickets are selling fast.
- Bitcoin Meetup with Roger Huang, Bitcoin Magazine and Forbes: Roger Huang author of 'Would Mao Hold Bitcoin?' will be hosting a meetup at Cyphermunk House for a presentation and a book signing on Monday the 7th of October.
- Bitcoin Whitepaper Party: Celebrate Bitcoin’s 16th birthday on Bitcoin Whitepaper Day at the Dockside Vaults this Halloween. Currently, you can buy two tickets for £28.68 as an early bird deal, the regular price is £21.40 for a single ticket. Get involved with the chocolate-making workshop with Roger9000. Enjoy a performance by Roger9000 and DJ sets from MadMunky, itsTOMEKK, and ZAZAWOWOW. The party kicks off at 19:30. Bitcoin is accepted at the venue, and you can also pay for tickets with Bitcoin here.
Get Involved
- Volunteer Opportunities: Bridge2Bitcoin is actively seeking volunteers who share our passion for merchant adoption. We'd be delighted to connect if you're eager to contribute. Reach out to us on Twitter or through our website.
- Start Your Own Meetup: Interested in launching a Bitcoin meetup? We’re here to support you every step of the way. We’ve assisted numerous UK Bitcoin meetups in getting started. Get in touch via Twitter.
- Telegram users: You might find our Telegram Channel another useful way to keep up-to-date with UK meetups.
- Feedback and Suggestions: We value your input! Share your ideas on how we can enhance this newsletter.
Get out and support the meetups where you can, visit Bitcoin Events UK for more info on each meetup and to find your closest on the interactive map.

Stay tuned for more updates next week!

Simon.
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2024-07-20 08:28:00

Tento rok vás čaká workshop na tému "oranžové leto" s Jurajom Bednárom a Mariannou Sádeckou. Dozviete sa ako mení naše vnímanie skúsenosť s Bitcoinom, ako sa navigovať v dnešnom svete a odstrániť mentálnu hmlu spôsobenú fiat životom.

Na workshop je potrebný extra lístok (môžete si ho dokúpiť aj na mieste).

Pre viac informácií o oranžovom lete odporúčame pred workshopom vypočuťi si podcast na túto tému.

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@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-06-13 15:40:18
Why relay hints are important

Recently Coracle has removed support for following relay hints in Nostr event references.

Supposedly Coracle is now relying only on public key hints and kind:10002 events to determine where to fetch events from a user. That is a catastrophic idea that destroys much of Nostr's flexibility for no gain at all.
- Someone makes a post inside a community (either a NIP-29 community or a NIP-87 community) and others want to refer to that post in discussions in the external Nostr world of kind:1s -- now that cannot work because the person who created the post doesn't have the relays specific to those communities in their outbox list;
- There is a discussion happening in a niche relay, for example, a relay that can only be accessed by the participants of a conference for the duration of that conference -- since that relay is not in anyone's public outbox list, it's impossible for anyone outside of the conference to ever refer to these events;
- Some big public relays, say, relay.damus.io, decide to nuke their databases or periodically delete old events, a user keeps using that big relay as their outbox because it is fast and reliable, but chooses to archive their old events in a dedicated archival relay, say, cellar.nostr.wine, while prudently not including that in their outbox list because that would make no sense -- now it is impossible for anyone to refer to old notes from this user even though they are publicly accessible in cellar.nostr.wine;
- There are topical relays that curate content relating to niche (non-microblogging) topics, say, cooking recipes, and users choose to publish their recipes to these relays only -- but now they can't refer to these relays in the external Nostr world of kind:1s because these topical relays are not in their outbox lists.
- Suppose a user wants to maintain two different identities under the same keypair, say, one identity only talks about soccer in English, while the other only talks about art history in French, and the user very prudently keeps two different kind:10002 events in two different sets of "indexer" relays (or does it in some better way of announcing different relay sets) -- now one of this user's audiences cannot ever see notes created by him with their other persona, one half of the content of this user will be inacessible to the other half and vice-versa.
- If for any reason a relay does not want to accept events of a certain kind a user may publish to other relays, and it would all work fine if the user referenced that externally-published event from a normal event, but now that externally-published event is not reachable because the external relay is not in the user's outbox list.
- If someone, say, Alex Jones, is hard-banned everywhere and cannot event broadcast kind:10002 events to any of the commonly used index relays, that person will now appear as banned in most clients: in an ideal world in which clients followed nprofile and other relay hints Alex Jones could still live a normal Nostr life: he would print business cards with his nprofile instead of an npub and clients would immediately know from what relay to fetch his posts. When other users shared his posts or replied to it, they would include a relay hint to his personal relay and others would be able to see and then start following him on that relay directly -- now Alex Jones's events cannot be read by anyone that doesn't already know his relay.
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2024-06-12 15:26:56
How to do curation and businesses on Nostr

Suppose you want to start a Nostr business.

You might be tempted to make a closed platform that reuses Nostr identities and grabs (some) content from the external Nostr network, only to imprison it inside your thing -- and then you're going to run an amazing AI-powered algorithm on that content and "surface" only the best stuff and people will flock to your app.

This will be specially good if you're going after one of the many unexplored niches of Nostr in which reading immediately from people you know doesn't work as you generally want to discover new things from the outer world, such as:
- food recipe sharing;
- sharing of long articles about varying topics;
- markets for used goods;
- freelancer work and job offers;
- specific in-game lobbies and matchmaking;
- directories of accredited professionals;
- sharing of original music, drawings and other artistic creations;
- restaurant recommendations
- and so on.
But that is not the correct approach and damages the freedom and interoperability of Nostr, posing a centralization threat to the protocol. Even if it "works" and your business is incredibly successful it will just enshrine you as the head of a platform that controls users and thus is prone to all the bad things that happen to all these platforms. Your company will start to display ads and shape the public discourse, you'll need a big legal team, the FBI will talk to you, advertisers will play a big role and so on.

If you are interested in Nostr today that must be because you appreciate the fact that it is not owned by any companies, so it's safe to assume you don't want to be that company that owns it. So what should you do instead? Here's an idea in two steps:
1. Write a Nostr client tailored to the niche you want to cover
If it's a music sharing thing, then the client will have a way to play the audio and so on; if it's a restaurant sharing it will have maps with the locations of the restaurants or whatever, you get the idea. Hopefully there will be a NIP or a NUD specifying how to create and interact with events relating to this niche, or you will write or contribute with the creation of one, because without interoperability none of this matters much.

The client should work independently of any special backend requirements and ideally be open-source. It should have a way for users to configure to which relays they want to connect to see "global" content -- i.e., they might want to connect to wss://nostr.chrysalisrecords.com/ to see only the latest music releases accredited by that label or to wss://nostr.indiemusic.com/ to get music from independent producers from that community.
1. Run a relay that does all the magic
This is where your value-adding capabilities come into play: if you have that magic sauce you should be able to apply it here. Your service, let's call it wss://magicsaucemusic.com/, will charge people or do some KYM (know your music) validation or use some very advanced AI sorcery to filter out the spam and the garbage and display the best content to your users who will request the global feed from it (["REQ", "_", {}]), and this will cause people to want to publish to your relay while others will want to read from it.

You set your relay as the default option in the client and let things happen. Your relay is like your "website" and people are free to connect to it or not. You don't own the network, you're just competing against other websites on a leveled playing field, so you're not responsible for it. Users get seamless browsing across multiple websites, unified identities, a unified interface (that could be different in a different client) and social interaction capabilities that work in the same way for all, and they do not depend on you, therefore they're more likely to trust you.

Does this centralize the network still? But this a simple and easy way to go about the matter and scales well in all aspects.

Besides allowing users to connect to specific relays for getting a feed of curated content, such clients should also do all kinds of "social" (i.e. following, commenting etc) activities (if they choose to do that) using the outbox model -- i.e. if I find a musician I like under wss://magicsaucemusic.com and I decide to follow them I should keep getting updates from them even if they get banned from that relay and start publishing on wss://nos.lol or wss://relay.damus.io or whatever relay that doesn't even know what music is.

The hardcoded defaults and manual typing of relay URLs can be annoying. But I think it works well at the current stage of Nostr development. Soon, though, we can create events that recommend other relays or share relay lists specific to each kind of activity so users can get in-app suggestions of relays their friends are using to get their music from and so on. That kind of stuff can go a long way.
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2023-07-30 00:35:01

Test Bounty Note

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@ 8fb140b4:f948000c
2023-07-22 09:39:48
Intro

This short tutorial will help you set up your own Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) on your own LND Node that is not using Umbrel. If you are a user of Umbrel, you should use their version of NWC.

Requirements

You need to have a working installation of LND with established channels and connectivity to the internet. NWC in itself is fairly light and will not consume a lot of resources. You will also want to ensure that you have a working installation of Docker, since we will use a docker image to run NWC.
- Working installation of LND (and all of its required components)
- Docker (with Docker compose)
Installation

For the purpose of this tutorial, we will assume that you have your lnd/bitcoind running under user bitcoin with home directory /home/bitcoin. We will also assume that you already have a running installation of Docker (or docker.io).

Prepare and verify

git version - we will need git to get the latest version of NWC. docker version - should execute successfully and show the currently installed version of Docker. docker compose version - same as before, but the version will be different. ss -tupln | grep 10009- should produce the following output: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 0.0.0.0:10009 0.0.0.0: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 [::]:10009 [::]:**

For things to work correctly, your Docker should be version 20.10.0 or later. If you have an older version, consider installing a new one using instructions here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

Create folders & download NWC

In the home directory of your LND/bitcoind user, create a new folder, e.g., "nwc" mkdir /home/bitcoin/nwc. Change to that directory cd /home/bitcoin/nwc and clone the NWC repository: git clone https://github.com/getAlby/nostr-wallet-connect.git

Creating the Docker image

In this step, we will create a Docker image that you will use to run NWC.
- Change directory to nostr-wallet-connect: cd nostr-wallet-connect
- Run command to build Docker image: docker build -t nwc:$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M') -t nwc:latest . (there is a dot at the end)
- The last line of the output (after a few minutes) should look like => => naming to docker.io/library/nwc:latest
- nwc:latest is the name of the Docker image with a tag which you should note for use later.
Creating docker-compose.yml and necessary data directories
- Let's create a directory that will hold your non-volatile data (DB): mkdir data
- Indocker-compose.ymlfile, there are fields that you want to replace (<> comments) and port “4321” that you want to make sure is open (check with ss -tupln | grep 4321which should return nothing).
- Create docker-compose.ymlfile with the following content, and make sure to update fields that have <> comment:
version: "3.8" services: nwc: image: nwc:latest volumes: - ./data:/data - ~/.lnd:/lnd:ro ports: - "4321:8080" extra_hosts: - "localhost:host-gateway" environment: NOSTR_PRIVKEY: <use "openssl rand -hex 32" to generate a fresh key and place it inside ""> LN_BACKEND_TYPE: "LND" LND_ADDRESS: localhost:10009 LND_CERT_FILE: "/lnd/tls.cert" LND_MACAROON_FILE: "/lnd/data/chain/bitcoin/mainnet/admin.macaroon" DATABASE_URI: "/data/nostr-wallet-connect.db" COOKIE_SECRET: <use "openssl rand -hex 32" to generate fresh secret and place it inside ""> PORT: 8080 restart: always stop_grace_period: 1m

Starting and testing

Now that you have everything ready, it is time to start the container and test.
- While you are in the nwcdirectory (important), execute the following command and check the log output, docker compose up
- You should see container logs while it is starting, and it should not exit if everything went well.
- At this point, you should be able to go to http://<ip of the host where nwc is running>:4321 and get to the interface of NWC
- To stop the test run of NWC, simply press Ctrl-C , and it will shut the container down.
- To start NWC permanently, you should execute docker compose up -d , “-d” tells Docker to detach from the session.
- To check currently running NWC logs, execute docker compose logs to run it in tail mode add -f to the end.
- To stop the container, execute docker compose down
That's all, just follow the instructions in the web interface to get started.

Updating

As with any software, you should expect fixes and updates that you would need to perform periodically. You could automate this, but it falls outside of the scope of this tutorial. Since we already have all of the necessary configuration in place, the update execution is fairly simple.
- Change directory to the clone of the git repository, cd /home/bitcoin/nwc/nostr-wallet-connect
- Run command to build Docker image: docker build -t nwc:$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M') -t nwc:latest . (there is a dot at the end)
- Change directory back one level cd ..
- Restart (stop and start) the docker compose config docker compose down && docker compose up -d
- Done! Optionally you may want to check the logs: docker compose logs
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2024-05-24 12:31:40

About Nostr, email and subscriptions

I check my emails like once or twice a week, always when I am looking for something specific in there.

Then I go there and I see a bunch of other stuff I had no idea I was missing. Even many things I wish I had seen before actually. And sometimes people just expect and assume I would have checked emails instantly as they arrived.

It's so weird because I'm not making a point, I just don't remember to open the damn "gmail.com" URL.

I remember some people were making some a Nostr service a while ago that sent a DM to people with Nostr articles inside -- or some other forms of "subscription services on Nostr". It makes no sense at all.

Pulling in DMs from relays is exactly the same process (actually slightly more convoluted) than pulling normal public events, so why would a service assume that "sending a DM" was more likely to reach the target subscriber when the target had explicitly subscribed to that topic or writer?

Maybe due to how some specific clients work that is true, but fundamentally it is a very broken assumption that comes from some fantastic past era in which emails were 100% always seen and there was no way for anyone to subscribe to someone else's posts.

Building around such broken assumptions is the wrong approach. Instead we should be building new flows for subscribing to specific content from specific Nostr-native sources (creators directly or manual or automated curation providers, communities, relays etc), which is essentially what most clients are already doing anyway, but specifically Coracle's new custom feeds come to mind now.

This also reminds me of the interviewer asking the Farcaster creator if Farcaster made "email addresses available to content creators" completely ignoring all the cryptography and nature of the protocol (Farcaster is shit, but at least they tried, and in this example you could imagine the interviewer asking the same thing about Nostr).

I imagine that if the interviewer had asked these people who were working (or suggesting) the Nostr DM subscription flow they would have answered: "no, you don't get their email addresses, but you can send them uncensorable DMs!" -- and that, again, is getting everything backwards.

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2024-08-26 01:13:49
Chef's notes

Allow meat to soak for 1-24 hours. The rougher the cut, the longer the soak. This is great for open flame grilling, as well as pan seared, though the latter is preferable. Petit Sirloin can marinade for approximately 1 hour and still develop tenderness. I like to score the steaks if they will only be resting in the mix for a short time. All seasonings can be adjusted to taste. Base ingredients scale well, for any number of steaks. Equal parts, enough to coat the meat is really all that matters.

I'm terrible at remembering cooking pictures, so image is a random steak. I will try to remember to update that next time I make these.

Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 10
- 🍳 Cook time: However long you usually cook your steak to preferred doneness
Ingredients
- 4 petite sirloin steaks or other cut
- 1/4 cup yellow mustard
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 3-5 cloves garlic, depending on size, minced and salted
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1\2 tsp crushed red pepper
Directions
1. Mix ingredients and marinade 1-24 hours.
2. Grill or pan sear to your preferred doneness
3. Enjoy!
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@ b12b632c:d9e1ff79
2023-07-20 20:12:39
Self hosting web applications comes quickly with the need to deal with HTTPS protocol and SSL certificates. The time where web applications was published over the 80/TCP port without any encryption is totally over. Now we have Let's Encrypt and other free certification authority that lets us play web applications with, at least, the basic minimum security required.

Second part of web self hosting stuff that is really useful is the web proxifycation.

It's possible to have multiple web applications accessible through HTTPS but as we can't use the some port (spoiler: we can) we are forced to have ugly URL as https://mybeautifudomain.tld:8443.

This is where Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) comes to help us.

NPM, as gateway, will listen on the 443 https port and based on the subdomain you want to reach, it will redirect the network flow to the NPM differents declared backend ports. NPM will also request HTTPS cert for you and let you know when the certificate expires, really useful.

We'll now install NPM with docker compose (v2) and you'll see, it's very easy.

You can find the official NPM setup instructions here.

But before we absolutely need to do something. You need to connect to the registrar where you bought your domain name and go into the zone DNS section.You have to create a A record poing to your VPS IP. That will allow NPM to request SSL certificates for your domain and subdomains.

Create a new folder for the NPM docker stack :

mkdir npm-stack && cd npm-stack

Create a new docker-compose.yml :

nano docker-compose.yml

Paste this content into it (CTRL + X ; Y & ENTER to save/quit) :

``` version: '3.8' services: app: image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest' restart: unless-stopped ports: # These ports are in format : - '80:80' # Public HTTP Port - '443:443' # Public HTTPS Port - '81:81' # Admin Web Port # Add any other Stream port you want to expose # - '21:21' # FTP
```
# Uncomment the next line if you uncomment anything in the section
# environment:
  # Uncomment this if you want to change the location of
  # the SQLite DB file within the container
  # DB_SQLITE_FILE: "/data/database.sqlite"

  # Uncomment this if IPv6 is not enabled on your host
  # DISABLE_IPV6: 'true'

volumes:
  - ./nginxproxymanager/data:/data
  - ./nginxproxymanager/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt
```
```

You'll not believe but it's done. NPM docker compose configuration is done.

To start Nginx Proxy Manager with docker compose, you just have to :

docker compose up -d

You'll see :

user@vps:~/tutorials/npm-stack$ docker compose up -d [+] Running 2/2 ✔ Network npm-stack_default Created ✔ Container npm-stack-app-1 Started

You can check if NPM container is started by doing this command :

docker ps

You'll see :

user@vps:~/tutorials/npm-stack$ docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 7bc5ea8ac9c8 jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest "/init" About a minute ago Up About a minute 0.0.0.0:80-81->80-81/tcp, :::80-81->80-81/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, :::443->443/tcp npm-stack-app-1

If the command show "Up X minutes" for the npm-stack-app-1, you're good to go! You can access to the NPM admin UI by going to http://YourIPAddress:81.You shoud see :

The default NPM login/password are : admin@example.com/changeme .If the login succeed, you should see a popup asking to edit your user by changing your email password : And your password : Click on "Save" to finish the login. To verify if NPM is able to request SSL certificates for you, create first a subdomain for the NPM admin UI : Click on "Hosts" and "Proxy Hosts" : Followed by "Add Proxy Host" If you want to access the NPM admin UI with https://admin.yourdomain.tld, please set all the parameters like this (I won't explain each parameters) :

Details tab : SSL tab : And click on "Save".

NPM will request the SSL certificate "admin.yourdomain.tld" for you.

If you have an erreor message "Internal Error" it's probably because your domaine DNS zone is not configured with an A DNS record pointing to your VPS IP.

Otherwise you should see (my domain is hidden) :

Clicking on the "Source" URL link "admin.yourdomain.tld" will open a pop-up and, surprise, you should see the NPM admin UI with the URL "https://admin.yourdomain.tld" !

If yes, bravo, everything is OK ! 🎇

You know now how to have a subdomain of your domain redirecting to a container web app. In the next blog post, you'll see how to setup a Nostr relay with NPM ;)

Voilààààà

See you soon in another Fractalized story!
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2024-09-22 11:55:42
I've been banging this drum for almost a decade: stop using Telegram. Seriously, folks, it's high time we faced the facts about this so-called "secure" messaging app. Just the other day, someone told me my name was mentioned in the Cypherpunks Brasil Telegram group. My immediate reaction? "First of all, stop using Telegram!"

Back in December 2015—yeah, nearly ten years ago—I tweeted about the anonymity issues with Telegram. I shared an article highlighting four security flaws found by experts. The gist? Telegram's supposed privacy features were nothing more than smoke and mirrors.

Fast forward to 2021, and I was still at it. When WhatsApp updated its privacy policy, people flocked to Telegram as a safer alternative. I couldn't help but point out that Signal is infinitely superior to Telegram in terms of security. Telegram doesn't use end-to-end encryption by default, stores all your messages and files, and has possible agreements with governments to avoid legal troubles.

I even found an old post where we did a proof of concept. We proved that even if you delete a message or set it to self-destruct before it's read, it's still possible to recover the content later. Translation: everything is stored. In 2022, when Brazil temporarily banned Telegram, I noted that it aligned us with countries known for heavy censorship like China and Iran. The ban didn't last, of course. Telegram likely made some concessions to keep operating, possibly sharing data with the government.

Now, let's talk about that Wired article from earlier this year, titled "The Kremlin Has Entered the Chat". It's a must-read. It tells the story of activists in Russia who were arrested, and their private Telegram messages were already in the hands of authorities—even before their devices could be searched. One activist noted, "They already knew everything I was saying. There wasn't enough time for them to scan my phone. They had the information beforehand."

How is this possible? The article delves into the history of Telegram, including how founder Pavel Durov and his brother initially wanted to create a platform for free communication. Noble intentions, perhaps, but somewhere along the line, things went awry.

Telegram's group messages are accessible through an open API. You can retrieve information from any group, including all participants and messages, without even being a member. Yes, you read that right. You don't need to be in a group to extract all its messages. I'll even show you how.

There are scripts and tools—like Telethon and Telepathy—that allow you to automate data collection from public channels and groups. With a few lines of code, you can pull messages, media, documents—everything. There's an article on Medium that walks you through how to do this step by step. It's that easy.

But wait, there's more. You can geolocate users. There's a tool called Telepathy that lets you find Telegram users nearby. It leverages the app's "People Nearby" feature, which is enabled by default. This means anyone can find out who's using Telegram around them, down to a few meters. Think about the privacy implications of that.

Recently, Pavel Durov announced that he's disabling the personal geolocation feature on Telegram. According to a Cointelegraph article, Durov acknowledged that security researchers had found a way to use this feature to triangulate a user's exact location. So, he decided to disable it to protect user privacy.

But is that enough? Disabling one feature doesn't address the fundamental issues with Telegram's architecture. The app doesn't use end-to-end encryption by default, and group chats are not encrypted at all. Everything is stored on Telegram's servers, which could be accessed by governments or malicious actors.

Remember, the founder's reemergence has sparked debates in the crypto community. As reported by Decrypt, some see Durov as a champion of privacy, while others are skeptical of his motives and Telegram's security practices.

In the Wired article, they also discuss how Telegram was banned in Russia at one point, only to be unbanned after possible agreements were made. The speculation is that Durov may have struck a deal with the Kremlin to provide access to user data in exchange for the app's continued operation in Russia.

And let's not forget the investors behind Telegram. The article mentions that Russian entities have funneled money into Telegram. So, when Durov flies from Azerbaijan to France—where he has legal issues—you have to wonder what's really going on behind the scenes.

So, what can you do? Stop using Telegram. There are better alternatives out there. Signal is infinitely superior when it comes to security. It uses end-to-end encryption by default and doesn't store your data. There's also Session and SimpleX, which don't even require a phone number to use.

Another promising platform is Veilid, developed by the Cult of the Dead Cow—the same group that coined the term "hacktivism" and has been pioneering digital privacy since the '80s. Valet uses strong encryption and decentralization to protect your communications.

And let's not forget about Element, which operates on the Matrix protocol. It's decentralized and offers end-to-end encryption, making it another solid choice for secure messaging.

In conclusion, Telegram is not the privacy-focused app it claims to be. Its architecture and business practices raise serious concerns about user privacy and data security. With so many better alternatives available, there's no reason to keep using Telegram.

I've been saying this for years, and the evidence keeps piling up. So, please, for your own sake, stop using Telegram. Switch to a platform that genuinely respects your privacy and keeps your data secure.

Technical Considerations When Choosing a Messaging Platform

When evaluating messaging apps, it is essential to consider the following technical aspects:
1. End-to-End Encryption by Default: Ensures that only the participants in the conversation can read the messages.
2. Open Source: Allows the community to review the source code for vulnerabilities or backdoors.
3. Metadata Collection: Minimizing or eliminating metadata collection reduces the risk of user profiling.
4. Decentralization: Reduces single points of failure or control, increasing resistance to censorship and surveillance.
5. Registration Requirements: Avoiding the need to provide personal information, such as phone numbers or emails, enhances anonymity.
Practical Recommendations for Users
1. Disable Geolocation Features: As advised by Pavel Durov, disable "People Nearby" to prevent unwanted tracking.
2. Use Secret Chats: If you continue to use Telegram, always use "secret chat" for sensitive conversations, and
3. Never, ever store sensitive information like passwords or private keys in your Saved Messages.
4. Keep the App Updated: Updates often contain critical security fixes.
5. Explore Secure Alternatives: Consider migrating to apps like Signal, Session, or SimpleX for communications requiring a high level of privacy.
6. Continuous Education: Stay informed about best practices in digital security and be aware of emerging threats.
References:
Alternative Messaging Apps:
- Signal: End-to-end encryption by default, open-source, and highly respected in the security community.
- Session: No phone number required, uses blockchain technology for decentralization.
- SimpleX: Doesn't require personal identifiers, focuses on strong privacy.
- Veilid: Developed by Cult of the Dead Cow, emphasizes privacy and security.
- Element: Based on the Matrix protocol, decentralized, and offers end-to-end encryption.
Final Thoughts:

Privacy isn't just a buzzword; it's a fundamental right. Don't be lulled into a false sense of security by apps that claim to protect you but do the opposite. Do your research, choose wisely, and take control of your digital life.
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2024-08-25 09:17:54

A Ux designer has arrived on Nostr. I thought run away while you can. He could get rich, if there was a little economy.

Klout, do you remember that service, which took data from Twitter and made a ~~ WoT~~.

From a note of chip, I understood one thing:

Bitcoin is your "sovereign" currency. Nostr is just third party protocol. If you have a service you can use Nostr to face your customers. "Sovereign" people offer services. They can be bitcoiners or not. So at this stage Nostr is a layer 3 Bitcoin.

So to grow the enveiroment it must be attractive. Let's paraphrase: the protocol is agnostic, the people are fundamentalist Catholics.

So when an atheist person arrives he says ah ok, how do I silence these people and use the protocol If a Protestant Catholic arrives he is laughed at or ignored or at most converted.

I had a disagreement with Dergigi, in the end he won, but he is not right... (True)

Post more notes, zap more, follow 1000 people update FAQ to the nth degree. We are in the desert of the Tartars and the enemy is coming and there are those who say every day we must be ready, sooner or later, it will happen, ah ok. Everything must be perfect. Push harder. This leads to exhaustion.

New Grant from Opensat to Victor of Amethyst, totally deserved, pushed the envelope. If you are a grapheneos user download Amethyst. It's not just Amethyst it's also orbot, citrine, amber, zap store or obtainium or f-droid.

GitCitadel has raised its first fund I wonder if it was just a test on geyser, I wonder if it is the right project to do on nostrocket, but I think Opensat grant for nostrocket makes it irreconcilable. This opens a pandora's box, as always. We are silent as fish.

I tried not to answer some questions even in one case I knew the answer, I apologize, Nostr is much older than me, so it's okay not to answer sometimes. Tomorrow begins nostRiga, The last unconference of Nostr.

(First day) The morning was so-so, in the evening the situation improved a little. In the evening I played a bit with Nostr and it broke The second day good in the morning bad in the evening. I saw little of the backstage maybe only two panels, Will by Damus, and P2Phash on Nostr.

I don't follow anyone anymore, I did a little bit of a unfollow. I saw that two users had 200 followers in common, and I said to myself ah ok what is this thing, I have to understand how they do it there is something that doesn't work, let's try to be a little more distant.

It's weird, too much reliance on following, you have to go and look, not be stationary.

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2023-04-11 19:36:53
There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.

I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:
1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2. Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.
The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020. I no longer had hope of achieving any of it as a public company with no defense mechanisms (lack of dual-class shares being a key one). I planned my exit at that moment knowing I was no longer right for the company.

The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets). I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account. As I’ve said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society. Much more about this here: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690

I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time. Of course mistakes were made. But if we had focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us, and moved much faster towards absolute transparency, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation of needing a fresh reset (which I am supportive of). Again, I own all of this and our actions, and all I can do is work to make it right.

Back to the principles. Of course governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control.

I’m a strong believer that any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it. It should be always available and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not be possible. Doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity. There are significant issues with this stance of course, but starting with this principle will allow for far better solutions than we have today. The internet is trending towards a world were storage is “free” and infinite, which places all the actual value on how to discover and see content.

Which brings me to the last principle: moderation. I don’t believe a centralized system can do content moderation globally. It can only be done through ranking and relevance algorithms, the more localized the better. But instead of a company or government building and controlling these solely, people should be able to build and choose from algorithms that best match their criteria, or not have to use any at all. A “follow” action should always deliver every bit of content from the corresponding account, and the algorithms should be able to comb through everything else through a relevance lens that an individual determines. There’s a default “G-rated” algorithm, and then there’s everything else one can imagine.

The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not. This is by definition a single point of failure, no matter how great the person, and over time will fracture the public conversation, and may lead to more control by governments and corporations around the world.

I believe many companies can build a phenomenal business off an open protocol. For proof, look at both the web and email. The biggest problem with these models however is that the discovery mechanisms are far too proprietary and fixed instead of open or extendable. Companies can build many profitable services that complement rather than lock down how we access this massive collection of conversation. There is no need to own or host it themselves.

Many of you won’t trust this solution just because it’s me stating it. I get it, but that’s exactly the point. Trusting any one individual with this comes with compromises, not to mention being way too heavy a burden for the individual. It has to be something akin to what bitcoin has shown to be possible. If you want proof of this, get out of the US and European bubble of the bitcoin price fluctuations and learn how real people are using it for censorship resistance in Africa and Central/South America.

I do still wish for Twitter, and every company, to become uncomfortably transparent in all their actions, and I wish I forced more of that years ago. I do believe absolute transparency builds trust. As for the files, I wish they were released Wikileaks-style, with many more eyes and interpretations to consider. And along with that, commitments of transparency for present and future actions. I’m hopeful all of this will happen. There’s nothing to hide…only a lot to learn from. The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn’t solve anything. If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof.

As far as the free and open social media protocol goes, there are many competing projects: @bluesky is one with the AT Protocol, nostr another, Mastodon yet another, Matrix yet another…and there will be many more. One will have a chance at becoming a standard like HTTP or SMTP. This isn’t about a “decentralized Twitter.” This is a focused and urgent push for a foundational core technology standard to make social media a native part of the internet. I believe this is critical both to Twitter’s future, and the public conversation’s ability to truly serve the people, which helps hold governments and corporations accountable. And hopefully makes it all a lot more fun and informative again.

💸🛠️🌐 To accelerate open internet and protocol work, I’m going to open a new category of #startsmall grants: “open internet development.” It will start with a focus of giving cash and equity grants to engineering teams working on social media and private communication protocols, bitcoin, and a web-only mobile OS. I’ll make some grants next week, starting with $1mm/yr to Signal. Please let me know other great candidates for this money.
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