prev next Articles

@ 32e18276:5c68e245
2024-06-26 19:03:35
Here's a neat tip for figuring out exactly where your packet went during a traceroute. You can simply paste the output of traceroute into ChatGPT, asking where the packet actually went geographically.

The question

Here's the input I gave it:

``` can you get a sense of this route geographically ?
```
monad> tracepath nghttp2.org
```
1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway 0.445ms 1: _gateway 0.363ms 2: 24.86.64.1 11.495ms 3: rc1st-be118-1.vc.shawcable.net 8.924ms 4: 24.244.60.69 12.607ms asymm 3 5: 24.244.63.101 9.884ms asymm 3 6: rc1st-be214.vc.shawcable.net 11.561ms asymm 3 7: rc2wt-be50-1.wa.shawcable.net 14.402ms asymm 3 8: rc2wt-be50-1.wa.shawcable.net 14.334ms asymm 3 9: ge3-0.cr02.sea01.pccwbtn.net 13.858ms asymm 4 10: ge3-0.cr02.sea01.pccwbtn.net 13.936ms asymm 4 11: 63-216-84-226.static.pccwglobal.net 191.730ms asymm 8 12: ae1.r01.hkg03.icn.netarch.akamai.com 154.284ms asymm 9 13: ae1.r01.hkg03.icn.netarch.akamai.com 160.912ms asymm 9 14: ae7.r01.tyo03.icn.netarch.akamai.com 156.906ms asymm 9 15: a23-56-142-37.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com 189.058ms asymm 10 16: a23-56-142-37.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com 189.577ms asymm 10 ```

Response

Tracing the geographical path from your local host to nghttp2.org involves a series of hops that typically represent different network routers or devices. Let's break down the route step-by-step:
1. Localhost to Gateway:
2. This is your local network's gateway, indicating the first point of contact outside your computer.
3. 24.86.64.1:
4. This IP is likely the first hop within your Internet Service Provider's (ISP) network. Given the IP range, this looks like a Canadian IP address, possibly Vancouver (Shaw Communications).
5. rc1st-be118-1.vc.shawcable.net:
6. This indicates a Shaw Communications router, likely in Vancouver, British Columbia.
7. 24.244.60.69 and 24.244.63.101:
8. These are further hops within Shaw Communications' network, still in Vancouver.
9. rc1st-be214.vc.shawcable.net:
10. Another router in Vancouver within Shaw's network.
11. rc2wt-be50-1.wa.shawcable.net:
12. This hop seems to indicate a transition from Vancouver to Washington state in the USA.
13. rc2wt-be50-1.wa.shawcable.net:
14. This appears again, indicating it's a key router in Washington state, likely Seattle.
15. ge3-0.cr02.sea01.pccwbtn.net:
16. This shows the transition to PCCW Global's network, a major international telecommunications provider, in Seattle, Washington.
17. 63-216-84-226.static.pccwglobal.net:
18. Another hop within PCCW Global's network, possibly still in Seattle but preparing for a trans-Pacific jump.
19. ae1.r01.hkg03.icn.netarch.akamai.com:
  - This hop indicates a significant jump to Hong Kong, to an Akamai router. This suggests the use of Akamai's CDN (Content Delivery Network).
20. ae1.r01.hkg03.icn.netarch.akamai.com:
  - Another Akamai router in Hong Kong.
21. ae7.r01.tyo03.icn.netarch.akamai.com:
  - Transition from Hong Kong to Tokyo, Japan, within Akamai's network.
22. a23-56-142-37.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com:
  - The final destination is likely a server hosted by Akamai in Japan, which is hosting nghttp2.org.
In summary, the geographical path likely follows this route:
1. Vancouver, Canada (Shaw Communications)
2. Seattle, Washington, USA (Shaw Communications and PCCW Global)
3. Hong Kong (PCCW Global and Akamai)
4. Tokyo, Japan (Akamai)
This route involves both North American and Asia-Pacific regions, indicating a significant geographical spread typically seen in global internet routing.

Summary

This makes traceroute way more understandable. ChatGPT knows enough about the domains to give you a good sense of the geographical path. I will definitely be using this from now on, maybe someone can make a tool to do this automatically and format it nicely.

Obviously don't do this if you actually care about the privacy of your network paths, but I personally could care less so I don't mind feeding the AI overlords in this case.

Until next time!
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 32e18276:5c68e245
2024-07-05 18:28:20
Hey guys!

Here's our Q3-Q4 report. There was some confusion with the timing of the previous quarters so we've accumulated everything since the Q2 report (March 2nd, 2024) into this one. Enjoy!

Damus OpenSats Q3-Q4 Progress Report

The third and fourth quarter of the initial Damus OpenSats grant encompasses work done across many of the active projects being worked on at Damus HQ. Here's a quick overview of the progress made across the organization:

nostrdb

Added
- Author query support (William Casarin)
- REQ support: ndb_subscribe (William Casarin)
- CLOSE support: ndb_unsubscibe (William Casarin)
- Profile flatbuffer dump utility (William Casarin)
- Ability to register a subscription callback instead of just polling (William Casarin)
Changed
- Dump json in filter and fulltext queries in cli tool (William Casarin)
Stats

name added removed commits William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com> +665 -739 16

nostrdb-rust

Added
- Note builder interface (William Casarin)
- Nip10 implementation (William Casarin)
- Getting profile by key (William Casarin)
- Note tag support (William Casarin)
- Tag::into_iter method (Yuki Kishimoto)
- FilterBuilder::until method (Yuki Kishimoto)
- Export structs from tags module (Yuki Kishimoto)
Fixed
- FilterBuilder::limit method (Yuki Kishimoto)
- Note::sig method (Yuki Kishimoto)
Stats

Yuki Kishimoto <yukikishimoto@protonmail.com> +20 -4 5 William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com> +1551 -867 32

Damus NoteDeck/Android

This project is in heavy development and doesn't have clean changelogs yet, so here are all of the git logs from this period

Willam's updates
- account_manager: don't add the same pubkey more than once
- actionbar placeholder
- actionbar: remove border on reply button, add expand animation
- actionbar: support both dark and light buttons
- Add forward navigation animation
- add hover to profile map demo
- add --light lightmode flag to previews and notedeck
- add my pubkey to the timeline query for testing
- add test queries for elsat
- add vertical separators between timelines
- allow missing profiles in account switcher
- allow multiple invocations of --sec
- always have some default timeline
- app: make ndb public
- a quick note about the View trait
- args: allow filter files and raw filters on cli
- bump timeline filter limit
- cap size of remote filter limits
- change selection color to purple
- check: remove duplicate and disable wasm checks
- ci: disable wasm builds for now
- cli: add --sec argument to quickly add an account
- clippy postbox cleanups
- crates: add bitflags
- damus: make relay pool public
- darker quote reposts for mobile
- debug: add some debug logs for keyboard note selection
- deps: using tracing instead of log
- direnv: disable nix direnv on darwin
- direnv: make args explicit so its easy to change
- don't bump timeline when adding notes
- dont since-optimize when we don't have enough notes
- don't use an actual keystorage in Damus test apps
- drafts: clear post after posting
- enable nip10 replies
- enostr: rename Event to Note
- env: allow private things like secret keys
- filter: add default limit
- filters: fix hashtag filters
- filter: unify nostrdb and remote limits
- Fix all warnings
- fixed_window: fix clippy warning
- fix global query
- fix inline note preview colors
- fix light borders for quote reposts
- fix postbox design
- fix scroll area shrinking
- fix some clippy warnings
- fix until filters
- fix warnings
- fonts: always use base fonts for all families
- fun large profile grid preview
- get all missing ids from all timelines
- github: remove pages workflow
- gitignore: add perf files
- hide navigation title on global nav
- ids: find more unknown ids from inline notes
- images: add aspect_fill
- initial inline note previews
- initial navigation
- initial note posting
- initial postbox for testing
- initial post box view
- initial post reply view
- initial refactor in preparation for routing
- input: fix deadlock on resize
- input: handle raw events
- input: process input once
- input: switch to scanning over raw input events
- integrate sidebar into main view
- introduce View and Previews traits
- irc mode
- ircmode: tighten username
- keys: actually use the keystore
- lighter gray for inline previews in white mode
- list: switch from arc mutext to rc refcell
- load timelines from commandline
- log: reduce spammy new note log
- log relay subscriptions
- make notedeck front and center
- mobile: add lots of top padding on mobile
- mobile: a tad more padding at the top
- mobile: black panel bg color
- mobile: don't add hover on mobile
- mobile: make mobile flag runtime-configurable
- mobile: simplify is_mobile
- mobile: use my timeline for testing again
- move account_login_view to ui submodule
- move add_space to its correct location
- nip10: fetch unknown replied-to notes
- nip10: show initial reply information on notes
- nix: add openssl dep for reqwest
- nix: make android emulator optional
- nostrdb: bump to support timeline queries
- note: don't allow nested note previews
- note: support nprofile mentions
- perf: don't clone bytes via a more specialized function
- perf: fix continuous repaint
- perf: profiling note content rendering
- popup: increase fixed window margin
- popup: simplify borrow
- postbox: add focused state
- postbox: add focus shadow from figma
- post: full available width
- postview: add vertical scroll
- previews: remove central panel frame
- profile: add about and username to profile previews
- profiles: introduce DisplayNames
- profiling: update puffin version
- queries: add a few more test queries
- queries: set reasonable initial query sizes
- queries: update hashtags query
- readme: add usage
- readme: document previews
- readme: make it clear that its for desktop
- readme: make it clear that nix is optional for non-android dev
- readme: show notedeck preview
- refactor: move fixed_window to ui
- refactor: move note into its own widget
- refactor: rename widgets to ui
- refactor: use map instead of explicit if let
- remote: use default_remote_limit instead of hardcoding
- remove context from DesktopSidePanel
- remove minimum window size
- remove useless struct
- render_pfp: only depend on imgcache
- reset virtual list if notes are spliced into timeline
- set tooltip delay to 100ms
- side_panel: return more detailed side panel responses
- simplify is_mobile check
- simplify tab underline calculation
- since filter optimization
- slightly larger pfpfs
- small inline preview pfps
- style: initial logic for mobile style
- style: less bubbly
- style: realtime hover interactions
- style: set 0 duration tooltip delay
- Switch to egui master to fix wgpu issues
- switch to glow for now
- switch to rustls-tls-native-roots
- tabs: select notes & replies by default
- test: add test timeline query
- test: update test profile with a banner
- test: use my timeline query by default for testing
- textmode: adjust name sizing so it doesn't bump the column
- textmode: fix coloring of abbreviated names
- textmode: no previews in textmore for now
- theme: update to correct colors based on figma design
- timeline: don't hide on resize
- timeline: refactor tabs into TimelineView
- timeline: use strips instead of panels
- ui: add banners to profile previews
- ui: add feathering-resistant hline separator fn
- ui: add frame around note previews
- ui: add initial Profile hover previews
- ui: add profile picture hover animation
- ui: integrate egui-tabs for notes & replies selector
- ui: introduce profile picture widget
- ui: make pixel sizes correct, use more of the figma
- ui: move RelayView into ui module
- ui: only inline preview kind1 notes for now
- ui: reduce vertical padding for more compact timelines
- ui: remove some old note ui comments
- ui: simplify note widget
- ui: switch to flags for note options
- update slow timeline query
- update to latest nostrdb, adding tag support
- update version in comment because I still use this on my laptop
- use egui_virtual_list for rendering
- use unique id for post/reply view
- weird actionbar experiment
- we should just called this damus
- widgets: begin organizing ui components into widgets
- working notes + notes&replies
kernelkind's updates
- account_management: refactor
- AccountManagementView
- AccountManager: add ability to make a selection
- AccountSelectionWidget
- Account switcher
- Add AccountManager to app
- Add custom visual themes
- Add flag to emulate mobile during preview
- Add keypair & update pubkey
- Add login key parsing
- Add login manager
- Add MacOS key storage
- Add MobileAccountLoginView
- Add modular custom text styles
- Add monospace text style
- Add nix-shell for macos android development
- Add nostr-sdk dependency
- Add precommit hook to suggest proper formatting
- Add preview for RelayView
- Add relay view
- add reqwest as dependency
- Add SimpleProfilePreview
- Add ui_test_harness binary implementation
- Add warn color and highlight color
- app: add accounts to Damus & mock
- Apply app style to AccountLoginView
- Apply cargo fmt
- Conditionally compile MacOS key storage code
- Constrain app minimum size
- Create account login panel
- Create side panel & global popup
- enostr: expose RelayStatus
- Extract the sample relay to test_data for reuse
- impl linux credential storage
- Integrate account switcher to side panel
- Integrate global popup into app
- login: Add key loading & error to mobile
- macos_key_storage: runner ignore tests
- migrate AccountManagementView to enostr Keypair
- Migrate to new AccountManagementView conception
- Move login business logic to LoginManager
- move login logic from promise to async fns
- Move preview controller out of account_manager.rs
- move test account creation & apply to global popup
- Pfp integration to side panel
- refactor account switcher & management previews
- Refactor 'ui tests' conception to previews
- reintroduce account management
- reintroduce account switcher
- remove nostr-sdk
- Rename PersistState -> StateInMemory
- select first account
- Seperate mobile dark color theme into its own func
- update cargo.lock to reflect toml change
- Update egui 0.26.1 -> 0.27.1
- Use app_creation for common app setup functions
- Use custom style in app
- use nostr in enostr
Stats

name added removed commits kernelkind <kernelkind@gmail.com> +6844 -1979 58 William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com> +9733 -5583 194

Damus iOS

Added
- Ability to create highlights (ericholguin)
- Add ability to mute hashtag from SearchView (Charlie Fish)
- Add ability to mute words, add new mutelist interface (Charlie) (William Casarin)
- Added callbackuri for a better ux when connecting mutiny wallet nwc (ericholguin)
- Added nip10 marker replies (William Casarin)
- Added title image and tags to longform events (ericholguin)
- Add event content preview to the full screen carousel (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Add First Aid solution for users who do not have a contact list created for their account (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Add marker nip10 support when reading notes (William Casarin)
- Add video cache to save network bandwidth (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Completely new threads experience that is easier and more pleasant to use (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Connect to Mutiny Wallet Button (ericholguin)
- Highlights (NIP-84) (ericholguin)
- Notification reminders for Damus Purple impending expiration (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Proxy Tags are now viewable on Selected Events (ericholguin)
- Relay fees metadata (ericholguin)
- Revamp emoji picker to be less error-prone and add search, frequently used, and multiple skin tone support capabilities (Terry Yiu)
- Show list of quoted reposts in threads (William Casarin)
Changed
- Added first aid contact damus support email (alltheseas)
- Add support for Apple In-App purchases (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Always strip GPS data from images (kernelkind)
- Change reactions to use a native looking emoji picker (Terry Yiu)
- Errors with an NWC will show as an alert (ericholguin)
- Improve UX around video playback (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Moved paste nwc button to main wallet view (ericholguin)
- Relay config view user interface (ericholguin)
- Relay detail design (ericholguin)
- Updated Zeus logo (ericholguin)
Fixed
- Fix broken GIF uploads (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Fix bug that would cause connection issues with relays defined with a trailing slash URL, and an inability to delete them. (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Fixed issue where some replies were including the q tag (William Casarin)
- Fixed issue where timeline was scrolling when it isn't supposed to (William Casarin)
- Fixed threads not loading sometimes (William Casarin)
- Fixed wallet not disconnecting when a user logs out (ericholguin)
- Fix emoji reactions being cut off (ericholguin)
- Fix ghost notifications caused by Purple impending expiration notifications (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Fix image indicators to limit number of dots to not spill screen beyond visible margins (ericholguin)
- Fix in-app purchase issue that would trigger an error on purchase before confirming the account information. (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Fix issue where bootstrap relays would inadvertently be added to the user's list on connectivity issues (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Fix missing Mute button in profile view menu (Terry Yiu)
- Fix nostrscripts not loading (William Casarin)
- Fix profile not updating bug (William Casarin)
- Fix stale feed issue when follow list is too big (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Fix thread bug where a quote isn't picked up as a reply (William Casarin)
- Fix welcome screen not showing if the user enters the app directly after a successful checkout without going through the link (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Improve reliability of contact list creation during onboarding (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Issue where NWC Scanner view would not dismiss after a failed scan/paste (ericholguin)
Stats

name added removed commits Fonta1n3 <fontainedenton@googlemail.com> +1 -0 1 Sean Kibler <skibler@protonmail.com> +13 -2 1 alltheseas <64376233+alltheseas> +65 -1 4 Transifex <transifex@transifex.com> +581 -39 36 Terry Yiu <git@tyiu.xyz> +763 -1383 8 William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com> +1017 -1564 49 ericholguin <ericholguin@apache.org> +1962 -643 13 Daniel D’Aquino <daniel@daquino.me> +3885 -761 48
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 32e18276:5c68e245
2024-05-14 16:46:28
Hey Damus enjoyers,

v1.8 has been tagged! Today we submitted v1.8 to the App Store, Here's a quick preview of what's in this release!

New Emoji Selector

It's now easier than ever to select emoji reactions! Just long press the reaction button to pop-up the new emoji selector. Thanks Terry for implementing this!

Quote Reposts

Quote reposts are now listed on posts, just like on the birdsite (x site ?)

New fullscreen video player

Our video controls were pretty bad before, this has been improved in this version! You can now seek videos, view them fullscreen, and airplay them to your tv. Thanks Daniel for this feature!

Improved longform style

Longform posts now show the image and related tags. Thanks Eric!

Account recovery, bug fixes

Thread loading is greatly improved, we now support the latest nip10 specification for improved compatibility between clients. We also added an account recovery feature called First Aid. You can use this to create a new contact list if for whatever reason you don't have one anymore. If you are running into issues following people, you can use this to recover your account:

Testflight

v1.9 dev is underway, with an up and coming highlighter feature where you can clip highlights from the web and other posts and share them to your feed. If you want to test out the latest up and coming features, make sure to grab a damus purple membership to get access!

https://damus.io/purple/login

That's all for now, here's the full changelog if you want to see what else is new!

Full Changelog

Added
- Added nip10 marker replies (William Casarin)
- Add marker nip10 support when reading notes (William Casarin)
- Added title image and tags to longform events (ericholguin)
- Add First Aid solution for users who do not have a contact list created for their account (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Relay fees metadata (ericholguin)
- Added callbackuri for a better ux when connecting mutiny wallet nwc (ericholguin)
- Add event content preview to the full screen carousel (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Show list of quoted reposts in threads (William Casarin)
- Proxy Tags are now viewable on Selected Events (ericholguin)
- Add ability to mute words, add new mutelist interface (Charlie)
- Add ability to mute hashtag from SearchView (Charlie Fish)
Changed
- Change reactions to use a native looking emoji picker (Terry Yiu)
- Relay detail design (ericholguin)
- Updated Zeus logo (ericholguin)
- Improve UX around video playback (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Moved paste nwc button to main wallet view (ericholguin)
- Errors with an NWC will show as an alert (ericholguin)
- Relay config view user interface (ericholguin)
- Always strip GPS data from images (kernelkind)
Fixed
- Fix thread bug where a quote isn't picked up as a reply (William Casarin)
- Fixed threads not loading sometimes (William Casarin)
- Fixed issue where some replies were including the q tag (William Casarin)
- Fixed issue where timeline was scrolling when it isn't supposed to (William Casarin)
- Fix issue where bootstrap relays would inadvertently be added to the user's list on connectivity issues (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Fix broken GIF uploads (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Fix ghost notifications caused by Purple impending expiration notifications (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Improve reliability of contact list creation during onboarding (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Fix emoji reactions being cut off (ericholguin)
- Fix image indicators to limit number of dots to not spill screen beyond visible margins (ericholguin)
- Fix bug that would cause connection issues with relays defined with a trailing slash URL, and an inability to delete them. (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Issue where NWC Scanner view would not dismiss after a failed scan/paste (ericholguin)
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
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".

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ eac63075:b4988b48
2024-09-20 08:46:49
Lá na outra rede, o Dov havia feito um post bacana mostrando como usar a Electrum mobile de cold wallet nessa playlist.

Então ao comentar que a minha primeira cold wallet havia sido uma Electrum num notebook velho e formatado só pra isso, algumas pessoas me perguntaram sobre meu setup atual.

Então preparei o seguinte esboço:

No geral é: * Server Umbrel para os nodes * Coldcard e Ledger (coldwallets) * Computador criptografado e celular android com área segura p/ apps

É um caso de uso extremo mas além da auto-soberania e custódia dos meus satoshis, essa estrutura ainda me permite:
- Participar do consenso do Bitcoin
- Auxiliar no roteamento de sats na Lightning Network
- Fazer coinjoin facilmente para aumentar a privacidade
E embora a estrutura pareça complicada, é bastante simples:
- Raspberry Pi 4 com Debian e Umbrel (p/ os nodes e servers)
- Celular antigo android com área segura e sem simcard
- Notebook com storage criptografada
- Ledger Nano X
- Coldcard
E ainda pude evoluir de N.O.I.A. (Network Operator Innovator and Advocate) para M.A. (Minerador Anônimo), com uma Nerdminer pra tentar um ticket da sorte a cada 10 minutos

Não esqueça que uma cold wallet para a auto-custódia pode começar com um computador ou celular velho!

É mais simples do que parece e praticar sua auto-soberania e custódia significa na verdade liberdade e privacidade nesse mundo digital!
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ e83b66a8:b0526c2b
2024-09-21 16:29:23

Here are some of the more interesting projects that I like:

Messaging:

https://www.0xchat.com/#/ - Private messaging - think WhatsApp

Xitter Like Clients:

https://damus.io/ - iPhone client

https://nostrapps.com/amethyst - Android client

https://primal.net/downloads - Android, iPhone & Desktop

https://shipyard.pub/posts - Schedule future posts

Interesting sites:

https://zap.stream/ - Video streaming

https://fountain.fm/ - Podcasting

https://wavlake.com/ - Music streaming

https://shopstr.store/ - Online shop

https://zap.cooking/recent - Cooking recipes

https://ostrich.work/ - NOSTR jobs board

NOSTR tools

https://nostr.band/ - Powerful search tool

https://nostr.wine/ - Powerful, but centralised paid relay

https://npub.pro/ - Website creation tool

https://nostr.build/ - Media and file storage

https://relay.tools/ - Build and curate your own relay

https://creatr.nostr.wine/subscriptions/new-user - Creator tools

List of NOSTR apps:

https://nostrapps.com/

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ c6f7077f:ad5d48fd
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.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 09fbf8f3:fa3d60f0
2024-09-21 07:44:42

软件名称： OSSQ

这款软件打开时杀毒软件会报毒，大家忽略即可，如果实在不放心，大家可以先杀毒后再使用！

软件使用很简单，选择想要转换的版本，选择后点【开始转换】即可。

这里转换需要点时间，大家耐心等待，等转换成功了以后会跳出“版本切换成功！”的提示。

转换后再重启电脑，那么你的系统版本就转换成功了。我自己电脑是Windows11，但我办公电脑是Win10，看看我原来的是专业版。

转换以后就变成了家庭版了。

这个软件在版本转换后，可能会出现“Win+X”和右键开始菜单失效的问题，这时候可以用作者开发的一款“菜单修复”软件进行修复。

下载地址：

蓝奏云： https://lepidus.lanzouv.com/b00zx2euef 密码:gomr

菜单修复工具：蓝奏云： https://lepidus.lanzouv.com/b00zx2euij 密码:9dl6

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-03-19 14:01:01
Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant

Peter Todd has been saying this for a long time and all the time I've been thinking he is misunderstanding everything, but I guess a more charitable interpretation is that he is right.

Nostr today is indeed centralized.

Yesterday I published two harmless notes with the exact same content at the same time. In two minutes the notes had a noticeable difference in responses:

The top one was published to wss://nostr.wine, wss://nos.lol, wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com. The second was published to the relay where I generally publish all my notes to, wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com, and that is announced on my NIP-05 file and on my NIP-65 relay list.

A few minutes later I published that screenshot again in two identical notes to the same sets of relays, asking if people understood the implications. The difference in quantity of responses can still be seen today:

These results are skewed now by the fact that the two notes got rebroadcasted to multiple relays after some time, but the fundamental point remains.

What happened was that a huge lot more of people saw the first note compared to the second, and if Nostr was really censorship-resistant that shouldn't have happened at all.

Some people implied in the comments, with an air of obviousness, that publishing the note to "more relays" should have predictably resulted in more replies, which, again, shouldn't be the case if Nostr is really censorship-resistant.

What happens is that most people who engaged with the note are following me, in the sense that they have instructed their clients to fetch my notes on their behalf and present them in the UI, and clients are failing to do that despite me making it clear in multiple ways that my notes are to be found on wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com.

If we were talking not about me, but about some public figure that was being censored by the State and got banned (or shadowbanned) by the 3 biggest public relays, the sad reality would be that the person would immediately get his reach reduced to ~10% of what they had before. This is not at all unlike what happened to dozens of personalities that were banned from the corporate social media platforms and then moved to other platforms -- how many of their original followers switched to these other platforms? Probably some small percentage close to 10%. In that sense Nostr today is similar to what we had before.

Peter Todd is right that if the way Nostr works is that you just subscribe to a small set of relays and expect to get everything from them then it tends to get very centralized very fast, and this is the reality today.

Peter Todd is wrong that Nostr is inherently centralized or that it needs a protocol change to become what it has always purported to be. He is in fact wrong today, because what is written above is not valid for all clients of today, and if we drive in the right direction we can successfully make Peter Todd be more and more wrong as time passes, instead of the contrary.

See also:
- Censorship-resistant relay discovery in Nostr
- A vision for content discovery and relay usage for basic social-networking in Nostr
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ e6ce6154:275e3444
2023-07-27 14:12:49

Este artigo foi censurado pelo estado e fomos obrigados a deletá-lo após ameaça de homens armados virem nos visitar e agredir nossa vida e propriedade.

Isto é mais uma prova que os autoproclamados antirracistas são piores que os racistas.

https://rothbardbrasil.com/pelo-direito-de-ser-racista-fascista-machista-e-homofobico

Segue artigo na íntegra. 👇

Sem dúvida, a escalada autoritária do totalitarismo cultural progressista nos últimos anos tem sido sumariamente deletéria e prejudicial para a liberdade de expressão. Como seria de se esperar, a cada dia que passa o autoritarismo progressista continua a se expandir de maneira irrefreável, prejudicando a liberdade dos indivíduos de formas cada vez mais deploráveis e contundentes.

Com a ascensão da tirania politicamente correta e sua invasão a todos os terrenos culturais, o autoritarismo progressista foi se alastrando e consolidando sua hegemonia em determinados segmentos. Com a eventual eclosão e a expansão da opressiva e despótica cultura do cancelamento — uma progênie inevitável do totalitarismo progressista —, todas as pessoas que manifestam opiniões, crenças ou posicionamentos que não estão alinhados com as pautas universitárias da moda tornam-se um alvo.

Há algumas semanas, vimos a enorme repercussão causada pelo caso envolvendo o jogador profissional de vôlei Maurício Sousa, que foi cancelado pelo simples fato de ter emitido sua opinião pessoal sobre um personagem de história em quadrinhos, Jon Kent, o novo Superman, que é bissexual. Maurício Sousa reprovou a conduta sexual do personagem, o que é um direito pessoal inalienável que ele tem. Ele não é obrigado a gostar ou aprovar a bissexualidade. Como qualquer pessoa, ele tem o direito pleno de criticar tudo aquilo que ele não gosta. No entanto, pelo simples fato de emitir a sua opinião pessoal, Maurício Sousa foi acusado de homofobia e teve seu contrato rescindido, sendo desligado do Minas Tênis Clube.

Lamentavelmente, Maurício Sousa não foi o primeiro e nem será o último indivíduo a sofrer com a opressiva e autoritária cultura do cancelamento. Como uma tirania cultural que está em plena ascensão e usufrui de um amplo apoio do establishment, essa nova forma de totalitarismo cultural colorido e festivo está se impondo de formas e maneiras bastante contundentes em praticamente todas as esferas da sociedade contemporânea. Sua intenção é relegar ao ostracismo todos aqueles que não se curvam ao totalitarismo progressista, criminalizando opiniões e crenças que divergem do culto à libertinagem hedonista pós-moderna. Oculto por trás de todo esse ativismo autoritário, o que temos de fato é uma profunda hostilidade por padrões morais tradicionalistas, cristãos e conservadores.

No entanto, é fundamental entendermos uma questão imperativa, que explica em partes o conflito aqui criado — todos os progressistas contemporâneos são crias oriundas do direito positivo. Por essa razão, eles jamais entenderão de forma pragmática e objetiva conceitos como criminalidade, direitos de propriedade, agressão e liberdade de expressão pela perspectiva do jusnaturalismo, que é manifestamente o direito em seu estado mais puro, correto, ético e equilibrado.

Pela ótica jusnaturalista, uma opinião é uma opinião. Ponto final. E absolutamente ninguém deve ser preso, cancelado, sabotado ou boicotado por expressar uma opinião particular sobre qualquer assunto. Palavras não agridem ninguém, portanto jamais poderiam ser consideradas um crime em si. Apenas deveriam ser tipificados como crimes agressões de caráter objetivo, como roubo, sequestro, fraude, extorsão, estupro e infrações similares, que representam uma ameaça direta à integridade física da vítima, ou que busquem subtrair alguma posse empregando a violência.

Infelizmente, a geração floquinho de neve — terrivelmente histérica, egocêntrica e sensível — fica profundamente ofendida e consternada sempre que alguém defende posicionamentos contrários à religião progressista. Por essa razão, os guerreiros da justiça social sinceramente acreditam que o papai-estado deve censurar todas as opiniões que eles não gostam de ouvir, assim como deve também criar leis para encarcerar todos aqueles que falam ou escrevem coisas que desagradam a militância.

Como a geração floquinho de neve foi criada para acreditar que todas as suas vontades pessoais e disposições ideológicas devem ser sumariamente atendidas pelo papai-estado, eles embarcaram em uma cruzada moral que pretende erradicar todas as coisas que são ofensivas à ideologia progressista; só assim eles poderão deflagrar na Terra o seu tão sonhado paraíso hedonista e igualitário, de inimaginável esplendor e felicidade.

Em virtude do seu comportamento intrinsecamente despótico, autoritário e egocêntrico, acaba sendo inevitável que militantes progressistas problematizem tudo aquilo que os desagrada.

Como são criaturas inúteis destituídas de ocupação real e verdadeiro sentido na vida, sendo oprimidas unicamente na sua própria imaginação, militantes progressistas precisam constantemente inventar novos vilões para serem combatidos.

Partindo dessa perspectiva, é natural para a militância que absolutamente tudo que exista no mundo e que não se enquadra com as regras autoritárias e restritivas da religião progressista seja encarado como um problema. Para a geração floquinho de neve, o capitalismo é um problema. O fascismo é um problema. A iniciativa privada é um problema. O homem branco, tradicionalista, conservador e heterossexual é um problema. A desigualdade é um problema. A liberdade é um problema. Monteiro Lobato é um problema (sim, até mesmo o renomado ícone da literatura brasileira, autor — entre outros títulos — de Urupês, foi vítima da cultura do cancelamento, acusado de ser racista e eugenista).

Para a esquerda, praticamente tudo é um problema. Na mentalidade da militância progressista, tudo é motivo para reclamação. Foi em função desse comportamento histérico, histriônico e infantil que o famoso pensador conservador-libertário americano P. J. O’Rourke afirmou que “o esquerdismo é uma filosofia de pirralhos chorões”. O que é uma verdade absoluta e irrefutável em todos os sentidos.

De fato, todas as filosofias de esquerda de forma geral são idealizações utópicas e infantis de um mundo perfeito. Enquanto o mundo não se transformar naquela colorida e vibrante utopia que é apresentada pela cartilha socialista padrão, militantes continuarão a reclamar contra tudo o que existe no mundo de forma agressiva, visceral e beligerante. Evidentemente, eles não vão fazer absolutamente nada de positivo ou construtivo para que o mundo se transforme no gracioso paraíso que eles tanto desejam ver consolidado, mas eles continuarão a berrar e vociferar muito em sua busca incessante pela utopia, marcando presença em passeatas inúteis ou combatendo o fascismo imaginário nas redes sociais.

Sem dúvida, estamos muito perto de ver leis absurdas e estúpidas sendo implementadas, para agradar a militância da terra colorida do assistencialismo eterno onde nada é escasso e tudo cai do céu. Em breve, você não poderá usar calças pretas, pois elas serão consideradas peças de vestuário excessivamente heterossexuais. Apenas calças amarelas ou coloridas serão permitidas. Você também terá que tingir de cor-de-rosa uma mecha do seu cabelo; pois preservar o seu cabelo na sua cor natural é heteronormativo demais da sua parte, sendo portanto um componente demasiadamente opressor da sociedade.

Você também não poderá ver filmes de guerra ou de ação, apenas comédias românticas, pois certos gêneros de filmes exaltam a violência do patriarcado e isso impede o mundo de se tornar uma graciosa festa colorida de fraternidades universitárias ungidas por pôneis resplandecentes, hedonismo infinito, vadiagem universitária e autogratificação psicodélica, que certamente são elementos indispensáveis para se produzir o paraíso na Terra.

Sabemos perfeitamente, no entanto, que dentre as atitudes “opressivas” que a militância progressista mais se empenha em combater, estão o racismo, o fascismo, o machismo e a homofobia. No entanto, é fundamental entender que ser racista, fascista, machista ou homofóbico não são crimes em si. Na prática, todos esses elementos são apenas traços de personalidade; e eles não podem ser pura e simplesmente criminalizados porque ideólogos e militantes progressistas iluminados não gostam deles.

Tanto pela ética quanto pela ótica jusnaturalista, é facilmente compreensível entender que esses traços de personalidade não podem ser criminalizados ou proibidos simplesmente porque integrantes de uma ideologia não tem nenhuma apreciação ou simpatia por eles. Da mesma forma, nenhum desses traços de personalidade representa em si um perigo para a sociedade, pelo simples fato de existir. Por incrível que pareça, até mesmo o machismo, o racismo, o fascismo e a homofobia merecem a devida apologia.

Mas vamos analisar cada um desses tópicos separadamente para entender isso melhor.

Racismo

Quando falamos no Japão, normalmente não fazemos nenhuma associação da sociedade japonesa com o racismo. No entanto, é incontestável o fato de que a sociedade japonesa pode ser considerada uma das sociedades mais racistas do mundo. E a verdade é que não há absolutamente nada de errado com isso.

Aproximadamente 97% da população do Japão é nativa; apenas 3% do componente populacional é constituído por estrangeiros (a população do Japão é estimada em aproximadamente 126 milhões de habitantes). Isso faz a sociedade japonesa ser uma das mais homogêneas do mundo. As autoridades japonesas reconhecidamente dificultam processos de seleção e aplicação a estrangeiros que desejam se tornar residentes. E a maioria dos japoneses aprova essa decisão.

Diversos estabelecimentos comerciais como hotéis, bares e restaurantes por todo o país tem placas na entrada que dizem “somente para japoneses” e a maioria destes estabelecimentos se recusa ostensivamente a atender ou aceitar clientes estrangeiros, não importa quão ricos ou abastados sejam.

Na Terra do Sol Nascente, a hostilidade e a desconfiança natural para com estrangeiros é tão grande que até mesmo indivíduos que nascem em algum outro país, mas são filhos de pais japoneses, não são considerados cidadãos plenamente japoneses.

Se estes indivíduos decidem sair do seu país de origem para se estabelecer no Japão — mesmo tendo descendência nipônica legítima e inquestionável —, eles enfrentarão uma discriminação social considerável, especialmente se não dominarem o idioma japonês de forma impecável. Esse fato mostra que a discriminação é uma parte tão indissociável quanto elementar da sociedade japonesa, e ela está tão profundamente arraigada à cultura nipônica que é praticamente impossível alterá-la ou atenuá-la por qualquer motivo.

A verdade é que — quando falamos de um país como o Japão — nem todos os discursos politicamente corretos do mundo, nem a histeria progressista ocidental mais inflamada poderão algum dia modificar, extirpar ou sequer atenuar o componente racista da cultura nipônica. E isso é consequência de uma questão tão simples quanto primordial: discriminar faz parte da natureza humana, sendo tanto um direito individual quanto um elemento cultural inerente à muitas nações do mundo. Os japoneses não tem problema algum em admitir ou institucionalizar o seu preconceito, justamente pelo fato de que a ideologia politicamente correta não tem no oriente a força e a presença que tem no ocidente.

E é fundamental enfatizar que, sendo de natureza pacífica — ou seja, não violando nem agredindo terceiros —, a discriminação é um recurso natural dos seres humanos, que está diretamente associada a questões como familiaridade e segurança.

Absolutamente ninguém deve ser forçado a apreciar ou integrar-se a raças, etnias, pessoas ou tribos que não lhe transmitem sentimentos de segurança ou familiaridade. Integração forçada é o verdadeiro crime, e isso diversos países europeus — principalmente os escandinavos (países que lideram o ranking de submissão à ideologia politicamente correta) — aprenderam da pior forma possível.

A integração forçada com imigrantes islâmicos resultou em ondas de assassinato, estupro e violência inimagináveis para diversos países europeus, até então civilizados, que a imprensa ocidental politicamente correta e a militância progressista estão permanentemente tentando esconder, porque não desejam que o ocidente descubra como a agenda “humanitária” de integração forçada dos povos muçulmanos em países do Velho Mundo resultou em algumas das piores chacinas e tragédias na história recente da Europa.

Ou seja, ao discriminarem estrangeiros, os japoneses estão apenas se protegendo e lutando para preservar sua nação como um ambiente cultural, étnico e social que lhe é seguro e familiar, assim se opondo a mudanças bruscas, indesejadas e antinaturais, que poderiam comprometer a estabilidade social do país.

A discriminação — sendo de natureza pacífica —, é benévola, salutar e indubitavelmente ajuda a manter a estabilidade social da comunidade. Toda e qualquer forma de integração forçada deve ser repudiada com veemência, pois, mais cedo ou mais tarde, ela irá subverter a ordem social vigente, e sempre será acompanhada de deploráveis e dramáticos resultados.

Para citar novamente os países escandinavos, a Suécia é um excelente exemplo do que não fazer. Tendo seguido o caminho contrário ao da discriminação racional praticada pela sociedade japonesa, atualmente a sociedade sueca — além de afundar de forma consistente na lama da libertinagem, da decadência e da deterioração progressista — sofre em demasia com os imigrantes muçulmanos, que foram deixados praticamente livres para matar, saquear, esquartejar e estuprar quem eles quiserem. Hoje, eles são praticamente intocáveis, visto que denunciá-los, desmoralizá-los ou acusá-los de qualquer crime é uma atitude politicamente incorreta e altamente reprovada pelo establishment progressista. A elite socialista sueca jamais se atreve a acusá-los de qualquer crime, pois temem ser classificados como xenófobos e intolerantes. Ou seja, a desgraça da Europa, sobretudo dos países escandinavos, foi não ter oferecido nenhuma resistência à ideologia progressista politicamente correta. Hoje, eles são totalmente submissos a ela.

O exemplo do Japão mostra, portanto — para além de qualquer dúvida —, a importância ética e prática da discriminação, que é perfeitamente aceitável e natural, sendo uma tendência inerente aos seres humanos, e portanto intrínseca a determinados comportamentos, sociedades e culturas.

Indo ainda mais longe nessa questão, devemos entender que na verdade todos nós discriminamos, e não existe absolutamente nada de errado nisso. Discriminar pessoas faz parte da natureza humana e quem se recusa a admitir esse fato é um hipócrita. Mulheres discriminam homens na hora de selecionar um parceiro; elas avaliam diversos quesitos, como altura, aparência, status social, condição financeira e carisma. E dentre suas opções, elas sempre escolherão o homem mais atraente, másculo e viril, em detrimento de todos os baixinhos, calvos, carentes, frágeis e inibidos que possam estar disponíveis. Da mesma forma, homens sempre terão preferência por mulheres jovens, atraentes e delicadas, em detrimento de todas as feministas de meia-idade, acima do peso, de cabelo pintado, que são mães solteiras e militantes socialistas. A própria militância progressista discrimina pessoas de forma virulenta e intransigente, como fica evidente no tratamento que dispensam a mulheres bolsonaristas e a negros de direita.

A verdade é que — não importa o nível de histeria da militância progressista — a discriminação é inerente à condição humana e um direito natural inalienável de todos. É parte indissociável da natureza humana e qualquer pessoa pode e deve exercer esse direito sempre que desejar. Não existe absolutamente nada de errado em discriminar pessoas. O problema real é a ideologia progressista e o autoritarismo politicamente correto, movimentos tirânicos que não respeitam o direito das pessoas de discriminar.

Fascismo

Quando falamos de fascismo, precisamos entender que, para a esquerda política, o fascismo é compreendido como um conceito completamente divorciado do seu significado original. Para um militante de esquerda, fascista é todo aquele que defende posicionamentos contrários ao progressismo, não se referindo necessariamente a um fascista clássico.

Mas, seja como for, é necessário entender que — como qualquer ideologia política — até mesmo o fascismo clássico tem o direito de existir e ocupar o seu devido lugar; portanto, fascistas não devem ser arbitrariamente censurados, apesar de defenderem conceitos que representam uma completa antítese de tudo aquilo que é valioso para os entusiastas da liberdade.

Em um país como o Brasil, onde socialistas e comunistas tem total liberdade para se expressar, defender suas ideologias e até mesmo formar partidos políticos, não faz absolutamente o menor sentido que fascistas — e até mesmo nazistas assumidos — sofram qualquer tipo de discriminação. Embora socialistas e comunistas se sintam moralmente superiores aos fascistas (ou a qualquer outra filosofia política ou escola de pensamento), sabemos perfeitamente que o seu senso de superioridade é fruto de uma pueril romantização universitária da sua própria ideologia. A história mostra efetivamente que o socialismo clássico e o comunismo causaram muito mais destruição do que o fascismo.

Portanto, se socialistas e comunistas tem total liberdade para se expressar, não existe a menor razão para que fascistas não usufruam dessa mesma liberdade.

É claro, nesse ponto, seremos invariavelmente confrontados por um oportuno dilema — o famoso paradoxo da intolerância, de Karl Popper. Até que ponto uma sociedade livre e tolerante deve tolerar a intolerância (inerente a ideologias totalitárias)?

As leis de propriedade privada resolveriam isso em uma sociedade livre. O mais importante a levarmos em consideração no atual contexto, no entanto — ao defender ou criticar uma determinada ideologia, filosofia ou escola de pensamento —, é entender que, seja ela qual for, ela tem o direito de existir. E todas as pessoas que a defendem tem o direito de defendê-la, da mesma maneira que todos os seus detratores tem o direito de criticá-la.

Essa é uma forte razão para jamais apoiarmos a censura. Muito pelo contrário, devemos repudiar com veemência e intransigência toda e qualquer forma de censura, especialmente a estatal.

Existem duas fortes razões para isso:

A primeira delas é a volatilidade da censura (especialmente a estatal). A censura oficial do governo, depois que é implementada, torna-se absolutamente incontrolável. Hoje, ela pode estar apontada para um grupo de pessoas cujas ideias divergem das suas. Mas amanhã, ela pode estar apontada justamente para as ideias que você defende. É fundamental, portanto, compreendermos que a censura estatal é incontrolável. Sob qualquer ponto de vista, é muito mais vantajoso que exista uma vasta pluralidade de ideias conflitantes na sociedade competindo entre si, do que o estado decidir que ideias podem ser difundidas ou não.

Além do mais, libertários e anarcocapitalistas não podem nunca esperar qualquer tipo de simpatia por parte das autoridades governamentais. Para o estado, seria infinitamente mais prático e vantajoso criminalizar o libertarianismo e o anarcocapitalismo — sob a alegação de que são filosofias perigosas difundidas por extremistas radicais que ameaçam o estado democrático de direito — do que o fascismo ou qualquer outra ideologia centralizada em governos burocráticos e onipotentes. Portanto, defender a censura, especialmente a estatal, representa sempre um perigo para o próprio indivíduo, que mais cedo ou mais tarde poderá ver a censura oficial do sistema se voltar contra ele.

Outra razão pela qual libertários jamais devem defender a censura, é porque — ao contrário dos estatistas — não é coerente que defensores da liberdade se comportem como se o estado fosse o seu papai e o governo fosse a sua mamãe. Não devemos terceirizar nossas próprias responsabilidades, tampouco devemos nos comportar como adultos infantilizados. Assumimos a responsabilidade de combater todas as ideologias e filosofias que agridem a liberdade e os seres humanos. Não procuramos políticos ou burocratas para executar essa tarefa por nós.

Portanto, se você ver um fascista sendo censurado nas redes sociais ou em qualquer outro lugar, assuma suas dores. Sinta-se compelido a defendê-lo, mostre aos seus detratores que ele tem todo direito de se expressar, como qualquer pessoa. Você não tem obrigação de concordar com ele ou apreciar as ideias que ele defende. Mas silenciar arbitrariamente qualquer pessoa não é uma pauta que honra a liberdade.

Se você não gosta de estado, planejamento central, burocracia, impostos, tarifas, políticas coletivistas, nacionalistas e desenvolvimentistas, mostre com argumentos coesos e convincentes porque a liberdade e o livre mercado são superiores a todos esses conceitos. Mas repudie a censura com intransigência e mordacidade.

Em primeiro lugar, porque você aprecia e defende a liberdade de expressão para todas as pessoas. E em segundo lugar, por entender perfeitamente que — se a censura eventualmente se tornar uma política de estado vigente entre a sociedade — é mais provável que ela atinja primeiro os defensores da liberdade do que os defensores do estado.

Machismo

Muitos elementos do comportamento masculino que hoje são atacados com virulência e considerados machistas pelo movimento progressista são na verdade manifestações naturais intrínsecas ao homem, que nossos avôs cultivaram ao longo de suas vidas sem serem recriminados por isso. Com a ascensão do feminismo, do progressismo e a eventual problematização do sexo masculino, o antagonismo militante dos principais líderes da revolução sexual da contracultura passou a naturalmente condenar todos os atributos genuinamente masculinos, por considerá-los símbolos de opressão e dominação social.

Apesar do Brasil ser uma sociedade liberal ultra-progressista, onde o estado protege mais as mulheres do que as crianças — afinal, a cada semana novas leis são implementadas concedendo inúmeros privilégios e benefícios às mulheres, aos quais elas jamais teriam direito em uma sociedade genuinamente machista e patriarcal —, a esquerda política persiste em tentar difundir a fantasia da opressão masculina e o mito de que vivemos em uma sociedade machista e patriarcal.

Como sempre, a realidade mostra um cenário muito diferente daquilo que é pregado pela militância da terra da fantasia. O Brasil atual não tem absolutamente nada de machista ou patriarcal. No Brasil, mulheres podem votar, podem ocupar posições de poder e autoridade tanto na esfera pública quanto em companhias privadas, podem se candidatar a cargos políticos, podem ser vereadoras, deputadas, governadoras, podem ser proprietárias do próprio negócio, podem se divorciar, podem dirigir, podem comprar armas, podem andar de biquíni nas praias, podem usar saias extremamente curtas, podem ver programas de televisão sobre sexo voltados única e exclusivamente para o público feminino, podem se casar com outras mulheres, podem ser promíscuas, podem consumir bebidas alcoólicas ao ponto da embriaguez, e podem fazer praticamente tudo aquilo que elas desejarem. No Brasil do século XXI, as mulheres são genuinamente livres para fazer as próprias escolhas em praticamente todos os aspectos de suas vidas. O que mostra efetivamente que a tal opressão do patriarcado não existe.

O liberalismo social extremo do qual as mulheres usufruem no Brasil atual — e que poderíamos estender a toda a sociedade contemporânea ocidental — é suficiente para desmantelar completamente a fábula feminista da sociedade patriarcal machista e opressora, que existe única e exclusivamente no mundinho de fantasias ideológicas da esquerda progressista.

Tão importante quanto, é fundamental compreender que nenhum homem é obrigado a levar o feminismo a sério ou considerá-lo um movimento social e político legítimo. Para um homem, ser considerado machista ou até mesmo assumir-se como um não deveria ser um problema. O progressismo e o feminismo — com o seu nefasto hábito de demonizar os homens, bem como todos os elementos inerentes ao comportamento e a cultura masculina — é que são o verdadeiro problema, conforme tentam modificar o homem para transformá-lo em algo que ele não é nem deveria ser: uma criatura dócil, passiva e submissa, que é comandada por ideologias hostis e antinaturais, que não respeitam a hierarquia de uma ordem social milenar e condições inerentes à própria natureza humana. Com o seu hábito de tentar modificar tudo através de leis e decretos, o feminismo e o progressismo mostram efetivamente que o seu real objetivo é criminalizar a masculinidade.

A verdade é que — usufruindo de um nível elevado de liberdades — não existe praticamente nada que a mulher brasileira do século XXI não possa fazer. Adicionalmente, o governo dá as mulheres uma quantidade tão avassaladora de vantagens, privilégios e benefícios, que está ficando cada vez mais difícil para elas encontrarem razões válidas para reclamarem da vida. Se o projeto de lei que pretende fornecer um auxílio mensal de mil e duzentos reais para mães solteiras for aprovado pelo senado, muitas mulheres que tem filhos não precisarão nem mesmo trabalhar para ter sustento. E tantas outras procurarão engravidar, para ter direito a receber uma mesada mensal do governo até o seu filho completar a maioridade.

O que a militância colorida da terra da fantasia convenientemente ignora — pois a realidade nunca corresponde ao seu conto de fadas ideológico — é que o mundo de uma forma geral continua sendo muito mais implacável com os homens do que é com as mulheres. No Brasil, a esmagadora maioria dos suicídios é praticada por homens, a maioria das vítimas de homicídio são homens e de cada quatro moradores de rua, três são homens. Mas é evidente que uma sociedade liberal ultra-progressista não se importa com os homens, pois ela não é influenciada por fatos concretos ou pela realidade. Seu objetivo é simplesmente atender as disposições de uma agenda ideológica, não importa quão divorciadas da realidade elas são.

O nível exacerbado de liberdades sociais e privilégios governamentais dos quais as mulheres brasileiras usufruem é suficiente para destruir a fantasiosa fábula da sociedade machista, opressora e patriarcal. Se as mulheres brasileiras não estão felizes, a culpa definitivamente não é dos homens. Se a vasta profusão de liberdades, privilégios e benefícios da sociedade ocidental não as deixa plenamente saciadas e satisfeitas, elas podem sempre mudar de ares e tentar uma vida mais abnegada e espartana em países como Irã, Paquistão ou Afeganistão. Quem sabe assim elas não se sentirão melhores e mais realizadas?

Homofobia

Quando falamos em homofobia, entramos em uma categoria muito parecida com a do racismo: o direito de discriminação é totalmente válido. Absolutamente ninguém deve ser obrigado a aceitar homossexuais ou considerar o homossexualismo como algo normal. Sendo cristão, não existe nem sequer a mais vaga possibilidade de que algum dia eu venha a aceitar o homossexualismo como algo natural. O homossexualismo se qualifica como um grave desvio de conduta e um pecado contra o Criador.

A Bíblia proíbe terminantemente conduta sexual imoral, o que — além do homossexualismo — inclui adultério, fornicação, incesto e bestialidade, entre outras formas igualmente pérfidas de degradação.

Segue abaixo três passagens bíblicas que proíbem terminantemente a conduta homossexual:

“Não te deitarás com um homem como se deita com uma mulher. Isso é abominável!” (Levítico 18:22 — King James Atualizada)

“Se um homem se deitar com outro homem, como se deita com mulher, ambos terão praticado abominação; certamente serão mortos; o seu sangue estará sobre eles.” (Levítico 20:13 — João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada)

“O quê! Não sabeis que os injustos não herdarão o reino de Deus? Não sejais desencaminhados. Nem fornicadores, nem idólatras, nem adúlteros, nem homens mantidos para propósitos desnaturais, nem homens que se deitam com homens, nem ladrões, nem gananciosos, nem beberrões, nem injuriadores, nem extorsores herdarão o reino de Deus.” (1 Coríntios 6:9,10 —Tradução do Novo Mundo das Escrituras Sagradas com Referências)

Se você não é religioso, pode simplesmente levar em consideração o argumento do respeito pela ordem natural. A ordem natural é incondicional e incisiva com relação a uma questão: o complemento de tudo o que existe é o seu oposto, não o seu igual. O complemento do dia é a noite, o complemento da luz é a escuridão, o complemento da água, que é líquida, é a terra, que é sólida. E como sabemos o complemento do macho — de sua respectiva espécie — é a fêmea.

Portanto, o complemento do homem, o macho da espécie humana, é naturalmente a mulher, a fêmea da espécie humana. Um homem e uma mulher podem naturalmente se reproduzir, porque são um complemento biológico natural. Por outro lado, um homem e outro homem são incapazes de se reproduzir, assim como uma mulher e outra mulher.

Infelizmente, o mundo atual está longe de aceitar como plenamente estabelecida a ordem natural pelo simples fato dela existir, visto que tentam subvertê-la a qualquer custo, não importa o malabarismo intelectual que tenham que fazer para justificar os seus pontos de vista distorcidos e antinaturais. A libertinagem irrefreável e a imoralidade bestial do mundo contemporâneo pós-moderno não reconhecem nenhum tipo de limite. Quem tenta restabelecer princípios morais salutares é imediatamente considerado um vilão retrógrado e repressivo, sendo ativamente demonizado pela militância do hedonismo, da luxúria e da licenciosidade desenfreada e sem limites.

Definitivamente, fazer a apologia da moralidade, do autocontrole e do autodomínio não faz nenhum sucesso na Sodoma e Gomorra global dos dias atuais. O que faz sucesso é lacração, devassidão, promiscuidade e prazeres carnais vazios. O famoso escritor e filósofo francês Albert Camus expressou uma verdade contundente quando disse: “Uma só frase lhe bastará para definir o homem moderno — fornicava e lia jornais”.

Qualquer indivíduo tem o direito inalienável de discriminar ativamente homossexuais, pelo direito que ele julgar mais pertinente no seu caso. A objeção de consciência para qualquer situação é um direito natural dos indivíduos. Há alguns anos, um caso que aconteceu nos Estados Unidos ganhou enorme repercussão internacional, quando o confeiteiro Jack Phillips se recusou a fazer um bolo de casamento para o “casal” homossexual Dave Mullins e Charlie Craig.

Uma representação dos direitos civis do estado do Colorado abriu um inquérito contra o confeiteiro, alegando que ele deveria ser obrigado a atender todos os clientes, independente da orientação sexual, raça ou crença. Preste atenção nas palavras usadas — ele deveria ser obrigado a atender.

Como se recusou bravamente a ceder, o caso foi parar invariavelmente na Suprema Corte, que decidiu por sete a dois em favor de Jack Phillips, sob a alegação de que obrigar o confeiteiro a atender o “casal” homossexual era uma violação nefasta dos seus princípios religiosos. Felizmente, esse foi um caso em que a liberdade prevaleceu sobre a tirania progressista.

Evidentemente, homossexuais não devem ser agredidos, ofendidos, internados em clínicas contra a sua vontade, nem devem ser constrangidos em suas liberdades pelo fato de serem homossexuais. O que eles precisam entender é que a liberdade é uma via de mão dupla. Eles podem ter liberdade para adotar a conduta que desejarem e fazer o que quiserem (contanto que não agridam ninguém), mas da mesma forma, é fundamental respeitar e preservar a liberdade de terceiros que desejam rejeitá-los pacificamente, pelo motivo que for.

Afinal, ninguém tem a menor obrigação de aceitá-los, atendê-los ou sequer pensar que uma união estável entre duas pessoas do mesmo sexo — incapaz de gerar descendentes, e, portanto, antinatural — deva ser considerado um matrimônio de verdade. Absolutamente nenhuma pessoa, ideia, movimento, crença ou ideologia usufrui de plena unanimidade no mundo. Por que o homossexualismo deveria ter tal privilégio?

Homossexuais não são portadores de uma verdade definitiva, absoluta e indiscutível, que está acima da humanidade. São seres humanos comuns que — na melhor das hipóteses —, levam um estilo de vida que pode ser considerado “alternativo”, e absolutamente ninguém tem a obrigação de considerar esse estilo de vida normal ou aceitável. A única obrigação das pessoas é não interferir, e isso não implica uma obrigação em aceitar.

Discriminar homossexuais (assim como pessoas de qualquer outro grupo, raça, religião, nacionalidade ou etnia) é um direito natural por parte de todos aqueles que desejam exercer esse direito. E isso nem o direito positivo nem a militância progressista poderão algum dia alterar ou subverter. O direito natural e a inclinação inerente dos seres humanos em atender às suas próprias disposições é simplesmente imutável e faz parte do seu conjunto de necessidades.

Conclusão

A militância progressista é absurdamente autoritária, e todas as suas estratégias e disposições ideológicas mostram que ela está em uma guerra permanente contra a ordem natural, contra a liberdade e principalmente contra o homem branco, cristão, conservador e tradicionalista — possivelmente, aquilo que ela mais odeia e despreza.

Nós não podemos, no entanto, ceder ou dar espaço para a agenda progressista, tampouco pensar em considerar como sendo normais todas as pautas abusivas e tirânicas que a militância pretende estabelecer como sendo perfeitamente razoáveis e aceitáveis, quer a sociedade aceite isso ou não. Afinal, conforme formos cedendo, o progressismo tirânico e totalitário tende a ganhar cada vez mais espaço.

Quanto mais espaço o progressismo conquistar, mais corroída será a liberdade e mais impulso ganhará o totalitarismo. Com isso, a cultura do cancelamento vai acabar com carreiras, profissões e com o sustento de muitas pessoas, pelo simples fato de que elas discordam das pautas universitárias da moda.

A história mostra perfeitamente que quanto mais liberdade uma sociedade tem, mais progresso ela atinge. Por outro lado, quanto mais autoritária ela for, mais retrocessos ela sofrerá. O autoritarismo se combate com liberdade, desafiando as pautas de todos aqueles que persistem em implementar a tirania na sociedade. O politicamente correto é o nazismo dos costumes, que pretende subverter a moral através de uma cultura de vigilância policial despótica e autoritária, para que toda a sociedade seja subjugada pela agenda totalitária progressista.

Pois quanto a nós, precisamos continuar travando o bom combate em nome da liberdade. E isso inclui reconhecer que ideologias, hábitos e costumes de que não gostamos tem o direito de existir e até mesmo de serem defendidos.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-03-23 08:57:08
Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant

Peter Todd has been saying this for a long time and all the time I've been thinking he is misunderstanding everything, but I guess a more charitable interpretation is that he is right.

Nostr today is indeed centralized.

Yesterday I published two harmless notes with the exact same content at the same time. In two minutes the notes had a noticeable difference in responses:

The top one was published to wss://nostr.wine, wss://nos.lol, wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com. The second was published to the relay where I generally publish all my notes to, wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com, and that is announced on my NIP-05 file and on my NIP-65 relay list.

A few minutes later I published that screenshot again in two identical notes to the same sets of relays, asking if people understood the implications. The difference in quantity of responses can still be seen today:

These results are skewed now by the fact that the two notes got rebroadcasted to multiple relays after some time, but the fundamental point remains.

What happened was that a huge lot more of people saw the first note compared to the second, and if Nostr was really censorship-resistant that shouldn't have happened at all.

Some people implied in the comments, with an air of obviousness, that publishing the note to "more relays" should have predictably resulted in more replies, which, again, shouldn't be the case if Nostr is really censorship-resistant.

What happens is that most people who engaged with the note are following me, in the sense that they have instructed their clients to fetch my notes on their behalf and present them in the UI, and clients are failing to do that despite me making it clear in multiple ways that my notes are to be found on wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com.

If we were talking not about me, but about some public figure that was being censored by the State and got banned (or shadowbanned) by the 3 biggest public relays, the sad reality would be that the person would immediately get his reach reduced to ~10% of what they had before. This is not at all unlike what happened to dozens of personalities that were banned from the corporate social media platforms and then moved to other platforms -- how many of their original followers switched to these other platforms? Probably some small percentage close to 10%. In that sense Nostr today is similar to what we had before.

Peter Todd is right that if the way Nostr works is that you just subscribe to a small set of relays and expect to get everything from them then it tends to get very centralized very fast, and this is the reality today.

Peter Todd is wrong that Nostr is inherently centralized or that it needs a protocol change to become what it has always purported to be. He is in fact wrong today, because what is written above is not valid for all clients of today, and if we drive in the right direction we can successfully make Peter Todd be more and more wrong as time passes, instead of the contrary.

See also:
- Censorship-resistant relay discovery in Nostr
- A vision for content discovery and relay usage for basic social-networking in Nostr
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 472f440f:5669301e
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.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 32e18276:5c68e245
2023-10-04 22:21:45
Hey nostr posters,

I'm at Pacific Bitcoin this week! Come say hi if you're in LA! I have a nostr discussion with rockstar at the conference so check that out if you're here. Another fun thing I did this morning was a nostr podcast with Peter McCormack, so keep an eye for that one. I'm getting through some remaining bugs for the 1.6 App Store release, one annoying issue in the last build was that you couldn't update your profile. This has been fixed!

We also fixed some bugs with the clear cache button, it should be more responsive now. Daniel has been doing some great work with reducing the buggyness of the post composition view, so hopefully you should notice some quality of life improvements there. Daniel also improved many bugs with muted users. If you've muted a user that has been reposted in your timeline, damus will now hide those.

Thanks for your patience with this release, integrating nostrdb has been time consuming! Hopefully back to a more regular release schedule after this one.

Check out the full changelog:

Changed
- Improve UX around clearing cache (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Show muted thread replies at the bottom of the thread view (#1522) (Daniel D’Aquino)
Fixed
- Fix situations where the note composer cursor gets stuck in one place after tagging a user (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Fix some note composer issues, such as when copying/pasting larger text, and make the post composer more robust. (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Apply filters to hashtag search timeline view (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Hide quoted or reposted notes from people whom the user has muted. (#1216) (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Fix profile not updating (William Casarin)
- Fix small graphical toolbar bug when scrolling profiles (Daniel D’Aquino)
- Fix localization issues and export strings for translation (Terry Yiu)
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ a39d19ec:3d88f61e
2024-08-11 15:44:55

This months daily driver is the #Casio A100WE with module 3503. It features am/pm time, date and weekday, alarm and a stopwatch.

Design

The design is plain and simple. 4 front facing Button, a small but surprisingly readable display. It has a resin casing with metal surface and a black rubber band.

Storytime

There is not much to say about this watch. I remember buying it for my collection because it was on sale some time ago. There is one version with the colour accents near the buttons, that looks much nicer.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-05-21 12:38:08

Bitcoin transactions explained

A transaction is a piece of data that takes inputs and produces outputs. Forget about the blockchain thing, Bitcoin is actually just a big tree of transactions. The blockchain is just a way to keep transactions ordered.

Imagine you have 10 satoshis. That means you have them in an unspent transaction output (UTXO). You want to spend them, so you create a transaction. The transaction should reference unspent outputs as its inputs. Every transaction has an immutable id, so you use that id plus the index of the output (because transactions can have multiple outputs). Then you specify a script that unlocks that transaction and related signatures, then you specify outputs along with a script that locks these outputs.

As you can see, there's this lock/unlocking thing and there are inputs and outputs. Inputs must be unlocked by fulfilling the conditions specified by the person who created the transaction they're in. And outputs must be locked so anyone wanting to spend those outputs will need to unlock them.

For most of the cases locking and unlocking means specifying a public key whose controller (the person who has the corresponding private key) will be able to spend. Other fancy things are possible too, but we can ignore them for now.

Back to the 10 satoshis you want to spend. Since you've successfully referenced 10 satoshis and unlocked them, now you can specify the outputs (this is all done in a single step). You can specify one output of 10 satoshis, two of 5, one of 3 and one of 7, three of 3 and so on. The sum of outputs can't be more than 10. And if the sum of outputs is less than 10 the difference goes to fees. In the first days of Bitcoin you didn't need any fees, but now you do, otherwise your transaction won't be included in any block.

If you're still interested in transactions maybe you could take a look at this small chapter of that Andreas Antonopoulos book.

If you hate Andreas Antonopoulos because he is a communist shitcoiner or don't want to read more than half a page, go here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Coin_analogy

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 78733875:4eb851f2
2023-07-14 22:25:21
"The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them," as Hal Finney wrote so presciently 30 years ago.[^fn-hal]

The goal of OpenSats is to help build the tools that Hal alluded to. Tools that liberate and protect, rather than systems that control and oppress. Many tools still have to be built. Many tools still need to be improved. However, "the universe smiles on encryption," as Assange so aptly put it.[^fn-assange]

We believe that freedom tech is what carries this smile forward, which is why we are delighted to announce grants for over a dozen projects in the bitcoin & lightning ecosystem.

[^fn-hal]: Hal Finney: Why remailers... (November 1992)

[^fn-assange]: Julian Assange: A Call to Cryptographic Arms (October 2012)

The following open-source projects were selected by the OpenSats board for funding:
Let's take a closer look at each to understand their goal and how it aligns with the OpenSats mission.

Payjoin Dev Kit

Payjoin brings privacy to bitcoin without changing the way you're used to using it. Payjoin transactions look no different from normal activity on-chain, so they boost everyone's privacy, even those who don't payjoin, and foil chain surveillance.

Payjoin is easy to integrate and falls back to working defaults where it isn't supported, but it can only take off when senders and receivers include standard payjoin support in their software. Payjoin Dev Kit makes it easy for wallet developers to integrate BIP 78 standard payjoins everywhere, having working reference integrations for Bitcoin Core, LND, and BDK.

Repository: github.com/payjoin
License: MIT

Bolt12 for LND

Bolt12 brings a new invoice format, enabling static invoices (offers) as well as recurring payments. It adds support to receive payments in a lightning-native way without using a web server. It also uses Blinded Paths to disguise the destination of a node both when fetching the invoice and when paying. This improves privacy and, therefore, security for the receiver of the payment.

Consequently, Bolt12 makes it much easier to receive and send payments without any third-party infrastructure in a native-lightning way. Static invoices make donations and recurring payments much easier.

Repository: lightningnetwork/lnd
License: MIT

Splicing

Splicing is the ability to resize Lightning channels on-the-fly, giving users of the Lightning Network many additional benefits that were not intuitively obvious at first. Splicing scales Lightning by removing a fundamental limitation. Removing this limitation increases fungibility and lowers blockspace usage, an important step towards maturing the Lightning network and enabling the onboarding of millions, and ultimately billions, of people.

Repository: ddustin/splice
License: BSD-MIT

Raspiblitz

Raspiblitz is a do-it-yourself node stack that allows you to run a Lightning Node together with a Bitcoin Core full node on your Raspberry Pi. While the Raspberry Pi is the most common hardware running this particular software, it was developed to support multiple hardware platforms and can run on bare metal servers too.

The open-source project was started in 2018 as part of a Lightning hackathon in the German Bitcoin space. Since then, it has grown to over 150 contributors and 2000 stars on GitHub. The software integrates dozens of services and tools via its plugin system and sports advanced features like touchscreen support, channel autopilot, backup systems, DynDNS, SSH tunneling, and more.

Repository: raspiblitz/raspiblitz
License: MIT

Labelbase

Labelbase is a label management service for Bitcoin transactions and addresses. It provides features for adding labels, importing and exporting labels, and offers a public API for integration with wallets and existing workflows.

Labelbase supports BIP-329, a format for unifying label data. The goal of the project is to offer a convenient solution for managing labels associated with Bitcoin transactions and addresses across wallets and other tools. By providing a unified label management interface, Labelbase enhances the user experience, improves privacy, and promotes better organization and understanding of Bitcoin transactions.

Repository: Labelbase/Labelbase
License: MIT

BTCPay Server

BTCPay Server is a free, open-source & self-hosted bitcoin payment gateway that allows self-sovereign individuals and businesses to accept bitcoin payments online or in person without added fees.

At its core, BTCPay Server is an automated invoicing system. Merchants can integrate the software with their website or shop, so customers are presented with an invoice upon checkout. The status of the invoice will update according to settlement, so merchants can fulfill the order at the appropriate time. The software also takes care of payment refunding and bitcoin management alongside many other features.

Repository: btcpayserver/btcpayserver
License: MIT

ZeroSync

While ZeroSync is still at an early stage, its promise is to allow verification of Bitcoin's chain state in an instant. It offers compact cryptographic proofs to validate the entire history of transactions and everyone's current balances.

The first application is to "zerosync" Bitcoin Core in pruned mode. The long-term vision for ZeroSync is to become a toolbox for custom Bitcoin proofs.

Repository: zerosync/zerosync
License: MIT

Mutiny Wallet

Mutiny Wallet is a web-first wallet capable of running anywhere, providing instant onboarding and platform censorship resistance. It is self-custodial, privacy-focused, user-friendly, and open-sourced under the MIT license.

The wallet has a strong focus on privacy, scalability, and accessibility. In addition to features that you would expect a regular lightning wallet to have, the team is working to incorporate Nostr-related features into the wallet, such as a feed of friends' Zaps, native Zap sending and receiving, a lightning subscription specification for services such as nostr relays, and a P2P DLC marketplace. The team's goal is to provide users with a seamless experience, combining the power of Bitcoin and Lightning with social media in a way that matches the Bitcoin ethos.

Repository: MutinyWallet
License: MIT

next-auth Lightning Provider

The goal of this project is to implement an authentication provider for next-auth, an authentication provider for the popular open-source framework NextJS. The next-auth framework has nearly 500k weekly downloads and powers the authentication of many modern web, mobile, and desktop apps. Having a plug-and-play Provider for Lightning makes integration easier and more attractive for developers.

Repository: jowo-io/next-auth-lightning-provider
License: ISC

Cashu

Cashu is a Chaumian ecash system built for bitcoin that brings near-perfect privacy for users of custodial bitcoin applications. A Cashu ecash mint does not know who you are, what your balance is, or who you're transacting with. Users of a mint can exchange ecash privately, without anyone being able to know who the involved parties are.

Payments are executed without anyone able to censor specific users. There are multiple implementations of the Cashu protocol. Popular open-source wallets are Cashu Nutshell, Cashu.me, and Nutstash.

Repository: cashubtc/cashu
License: MIT

lnproxy

lnproxy is a simple privacy tool that empowers users of custodial Lightning wallets with better payment destination privacy and sovereign node runners with enhanced receiver privacy. lnproxy works like a "poor man's" rendezvous router, providing privacy for users without taking custody of their funds. The project encompasses an LNURL-style protocol specification and a collection of open-source implementations of lnproxy clients and a relay.

Repository: lnproxy/lnproxy
License: GPL 3.0 & MIT

Blixt Wallet

Blixt is a non-custodial wallet for bitcoiners who want to give Lightning a try. It runs on Android, iOS, and macOS. It is easy to use and straightforward to set up, making it a user-friendly option to get started with Lightning.

Blixt uses LND and Neutrino under the hood, directly on the phone, respecting your privacy. The wallet does not use any centralized servers for doing transactions. Channels are opened automatically on the user's behalf, making it easy to get up and running on Lightning.

Repository: hsjoberg/blixt-wallet
License: MIT

In addition to the software projects listed above, three educational initiatives were selected for funding:
- Bitcoin Education in Nigeria is an initiative started and led by Apata Johnson. Apata's project aims to educate youths on bitcoin and the opportunities it brings for the people living in the rural areas of Nigeria.
- 21 Ideas is a project that aims to bring quality Bitcoin education to Russian citizens. Tony and others have been working for many years on translations, original material, and hands-on tutorials for beginners. We believe that education is paramount to proper Bitcoin use, and localization is paramount for everyday citizens to properly grasp the importance as well as the novel concepts of bitcoin.
- CoreDev.tech is organizing recurring developer events, which are all about bringing devs together so that they can hack on Bitcoin Core and related software.
We received hundreds of applications in the last couple of months, which is a fantastic signal and something we are delighted about. Some applications are still being reviewed by the OpenSats board, as we try our best to assess feasibility, alignment, and potential impact of each project. We will announce additional grants as applications pass our grant selection process.

Unfortunately, we were unable to fund all of the proposals that were sent to us. Please don't hesitate to apply again in case your application was rejected this time around. The applicant pool was very competitive, which is a great thing to see in and of itself.

Grants for the projects above are funded by contributions to the Bitcoin General Fund. Our operations as well as our grant programs are made possible by generous donors like you. If you want to help fund the Bitcoin ecosystem, please donate to the Bitcoin General Fund.

Our team is screening applications constantly, and we will announce new grants and funding opportunities as they arise. If you are working on an open-source project in and around bitcoin, and you think your work is aligned with the OpenSats mission, please apply for funding.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 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

)}
); } ```

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ e83b66a8:b0526c2b
2024-09-06 19:16:04

The founder of Telegram has just been arrested in France. Charges include lack of cooperation with law enforcement, drug trafficking and fraud.

Aside from Telegram, social media is controlled by two billionaires who decide what you say, are themselves controlled by overbearing governments and make money through advertising and selling your personal data.

There is a different way.

NOSTR stands for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted on Relays and it is a social media protocol in the same way http is a web protocol.

The protocol is open and anybody can build upon it. It has some fundamental concepts that are very different to existing social media platforms.

Firstly it is decentralised, it runs across relays and anybody can run a relay. They can be open or closed, public or private, free or paid.

Secondly as a user, you don’t have an account, you have a private key which is used to secure your data.

Your profile (account) is yours, you own and control it using your private keys and verified by others with your public key.

Your posts are yours and you can store them on your own relay in your own home or business or you can rely on free public relays or more feature rich paid public relays.

All your public data is signed by your private keys to verify it is you that owns it and all your private data is encrypted so nobody can read it.

Messages (i.e. think NOSTR WhatsApp) are encrypted with your private keys so NOBODY can hack it or listen in, not even the NSA through a companies backdoor. You message other users privately by encrypting messages to them using their public key, which they decrypt using their private key.

Relays store your data in a decentralised network of private and public relays and you discover relays automatically when searching for people or content.

Data is normally sent on the clearnet, but can be relayed across the darknet (Tor) in highly censored regions.

Because it is built using Bitcoin principles and technology, so it has Bitcoin money built in, meaning you actually send / receive money from / to any participant.

As money is built in, the commercial options are different to centralised corporate owned platforms. It would be technically possible to build a platform that supports advertising, however that hasn’t really happened because influencers can be paid directly from their audience in many different ways. Ad hoc tips, subscriptions, pay to view or pay per time models.

The great thing for content creators is that they control, own and keep all the money they make. There is no third party intermediary or merchant deciding whether they are allowed to be paid or not.

NOSTR is censorship resistant, as there is no way to stop anybody publishing anything they want, in the same way nobody can stop or interfere with a Bitcoin payment.

From an end users point of view, if they want to self censor, they can do this in multiple ways. You can mute users individually, or you can choose to use relays that adhere to your views or interests, so if you don’t want to see certain categories of content, you would avoid relays that carry those feeds. You can even run your own relay and curate content that you then charge other like minded users to connect to. You can of course connect to multiple relays for multiple different type of feed.

While NOSTR is a protocol, platforms have to be built to use it, so the first platforms were twitter like clients and they are still very prevalent. However, NOSTR now has clients that emulate most social media platforms, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Soundcloud, WhatsApp etc. They are even creating their own categories as well as emulating other functions such as Office Suite tools, collaborative calendars, contact lists or e-commerce shops.

If you want to give it a go, the easiest, but not the best, way to get started is download Primal on your phone from here:

https://primal.net/downloads

It will create a private key for you and setup a Bitcoin wallet.

Once you have done this you can visit me here:

nostr:npub1aqakd28d95muqlg6h6nwrvqq5925n354prayckr424k49vzjds4s0c237n

If you want to see a small part of the ecosystem, then visit https://www.nostrapps.com/ where volunteers are listing some of the many apps that exist already.

NOSTR is being backed by Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder, and you can see his account here:

nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m

Or you can see his account like this:

https://primal.net/jack

Edward Snowden is also on the platform and you can find him here:

https://primal.net/Snowden

NOSTR has around 2 million users or public keys, although nobody really knows how many, because it is decentralised and not controlled or run by any person or organisation.

Once you’ve setup Primal, you can use those same private keys to access any platform you wish and you can use a browser extension such as Alby to manage your keys: https://getalby.com/

Primal looks great, but there are other better functioning twitter like clients, probably the most reliable for iPhone is Damus: https://www.nostrapps.com/apps/damus

or Amethyst for Android: https://nostrapps.com/amethyst

The content and user base is very Bitcoin and freedom focused right now, but more and more people are starting to use the various platforms and some are transferring exclusively to it.

Some of the more interesting projects right now are:

https://www.0xchat.com/#/ – Private messaging – think WhatsApp

https://zap.stream/ – Video streaming

https://fountain.fm/ – Podcasting

https://wavlake.com/ – Music streaming

https://shopstr.store/ – Online shop

https://npub.pro/ – Website creation tool

https://nostr.build/ – Media and file storage

https://relay.tools/ – Build and curate your own relay

https://creatr.nostr.wine/subscriptions/new-user – Creator tools

Remember, the same keys you created for Primal can be used across the whole ecosystem.

If you want to see some of the other apps that have been built on the NOSTR protocol visit: https://nostrapps.com/

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ aa07c23c:2ec2c0aa
2024-09-24 04:47:09

It's pretty simple to understand.

Bitcoin was designed to offer everyone a superior alternative to the fiat system, which is flawed and not fixable.

For this alternative to be truly sustainable, we need to do everything we can to develop a circular economy centered on the Bitcoin system.

This means pushing more merchants to support Bitcoin as the MoE of everyday life. It also means adopting the “Spend and Replace your Bitcoin” paradigm rather than getting stuck in the “HODL Bitcoin no matter what” paradigm.

This latter paradigm is gradually trapping Bitcoin as a simple SoV integrated into the current system. This plays into the hands of BlackRock and the other financial giants who want to rob us of the deeper meaning of the Bitcoin revolution.

So, if you don't spend your Bitcoin by not using it as an MoE, you're shorting the Bitcoin revolution.

Don't make this mistake!

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/697217

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-03-19 14:32:01

Censorship-resistant relay discovery in Nostr

In Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant I said Nostr is centralized. Peter Todd thinks it is centralized by design, but I disagree.

Nostr wasn't designed to be centralized. The idea was always that clients would follow people in the relays they decided to publish to, even if it was a single-user relay hosted in an island in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

But the Nostr explanations never had any guidance about how to do this, and the protocol itself never had any enforcement mechanisms for any of this (because it would be impossible).

My original idea was that clients would use some undefined combination of relay hints in reply tags and the (now defunct) kind:2 relay-recommendation events plus some form of manual action ("it looks like Bob is publishing on relay X, do you want to follow him there?") to accomplish this. With the expectation that we would have a better idea of how to properly implement all this with more experience, Branle, my first working client didn't have any of that implemented, instead it used a stupid static list of relays with read/write toggle -- although it did publish relay hints and kept track of those internally and supported kind:2 events, these things were not really useful.

Gossip was the first client to implement a truly censorship-resistant relay discovery mechanism that used NIP-05 hints (originally proposed by Mike Dilger) relay hints and kind:3 relay lists, and then with the simple insight of NIP-65 that got much better. After seeing it in more concrete terms, it became simpler to reason about it and the approach got popularized as the "gossip model", then implemented in clients like Coracle and Snort.

Today when people mention the "gossip model" (or "outbox model") they simply think about NIP-65 though. Which I think is ok, but too restrictive. I still think there is a place for the NIP-05 hints, nprofile and nevent relay hints and specially relay hints in event tags. All these mechanisms are used together in ZBD Social, for example, but I believe also in the clients listed above.

I don't think we should stop here, though. I think there are other ways, perhaps drastically different ways, to approach content propagation and relay discovery. I think manual action by users is underrated and could go a long way if presented in a nice UX (not conceived by people that think users are dumb animals), and who knows what. Reliance on third-parties, hardcoded values, social graph, and specially a mix of multiple approaches, is what Nostr needs to be censorship-resistant and what I hope to see in the future.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 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。
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ eac63075:b4988b48
2024-09-20 09:23:23
Overview of the Infrastructure
1. Umbrel/Citadel/RaspiBlitz/Start9 Server
2. Purpose: Acts as your personal Bitcoin and Lightning Network node.
3. Setup: Installed on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Debian or Umbrel OS.
4. Benefits:
  - Participate in Bitcoin Consensus: Validates transactions and blocks independently.
  - Lightning Network Routing: Facilitates faster transactions and earns routing fees.
5. Cold Storage Wallets
6. Coldcard: A highly secure hardware wallet designed specifically for Bitcoin.
7. Ledger Nano X: A versatile hardware wallet supporting multiple cryptocurrencies.
8. Purpose: Store your Bitcoin offline to protect against online threats.
9. Secure Devices
10. Encrypted Computer: A notebook with encrypted storage for managing your wallets and nodes securely.
11. Android Phone with Secure Area:
  - Old Device: Repurposed without a SIM card to minimize exposure.
  - Secure Area for Apps: Uses features like Samsung's Secure Folder/Knox to isolate sensitive applications.
12. NerdMiner
13. Purpose: A compact mining device like the Nerdminer V2 to engage in Bitcoin mining.
14. Function: Attempts to mine Bitcoin blocks, offering a chance (albeit very low) to earn block rewards and learn about the mining process.
### Advantages of This Setup
- Self-Sovereignty: You have complete control over your funds without relying on third-party services.
- Enhanced Privacy:
- CoinJoin Transactions: Mix your coins with others to obfuscate transaction history.
- No SIM Card Devices: Reduces the risk of SIM swapping attacks.
- Network Participation:
- Consensus Involvement: By running a full node, you help maintain the network's integrity.
- Lightning Network: Improve transaction speeds and network scalability.
- Security:
- Cold Storage: Keeps your private keys offline, away from potential online threats.
- Encrypted Devices: Protects data even if physical devices are lost or stolen.
### Simplifying the Perceived Complexity

While the infrastructure may seem daunting, it's more approachable than it appears:
- Starting Point: Use an old computer or phone as a cold wallet with software like Electrum or Sparrow.
- Step-by-Step Setup:
- Begin with setting up the Umbrel/Citadel/RaspiBlitz/Start9 server.
- Gradually add hardware wallets like Coldcard, SeedSigner DIY, Jade, Ledger, Trezor or Onekey.
- Implement security measures on your existing devices.
- Community Resources: Numerous guides and communities are available to assist with each step.
### Embracing Freedom and Privacy

Practicing self-sovereignty and custody isn't just about securing your Bitcoin—it's about embracing freedom and privacy in the digital age. By taking control:
- Financial Independence: You're not dependent on banks or exchanges.
- Data Privacy: Your financial data remains confidential.
- Empowerment: Gain a deeper understanding of how Bitcoin and blockchain technology work.
Remember: Even simple steps like using an old device as a cold wallet can significantly enhance your security. The journey towards complete self-sovereignty is a progressive one, and each step you take strengthens your position in the digital world.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ eac63075:b4988b48
2024-09-20 08:49:03

This event has been deleted; your client is ignoring the delete request.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 32e18276:5c68e245
2023-08-07 16:10:07
Hey guys,

I spent some time this weekend fixing a bunch of the bugs that were introduced in the latest nostrdb refactor. See the changelog below for the full list of changes in the latest build!

Planned this week

I have a big list of things I'm planning on adding to Damus this week:
- Lists!
- Zap improvements: Bringing back top zap comments in threads, profile zap comments in notifications, Private DM Zaps
- Video player improvements
- Sharing improvements (share to damus, etc)
Make sure to come back in a week to see how much I could get done!

Changelog

Added
- Add close button to custom reactions (Suhail Saqan)
- Add ability to change order of custom reactions (Suhail Saqan)
- Adjustable font size (William Casarin)
Changed
- Show renotes in Notes timeline (William Casarin)
Fixed
- Ensure the person you're replying to is the first entry in the reply description (William Casarin)
- Don't cutoff text in notifications (William Casarin)
- Fix wikipedia url detection with parenthesis (William Casarin)
- Fixed old notifications always appearing on first start (William Casarin)
- Fix issue with slashes on relay urls causing relay connection problems (William Casarin)
- Fix rare crash triggered by local notifications (William Casarin)
- Fix crash when long-pressing reactions (William Casarin)
- Fixed nostr reporting decoding (William Casarin)
- Dismiss qr screen on scan (Suhail Saqan)
- Show QRCameraView regardless of same user (Suhail Saqan)
- Fix wiggle when long press reactions (Suhail Saqan)
- Fix reaction button breaking scrolling (Suhail Saqan)
- Fix crash when muting threads (Bryan Montz)
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 32e18276:5c68e245
2023-08-03 21:05:05
Hey guys,

I've been quiet lately... I've been working on something big. In the past 2 weeks there have been 9539 new lines of code added to damus, 2928 removed, 279 files changed. I've rewritten much of the codebase in preparation for the nostrdb integration.

nostrdb

What is nostrdb? nostrdb is an integrated relay within damus, with the same design as strfry, but slightly different to support embedding into nostr apps. This will be the heart of Damus apps going forward, including notedeck and other future microapps. Think of it as a kind of development kit but with an embedded database and query capabilities. I didn't want to have to recreate all of the same querying, caching, and parsing code when building new apps, nostrdb will solve all of the painful and slow parts. nostr seems simple but if you want a fully working app it is pretty complicated, especially if you want it to be fast and sync efficiently.

Goals
- be the best and most efficient at querying, syncing and storing nostr notes
- enable direct mapping of notes into application code without any serialization overhead
- provide advanced syncing capabilities such as negentropy, which allows us to only query stuff we don't have
- be as portable as possible. nostrdb is a C library that you can embed into basically anything.
- full relay filter support
- full text search
Benefits
- full note verification
- more efficient de-duplication before we begin processing events off the wire
- set-reconciliation based syncing (negentropy) drastically reduces bandwidth usage and latency
- iteration on future nostr apps will be quicker (android, desktop, etc)
- features like ghost mode, account switching, etc will be much more efficient as you will be able to quickly switch between notes that are cached locally
- much smaller memory footprint due to optimized in-memory note format, which in turn improves cpu-cache efficiency
- much better profile and note searching
So that's what I've been working on in the past two weeks. On to what else is new in this release:

Multi reactions!

Suhail did an amazing job at adding multiple reaction support. All you need to do is long-press the Shaka button to show different options. You can customize these in settings as well

New onboarding features

Damus will now suggest people to follow when you first enter the app, this is the first of many onboarding improvements coming soon. Thank Klabo for this one!

That's all for now! Please test thoroughly and let me know if you run into any issues. You likely will since the entire codebase has been changed, and I probably broke something.

Until next time 🫡
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 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.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 42342239:1d80db24
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.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 862fda7e:02a8268b
2024-09-24 01:14:40

The media, government, and "elite" (who are only elite in this low vibration illusion we call "life") are afraid of people like me because I do not accept the reality they have forced us into. My manifesto is an attempt to wake you up from ideas you have been conditioned into believing because it benefits one class - the protected class known as the "elite".

The elite would like to have you believe that my message is something crafted from hatred and they would like to label me with mental issues. They would like you to think I am some crazy extremist who wants to advocate for the harm of others. They would like you to think that I am enciting violence.

This could not be further from the truth.

I am not and will never be an extremist, white supermicist, terrorist, radical, hateful human being. I do not believe in killing in order to convey a message or movement. I do not believe in division.

I only advocate that you become conscious of the reality around us. The reality is that this is a world controlled by the most evil, controlling, destructive freaks. These people work to make sure we are essentially slaves to a system that benefits those who created the system - the elites. Let me make this clear: I do NOT advocate for violence, destruction, death, killing, murder, hatred, division, or terrorism. The elite are threatened by people like me, because they know that we know their game. We know their plans are to destroy, to advocate for violence, to kill, murder, to encite hatred and division. This is all the elite do - they cannot fathom having people live in peace because it isn't beneficial if you want to control the world.

So while you may think it's impossible there is a group of a few evil people who control the world - look back at history. It has always been littered with the few evil who control the many. It would be stupid to think it would be different

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 84b0c46a:417782f5
2024-09-15 06:29:45
- 1:nan:
- 2
- 2irorio絵文字
- 1nostr:npub1sjcvg64knxkrt6ev52rywzu9uzqakgy8ehhk8yezxmpewsthst6sw3jqcw
- 2
- 2
  - 3
  - 3
- 2
- 1
|1|2| |:--|:--| |test|:nan:| ---

:nan: :nan:
1. 1
2. 2
3. tet
4. tes
5. 3
6. 1
7. 2
  
  t
  
  te
  
  test
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 8d34bd24:414be32b
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

If you don’t want to miss a post, please consider subscribing near the bottom of the post, so you know when new posts are published.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 08f96856:ffe59a09
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 :)

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 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!
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-29 02:19:25

Nostr: a quick introduction, attempt #1

Nostr doesn't have a material existence, it is not a website or an app. Nostr is just a description what kind of messages each computer can send to the others and vice-versa. It's a very simple thing, but the fact that such description exists allows different apps to connect to different servers automatically, without people having to talk behind the scenes or sign contracts or anything like that.

When you use a Nostr client that is what happens, your client will connect to a bunch of servers, called relays, and all these relays will speak the same "language" so your client will be able to publish notes to them all and also download notes from other people.

That's basically what Nostr is: this communication layer between the client you run on your phone or desktop computer and the relay that someone else is running on some server somewhere. There is no central authority dictating who can connect to whom or even anyone who knows for sure where each note is stored.

If you think about it, Nostr is very much like the internet itself: there are millions of websites out there, and basically anyone can run a new one, and there are websites that allow you to store and publish your stuff on them.

The added benefit of Nostr is that this unified "language" that all Nostr clients speak allow them to switch very easily and cleanly between relays. So if one relay decides to ban someone that person can switch to publishing to others relays and their audience will quickly follow them there. Likewise, it becomes much easier for relays to impose any restrictions they want on their users: no relay has to uphold a moral ground of "absolute free speech": each relay can decide to delete notes or ban users for no reason, or even only store notes from a preselected set of people and no one will be entitled to complain about that.

There are some bad things about this design: on Nostr there are no guarantees that relays will have the notes you want to read or that they will store the notes you're sending to them. We can't just assume all relays will have everything — much to the contrary, as Nostr grows more relays will exist and people will tend to publishing to a small set of all the relays, so depending on the decisions each client takes when publishing and when fetching notes, users may see a different set of replies to a note, for example, and be confused.

Another problem with the idea of publishing to multiple servers is that they may be run by all sorts of malicious people that may edit your notes. Since no one wants to see garbage published under their name, Nostr fixes that by requiring notes to have a cryptographic signature. This signature is attached to the note and verified by everybody at all times, which ensures the notes weren't tampered (if any part of the note is changed even by a single character that would cause the signature to become invalid and then the note would be dropped). The fix is perfect, except for the fact that it introduces the requirement that each user must now hold this 63-character code that starts with "nsec1", which they must not reveal to anyone. Although annoying, this requirement brings another benefit: that users can automatically have the same identity in many different contexts and even use their Nostr identity to login to non-Nostr websites easily without having to rely on any third-party.

To conclude: Nostr is like the internet (or the internet of some decades ago): a little chaotic, but very open. It is better than the internet because it is structured and actions can be automated, but, like in the internet itself, nothing is guaranteed to work at all times and users many have to do some manual work from time to time to fix things. Plus, there is the cryptographic key stuff, which is painful, but cool.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ a39d19ec:3d88f61e
2024-07-05 14:17:31

This months proof of watch or #wristcheck (inspired by nostr:nprofile1qqs8nh529w5huhuqvx0h5zm8e5ncdenk7qvfpsl3huxu84xnfnr6uespr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmnt9uxu0nnm) is the Casio MTD-1001 with caliber 1333 and a quartz clockwork.

Design

A solid analog watch with weekday and day of month at 3 o'clock. Classified as a divers watch it has a pretty big dial within a 44mm metal casing leading to big hands that are very readable. Hands and numbers are phosphorus. The counter-clockwise rotating bezel does 60 clicks per revolution. The screw-down crown is at 3'o clock. The rubber band is pretty long.

Storytime

I bought it a long time ago and just saw that it needed some love (and a new battery) and thought it is a good opportunity to wear it for the first time. I wear one watch as a daily driver for one month straight. Wearing it for seven days now I can say that it is a heavy watch. You feel that you are wearing it. To be honest I completely forgot about that watch as it was a bulk of 5 or 6 watches and this was not the one I bought the bulk for.

This might be the first longform note about a watch from my collection.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

2024-01-15 11:15:06

Pequenos problemas que o Estado cria para a sociedade e que não são sempre lembrados

- **vale-transporte**: transferir o custo com o transporte do funcionário para um terceiro o estimula a morar longe de onde trabalha, já que morar perto é normalmente mais caro e a economia com transporte é inexistente.
- **atestado médico**: o direito a faltar o trabalho com atestado médico cria a exigência desse atestado para todas as situações, substituindo o livre acordo entre patrão e empregado e sobrecarregando os médicos e postos de saúde com visitas desnecessárias de assalariados resfriados.
- **prisões**: com dinheiro mal-administrado, burocracia e péssima alocação de recursos -- problemas que empresas privadas em competição (ou mesmo sem qualquer competição) saberiam resolver muito melhor -- o Estado fica sem presídios, com os poucos existentes entupidos, muito acima de sua alocação máxima, e com isto, segundo a bizarra corrente de responsabilidades que culpa o juiz que condenou o criminoso por sua morte na cadeia, juízes deixam de condenar à prisão os bandidos, soltando-os na rua.
- **justiça**: entrar com processos é grátis e isto faz proliferar a atividade dos advogados que se dedicam a criar problemas judiciais onde não seria necessário e a entupir os tribunais, impedindo-os de fazer o que mais deveriam fazer.
- **justiça**: como a justiça só obedece às leis e ignora acordos pessoais, escritos ou não, as pessoas não fazem acordos, recorrem sempre à justiça estatal, e entopem-na de assuntos que seriam muito melhor resolvidos entre vizinhos.
- **leis civis**: as leis criadas pelos parlamentares ignoram os costumes da sociedade e são um incentivo a que as pessoas não respeitem nem criem normas sociais -- que seriam maneiras mais rápidas, baratas e satisfatórias de resolver problemas.
- **leis de trãnsito**: quanto mais leis de trânsito, mais serviço de fiscalização são delegados aos policiais, que deixam de combater crimes por isto (afinal de contas, eles não querem de fato arriscar suas vidas combatendo o crime, a fiscalização é uma excelente desculpa para se esquivarem a esta responsabilidade).
- **financiamento educacional**: é uma espécie de subsídio às faculdades privadas que faz com que se criem cursos e mais cursos que são cada vez menos recheados de algum conhecimento ou técnica útil e cada vez mais inúteis.
- **leis de tombamento**: são um incentivo a que o dono de qualquer área ou construção "histórica" destrua todo e qualquer vestígio de história que houver nele antes que as autoridades descubram, o que poderia não acontecer se ele pudesse, por exemplo, usar, mostrar e se beneficiar da história daquele local sem correr o risco de perder, de fato, a sua propriedade.
- **zoneamento urbano**: torna as cidades mais espalhadas, criando uma necessidade gigantesca de carros, ônibus e outros meios de transporte para as pessoas se locomoverem das zonas de moradia para as zonas de trabalho.
- **zoneamento urbano**: faz com que as pessoas percam horas no trânsito todos os dias, o que é, além de um desperdício, um atentado contra a sua saúde, que estaria muito melhor servida numa caminhada diária entre a casa e o trabalho.
- **zoneamento urbano**: torna ruas e as casas menos seguras criando zonas enormes, tanto de residências quanto de indústrias, onde não há movimento de gente alguma.
- **escola obrigatória + currículo escolar nacional**: emburrece todas as crianças.
- **leis contra trabalho infantil**: tira das crianças a oportunidade de aprender ofícios úteis e levar um dinheiro para ajudar a família.
- **licitações**: como não existem os critérios do mercado para decidir qual é o melhor prestador de serviço, criam-se comissões de pessoas que vão decidir coisas. isto incentiva os prestadores de serviço que estão concorrendo na licitação a tentar comprar os membros dessas comissões. isto, fora a corrupção, gera problemas reais: __(i)__ a escolha dos serviços acaba sendo a pior possível, já que a empresa prestadora que vence está claramente mais dedicada a comprar comissões do que a fazer um bom trabalho (este problema afeta tantas áreas, desde a construção de estradas até a qualidade da merenda escolar, que é impossível listar aqui); __(ii)__ o processo corruptor acaba, no longo prazo, eliminando as empresas que prestavam e deixando para competir apenas as corruptas, e a qualidade tende a piorar progressivamente.
- **cartéis**: o Estado em geral cria e depois fica refém de vários grupos de interesse. o caso dos taxistas contra o Uber é o que está na moda hoje (e o que mostra como os Estados se comportam da mesma forma no mundo todo).
- **multas**: quando algum indivíduo ou empresa comete uma fraude financeira, ou causa algum dano material involuntário, as vítimas do caso são as pessoas que sofreram o dano ou perderam dinheiro, mas o Estado tem sempre leis que prevêem multas para os responsáveis. A justiça estatal é sempre muito rígida e rápida na aplicação dessas multas, mas relapsa e vaga no que diz respeito à indenização das vítimas. O que em geral acontece é que o Estado aplica uma enorme multa ao responsável pelo mal, retirando deste os recursos que dispunha para indenizar as vítimas, e se retira do caso, deixando estas desamparadas.
- **desapropriação**: o Estado pode pegar qualquer propriedade de qualquer pessoa mediante uma indenização que é necessariamente inferior ao valor da propriedade para o seu presente dono (caso contrário ele a teria vendido voluntariamente).
- **seguro-desemprego**: se há, por exemplo, um prazo mínimo de 1 ano para o sujeito ter direito a receber seguro-desemprego, isto o incentiva a planejar ficar apenas 1 ano em cada emprego (ano este que será sucedido por um período de desemprego remunerado), matando todas as possibilidades de aprendizado ou aquisição de experiência naquela empresa específica ou ascensão hierárquica.
- **previdência**: a previdência social tem todos os defeitos de cálculo do mundo, e não importa muito ela ser uma forma horrível de poupar dinheiro, porque ela tem garantias bizarras de longevidade fornecidas pelo Estado, além de ser compulsória. Isso serve para criar no imaginário geral a idéia da __aposentadoria__, uma época mágica em que todos os dias serão finais de semana. A idéia da aposentadoria influencia o sujeito a não se preocupar em ter um emprego que faça sentido, mas sim em ter um trabalho qualquer, que o permita se aposentar.
- **regulamentação impossível**: milhares de coisas são proibidas, há regulamentações sobre os aspectos mais mínimos de cada empreendimento ou construção ou espaço. se todas essas regulamentações fossem exigidas não haveria condições de produção e todos morreriam. portanto, elas não são exigidas. porém, o Estado, ou um agente individual imbuído do poder estatal pode, se desejar, exigi-las todas de um cidadão inimigo seu. qualquer pessoa pode viver a vida inteira sem cumprir nem 10% das regulamentações estatais, mas viverá também todo esse tempo com medo de se tornar um alvo de sua exigência, num estado de terror psicológico.
- **perversão de critérios**: para muitas coisas sobre as quais a sociedade normalmente chegaria a um valor ou comportamento "razoável" espontaneamente, o Estado dita regras. estas regras muitas vezes não são obrigatórias, são mais "sugestões" ou limites, como o salário mínimo, ou as 44 horas semanais de trabalho. a sociedade, porém, passa a usar esses valores como se fossem o normal. são raras, por exemplo, as ofertas de emprego que fogem à regra das 44h semanais.
- **inflação**: subir os preços é difícil e constrangedor para as empresas, pedir aumento de salário é difícil e constrangedor para o funcionário. a inflação força as pessoas a fazer isso, mas o aumento não é automático, como alguns economistas podem pensar (enquanto alguns outros ficam muito satisfeitos de que esse processo seja demorado e difícil).
- **inflação**: a inflação destrói a capacidade das pessoas de julgar preços entre concorrentes usando a própria memória.
- **inflação**: a inflação destrói os cálculos de lucro/prejuízo das empresas e prejudica enormemente as decisões empresariais que seriam baseadas neles.
- **inflação**: a inflação redistribui a riqueza dos mais pobres e mais afastados do sistema financeiro para os mais ricos, os bancos e as megaempresas.
- **inflação**: a inflação estimula o endividamento e o consumismo.
- **lixo:** ao prover coleta e armazenamento de lixo "grátis para todos" o Estado incentiva a criação de lixo. se tivessem que pagar para que recolhessem o seu lixo, as pessoas (e conseqüentemente as empresas) se empenhariam mais em produzir coisas usando menos plástico, menos embalagens, menos sacolas.
- **leis contra crimes financeiros:** ao criar legislação para dificultar acesso ao sistema financeiro por parte de criminosos a dificuldade e os custos para acesso a esse mesmo sistema pelas pessoas de bem cresce absurdamente, levando a um percentual enorme de gente incapaz de usá-lo, para detrimento de todos -- e no final das contas os grandes criminosos ainda conseguem burlar tudo.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me

@ 09fbf8f3:fa3d60f0
2024-09-12 13:48:54

图床平台

2024.09.12更新 https://img.chkaja.com/

https://im.gurl.eu.org/ 已失效 https://img.fzxx.xyz/index2 https://imgse.com/ https://img.gejiba.com/ https://imgloc.com/ https://www.superbed.cn/ https://www.helloimg.com/ https://im.ge/ https://png.cm/ https://img.ax/ https://tucdn.wpon.cn/ https://locimg.com/ https://xiray.cf/ https://pic.sl.al/ https://lvse.eu.org/ https://img.ink/

🏷 #图床 #合集

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 502ab02a:a2860397
2024-09-24 06:20:57
ร่างกฎหมาย "ฮิปโปบิลล์" (Hippo Bill) ปี 1910 เป็นหนึ่งในเรื่องราวทางการเมืองที่แปลกและน่าสนใจที่สุดในประวัติศาสตร์ของสหรัฐอเมริกา เรื่องนี้เริ่มต้นจากการที่ประเทศเผชิญกับปัญหาขาดแคลนเนื้อสัตว์และปัญหาผักตบชวาที่กำลังล้นแหล่งน้ำในรัฐลุยเซียนา ซึ่งสร้างความเสียหายให้กับแหล่งน้ำและทรัพยากรประมงในท้องถิ่น เพื่อแก้ไขปัญหานี้ สมาชิกสภาคองเกรส โรเบิร์ต โบรซซาร์ด (Robert Broussard) จึงเสนอร่างกฎหมายที่มีชื่อว่า "American Hippo Bill" โดยมีเป้าหมายในการนำเข้าฮิปโปโปเตมัสจากแอฟริกาเพื่อช่วยกำจัดปัญหาผักตบชวารุกราน และในขณะเดียวกันยังเสนอแนวคิดว่าฮิปโปจะสามารถเป็นแหล่งเนื้อสัตว์ใหม่ให้กับชาวอเมริกันได้

ที่มาของปัญหาการขาดแคลนเนื้อสัตว์

ในช่วงต้นศตวรรษที่ 20 (ราวๆ 1900s ฮาๆๆ ปีนี้ช่วงนี้อีกแล้ว แฟนๆ #บอกเล่า90บวก1 น่าจะคุ้นเคยดี) มีการอพยพเข้ามามาก สหรัฐอเมริกาจึงประสบกับปัญหาขาดแคลนอาหารอย่างหนัก โดยเฉพาะเนื้อสัตว์ที่เป็นหนึ่งในอาหารหลักของชาวอเมริกัน แม้อุตสาหกรรมเนื้อสัตว์ขยายตัวอย่างมาก แต่ก็ไม่สามารถตามทันได้เนื่องจากการล่าและการทำลายถิ่นที่อยู่อาศัยของสัตว์ในทวีปอเมริกาเหนือทำให้สัตว์บางชนิดเกือบจะสูญพันธุ์ อาทิ ไบซัน และกวาง ที่เป็นแหล่งเนื้อหลัก ส่งผลให้เกิดการขาดแคลนเนื้อสัตว์ จนทำให้รัฐบาลต้องพิจารณาหาวิธีการในการเพิ่มแหล่งเนื้อสัตว์ใหม่อย่างจริงจัง

ปัญหาผักตบชวารุกราน

ในช่วงเวลานั้น รัฐลุยเซียนายังประสบปัญหาพืชน้ำชนิดหนึ่งคือ "วอเตอร์ไฮยาซินท์ (Water Hyacinth) " หรือผักตบชวา ซึ่งนำเข้ามาในอเมริกาโดยคณะผู้แทนจากญี่ปุ่นที่มาเยือนนิวออร์ลีนส์ในปี 1884 แล้วมันดันเติบโตอย่างรวดเร็วมากกกกอย่างที่เรารู้ฤทธิ์มันดี และทำให้การทำประมงเป็นไปอย่างยากลำบาก เพราะมันทำลายแหล่งที่อยู่อาศัยของปลาและสัตว์น้ำอื่น ๆจนตายเป็นเบือ ผักตบชวาเจริญเติบโตอย่างรวดเร็วและครอบคลุมแม่น้ำลำคลองเกือบทั้งหมด ทำให้การคมนาคมทางน้ำและการใช้ประโยชน์จากแหล่งน้ำเป็นไปอย่างยากลำบากมาก ** สำหรับประเทศไทย เท่าที่หาข้อมูลมาได้ ในปี พ.ศ. 2444 (ค.ศ. 1901) เมื่อครั้งที่พระบาทสมเด็จพระจุลจอมเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัวเสด็จประพาสประเทศอินโดนีเซีย ไม่มีบันทึกว่าพระองค์ได้นำผักตบชวากลับมาด้วย อย่างไรก็ตาม ผักตบชวานั้นถูกนำเข้ามาในประเทศไทยในช่วงหลังจากนั้น โดยในปี พ.ศ. 2455 (ค.ศ. 1912) เป็นช่วงที่พระยาศรีวิสารวาจานำพืชชนิดนี้เข้ามาเพื่อใช้ในงานประดับและฟอกน้ำตามคูคลองในประเทศไทย แต่ในที่สุดกลับกลายเป็นพืชที่แพร่กระจายและก่อปัญหาในแหล่งน้ำของประเทศครับ **

เกิดแนวคิดฮิปโปจ๋าเป็นทางแก้ปัญหา

ด้วยปัญหาทั้งสองนี้ โรเบิร์ต โบรซซาร์ด เห็นว่าฮิปโปโปเตมัสอาจเป็นคำตอบของทั้งปัญหาขาดแคลนเนื้อสัตว์และปัญหาผักตบชวารุกราน เนื่องจากฮิปโปเป็นสัตว์ที่กินพืชน้ำในแหล่งน้ำต่าง ๆ รวมถึงผักตบชวาด้วยแถมกินจุมากๆ นอกจากนี้ โบรซซาร์ดเชื่อว่าฮิปโปสามารถเป็นสัตว์เลี้ยงเพื่อเอาเนื้อให้แก่ชาวอเมริกันบริโภคได้

แนวคิดนี้ได้รับการสนับสนุนจากบุคคลสำคัญอย่าง เฟรเดอริก รัสเซล เบิร์นแฮม (Frederick Russell Burnham) บุคคลสำคัญอย่างน่าตะลึงและถูกลืมเลือนไปจากประวัติศาสตร์โดยสิ้นเชิง เป็นสุดยอดลูกเสือและสปาย เดินทางไปแอฟริกาเพื่อต่อสู้ให้กับนักล่าอาณานิคมชาวอังกฤษ เพราะเช่นเดียวกับผู้คนจำนวนมากในสมัยนั้น เขาคิดว่านี่เป็นภารกิจอันสูงส่งที่จะนำ "อารยธรรม" มาสู่แอฟริกา ครั้งหนึ่งเขาเคยได้รับการขนานนามว่าเป็น most complete human being who ever lived อีกด้วย อ่อ นอกจากนี้เขายังเป็นนักผจญภัยต้นแบบของการเขียนเรื่อง อินเดียน่าโจนส์ ด้วยครับ มีวลีอมตะที่นักข่าวคนนึงเขียนถึงเขาว่า “He has trained himself to endure the most appalling fatigues, hunger, thirst, and wounds; has subdued the brain to infinite patience, has learned to force every nerve in his body to absolute obedience, to still even the beating of his heart,”

และอีกคนนึงคือ ฟริตซ์ ดูเคน (Fritz Duquesne) เป็นชาวบัวร์ เขาเป็นคนมีไหวพริบมาก เขาใช้ชีวิตไปวันๆ โดยใช้ชื่อปลอม เขาเป็นนักต้มตุ๋นที่เก่งกาจและทะเยอทะยาน เขาต่อสู้กับอังกฤษในสงครามบัวร์ครั้งที่สอง เขาเป็นสายลับที่อิสระ เบิร์นแฮมเคยเรียกเขาว่า human epitome of sin and deception ที่ฮาคือ ในช่วงสงครามบัวร์ ชายสองคนนี้ได้รับมอบหมายให้ฆ่ากันเองครับ 5555 เอาเป็นว่าทั้งสองคนเคยใช้ชีวิตในแอฟริกาและเคยมีประสบการณ์การกินเนื้อฮิปโปมาแล้ว ในช่วงเวลาที่พวกเขาอาศัยอยู่ที่นั่น

สงครามบัวร์ (Boer War) หรือที่เรียกอย่างเป็นทางการว่า "สงครามแองโกล-บัวร์" (Anglo-Boer Wars) เป็นความขัดแย้งที่เกิดขึ้นระหว่างชาวบัวร์ (Boer) ซึ่งเป็นผู้ตั้งถิ่นฐานชาวดัตช์ในแอฟริกาใต้ กับจักรวรรดิอังกฤษ โดยเกิดขึ้นทั้งหมดสองครั้ง:
- สงครามบัวร์ครั้งที่หนึ่ง (1880–1881):*** เกิดจากความไม่พอใจของชาวบัวร์ที่ต่อสู้เพื่ออิสรภาพจากการยึดครองของอังกฤษ ซึ่งควบคุมอาณานิคมแหลม (Cape Colony) ในแอฟริกาใต้ การต่อสู้นี้จบลงด้วยความพ่ายแพ้ของอังกฤษ และบัวร์ได้รับสิทธิในการปกครองตนเองในบางพื้นที่
- สงครามบัวร์ครั้งที่สอง (1899–1902):*** เกิดจากการขยายตัวของจักรวรรดิอังกฤษในแอฟริกาใต้ โดยเฉพาะในภูมิภาคที่ชาวบัวร์ครอบครอง ซึ่งมีแหล่งทองคำและเพชรอยู่ สงครามครั้งนี้กินเวลานานกว่าและทารุณกว่าครั้งแรก โดยอังกฤษใช้ยุทธวิธีกักกันครอบครัวบัวร์ในค่ายกักกันและเผาทำลายฟาร์ม จนในที่สุดชาวบัวร์พ่ายแพ้และดินแดนของพวกเขาถูกผนวกเข้าเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของจักรวรรดิอังกฤษ
ผลจากสงครามครั้งที่สอง ทำให้เกิดการก่อตั้งสหภาพแอฟริกาใต้ในปี 1910 ซึ่งเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของจักรวรรดิอังกฤษ สงครามบัวร์ถือเป็นเหตุการณ์สำคัญในประวัติศาสตร์แอฟริกาใต้ที่ส่งผลต่อการเมืองและสังคมในภูมิภาคนี้ต่อมา

แน่นอนว่าต้องได้รับสนับสนุนจากบุคคลสำคัญ

แนวคิดในการนำเข้าฮิปโปของโบรซซาร์ดได้รับการสนับสนุนจากบุคคลสำคัญในสังคมสหรัฐอเมริกาในเวลานั้น เช่น อดีตประธานาธิบดี Theodore Roosevelt และ William Newton Irvin กระทรวงเกษตรของสหรัฐ - USDA (อีกแล้ว) รวมถึงการผนึกกำลังกับสื่อมวลชนยักษ์ใหญ่ในขณะนั้น อย่าง The Washington Post และ The New York Times ต่างก็ได้รายงานถึงร่างกฎหมายนี้ด้วยความสนใจ ถึงกับเรียกเนื้อฮิปโปว่า "lake cow bacon" (เบคอนจากวัวทะเลสาบ) เพื่อยกย่องถึงคุณภาพของเนื้อที่คาดว่าจะได้จากฮิปโปว่ารสเลิศ และไม่ต้องเปลืองพื้นที่ในการเลี้ยง เพราะมันอยู่ในบ่อน้ำได้สบายๆ พยายามนำเสนอชวนเชื่อให้ประชาชนเต็มที่

แผนการและข้อเสนอ

แผนการของโบรซซาร์ดคือการนำเข้าฮิปโปจากแอฟริกาและปล่อยลงในแม่น้ำลำคลองในภาคใต้ของสหรัฐอเมริกา โดยเฉพาะในรัฐลุยเซียนา ซึ่งฮิปโปจะช่วยกำจัดพืชน้ำอย่างผักตบชวาและยังให้เนื้อสัตว์เป็นแหล่งอาหารใหม่ให้กับประชาชนได้พร้อมๆกัน โบรซซาร์ดและผู้สนับสนุนของเขายืนยันว่าฮิปโปสามารถเลี้ยงในฟาร์มขนาดเล็กและสามารถให้เนื้อได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพกว่าวัว รสชาติและกลิ่นคล้ายคลึงกัน สามารถเป็นสัตว์เศรษฐกิจได้เนื่องจากฮิปโปเป็นสัตว์ที่กินพืชน้ำและสามารถเจริญเติบโตได้ในแหล่งน้ำของสหรัฐ เฟรเดอริก เบิร์นแฮม ยังเสนอแนะว่าฮิปโปสามารถช่วยในการแก้ปัญหาสิ่งแวดล้อมและการขาดแคลนอาหารของประเทศ เขาชี้ให้เห็นว่าในอดีต สหรัฐอเมริกาเคยนำเข้าสัตว์ต่างถิ่นอย่างเช่น อูฐจากแอฟริกาเพื่อใช้ในพื้นที่ทะเลทรายตะวันตก และยังเคยนำเข้ากวางเรนเดียร์จากรัสเซียมาเลี้ยงในอะแลสกาเพื่อใช้ทดแทนกวางคาริบูพื้นเมืองที่ลดจำนวนลง รวมถึงนกกระจอกเทศเพื่อหวังเรื่องการบริโภคเนื้อมาแล้ว

แต่ก็ยังมีข้อกังวล

แม้จะมีการสนับสนุนอย่างมาก แต่ก็มีข้อกังวลเกี่ยวกับความเป็นไปได้ในการเลี้ยงฮิปโปในฟาร์มขนาดเล็ก ความปลอดภัยของประชาชนเป็นเรื่องที่น่ากังวลอย่างยิ่ง เพราะฮิปโปเป็นหนึ่งในสัตว์ที่อันตรายที่สุดในโลก แม้จะเป็นสัตว์กินพืช แต่ฮิปโปก็มีรายงานว่าสามารถฆ่าคนได้หลายร้อยคนต่อปี และยังมีพฤติกรรมที่เป็นอันตรายเมื่อถูกรบกวนหรือถูกคุกคาม เอาจริงๆมันหวงที่มากแม้จะไม่ได้ทำอะไรมัน มันก็พร้อมจะเข้าโจมตีคน นอกจากนี้ ยังมีคำถามเกี่ยวกับอาหารของฮิปโปด้วย โดยผู้สนับสนุนร่างกฎหมายเชื่อว่าฮิปโปจะกินพืชน้ำอย่างผักตบชวา แต่ความจริงแล้ว ฮิปโปกินพืชน้ำอย่างผักตบชวาเพียงเล็กน้อย ในธรรมชาติพวกมันส่วนใหญ่จะกินหญ้าและพืชบกเป็นอาหารหลักต่างหาก นั่นหมายความว่าการนำเข้าฮิปโปมาเพื่อลดปริมาณผักตบชวาอาจไม่เกิดผลตามที่คาดหวัง

โดนให้คะแนนลบ ด้านผลกระทบทางเศรษฐกิจและสิ่งแวดล้อม

มีการโต้แย่งว่าการนำเข้าฮิปโปอาจส่งผลกระทบต่อระบบนิเวศและเศรษฐกิจในระยะยาว เนื่องจากการนำเข้าสัตว์ต่างถิ่นอาจก่อให้เกิดปัญหาการรุกรานทางชีวภาพ นอกจากนี้ การเลี้ยงฮิปโปยังต้องใช้พื้นที่จำนวนมากและอาจส่งผลกระทบต่อพื้นที่เกษตรกรรมอื่น ๆ ของประเทศ แม้ว่าร่างกฎหมาย "ฮิปโปบิลล์" จะไม่ผ่านการพิจารณาของสภาคองเกรส แต่เรื่องราวนี้ยังคงเป็นตัวอย่างที่น่าสนใจของวิธีการแก้ปัญหาแปลกใหม่กึ่งประหลาดที่สุดในประวัติศาสตร์ของสหรัฐอเมริกา

ปัดตก

ร่างกฎหมาย H.R. 23261 หรือ "American Hippo Bill" ที่เสนอในปี 1910 มีเป้าหมายเพื่อให้รัฐบาลจัดสรรงบประมาณประมาณ 1 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ (หรือเทียบเท่าในปัจจุบัน) เพื่อการนำฮิปโปจากแอฟริกามาใช้ในฟาร์มและการผลิตในสหรัฐฯ โดยมีวัตถุประสงค์ในการใช้ฮิปโปในการผลิตเนื้อและควบคุมจำนวนพืชน้ำในบางพื้นที่ แต่ในที่สุดกฎหมายนี้ไม่เคยผ่านการอนุมัติและกลายเป็นเรื่องที่น่าสนใจในประวัติศาสตร์สหรัฐฯ

แม้ว่าแนวคิดในการนำเข้าฮิปโปโปเตมัสจะดูแปลกในสายตาของคนปัจจุบัน แต่ในบริบทของเวลานั้น การคิดค้นวิธีการใหม่ ๆ เพื่อแก้ปัญหาสิ่งแวดล้อมและเศรษฐกิจเป็นเรื่องที่ได้รับการสนับสนุนอย่างมาก มันเลยเป็นสาเหตุของอะไรหลายๆอย่าง ตามที่เคยเล่าไว้ใน #บอกเล่า90บวก1 ครับ

สิ่งที่เกิดขึ้นในครั้งนี้คือจุดเริ่มต้นของเกษตรกรรมเชิงอุตสาหกรรม แทนที่จะนำสัตว์ชนิดใหม่เข้ามาเพื่อใช้ประโยชน์จากภูมิประเทศที่ดูเหมือนจะไม่อุดมสมบูรณ์ เราเพียงแค่ดัดแปลงภูมิประเทศเหล่านั้นให้เป็นทุ่งหญ้ามากขึ้น และเราก็บรรจุสัตว์ประเภทเดียวกันเข้าไปในดินแดนใหม่นั้นมากขึ้นเรื่อยๆ นั่นคือ feed lots and confinement operations ครับ เป็นแนวปฏิบัติในอุตสาหกรรมการเลี้ยงสัตว์เพื่อการผลิตเนื้อสัตว์ โดยเฉพาะในระบบการผลิตขนาดใหญ่ในตอนนั้น
- Feedlots: คือสถานที่เลี้ยงสัตว์ เช่น วัว หรือหมู ในพื้นที่จำกัด โดยสัตว์จะถูกเลี้ยงในลานที่จัดไว้ให้พวกมันอยู่รวมกันเพื่อการขุนอาหารสูตรเข้มข้น โดยมักเป็นอาหารผสมที่มีส่วนผสมของธัญพืช โปรตีน และสารเสริมอื่น ๆ เป้าหมายของ feedlots คือการเพิ่มน้ำหนักตัวของสัตว์ให้เร็วขึ้นเพื่อให้พร้อมสำหรับการแปรรูปเป็นเนื้อสัตว์ ซึ่งช่วยให้การผลิตเนื้อสัตว์มีประสิทธิภาพมากขึ้น
- Confinement operations: หมายถึงการเลี้ยงสัตว์ในสภาพที่ถูกจำกัดพื้นที่มาก สัตว์จะไม่สามารถเคลื่อนที่หรือหากินในพื้นที่ธรรมชาติได้เอง ซึ่งการเลี้ยงแบบนี้อาจมีอยู่ในหลายรูปแบบ เช่น การเลี้ยงหมูในโรงเรือน หรือการเลี้ยงไก่ในกรง สัตว์จะได้รับอาหาร น้ำ และการดูแลอย่างเข้มงวดในสภาพแวดล้อมที่ถูกควบคุมเพื่อเพิ่มผลผลิตอย่างต่อเนื่อง #PirateKeto #กูต้องรู้มั๊ย #หมูเด้ง #siamstr
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 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:

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 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?

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-09-18 10:37:09
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 this can't be Nostr.

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 anything about music.

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.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ eac63075:b4988b48
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.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 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

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 76ea2cfb:60905955
2024-09-17 07:25:29
Bitcoin representa para el dinero y la propiedad lo que Internet significó para la información: una disrupción fundamental que desafía los cimientos del Estado-nación tradicional, erosionando las estructuras basadas en el mundo físico y dando paso a una nueva realidad digital. En este nuevo paradigma, Bitcoin emerge como la primera forma de propiedad digital absoluta en la historia de la humanidad, prometiendo redefinir no solo nuestras transacciones económicas, sino también nuestra comprensión del valor, la confianza y la soberanía individual.

Esta fase es importante porque nos revelará progresivamente cómo puede Bitcoin llegar a convertirse en un nuevo activo monetario con cualidades hasta ahora nunca vistas en la Historia de la Humanidad

Brecha generacional y conceptual

Al igual que las personas del siglo XIX no podían concebir que enormes máquinas de acero pudieran en el futuro surcar los cielos, muchos individuos educados bajo el paradigma del mundo físico encuentran difícil, si no imposible, comprender plenamente el alcance y las implicaciones presentes y futuras de Bitcoin como propiedad digital absoluta y como dinero. Esta brecha conceptual no es meramente una cuestión de edad o resistencia al cambio, sino un profundo desafío cognitivo que requiere una reorientación fundamental de nuestros modelos mentales sobre el dinero, el valor y la propiedad en la era digital.

Bitcoin: La primera propiedad digital absoluta

Bitcoin se distingue como la primera y única forma de propiedad digital verdaderamente absoluta por varias razones:
1. Escasez digital verificable: Con un suministro máximo de 21 millones de unidades, Bitcoin introduce por primera vez el concepto de escasez digital incorruptible.
2. Inmutabilidad: Gracias a la prueba de trabajo acumulada, una vez registrada una transacción en la cadena de bloques de Bitcoin es prácticamente imposible de alterar o revertir.
3. Resistencia a la censura: Gracias a la descentralización ofrecida por la amplia red de nodos de Bitcoin, ninguna entidad central puede congelar, confiscar o impedir la transferencia de bitcoins entre partes.
4. Soberanía individual: Los usuarios de Bitcoin tienen control total sobre sus fondos, sin intermediarios ni custodios obligatorios.
5. Programabilidad: Como dinero programable, Bitcoin permite nuevas formas de propiedad y contratos que, hasta ahora, eran imposibles en el mundo físico.
El camino hacia la adopción masiva

La transición hacia una adopción generalizada de Bitcoin como propiedad digital absoluta no será instantánea ni lineal. Se estima que serán necesarias al menos tres generaciones, cada una de aproximadamente 33 años, para que se desarrolle una masa crítica de individuos que vivan y operen cómodamente bajo este nuevo paradigma digital no físico. Este proceso no estará exento de obstáculos y desviaciones:
1. Ciclos de innovación y fracaso: Aunque Bitcoin se mantiene como la forma más pura de propiedad digital absoluta, veremos múltiples ciclos de nacimiento y muerte de otras criptomonedas alternativas (altcoins), ofertas iniciales de monedas (ICOs), tokens no fungibles (NFTs), activos del mundo real tokenizados (RWAs) y otros fenómenos inspirados en Bitcoin. Estas "distracciones" son parte integral del proceso de innovación y aprendizaje colectivo, y sus auges y caídas reforzarán con el tiempo la posición única de Bitcoin.
2. Evolución regulatoria: Los marcos legales y regulatorios evolucionarán, muchas veces de manera reactiva, tratando de adaptarse a las realidades cambiantes que Bitcoin introduce como forma de propiedad digital absoluta.
3. Transformación de instituciones financieras: Los bancos tradicionales y otras instituciones financieras se verán obligados a adaptarse o arriesgarse a volverse obsoletos, lo que llevará a una reestructuración significativa del sector financiero global en torno a los principios de propiedad digital absoluta que Bitcoin encarna.
4. Educación y alfabetización en Bitcoin: Surgirán nuevas formas de educación financiera y tecnológica para preparar a las generaciones futuras para operar en este nuevo paradigma, centrándose en la comprensión de Bitcoin como propiedad digital absoluta y sus implicaciones.
5. Adopción por etapas: La adopción de Bitcoin probablemente seguirá un patrón por etapas, que irá de la mano de su evolución tecnológica y económica:
6. Primero, como reserva de valor digital.
7. Luego, como medio de intercambio, tanto para pequeñas transacciones a nivel local como para transacciones internacionales y de alto valor.
8. Finalmente, como unidad de cuenta global y patrón para la fijación de precios.
9. Resistencia institucional: Gobiernos y entidades financieras centralizadas probablemente resistirán la adopción de Bitcoin, lo que podría resultar en períodos de volatilidad regulatoria y de mercado.
10. Mejoras tecnológicas: Continuarán desarrollándose soluciones de escalabilidad y privacidad para Bitcoin, como la Lightning Network y las actualizaciones de privacidad, que facilitarán su adopción masiva.
Implicaciones más allá de lo económico

El impacto de Bitcoin como propiedad digital absoluta se extenderá mucho más allá del ámbito financiero:
- Soberanía individual: Bitcoin ofrece una forma de preservar y transferir valor fuera del control de gobiernos y entidades centralizadas, potenciando la soberanía financiera individual.
- Redefinición de la ciudadanía: La capacidad de poseer y transferir valor globalmente sin restricciones podría llevar a nuevas formas de ciudadanía y pertenencia no vinculadas a estados nacionales.
- Nuevos modelos económicos: La naturaleza deflacionaria y la divisibilidad de Bitcoin podrían fomentar nuevos modelos económicos basados en el ahorro y la inversión a largo plazo.
- Privacidad financiera: Bitcoin ofrece un grado de privacidad financiera que puede proteger a individuos contra la vigilancia y el control gubernamental excesivo.
Conclusión

La revolución iniciada por Bitcoin va mucho más allá de ser una mera innovación financiera. Representa un cambio de paradigma fundamental en cómo concebimos la propiedad y el dinero en la era digital. A medida que avanzamos hacia este futuro, es crucial comprender que Bitcoin no es simplemente una nueva forma de dinero, sino la primera instancia de propiedad digital absoluta en la historia. Este concepto tiene el potencial de reestructurar fundamentalmente nuestras sociedades, empoderando a los individuos con un nivel de soberanía financiera sin precedentes.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ e97aaffa:2ebd765d
2024-09-22 09:50:04

Sim, é verdade, permitiu aumentar a qualidade de vida das pessoas, mas as consequências são tremendas. É verdade que nós temos uma qualidade de vida melhor que a dos nossos avós, mas este aumento da qualidade de vida é insustentável. Se nada for feito, os nossos netos terão a mesma qualidade de vida dos nossos avós, vão retroceder.

Na minha opinião existem duas causas que explicam esse crescimento nos últimos 50 anos, o crédito e a produtividade.

Crédito

O principal factor é o endividamento, o sistema FIAT transformou a sociedade e os governos dependentes de dívida, altamente endividados, o viver muito acima das suas possibilidades, com uma alta preferência temporal.

No momento em que fazemos um crédito é bom, as nossas contas bancárias ficam com mais dinheiro, podemos comprar muitos bens, a curto prazo ficamos com mais liquidez, mais “ricos” mas é uma ilusão.

A longo prazo temos um problema, a dívida tem que ser paga e não existe dinheiro para pagar, a única maneira é a austeridade, será necessário baixar o custo de vida para pagar a dívida do passado.

Na prática, o crédito é a antecipação das receitas, é o gastar hoje as receitas do futuro. Só que as pessoas do futuro não terão receitas, serão gastas para pagar as dívidas do passado, vão viver do quê?

Este é o problema, os políticos responsáveis pelo crescimento, hipotecaram o futuro dos seus netos, o viver acima das possibilidades é insustentável.

Se nós olharmos para a qualidade de vida, no período entre os 20 e 30 anos, o período da emancipação, nas diversas gerações: Quem tinha essa idade na década de 1970/1980 foi o principal beneficiado; Os jovens adultos da década de 2000 começaram a notar os primeiros problemas. Hoje em dia, os jovens entre 20 e os 30 anos já estão com muitas dificuldades económicas, em construir uma família, adquirir uma casa, o custo de vida está insuportável. O problema é que ainda vai agravar-se, as próximas gerações, ainda será pior que as atuais.

As dívidas dos países não diminui, só aumenta, os governos só rolam a dívida, apenas estão a adiar o problema, um dia vai rebentar.

Produtividade

O desenvolvimento tecnológico foi tremendo nos últimos 50 anos, ajudou para o aumento da produtividade e consequentemente, a melhoria salarial, melhoria na qualidade de vida das pessoas. Só que as pessoas apenas “receberam” uma pequena parte desse melhoramento, porque uma parte significativa desse aumento de produtividade foi absorvida pelos governos através da inflação da moeda.

Até 1971 (criação do sistema FIAT), o salário do trabalho acompanhou, o aumento da produtividade. Após 1971, acontece uma divergência entre a compensação e a produtividade.

Os governos ao desvalorizar a moeda afetam sobretudo os salários dos trabalhadores. Como as empresas têm uma maior “elasticidade”, permite-lhes mais rapidamente atualizar os preços dos produtos, corrigindo parcialmente a perda de valor da moeda. Enquanto a actualização do salário é muito mais lenta, prejudicando os trabalhadores.

O desenvolvimento tecnológico, que permitiu que o trabalhador produzisse mais, no mesmo espaço de tempo, essa mais valia, em vez de criar valor nas empresas e nos funcionários, foi essencialmente para os governos.

Neste momento estamos perante outro enorme salto tecnológico, que vai permitir um enorme aumento da produtividade, a AI. Se nada for feito, os governos vão absorver esses ganhos, possibilitando adiar o problema da dívida por mais uma década.

O sistema FIAT cria a iluminação que dá com uma mão, mas depois tira com a outra.

Quem tem poupanças mais elevadas consegue adquirir bens mais escassos, com uma melhor protecção contra a inflação, como o imobiliário, algumas ações e ouro.

Mas a classe trabalhadora, principalmente as pessoas com rendimentos mais baixos, acabam por guardar as suas poupanças em moeda. São duplamente afetados, no salário e na poupança.

Agora fica a pergunta, que é impossível responder: Se nos últimos 50 anos, não houvesse sistemas FIAT e se a produtividade tivesse sido repercutida nos salários dos trabalhadores, como estaríamos hoje em dia? Com melhor ou pior qualidade de dia?

A minha convicção é que em qualidade de vida estaríamos um pouco melhor, os governos estariam, sem dúvida nenhuma, muito melhor e as crianças não teriam o seu futuro hipotecado. As crianças de hoje, que serão os Homem de amanhã, ao responder a esta mesma pergunta, vão dizer: A qualidade de vida seria muito melhor.
É triste, mas é verdade, a nossa geração e especialmente a geração anterior priorizou o seu bem-estar em detrimento do bem-estar das futuras gerações, hipotecou o futuro dos seus próprios netos, com uma dívida que é impagável. Esses jovens, muitos ainda nem nasceram, terão que pagar os custos de bens ou de obras públicas, que nem existirão no seu “presente”, apenas vão pagar sem usufruir.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ ae1008d2:a166d760
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👇

Code on Github

Thank you for supporting my work with zaps ⚡ supermax@minibits.cash

bc1qaucduwftl6lff5f436kccjc425m0ntqs6phzcx

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.

CypherPunksWriteCode
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-14 14:52:16
bitcoind decentralization

It is better to have multiple curator teams, with different vetting processes and release schedules for bitcoind than a single one.

"More eyes on code", "Contribute to Core", "Everybody should audit the code".

All these points repeated again and again fell to Earth on the day it was discovered that Bitcoin Core developers merged a variable name change from "blacklist" to "blocklist" without even discussing or acknowledging the fact that that innocent pull request opened by a sybil account was a social attack.

After a big lot of people manifested their dissatisfaction with that event on Twitter and on GitHub, most Core developers simply ignored everybody's concerns or even personally attacked people who were complaining.

The event has shown that:

1) Bitcoin Core ultimately rests on the hands of a couple maintainers and they decide what goes on the GitHub repository[^pr-merged-very-quickly] and the binary releases that will be downloaded by thousands; 2) Bitcoin Core is susceptible to social attacks; 2) "More eyes on code" don't matter, as these extra eyes can be ignored and dismissed.

Solution: bitcoind decentralization

If usage was spread across 10 different bitcoind flavors, the network would be much more resistant to social attacks to a single team.

This has nothing to do with the question on if it is better to have multiple different Bitcoin node implementations or not, because here we're basically talking about the same software.

Multiple teams, each with their own release process, their own logo, some subtle changes, or perhaps no changes at all, just a different name for their bitcoind flavor, and that's it.

Every day or week or month or year, each flavor merges all changes from Bitcoin Core on their own fork. If there's anything suspicious or too leftist (or perhaps too rightist, in case there's a leftist bitcoind flavor), maybe they will spot it and not merge.

This way we keep the best of both worlds: all software development, bugfixes, improvements goes on Bitcoin Core, other flavors just copy. If there's some non-consensus change whose efficacy is debatable, one of the flavors will merge on their fork and test, and later others -- including Core -- can copy that too. Plus, we get resistant to attacks: in case there is an attack on Bitcoin Core, only 10% of the network would be compromised. the other flavors would be safe.

Run Bitcoin Knots

The first example of a bitcoind software that follows Bitcoin Core closely, adds some small changes, but has an independent vetting and release process is Bitcoin Knots, maintained by the incorruptible Luke DashJr.

Next time you decide to run bitcoind, run Bitcoin Knots instead and contribute to bitcoind decentralization!

See also:
- How to attack Bitcoin, Anthony Towns' take
[^pr-merged-very-quickly]: See PR 20624, for example, a very complicated change that could be introducing bugs or be a deliberate attack, merged in 3 days without time for discussion.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 6c2d68ba:846525ec
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
Videos zum Thema
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ a39d19ec:3d88f61e
2024-06-03 20:40:37

Ich habe meine Texte ChatGPT gegeben um diese klarer zu formulieren als das was ich schrieb.

Einleitung

Oft hört man, dass schlechte Produkte ein Zeugnis des Kapitalismus und gieriger Unternehmer ist. Dass es nicht am Kapitalismus, sondern am sozialistischen Fiatgeld liegt, möchte ich in diesem Beitrag aufzeigen.

In einem Fiatgeldsystem, bei dem die Geldmenge durch Zentralbanken kontrolliert und ständig ausgeweitet wird, kommt es zu einem Kaufkraftverlust des Geldes (Inflation). Dieser Mechanismus beeinflusst die Geschäftsstrategien von Unternehmen in mehreren bedeutenden Weisen, auf die ich im Folgenden eingehen werde.

Schnelle Kaufkraftverluste

Durch die ständige Ausweitung der Geldmenge verliert Geld an Wert. Das bedeutet, dass die Konsumenten zukünftig für dieselben Produkte mehr bezahlen müssen. Für Unternehmen entsteht der Anreiz, Konsumenten dazu zu bringen, häufiger neue Produkte zu kaufen, um ihren Umsatz und Gewinn in der Zukunft zu sichern.

Geplante Obsoleszenz

Durch die geplante Obsoleszenz, bei der Produkte absichtlich so konstruiert werden, dass sie schnell kaputt gehen oder veralten, können Unternehmen sicherstellen, dass Kunden regelmäßig neue Produkte kaufen müssen. Dies hilft den Unternehmen, kontinuierlich Umsatz zu generieren und die Auswirkungen der Inflation auf ihre Einnahmen abzufedern.

Erhöhung des Konsumtempos

Wenn die Kaufkraft ständig abnimmt, möchten Konsumenten ihr Geld eher früher als später ausgeben, um den Wertverlust zu vermeiden. Unternehmen nutzen dies aus, indem sie Produkte herstellen, die schnell ersetzt werden müssen, wodurch der Konsum beschleunigt wird und sie von der höheren Frequenz der Käufe profitieren.

Kostenmanagement

Die Herstellung von langlebigen Produkten kann teurer sein als die Produktion von kurzlebigen Waren. In einem inflationären Umfeld möchten Unternehmen ihre Produktionskosten minimieren, um ihre Margen zu schützen. Billigere, weniger langlebige Produkte ermöglichen es, Kosten zu sparen und kurzfristig wettbewerbsfähige Preise zu halten.

Marktdynamik

In einem inflationären Umfeld kann es für Unternehmen riskant sein, große Mengen langlebiger Produkte zu produzieren, da die zukünftigen Produktionskosten und Verkaufspreise schwerer vorhersehbar sind. Kurzlebige Produkte ermöglichen eine schnellere Anpassung an veränderte Marktbedingungen und Preisniveaus.

Kundengewohnheiten und Marketing

Unternehmen können durch gezieltes Marketing und die ständige Einführung neuer Modelle und Trends (z.B. in der Elektronik- und Modebranche) das Konsumverhalten beeinflussen und sicherstellen, dass Produkte als schnell veraltet angesehen werden. Dies unterstützt das Geschäftsmodell, das auf häufige Neuanschaffungen angewiesen ist.

Zusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass die inflationäre Dynamik eines Fiatgeldsystems Unternehmen dazu verleitet, Produkte zu entwerfen, die nicht lange halten. Durch die beschleunigte Produktalterung und die häufigeren Käufe können sie ihre Einnahmen stabilisieren und den Auswirkungen des Wertverlustes des Geldes entgegenwirken.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-14 14:52:16
Drivechain

Understanding Drivechain requires a shift from the paradigm most bitcoiners are used to. It is not about "trustlessness" or "mathematical certainty", but game theory and incentives. (Well, Bitcoin in general is also that, but people prefer to ignore it and focus on some illusion of trustlessness provided by mathematics.)

Here we will describe the basic mechanism (simple) and incentives (complex) of "hashrate escrow" and how it enables a 2-way peg between the mainchain (Bitcoin) and various sidechains.

The full concept of "Drivechain" also involves blind merged mining (i.e., the sidechains mine themselves by publishing their block hashes to the mainchain without the miners having to run the sidechain software), but this is much easier to understand and can be accomplished either by the BIP-301 mechanism or by the Spacechains mechanism.

How does hashrate escrow work from the point of view of Bitcoin?

A new address type is created. Anything that goes in that is locked and can only be spent if all miners agree on the Withdrawal Transaction (WT^) that will spend it for 6 months. There is one of these special addresses for each sidechain.

To gather miners' agreement bitcoind keeps track of the "score" of all transactions that could possibly spend from that address. On every block mined, for each sidechain, the miner can use a portion of their coinbase to either increase the score of one WT^ by 1 while decreasing the score of all others by 1; or they can decrease the score of all WT^s by 1; or they can do nothing.

Once a transaction has gotten a score high enough, it is published and funds are effectively transferred from the sidechain to the withdrawing users.

If a timeout of 6 months passes and the score doesn't meet the threshold, that WT^ is discarded.

What does the above procedure mean?

It means that people can transfer coins from the mainchain to a sidechain by depositing to the special address. Then they can withdraw from the sidechain by making a special withdraw transaction in the sidechain.

The special transaction somehow freezes funds in the sidechain while a transaction that aggregates all withdrawals into a single mainchain WT^, which is then submitted to the mainchain miners so they can start voting on it and finally after some months it is published.

Now the crucial part: the validity of the WT^ is not verified by the Bitcoin mainchain rules, i.e., if Bob has requested a withdraw from the sidechain to his mainchain address, but someone publishes a wrong WT^ that instead takes Bob's funds and sends them to Alice's main address there is no way the mainchain will know that. What determines the "validity" of the WT^ is the miner vote score and only that. It is the job of miners to vote correctly -- and for that they may want to run the sidechain node in SPV mode so they can attest for the existence of a reference to the WT^ transaction in the sidechain blockchain (which then ensures it is ok) or do these checks by some other means.

What? 6 months to get my money back?

Yes. But no, in practice anyone who wants their money back will be able to use an atomic swap, submarine swap or other similar service to transfer funds from the sidechain to the mainchain and vice-versa. The long delayed withdraw costs would be incurred by few liquidity providers that would gain some small profit from it.

Why bother with this at all?

Drivechains solve many different problems:

It enables experimentation and new use cases for Bitcoin

Issued assets, fully private transactions, stateful blockchain contracts, turing-completeness, decentralized games, some "DeFi" aspects, prediction markets, futarchy, decentralized and yet meaningful human-readable names, big blocks with a ton of normal transactions on them, a chain optimized only for Lighting-style networks to be built on top of it.

These are some ideas that may have merit to them, but were never actually tried because they couldn't be tried with real Bitcoin or inferfacing with real bitcoins. They were either relegated to the shitcoin territory or to custodial solutions like Liquid or RSK that may have failed to gain network effect because of that.

It solves conflicts and infighting

Some people want fully private transactions in a UTXO model, others want "accounts" they can tie to their name and build reputation on top; some people want simple multisig solutions, others want complex code that reads a ton of variables; some people want to put all the transactions on a global chain in batches every 10 minutes, others want off-chain instant transactions backed by funds previously locked in channels; some want to spend, others want to just hold; some want to use blockchain technology to solve all the problems in the world, others just want to solve money.

With Drivechain-based sidechains all these groups can be happy simultaneously and don't fight. Meanwhile they will all be using the same money and contributing to each other's ecosystem even unwillingly, it's also easy and free for them to change their group affiliation later, which reduces cognitive dissonance.

It solves "scaling"

Multiple chains like the ones described above would certainly do a lot to accomodate many more transactions that the current Bitcoin chain can. One could have special Lightning Network chains, but even just big block chains or big-block-mimblewimble chains or whatnot could probably do a good job. Or even something less cool like 200 independent chains just like Bitcoin is today, no extra features (and you can call it "sharding"), just that would already multiply the current total capacity by 200.

Use your imagination.

It solves the blockchain security budget issue

The calculation is simple: you imagine what security budget is reasonable for each block in a world without block subsidy and divide that for the amount of bytes you can fit in a single block: that is the price to be paid in satoshis per byte. In reasonable estimative, the price necessary for every Bitcoin transaction goes to very large amounts, such that not only any day-to-day transaction has insanely prohibitive costs, but also Lightning channel opens and closes are impracticable.

So without a solution like Drivechain you'll be left with only one alternative: pushing Bitcoin usage to trusted services like Liquid and RSK or custodial Lightning wallets. With Drivechain, though, there could be thousands of transactions happening in sidechains and being all aggregated into a sidechain block that would then pay a very large fee to be published (via blind merged mining) to the mainchain. Bitcoin security guaranteed.

It keeps Bitcoin decentralized

Once we have sidechains to accomodate the normal transactions, the mainchain functionality can be reduced to be only a "hub" for the sidechains' comings and goings, and then the maximum block size for the mainchain can be reduced to, say, 100kb, which would make running a full node very very easy.

Can miners steal?

Yes. If a group of coordinated miners are able to secure the majority of the hashpower and keep their coordination for 6 months, they can publish a WT^ that takes the money from the sidechains and pays to themselves.

Will miners steal?

No, because the incentives are such that they won't.

Although it may look at first that stealing is an obvious strategy for miners as it is free money, there are many costs involved:
1. The cost of ceasing blind-merged mining returns -- as stealing will kill a sidechain, all the fees from it that miners would be expected to earn for the next years are gone;
2. The cost of Bitcoin price going down: If a steal is successful that will mean Drivechains are not safe, therefore Bitcoin is less useful, and miner credibility will also be hurt, which are likely to cause the Bitcoin price to go down, which in turn may kill the miners' businesses and savings;
3. The cost of coordination -- assuming miners are just normal businesses, they just want to do their work and get paid, but stealing from a Drivechain will require coordination with other miners to conduct an immoral act in a way that has many pitfalls and is likely to be broken over the months;
4. The cost of miners leaving your mining pool: when we talked about "miners" above we were actually talking about mining pools operators, so they must also consider the risk of miners migrating from their mining pool to others as they begin the process of stealing;
5. The cost of community goodwill -- when participating in a steal operation, a miner will suffer a ton of backlash from the community. Even if the attempt fails at the end, the fact that it was attempted will contribute to growing concerns over exaggerated miners power over the Bitcoin ecosystem, which may end up causing the community to agree on a hard-fork to change the mining algorithm in the future, or to do something to increase participation of more entities in the mining process (such as development or cheapment of new ASICs), which have a chance of decreasing the profits of current miners.
Another point to take in consideration is that one may be inclined to think a newly-created sidechain or a sidechain with relatively low usage may be more easily stolen from, since the blind merged mining returns from it (point 1 above) are going to be small -- but the fact is also that a sidechain with small usage will also have less money to be stolen from, and since the other costs besides 1 are less elastic at the end it will not be worth stealing from these too.

All of the above consideration are valid only if miners are stealing from good sidechains. If there is a sidechain that is doing things wrong, scamming people, not being used at all, or is full of bugs, for example, that will be perceived as a bad sidechain, and then miners can and will safely steal from it and kill it, which will be perceived as a good thing by everybody.

What do we do if miners steal?

Paul Sztorc has suggested in the past that a user-activated soft-fork could prevent miners from stealing, i.e., most Bitcoin users and nodes issue a rule similar to this one to invalidate the inclusion of a faulty WT^ and thus cause any miner that includes it in a block to be relegated to their own Bitcoin fork that other nodes won't accept.

This suggestion has made people think Drivechain is a sidechain solution backed by user-actived soft-forks for safety, which is very far from the truth. Drivechains must not and will not rely on this kind of soft-fork, although they are possible, as the coordination costs are too high and no one should ever expect these things to happen.

If even with all the incentives against them (see above) miners do still steal from a good sidechain that will mean the failure of the Drivechain experiment. It will very likely also mean the failure of the Bitcoin experiment too, as it will be proven that miners can coordinate to act maliciously over a prolonged period of time regardless of economic and social incentives, meaning they are probably in it just for attacking Bitcoin, backed by nation-states or something else, and therefore no Bitcoin transaction in the mainchain is to be expected to be safe ever again.

Why use this and not a full-blown trustless and open sidechain technology?

Because it is impossible.

If you ever heard someone saying "just use a sidechain", "do this in a sidechain" or anything like that, be aware that these people are either talking about "federated" sidechains (i.e., funds are kept in custody by a group of entities) or they are talking about Drivechain, or they are disillusioned and think it is possible to do sidechains in any other manner.

No, I mean a trustless 2-way peg with correctness of the withdrawals verified by the Bitcoin protocol!

That is not possible unless Bitcoin verifies all transactions that happen in all the sidechains, which would be akin to drastically increasing the blocksize and expanding the Bitcoin rules in tons of ways, i.e., a terrible idea that no one wants.

What about the Blockstream sidechains whitepaper?

Yes, that was a way to do it. The Drivechain hashrate escrow is a conceptually simpler way to achieve the same thing with improved incentives, less junk in the chain, more safety.

Isn't the hashrate escrow a very complex soft-fork?

Yes, but it is much simpler than SegWit. And, unlike SegWit, it doesn't force anything on users, i.e., it isn't a mandatory blocksize increase.

Why should we expect miners to care enough to participate in the voting mechanism?

Because it's in their own self-interest to do it, and it costs very little. Today over half of the miners mine RSK. It's not blind merged mining, it's a very convoluted process that requires them to run a RSK full node. For the Drivechain sidechains, an SPV node would be enough, or maybe just getting data from a block explorer API, so much much simpler.

What if I still don't like Drivechain even after reading this?

That is the entire point! You don't have to like it or use it as long as you're fine with other people using it. The hashrate escrow special addresses will not impact you at all, validation cost is minimal, and you get the benefit of people who want to use Drivechain migrating to their own sidechains and freeing up space for you in the mainchain. See also the point above about infighting.

See also
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ b39b8e83:0e391257
2024-09-20 20:30:44

https://image.nostr.build/54d4830e16f42daf7eeff67ddc8b19f811ea2e484ff330bcc72ad5c73a8ed447.jpg

It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and sputtering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spreads of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country and invoked the God of Battles, beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpouring of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.

Sunday morning came-next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their faces alight with material dreams-visions of a stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender!-then home from the war, bronzed heros, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory! With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for the flag or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths. The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ burst that shook the building, and with one impulse the house rose, with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous invocation -- "God the all-terrible! Thou who ordainest, Thunder thy clarion and lightning thy sword!"

Then came the "long" prayer. None could remember the like of it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. The burden of its supplication was that an ever--merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work; bless them, shield them in His mighty hand, make them strong and confident, invincible in the bloody onset; help them to crush the foe, grant to them and to their flag and country imperishable honor and glory -

https://image.nostr.build/810192ce50f2dbb274b26c2753fe742d7fbc50fe7cd3307baf1bc2d74e5a2e14.jpg

An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and noiseless step up the main aisle, his eyes fixed upon the minister, his long body clothed in a robe that reached to his feet, his head bare, his white hair descending in a frothy cataract to his shoulders, his seamy face unnaturally pale, pale even to ghastliness. With all eyes following him and wondering, he made his silent way; without pausing, he ascended to the preacher's side and stood there, waiting. With shut lids the preacher, unconscious of his presence, continued his moving prayer, and at last finished it with the words, uttered in fervent appeal,"Bless our arms, grant us the victory, O Lord our God, Father and Protector of our land and flag!"

The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step aside -- which the startled minister did -- and took his place. During some moments he surveyed the spellbound audience with solemn eyes in which burned an uncanny light; then in a deep voice he said

"I come from the Throne-bearing a message from Almighty God!" The words smote the house with a shock; if the stranger perceived it he gave no attention. "He has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd and grant it if such shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import-that is to say, its full import. For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of-except he pause and think. "God's servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two- one uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of His Who hearth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken. Ponder this-keep it in mind. If you beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse upon some neighbor's crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it. "You have heard your servant's prayer-the uttered part of it. I am commissioned by God to put into words the other part of it-that part which the pastor, and also you in your hearts, fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: 'Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!' That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory-must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God the Father fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!

"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle-be Thou near them! With them, in spirit, we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it-for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

https://image.nostr.build/dd0a7be5db79d2f2885ffb7f229519c28bb3d6a4ed37df9e4ae55702ea8d17ad.jpg

(After a pause)

"Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits."

It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 6ad3e2a3:c90b7740
2024-09-11 15:16:53

I’ve occasionally been called cynical because some of the sentiments I express strike people as negative. But cynical, to me, does not strictly mean negative. It means something more along the lines of “faithless” — as in lacking the basic faith humans thrive when believing what they take to be true, rather than expedient, and doing what they think is right rather than narrowly advantageous.

In other words, my primary negative sentiment — that the cynical utilitarian ethos among our educated classes has caused and is likely to cause catastrophic outcomes — stems from a sort of disappointed idealism, not cynicism.

On human nature itself I am anything but cynical. I am convinced the strongest, long-term incentives are always to believe what is true, no matter the cost, and to do what is right. And by “right,” I don’t mean do-gooding bullshit, but things like taking care of one’s health, immediate family and personal responsibilities while pursuing the things one finds most compelling and important.

That aside, I want to touch on two real-world examples of what I take to be actual cynicism. The first is the tendency to invoke principles only when they suit one’s agenda or desired outcome, but not to apply them when they do not. This kind of hypocrisy implies principles are just tools you invoke to gain emotional support for your side and that anyone actually applying them evenhandedly is a naive simpleton who doesn’t know how the game is played.

Twitter threads don’t show up on substack anymore, but I’d encourage you to read this one with respect to objecting to election outcomes. I could have used many others, but this one (probably not even most egregious) illustrates how empty words like “democracy” or “election integrity” are when thrown around by devoted partisans. They don’t actually believe in democracy, only in using the word to evoke the desired emotional response. People who wanted to coerce people to take a Pfizer shot don’t believe in “bodily autonomy.” It’s similarly just a phrase that’s invoked to achieve an end.

The other flavor of cynicism I’ve noticed is less about hypocrisy and more about nihilism:

I’d encourage people to read the entire thread, but if you’re not on Twitter, it’s essentially about whether money (and apparently anything else) has essential qualities, or whether it is whatever peoples’ narratives tell them it is.

In other words, is money whatever your grocer takes for the groceries, or do particular forms of money have qualities wherein they are more likely to be accepted over the long haul? The argument is yes, gold, for example had qualities that made it a better money (scarcity, durability, e.g.) than say seashells which are reasonably durable but not scarce. You could sell the story of seashells as a money (and some societies not close to the sea used them as such), but ultimately such a society would be vulnerable to massive inflation should one of its inhabitants ever stroll along a shore.

The thread morphed into whether everything is just narrative, or there is an underlying reality to which a narrative must correspond in order for it to be useful and true.

The notion that anything could be money if attached to the right story, or any music is good if it’s marketed properly is deeply cynical. I am not arguing people can’t be convinced to buy bad records — clearly they can — but that no matter how much you market it, it will not stand the test of time unless it is in fact good.

In order to sell something that does not add value, meaning or utility to someone’s life, something you suspect they are likely to regret buying in short order, it’s awfully useful to convince yourself that nothing has inherent meaning or value, that “storytelling is all that matters.”

I am not against marketing per se, and effective storytelling might in fact point someone in the right direction — a good story can help someone discover a truth. But that storytelling is everything, and by implication the extent to which a story has correlates in reality nothing, is the ethos of scammers, the refuge of nihilists who left someone else holding the bag and prefer not to think about it.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ b5b91959:134a187a
2024-09-24 05:33:26

Inleiding: lesgeven is bijzaak

\ Er was eens, in het fantastische stad Antwerpen, een systeem zo briljant dat het zelfs de Sovjet-Unie jaloers zou maken: het Antwerpse scholenloterijsysteem (meldt je aan).\ \ Het is een soort van Hunger Games, maar dan zonder het spektakel en de heldenverhalen, en met de toekomst van je kind als inzet. Mijn dochter, twaalf jaar oud, leergierig, nieuwsgierig en vol enthousiasme om aan haar middelbare schoolavontuur te beginnen, kwam terecht in het Gemeenschapsonderwijs (GO). Niet omdat wij dat zo wilden, maar omdat we simpelweg geen keuze hadden. Hierna volgde de ene na de andere poging om mijn kind te kleineren, demotiveren en vooral : er geen les aan te geven.\ Het gemeenschapsonderwijs heeft dan al geen al te beste naam, maar wat wij als gezin daar meemaken mag toch even aan het licht gebracht worden vonden we.

Het wonderlijke loterijsysteem

\ Voor de mensen die niet bekend zijn met het "systeem" van school toekenning in sommige leefzones België: de Antwerpse scholenloterij is een proces waarbij je als ouder denkt dat je enige inspraak hebt in de schoolkeuze van je kind.\ Je vult een lijstje in met 3 tot 6 scholen, en daar wordt dan een "voorkeur" gerespecteerd zogezegd. Je zegt tegen jezelf en je kind: "Oké, deze school zou goed zijn, daar willen we haar wel naartoe sturen." En dan wacht je. Vol spanning, natuurlijk. Maar zoals je misschien al geraden hebt, is die lijst puur symbolisch.\ De kans dat je kind effectief in een school terechtkomt die jij hebt gekozen. En dan nog, de lijst die je opstelt is eigenlijk kiezen tussen enkele versies van dezelfde soort leerplan-volgende vuilbak scholen.

Het resultaat? Mijn dochter, slim, nieuwsgierig en vooral een kind met een hart voor boeken en kennis, komt terecht in een school die, hoe zal ik het netjes zeggen, niet bepaald het epicentrum van intellectuele uitwisseling is. Niet dat ik per se een elite-instelling verwachtte, maar een klas waar minstens de helft van de leerlingen weet wat een boek is, leek me toch niet te veel gevraagd. Blijkbaar wel. De lat ligt niet alleen erg laag... de lat is gewoon verdwenen en vervangen door chips-eten, "oh my god" zeggen en mensen proberen te converteren naar het Islam-geloof (op 2 weken tijd al 2 keer prijs, want blijkbaar mag je in Vlaanderen je kind naar school sturen met de opdracht om "die meisjes moeten moslim sijn". Terwijl het kind in kwestie niet eens tot tien kan tellen zelf.\ Maar ach, maak er vooral geen opmerking over, dan ben je een complet-gek een extreem-rechts iemand of erger.

Da's eigen aan dit soort giftige school-systemen: je kan er maar beter je mond over houden, want anders eindig je zoals "Sandra" (fictieve naam), die effectief een opmerking maakte als kind en omsingeld werd door de stoere jongens op de speelplaats, werd gestampt, een hoertje genoemd en dan bespuwd en bespot omdat ze "haram" was.\ \ In mijn opinie, kan je dit geen scholen meer noemen, maar een gesubsidieerde facade vol ronselaars die verder aangemoedigd worden door extreem lakes proof-of-stake leerkrachten die eigenlijk meteen zouden moeten ontslaan worden.\ Of nog beter, gooi zulke facades gewoon meteen dicht en laat de kinderen die er "school lopen" hun plan trekken op straat of waar dan ook waar ze thuis horen.

\

Segregatie, maar dan "toevallig"?

\ Natuurlijk kan je in zo’n systeem veel van de nadelen toeschrijven aan pech.\ Maar als je wat verder kijkt, begint er iets op te vallen.\ \ Sommige scholen in Antwerpen hebben 0,2% leerlingen van Marokkaanse of Turkse afkomst.\ Ja, dat leest u goed: nul, komma iets procent.\ Andere scholen daarentegen zijn voor 95% bevolkt door kinderen van diverse afkomst.\ \ En dit alles in een zogenaamd "random" toewijzingssysteem? Dat klopt niet.\ Of ik begrijp het alvast niet.\ Wanneer je at random plaatsen toekent aan een school, kan het niet zijn dat in Antwerpen er mathematisch gezien niet minimaal 10% allochtone leerlingen aanwezig zijn. Een random toewijzing op die aantallen studenten kan nooit in 1 school een 0,2% resultaat geven.\ Het is net zoals in een slechte sitcom: je weet dat het nergens op slaat, maar je blijft kijken omdat je je afvraagt hoe absurd het nog kan worden.

Groenhout

\ Neem nu de school Groenhout. Ah, Groenhout, die oase van welvarende, gelegen in de schaduw van het museum voor Schone Kunsten op het trendy dure Zuid. Op een boogscheut van Hoboken of de Brederodestraat, waar er toch heel wat migranten wonen.\ De Groen-stemmende gezinnen zwaaien hier echter de plak.\ \ Als je ooit het gevoel hebt dat Antwerpen een smeltkroes van culturen is, hoef je alleen maar aan deze school te denken om je daarvan te genezen. Hoe ze het daar voor elkaar krijgen, vraag je je af?\ \ Het is een school die – puur toevallig natuurlijk – enkel kinderen aantrekt die passen in het profiel van "Anuna De Wever-types". Je kent het soort wel: biologische katoenen T-shirts, composteerbare drinkflessen en de nodige scheut activisme. Ik stel voor dat we een Pulitzer uitreiken aan de eerste journalist die uitvogelt hoe Groenhout erin slaagt om haar voorrecht zo moeiteloos te behouden in een zogenaamd willekeurig systeem. Want mathematisch kan het in ieder geval niet.

\

Het avontuur in het Gemeenschapsonderwijs

\ Ondertussen gaat mijn dochter, vol goede moed, naar haar nieuwe school. Het Gemeenschapsonderwijs, of GO, zoals we het noemen (want alles klinkt beter met een afkorting), heeft blijkbaar niet alleen een tekort aan diversiteit, maar ook aan leerkrachten. Op de eerste schooldag waren er al een paar leerkrachten "ziek" gemeld (ook hier zal het lot er voor gezorgd hebben dat het enkel de Arabisch klinkende namen waren die het begin van het schooljaar jammer genoeg niet haalden wegens ziekte).\ En nu, op 15 september, zijn ze nog steeds niet opgedoken. Misschien hadden ze wat last van post-vakantieblues? Acht weken vakantie is natuurlijk zwaar, en het vooruitzicht om terug voor een klas te staan waarin ze een compleet achterhaald leerplan moeten volgen, was waarschijnlijk iets te veel om te verdragen. Wie weet.

Mijn dochter is ondertussen nog steeds enthousiast. Gelukkig maar, want haar klasgenoten lijken vooral bezig te zijn met, wel ja, alles behalve leren. Sommige kinderen kennen het concept "boek" blijkbaar niet eens. Ze kijken naar een papieren bundel met pagina’s alsof het een relikwie uit een lang vervlogen tijdperk is. Het is bijna aandoenlijk, als het niet zo schrijnend was.

En dan is er nog de samenstelling van de klas. Want laten we eerlijk zijn: als je dochter ineens in een klas zit met vier op de vijf kinderen die letterlijk geen volzin kunnen vormen, dan weet je gewoon dat het geen mooie rit gaat worden.\ Deze kinderen hebben blijkbaar nog nooit van geschiedenis of economie gehoord, en het idee dat iemand hen ooit heeft uitgelegd hoe de wereld werkt, lijkt op een ver verleden gebaseerd te zijn (of een eigen invulling van "geld krijgen van vanalles".\ \ Je kan geen enkel gesprek voeren dat verder gaat dan TikTok-filmpjes en de nieuwste sneakers.\ Niet dat ik van iedereen verwacht dat ze een universitair diploma ambiëren, maar een basisniveau zou toch wel prettig zijn, niet? Ook de ouders van die kinderen zijn niet echt mensen waar je langer dan enkele minuten mee wilt praten, waarna ze met de nieuwste Iphone naar hun huizen verdwijnen, eender welk uur van de dag schijnen ze ook tijd te hebben om hun kinderen te komen oppikken van school. Hoe je als werkende mens om 15u20 aan een schoolpoort kan staan, is me een raadsel, maar ik zal ouderwets zijn, ... ik hoor bij de generatie die gaat werken om al die subsidie en uitkering te betalen uiteraard. "\ Want "ikke domme belg zijn." (Da's onze nieuwe rol in de communistische samenleving waar Europa naartoe gaat: betalen en hard werken, zwijgen, consumeren en vooral rap doodvallen om plaats te ruimen voor de meest parasitaire soort domme mensen die in groep leven en denken, en order-volgers worden van een ziek Fiat-gebaseerd failliet systeem).\ \ Mijn dochter wordt dan ook een "Tata" genoemd door het getesem dat er school loopt.\ Conflict opwekken is hier de boodschap. Om dan andere organisaties die op hun beurt ook op subsidies en "Linkie Winkies" drijven te gaan promoten.\ Gaat de klas slecht? (wat een garantie is met dit soort zielige aanpak) dan kan je naar "Elk Kind Telt". Een organisatie die subsidies krijgt om sociale assistenten types met je kind te laten "praten".\ Deze organisatie is officieel volgens hun eigen website bezig met het bestrijden van kinder armoede (een nobel doel uiteraard, of toch zo klinkt het).\ Echter, worden deze mensen als een "praatbarak" aangesmeerd aan de leerlingen, want wanneer je vaak te laat bent, of wanneer je een probleem hebt met de leerstof of klas situatie (100% van de kinderen dus) kan je bij hen terecht. Kassa kassa verzekerd qua subsidies dus. Er werd met geen woord over financiële problemen gepraat.\ \ Met andere woorden: men lokt de kinderen letterlijk naar het bureau van zulke organsatie onder het mom van "problemen aanpakken op school", waar dat naar boven toe wordt gebracht als "kind in financiële problemen". En daarna rinkelt de subsidie-kassa alweer.\ Men gaat een verdien-model opstarten op deze manier, waar eender welk kind in zulke vuilbak-achtige school, automatische een kosten post wordt en zogenaamd financiële problemen of armoede kent thuis.\ \ Mijn kind heeft voldoende financiële middelen, en omdat ze iets vroeg over de belachelijke kledij-voorschriften waar een bepaald deel van de scholieren zich wel (en een andere deel totaal niet) aan moet houden, werd ze meteen weggezet als iemand "zonder geld".\ De "elk kind telt" organisatie is dan ook in mijn visie niets anders dan een subsidie zwendel om een fake oplossing te bieden voor iets dat niet bestaat.\ Kinder-armoede bestaat in principe niet, zonder dat de ouders of een van de ouders/voogden in armoede zit. Je hebt dus altijd "armoede" in het algemeen nodig om ook zogenaamde kinder armoede te hebben.\ Wanneer de ouders niet eens het concept "boek" kennen, blijf je natuurlijk arm en afhankelijk. En geen over-gesubsidieerde mislukte pol&soc student met ongewassen haar gaat daar ooit iets aan veranderen.

\

Bad reputation

\ Natuurlijk is dat alles een recept voor slechte resultaten. Het lijkt bijna alsof het systeem ontworpen is om falen te garanderen en te kunnen met de open hand staan om al die problemen op te lossen met veel subsidie en geklaag.\ Intussen klaagt vooral de kleine groep Vlaamse kinderen in die school omdat ze gewoon eens echt les willen krijgen, ... zoals een school betaamt zou men beter LES GEVEN, in plaats van problemen op te pompen en onnodige aandacht te geven aan mensen die toch opgroeien voor galg en rad.\ \ De leerkrachten, die blijkbaar vanaf dag één doorhadden dat ze een groep niet te temmen jongeren voor zich hadden, beginnen meteen repressief te dreigen met straffen. Niet omdat ze geloven in discipline of structuur, maar gewoon omdat ze totaal de taak niet machtig zijn.\ Ze hebben simpelweg geen flauw idee hoe ze met zo'n klas moeten omgaan. Het is geen kwestie van onderwijzen meer, maar van overleven. \ De les wordt een oefening in brandjes blussen, waar elke opflakkering van interesse in leren snel wordt geblust door de constante chaos. Dit is het onderwijs anno 2024: een loterij die niet alleen beslist welke school je kind gaat bezoeken, maar ook welk niveau van frustratie je als ouder moet verdragen. Want o-wee wanneer je durft klagen of opmerkingen maken.\ Een onduidelijke lijst met benodigdheden bij voorbeeld, werd meteen op paraplu-gedrag onthaald, waarbij men nul verantwoordelijkheid neemt als school maar steevast de leerplannen, of andere leerkrachten voor de bus gooit. Als men al antwoord uiteraard. Gewoonlijk negeert men problemen, tot je bij de subsidie-bende van "Elk kind telt" moet gaan aankloppen.\ De directie is nooit te zien, de onder-directeur al helemaal niet, ... die zijn altijd in vergadering zogezegd.

\

Het domheidsprincipe van het systeem

\ Het meest frustrerende aan dit alles? Het gevoel dat dit systeem erop gericht is om creatief en zelfstandig denken te ontmoedigen, ja, ik durf zelfs zeggen: actief te fnuiken.\ \ Vanaf dag één wordt mijn dochter geconfronteerd met een systeem dat lijkt te zeggen: "Luister, hier is wat je moet weten. Denk niet te veel na, stel geen vragen, en doe vooral geen moeite om buiten de lijntjes te kleuren." Het leerplan? Droog, saai, en ontworpen om elk sprankje nieuwsgierigheid in de kiem te smoren. Er staat ook onnoemelijk veel overbodige "meningen" in die boeken. Meningen over allerlei groene leugens, politiek en historisch ongenuanceerde boodschappen en totale achterlijkheid. Een les over het oude Egypte wordt bij voorbeeld gelinkt aan de huidige situatie in die regio. Wat totaal overbodig is in een les geschiedenis.

En dat is nog niet eens het ergste. Zelf nadenken wordt niet alleen niet aangemoedigd, het wordt bestraft. Je zou verwachten dat scholen, als plekken van kennisoverdracht, kinderen juist zouden stimuleren om vragen te stellen, om de wereld kritisch te bekijken.\ \ Maar nee. In het GO! draait alles om het volgen van de meest domme regels, het memoriseren van nutteloze feiten en het voorbereiden op examens die niets te maken hebben met de realiteit van het leven en nog minder met echte kennis.\ Een datum van buiten leren, of enkele cijfers in de juiste volgorde zetten, en hup, men heeft weer een lesuur vol gekregen de leerkracht kan nadien tussen de middag naar de kapper terwijl ze met de heilige verbetersleutel een toets corrigeert die op zich al vol fouten stond.

Ik leer m'n dochter dus vooral aan om de "kennis van de oenen" te leren herkennen en nooit te erkennen. Maar haar "punten" er wel op te halen, terwijl ze de echte kennis tot zich neemt via boeken en documentaires of lessen die ik zelf samenstel.

\

De toekomst van mijn dochter, en die van vele anderen

\ Het Gemeenschapsonderwijs, en het Antwerpse onderwijssysteem in het bijzonder, lijkt ontworpen te zijn om middelmatigheid of onderpresteren te bevorderen.\ \ Voor mijn dochter betekent dit dat ze op eigen houtje moet proberen om de leemtes in haar onderwijs op te vullen. Gelukkig heeft ze nog steeds die onuitputtelijke honger naar kennis. Maar wat met de kinderen die dat niet hebben? Wat gebeurt er met de leerlingen die afhankelijk zijn van het systeem om hen te stimuleren en uit te dagen? Niets. Deze kinderen komen op de stoel terecht bij de "praat meneer" van een subsidie organisatie. Waar ze niets mee gaan vooruit komen.

Er is iets grondig mis. Niet alleen met de loterij, maar met het hele idee van wat onderwijs zou moeten zijn. Het zou een plek moeten zijn waar kinderen hun potentieel ontdekken, waar ze leren kritisch na te denken, en waar ze worden aangemoedigd om hun eigen weg te vinden. Maar in plaats daarvan lijkt het onderwijs in Antwerpen vast te zitten in een vicieuze cirkel van bureaucratie, vooroordelen en desinteresse.\ Ik zou het recht moeten hebben op goed onderwijs als kind. En dat recht heeft men afgenomen door verwatering, verloedering, desinteresse, desinformatie en invasie van "asocialen" en "de-les-spellers" uit een godsdienst.

\

Tijd voor verandering

\ Het is hoog tijd dat dit systeem herzien wordt. Dat journalisten eens de tijd nemen om uit te zoeken waarom scholen zoals Groenhout kunnen blijven bestaan in een zogenaamd eerlijk loterijsysteem en tegelijk alle "minder presterende kindjes" uit hun school kunnen houden. (hint: de toepassing van de "extra vragen" die vrijwillig worden ingevuld op de school inschrijf formulieren bij "meldt je aan" zijn daar een begin van trouwens... en kijk ook eens bij de organisatie Digipolis en hun eerlijke toepassing van dit school systeem).\ \ En dat beleidsmakers eens goed kijken naar wat er echt nodig is om het onderwijs in Antwerpen eerlijker, inclusiever en vooral uitdagender te maken. Want als het zo blijft, zullen we nog veel meer slimme, leergierige kinderen verliezen aan de middelmaat, en de bodemkruip-mentaliteit waar enkel consumeer-koeien en straatschorem uit voort zal komen.

En dat zou pas echt een verlies-post zijn.

Onze stad heeft meer nodig dan dit soort vuilbakscholen.\ Durf zulke scholen radicaal te sluiten, tot er een oplossing bedacht wordt. \ Stop deze fake, doe het voor de kinderen, ... want elk kind telt, moet meer zijn dan een subsidie-opwekkende slogen van de meest evil mensen die geen hol inzitten met de samenleving, maar gewoon hun uren staan te kloppen voor niemendal aan echte vooruitgang.\ Stop de fake, gooi ze buiten en start opnieuw.

In deze blog zal ik verdere items posten over het GemeenschapsOnderwijs, zodat diegenen die het willen weten, het ook weten en ook hun mond durven open doen.

15 september 2024

DioGenes

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 8d34bd24:414be32b
2024-09-19 02:40:02

Nobody alive has a high enough view of God. Our God, the true God, the God who spoke into existence time and space, matter and energy, things seen and unseen, is more awesome than our earthly minds can comprehend.

This is a very good thing. A God who is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and holy is a God we can trust. A God who is unfathomably complex and able to do things we can’t comprehend is a God worth worshipping.

Wrong View of God

When I first became a Christian, some of the verses about honoring and worshipping God seemed proud and self-absorbed, but I was judging God as a man. He is so far above us in every way and we owe Him our very existence. Of course He should be honored and worshipped. I judged Him as having human motives instead of omniscient, holy motives. I judged Him as just being an above average man instead of being the Creator who spoke everything, even time and space, into existence. I judged Him wrongly because I didn’t fully know Him and who He truly was. The more I learn about Him the more amazed I am at who He is and the more I realize how little I truly comprehend His awesomeness.

I serve a God that is so magnificent that we can’t fully understand who He is or the various traits He has revealed to us. Other religions worship a god that is no more than a superhero. Their gods are understandable because they are made up by people. A god that is fully understandable isn’t a god worth worshipping.

Wrong View of the Law

God has given us a law to follow. He has given us explicit laws like the ten commandments. He has given us things we must do and He has given us things we must not do. Too often we are offended by these commands. We look at every command to do something as a burden and every command to refrain from doing something as a limitation on our freedom and happiness. We only feel this way because our view of God is wrong.

We have an awesome God who loves us so much that he condescends to tell us how to live the best life we can live. He tells us not to do things that are bad for us and will harm our relationships with Him and others. He tells us to do things that will help us grow and help us build relationships with Him and others. He lets us join Him in His amazing plan for humanity. He doesn’t need us, but like a good Father, He includes us in His work and empowers us to do what we could not do on our own.

Instead of resenting God for His commands, we should be grateful that He cares enough to give them. We should be grateful that He cares enough to send Jesus to earth to show us what a perfect life looks like. We should be grateful that He has given us the laws necessary to make family and society work properly. When we obey His commands, we will be glad we did.

Wrong View of Sin

We all view our sin as less bad than it really is. We excuse that “little white lie.” We discount the harm from stealing that pencil from work. We make light of our social actions because we are conforming to the culture around us and because everyone is doing it. We talk about all of the “good” people around us and wonder why God lets “bad” things happen to these “good” people. Does anyone truly see the true horror of their sin?

We have a wrong view of sin for several reasons. First of all, we judge sin by the actions of other people. We judge one person to be a better person than another. We judge some sins, like murder, to be worse than other sins, like a lie of flattery. We don’t judge sins by their rightful measure, the word of God and the life of Jesus.

Beyond that we look at things based on whether the sin seemed to hurt someone. Of course we are only able to look at the external effects, not the effects on the heart. Truth is loving even when it hurts. That definitely doesn’t mean we should tell the truth in a hurtful way to make a person feel bad or to win, but we should tell the truth because the truth always benefits in the long run. A lie, even if it makes the person feel better today and seems to help a relationship, causes harm in the long run. It breaks trust. It leads the person on the wrong path. It hardens the liar’s heart.

Ultimately all sin is about one thing. All sin says, “my way is better than God’s way.” All sin says, “I know better than God.” All sin says, “my opinion is more important than God’s opinion.” Worst of all, all sin says, “I am god of my life and I don’t want God to rule over my life.” Sin is a denial of God and His authority.

If we have a higher view of God then we realize the gravity of our sin. This won’t mean we will never sin, but it should mean we sin much less. It should also mean we repent more because sin is idolatry. We are our own idol.

Wrong View of Hardship

So often when things go wrong in our lives, we question God. We say, “Why me? Why did you let this happen to me?”

We need to remember that God is in control. We need to remember that God loves us. We need to remember that God knows everything that is, that was, and that will be and that He looks at events differently than we do because He has an eternal perspective.

Why do bad things happen to people, especially believers? God told us

Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. (John 15:20)

God is transforming us to be more like Jesus, so some hardship is given to us to mold us to be more like Jesus. Almost all growth in faith and holiness comes from hardship, not easy times. God knows this and gives us what is for our eternal good instead of what gives us momentary happiness. Looking back with a godly attitude, you will be able to see the good God has done through hardship and be grateful even if it was very difficult in the heat of the trials.

Sometimes God allows hardship as a punishment for sin.

For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives.” (Hebrews 12:6)

Sinning unbelievers are often allowed to continue sinning and may not seem to get their punishment here on earth. Christian sinners are more likely to be punished here on earth as a correction, to lead us back to Him and a godly life. If you are going through a hard time, ask yourself, “Is there an unconfessed sin in my life for which I am paying the consequences?” If the hardship is due to sin, usually repenting and turning from that sin will help, but even repentance and turning fully to God does not guarantee that the consequences of sin go away. It does mean that the hardship will become more bearable because everything is better and easier when you have God on your side.

Frequently hardship is preparing you for something. He may be preparing you for additional hardship. He may be preparing you for ministry. He may be preparing you for leadership. You can look at the story of Joseph. He was sold by his brothers, made a slave, tempted and then jailed when he resisted temptation, and then abandoned in jail by those he had helped. I’m sure there were moments when Joseph doubted God. Joseph stayed faithful, but he went through severe hardships for decades. God, however, knew what He was doing. He was preparing Joseph to save the people of the Middle East and beyond. God was moving Joseph from a place far from the seat of power to a place where he could speak God’s word to Pharaoh, the most powerful man in the world at that time. Joseph didn’t know what God was doing, but he stayed faithful and God blessed him immensely.

You may not be made second in charge of the most powerful country in the world, but God has a plan for your life. You have been blessed by the Creator God to be used for His purpose. He will put you through what you need to go through to prepare you for His earthly plans and to prepare you for Heaven. Trust me, it will be so worth it.

Knowing who God is and that He loves us can enable us to go through these hard, desperate times. When we trust God, we don’t just barely make it through, we can thrive and go through horrible circumstances with joy because:

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. (Romans 8:28)

When we start to get a right view of God, everything is better. We can understand the truth in God’s word and in the world more correctly. We know that our loving God controls everything throughout history with ultimate wisdom. We know that everything happens for a very good reason.

When we start to get a right view of God, it is like the sun coming out from behind a cloud. Everything is clear and bright and joyful.

Trust Jesus.\ \ your sister in Christ,

Christy

Bible verses are NASB (New American Standard Bible) 1995 edition unless otherwise stated

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 9fec72d5:f77f85b1
2024-08-07 14:27:16

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.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 42342239:1d80db24
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.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ ee11a5df:b76c4e49
2024-09-11 08:16:37
Bye-Bye Reply Guy

There is a camp of nostr developers that believe spam filtering needs to be done by relays. Or at the very least by DVMs. I concur. In this way, once you configure what you want to see, it applies to all nostr clients.

But we are not there yet.

In the mean time we have ReplyGuy, and gossip needed some changes to deal with it.

Strategies in Short
1. WEB OF TRUST: Only accept events from people you follow, or people they follow - this avoids new people entirely until somebody else that you follow friends them first, which is too restrictive for some people.
2. TRUSTED RELAYS: Allow every post from relays that you trust to do good spam filtering.
3. REJECT FRESH PUBKEYS: Only accept events from people you have seen before - this allows you to find new people, but you will miss their very first post (their second post must count as someone you have seen before, even if you discarded the first post)
4. PATTERN MATCHING: Scan for known spam phrases and words and block those events, either on content or metadata or both or more.
5. TIE-IN TO EXTERNAL SYSTEMS: Require a valid NIP-05, or other nostr event binding their identity to some external identity
6. PROOF OF WORK: Require a minimum proof-of-work
All of these strategies are useful, but they have to be combined properly.

filter.rhai

Gossip loads a file called "filter.rhai" in your gossip directory if it exists. It must be a Rhai language script that meets certain requirements (see the example in the gossip source code directory). Then it applies it to filter spam.

This spam filtering code is being updated currently. It is not even on unstable yet, but it will be there probably tomorrow sometime. Then to master. Eventually to a release.

Here is an example using all of the techniques listed above:

```rhai // This is a sample spam filtering script for the gossip nostr // client. The language is called Rhai, details are at: // https://rhai.rs/book/ // // For gossip to find your spam filtering script, put it in // your gossip profile directory. See // https://docs.rs/dirs/latest/dirs/fn.data_dir.html // to find the base directory. A subdirectory "gossip" is your // gossip data directory which for most people is their profile // directory too. (Note: if you use a GOSSIP_PROFILE, you'll // need to put it one directory deeper into that profile // directory). // // This filter is used to filter out and refuse to process // incoming events as they flow in from relays, and also to // filter which events get/ displayed in certain circumstances. // It is only run on feed-displayable event kinds, and only by // authors you are not following. In case of error, nothing is // filtered. // // You must define a function called 'filter' which returns one // of these constant values: // DENY (the event is filtered out) // ALLOW (the event is allowed through) // MUTE (the event is filtered out, and the author is // automatically muted) // // Your script will be provided the following global variables: // 'caller' - a string that is one of "Process", // "Thread", "Inbox" or "Global" indicating // which part of the code is running your // script // 'content' - the event content as a string // 'id' - the event ID, as a hex string // 'kind' - the event kind as an integer // 'muted' - if the author is in your mute list // 'name' - if we have it, the name of the author // (or your petname), else an empty string // 'nip05valid' - whether nip05 is valid for the author, // as a boolean // 'pow' - the Proof of Work on the event // 'pubkey' - the event author public key, as a hex // string // 'seconds_known' - the number of seconds that the author // of the event has been known to gossip // 'spamsafe' - true only if the event came in from a // relay marked as SpamSafe during Process // (even if the global setting for SpamSafe // is off)

fn filter() {
```
// Show spam on global
// (global events are ephemeral; these won't grow the
// database)
if caller=="Global" {
    return ALLOW;
}

// Block ReplyGuy
if name.contains("ReplyGuy") || name.contains("ReplyGal") {
    return DENY;
}

// Block known DM spam
// (giftwraps are unwrapped before the content is passed to
//  this script)
if content.to_lower().contains(
  "Mr. Gift and Mrs. Wrap under the tree, KISSING!"
) {
    return DENY;
}

// Reject events from new pubkeys, unless they have a high
// PoW or we somehow already have a nip05valid for them
//
// If this turns out to be a legit person, we will start
// hearing their events 2 seconds from now, so we will
// only miss their very first event.
if seconds_known <= 2 && pow < 25 && !nip05valid {
    return DENY;
}

// Mute offensive people
if content.to_lower().contains(" kike") ||
    content.to_lower().contains("kike ") ||
    content.to_lower().contains(" nigger") ||
    content.to_lower().contains("nigger ")
{
    return MUTE;
}

// Reject events from muted people
//
// Gossip already does this internally, and since we are
// not Process, this is rather redundant. But this works
// as an example.
if muted {
    return DENY;
}

// Accept if the PoW is large enough
if pow >= 25 {
    return ALLOW;
}

// Accept if their NIP-05 is valid
if nip05valid {
    return ALLOW;
}

// Accept if the event came through a spamsafe relay
if spamsafe {
    return ALLOW;
}

// Reject the rest
DENY
```
} ```
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 6bae33c8:607272e8
2024-09-20 15:32:58

I went 2-3 last week to bring my two-week mark to 3-7. I’m not drawing dead yet, but obviously you don’t get many of those stretches if you expect to cash in this contest.

This week I feel more strongly about a couple games:

I love the Bengals laying the 7.5 at home against the Football team. The Giants should have beaten them in Washington last week (but for not having a kicker and Malik Nabers dropping an easy 4th-down conversion at the end.) The Bengals will get Ja’Marr Chase going and blow them out.

I like the desperate Ravens in Dallas laying only one point. It’s usually not a great idea to think, “I can’t imagine them at 0-3” so I have to bet them when they’re 0-2 because you probably didn’t foresee them at 0-2, either, and once they’re 0-2, they only need to lose one road game to get to 0-3. That said, I think they’ll be focused, and the Cowboys would have to bring their A game to beat them.

Give me the Falcons getting the 3.5 at home against the Chiefs. Atlanta should hang with them.

I like the Texans laying less than a FG in Minnesota. The Vikings have played well, but I’ll sell high off the big win over the 49ers.

I was on the Bucs initially, but something feels off about it. It’s too obvious, the Broncos aren’t getting nearly enough points with Bo Nix. I’ll stay away.

My last choice is between the Colts as a buy-low at home and the way overpriced Lions on the road.

The Colts are ugly, can’t stop the run, missing DeForest Buckner, etc. But really the names on the jerseys, the details of that sort are already priced in, not the way to handicap games. The better way is to get a sense of the league’s ebb and flow. I think the Colts win at home, maybe Anthony Richardson plays better this week.

The Lions should be 2.5-point underdogs, so this line caught my attention — something is off, and it gives me a feeling I’m missing something, makes me want to take them. But that’s probably overthinking it. I’ll take the Colts with the last pick.

Final Picks

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-14 13:55:28

A response to Achim Warner's "Drivechain brings politics to miners" article

I mean this article: https://achimwarner.medium.com/thoughts-on-drivechain-i-miners-can-do-things-about-which-we-will-argue-whether-it-is-actually-a5c3c022dbd2

There are basically two claims here:

1. Some corporate interests might want to secure sidechains for themselves and thus they will bribe miners to have these activated

First, it's hard to imagine why they would want such a thing. Are they going to make a proprietary KYC chain only for their users? They could do that in a corporate way, or with a federation, like Facebook tried to do, and that would provide more value to their users than a cumbersome pseudo-decentralized system in which they don't even have powers to issue currency. Also, if Facebook couldn't get away with their federated shitcoin because the government was mad, what says the government won't be mad with a sidechain? And finally, why would Facebook want to give custody of their proprietary closed-garden Bitcoin-backed ecosystem coins to a random, open and always-changing set of miners?

But even if they do succeed in making their sidechain and it is very popular such that it pays miners fees and people love it. Well, then why not? Let them have it. It's not going to hurt anyone more than a proprietary shitcoin would anyway. If Facebook really wants a closed ecosystem backed by Bitcoin that probably means we are winning big.

2. Miners will be required to vote on the validity of debatable things

He cites the example of a PoS sidechain, an assassination market, a sidechain full of nazists, a sidechain deemed illegal by the US government and so on.

There is a simple solution to all of this: just kill these sidechains. Either miners can take the money from these to themselves, or they can just refuse to engage and freeze the coins there forever, or they can even give the coins to governments, if they want. It is an entirely good thing that evil sidechains or sidechains that use horrible technology that doesn't even let us know who owns each coin get annihilated. And it was the responsibility of people who put money in there to evaluate beforehand and know that PoS is not deterministic, for example.

About government censoring and wanting to steal money, or criminals using sidechains, I think the argument is very weak because these same things can happen today and may even be happening already: i.e., governments ordering mining pools to not mine such and such transactions from such and such people, or forcing them to reorg to steal money from criminals and whatnot. All this is expected to happen in normal Bitcoin. But both in normal Bitcoin and in Drivechain decentralization fixes that problem by making it so governments cannot catch all miners required to control the chain like that -- and in fact fixing that problem is the only reason we need decentralization.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 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.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 6bae33c8:607272e8
2024-09-20 15:31:21
This was one of those games where I’m grateful to be in Portugal and not catching it in real time. I have Rhamondre Stevenson in one league unfortunately, but none of the prominent players on the Jets (who I don’t have) went crazy, either. And I finally got a Thursday night ATS win in the books. I probably should have used it in the Circa Millions, but I hate submitting the whole slate on Thursday.
- Aaron Rodgers looks sharp at 40 still. He even moved well in the pocket and scrambled for some yards. The Jets might actually be good.
- Breece Hall is getting the requisite work (16 carries, five targets), but Braelon Allen (11 carries, 3 targets) looks more or less just as good. On the one hand, Hall won’t dominate the workload the way say Jonathan Taylor or Saquon Barkley might on their respective teams, but on the other, he’ll stay fresh and still get plenty. If Hall goes down, Allen is probably a top-five back instantly.
- Rodgers spread the ball around, but the Jets tree is pretty narrow: Garrett Wilson, Allen Lazard, Mike Williams, Tyler Conklin and the backs. Wilson had a modest game, but it was a good sign they kept going to him and eventually got him the TD (while he was covered by top corner Christian Gonzalez) even with a big lead.
- Conklin looks like a top-10 TE right now. I’d expect Williams to overtake Lazard before long as the team’s No. 2 wideout. He’s just better and more explosive.
- There’s not much to say about the Pats. Antonio Gibson looked okay after Stevenson was pulled following his fumble. DeMario Douglas took Hunter Henry’s place as the lone productive pass catcher. Maybe you could use one of those two in a pinch.
- It’s time to see more of Drake Maye who looked comfortable and confident in mop-up duty. The circumstances are rough, but Jacoby Brissett is best suited as a stop-gap game-manging backup, not someone who should block real prospect.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3c7d12a6:9532013e
2024-09-11 09:07:36
NUD: Pubkey to waveform

This NUD defines how to convert pubkey to waveform.

Live demo

Why?
- npub is nonsense to display.
- too long.
- npub1bla...bla is nonsense to display.
- npub1 takes too much space.
- ... means nothing.
Specs
- Uses hex pubkey.
- Converts 64 characters into 32 scalars.
- Splits 64 with 2 length chunks.
- Converts each chunk into a scalar.
  - 0 ~ 255 to -1.0 ~ 1.0
Code
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 61ed4357:15801ecc
2024-09-24 01:14:10

Satoshi contemplated (in the Bitcoin Whitepaper) that because transaction could not be reversed, 'routine escrow mechanisms' could be used when buying and selling goods online. The escrow could be used to protect the buyer (since credit card chargebacks wouldn't be a thing). In the second paragraph of the paper he writes:

_"Transactions that are computationally impractical to reverse would protect sellers from fraud [he's referring to fraudulent credit card chargebacks], and routine escrow mechanisms could easily be implemented to protect buyers." _

It interesting to me that no real escrow service providers came to exist, where a seller ships goods to an escrow provider/consignor, payment is sent, when confirmed on chain, the goods are released from escrow.

I suppose the opposite could work as well. Bitcoin is deposited in an escrow (2 of 3 multisig wallet), one key is held by the buyer, one by the seller and one by the escrow provider. Goods are shipped, when seller confirms receipt (or shipping tracking label shows delivery) funds are released. Like HodlHodl, but for goods instead of fiat.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/698147

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 266815e0:6cd408a5
2024-09-18 18:28:35
Not much new this update, mostly just bug fixes

The update is available at nostrudel.ninja and hopefully Start9 and umbrel shortly

New Features
- Add option to wipe wasm relay database
- Add support for showing embedded HLS videos
- Support pinning articles
- Add relay discovery map
- Add option to disable keyboard shortcuts
- Hide avatars of muted users
- Add bookmark button to articles
- Improve notifications timeline rendering performance
Bug Fixes
- Fix search results not being cached
- Fix amber signer missing pubkey
- Fix some tidal embeds not playing
- Fix bookmark view not showing latest bookmarks
- Fix client sending filters with empty #a tags
- Fix client tag breaking POW on notes
- Fix relay notes showing notes from other relays from cache
- Fix keyboard shortcuts activating when replying to notification
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 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. 😅
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-09-18 10:37:09

a way to do an open and permissionless mesh network

I don't have much experience with that so maybe this is all a stupid nonsense, but I think routing in mesh networks (by which I mean all the software that exists out there for creating smallish mesh networks and the real-world projects that use them and effectively have a community of people that connect to each other in some geographical area or a virtual network that uses the underlying internet) is never scalable. It basically always requires all the nodes to keep a full view of the network in order to route packages -- and often there is no incentive for them to do that either. And then the thing is easily spammable but either that problem doesn't happen because the mesh never gets big enough or it has a central committee that decides who can join.

The biggest example is, of course, the big ICANN-controlled IP network, that gets all the negatives of being centrally controlled while weirdly getting also all the negatives of being a kinda-decentralized peer-to-peer ad-hoc network between indepent ISPs.

A good solution that makes kinda-decentralized (at least open and permissionless) routing possible and replaces node addresses with pubkeys could get make it possible for us to get rid of ICANN. Once that is done, ad-hoc peering would become more seamless and ISPs wouldn't have to be so big and clunky, they could slowly split, and non-comercial entities could join the party too by basically just plugging a cable or pointing an antenna to the correct place.

What is it?

One very dumb solution that came to my mind that has a chance of working is one in which each node as a keypair and to be reachable by others they announce their address -- for example, using some kind of DNS (on a [spacechain]?) or by directly communicating their address through some other means -- as their public key plus some "routing hints".

The routing hints are just pubkeys of other nodes known to be routers. Known to whom? Well, this would require some schelling points to naturally appear and the network would be ordered around them, but you are never forced to use them, you have to include as many routing hints as required to ensure that all the people you want to connect to you will eventually be able to, but nothing is ever 100% guaranteed.

Such network could probably work with a pure onion routing scheme with all its privacy benefits in some cases; degrading to a trampoline onion routing scheme otherwise, which means it will just be slightly less private the more trampolines you have to use. And every node has to keep track of just a set of routes from them to a bunch of known routers (or trampolines, which in my mind are mostly the same nodes, but are slightly different roles).

Example

Suppose A is trying to connect to B.

A is a home computer in the city of Évora, Portugal.

B is a home computer in the city of Udine, Italy.

There is a route (we, the narrator, know) between them that goes like this:

A--Ev--Li--Al--Ro--Sm--Ve--Ud--B, in which Ev means the node of an ISP in Évora which directly serves A, Li means a big node in Lisboa, Al a node in Algiers, Ro a node in Rome, Sm a node in San Marino, Ve a node in Venice and Ud a gateway node in the mesh of Udine to which B is connected.

There could be many other routes, but we'll ignore them for now.

B could have published his address as <pubkey-B>?hint=<pubkey-Ud>,<pubkey-Ve>,<pubkey-Sm>,<pubkey-Ro>, which would mean A would only have to know a route from Ev up to Ro.

If Ro is known to be a big router, A could easily have a route cached there, and could discover other routes by asking around every now and then too. It wouldn't take a lot of space to have routes cached to some thousands of different known big nodes like that. Then A can just wrap an onion with all the coordinates and the message inside and hand it to Ev and it would reach B. Inside the message she would also include the full route for a message to be sent back.

However, even if A doesn't have a route to Ro, it could still hope that Li would have, then she could make a special "trampoline" onion that goes Ev--Li and then when Li receives it it sees a request to forward the next packet to Ro, so Li has the freedom to choose a route from itself to Ro (as long as it knows Ro, of course) and from there A's message continues.

The same trampolining can exist on B's side, if B doesn't have a route from Ud to Ro, but knows Ro is likely to have one up to Ud -- or if B feels it's not worth including so many hints when most big nodes will have routes to Ud, for example, it can publish his address as <pubkey-B>?hint=<pubkey-Ud>*<pubkey-Ro> meaning that one should find a route up to Ro and from there ask Ro to trampoline it up to Ud.

Or, if B doesn't expect Ud to be very well-known, but Sm yes, then it could do <pubkey-B>?hint=<pubkey-Ud>,<pubkey-Sm>*<pubkey-Ro>. Again, this is just one hint, in practice it would have to have a lot (maybe 10, 20?) other hints, in a tree structure that this querystring syntax isn't very suited for encoding:

``` Ud Tr Pu Za Li

Sm * Ro Ba Mi La Ge * Mo Tu

```

(Remember, we're using city name abbreviations here, but each of these would be a specific node, with a specific public key, supposed for the example to be in such a city, but nothing prevents them from being in different cities or that multiple nodes exist in the same city.)

Summary

Basically packets go from node to node, in a sequence established by the sender -- with optional trampolines in between -- until they get to the target. Target responds in the same route. Nodes can be anyone. Focal points form around big nodes, but they can be replaced easily, the receivers just have to stop using them in their hints, so the network is flexible and open.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 599f67f7:21fb3ea9
2024-09-19 08:27:12
¿Qué es una dirección Lightning o Lightning address?

Una dirección Lightning es una dirección que visualmente se asemeja a una dirección de correo electrónico legible para los humanos, por ejemplo usuario@dominio.com pero que en realidad te permite recibir pagos en bitcoin instantáneos y económicos, sin la necesidad de tener un nodo en linea en tu dispositivo ni tener que generar facturas de forma manual cada vez que alguien te quiere hacer un pago.

¿Suena bien no?

¿Y cómo funciona?

Funciona utilizando el protocolo de pago LNURL.

Aquí se muestra un sencillo esquema de lo que ocurre en segundo plano.

En resumen, cuando otro usuario quiere pagarte usando tu dirección Lightning, tu billetera convierte la dirección Lightning en una solicitud de pago LNURL. Luego se utiliza esa solicitud de pago LNURL exitosa para obtener una factura BOLT11.

💡 Dirección Lightning > LNURLp > Factura BOLT 11.

Suena bien, pero ¿cuál es el problema?

Por el momento, muchas de las implementaciones de Lightning Address son de custodia, porque se necesita un dominio para que Lightning Address funcione y un nodo que esté siempre en línea para recibir los pagos. Debido a que es de custodia, el custodio puede atacarte en cualquier momento y monitorear tus transacciones.

Tienes que confiar en el propietario del dominio para no cambiar el registro de tu dirección Lightning. Y no funciona si el servidor LNURL no está en línea.

Bitcoin Txoko ofrece una sencilla solución de Lightning Address respaldada por LNbits. Esto también es de custodia, así que por favor mantén solo una pequeña cantidad en tu billetera Bitcoin Txoko y ve retirando a tu billetera de autocustodia a medida que recibas más sats.

Estoy listo, ¿qué necesito para empezar?

¡Todo lo que necesitas es un teléfono móvil o un ordenador y una conexión a Internet!

1. Creando tu billetera

Si aún no lo has hecho, navega a https://bitcointxoko.com y crea una nueva billetera. Puedes elegir el nombre que quieras.

2. Activar extensiones

Hace falta la extensión Pay Links para que las direcciones Lightning funcionen.

Abre Extensiones en la barra de herramientas y activa Pay Links.

3. Creando tu enlace de pago
- En a la extensión Pay Links, haz clic en New Pay Link.
- Elige la billetera que has creado.
- Para la descripción del artículo, puedes escribir lo que quieras.
- Elige un nombre de usuario de tu dirección Lightning. Tu dirección Lightning se verá como username@bitcointxoko.com.
- Desmarque Fixed amount y cambia el valor mínimo a 1 y el valor máximo a 500000.
⚠️ También puedes cambiar el valor máximo a algo más alto, pero es más probable que los pagos más grandes fallen debido a la limitada capacidad de entrada del nodo Lightning de Bitcoin Txoko. Así que recomendamos mantenerlo en 500000 sats.
- Ahora abre Advanced options y cambia Comment maximum characters a 799. Este paso no es necesario pero permite más funcionalidades más adelante.
- Marca Enable nostr zaps en la parte inferior, para que puedas utilizar tu dirección Lightning para recibir zaps.
- Las demás opciones avanzadas son opcionales, puedes configurarlas si quieres o dejarlas en blanco.
Al final debería verse algo así.
- Cuando hayas comprobado que todo es correcto, sigue adelante y haz clic en Create Pay Link.
Probando

Puedes probar si tu nueva dirección Lightning funciona yendo a otra cartera, pulsando en Enviar y escribiendo tu dirección Lightning como destino, y luego enviándote una pequeña cantidad de sats.

Vuelve a tu billetera Bitcoin Txoko y comprueba si has recibido tu propio pago. Es posible que tengas que actualizar la página.

Si todo funcionó correctamente, ¡enhorabuena! 🥳

Si no es así, háznoslo saber. Siempre estamos aquí para ayudar.

Próximos pasos

Nostr zaps

Puedes añadir tu dirección Bitcoin Txoko Lightning a tu perfil de nostr y usarla para recibir zaps. Normalmente, esto se hace yendo a Perfil > Editar > Dirección Lightning y cambiando la dirección Lightning.

LNDhub

Puedes importar tu billetera LNbits como un LNDhub en tu teléfono utilizando una aplicación como Zeus o BlueWallet, en lugar de visitar la billetera en el navegador cada vez que desees comprobar tu saldo o realizar un pago. Echa un vistazo a nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqkvlvlma7a55ccp6d5rrdc27h3ssmdmael286mjaq5uxmqslk04fqqxnzd3exuerqdfkxccnyv3cs0uvul sobre cómo hacer esto.

Código QR

También puedes compartir o imprimir tu código QR LNURLp para que la gente pueda escanearlo fácilmente con sus teléfonos. ¡Muy útil si estás introduciendo bitcoin a tu comerciante local favorito para que pueda recibir propinas Lightning!

Simplemente comparte el enlace a tu página compartida, o imprime el código QR como PDF yendo a View Link > Print.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-14 13:55:28

A violência é uma forma de comunicação

A violência é uma forma de comunicação: um serial killer, um pai que bate no filho, uma briga de torcidas, uma sessão de tortura, uma guerra, um assassinato passional, uma briga de bar. Em todos esses se pode enxergar uma mensagem que está tentando ser transmitida, que não foi compreendida pelo outro lado, que não pôde ser expressa, e, quando o transmissor da mensagem sentiu que não podia ser totalmente compreendido em palavras, usou essa outra forma de comunicação.

Quando uma ofensa em um bar descamba para uma briga, por exemplo, o que há é claramente uma tentativa de uma ofensa maior ainda pelo lado do que iniciou a primeira, a briga não teria acontecido se ele a tivesse conseguido expressar em palavras tão claras que toda a audiência de bêbados compreendesse, o que estaria além dos limites da linguagem, naquele caso, o soco com o mão direita foi mais eficiente. Poderia ser também a defesa argumentativa: "eu não sou um covarde como você está dizendo" -- mas o bar não acreditaria nessa frase solta, a comunicação não teria obtido o sucesso desejado.

A explicação para o fato da redução da violência à medida em que houve progresso da civilização está na melhora da eficiência da comunicação humana: a escrita, o refinamento da expressão lingüística, o aumento do alcance da palavra falada com rádio, a televisão e a internet.

Se essa eficiência diminuir, porque não há mais acordo quanto ao significado das palavras, porque as pessoas não estão nem aí para se o que escrevem é bom ou não, ou porque são incapazes de compreender qualquer coisa, deve aumentar proporcionalmente a violência.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-14 13:55:28
On HTLCs and arbiters

This is another attempt and conveying the same information that should be in Lightning and its fake HTLCs. It assumes you know everything about Lightning and will just highlight a point. This is also valid for PTLCs.

The protocol says HTLCs are trimmed (i.e., not actually added to the commitment transaction) when the cost of redeeming them in fees would be greater than their actual value.

Although this is often dismissed as a non-important fact (often people will say "it's trusted for small payments, no big deal"), but I think it is indeed very important for 3 reasons:
1. Lightning absolutely relies on HTLCs actually existing because the payment proof requires them. The entire security of each payment comes from the fact that the payer has a preimage that comes from the payee. Without that, the state of the payment becomes an unsolvable mystery. The inexistence of an HTLC breaks the atomicity between the payment going through and the payer receiving a proof.
2. Bitcoin fees are expected to grow with time (arguably the reason Lightning exists in the first place).
3. MPP makes payment sizes shrink, therefore more and more of Lightning payments are to be trimmed. As I write this, the mempool is clear and still payments smaller than about 5000sat are being trimmed. Two weeks ago the limit was at 18000sat, which is already below the minimum most MPP splitting algorithms will allow.
Therefore I think it is important that we come up with a different way of ensuring payment proofs are being passed around in the case HTLCs are trimmed.

Channel closures

Worse than not having HTLCs that can be redeemed is the fact that in the current Lightning implementations channels will be closed by the peer once an HTLC timeout is reached, either to fulfill an HTLC for which that peer has a preimage or to redeem back that expired HTLCs the other party hasn't fulfilled.

For the surprise of everybody, nodes will do this even when the HTLCs in question were trimmed and therefore cannot be redeemed at all. It's very important that nodes stop doing that, because it makes no economic sense at all.

However, that is not so simple, because once you decide you're not going to close the channel, what is the next step? Do you wait until the other peer tries to fulfill an expired HTLC and tell them you won't agree and that you must cancel that instead? That could work sometimes if they're honest (and they have no incentive to not be, in this case). What if they say they tried to fulfill it before but you were offline? Now you're confused, you don't know if you were offline or they were offline, or if they are trying to trick you. Then unsolvable issues start to emerge.

Arbiters

One simple idea is to use trusted arbiters for all trimmed HTLC issues.

This idea solves both the protocol issue of getting the preimage to the payer once it is released by the payee -- and what to do with the channels once a trimmed HTLC expires.

A simple design would be to have each node hardcode a set of trusted other nodes that can serve as arbiters. Once a channel is opened between two nodes they choose one node from both lists to serve as their mutual arbiter for that channel.

Then whenever one node tries to fulfill an HTLC but the other peer is unresponsive, they can send the preimage to the arbiter instead. The arbiter will then try to contact the unresponsive peer. If it succeeds, then done, the HTLC was fulfilled offchain. If it fails then it can keep trying until the HTLC timeout. And then if the other node comes back later they can eat the loss. The arbiter will ensure they know they are the ones who must eat the loss in this case. If they don't agree to eat the loss, the first peer may then close the channel and blacklist the other peer. If the other peer believes that both the first peer and the arbiter are dishonest they can remove that arbiter from their list of trusted arbiters.

The same happens in the opposite case: if a peer doesn't get a preimage they can notify the arbiter they hadn't received anything. The arbiter may try to ask the other peer for the preimage and, if that fails, settle the dispute for the side of that first peer, which can proceed to fail the HTLC is has with someone else on that route.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ b39b8e83:0e391257
2024-09-23 23:54:40

https://image.nostr.build/54d4830e16f42daf7eeff67ddc8b19f811ea2e484ff330bcc72ad5c73a8ed447.jpg

It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and sputtering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spreads of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country and invoked the God of Battles, beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpouring of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.

Sunday morning came-next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their faces alight with material dreams-visions of a stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender!-then home from the war, bronzed heros, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory! With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for the flag or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths. The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ burst that shook the building, and with one impulse the house rose, with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous invocation -- "God the all-terrible! Thou who ordainest, Thunder thy clarion and lightning thy sword!"

Then came the "long" prayer. None could remember the like of it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. The burden of its supplication was that an ever--merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work; bless them, shield them in His mighty hand, make them strong and confident, invincible in the bloody onset; help them to crush the foe, grant to them and to their flag and country imperishable honor and glory -

https://image.nostr.build/810192ce50f2dbb274b26c2753fe742d7fbc50fe7cd3307baf1bc2d74e5a2e14.jpg

An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and noiseless step up the main aisle, his eyes fixed upon the minister, his long body clothed in a robe that reached to his feet, his head bare, his white hair descending in a frothy cataract to his shoulders, his seamy face unnaturally pale, pale even to ghastliness. With all eyes following him and wondering, he made his silent way; without pausing, he ascended to the preacher's side and stood there, waiting. With shut lids the preacher, unconscious of his presence, continued his moving prayer, and at last finished it with the words, uttered in fervent appeal,"Bless our arms, grant us the victory, O Lord our God, Father and Protector of our land and flag!"

The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step aside -- which the startled minister did -- and took his place. During some moments he surveyed the spellbound audience with solemn eyes in which burned an uncanny light; then in a deep voice he said

"I come from the Throne-bearing a message from Almighty God!" The words smote the house with a shock; if the stranger perceived it he gave no attention. "He has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd and grant it if such shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import-that is to say, its full import. For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of-except he pause and think. "God's servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two- one uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of His Who hearth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken. Ponder this-keep it in mind. If you beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse upon some neighbor's crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it. "You have heard your servant's prayer-the uttered part of it. I am commissioned by God to put into words the other part of it-that part which the pastor, and also you in your hearts, fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: 'Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!' That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory-must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God the Father fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!

"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle-be Thou near them! With them, in spirit, we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it-for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

https://image.nostr.build/dd0a7be5db79d2f2885ffb7f229519c28bb3d6a4ed37df9e4ae55702ea8d17ad.jpg

(After a pause)

"Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits."

It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ a03b38f8:2c7ce1f0
2024-09-23 20:08:38
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.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-14 13:55:28

Problemas com Russell Kirk

A idéia central da “política da prudência[^1]” de Russell Kirk me parece muito correta, embora tenha sido melhor formulada pior no seu enorme livro do que em uma pequena frase do joanadarquista Lucas Souza: “o conservadorismo é importante, porque tem muita gente com idéia errada por aí, e nós podemos não saber distingüi-las”.

Porém, há alguns problemas que precisam ser esclarecidos, ou melhor explicados, e que me impedem de enxergar os seus argumentos como refutação final do meu já tão humilde (embora feroz) anarquismo. São eles:

I Percebo alguma coisa errada, não sei bem onde, entre a afirmação de que toda ideologia é ruim, ou “todas as ideologias causam confusão[^2]”, e a proposta conservadora de “conservar o mundo da ordem que herdamos, ainda que em estado imperfeito, de nossos ancestrais[^3]”. Ora, sem precisar cair em exemplos como o do partido conservador inglês -- que conservava a política inglesa sempre onde estava, e se alternava no governo com o partido trabalhista, que a levava cada vez mais um pouco à esquerda --, está embutida nessa frase, talvez, a idéia, que ao mesmo tempo é clara e ferrenhamente combatida pelos próprios conservadores, de que a história é da humanidade é uma história de progresso linear rumo a uma situação melhor.

Querer conservar o mundo da ordem que herdamos significa conservar também os vários erros que podem ter sido cometidos pelos nossos ancestrais mais recentes, e conservá-los mesmo assim, acusando toda e qualquer tentativa de propôr soluções a esses erros de ideologia? Ou será que conservar o mundo da ordem é escolher um período determinado que seja tido como o auge da história humana e tentar restaurá-lo em nosso próprio tempo? Não seria isto ideologia?

Ou, ainda, será que conservar o mundo da ordem é selecionar, entre vários períodos do passado, alguns pedaços que o conservador considerar ótimos em cada sociedade, fazer dali uma mistura de sociedade ideal baseada no passado e então tentar implementá-la? Quem saberia dizer quais são as partes certas?

II Sobre a questão do que mantém a sociedade civil coesa, Russell Kirk, opondo-a à posição libertária de que o nexo da sociedade é o autointeresse, declara que a posição conservadora é a de que “a sociedade é uma comunidade de almas, que une os mortos, os vivos e os ainda não nascidos, e que se harmoniza por aquilo que Aristóteles chamou de amizade e os cristãos chamam de caridade ou amor ao próximo”.

Esta é uma posição muito correta, mas me parece estar em contradição com a defesa do Estado que ele faz na mesma página e na seguinte. O que me parece errado é que a sociedade não pode ser, ao mesmo tempo, uma “comunidade baseada no amor ao próximo” e uma comunidade que “requer não somente que as paixões dos indivíduos sejam subjugadas, mas que, mesmo no povo e no corpo social, bem como nos indivíduos, as inclinações dos homens, amiúde, devam ser frustradas, a vontade controlada e as paixões subjugadas” e, pior, que “isso somente pode ser feito por um poder exterior”.

Disto aí podemos tirar que, da mesma forma que Kirk define a posição libertária como sendo a de que o autointeresse é que mantém a sociedade civil coesa, a posição conservadora seria então a de que essa coesão vem apenas do Estado, e não de qualquer ligação entre vivos e mortos, ou do amor ao próximo. Já que, sem o Estado, diz, ele, citando Thomas Hobbes, a condição do homem é “solitária, pobre, sórdida, embrutecida e curta”?

[^1]: este é o nome do livro e também um outro nome que ele dá para o próprio conservadorismo (p.99). [^2]: p. 101 [^3]: p. 102

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ df67f9a7:2d4fc200
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.

Contribute to the Geyser Fund
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ b39b8e83:0e391257
2024-09-23 23:51:33

My letter to my U.S. Representative asking them to cosponsor H.R. 9649 to restore UNRWA funding.

Dear Representative ABC,

I am writing to you as a concerned citizen and member of the Quaker faith community. My belief in peace, equality, and the inherent worth of every human being compels me to urge you to support the restoration of funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza.

As a Quaker, I believe we are called to speak truth to power and to work towards alleviating suffering wherever we find it. The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza deeply troubles me, as I believe it should trouble all who value human life and dignity. The prospect of famine and disease outbreaks in Gaza is not just a political issue, but a moral one that speaks to our shared humanity.

UNRWA serves as the primary source of aid for millions of Palestinians facing dire circumstances. While I acknowledge the concerns that have been raised about the agency, I believe that UNRWA has demonstrated a commitment to addressing these issues through immediate action and reform. The decision by many of our allies to resume funding to UNRWA after careful consideration should encourage us to do the same.

The Quaker testimonies of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship (SPICES) guide us to seek peaceful solutions and to care for those in need. By supporting the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act (H.R. 9649), we can take a significant step towards fulfilling these values and preventing further suffering.

I urge you to cosponsor H.R. 9649 and to advocate for its passage. This action would align with our nation's humanitarian principles and our moral obligation to help those in desperate need, regardless of political boundaries.

Thank you for your consideration of this crucial matter. I look forward to hearing about your stance on this issue and any actions you plan to take.

Sincerely, TheFreeQuaker

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 502ab02a:a2860397
2024-09-20 02:30:23

มีเรื่องจะประกาศครับ ถ้าสามารถแชร์ออกไปได้ก็ยินดีมากครับ

เป็นความตั้งใจตั้งแต่ก่อนงาน Thailand Bitcoin Conference 2024 ว่าจะเป็นงานสุดท้ายที่ผมจะใช้คำว่า ขนมคีโต

ตลอดเส้นทางที่ผ่านมา หมวกอีกใบนึงของผมคือ การถ่ายทอดความรู้ที่ศึกษามาในแขนงโภชนาการ และคำถามตลอดกาลคือ "อันไหนเป็นอาหารคีโต"

จริงอยู่ครับก็ยินดีตอบให้ได้ แต่ลึกๆมันก็มีความขุ่นๆนิดๆว่า หากเป็นขวบปีแรกของคีโตก็ยังพอเข้าใจ แต่ขณะนี้ก้าวเข้าวปีที่ 8 แล้ว อีกไม่เท่าไรก็ 10ปีคีโตในไทยแล้ว สิ่งแรกที่คนคีโตมองหาเวลาซื้ออาหารคือ ฉลากคีโต

แล้วพอเจอบางสินค้าแปะป้ายคีโต แต่มีวัตถุดิบที่ต่างจากกูรูต่างจากเจ้าพ่อเจ้าแม่คีโต ได้บัญญัติไว้ ก็เกิดความสับสนวุ่นวายทะเลาะเบาะแว้ง ว่าตกลงมันเป็นอาหารคีโตหรือไม่

ผมเลือกทางนี้ครับ หักดิบไปเลย

ต่อไปนี้ผมจะไม่ใส่คำว่า คีโต ในชื่อเรียกอาหาร ต่อไปนี้จะไม่มีชีสเค้กคีโต ดาร์คชอคกานาซคีโต หน้าไก่คีโต บลาบลาบลา ที่มีคีโตเป็นชื่อเรียก อีกต่อไปครับ พอกันทีกับสิ่งนี้

ของกินทุกอย่างที่ผมทำ จะใช้ความเชี่ยวชาญด้านโภชนาการ ความสะอาด สุขอนามัย ฉลากสารอาหาร ใช้การคำนวนแบบเผื่อข้อผิดพลาด(บวก ไม่ลบ) ด้วยการใส่ Macro Nutrient ให้ในทุกเมนู !!!!

เพราะผมเชื่อว่า การกินคาร์บต่ำ เป็นการกินแบบ "ปกติ" การกินคาร์บมากก็เป็นการกินแบบ "ปกติ" เหมือนคนไม่ชอบกินผิก ไม่ชอบกินปลา ไม่ชอบกินเนื้อ อันนี้มันก็แค่คนไม่ชอบกินคาร์บสูงเกินไป แค่นั้นครับ เป็นการกินแบบปกติ ย้ำ เป็นการกินแบบปกติ คาร์บต่ำแบบคีโต เป็นการกินแบบปกติ ที่ควรเป็นมานานแล้วด้วย

การยัดทะนานคาร์บสูงมากๆ ในมุมมองผมคือ นี่แหละที่ไม่ปกติ

ทีนี้ความไม่ปกตินี้มันก็ไม่ผิดอะไรด้วย ถ้าคนกินไม่ปกติ นิยามไม่ปกติคือ ไม่ใช่คนทั่วๆไปเช่น นักกล้าม นักกีฬา ผู้ที่ใช้ "พลังงาน" สูงมากๆแลละต้องการใช้คาร์บ เพื่อการใดการหนึ่งโดยเฉพาะ ดังนั้นไม่มีอะไรที่ผิดเลยครับ ใครอยากกินอะไร กิน ตราบใดที่เรารู้ตัวเราเองว่าทำอะไร

ผมอยู่ในวงการธุรกิจทั้งอาหารและการโฆษณา เข้าใจดีครับว่าการแปะป้ายคีโต คือการช่วยให้คนตัดสินใจง่ายขึ้น เข้าใจง่ายขึ้น ช่วยในการขายให้สะดวกขึ้น แต่ ผมพอแล้วครับ เหรียญอีกด้านนึงของป้ายนีคือ มันไม่ได้ช่วยให้คนคีโต เรียนรู้การทำความเข้าใจด้านสารอาหารเท่าที่ผมคาดหวัง เพราะถ้าไม่มีป้ายพวกนี้ คนคีโตหลายๆคนถึงกับไปไม่เป็นกันเลยทีเดียว แล้วทุกวันนี้เหรียญมันออกด้านนี้ซะเยอะด้วย

นอกจากนี้ประเด็นที่หลีกไม่ได้คือ การหมอบคลานเข้ารับวัตถุดิบคีโตจากกูรู ซึ่งไม่เคยได้เหตุผลในการ "ห้าม" ของหลายๆอย่างเช่น สารหวานบางประเภท แครอท ฟักทอง(ตัวนี้มีคนถามและส่งมาให้ดูเยอะ เดี๋ยวจัดให้เคลียร์ๆ)

ซึ่งใครที่เลือกกินสิ่งนี้แล้วแชร์ความรู้ให้คนคีโตว่ากินได้ ก็จะโดนตรรกะวิบัติจากกูรูด้วยการแปะคำว่า "อยากกิน เลยชวนคนอื่นกิน ชวนคนให้ไม่เคร่ง" เป็นตรรกะวิบัติที่เรียกว่า Ad Hominem หรือ การโจมตีที่ตัวบุคคล นั่นเอง (ref : https://siripun.com/2023/06/09/logical-fallacies-2-ad-hominem ) ทั้งที่ถ้าจะนิยามคำว่าเคร่ง สิ่งที่กูรูให้ทำ ไม่สามารถมีคำตอบที่สร้างสมการสมดุลได้ (ทำไม A ได้แล้ว B ไม่ได้ถ้าเทียบบริบทเอามาชนกันชัดๆเลย)

จริงๆก็อยากรณรงค์ให้ผู้ประกอบการอาหารคีโต ร่วมโครงการนี้ แต่เข้าใจว่ามันคงไม่สามารถทำได้ เพราะอาจจะมองในมุมที่ต่างกัน ผมเข้าใจในสิ่งนั้นครับ แต่มุมของผมคือ การทำอาหารคีโตให้กลับมาอยู่ในประเภทอาหารปกติ จะยิ่งขยายมูลค่าตลาดออกไปได้มากกว่าทุกวันนี้

ตลาดคีโตมันซบเซา เพราะเราทำให้มัน "ประหลาด" ทำให้มันกลายเป็นของ "ไม่ปกติ" พอได้น้ำหนัก หุ่น ลูก สมปรารถนาแล้วก็ถวิลหาการ "ออกไปกินปกติ" นั่นคือการทำให้ตลาดหายไปเรื่อยๆเพราะพวกคุณเองครับ ผมกลับมองว่าทำให้คีโตคืออาหารปกติ แล้วกินกันไปตลอด ไม่มีการขอออกจากเผ่า หานเป็ดอะไรคือทางที่ดีกว่า ได้สุขภาพที่ดีกว่า

คีโตคือการกินปกติ ไม่ควรต้องมาแยกเป็นชนเผ่าอะไรเลย คีโตคือคนเมือง คนมีความรู้ คือ วิทยาศาสตร์ คือความฉลาดในการเลือกสารอาหาร อย่าไปยัดเยียดความ "ไม่ปกติ" ให้อาหาร "ปกติ"

ก็เลยคิดว่า ไม่เป็นไร ร้านคีโตร้านใดอยากร่วมเรายินดี แต่ถ้ามองว่าไม่เอาด้วยก็ยินดีเหมือนกัน เพราะการค้าเสรี อยากทำอะไรก็ทำได้ครับ ในส่วนตัวผม เราทำของเรา เราเริ่มของเราเลยก็ได้ เพราะเส้นทางที่ผ่านมา เราก็เดินอยู่ในเส้นทางของเราอยู่แล้ว และผมเชื่อใน Proof of Work ครับ ผมสามารถทุ่มแรงกายแรงใจ ลงในอาหาร ลงในการสอน ให้คนตระหนักถึง "สารอาหาร" มากกว่า "ป้ายฉลาก"

แล้ววันนึง มันจะส่งผลที่ impact ครับ ผมเชื่ออย่างนั้น Proof of Work สามารถส่งต่อได้ และ พลิกโลกได้ มานับต่อนับแล้ว

ทุกวันนี้ผมทุ่มเนื้อหาด้าน ฉลากอาหาร เพื่อให้คนหัดอ่าน รู้เท่า รู้ทัน มันก็ทำให้ผมยิ่งรู้สึกว่า ผมไม่ควรแปะคำว่าคีโต ลงไปเลย มันเหมือนไปสปอยให้คนลืมพื้นฐานสำคัญ

ไม่ใช่ว่าไม่ง้อคนคีโตนะ คนทำการค้าต้องยินดีกับทุกการค้าอยู่แล้ว แต่ผมกลับมมองว่า ตลาดของผมขอเป็นตลาดที่มีการอ่านฉลาก มีการหัดพิจารณาสารอาหาร ดูคาร์บเป็น เลือกวัตถุดิบที่เหมาะกับแต่ละคน มากกว่าวัตถุดิบที่ต้องได้รับการโปรดจากกูรู

ผมมองว่า คนกินคลีน คนกินไฮโปรตีน หรือแม้แต่แค่คนที่ไม่อยากกินน้ำตาล ก็จะสามารถกินอาหารที่ผมทำได้ ไม่โดนปิดกั้นจากป้ายคีโต ที่โลกประเคน mind set ให้ว่าต้อง high fat เท่านั้น

ซึ่งถ้าผมทำอาหารในแบบของผม + คนกินพิจารณาได้เองว่าสารอาหารเหมาะกับเขาไหม = การกินแบบมีความรู้จริง เหมาะกับตัวเองจริงๆ

ถือว่าเป็นอีกเส้นทางที่ผมต้อง fight for ครับ ถ้าสำเร็จ มันจะช่วยให้คนในสังคมหลุดกรอบ และมองสารอาหารได้ ดูแลสุขภาพได้ ด้วยพื้นฐานความรู้ที่มากขึ้นครับ ไม่ใช่ทางที่สบายแน่นอนครับ แต่พวกคุณจะได้ประโยชน์ติดตัวไปแน่ๆ

ถามว่าทำเพื่อการค้าใช่ไหม ก็ใช่ครับ การค้ามันคู่กับโลก ผมไม่ค่อยเข้าใจในมุมของการต้องการอะไรฟรีๆอยู่ตลอด ถ้าคุณเคารพใน value แล้วยินดีส่งต่อ value for value คุุณจะยินดีในการค้าที่ไม่ยัดเยียด (fiat) คุณจะยินดีในการส่งต่อ value ด้วยคุณค่า คุณจะยินดีในการมองคุณค่าของ "เวลา" ที่ผู้สร้างผู้ทำลงทุนลงไป (เวลาคือทรัพยการที่มีค่าที่สุดในโลก) แล้วถ้าคุณให้เกียรติกับสิ่งเหล่านี้ คุณจะไม่อยากได้มันฟรีๆ คุณจะกระดากใจที่จะหยิบมันมาเปล่าๆ นี่คือเหตุผลที่ผมไม่เคยมองว่า การทำการค้า มันจะเลวร้ายอะไร แต่ที่แน่ๆ ผมจะไม่ทำ FIAT keto ครับ ผมจะไม่เร่งเร้า ไม่ขู่เข็ญ ไม่ใช้ตรรกะประเภท "ของมันต้องมี" ผมจะแบไต๋แฟร์ๆด้วยสารอาหารครับ

แม้มันจะแลกมาด้วยการขาดโอกาส จากป้าย "คีโต" ก็ตาม แม้คนคีโตจะมองว่า ไม่มีป้ายคือไม่คีโตก็ตาม แม้จะไม่ได้รับการรับรองจากกูรูใดๆ ว่า "คีโตกินได้" ก็ตาม ถ้าจะให้สังคมมีการเรียนรู้สารอาหารขึ้นได้ ผมยอม

pirateketo #ตำรับเอ๋ #siripun #siamstr

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 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.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-14 13:55:28
A command line utility to create and manage personal graphs, then write them to dot and make images with graphviz.

It manages a bunch of YAML files, one for each entity in the graph. Each file lists the incoming and outgoing links it has (could have listen only the outgoing, now that I'm tihnking about it).

Each run of the tool lets you select from existing nodes or add new ones to generate a single link type from one to one, one to many, many to one or many to many -- then updates the YAML files accordingly.

It also includes a command that generates graphs with graphviz, and it can accept a template file that lets you customize the dot that is generated and thus the graphviz graph.

rel
- https://github.com/fiatjaf/rel
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 8cb60e21:5f2deaea
2024-09-19 22:09:05

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ bf95e1a4:ebdcc848
2024-09-11 06:31:05

This is the lightly-edited AI generated transcript of Bitcoin Infinity Show #125. The transcription isn't perfect, but it's usually pretty good!

If you'd like to support us, send us a zap or check out the Bitcoin Infinity Store for our books and other merchandise! https://bitcoininfinitystore.com/

Intro

Luke: Paolo, Mathias, welcome to the Bitcoin Infinity Show. Thank you for joining us.

Paolo: Thank you for having us.

Knut: Yeah, good to have you here, guys. We're going to talk a bit about Keet and Holepunch and a little bit about Tether today, aren't we?

Luke: Sounds like that's the plan. So thank you again, both for joining us.

Introducing Paolo and Mathias

Luke: would you both mind giving a quick introduction on yourselves just so our listeners have the background on you

Paolo: Sure, I'm Paolo Arduino, I'm the CEO at Tether. I started my career as a developer, I pivoted towards more, strategy and execution for, Tether and Bitfinex. And, co founded with Matthias, Holepunch, that is, building very, crazy and awesome technology, that is gonna be disrupting the way people communicate.

Luke: And, Mathias, over to you.

Mathias: Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I've been, so I come from a peer-to-peer background. I've been working with peer-to-peer technology. The last, I always say five, but it's probably more like 10 years. I did a lot of work on BitTorrent and I did a lot of work on JavaScript. and a little bit later to, Bitcoin and I saw a lot of potential on how we can use Bitcoin with pureology and like how we can use.

P2P technology to bring the same mission that Bitcoin has, but to all kinds of data, setting all data free and, making everything private per default and self sovereignty and that kind of thing. I'm very into that. and I've been lucky to work with, like I said, with Paolo for, many years now and, Get a lot of, valuable, feedback and, idea sharing out of that.

And we're on a mission to, build some, really cool things. In addition to all the things we've already been building. So it's super exciting and glad to be here.

Luke: Oh, fantastic.

Introduction to Holepunch

Luke: Matthias, that was a perfect segue into basically, an introduction to, can you tell us about, Holepunch.

What is Holepunch and what are you doing?

Mathias: Yeah, sure. like I said, we co founded the company a couple of years ago. Now, we've been building up a team of really talented peer to peer engineers. we're always hiring also. So if anybody's listening and want to join our mission, please, apply. we have some really smart people working with us.

but we teamed up to basically. like I said in my introduction, I've been working on peer to peer technology for many years now and thinking ahead how we can, stop using all that technology when I started it was only used for basically piracy. I'm from the Nordics, and I think Knut is from the Nordics also, so he knows all about, the Nordics know about piracy.

It wasn't back in the day. A lot of very interesting technologies came out of that. But basically, how can we use those ideas that were proven by piracy back then to be really unstoppable, because a lot of people wanted to stop it, but apply that same kind of mindset to the general data, so we can build actual applications that has that kind of quality, that can withstand the wrath of God.

that can work without any centralization. Actually, nobody can shut down, not even the authorities if they wanted to. Basically unkillable and make that general enough that it can basically run any kind of application, solve a lot of really hot problems. it works on your own computers, your own networks.

Mobile phones, and tie that up. I'm a developer by heart, into a software stack that people can just build on. So not everybody has to go in and tackle all these problems individually, but just give them some software to solve all this so they can, as much as possible, just worry about making really cool applications that we use,

Yeah, like I said, we've been working really intensely on this, for a long time and in Holepunch, we made this our co mission to scale this up and, deliver a software stack on that. it's been really exciting and it's been really fun and it's been very, challenging, but if it's not challenging, then why, do it?

and, especially, with the backing of, Tether, through Paolo and also just expertise from there, we have a good hand built to deliver this to the world. And, the first thing we did was, like, think about what's, a good first application that we can build that can showcase this, but also something we really want to use ourself and see scale have also have on the world.

And obviously that was a communications app, keyed, which we was our first project. And, we're still in beta and we're still lots of work to do. And we're still iterating that really heavily, but I like to show that you can build these kind of apps without any kind of. central points. and we released that also, like the first thing we released when we launched the company.

And like I said, we're still, building and still iterating it. A lot of fun. and then take the software stack from that, which we call the pair runtime and then split that out. So anybody else can build similar apps on top. With that same technology stack, and, yeah, that's, we launched that earlier this year also, and, it's been really exciting so far, and it's, I love going to work every day and solve, even though, you can see on my hair that it's not really good for, the head scratching, but, but, it's really fun, and it's really challenging, and it's interesting thing. goal as a company, basically to have that if we go out of business tomorrow, our technology continues to exist because we're not in the loop of anything. It's also sometimes really hard to explain that we don't have any, chip coins involved or any kind of limitations on the stack because we're basically engineering it not to be part of it, because that's the only way you can actually engineer these things that they can understand.

anything, super exciting and, encourage everybody to try to check it out.

Luke: we've both used Keet and I've certainly enjoyed the experience. I, think, the, basics of this, as I understand it, is that it's, entirely on both sides. The communicators end, or a group of communicators, it's all on their end, and the communication is entirely peer to peer, what is Keet really, what is the basics of Keet as, say, a product?

What is the easiest way that you would explain what it is?

The Vision Behind Keet

Mathias: But We're basically trying to just build a world class communications app that works to a large degree, like normal communication apps that you know, like Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp. Just with all the centralization tucked away, with all the costs of running it tucked away, and then adding all the features that also we can, because we're peer to peer

People don't care about technology. We loved it, but don't have that surface off too much to the user.

Just have the user use it as any other app, but then just have it be 100 percent private per default, 100 percent like no strings attached. It just works. if we get caught off by a. From the internet tomorrow, it will still work, that kind of thing, but deliver that in a way, and this is always our mission where users don't really need to worry about it.

It just works. And, it works the same way to a large degree as their other apps work, except obviously, there's no phone numbers and things like that. Very cryptographically sound and, but trying always not to bubble it up. And I think that's, so it's actually a really simple mission, but it's obviously really hard.

And that requires a lot of smart people, but luckily our users in a good way, don't need to be very smart about that.

Keet vs Nostr

Knut: Yeah, a quick one there. No strings attached starts with the letters Nostr, so is, Keet and Nostr, do they go mix well together or, is there an integration there between the two? I see a lot of similarities here.

Paolo: I tried to explain the differences between Kit and Nostr. I think Nostr is a very interesting protocol, but also is very, simple. the way I like to describe it is that, if you are familiar with the history of filesharing, Starting from the first one, super centralized, and then eventually every single step, you get to a decentralized platform.

And the last one, the most decentralized one, that is BitTorrent. the history of file sharing proved that every time you try to centralize something, it ends up badly, right? if you have any special node in the system that does a little bit more than others and requires more resources than others to run, that will end up badly.

You might end up in a small room with a lamp in your room. Point it to your face, and then everyone suddenly will stop running an indexer. That reminds me about Nostr structure. if you are building a peer to peer system, or if you are building a very resilient communication system, if you think about Nostr, you would imagine that if you have, 10 million or 100 million users, the number of relays would be probably less than the square root of the number of users.

So that surface, although a hundred million users is very, they're not attackable, right? But the surface of, the relays is much more attackable. look at what is happening with, the coin joinin platforms, right? very similar. the beauty of KIT versus Nostr is that in KIT you have number of relays is actually equal to the number of users because the users are their own relays.

and they can act as relays for others to, further their connectivity. That is how we think a technology that, has to be ready for the apocalypse and resilient to the wrath of God should, work. if you have, a log number of users or square root of number of users as relates, I don't think it's cool technology.

It will work better than centralized, Technologies like WhatsApp and so on, or Twitter, but eventually will not work when you will need it the most. Because the point is that we will not know what will happen when we will need this technology the most. Today, not for everyone, but the world is still almost at peace.

Things might unfold, in the future, maybe sooner rather than later. But when things unfold, you will need the best technology, the one that is truly independent, the one that is truly peer to peer. it's not really peer to peer if you have specialized relays, but where you have super peers randomly.

Luke: Yeah, the difference here, between the Realize and not having any other centralized infrastructure in the picture is certainly an interesting distinction. I hadn't heard anything about that you can act as a next connector or something like that.

Pear Runtime

Luke: So there's a couple of related things. I know there was an announcement about the, pair runtime, is that right? can you talk a little bit about that or any other, ways that this is growing in your whole, platform,

Mathias: Yeah, sure. so basically when we talk about ideas, internally, also from our software background, We want to solve a small problem that then can solve it for everybody. So

We want to build technology that can just send data around efficiently, so you can build any kind of app on top. We're all about modularity and taking these things to the extreme so we can repurpose it into any kind of application and other people can, get value out of it.

And, that's been our mission from the get go. So basically, like Paolo said, when we built Keed. We took all of these primitives we have, it's all open source on our GitHub, that can do various things, relay encrypted data in a way that's completely private, nobody can read it, and in a generalizable way, so it can run on any applications.

We have databases that can interpret, work with this data on device, but still in a way where nobody else knows what's going on, fully private, and we spent many years perfecting this, and it's still ongoing. And we, similar to like connectivity, it might seem really easy if you don't know what's going on that, connecting this computer to another computer and another place, but it's really hard because ISPs and, your internet providers, et cetera, they don't really want you to do that.

So there's a lot of firewalls involved that you have to work around to get around This is all really, hard problems that took a long time to solve.

But luckily, all of these are like generalizable problems where you just solve them once to a large degree, and then it's solved for everybody. If you put them in a modular framework where anybody can put the Legos together on top. And that's what we've been heavily invested in. And then as we were building Keed, we realized that Keete is just like 95 percent of these Lego blocks that are applicable for anything.

So why not take all this stuff, pack it up for free, we don't make any money on it. and an open source runtime that we're just giving away so other people can contribute to it, but also build their own apps. the more peer to peer apps the world has, the better from my point of view.

and document it and make it really easy to install. And I think actually Paolo said something interesting because as soon as you have, one point of centralization, you can always unravel it. coming from the Bitcoin days, I remember how quickly things can unravel. people went to jail for linking to things because authorities, when they crack down, really hard.

so if you have one weak spot, it will be taken advantage of at some point by somebody. And so even things like distributing updates to your software can be really hard because this often requires a central point, like you go to a website and you don't download it. And so all apps built on our runtime, for example.

It's distributed through the runtime, which is a little bit mind bending. So all apps are peer to peer data applications themselves, and the network doesn't care, which means that we can continue to distribute updates even, if everything gets shut down, you only need like a bootstrap for the first install when you get the app.

So we're thinking that in. At every level, because it's really, important to us to, basically learn from everything that happened in the past and then actually build things that are resilient. And we take this to a degree where I'm sure we could move 10 times faster if we just let go a little bit of that idea, because it is easier to just put all the data in one place or put all the updates in one place.

But then it's then we're just building the same old thing that's going to die eventually anyway. So we're very, uncompromising in that mission of actually decentralizing everything from updates to data, and then also always solving in a way where everybody can take advantage of that.

And then the final thing I'll say about that is that, every time we update. That runtime, those building blocks of that runtime, every time we fix a bug, every time we make it faster, every app becomes faster. That's also very exciting. It's because you're building the whole infrastructure into this layer that runs on your phone.

And it's all somewhat generalizable. Every time we fix something, it's just better for the entire ecosystem. And that's obviously really, exciting. And like I said, actually, no strings attached.

Yeah, so I think you were referring to the trial of the Pirate Bay people there In Sweden, right? lucky enough to meet a couple of them in Denmark and it's been very fun to hear about their journey and, yeah, like

Knut: and there, there's, there was a great documentary made about it called TPBAFK. So the Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, about that whole trial and how, corrupt the system was even back then. And, throwing people in jail for providing links. they didn't do any more wrong than Google did, from a certain perspective.

And, I remember even, before BitTorrents, there was a program called. DC or Direct Connect Do you remember that?

Mathias: I used to, it was one of my first introductions to decentralization. it as you just shared your, like a Google Drive for everyone or something. Like you just shared parts of your file tree to everyone who wanted to peek into it, Yeah, anyway. Oh, that's good that you didn't know you were going with that. it interesting what you said, because I think it's interesting to think that I think to a large degree, the whole decentralization movement that was happening with BitTorrent back in the day got shut down because At some point, authorities figured out that they could just block DNS requests to shut it down for normal people, and as soon as they did that, it was actually effective.

And to Paolo's point, no matter how weak it is, they're done. and they tried to kill the technology elsewhere, but that's actually what killed them. Then, obviously, alternatives came that people could pay for, and it also shows that people actually want, to stay on the right side of things.

I think, now it's going very much in the wrong direction again, because now we're back at abusing that centralization again. the cycle will repeat. But, yeah, like any point of weakness will be attacked at any point.

Decentralization vs. Centralization

Luke: So what are the drawbacks to decentralization? I think we and our audience certainly understand the benefit of decentralization, what you gain by decentralizing, but what do you naturally give up in terms of the user experience and the convenience factor?

Mathias: yeah, I'm sure Paola has stuff to say here, but I'm just, I love talking about this stuff, so I'll go first. Mattias.

I think it's a really interesting question, first of all, because it's one of those questions where You know, obviously I want to say there's no drawbacks, but like anything, it's a balance, right?

Because it's not that there's drawbacks and advantages, there obviously is, but it's also just a different paradigm. first of all, with sensitization, I think one of the biggest thing I noticed also with developers is that we all come out of systems, education systems. That teaches how to think centralized, which makes us biased towards centralized solutions.

and that's, I remember my whole curriculum was about servers and clients and stuff like that. it's actually really hard to think about decentralization as a developer. And I think that's actually part of why a lot of people think it's hard. It's complex because it is complex, but also because we're just like, we've been trained massively in the other direction, and it's really hard to go back because decentralization can be as simple as what Knut said about DC Connect, DC where it's just, oh, I'm just browsing other people's computers.

That's amazing. That's a really, simple experience, and it's like something you can never do But like in today's world, people, the first thing I always get asked is like, how do I get a username? And I'm like, usernames have an inherent centralization and there's trade offs there.

And we need to think that through and stuff. and most applications don't necessarily require usernames. I'm not saying that's a bad feature, but it's that's where you need to think more about the trade offs because there's governance involved to some degree. But for the core experience, and I think that's what we've shown in Keith so far.

Then, there's obviously tons of upsides also, it's much easier to do big data transfers. Money is less of a concern, which actually changes the thinking, how you think about features.

And that, again, is something we've been trained in a lot as developers, because we think centralized. When we talk about features at Holepunch, hey, we should add podcast recording to Keed. Normally somebody would say, that's going to cost a lot of money to host that data. And we just always we don't even have that discussion because it doesn't matter because it's just between the users.

And then it's more about like the UX. But then other simple, like I said, other simple discussions, let's add a username index. That's where we're like, okay, let's think that through because there's like various things to think about there because there's no centric governance, and we don't want to introduce that because again, one point is.

It's bad. so it's, more like you really need to think differently and it's really hard to wire your brain to think differently. but once you get past that point, I think it's, super interesting. And I, think actually developers care way more than normal people because, developers care a lot about how links look and links and structure and that.

And normal people are just used to just clicking buttons and apps and going with the flow on that. And that's also what we're seeing, I think, with, a lot of key

Paolo: I think the hiring has proven a little bit more challenging, as Matthias was saying, when you are told that the cloud is your friend, hosting, on, Google Cloud or AWS is the right thing to do. And, of course, it got cheaper and cheaper, so now everyone can host their websites.

But the reality is that 70 percent of, the entire internet knowledge is hosted in the data centers of three companies. developers should think about that, should think about the fact that internet was born to be point to point and peer to peer. And, we are very far away from that initial concept.

over the years, especially with the boom in, in the year 2000 for the internet boom, and bubble, then, realized that, holding people's data is the way to go, with social media and social network. That is even worse. And so you have these friendly advertisements that are telling you, That, with a smiley face that, you know, yeah, you should, upload all your data on, Apple cloud or Google cloud.

And in general, cloud backups are great, right? You want to have some sort of redundancy in your life, but the reality is that you should be able to upload those. In an encrypted way, and yet most of this data sits unencrypted because, the big tech companies have to decrypt it and use it for, to milk the information to pay for, for, another month of their new data centers.

the, issue is, we have so much power in our hands through our phones. the phones that we have today are much more powerful than the phones that we, or even the computers that we have 10 years ago or 5 years ago. And so We should, we are at a stage where we can use this hardware, not only for communicating, but also for in the future for AI processing and inference and so on.

is, we need to, understand that the word cannot be connected to Google. I mean we cannot be a function of Google. We cannot be a function of AWS. And so I think that, there is, escalating pace of, towards centralization and it's almost a black hole.

And eventually, the, we'll attract all the lights and if we are too close to it, no lights will come out anymore. And, that's why we want to really to double down on this technology, because it's not going to be easy, right? It's going to be very challenging, and most of the people don't care, as Maite has said before.

Most of the people will think, everything works with WhatsApp and, Signal, but Signal announced that their 2023 costs for data centers and data center costs are around 50 million, and they, apart from the mobile coin that was not The best thing that they could do, there is, it's not easy for them to monetize.

And the problem is that if you are, you're basically almost the only way to monetize it is to sell your customer's data. So if you don't want to sell your customer data, eventually your service will not be sustainable. So the only way to make it sustainable is actually going back to peer, where you can leverage people, infrastructure, people, connectivity, people, phones, people, processing power, Deliver very high quality communication system.

And when they will care, it will be probably usually too late if nothing exists yet. when people will care is because shit is hitting the fan. And, you really want to have a solution that is not, that will survive if, the countries around you or around the country where you live are not going to be nice to your own country.

So that's the view to peer-to-peer. The peer-to-peer wheel system will keep working if your neighbor countries are not going to be nice towards you. That's independence, that's resiliency, those are terms that, we need to take very seriously, especially seeing where the, world is going to.

Knut: Yeah, I think we're all primed for, centralized solutions, from a very young age. this is the state, this is what it is like, state funded schooling. state funders or state subsidized media. We are, like brainwashed into, trusting, institutions all our lives.

So I think that is somewhat connected to why people are so reluctant to be vigilant about this on the internet. I think the two go hand in hand that we, take the comfortable way, or most people take the comfortable route of, not taking responsibility for their own stuff. not only on the internet, but outsourcing responsibility to the government is basically the, another side of the same coin, right?

Mathias: I also find it very interesting, especially being from a small country like Denmark that doesn't have a lot of homegrown infrastructure. And I'm just seeing how much communication with some of the public entities is happening through centralized platforms like Facebook and things like that, where even though we centralize it, we also centralize it in companies that we don't even have any control over in different countries where we probably have, no rights at all.

So it's like hyper centralization, especially from the weakest point of view. And I think that's super problematic. And I'm always. Thinking it's, weird that we're not talking about that more especially when you look at the things that they're trying to do in the EU, they're almost trying to just push more in that direction, which I find even more interesting.

yeah, definitely. it's, a huge problem and it's only getting bigger. And that's, why

Challenges and Future of Decentralization

Luke: So to what level can decentralization actually get there? What is the limit to decentralization? And I'll calibrate this with an example. The internet itself, you said it was built to essentially originally be decentralized, but we don't have it. For physical links, like individual physical links between each other, the fiber or whatever the wire is goes together into another group of wires, which eventually go into some backbone, which is operated by a company.

And then that goes into the global Internet. And so somewhere it centralizes into telecom companies and other services. It might be decentralized on one level, but there is a layer of centralized services that make the internet work that isn't necessarily the so called cloud providers and that sort of thing.

So is there a limitation to how far this can go?

Paolo: I think the, in general, sure, there are the ISPs and, their physical infrastructure is in part centralized, but also you start having redundancy, right? So for example, the backbones are redundant. There are multiple companies running, cross connects across different areas of the world.

Now you have Starlink if you want. that is a great way to start decentralizing connectivity because Starlink will not be the only one that will run satellites, so there will be multiple companies that will allow you to connect through satellites, plus you have normal cabling.

So you will have, it will become a huge mesh network, it's already in part, but it will become more and more a huge mesh network. in general, you will always find a way, even with a pigeon, to start sending bits out of your house.

I think the most important part is, you have to be in control of your own data, and then, you need to send this data with the shortest path to the people that you want to talk to. Right now, I usually make this example, because I think it's When we do this presentation, we try to make people think about how much waste also centralized systems have created.

imagine you live in Rome, you live in Rome and you have your family. Most people live nearby their families. That is a classic thing among humans. 90 percent of the people live nearby their families. Maybe nearby, like 10km, 50km nearby. If you talk to your family, every single message, every single photo that you will send to your family, that message will travel, instead of going 50 kilometers in a nearby town where your mother lives or your father lives, it will travel every single message, every single bit of every single video call or every single bit of every photo will travel 5, 000 miles to Frankfurt just to go back 50 kilometers from you.

Imagine how much government spent in order to create these internet lines and to empower them to make it bigger, more, with more capacity Peer to peer allows with a lower latency, allows to save on bandwidth, allows to save on cost of global infrastructure.

So that's how, actually, We can create better mesh networks, more resilient mesh networks, just because data will always find the shortest path from one point to another.

And still all roads lead to Rome. I'm Italian, so I need to use Rome as an example.

Knut: Yeah.

Mathias: I think the discussion here is really interesting compared to Bitcoin, because it's actually the scaling longer term. Sovereignty, like how, Bitcoin kind of told us very direct terms that if you have a key pair, you have your money.

And it doesn't matter where you are in the world. If you have that key pair, you have a way to get to that money. the means of transportation, it's actually very uninteresting in that sense, because you have it with you. The Internet today, the centralized Internet is designed in a way where, what does it mean to go to Facebook?

it's really hard to explain because it's like some certificate that issued by somebody, and there's. Some, cabal of companies that manages them, there's some regulations around it, but we don't really actually understand it that well as normal people. Technically, we can understand it, but it's very, centralized and it's very, opaque and it's built into the infrastructure in that way, in a bad way.

And, with Pure Technology, we're taking the same approach as Bitcoin here and saying, You're just a key pair, and the other person is just a key pair, and there's a bunch of protocols around that, but the transportation is actually not that interesting. Right now, we use the internet to do it.

We'll probably do that for a long time, but there's no reason why we can take the same technology we have right now and in 50 years run it on, laser beams or something else, because we're taking the software and feedback.

Bitcoin and Holepunch: Drawing Parallels

Mathias: I think, that's the main thing to think about in that. Discussion.

Luke: when, Paolo, when you were talking about that people don't care, when you were saying that people don't care because WhatsApp just works, I was at the same time thinking that's the parallel of people saying that, I don't care because Visa just works, right? And so the parallel between Bitcoin and what you're doing at Holepunch, Keet, everything else here, really seems to be tracking along the same line.

And I guess there's the connection that, I won't say all, but a lot of the people involved are already in the Bitcoin ecosystem. But can you comment on is there a little more of a connection there between Holepunch and Keet and Bitcoin?

Paolo: Yeah, Bitcoin definitely is working and servicing, I think, in a good way, many, people in communities. The users of Bitcoin today are, unfortunately, and also that relates to Tether, mostly, in the Western world, in the richer countries, as a way to save wealth and, as a store of value, more than a means of exchange.

For different reasons, right? We'd like a network that would improve, of course, over time, and there will be different approaches, but, still, the world is not yet using Bitcoin, but the world will use Bitcoin when shit will hit the fan. but the beauty of Bitcoin is that an option is already there, is available, and when something bad will happen, people immediately, with a snap of a finger, will turn to Bitcoin, and will have it and can use it. don't have that in communications. What is our communica our parallel with communications, if we don't have it? I don't know, because if, if suddenly centralized communications will, be blocked, then, or privacy in communications will be blocked, and you cannot, you cannot use Whatsapp, or Whatsapp has to start giving all the information to every single government.

and the government will become more evil than what they are today, also western governments then. don't, we wanted to build the exact parallel as we said it, we just tried to describe it, that with Bitcoin, for communications. We need to have something that, since there are so many alternatives that are working as with your, you can make the parallel with Visa, right?

Visa is working today, so people are still using a lot of Visa, but if something will happen, they will use Bitcoin from one day to another. Whatsapp is working, and Zoom is working, and Google Meet is working, so people don't feel the urge, but there will be a trigger point when people will feel the urge at some point in their lives, because something happened around them, and we need to make sure that kit will be available to them.

and will be an option, will be stable, will be well designed so that when they will need it the most that option will be available to them.

Luke: Yeah, fantastic.

The Future of Decentralized Communication

Luke: And so I think the follow up I have, and just to get back to the earlier discussion a little bit with Nostr, the communication in terms of messaging, I absolutely see that and directly in what Keet is, I already absolutely see that. Is there a goal to get somewhere towards more like Social media, social networking, things like that in a, in certainly a decentralized way, but right now there isn't something like that as I understand it, coming from, Keet.

So is, that a goal? Is that on the roadmap?

Paolo: Yeah, it is on the roadmap, it's something that, so we had to start with the thing that we thought was more urgent and also the thing that could have been, would have been a game changer. social media is very important, especially In difficult situation, you want to get news, and you want to get unbiased news, so you want to use, social networks to see what's happening in the world.

But we, think that the most sacrosanct thing that you need in your life is to be able to talk to your family and friends in any situation with the highest privacy possible. that's the first thing that we tackled, and also was a way to battle test the technology with, KIT you can do high quality video calls as well, so if we are able to tackle in the best way possible privacy and extreme scalability of peer to peer communications, then on top of that foundation we can build also social media and every single other application that we have in mind.

Mathias: But first, we wanted to tackle the hardest problem. No, I think it makes a lot of sense. And I also just want to say, as a, probably like one of the most prolific KEET users, I use KEET right now also as a very, like a social media, we have big public rooms where we talk about KEET and talk about technology. I get a lot of the value I would get otherwise on Twitter X from that because I, it's like a public platform for me to, get ideas out there, but also interact with users directly.

And I think, there's many ways to take them as a young app. And we're talking about this a lot, obviously it has to be simple, has to be parent approved. My parents can figure it out, but I think, to a large degree, all really healthy social networks that are actually, to some degree, a communication app.

And it's also just a really good way to get local news and to get this locality that Peter is good at. That doesn't mean that we might not also make other things, but I think it's a hard line to set the difference between a social network and a communications app when it's structured correctly,

Interoperability and User Experience

Luke: Yeah, and this, another thing that came to mind just as, you were talking about these parallels, as, I understand it, the account system with Keet is, essentially still just a, Key pair. Correct me if I'm, wrong,

Mathias: Very, true.

Luke: you backups with the same 1224 words.

Is, that fully interoperable as well? Is that, could be your Bitcoin key. That could be

Mathias: We use the, same, I can't remember the date, the BIP, but there's a BIP for like during key generation. So we can use it also in the future for other things. and you have those words, you have your account, and that's, we never store that. And that's like your sovereignty and, no, I was just going to say that lets you use it seamlessly on different devices also. It's one of those things that I love because I know what's going on when you use keyed Insanely hard problem, but it's solved by the runtime, and it just works seamlessly and I think that's, the beauty of it.

Paolo: I think there's some UX stuff to figure out about onboarding that stuff a little bit easier for normal people. That's probably to a large degree the same for Bitcoin. The other part that I would do with Bitcoin is that, with Bitcoin, with your 12, 24 words, you can access your private wealth. the beauty of Bitcoin is that you can remember 12 24 words, you cross borders, and you carry with you your wealth. You can do the same thing with your digital private life.

You remember 12 24 words, they could be the same by the way. whatever happens, you can spawn back your digital private life fully encrypted from, one of your other devices that you connected that is somewhere else in the world. So when you start seeing and understanding the unlock in terms of also human resilience that this creates is very, insane and can create a very powerful, that can be used for, to create a very, powerful applications, not just communications, but you can build.

Really any sort of interaction, even mapping. Imagine peer to peer mapping, where basically data is not stored in one single location. You can access, tiles of the maps, from, local people that curate them in a better way. So the, level of applications that you can build, All unlocked by the same technology that is being used by Bitcoin is very, incredible.

Luke: Yes, absolutely it is. And what do you think of the idea that all of this stuff is just interoperable now based on essentially you have your private key and there you go. It doesn't matter the technology stack. Is that sort of an agnostic thing where you can take your data to any one of these systems?

What you're building with Keith being one, Nostr being another, Bitcoin being a third, what do you think of that?

Paolo: Yeah, the fact that, data is yours, right? So you should do whatever you want with your data. That is, I think, an axiom that we should assume. And, it shouldn't even, we shouldn't even discuss about this, right? We are discussing about it because people are trying to take away this axiom from us.

The, you are a key pair, and you're basically, unique, and uniqueness is expressed by the cryptography around those 24 words, and that's, that also is a way to prove your identity, it's a mathematical way to prove your identity.

No one can steal that from you, of course, but no one can track it as no one can impersonate, should not be able to impersonate you. So it's truly powerful.

Mathias: also think it's like worth remembering here also in this discussion that a lot of very high valuable data for yourself is actually not that big, but centralized platforms take it hostage anyway. if you take all my chat history and, I have pictures, but like a couple of the pictures would probably be bigger than all my chat history ever.

but a lot of that, those messages have a lot of value for me, especially personally and also being able to search through it and have infinite history, it's very valuable for me personally. But it's very scary for me if that's on some other platform where it gets leaked at some point, et cetera, et cetera.

But we already have the devices, just normal consumer devices that we buy, that we all have, phones, computers, whatever, that have more than enough capacity to store multiple copies of this. In terms of like per user, data production, it's a manageable problem.

And I think it's interesting how, providers force us to think in terms of giving that data away, even though we could easily store it.

Paolo: And this is even more important when we think about potential, AI applications, right? So imagine your best assistant. Paolo's assistant should go through all my emails, my kids chats, my old social stuff, and be able to be my best assistant. But in order to do that, I have two options.

Either, I imagine that OpenAI would come with an assistant. They would upload, All the information on their servers, crunch that information, and then, use it to serve, me, but also service their own needs. And that can become very scary, also because they wear a hat. It's public, right?

you don't want your most intimate codes that your best personal assistant could know, to be on somewhere else, rather than your devices. And so people were, people never uploaded, at least most of the people would never upload medical, information on Facebook, right? But they are uploading it on ChatGPT to get a second opinion.

so things can be, get even scarier than what we described today because, we, discussed about social media, that is basically, the fun part where we upload photos, But, things can become scarier when it comes to privacy and data control with ai.

So I want to see a future where I have a local AI that can read all key messages that I have from my local phone on my local device, and can become the best powers assistant possible without renouncing to my privacy, and also still governed by the same 24 words. the fine tuning that is applied on that LLM should stay local to my own device, and it should be in control of that.

And still, the current power of the devices that we have makes it possible. We should not fall for the same lie. We don't need, of course, big data centers with GPUs are important for training a huge LLM, but that is a generic LLM. You can take that one and then fine tune it with your own data and run it by yourself.

And for most of it, unless you want to do crazy things, that is more than enough and can run on modern GPUs or local GPUs or your phones. We should start thinking that we can build local experiences without having an API all the time connected to someone else's data center.

Knut: Yeah.

The Role of Tether in the Crypto Ecosystem

Knut: It's super interesting. you briefly just briefly mentioned tether before and I think we need to get into this. what is it and how much of a maxi are you, Paolo?

And, what, made this thing happen? Can you give us the story here about Tether?

Tether's Origin and Evolution

Paolo: Tether started in 2014. I consider myself a maxi, but running Tether, you could say that, I'm a shit coiner. I don't mind, right? I like what I do, and I think I'm net positive, so it's okay. Tera was born in 2014 with a very simple idea. there were a few crypto exchanges in, 2014.

it was Bitfinex, Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp. OKCoin, there was BTCChina, and just a few others, right? Around 10 that were meaningful. The problem back then was to do, trading arbitrage, you sell Bitcoin on the exchange where the price is higher, you take the dollars. From that sale, you move the dollars on the exchange where the price is lower and rinse and repeat.

That is called arbitrage. It is a property of every single efficient financial system. And that also helps to keep the price of Bitcoin in line across different exchanges. But, that was very, hard in 2014. If you remember in 2013 was the first year that Bitcoin broke the 1, 000.

But on some exchanges the price was 1. 2, on others was 900. in order to arbitrage that price difference, you have to move dollars from one exchange to another and Bitcoin from one exchange to another. You can move Bitcoin from one exchange to another. 10 minutes, but dollars would take days, right?

International wires. And so of course the opportunity arbitrage was, fully gone by, the, time the wire was hitting the, receiving exchange. the reason why we created that was, USDT was simply to put the dollar on a blockchain so that we could have the same user experience that we had with bitcoin.

For the first two years, almost no exchange apart Bitfinex understood USDT. Then Poloniex in 2016 started to add the USDT across for against every single trading pair. There was the start of the ICO boom. 2017 was the peak of the ICO boom and, USDT reached 1 billion in market cap. Fast forward in 2020, we had around 10 billion in market cap, and then the bull run started, but also another important thing started, that was the pandemic.

USDT's Impact on Emerging Markets

Paolo: So the pandemic had a huge effect on many economies around the world, in all the economies around the world, but especially in emerging markets, developing countries.

Basically pandemic also killed entire economies. And so as a Bitcoin you would think, oh, all these people that are in countries like Argentina and Venezuela and Turkey and so on, they should use Bitcoin and they should, they should, only use Bitcoin because everything else is cheap.

So that is pretty much, the approach that we have as Bitcoiners that, I believe in. But the problem is that. Not everyone is ready, so not everyone has our time to understand Bitcoin. Not everyone has yet the full skill set to understand Bitcoin at this stage, at this moment in time.

we as Bitcoiners didn't build the best user experience in the world, right? So one of the best wallets for Bitcoin is still Electrum. That, is not necessarily nice and well done for and simple to be used for, a 70 year old lady. so we need to do a better job as Bitcoiners to build better user experiences we want Bitcoin to be more used around the world.

At the same time, 99 percent of the population knows, especially the ones that are living in high inflation areas, knows that there is the dollar that is usually Much better currency than what they hold in their hands. the US dollar is not, definitely not perfect. It's not the perfect fiat currency. but it's like the tale of the two friends running away from the lion, right?

you have, one friend tells to the other, Oh, the lion is gonna kill us. We have to run really fast. And one of the two friends says to the other, I just have to run faster than you, right? So the US dollar is the friend that is running faster, in a sense that is the one that is likely better than the others.

And so being better than the others is creating a sort of safety feeling among 5 billion people in the world that live in high inflation countries. And for those people that, they don't have yet the time, they didn't have the luck also, maybe, to understand Bitcoin, they are, in fact, using USDT.

If you live in Argentina, peso lost 98% against the US dollar in the last five years. The Turkish L lost 80% against the US dollar in, the last five years. So of course, Bitcoin would be better than the US dollar, but even already, if you hold the dollar, you are the king of the hill there, right?

So because it's, you are able to preserve your wealth much, better than almost anyone else in the region. I think, USDT is offering a temporary solution and is providing a service, a very good service to people that don't have alternatives and good alternatives and they are very, familiar with the U.

S. dollar already. so eventually, the hyperbitcoinization, I think it will happen. there is no way it won't happen. It's hard to pinpoint on a time when, that will happen. But it's all about the turning point. What the economy will look like in the next, 10, 20 years and what trigger point there will be for fiat currencies to blow up and become irrelevant.

Bitcoin as a Savings Account

Paolo: the way I see it is that it's likely that the U. S. dollar will stay around for a while, and people might still want to use, the U. S. dollar as a checking account, but they, should start to use, Bitcoin as their savings account, in the checking account, you, are happy to not make interest, It's something that you use for payments, it's something that you are okay to detach from because it's the money that you are ready to spend.

The savings account is the thing that we should fight for. This thing is the thing that matter the most, and, it's the thing that will is protecting people wealth. And so in the long term. And in the medium term, we should push for this savings account to be Bitcoin. also with Tether, we are heavily investing in companies, in Bitcoin companies.

we support the Blockstream. We supported so many in the space that are, we, are supporting RGB. That is a protocol that is building, assets on top of, like network, style channels. Thank you for listening. and we buy Bitcoin ourselves. We do a lot of Bitcoin mining.

We develop, I think, the best and most sophisticated Bitcoin mining software, by the way, based on hole punch technology. It's like IoT for Bitcoiners and Bitcoin mining. It's very cool. we are relying on the dollar and, you could say that USDT is helping the dollar, expansion, but the same way I don't think Dollar and Bitcoin aren't necessarily opposed to one or the other.

I think that Bitcoin has its own path. And no matter what happens, there is no way to slow it down. I think, it's going to be inevitable success. It's going to be inevitable that it will become global internet money and global words money. No country will trust to each other with, with each other currencies for, for a longer time, and so the only viable solution is a currency that is governed by math.

That is the only objective way, objective thing that we have in the universe. that's my train of thoughts on, Tether and Bitcoin.

Knut: Oh, thank you. Thank you for that explanation. It explains a lot of things. To me, it sounds a bit like you're a lubrication company, like selling lubrication for the transition between the rape of the dollar to the love fest of the hyperbitcoinized world, to make the transition a little smoother.

Paolo: we are more than, at Tether we have also this educational arm and, believe it or not, the majority of the creation we do is actually on Bitcoin, right? So we are supporting the Plan B network led by the great Giacomo Zucco. The unfortunate thing is that USDT, didn't have a marketing team up to, 2022 with Tether.

So basically, I wish I could say that success of Tether is because we were super intelligent and great. but actually the success of Tether, unfortunately is a symptom of the success of, of, national economies. And it's sad if you think about it, right? So the success of your main product U as it is, They're actually proportional to the FACAP of many central banks. And, but it is what it is, right? So we need to do what we do at, really, at DataRace, creating all these educational contents to try to explain that, sure, we are providing a tool for today, but, For tomorrow you probably need, you need to understand that you have other options, you need to understand Bitcoin, because as we said for, Keith, right?

So the moment when you will need the most Bitcoin, it has to be available, you need to understand it, so that is a true option for you. The way we, see bitcoin education.

Knut: No, and, something like Tether would have, emerged, either way, and it's very comforting to know that it's run by Bitcoiners and not by a central bank itself or something. yeah, and the Plan B Network, I was a guest lecturer there in Logano and it was fantastic.

I love what you're doing there with the educational hub. And we even got Giacomo to write the foreword to our new book here that you can see here behind Luke.

Luke: Always say the title, Knut. Always say the title.

Knut: Bitcoin, the inverse of Clown World. It's, you, if, you're good at maths and emojis, you might be able to figure out the title from the cover, but it's one divided by Clown World anyway, which is on the opposite side of the everything divided by 21 million equation, So anyway, looking forward to seeing you in Lugano and giving you both a copy of the book, of course.

Paolo: Oh, with pleasure, with great pleasure, with a nice, education.

Luke: Absolutely. Yep.

Plan B Forum and Future Events

Luke: 100%. And we have to wind things down, but I'll just say as well, yeah, absolutely looking forward to Lugano Plan B Forum. Always a highlight of the year. It was my first time last year. I absolutely loved it. can't wait to attend this year.

so it's the 25th, 2020 6th of October, 2024. this year, it's a Bitcoin event that is not made to make money. So the problem with events is that. You have to find sponsors, and usually, sponsor might not be well aligned with the message you want to give, right? I think Tether is lucky enough, to not have to make money on the event.

Paolo: I want to have, good, guests. I want to have great speakers. I want to have the messaging. That is not only about Bitcoin, it's about, freedom of speech as well. We had the family of Assange for the last few years, and I think that they will come also this year.

I'm going to be probably killed by the By our marketing team, I'm not sure if they announced it, but we are going to have another Plan B event also in El Salvador next year, so we're trying to create this network of cities and countries that have things in common and, invite people that want to share knowledge around the world.

And, yeah, and of course we, are very proud of the good food that we, serve in Lugano. So that is another thing that, not all the bands can say the same thing.

Knut: No, it's fantastic. And we happened to bump into the Assange family at the cocktail bar in a fancy hotel and, had a very interesting conversation with them there. So if you're listening. Anyone from the Assange family is welcome on the show any time. So yeah, no looking forward to that event for sure, we had a great time.

And I think we're even playing this year, aren't we, Luke?

Paolo: You're

Luke: yeah, the Satoshi Rakamoto is in the event there, we, played, back in Prague, it was my first, time, but Knut is a regular at the Rakamotos.

Yeah, we played at Lugano last year Oh, anything and everything, what did we do in Prague?

Knut: paranoid and,

Paolo: Can I commission a

Knut: What song would you like to hear?

Paolo: I have two that I would suggest. One is Nothing Else Matters.

Knut: Alright.

Paolo: So I think that, is very inspiring, right?

Knut: Bitcoin, for sure.

Nothing Else Matters. it's perfectly aligned with Bitcoin. And, the other one is Sad But True. Oh, that would be fun. We'll squeeze in some Metallica there, won't we, Luke?

Mathias: we'll 100% have those songs ready to go. We also have, a big peer to peer track at the conference,

Knut: Yeah.

Mathias: not so much music, but yeah, that's peer to

Knut: Nothing else matters.

Luke: looking forward to that.

Knut: Sorry, brain fart. Sad but true is about the dollar still being around,

Paolo: Yeah, you can say that.

Luke: Okay.

Final Thoughts and Closing Remarks

Luke: Hey, we have to wind things down here because, we're, almost, out of time. So I'll just hand this, back to you both. Is there anything else you'd like to, mention about, your plans in the upcoming couple of years, in, key, toll, punch, anything like that?

Mathias: only that we're, like I said, we're integrating really hard right now, and it's a really fun time to, join the company because, we're small and efficient We get to work with Tether, which has a lot of benefits and it's getting really fast, so definitely check that out. And it's also a really fun time to join Keith in our public rooms.

There's a lot of very personal, in a good way, intense chats where you get to be part of the loop. I love to be part of those early communities and I would suggest everybody to check that out and go to the website and try it out.

Paolo: we will certainly do that. Yeah, I couldn't agree more. So go check out Keith and Holepunch and the Plan B forum in Lugano, You could visit tether. io, that is, the website where we are trying to explain what we have in our minds between, finance, bitcoin mining, energy production, AI, communications, brain chips and stuff, right? I think it's more exciting.

Mathias: Just those things, that's all.

Paolo: Yeah, we can piss off more than this. Thanks.

Mathias: a

Luke: No, It's just perfect. and is on that note, is there anywhere else specific you'd like to direct our listeners?

Paolo: just follow the social channels and give us feedback on kit all the time because these technologies, needs everyone's help to be nailed them.

Mathias: We love technical feedback. We love UX feedback. We're trying to make something that works for the masses, so anything is good.

Luke: So that's, all at Keet. Is that correct? For Keet?

Mathias: Key. io and pairs. com for our runtime. It's all peer to peer.

Knut: Alright,

Mathias: Wonderful. And you're also still on the legacy social media platforms, right? Yeah.

Knut: we'll make sure to include links to your handles so people can find you there if they would like. forward to seeing you in Lugano.

Paolo: Likewise, I

Knut: But yeah, worth saying again.

Paolo: Thank you for having an invitation.

Luke: Yes, we'll wrap things up here. This has been the Bitcoin Infinity Show.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 1739d937:3e3136ef
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.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ fd208ee8:0fd927c1
2024-09-17 10:35:57

But who will identify the spam?

Any relay will get hit with spam. That's just the cost of being a server admin. (Of course, we're all going to end up server admins, now that local and private relays are becoming ubiquitous, but I digress.)

The question is more: What is spam? Who gets to determine which events are spam?

That's actually a completely subjective decision, so I think individual npubs should be determining it. nostr:npub1494rtg3ygq4cqawymgs0q3mcj6hucvu4kmadv03s5ey2sg32df5shtzmp0 was heading in the direction of individually-trained, intelligent spam filters, with Minitru, but npubs need more standardized information, to make effective decisions and to calibrate their personal filters.

6 Confirmations

Information about an unknown npub is gathered by

Examining it in isolation * interacting with it (such as in a conversation), * reading what it has already published, * asking it to pay money * requesting it to perform some task

... and by examining it within a group * asking other npubs if they follow it (the basis of WoT) * or asking others if the npub is already known to them (community membership, articles they've zapped, replies they've given, etc.)

All of these things should leave a sort of audit trail, so that the next evaluator can judge accordingly, or ask for more information. Then the confirmations build up, without someone needing to be followed.

Like with Bitcoin. The transactions aren't "followed", they're confirmed.

This npub has had 3 confirmations... 6 confirmations... 10470 confirmations.

You could have 10 followers, but 12000 confirmations, because you manage to meet everyone's minimum, but didn't make the hurdle to the "follow" list.

Hit two birds with one stone

This would also allow follow lists to become friend lists, again, eliminate the need for an additional "favorites" list, and raise the information value of following.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 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?

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 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.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 1739d937:3e3136ef
2024-06-28 08:27:59
This is the first in a series of weekly updates I'm publishing on my process around secure messaging. Since it's the first, let's start with a bit of historical context.

How this started

On April 29th I published a PR on the NIPs repo detailing how we could achieve "Double Ratchet" DMs on Nostr. There was also a video and demo app that went along with the PR. The basic premise was to use an adapted version of the Signal protocol. This would result in DMs that were truly private and confidential, even in the case where you leaked your main private key (your nsec).

I got a lot of great feedback from folks on that PR. Interestingly, nearly all of it focused on two points, both of which I'd deliberately scoped out. Group messaging and multi-device/client support. While I knew these were important, and I'd figured out how these might be accomplished, I'd scoped them out to try and keep the footprint of the spec as small as possible But, the more I talked to people, the more it became clear that this was one problem to be solved and given the complexity, it'd be better to do it in one shot.

At the same time, I'd seen that Messaging Layer Security (MLS) had recently made a lot of progress on becoming an internet standard with their RFC proposal and, goaded on by Vitor, decided to take a closer look.

Enter MLS

Messaging Layer Security (MLS) is a new protocal that is basically a modern extension of the Signal protocol that makes group messaging way more efficient (log vs linear) and was built to be used in centralized or federated environments. I'd heard other Nostr devs talk about it in the past but it was always overlooked as being too complicated or too early.

After spending a couple weeks reading hundreds of pages of RFC docs and reading through a few implementations of the MLS spec, I believe it's the best solution for secure direct and group messaging in Nostr. It also has the added benefit that we can upgrade the underlying crypto primitives over time in a sane way.

The MLS protocol specifies "a key establishment protocol that provides efficient asynchronous group key establishment with forward secrecy (FS) and post-compromise security (PCS) for groups in size ranging from two to thousands."

The spec I'm working on will detail the ways that we implement this protocol into the Nostr environment (namely, how do we use our crypto primitives, use events as control mechanisms, and use relays for storage, while obfuscating metadata).

Goals

It's important to be clear about what we're aiming for here. Engineering is all about tradeoffs, always.
- Private and Confidential DMs and Group messages
- Private means that an observer cannot tell that Alice and Bob are talking to one another, or that Alice is part of a specific group. This necessarily requires protecting metadata.
- Confidential means that the contents of conversations can only be viewed by the intended recipients.
- Forward secrecy and Post-compromise security (PCS) in the case of any key material being leaked, whether that's your main Nostr identity key (your nsec) or any of the keys used in the MLS ratchet trees.
- Forward secrecy means that encrypted content in the past remains encrypted even if key material is leaked.
- Post compromise security means that leaking key material doesn't allow an attacker to continue to read messages indefinitely into the future.
- Scales well for large groups. MLS provides this from a computational standpoint, but we need to make sure this works in a scalable way when multiple relays are involved.
- Allows for the use of multiple device/clients in a single conversation/group. Importantly, we're not aiming to enable a device/client to be able to reconstruct the full history of a conversation at any point.
Progress this week

Ok, finally, what what I been up to?

Reading

I've spent most of the last few weeks reading the MLS spec and architectural doc (multiple times), learning some Rust, and beefing up my knowledge of cryptography (which was, if I'm being generous, paltry before starting this project).

Ciphersuites

Nostr is built around the same crypto primitives that Bitcoin is, namely Schnorr signatures over the secp256k1 curve and SHA-256 hashes. This curve isn't currently supported officially in the MLS spec. I've been in touch with the MLS working group to better understand the process of adding a new ciphersuite to the set of ciphersuites in the MLS spec. The outcome here is that we're going to start out using our custom ciphersuite that isn't part of the formal spec. The only drawback being that Nostr's MLS implementation won't be immediately interoperable with other MLS implementations. We can always add it later via the formal channels if we want.

MLS Implementations

Given the complexity of the MLS spec itself (the RFC is 132 pages long), having a well vetted, well tested implementation is going to be key to adoption in the Nostr ecosystem. OpenMLS is an implementation created by several of the RFC authors and written in Rust with bindings for nearly all the major languages we would want to support.

I've been in touch with the maintainers to talk about adding support to their library for our new ciphersuite and to better understand the bindings that are there. Some (WASM) are very barebones and still need a lot of work. They are generally open to the idea of working with me on adding the missing pieces we'd need.

Double Ratchet NIP 2.0

I've also started to write up the new version of the NIP that will detail how all of this will work when plugged into Nostr. It's not yet ready to share but it's getting closer.

Onward & Upward

Hopefully that's a helpful recap. I'll keep doing these weekly and welcome any questions, feedback, or support. In particular, if you're keen on working on this with me, please reach out. More eyes and more brains can only make this better. 🤙
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 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.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 1739d937:3e3136ef
2024-09-13 21:09:24
This is the seventh in a series of weekly(ish) updates detailing progress on bringing MLS protocol DMs and group messaging to Nostr.

Previous Updates
Progress this week

I was told recently that my update walls of text are too much. So, I'll try to keep things concise this week. 😅

This week has been all about building the reference implementation, which is quickly becoming a full-fledged client instead of just a reference implementation. I've not quite gotten to the MLS portion of the client yet but it does already support multiple accounts (including ephemeral accounts) and loads legacy (NIP-04) chats and full contact lists. So far, I've not implemented NIP-104 so there's not yet any updates to the MLS spec or other dependencies.

If you've got experience with using messengers in hostile environments (authoritarian regimes, you've been de-platformed, etc.) please get in touch. I'd love to hear more about what you'd like to see in a communication tool.

In the meantime, I'll be over here in the corner coding with my headphones on. 👨‍💻

Onward and Upwards!
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-14 13:55:28

GraphQL vs REST

Today I saw this: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/How-to-(and-how-not-to)-design-REST-APIs

And it reminded me why GraphQL is so much better.

It has also reminded me why HTTP is so confusing and awful as a protocol, especially as a protocol for structured data APIs, with all its status codes and headers and bodies and querystrings and content-types -- but let's not talk about that for now.

People complain about GraphQL being great for frontend developers and bad for backend developers, but I don't know who are these people that apparently love reading guides like the one above of how to properly construct ad-hoc path routers, decide how to properly build the JSON, what to include and in which circumstance, what status codes and headers to use, all without having any idea of what the frontend or the API consumer will want to do with their data.

It is a much less stressful environment that one in which we can just actually perform the task and fit the data in a preexistent schema with types and a structure that we don't have to decide again and again while anticipating with very incomplete knowledge the usage of an extraneous person -- i.e., an environment with GraphQL, or something like GraphQL.

By the way, I know there are some people that say that these HTTP JSON APIs are not the real REST, but that is irrelevant for now.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 6466f03f:df67cfda
2024-09-11 00:46:29

どうも、こんにちは。この投稿はあなたに見えていますか？見えているのであればそれはとても喜ばしいことです。
良い１日を。

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-14 13:55:28
nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays

The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.

It doesn't rely on any trusted central server, hence it is resilient; it is based on cryptographic keys and signatures, so it is tamperproof; it does not rely on P2P techniques, therefore it works.

Very short summary of how it works, if you don't plan to read anything else:

Everybody runs a client. It can be a native client, a web client, etc. To publish something, you write a post, sign it with your key and send it to multiple relays (servers hosted by someone else, or yourself). To get updates from other people, you ask multiple relays if they know anything about these other people. Anyone can run a relay. A relay is very simple and dumb. It does nothing besides accepting posts from some people and forwarding to others. Relays don't have to be trusted. Signatures are verified on the client side.

This is needed because other solutions are broken:

The problem with Twitter
- Twitter has ads;
- Twitter uses bizarre techniques to keep you addicted;
- Twitter doesn't show an actual historical feed from people you follow;
- Twitter bans people;
- Twitter shadowbans people.
- Twitter has a lot of spam.
The problem with Mastodon and similar programs
- User identities are attached to domain names controlled by third-parties;
- Server owners can ban you, just like Twitter; Server owners can also block other servers;
- Migration between servers is an afterthought and can only be accomplished if servers cooperate. It doesn't work in an adversarial environment (all followers are lost);
- There are no clear incentives to run servers, therefore they tend to be run by enthusiasts and people who want to have their name attached to a cool domain. Then, users are subject to the despotism of a single person, which is often worse than that of a big company like Twitter, and they can't migrate out;
- Since servers tend to be run amateurishly, they are often abandoned after a while — which is effectively the same as banning everybody;
- It doesn't make sense to have a ton of servers if updates from every server will have to be painfully pushed (and saved!) to a ton of other servers. This point is exacerbated by the fact that servers tend to exist in huge numbers, therefore more data has to be passed to more places more often;
- For the specific example of video sharing, ActivityPub enthusiasts realized it would be completely impossible to transmit video from server to server the way text notes are, so they decided to keep the video hosted only from the single instance where it was posted to, which is similar to the Nostr approach.
The problem with SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt)
- It doesn't have many problems. I think it's great. In fact, I was going to use it as a basis for this, but
- its protocol is too complicated because it wasn't thought about being an open protocol at all. It was just written in JavaScript in probably a quick way to solve a specific problem and grew from that, therefore it has weird and unnecessary quirks like signing a JSON string which must strictly follow the rules of ECMA-262 6th Edition;
- It insists on having a chain of updates from a single user, which feels unnecessary to me and something that adds bloat and rigidity to the thing — each server/user needs to store all the chain of posts to be sure the new one is valid. Why? (Maybe they have a good reason);
- It is not as simple as Nostr, as it was primarily made for P2P syncing, with "pubs" being an afterthought;
- Still, it may be worth considering using SSB instead of this custom protocol and just adapting it to the client-relay server model, because reusing a standard is always better than trying to get people in a new one.
The problem with other solutions that require everybody to run their own server
- They require everybody to run their own server;
- Sometimes people can still be censored in these because domain names can be censored.
How does Nostr work?
- There are two components: clients and relays. Each user runs a client. Anyone can run a relay.
- Every user is identified by a public key. Every post is signed. Every client validates these signatures.
- Clients fetch data from relays of their choice and publish data to other relays of their choice. A relay doesn't talk to another relay, only directly to users.
- For example, to "follow" someone a user just instructs their client to query the relays it knows for posts from that public key.
- On startup, a client queries data from all relays it knows for all users it follows (for example, all updates from the last day), then displays that data to the user chronologically.
- A "post" can contain any kind of structured data, but the most used ones are going to find their way into the standard so all clients and relays can handle them seamlessly.
How does it solve the problems the networks above can't?
- Users getting banned and servers being closed
- A relay can block a user from publishing anything there, but that has no effect on them as they can still publish to other relays. Since users are identified by a public key, they don't lose their identities and their follower base when they get banned.
- Instead of requiring users to manually type new relay addresses (although this should also be supported), whenever someone you're following posts a server recommendation, the client should automatically add that to the list of relays it will query.
- If someone is using a relay to publish their data but wants to migrate to another one, they can publish a server recommendation to that previous relay and go;
- If someone gets banned from many relays such that they can't get their server recommendations broadcasted, they may still let some close friends know through other means with which relay they are publishing now. Then, these close friends can publish server recommendations to that new server, and slowly, the old follower base of the banned user will begin finding their posts again from the new relay.
- All of the above is valid too for when a relay ceases its operations.
- Censorship-resistance
- Each user can publish their updates to any number of relays.
- A relay can charge a fee (the negotiation of that fee is outside of the protocol for now) from users to publish there, which ensures censorship-resistance (there will always be some Russian server willing to take your money in exchange for serving your posts).
- Spam
- If spam is a concern for a relay, it can require payment for publication or some other form of authentication, such as an email address or phone, and associate these internally with a pubkey that then gets to publish to that relay — or other anti-spam techniques, like hashcash or captchas. If a relay is being used as a spam vector, it can easily be unlisted by clients, which can continue to fetch updates from other relays.
- Data storage
- For the network to stay healthy, there is no need for hundreds of active relays. In fact, it can work just fine with just a handful, given the fact that new relays can be created and spread through the network easily in case the existing relays start misbehaving. Therefore, the amount of data storage required, in general, is relatively less than Mastodon or similar software.
- Or considering a different outcome: one in which there exist hundreds of niche relays run by amateurs, each relaying updates from a small group of users. The architecture scales just as well: data is sent from users to a single server, and from that server directly to the users who will consume that. It doesn't have to be stored by anyone else. In this situation, it is not a big burden for any single server to process updates from others, and having amateur servers is not a problem.
- Video and other heavy content
- It's easy for a relay to reject large content, or to charge for accepting and hosting large content. When information and incentives are clear, it's easy for the market forces to solve the problem.
- Techniques to trick the user
- Each client can decide how to best show posts to users, so there is always the option of just consuming what you want in the manner you want — from using an AI to decide the order of the updates you'll see to just reading them in chronological order.
FAQ
- This is very simple. Why hasn't anyone done it before?
I don't know, but I imagine it has to do with the fact that people making social networks are either companies wanting to make money or P2P activists who want to make a thing completely without servers. They both fail to see the specific mix of both worlds that Nostr uses.
- How do I find people to follow?
First, you must know them and get their public key somehow, either by asking or by seeing it referenced somewhere. Once you're inside a Nostr social network you'll be able to see them interacting with other people and then you can also start following and interacting with these others.
- How do I find relays? What happens if I'm not connected to the same relays someone else is?
You won't be able to communicate with that person. But there are hints on events that can be used so that your client software (or you, manually) knows how to connect to the other person's relay and interact with them. There are other ideas on how to solve this too in the future but we can't ever promise perfect reachability, no protocol can.
- Can I know how many people are following me?
No, but you can get some estimates if relays cooperate in an extra-protocol way.
- What incentive is there for people to run relays?
The question is misleading. It assumes that relays are free dumb pipes that exist such that people can move data around through them. In this case yes, the incentives would not exist. This in fact could be said of DHT nodes in all other p2p network stacks: what incentive is there for people to run DHT nodes?
- Nostr enables you to move between server relays or use multiple relays but if these relays are just on AWS or Azure what’s the difference?
There are literally thousands of VPS providers scattered all around the globe today, there is not only AWS or Azure. AWS or Azure are exactly the providers used by single centralized service providers that need a lot of scale, and even then not just these two. For smaller relay servers any VPS will do the job very well.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 8cb60e21:5f2deaea
2024-09-10 21:14:08

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 8d34bd24:414be32b
2024-09-13 15:09:18

I’ve recently had discussions with several people about the deity of Jesus Christ. They did not believe Jesus was God. I believe that the Bible claims Jesus is God and is part of the trinity (3 persons in one God). I know the 3-in-1 nature of God is confusing and hard to understand, but who wants to worship a God that is totally understandable by our human and mortal minds? I want to worship a God who is so awesome that we, the creatures, cannot fully comprehend Him because He is so much more than we have ever seen or imagined.

Now let’s go through multiple Scriptural evidences that Jesus is God. I don't want you to take my word that Jesus is God. I want you to believe it because the Bible says it and therefore God says it.

The Basic Claims of Jesus

Let’s start with the basics.

In John 10:30 Jesus says "I and the Father are one.”\ \ This sure sounds like Jesus is claiming to be God. I know some people claim that this is just Jesus saying that He is one with God or that they have the same goals. I find this interpretation to be hard to believe because I think Jesus speaks clearly and the most obvious interpretation is usually the intended meaning especially when you are speaking of God’s word. He created man and created the ability to communicate. I don’t believe He would ever speak unclearly or in a way that would lead people to blasphemy. The most obvious interpretation of what Jesus meant is that He is one with God.

"If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.”\ Philip *said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?" (John 14:7-9) {Emphasis Mine}

Jesus says knowing Him is knowing the Father and if you have seen Him you have seen the Father. This can only be true if they are one. Some may say that Jesus is just saying that seeing Him is like seeing God the Father because they are acting in agreement, but this once again is not the most obvious interpretation and I do not believe that God the Father or Jesus would speak in a misleading or unclear manner that could lead people astray.\ \ Even back in Genesis there is reference to the trinitarian nature of God. Genesis 1:26a says, "Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness’" God refers to Himself in the plural. There are lots of other similar references in the Old Testament. This is early evidence of the trinitarian nature of God that was not clearly revealed until the New Testament (just as His plan for salvation was not revealed until the New Testament).

"Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?” The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.” Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.” (John 10:32-38) {Emphasis Mine}

In this passage the Jews accuse Jesus of "blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.” Jesus is being accused of claiming to be God, but Jesus does not deny being God. He says He does His miracles "so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.” Jesus continues to claim to be God. Even if it is possible to explain Jesus’s claim “that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father” could mean that they have the same goals, it would be incomprehensible for Jesus to make an unclear statement that sounds like a claim to be God if He wasn’t while being accused of claiming to be God. If He isn't God, then He is guilty of blasphemy and can't save anyone. He doesn't allow people to think He is a good man, a prophet, or a teacher, but not God.1

Jesus’s biggest claim to be God is probably:

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8:58)

Jesus started His statement with “Truly, Truly” (literally Amen, Amen). This repetition is used in Hebrew literature as an emphasis to mean pay attention to this statement. Then He claims “before Abraham was born, I am.” This is a doubly stunning statement because Abraham had died more than a thousand years before Jesus was physically born and because “I am” is what God told Moses to call Him at the burning bush.

Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ” (Exodus 3:13-14)

Jesus claimed the exalted name of God for Himself while claiming to exist since before Abraham. If Jesus is good, then Jesus must be God.

The Example of Godly Men and Angels

Let’s look at how angels and godly people react when accused of being or believed to be God.

When Paul & Silas were preaching in Lystra, the people thought they were gods because of the miracles they were performing through God’s power. Their response made it crystal clear that they were not to be worshipped.

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their robes and rushed out into the crowd, crying out and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, and preach the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them. (Acts 14:14-15) {Emphasis Mine}

They didn’t reply that they were God’s messengers or working through God’s power and will. They said, “why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you.” There was no lack of clarity and they cleared up the misunderstanding as fast as possible.

When Peter was sent to Cornelius in answer to Cornelius’s prayer, Cornelius fell down to worship Peter, but Peter instantly made it clear that this was wrong.

When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and fell at his feet and worshiped him. But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up; I too am just a man.” (Acts 10:25-26) {Emphasis Mine}

There was no mistake in his response that would allow anyone to think he was god. Peter gave God alone the glory.

We can even look at the example of an angel sent by God when John mistakenly fell at the angel’s feet to worship him:

Then he said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.’ ” And he said to me, “These are true words of God.” Then I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “Do not do that; I am a fellow servant of yours and your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus; worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” (Revelation 19:9-10) {Emphasis Mine}

The angel would not allow anyone to worship him even though he was a great messenger of God.

Jesus’s Response to Worship

Let’s contrast these responses to Jesus’s responses.

One of the synagogue officials named Jairus came up, and on seeing Him, fell at His feet and implored Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death; please come and lay Your hands on her, so that she will get well and live.” And He went off with him; and a large crowd was following Him and pressing in on Him. (Mark 5:22-24) {Emphasis Mine}

Notice that Jesus did not rebuke Jairus for falling at His feet. He went to help him with the ultimate miracle, healing his servant.

But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. And He was saying to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” But she answered and *said to Him, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table feed on the children’s crumbs.” And He said to her, “Because of this answer go; the demon has gone out of your daughter.” (Mark 7:25-29) {Emphasis Mine}

This woman fell at Jesus’s feet and called Him Lord (Adonai), but Jesus did not correct her. He gave to her her request because she believed in Him.

In the same way:

Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” (John 11:32) {Emphasis Mine}

Mary also fell at Jesus’s feet and called Him Lord without being corrected. Jesus accept this worship because He rightly deserved the worship and being called Lord because He is God. He confirmed His right to have people fall at His feet because He followed it up with raising Lazarus from the dead.

In this next passage, a man didn’t just fall at Jesus’s feet or call Him Lord, this man worshipped Jesus.

Jesus heard that they had put him out, and finding him, He said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” He answered, “Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?” Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him, and He is the one who is talking with you.” And he said, “Lord, I believe.” And he worshiped Him. And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.” (John 9:35-39) {Emphasis Mine}

This man believed that Jesus was Lord and God and worshipped Him as such. Jesus did not reprimand this man for worshipping him instead of God. He accepted the worship and rebuked the hard hearted Pharisees that were in attendance.

When Jesus was walking on water past the boat holding his disciples, and Peter called out to Him. Jesus called Peter out to join Him. When Peter began to sink in unbelief, Jesus rescued him and calmed the sea. Then:

When they got into the boat, the wind stopped. And those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, “You are certainly God’s Son!” (Matthew 14:32-33) {Emphasis Mine}

This is yet another example of Jesus being worshipped and accepting the worship rather than rebuking them for worshipping a false god. If Jesus was just a man. This would be sin, but 2 Corinthians 5:21 says of Jesus, “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” If Jesus is sinless, He has to be God because He accepted the worship of people.

In the Ten Commandments:

“You shall have no other gods before Me.\ “You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, (Exodus 20:3-5) {Emphasis Mine}

God makes it perfectly clear that nobody can be worshipped other than Himself. The fact that Jesus repeatedly allows people to fall at His feet and worship Him means He is either God, a blasphemer and the worst of sinners, or a madman. He has not left us any other options.

There are multiple additional examples of Jesus being worshipped and accepting worship.

Right after being raised from the dead:

And behold, Jesus met them and greeted them. And they came up and took hold of His feet and worshiped Him. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and take word to My brethren to leave for Galilee, and there they will see Me.” (Matthew 28:9-10) {Emphasis Mine}

When His disciples “took hold of His feet and worshiped Him,” His response was “Do not be afraid” instead of “Do not worship me.”

When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some were doubtful. And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:17-20) {Emphasis Mine}

Jesus’s response to being worshipped is to say that He has “All authority … in heaven and on earth” and to tell them to “observe all that I commanded you.” If He was only a godly man, he would have rebuked the worshippers not talked about His authority and commands.

While He was blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven. And they, after worshiping Him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple praising God. (Luke 24:51-53) {Emphasis Mine}

I think I’ve have given plenty of examples to show that Jesus accepted worship and therefore is either God or a blaspheming sinner. No good man or Godly teacher would ever allow another to worship him without rebuking them.

The Word Made Flesh

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.... And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John testified about Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’ ” For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. " (John 1:1-4, 14-17) {Emphasis Mine}

“In the beginning was the Word” refers to before time and space began. This refers to God, the first cause of all things that exist.

The Word "was with God" and "was God" and "All things came into being through Him" (aka He is creator). These verses are explicitly saying that the Word is God and implying He is God since He is the creator.

At the end of the verse it is made clear who “The Word” is. John is referring to Jesus Christ as “The Word.” John the Baptist also refers to Jesus as God when he talks of His higher rank and that Jesus existed before John (Other gospels say John was physically born first, so this refers to Jesus existing well before His physical birth).

The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is God and I am seriously concerned that anyone who denies Jesus’s deity will be one of those referred to in this passage:

Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’ (Matthew 7:22-23)

If you are one of those who believes that Jesus is only a good man, a good teacher, a prophet, or a righteous man created for God’s purpose, I beg you to do like these Christians who were praised for their actions:

Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. (Acts 17:11)

Trust Jesus.\ \ your sister in Christ,

Christy

Bible verses are NASB (New American Standard Bible) 1995 edition unless otherwise stated

FYI, I’ve included this extended passage without commentary because it is an excellent passage describing the trinity and including God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

8Philip *said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9Jesus *said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. 11Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves. 12Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. 13Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.

18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. 20In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 21He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.” (John 14:8-21) {Emphasis Mine}

This post is scheduled to publish on Sunday, September 15th on my Trust Jesus Substack, but is being published early on nostr due to a discussion that occurred here.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 8cb60e21:5f2deaea
2024-09-19 21:25:34

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-14 13:55:28
LessPass remoteStorage

LessPass is a nice idea: a password manager without any state. Just remember one master password and you can generate a different one for every site using the power of hashes.

But it has a very bad issue: some sites require just numbers, others have a minimum or maximum character limits, some require non-letter characters, uppercase characters, others forbid these and so on.

The solution: to allow you to specify parameters when generating the password so you can fit a generated password on every service.

The problem with the solution: it creates state. Now you must remember what parameters you used when generating a password for each site.

This was a way to store these settings on a remoteStorage bucket. Since it isn't confidential information in any way, that wasn't a problem, and I thought it was a good fit for remoteStorage.

Some time later I realized it maybe would be better to have a centralized repository hosting all weird requirements for passwords each domain forced on its users, and let LessPass use data from that central place when generating a password. Still stateful, not ideal, not very far from a centralized password manager, but still requiring less trust and less cryptographic assumptions.
See also
- hledger-web
- TiddlyWiki remoteStorage
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 09fbf8f3:fa3d60f0
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
@ 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!

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 655a7cf1:d0510794
2024-09-10 13:16:15

Currently have kyc BTC, huge fan of lightning Network. Because I am a constant user of lightning. Plan on doing my business with lightning as well , peer-to-peer I'm not sure if I'm so worried about kyc I might be misguided in this situation.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/679520

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-14 13:55:28

idea: Custom multi-use database app

Since 2015 I have this idea of making one app that could be repurposed into a full-fledged app for all kinds of uses, like powering small businesses accounts and so on. Hackable and open as an Excel file, but more efficient, without the hassle of making tables and also using ids and indexes under the hood so different kinds of things can be related together in various ways.

It is not a concrete thing, just a generic idea that has taken multiple forms along the years and may take others in the future. I've made quite a few attempts at implementing it, but never finished any.

I used to refer to it as a "multidimensional spreadsheet".

Can also be related to DabbleDB.

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1
2024-09-23 22:12:21

As a territory owner, I've been scratching my head on my latest post about finding the who, what & how creative stackers are in SN. Have been doing a lot of reading and diving deep into SN contents to find potential topics that I could bring up in the ~Design territory. It's true, design is really broad, and different people understand it -and practice it- in different ways. Anyhow, I'm not here to talk about design, nor about the territory. .

Acknowledgements

I'd like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to @davidw for his inspirational post Top SN Territories - 17 weeks later, and @supratic for defining the KPIs I've been using on Decrypting SN KPIs to define the "worthiness" of posting in the right territory. .

Table header definition

(1) Profitability: Weekly average {spent} by weekly average {revenue}. (2) Engagement: The weekly average number of {comments} for each {posts} (3) Rev/Post: An interesting metric for territory owners to adjust posting fee, mirroring it. (4) Worthiness: Result of {revenue/post} less {fee} to help stackers evaluate the risk of posting on a territory. When negative means that there's a high probability that the sats you spend for posting will be lost. .

The data

The data under consideration below has been fed the numbers available publicly available from the top territories page. The range considered is from March 31 to September 7; this is perhaps not accurate, and the boosts also produce false values on the averages. API access is awaited for more accuracy in overview and visuals.

May these data points provide you some insightful information, as they do to me. .

| Territory | Owner |-------------------------------|-------- | ~AGORA | @AGORA | ~aliens_and_UFOs | @OneOneSeven | ~alter_native | @DesertDave | ~AMA | @benwehrman | ~art | @antic | ~bitcoin | @k00b | ~bitcoin_beginners | @siggy47 | ~bitcoin_Mining | @Bell_curve | ~bitdevs | @niftynei | ~BooksAndArticles | @siggy47 | ~builders | @PlebLab | ~charts_and_numbers | @OneOneSeven | ~conspiracy | @UCantDoThatDotNet | ~Construction_and_Engineering | @BlokchainB | ~crypto | @ek | ~culture | @davidw | ~Design | @Design_r | ~devs | @bitcoinplebdev | ~DIY | @RDClark | ~Dogs_And_Cats | @siggy47 | ~econ | @jeff | ~Education | ~FiresidePhilosophy | @frostdragon | ~food_and_drinks | @Bitter | ~gaming | @nout | ~health | @benwehrman | ~history | @benwehrman | ~ideasfromtheedge | @MaxAWebster | ~Import_Export | @globalmerchant | ~jobs | @k00b | ~libertarian | @benwehrman | ~lightning | @AtlantisPleb | ~lol | @UCantDoThatDotNet | ~mempool | @softsimon | ~meta | @k00b | ~mostly_harmless | @elvismercury | ~Music | @Public_N_M_E | ~news | @ch0k1 | ~nostr | @k00b | ~openagents | @AtlantisPleb | ~oracle | @oracle | ~Photography | @TNStacker | ~privacy | @davidw | ~science | @south_korea_ln | ~security | @ek | ~Stacker_Sports | @grayruby | ~tech | @k00b | ~tutorials | @nout | Posting Fee | ⁽¹⁾ Profitability | ⁽²⁾ Engagement | ⁽³⁾ Rev/Post | ⁽⁴⁾ Worthiness | -------------|-------------|---------------|------------|---------------|------------| | 21 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 141.5 | 120.5 | | 21 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 126.5 | 105.5 | | 8 | 10.8 | 2.7 | 38.3 | 30.3 | | 1000 | 0.2 | 20.3 | 1962.4 | 9514.4 | | 10 | 8.7 | 1.3 | 12.9 | -8.7 | | 100 | - | 4.7 | 0.0 | - | | 120 | 7.0 | 4.8 | 102.8 | -17.2 | | 25 | 3.8 | 1.6 | 63.1 | 38.1 | | 15 | 5.1 | 0.5 | 45.6 | 30.6 | | 100 | 8.9 | 5.9 | 106.5 | 6.5 | | 1000 | 3.6 | 6.9 | 946.5 | -53.5 | | 117 | 8.4 | 8.7 | 140.0 | 23.0 | | 17 | 9.9 | 3.8 | 37.3 | 20.3 | | 50 | 7.0 | 1.6 | 37.5 | -12.5 | | 256 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 258.3 | 2.3 | | 600 | 5.6 | 10.6 | 467.6 | -132.4 | | 21 | 10.6 | 3.0 | 32.8 | 11.8 | | 50 | 9.9 | 2.0 | 64.3 | 14.3 | | 10 | 10.1 | 1.4 | 22.8 | 12.8 | | 20 | 15.6 | 2.9 | 44.3 | 24.3 | | 215 | 9.1 | 6.7 | 114.4 | -100.6 | | @theschoolofbitcoin | 100 | 5.8 | 2.7 | 75.8 | -24.2 | | 400 | 5.6 | 7.6 | 287.0 | -113.0 | | 10 | 10.3 | 3.9 | 28.8 | 18.8 | | 100 | 9.4 | 5.7 | 53.2 | -46.8 | | 1000 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 317.3 | -682.7 | | 1000 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 104.3 | -895.7 | | 10 | 12.5 | 7.2 | 53.6 | 43.6 | | 10 | 11.2 | 1.0 | 19.9 | 9.9 | | 10000 | - | 1.3 | 0.0 | - | | 1000 | 3.8 | 8.1 | 397.6 | -602.4 | | 1 | 7.4 | 1.5 | 56.0 | 55.0 | | 21 | 9.7 | 4.8 | 35.9 | 14.9 | | 10 | 7.6 | 1.4 | 31.9 | 21.9 | | 202 | - | 20.7 | 0.0 | - | | 420 | 9.6 | 13.5 | 353.3 | -66.7 | | 100 | 8.4 | 13.5 | 86.1 | -13.9 | | 210 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 96.2 | -3.8 | | 100 | - | 2.3 | 0.0 | - | | 10 | 18.6 | 3.9 | 216.9 | 206.9 | | 100 | 14.1 | 13.1 | 106.1 | 106.1 | | 42 | 4.7 | 1.4 | 55.0 | 13.0 | | 600 | 3.6 | 9.4 | 755.8 | 155.8 | | 21 | 8.3 | 2.5 | 55.3 | 34.3 | | 100 | 6.4 | 1.5 | 40.5 | -59.5 | | 50 | 12.6 | 13.1 | 107.9 | 57.9 | | 100 | - | 1.3 | 0.0 | - | | 500 | 6.0 | 2.9 | 133.9 | -366.1 |

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/697943

yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 8cb60e21:5f2deaea
2024-09-19 20:54:23
Python Introduction Guide

1. What is Python?

Python is a high-level, interpreted programming language known for its simplicity and readability. It's widely used in various fields, including web development, data science, artificial intelligence, and more.

2. Installing Python

Visit python.org to download and install the latest version of Python for your operating system.

3. Your First Python Program

Open a text editor and type:

python print("Hello, World!")

Save this as hello.py and run it from the command line:

python hello.py

4. Basic Syntax

Variables and Data Types

```python

Strings

name = "Alice"

Integers

age = 30

Floats

height = 5.5

Booleans

is_student = True ```

Lists

python fruits = ["apple", "banana", "cherry"] print(fruits[0]) # Outputs: apple

Dictionaries

python person = { "name": "Bob", "age": 25, "city": "New York" } print(person["name"]) # Outputs: Bob

5. Control Flow

If statements

python age = 18 if age >= 18: print("You're an adult") elif age >= 13: print("You're a teenager") else: print("You're a child")

Loops

```python

For loop

for i in range(5): print(i)

While loop

count = 0 while count < 5: print(count) count += 1 ```

6. Functions

```python def greet(name): return f"Hello, {name}!"

message = greet("Alice") print(message) # Outputs: Hello, Alice! ```

7. Modules

Python has a vast standard library and many third-party packages. You can import them like this:

python import math print(math.pi) # Outputs: 3.141592653589793

8. Exception Handling

python try: result = 10 / 0 except ZeroDivisionError: print("Error: Division by zero!")

9. Classes and Objects

```python class Dog: def init(self, name): self.name = name
```
def bark(self):
    return f"{self.name} says Woof!"
```
my_dog = Dog("Buddy") print(my_dog.bark()) # Outputs: Buddy says Woof! ```

10. Next Steps
- Practice writing small programs
- Explore the Python standard library
- Learn about virtual environments and package management with pip
- Dive into specific areas like web development (Django, Flask) or data science (NumPy, Pandas)
Remember, the best way to learn Python is by writing code. Happy coding!
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 8cb60e21:5f2deaea
2024-09-19 20:46:05
Markdown Cheatsheet

Headers

H1

H2

H3

H4

H5

H6

Emphasis

italic or italic bold or bold bold italic or bold italic ~~strikethrough~~

Lists

Unordered
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Subitem 2.1
- Subitem 2.2
Ordered
1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item
Links

Link text Link with title

Images

Blockquotes

This is a blockquote

It can span multiple lines

Code

Inline code has back-ticks around it.

Code blocks are fenced by three back-ticks

Horizontal Rule

Tables

| Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 | |----------|----------|----------| | Row 1, Column 1 | Row 1, Column 2 | Row 1, Column 3 | | Row 2, Column 1 | Row 2, Column 2 | Row 2, Column 3 |

Task Lists
- [x] Completed task
- [ ] Uncompleted task
Footnotes

Here's a sentence with a footnote. [^1]

[^1]: This is the footnote.

Escaping Characters

*This text is surrounded by literal asterisks*
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me
@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-14 13:55:28
A estrutura lógica do livro didático

Todos os livros didáticos e cursos expõem seus conteúdos a partir de uma organização lógica prévia, um esquema de todo o conteúdo que julgam relevante, tudo muito organizadinho em tópicos e subtópicos segundo a ordem lógica que mais se aproxima da ordem natural das coisas. Imagine um sumário de um manual ou livro didático.

A minha experiência é a de que esse método serve muito bem para ninguém entender nada. A organização lógica perfeita de um campo de conhecimento é o resultado final de um estudo, não o seu início. As pessoas que escrevem esses manuais e dão esses cursos, mesmo quando sabem do que estão falando (um acontecimento aparentemente raro), o fazem a partir do seu próprio ponto de vista, atingido após uma vida de dedicação ao assunto (ou então copiando outros manuais e livros didáticos, o que eu chutaria que é o método mais comum).

Para o neófito, a melhor maneira de entender algo é através de imersões em micro-tópicos, sem muita noção da posição daquele tópico na hierarquia geral da ciência.
- Revista Educativa, um exemplo de como não ensinar nada às crianças.
- Zettelkasten, a ordem surgindo do caos, ao invés de temas se encaixando numa ordem preexistentes.
yakihonne.com iris.to jumble.social Me

导航栏

Home

The question

Response

Summary

Damus OpenSats Q3-Q4 Progress Report

nostrdb

Added

Changed

Stats

nostrdb-rust

Added

Fixed

Stats

Damus NoteDeck/Android

Willam's updates

kernelkind's updates

Stats

Damus iOS

Added

Changed

Fixed

Stats

New Emoji Selector

Quote Reposts

New fullscreen video player

Improved longform style

Account recovery, bug fixes

Testflight

Full Changelog

Added

Changed

Fixed

Nostr: a quick introduction, attempt #2

Consider the Most Fundamental Questions

The Origin of the Universe

The Origin of Life on Earth

The Question of Certainty

Reclaiming Control of Science and Education

软件名称： OSSQ

下载地址：

Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant

Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant

The First Ark Transactions on Bitcoin Mainnet

The Kingdom of Bhutan is Stacking A LOT of Sats

The Fed Cuts Rates by 50 Basis Points

Changed

Fixed

Design

Storytime

Bitcoin transactions explained

Payjoin Dev Kit

Bolt12 for LND

Splicing

Raspiblitz

Labelbase

BTCPay Server

ZeroSync

Mutiny Wallet

next-auth Lightning Provider

Cashu

lnproxy

Blixt Wallet

Connected to {info.alias}

Lightning Balance

Create Invoice

Created Invoice

Censorship-resistant relay discovery in Nostr

Nostrasia Hackathon

Welcome FOSS hackers and creatives who care deeply about freedom technology!

Be a Part of the Early Days of Nostr

Orange-Pill people through the Purple-Nostr-Pill

Help People HODL their Keys (Social+Monetary)

Permissionless Building

Hack in a Supportive Environment

NostrHack Tracks

Track 1: Builder's Track - Reimagine Nostr

BUILD on the NOSTR Protocol

Focus on UX

Help shape a Web of Trust

`bitcoind` decentralization

Solution: `bitcoind` decentralization