The use of docker containers often feels needlessly complex and cumbersome when system daemon scripts can easily be added. I think it has it's place, however recently I'm preferring the simplicity of just daemon scripts.

I can see why people like using Arch Linux for the flexibility of using AUR to keep specific software updated. Aside from adding additional software sources to apt, only sometimes provided, is it manageable with Debian and derivatives. Looking for a source for the latest Inkscape and the launchpad PPA doesn't seem to work with Debian, there are signature issues and looks unsigned. Perhaps including unstable and testing in the sources will include a much more recent version (however it's not application specific).

Does the @OpenSecret for Andriod use a websockets proxy server? There is a setting for it in 'Settings > Servers', yet it doesn't seem necessary as it could open sockets directly. 🤔

An HTML page with <script>location.href="nostr:npub..."</script> seems to work well for sharing a npub or nprofile and have it open in a native app (desktop and mobile). It provides a way to fallback if there isn't an app. I setup one at braydon.com/nostr Thinking about also hosting an njump or similar to display notes without a native nostr client yet.

In the last week, a similar graph to this came up in one of the Principles of Economics seminars with @Saifedean Ammous in relation to the chapter on labor: Source:

Google Books Ngram Viewer

Google Ngrams: unemployment, inflation, minimum wage, 1800-2019

It shows the rise of the word 'unemployment' from the early 1900s. I've added the keywords 'inflation' and 'minimum wage'. To quote a paragraph from the chapter: "It is telling that the concept of unemployment did not really exist as an economic term before the twentieth century. In a free market, people choose whether or not to work for the wage offered to them, so nobody can be involuntarily unemployed. With the introduction of monetary inflationism and minimum wage laws, a permanently unemployed part of the population became a fixture of modern economies, and blaming this unemployment on the market process became a fixture of the pseudoscientific economics dominant in modern academia, financed by those with vested interests in maintaining inflation in order to provide rationales for it."

One of the most important take aways from Part 1 of Principles of Economics is that value isn't a unit of measure like length or temperature. It is ordinal, not cardinal and is determined at the margin.

Principles Of Economics

Editing text on mobile and touch screens can improve! This video shows a different way, including gestures for copy and paste. I designed an OS interface in 2005 for large touch screens (that didn't exist) that used hand gestures for all input and interaction to improve efficiency and speed, similar to learning to type on a keyboard.

Baltic Honeybadger 2023 Conference Livestream Day 2

If a #nostr client needs to block a post that demonstrates that a zap is not a proof of payment, the client likely has many other problems. Zaps are not proof of payment, it's in the specification: "The zap receipt is not a proof of payment, all it proves is that some nostr user fetched an invoice."

GitHub

nips/57.md at master · nostr-protocol/nips

Nostr Implementation Possibilities. Contribute to nostr-protocol/nips development by creating an account on GitHub.

What great timing for #nostr to exist and to have so many great and active people here. Looking forward to all the progress.

"Unlike saving, investing necessitates relinquishing control of your capital so that it can be employed in production. You give up on the salability and reliability of having a cash balance in order to employ the capital in a productive process, hoping it will generate a profit. The investor sacrifices liquidity of cash and takes on the risk of loss in exchange for a return on investing. There is no investment without risk, as there is always the risk of partial or complete loss of capital." — @Saifedean Ammous (Principles of Economics, 2023)