Looks like nostr becomes gooner-friendly, hopefully in a responsible way. View quoted note →

Ah, this sweet relief. Looks like with these kind of absurd rules (censorship, practically), there's no way, from a new #blackhatworld forum account, to highlight any potential scammer there. Their community is trapped, and it's good to know that now. Don't waste time creating accounts on centralized platforms—it's a resource-consuming trap. It gives nothing in return in this particular case. If you have a reasonable concern about a market item posted on their forum or anywhere else, better use something like

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GitHub - briskness-byte/NostrComments: The comment section no website can close. A thread on every page, kept on Nostr relays. Browser extension for Firefox and Chrome. No account, no server, no tracking.

The comment section no website can close. A thread on every page, kept on Nostr relays. Browser extension for Firefox and Chrome. No account, no se...

Yes, it kinda sucks that it's basically complaining into the decentralized void, rather than having a dialogue with the potential scammer directly (who knows, maybe they could still demonstrate that they provide a legitimate service?—I still don't know that), but at least your message would be possible to find by whoever is doing the research 🕵️‍♂️ View quoted note →

Another day of observing how exactly centralized platforms keep being repressive for stupid reasons. I gave a flavor to #blackhatworld dot com, created a profile there. Just to post some uncomfortable questions in a thread opened by a potential scammer. After attempting to post, I saw some "go to the newbie page and write about yourself first" kinda thing. I wrote. After a while they approved the account, and finally... They removed my posts and gave me a warning for violating their rules: that quoting a URL written by the potential scammer (the thread opener) is not allowed 🤦‍♂️ Wonderful. Next, of course, CAPTCHA in their support ticket system. Legacy centralized platforms are terminally sick. Sometimes together with their admins. God save Nostr. From hard dependency on centralized systems like Google in particular.

VPS hosting providers are so desperately backwards nowadays. The one I've been using for my relay, my videos, and some private self-hosted stuff has half-dead SSDs and an incompetent support team. It's expiring today, and I've been too slow to choose anything as a replacement. Adequate hosting became an unoccupied business niche today, probably mostly because of overregulations. The no bullshit VPS of my dream is basically: - honest 1 Gbps outgoing speed - no KYC ever - XMR/lightning payments - DMCA-ignorance - no abuse hysteria based on Spamhaus/Uceprotect/SpamCop/etc. false positives; actual abuse cases are verified manually based on metrics - competent support team that actually timely responds and fixes their hardware/network issues rather than giving endless excuses And most importantly: actual fraud-free. By actual fraud-free I mean it never ever holds your money as hostage, it always automatically refunds rather than just automatically terminates your VPS, in case if client is unable or not wanting to respond to another bogus abuse letter bullshit. Are you possibly aware of one in 2026? I would pay a bit more than normal prices if such hosting existed. #asknostr #VPS #hosting

View quoted note → Jeez, why am I hearing the voices of both Yuri Bezmenov and Bryan Lunduke in the background while noticing the redditors' stuff? Like they are debating. Don't be fooled, nostriches. Whatever tech stack you choose or FOSS project you decide to use/contribute to doesn't automatically mean you join to support the particular project leader's political agenda. Same with writing in a particular programming language—it's not identical to supporting or hating a particular minority. Or using satellites for internet access is not agreeing with Elon on something. Even paying taxes is not identical to agreeing with your government. Such black-and-white thinking is a sign of immaturity. We can't avoid all interdependencies with everyone we disagree with. We'd be something different from a society otherwise: some much more dysfunctional scattered pieces, not interacting with each other at all. Be your own leader; express your independent positions on things. And don't overdo conflicts: productive conflicts help us to discover more truths, not to separate us even more. Especially when the other side is under too heavy pressure already, better focus more on what possibly unites us rather than separates. #politics

Who's controlling @Alert? #asknostr View quoted note →

I remember I was almost punched in the face for attempting to meditate on a similar question. Now I hear Mark Passio's voice emotionally criticizing relativistic morality in the background. #philosophy #morality View quoted note → @ABH3PO you're kinda simplifying life for me by creating these polls, thanks; I was planning to record a video that touches something like this, but tbh I'm not into recording that much, and at the same time I don't feel like I'm capable enough to express certain ideas in the least distorted ways when I'm limited only to text posts. TLDR: Those who are capable of understanding the immorality of their actions, wherever they are in the social hierarchies, are probably acting the most immoral ways. Others are, poetically speaking, hypnotized, manipulated NPCes/children/slaves; actual complex enough morality is kind of inapplicable to them, irrelevant. Projecting the capability to understand morality on them may even make things worse. Longer version: I still think that context matters a lot here; if you mean US-like locations as the context (where you still can relatively openly communicate and collaborate, openly discuss and decide why something is reasonably immoral), the answer is basically that relativistic morality indeed became damaging to Western society; so the immoral order executor is in a morally worse position. But if you mean some of the most corrupt countries today—the situation is more confusing: those who are already trapped themselves in the premature choice to serve a corrupt government long before they could have a chance to make any independent conscious choices will endanger their family if they choose to suddenly revolt individually towards them. Collectively they technically still can revolt against immoral orders but not individually; I think that would be both ineffective and less moral because the dramatic outcomes might even make government propaganda stronger in this case. Another way to look at it: we have autonomous vehicles that "decide" whom to kill in case if they can't stop; they do their best to "decide" according the way they were programmed. But the ultimate decision is on those who programmed them; so if they make an immoral "choice", whom to blame? An engineer, a company, a machine itself? Do these machines somehow remind, poetically speaking, the hypnotized NPC guys trapped in their premature police/military career choices in their corrupt governments? Kinda, except these are machines with no real subjectivity, and they don't have families as well. The scary thing is the machines could be modified to be used as aggressive military machines, so those who originally designed them wouldn't have any idea they would be used that way. I'd be glad to hear anything that can change my mind.

#CakeWallet collapsed for me pretty quickly 🌚

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Unable To Send Transaction After Coin Control · Issue #528 · cake-tech/cake_wallet

After Deselecting All UTXOs (Over Multiple Transactions) In The Coin Coin Control Section Of The App The Error “Not Enough Inputs” Frequently A...

Also, the selected Dart + Flutter tech stack is somewhat creepy. Are #Dart devs aware of what they are running? The build system attempts to send some telemetry by default + write things directly to the flutter directory. Looks like Google decided that all these are acceptable. It fails to build as a Gentoo ebuild, thanks to its sandbox: flutter is a completely different package, and the network is not available during the build. There are also attempts to establish port 80 connections in some dependence(s), which are impossible on my system, where all outgoing port 80 connections are disabled due to abusive ISPs interceptions with their ads/malware:

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fix #6: use https by alopatindev · Pull Request #7 · MrCyjaneK/simplybs

http://ftpmirror.gnu.org redirects to https://ftp.fau.de zlib-1.3.1.tar.gz is not available at least with https; no idea why, perhaps due to fixes ...