Soon... #NoorNote

What is bad software? Or good software? Not in terms of quality, but in the moral and ethical sense? Our university professor explained the difference really simply: Bad software is software that does things the user doesn't want and doesn't do things the user does want. And good software is the opposite of that. Take a look at today's fiat software. Web and mobile apps that transmit stuff in the background that users have no idea about. Or social media. Let's take Twitter/X as an example. Back in the day, you could see who liked or reposted a tweet. People used that a lot, and users wanted to see it. New management came in and took that away from users. => it no longer does what users want. Instead, it does secret things under the hood that, if users knew about them, they wouldn't be okay with. => it does things users don't want. Our current software crisis is all about this exact aspect. Too much bad and evil software, and too little good software. If you accept this academic definition of good versus bad software, it raises more questions for Muslim developers. Like: Is the income still halal if it was earned through developing or working on bad software? Would a Muslim even be allowed to participate in that kind of software at all? These are questions that today's scholars still owe us answers to.

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By the way, #NoorNote isn't dead. I'm working flat out on a few new features. Refactoring, fixing small bugs, stabilizing, and really polishing the design. Maybe I'll put out an interim release in the meantime. Or maybe I'll wait a bit longer and do a big release a little later.

"UpScrolled"... that name reminds me of that pimp from Idiocracy "Upgrayedd"

Don't, just don't participate in both eco systems, Google and Apple. At all. Their only leverage is your greed. We must build a parallel ecosystem. We must. View quoted note →

Three year npub anniversary! 🎉 Exactly 3 Gregorian years ago today, I created this npub, and I have been active with it ever since. Before that, sometime around late November or early December 2022, I made my first npub using some weird, ugly Nostr client and played around with it a bit. But sadly, I lost the nsec from back then. It was only two months later that I created a new one, which is this one.

Nostr is a good environment for you. First, it influences you to use Bitcoin as currency, then it encourages you to provide real value to the community, then it motivates you to boost your personal OpSec (VPNs, Linux, GrapheneOS etc.), since you've already cleared the tough hurdle with key pairs, NWC strings, and relays, it'll also make you even more tech-savvy over time, it might even plant an idea in your head to grow or raise your own food, at least part of it. In short: It's good for you to be here. Nostr makes you freer and more productive.

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Reason number #786 why there is no Windows version of #NoorNote View quoted note →

Today's thirst traps don't even need to use a nice fake profile picture anymore. 🥲

Ladies and gentlemen, it's with great pleasure that I inform you that #NoorNote has passed Yojimble's stress test with flying colors in his Hell thread today. The note with 900 tagged users loads without any problems, and so do the comments underneath it. And if I mute the thread, I don't get any more notifications. View quoted note →

Who are those idiots selling BTC because of what some puppets say on WEF?