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1. Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 01:43:08 JST Angry Sun

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   @BeedleDave Welcome!
   • opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 01:43:06 JST opal

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     @sun @BeedleDave never go full vegan
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   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 01:43:07 JST Angry Sun

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     @wowaname @BeedleDave it hasn't been working right for a long time, I haven't been able to follow people for months.
   • opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 01:43:08 JST opal

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     @sun @BeedleDave did peesonator go down now that alex is on nostr
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 01:45:40 JST xianc78

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     @wowaname @BeedleDave @sun Can you really blame him for leaving the Fedi. Here, he gets cancelled by Pleroma and Akkoma devs, and dogpiled by Poast users. Meanwhile, the Nostr community embraces him with open arms and he got to go to Nostr conventions because of it.

   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:12:59 JST Angry Sun

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     @xianc78 @wowaname @BeedleDave I don't blame him at all for following the money and influence but he wasn't blameless in those conflicts.
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:12:59 JST xianc78

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     @sun @wowaname @BeedleDave I honestly don't know the full extent of those conflicts as I was never a dev for any Fedi software nor an instance owner/admin.

     But as someone who has experienced both networks, Nostr seems to align more with the vision he had for the fedi.

   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:18:26 JST Angry Sun

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     @xianc78 @wowaname @BeedleDave I believe he left because he got a nostr grant and it was for more money than he was getting from the Fedi. This isn't a slam on him, we all have to make a living. I think another factor is that he is in much more control of his fate and is making his own way and his own name there.
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:18:26 JST xianc78

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     @sun @wowaname @BeedleDave
     >he got a nostr grant
     Was it from Jack Dorsey? He immediately jumped to Nostr after the failure of BlueSky.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:23:10 JST xianc78

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     @sun @wowaname @BeedleDave BlueSky still relies on centralized servers much like how vanilla bitcoin still relies on the centralized "lightening network". It's no more decentralized than a torrent tracker.

   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:23:12 JST Angry Sun

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     @wowaname @xianc78 @BeedleDave imo dorsey left the bluesky board because it diverged so far from what he was originally trying to do with it.
   • opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:23:13 JST opal

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     @xianc78 @sun @BeedleDave who considers bsky a failure?
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:33:08 JST xianc78

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     @sun @wowaname @BeedleDave There were a bunch of Twitter users who threaten to jump ship but I bet most of them will abandon their accounts within a month. Most of them just hate Elon Musk, but for the wrong reasons.

     But I wouldn't really care if BlueSky somehow manages to make a dent in Twitter's userbase given what Elon Musk plans to do with it (making it an "everything app" which to me sounds like Digital ID). Granted, BlueSky can still do the same, but I don't expect that to happen any time in the near future.

   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:33:09 JST Angry Sun

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     @xianc78 @wowaname @BeedleDave bluesky is a sham but it's growing in popularity and I think it might already be bigger than Fedi in active users.
   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:42:50 JST Angry Sun

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     @xianc78 @wowaname @BeedleDave I actually think a lot of the people on this network should actually be on bluesky, it is a better network for them. Charitably, it has the "better moderation" that they demand. Uncharitably, they aren't built for and don't deserve freedom.
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:42:50 JST xianc78

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     @sun @wowaname @BeedleDave I disagree. It's run by a company and these fedi leftists hate capitalism enough to avoid for-profit services like the plague. Best thing for them is to just have a whitelist of servers to federate.

   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:44:04 JST Angry Sun

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     @jeffcliff @BeedleDave @wowaname @xianc78 From the Threads complaints I see coming from Threads, it is not suited to the pinko tenderqueer Mastodon crowd as Bluesky is.
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:44:04 JST xianc78

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     @sun @wowaname @BeedleDave @jeffcliff They will bring up how Meta helped some genocide in some third-world country that I forgot the name of.

   • Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 02:44:05 JST Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦

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     @sun @xianc78 @BeedleDave @wowaname hard doubt with threads on the fedi side
   • King Zog I of Albania (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:01:45 JST King Zog I of Albania

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     @xianc78 @sun @wowaname @BeedleDave His vision for Fedi wasn't realistic and he was a divisive figure that set development back with his "my way or the highway" take on things. I don't think Nostr has much of a future (every similar project has resulted in CP flooding) but if it's a better fit for him, then good for him.
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:01:45 JST xianc78

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     @mrsaturday @wowaname @BeedleDave @sun
     >His vision for Fedi wasn't realistic and he was a divisive figure that set development back with his "my way or the highway" take on things.

     I'd argue that his vision for the Fedi could've had a chance if Gab didn't defederate and other alt-tech sites decided to implement federation shortly after.

     >I don't think Nostr has much of a future (every similar project has resulted in CP flooding)

     Nostr doesn't have a CP problem. Node admins can moderate their own nodes and blacklist users from posting on said nodes. It's not like ZeroNet where everyone risks hosting cheese pizza. Don't listen to false accusations from Poast users.

   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:07:05 JST Angry Sun

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     @xianc78 @mrsaturday @wowaname @BeedleDave the last several weeks nostr is undergoing unstoppable spam because it takes a microsecond to make a new decentralized account and rotate and spam from another
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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:07:05 JST xianc78

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     @sun @wowaname @BeedleDave @mrsaturday I have yet to encounter any spam or CP on Nostr, outside of that reply-bot (or whatever it was called), and I think whoever was behind that bot spam intentionally did it because they hated the fedi bridges.

   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:11:59 JST Angry Sun

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     @wowaname @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday they can IP ban you
   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:12:00 JST Angry Sun

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     @wowaname @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday every one of those things has a cost barrier to creating new accounts but on nostr there is zero, every id is literally just 40 random bytes
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   • opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:12:00 JST opal

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     @sun @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday
     >cost barrier
     >irc
     NICK and USER are free, bro
   • opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:12:01 JST opal

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     @sun @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday
     >unstoppable spam
     many such cases, just another day online.
     >email
     >usenet
     >irc
     >xmpp
     >mediawiki and wordpress sites everywhere
   • opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:12:42 JST opal

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     @sun @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday so can 4chan, that never stopped anyone. technically nostr relays can do the same.
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:16:15 JST xianc78

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     @sun @wowaname @BeedleDave @mrsaturday Just for the record here is what the Nostr public timeline looks like for me right now. No spam, and I connect to every relay that I can.

   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:16:16 JST Angry Sun

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     @wowaname @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday I don't know what you are getting at because in any case it's orders of magnitude easier on Nostr to spam the fuck out of the network, and it's even currently being done and nobody has effectively done anything about it yet.
   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:20:05 JST Angry Sun

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     @wowaname @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday nostr clients are currently implementing foaf but people are already realizing that this is a huge breaking compromise on its original promise as "censorship free"
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   • opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:20:05 JST opal

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     @sun @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday a compromise but not a breaking one. those people are just retarded. it worked back in anoNet's heyday, we had our cake and ate it too. adoption fell off only because it was a routing overlay network for autists and the only people still interested were overengineering it
   • opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:20:06 JST opal

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     @sun @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday quite simply i'm getting at the fact that spam can and will happen on *any* publicly-accessible network, regardless how many protections you think are up. the only things that alleviate this are whitelisting, f2f, or invite-only networks.
   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:20:36 JST Angry Sun

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     @wowaname @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday keep in mind that a lot of nostr people are borderline retarded bitcoin maxis and don't understand how anything works
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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:39:41 JST xianc78

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     @wowaname @BeedleDave @mrsaturday @sun Bastyon/PocketNet uses community moderation where users with a high enough reputation can flag certain content. If a post gets enough flags then it will be hidden for all users. The problem with that is that Bastyon not only asks high-ranked users to flag illegal content but porn in general as well.

     By the way, don't bother using Bastyon because I don't know how truly decentalized it is and even then, virtually all images on the network are hosted externally on Imgur.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:59:01 JST xianc78

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     @wowaname @BeedleDave @mrsaturday @sun I never used Reddit so I wouldn't even know.

     They said that they didn't want porn because they don't want it to be something like many of the loli instances on here where people post nothing but porn and immediately destroy the reputation of the network.

   • opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 03:59:02 JST opal

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     @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday @sun sounds like a repeat of reddit news' moderation
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 04:14:23 JST xianc78

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     @wowaname @BeedleDave @mrsaturday @sun >reddit news

     Oh you mean HackerNews?

   • opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 04:14:24 JST opal

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     @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday @sun i'm not talking about reddit
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 04:47:48 JST xianc78

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     @wowaname @BeedleDave @mrsaturday @sun Never cared about that either. All I know is that it's full of NPCs and it blacklists a lot of links like @djsumdog's website.

   • opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 04:47:49 JST opal

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     @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday @sun
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 04:50:20 JST xianc78

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     @wowaname @BeedleDave @mrsaturday @sun Never said it was a good thing. I actually hate the idea of it.

   • opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 04:50:21 JST opal

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     @xianc78 @BeedleDave @mrsaturday @sun ok but why would you trust NPCs with enough good-boy updoots to moderate anything
   • 0 (https://pl.absolutelyproprietary.org/users/0)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 14:41:59 JST 0

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     @sun @wowaname @xianc78
     
     Wow, that's the nicest way you could have said it. That is impressively diplomatic.
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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 21:25:18 JST xianc78

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     @BeedleDave @wowaname @sun I thought Bitcoin Cash only exists because vanilla Bitcoin wasn't truly decentralized.

   • Ever Beedle (beedledave@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 21:25:19 JST Ever Beedle

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     @xianc78 @sun @wowaname Unless something pretty fundamental about the bitcoin protocol has changed, it doesn't rely on lightning. Like yeah, you can do transactions that need lightning, but that by definition is not vanilla bitcoin.
   • Ever Beedle (beedledave@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 00:02:59 JST Ever Beedle

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     @ehhh @wowaname @xianc78 @sun
     
     Things have been pretty good. Stopped being a NEET and got a job. Also stopped drinking, went cold turkey and I recently hit my 1-year mark. Sobriety is great, so is having a normal job and a reason to get out of bed. Been pretty content overall, that's the main reason I'm not on as much.
     
     Decided to get back into coding, so I made a leetcode account, been doing dailies and the weekend contests, already hit the Top 10% in contests, now I'm realizing if I had just focused on that when I got out of the service, I'd have been a senior software engineer when the COVID tech boom hit, and might have been a millionaire by now. Bit late to be trying to get into coding now though, doubt most companies would hire a junior in their mid-30s, especially in the current market.
     
     But, when I was brushing up I did automate some workflows at work, and it made me realize that if I found the right *remote* office/admin job, I could automate most of it, and get to where I've got a lot of free time again.
     
     Updating my resume this weekend, already found a couple jobs that would fit the bill, gonna start applying on the weekends, hoping it pans out.
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     Sort of. bitcoin devs wanted to keep block size small so that anyone could run a node, then build services on top of it to facilitate higher transfer rates. BCC wanted to get those transfer rates *now* by just increasing block size and didn't want to rely on proprietary services for scale.
     
     I saw segwit mentioned, haven't heard that term in a long time.
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     yo @BeedleDave! how's it been 😁 haven't seen you in a while! 👋
     
     @wowaname @xianc78 @sun
   • cyberpunklord420 (ehhh@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 00:03:33 JST cyberpunklord420

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     @BeedleDave @wowaname @xianc78 @sun Oh nice nice. I never drink so uhh... Cool! 😁 non-drinking buddies!!
     
     is leetcode like duolingo for coding? lol.
     
     I've been learning Python recently as well. I don't have any plans to use it atm but at least I can read and understand what open-source python-based things can do now if they're not formulas for machine learning, lol. nice that you got a job in this current economy tho. nowadays it seems like winning the lottery is more likely than finding a job that you can actually keep and sustain. And because *we live in a society*, this job recess is spreading to areas outside of IT too. 😕