Not only are Github etc. centralized platforms but they also violate the UNIX philosophy of doing one thing and do it well. These platforms suffer from feature creep and nowadays they have become issue tracker, continues integration/deployment (CI/CD) platform etc as well. Therefore it is refreshing that there are activities with ngit to combine and connect existing simple tools (git, nostr) to work together seamlessly.

"Perhaps it’s no surprise that Switzerland remained one of the freest countries throughout Covid because of this more localized governance model. There was much less room and tolerance for central government decree" from "Parallel: The Bitcoin Social Layer" by Brian De Mint. Unfortunately this was not true at the end of the Covid scam. The mandates were centrally planned and applied to all cantons and one could say that the federal system died with Covid. The states in the US have far more freedom in such concerns than the cantons in Switzerland nowadays.

@Zapstore is clearly an improvement over F-Droid and Obtainium by combining a user friendly search for app discovery with the installing of the app from source signed by the developers.

As euphemism has to be considered clownish as well (aka disguise ugly things in nice words) you consequently find some some explicit language in "Bitcoin: The Inverse of Clown World" by @Knut Svanholm ∞/21M and @Luke de Wolf

Inconsistency in the user interface on GNU/Linux is my daily visual reminder that there is a trade-off between privacy & security versus beauty & convenience.

The progression from "Auctoritas, non veritas facit legem" into "Veritas, non auctoritas facit legem" as mentioned in Cryptosovereignty by Erik Cason is quite a profound idea.

Unfortunately upgrading an existing Ubuntu installation to 24.04 has been rather a bumpy road and ended up for me several times in a rescue shell. The UI improvements on the other hand are quite nice.

Each shortcut introduced in your application to save some development time today has to be repaid manifold in the future during the maintenance phase.

After seven years of its introduction the Java Platform Module System (JPMS) is still not yet fully adopted in the Java ecosystem. Migrations take a long time and after the migration is before the next migration I guess.

Bitcoiners vs. Spammers? LuganoPlanB

"You Don't Change Bitcoin, Bitcoin Changes You". Therefore Bitcoin will not change to appease the old institutions. That does not make sense. #LuganoPlanB

Not all merchants are equally prepared to accept⚡ in Lugano as sometimes the terminsl is not ready (empty battery etc.), but at some places it seems to be almost daily routine.

Hardcoding the theme with libadwaita and GTK4 really sucks. Now the user interface really looks inconsistent.

Thunderbird as a snap on Ubuntu 24.04 is too restrictive as it prevents you from sharing the gpg private key with your applications. Good it is still possible to install thunderbird from a deb package.

After a long waiting time there is finally again a new bitcoin programming book available: "Building bitcoin in Rust" by Lukáš Hozda

But that is part of clown world as well! Only option :-(

Words may change their meanings over the span of thousands of years. Homer used words in Odyssey and Iliad that are not used nowadays anymore with a neutral or positive connotation. So, do we really want to reclaim the word "authoritarian" in a positive sense? Does that not just add more confusion in any discussion?

The bitcoin rabbit hole has many neighboring rabbit holes like freedom, education, nutrition, energy etc. If you really explored the bitcoin rabbit hole you will fall into the other ones as well. That will falsify many assumptions of other discipline and doctrines. Therefore books like "Resistance Money" trying to look at bitcoin from only one perspective never questioning their own beliefs are disappointing readings.

Using the Calendar class in a Java code sample in 2024 is somehow an anachronism. Recently seen in "Simple Object-Oriented Design" published by Manning.

Money enabled division of labor and trade. The example in economic books explaining "Coincidence of wants" with bartering e.g. shoes for a loaf of bread are silly and backwards. The profession of the shoemaker did not exist before the invention of money. There was no such bartering.