Just listened to JRE #1691 with Yeonmi Park, a woman who narrowly escaped North Korea (NK) with her mother.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGJm4bjRaaE
What an incredible story of relentless fighting for survival. In NK, the lower classes are starving to death. Average height is 4'6" because people are so mal-nourished. The government doesn't even let villagers collect their own poop to use as crop fertilizer; instead the government collects the poop to nourish their own crops. Hospitals re-use needles on patients, operate without anesthesia and death is as normalized as breathing air.
I've watched videos about how NK is "impossible" to escape nowadays, because the border is manned by armed guards with shoot to kill orders and many of the surrounding countries will immediately deport refugees back to NK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlX7tl1QvJs
Production flying cars are a thing now. Essentially a scaled up quadcopter with a bunch of safety redundant systems. Joby, Jetson ONE, BlackFly, XPeng, etc. etc. etc.
Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL)
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aopa.org%2F-%2Fmedia%2FImages%2FAOPA-Main%2FNews-and-Media%2FPublications%2FPilot-Magazine%2F2023%2F2304%2F2304p_joby%2F2304p_joby_001.jpg%3Fmw%3D1200%26mh%3D675%26as%3D1%26hash%3D2A0C3C341338FFB2E452D6734518BD8C&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=26baead098f477f81f3c26b0a17b7b0cfa6f286a3399ccff5658ed3ebb0d60e4&ipo=images
Imagine what a well-funded, motivated Bitcoin billionaire could do. Set up a fleet of EVTOL aircraft to autonomously swarm North Korea and land in sparsely populated areas. With the cockpit open, any willing participant can jump in and escape to South Korea where they can start a new life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYaxVHtFK2g
The flight plan could keep low to avoid radar. A fleet of autonomous craft, some unoccupied can act as decoys and protect the ones that are occupied. Smaller DJI type drones could act as sacrificial shields against incoming projectiles.
https://youtu.be/ENjbNwQ9CrI?si=YSMFbwk3f2QGpjL3&t=23
What's that, people don't want to leave NK because they're brainwashed? Make this a regular thing that happens once a year on a random day. Then once a week on a random day. Then every day until every last North Korean is exfiltrated from the concentration camp country. More robots and more autonomy means human defenders will eventually lose stamina and let down their guard; Robots never tire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cnt73jHJFI
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Explain like I'm five: What is, "fiat food?" #asknostr
What's it mean when my pee consistently leaks out of me?
I legitimately love web scraping. Can anyone relate?
I wish nitter wasn't dead.
Yeah it's still mildly usable. You can use it with a burner account and you can do some light browsing. You're going to get throttled pretty quick unless you have dozens of throwaway accounts.
But it's not thriving like it once was, and that makes me sad.
Thank god for #nostr
I'm building an X to Nostr bridge. I want to use NIP-26 delegation to get permission to publish kind:1 events on user's behalf.
After reading and writing some test code, I realize that the delegator (the user) needs to generate a schnorr (BIP340) signature using their private key (nsec.)
I don't think any Nostr browser extensions can do that. Nostr browser extensions are designed to sign events, not sign NIP-26 delegation tokens.
This sucks for my project because I was hoping to generate a NIP-26 delegatee key that has permissions to post as the delegator, but doesn't require that I custody to the user's master key.
I think it's still doable, but I'll have to give instructions to the user and they have to come up with the signature so my app can post as them.
Unless there's a better way?
I want a write-only Nostr UI. No feeds, no distracations, just a large Markdown editor for posting.
So let me get this straight. If I use NIP-26 delegation to create a child key, and the child key gets leaked, there's no way to revoke the child key?
I have a dream to get rich, move to Japan and single handedly solve the low birth rate issue.
How do you like your burger?
Everyone here right now is early gang. We have an edge.
Everyone here right now is early gang. Clap
I read some NIPs now I'm going to build something cool atop Nostr
Sedentary life => humans bad, reproducing bad.
Active life => humans good, make more humans good.
Nosterr with a hard R
There I go spewing out propaganda again. Sorry about that, I just went 1000 MPH on my bicycle and I'm feeling good.
"But what about the trolls and the bullies"
Soon, you will have a personal AI who filters out the bullshit you don't want to see.
Hate speech is free speech.
"Freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach" is a slippery slope to tyranny.
Thank god for #nostr.