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Linux enthusiast, Emacs fan, gamer, and cat lover. Enjoying coffee, tea, and wine. Orthodox Christian. Disabled.
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Иван 4 months ago
image bsky next to the nick doesn't raise any questions for me at all. Of course, there are plenty of weirdos in Nostr too, from the opposite side, who want to destroy NATO, the dollar, the garden, and the "golden billion"… But they don't characterize Nostr, and as long as we haven't yet collapsed into a ghetto of auth, wot, and the like, we sort of still have freedom of speech here.
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Иван 4 months ago
Local mobile operators apparently weren’t satisfied with just cutting off the internet every day, so they decided to start messing with the time as well. Maybe I’m just paranoid, but three times in a row I noticed the operator adjusting the clock — and it’s not as if they’re setting it precisely either. The lag is minor, but still hundreds of times larger than what you’d get with NTP. I don’t know why they’re doing this, or if they’re even doing it intentionally, but in my case it ended up forcing a mandatory smartphone reboot. Thankfully, it’s possible to disable time synchronization with the operator. ChatGPT tried to convince me that they use this to affect cryptography, but the lag still isn’t that significant.
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Иван 4 months ago
Широка страна моя родная, от Карпат до самых США... э... нэ-нэ-нэ... другой такой не знаю, где творилась б вот такая вот... View quoted note →
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Иван 4 months ago
I’m not really into that kind of music, but I’ve got to admit I’m surprised the Intervision ended up picking a pretty decent winner. Then again, going up against Asian pop these days is a lost cause anyway.
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Иван 4 months ago
They get by on barter and grants from U.S., so they couldn’t care less about your Bitcoin. To them, there’s no difference between Bitcoin and shitcoin. Honestly, even in the Bitcoin community itself, people stopped noticing the difference a long time ago. View quoted note →
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Иван 4 months ago
Looks like Bitchat’s hype has pretty much died out — and honestly, that’s fair. Bluetooth mesh is niche and barely usable, and the Nostr chats in it were just awful. But funny enough, Bitchat did manage to shake things up: suddenly Nostr chats are a thing, and 0xChat and coolr aren’t the only players anymore. In just a week, tons of chat apps have popped up — from bad and really bad (Check out my StrChat ) to pretty good or at least creative. Nostr actually works great for chat (at least no worse than old-school IRC), so I’m pretty sure we’ll see some interesting stuff coming soon.
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Иван 4 months ago
image Thanks, Google. Go fuck yourself.
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Иван 4 months ago
Russia has started restricting mobile internet with whitelists — you can only visit sites that have been approved. I suspect they’ll eventually whitelist the entire web, which would let the authorities block VPNs and Tor bridges. Right now it’s not clear which sites are on the list. Things are pretty unstable, but once the whitelist becomes clearer you could hide Nostr events inside a whitelisted project and then extract them via a Russian relay that isn’t on the whitelist but is connected to a relay in a “friendly” country — from there the event could spread worldwide. Ideas so far: split events into chunks, exploit Unicode where filters were overlooked, or even hide events inside images. Receiving events will be harder, but still possible.
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Иван 4 months ago
People want money, and free relays hardly earn any. The fact that some pay Primal, Nostr.build, Nostr.wine is at least some guarantee that tomorrow your blogs and chats will actually be seen. View quoted note →