I guess they owe it to Mars.

Those were the good old days. Hours spent typing away, hours hunting for that semicolon that should've been a colon. But man, that satisfaction when your code finally ran and all the new stuff you picked up along the way. And no Big Tech garbage to deal with. Complete freedom. View quoted note →

Just saw a thread on legacy social media with tons of "CFBR" comments. Had no clue what that meant, so I looked it up. Dude, it stands for "Commenting For Better Reach." It's basically just people commenting to boost a post's visibility in the algorithm, trying to get more engagement without actually saying anything meaningful. That's how bad these algorithms have gotten now. Alhamdulillah we don't need that crap around here.

This matches what's still being branded as a "conspiracy theory." Basically one of the 2 reasons why social media even exists, why platforms get funded for years beyond when they should've been profitable by normal VC standards, and why intelligence agencies are involved with some of them. The 2 reasons are: 1. Giving people a valve to blow off steam verbally, so they can keep putting up with crappy day-to-day reality. 2. Collecting voluntary self-disclosure about political beliefs. That's why they hate anonymization and pseudonymization, even though European privacy law, like GDPR, explicitly grants this right. But who expects consistency in legislation anyway. View quoted note →

Yeah, but not that industrially processed salt (2 chemical elements: sodium and chlorine), but real salt, like Himalayan salt with its 84 elements. View quoted note →

If the "elites" keep going with their control obsession, we'll soon be back in the age of bulletin board systems. No, Nostr isn't invincible either, it's just flying under the radar for now.

I don't get why people buy stuff as soon as they have some money. Isn't it enough to know you "could" buy it if you needed it? No point dragging around extra baggage.

Idiots. ChatGPT is the MS Office of all AIs. It's ot even the best model. View quoted note →

Should be in the @Zapstore

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I absolutely love paying with Lightning. How is humanity still using those crappy credit cards? Are they all stupid or what?

Okay, this is going to get interesting. Turkey isn't just a different beast altogether, they're also a NATO member. And not a small one at that. Turkey has the second-largest ground forces in NATO after the US, and they've also been training other nations in regional conflicts. How are other NATO members going to handle that? I won't even get into their newer drone technologies, that stuff's way over my head. View quoted note →

So the European Central Bank is dead set on introducing this "digital Euro" (CBDC) this fall. They're going to force merchants by law to install the necessary equipment. Nobody even asked for this. Sure, existing payment methods, including cash, will still be around, but it's pretty obvious they're going to make using them harder over the next 5 years. They'll do this by targeting merchants. Carbon taxes, whatever it takes. For me, this means years of cutting back. I'm especially thinking about buying things like computers and phones while I still can, and then nothing for a while. But I've got a counter-strategy too. We can push back. I'm thinking about going into stores, looking at something for a long time, and then saying, "Hmm, I like this. Do you accept Bitcoin? No? That's too bad, I would've bought it right away." And just keep doing this over and over. No idea if it'll make a noticeable impact on sales, but psychologically, it stings the merchant every time. That expensive item could have been sold immediately if only... It's the least I can do.

It's 1867, and Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz is making history as the first sultan ever to embark on a grand tour of Europe, a real turning point in the Tanzimat era, when the Ottoman Empire was starting to embrace modernity. He's welcomed with all the pomp and circumstance in London, and at this glamorous ball in Buckingham Palace, his young, open-minded nephew Şehzade Murad (who'd later briefly become Sultan Murad V) is twirling around in a lively waltz with the graceful Princess of Wales, Alexandra of Denmark, a real stunner from Danish roots. Meanwhile, the conservative Abdülaziz, who admires Western tech but sees mixed dancing as downright scandalous, is watching the whole thing with growing unease. It's the ultimate culture clash: Ottoman traditions bumping up against Victorian social freedoms! The anecdote comes from Turkish memoirs and history books, like those by historians Murat Bardakçı or Yılmaz Öztuna, drawing on eyewitness accounts. It fits perfectly with Abdülaziz's hot-headed personality and highlights the empire's internal struggles, while Murad is soaking up the Western vibe, his uncle is grappling with serious culture shock. English sources like The Times rave about the dance without mentioning any drama. So, when Sultan Abdülaziz sees his nephew dancing so closely with the Princess of Wales, he's said to have whispered: "Biz burada boynuzlu pezevenk değiliz, söyleyin şu karıyı bıraksın" – "We're not a bunch of cuckolded pimps here, tell him to let go of that woman!" [Image generated by AI]

Whatever software or service, if I see "Support via Discord", I'm out. And this isn't something new, Discord has had many security flaws and data breaches in the past. But lots of people only have a 4-second memory. Only morons use Discord. View quoted note →

You don't have to be scared of #CSS anymore. AI Assistance is coming to Chrome's DevTools. I'm curious to see how far this support will go. Whether it'll also solve complex inheritance issues.

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I'm getting the feeling more and more that the original SAIF movement is somehow inauthentic, too artificial. Kind of just an "non-binding declaration of intent," at worst a more pretentious form of piety signaling. BTW, "non-binding declaration of intent" is also how advertising is defined, which is why legally speaking, it can spread lies about a product or service. I'm coming to this view more and more, not just because of recent events, but I had this impression from the beginning, from the first so-called "SAIF-OGs." It's not about the abstract, very theoretical articles they write, but more: - Lack of practical relevance - None of the SAIF-OGs are active here on Nostr (despite a certain number of supporters in the Muslim community) - I hardly ever see them talking about Bitcoin or OPSEC - They're not involved in the FOSS scene and talk too little about it ... just idealistic yada yada blah blah in hard-to-digest articles all the time. In short, it feels like every crap we modern Muslims set up these days: Fake, without substance, quickly passing. Basically like an Islamic shitcoin. There are some real SAIF Muslims, don't get me wrong. They were SAIF before the term even existed. Like @ابو مريم and @Muslim Bitcoiner for example. They take the ideas behind it seriously from the beginning. I myself have written articles on my domains that could be classified as "SAIF," but never labeled them as such. But the guys behind

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Yeah, nice website, so what? It seems to me like this new, artificial SAIF movement just settled into the ready-made nest and is somehow trying to take it over. I've observed it for a long time, kept quiet for a long time, didn't want to be the critic who ruins a good thing right at the start with criticism. But now? Stay away from me with "SAIF," you hypocrites. I myself will only use the term mockingly from now on. And I'll understand it that way if someone brings it up to me. With a contemptuous smile.