Wolf Spraul

Learning about tea and water.

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2024-06-30 20:45:27 UTC

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Computers would probably have less rights than animals, and they would enjoy presumption of innocence. Means you cannot cut electricity to a computer unless you have evidence of its wrongdoing.

2023-11-02 05:52:41 UTC

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Tokyo: 780 expected, 350 showed up. Hong Kong: 12 ? 🤔

2023-09-30 21:28:34 UTC

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What kind of trees are you planting? How much rainfall do you guys have there?

2023-09-29 21:22:36 UTC

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How cool is that! ❤️

2023-09-29 21:10:14 UTC

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It doesn't believe anything, it needs to be trained. And to be trained it needs to watch humans...

2023-08-28 14:25:30 UTC

Anyone else going? aubmediterraneo.cy
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/a86cc312b1d3749cc27a7b0e828dcae60747e4473eea597f09dd29d295c49ac2.jpg

2023-06-28 08:18:22 UTC

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Pain + Reflection = Progress

2023-06-27 21:20:18 UTC

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A moment gone never comes back.

2023-06-13 08:38:57 UTC

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Yeah so tough. If you are passionate about zapping, and Apple kills your passion, then what does that mean? Is your passion for sale? If this will not make you gracefully put your iPhone to rest, then what will?

2023-06-04 09:38:42 UTC

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Do you believe you see randomness in this?

2023-05-25 12:45:28 UTC

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40,000 USD for one H100 chip !

2023-05-20 03:11:11 UTC

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How do the Amish handle money? Amish kids have piggybanks? Are there Amish banks that offer cash services?

2023-05-19 02:42:06 UTC

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I deleted my Paypal account 1 or 2 years ago, after 17 years. One door closes, another door opens. Trust your ability to learn and discover new things. BTW I also regularly close bank accounts after a few years nowadays. Banks are friendliest in the early times of your relationship with them, I found. 😂

2023-05-19 02:34:25 UTC

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a let down, or if you want to be more critical: bad expectation management

2023-05-18 13:52:46 UTC

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Would be ironic if a Chinese tourist who forgot to clean his phone would be jailed in the US for bringing this dangerous app into the country. Reminds me of ... the Soviet Union, actually.

2023-05-18 11:42:49 UTC

„For example, in the case of a mitigation measure that bars the importation of TikTok into the U.S., it authorizes penalties, including 25 years of prison time, for any person who brings TikTok into the U.S., whether by use of a VPN or downloading it while in another country.“
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/broad-vague-restrict-act-dangerous-substitute-comprehensive-data-privacy
@npub1mat…6fsr

2023-05-17 06:08:04 UTC

Let's see what happens tomorrow... https://nostr.build/i/f61f7b77948cde09285591c6a58b5ab1663ef6e12dba2aa249e5f694fcf7924f.jpg

2023-05-17 04:15:21 UTC

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wrong

2023-04-30 13:07:44 UTC

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I'm curious about it. Let me know if you find it to work well.

2023-04-21 05:21:36 UTC

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Beautiful. Every crypto transaction matters ❤️

2023-04-20 04:46:31 UTC

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Are you living there? That's awesome! Keep sharing.

2023-04-20 04:44:45 UTC

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What for?

2023-04-19 15:01:15 UTC

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Me, in rainy Taipei.

2023-04-19 04:11:07 UTC

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Yes but how many crypto txn have you done in 2023? Every transaction matters.

2023-04-13 19:07:56 UTC

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❤️

2023-04-13 13:50:53 UTC

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Business as usual.

2023-04-13 07:44:44 UTC

Hey #[0] this is awesome work of yours and good energy.
You got something else? Will pay you in Monero ❤️
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_a77b7fbf2f4df5d48632c45e4ff411f1981ce33b65f1c3147ff953d4422813cd.jpg

2023-04-12 07:40:30 UTC

Pandemic survivor 😀 #[0]
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_3df4790d889b0e9cacf988ee135bedbc11ec188a5f78827866038217cc391646.jpg

2023-04-12 07:38:47 UTC

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I think the (AI-driven?) booking systems are still normalizing. Totally different pricing given in different countries (for same flight), return ticket can be cheaper than one-way, ticket in 3 weeks dramatically cheaper than next week, and so on. I have been able to find good deals.

2023-04-11 15:09:45 UTC

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These guys are pretty cool https://www.rollernet.us/mail-services/

2023-04-11 15:06:46 UTC

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How so? #[2] are there restaurants or hotels accepting XMR?

2023-04-11 15:05:27 UTC

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I dont know, sounds like fun.

2023-04-11 14:51:51 UTC

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I added my first place to OSM via Organic Maps recently and it felt great.

2023-04-11 14:49:42 UTC

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Try LineageOS . I'm on it and it works.

2023-04-11 14:38:28 UTC

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Time to be a bank.

2023-04-11 14:36:00 UTC

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Mining was and remains amazing as it wrestles control away from people who think it is their birthright to be in control. Well, it isn't 😂

2023-04-10 18:14:22 UTC

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By then its too late. I lost a friend to alcohol once, there was no way to stop it. We need to listen early, even then success may not be guaranteed.

2023-04-10 18:08:11 UTC

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Yeah I'm really curious. Are we listening to one another? A lot of pain goes silent.

2023-04-10 18:05:38 UTC

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If Bill Gates would be a Chinese citizen, he would long live in exile like Jack Ma. A free society means constant struggle, and is in danger of losing the prerequisites that made it free in the beginning. Bill Gates near infinite money and his lust for more money, power, monopolies is a grave danger to freedom. The US military should never depend on Bill Gates.

2023-04-10 17:00:33 UTC

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Lots of factual mistakes. Gates didn't "go against IBM", his well connected mom was friends with the IBM CEO and asked him to help her son. Gates is dangerous but a free society cannot accept the Jack Ma solution. Philantropist, ha ha... Cool video ❤️

2023-04-10 16:54:45 UTC

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Is anybody listening to them?

2023-04-10 16:34:39 UTC

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Why ship at all? I live in my immediate environment. I want products and services that are nearby me, and I pay in crypto, of course. Don't care about "IP".

2023-04-09 08:52:11 UTC

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I don't like the whole "hide IP" angle. Why is that small tech detail highlighted as much? Another Silk Road...? I believe in locality of services, p2p. Goodness is so close.

2023-04-09 08:48:13 UTC

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Hey I just submitted my first new "place" via Organic Maps (just a Starbucks). Not reviewed yet. I believe a lot in locality of services, wish there was an "accepts crypto" though...

2023-04-06 11:08:37 UTC

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Yeah I was also recommended GrapheneOS, but just happy on Lineage right now.

2023-04-03 12:25:57 UTC

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A global public square will be an experience controlled by media and algorithms for most. So no, it was always an illusion. I'm looking forward to vibrant, healthy and inspiring local public squares, where ones own perception matters more than media.

2023-04-03 12:21:41 UTC

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Cool, you can even mail cash to them 😂 Of course they take Monero, Bitcoin, ...

2023-04-03 09:18:58 UTC

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And how does Nostr improve on this?

2023-04-01 08:20:04 UTC

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OK i tried Organic Maps for a day and so far I like it! Feels better than OsmAnd which I used before but stopped using. For Organic Maps: Is there some way to find crypto accepting businesses?

2023-03-31 09:12:26 UTC

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OK I went a different route. After some comparing I bought a Google Pixel 6a for about 300 EUR then installed LineageOS (of course without Google apps). So far it works 😀

2023-03-31 09:09:07 UTC

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Yes but Session is buggy and messages are delivered unreliably or disappearing. I tested it extensively and moved on.

2023-03-31 09:07:32 UTC

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Organic Maps? Never heard of that, will check out 😀

2023-03-29 12:17:40 UTC

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Why LineageOS? Is the software that comes with it no good? Is someone selling a used Fairphone?

2023-03-29 11:43:10 UTC

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Did you use Openstreetmaps or Google Maps? I wish someone would integrate crypto accepting businesses with OSM in a neat way.

2023-03-29 06:26:49 UTC

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Hey I should probably get a Fairphone, even though smartphone as a whole is a captured and lost cause.

2023-03-28 11:39:09 UTC

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I prefer browser. Try zapping me

2023-03-28 10:30:16 UTC

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Youtube embed, nice 👍

2023-03-28 10:29:04 UTC

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How did you upload the picture?

2023-03-28 10:27:32 UTC

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Yeah it's a bit early for that. I just tried to setup a wallet today, but havent received or sent anything yet. Great to see you here! 🌈

2023-03-28 08:34:03 UTC

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I did, via getalby.com, but confused. So I have a wallet now, and my nostr private key is also the private key for my getalby wallet?
My first getalby.com wallet didn't have a lud16 address and I couldn't figure out how to add one, so I deleted that and created a new one with lud16/email address...
Oh boy. If you like feel free to send me 1 satoshi, please :)
I guess if this zapping thing works I need to fund my getalby wallet with a few more sats.
Learning.

2023-03-27 06:56:46 UTC

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Is this really happening?

2023-03-27 06:25:14 UTC

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Disagree. It will be delusional...

2023-03-27 06:22:13 UTC

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And now the longer form, I love to think about this and sort my mind...
Proof-of-Work was a magic idea. It connnects the physical and the metaphysical worlds. It has to be useless, if you try to make it useful you will fail.
You will fail if you succeed, and you will fail if you fail. Naturally people tried everything, from district heating to mushroom farming to buffers in the electric grid.
Yes there are cases here and there where this works, but it's the noise not the
signal.
I respect Monero's "we can fork faster than ASIC masks can be made" approach.
Bitcoin's SHA256 is here to stay, but it doesn't matter who makes the chips, it
doesn't matter whether a few more useful niches can be found or not.
It will primarily be useless and random proof-of-work, and it's meant to be.
In art history, there are so many unfinished works. So many great artists that died too young to be discovered. Noone will go back and finish their work or discover them now. It wasn't meant to be, move on.
Those are my personal feelings, but I truly wish you guys success with your BTC asics!

2023-03-27 06:19:08 UTC

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That which is gone, will not come back.

2023-03-27 05:54:55 UTC

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The river deserves better than e-waste at its bottom 🙏🏼 Love the hardware though, can I Zap-to-ship?

2023-03-27 05:17:56 UTC

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My avatar is fine, in fact it's a picture made by you 😀 The issue is about relays or something technically I don't understand. I'm using the iris.to client, and uploaded the avatar with nostr.build

2023-03-27 04:59:52 UTC

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If you don't read the newspaper, you don't know what others read.

2023-03-27 04:48:42 UTC

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Yes ❤️ my System76 Lemur notebook

2023-03-27 04:24:24 UTC

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I can only offer general commentary. To me this doesn't read like content-addressed-media, it reads like media relaying since it doesn't address longevity of storage. Or does it?
For the choice of infohash (sha1) - why not sha256?
We can expect to live in a world of deep fakes soon, so I would also consider pgp signatures instead of pure integrity hashing.
The syncthing community may offer clues into operational aspects of a data relay network (relays.syncthing.net).
I looked up some sizes of large data centers today:
Library of Congress - 3 PB
github - 18 PB
Internet Archive - 100 PB
Youtube - 300 PB
My most substantive feedback is to consider PGP signatures and integrate that with nostr keys. Hope you find it helpful, Cheers 😀

2023-03-26 06:59:03 UTC

#[0] meet my new friend #[1] who helped me get started here 😀

2023-03-26 06:29:43 UTC

How long of a long form does this tech allow?
I just watched day 1 of Nostrica and my thoughts are:
- Do we need better discussion, or better search? I love citizen journalism, but I'd rather live in a world where I delegate trust to writers and journalists and accept that one writer needs many readers (ideally millions) to have an impact, to be worth reading. Influence of presumed influence is real, I'm happy to be humble.
- I cannot warm up to the love of donations and hostility towards advertisement. Which world is more corrupt and untrue - the world of donations, or the world of advertisement? I want to learn more about advertisement.
This will be read by.... 😂 Noone ❤️ Let's see how far we can take Nostr...

2023-03-26 06:21:48 UTC

Rooting for technology even when it is harmful to humanity, is a form of nihilism. We need to take all these depressed programmers and send them to Florence on a retreat with analog tech only. So that they remember that life is worth living and humanity is worth protecting. h/t @meghaverma_art on Twitter ❤️

2023-03-26 05:43:23 UTC

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Totally trackable and totally cross-referenced and de-anonymized. Fake privacy is worse than no privacy.