Last Notes
tl;dr: England peaked a century ago.
#nevent1q…sg64
so my fam has had a few unplanned layovers in the UK now. London is probably going to be a transit city i avoid in bookings now cause less than a 20% success rate there now this decade and the experience just sucks. i'm obviously american bias and not personally explored much beyond hotel zone around Heathrow. the people are mostly polite which i do greatly appreciate but having to explain english grammar over legal liability to an airport manager the other day was just silly.
as for the other stuff, the city itself is just trashy. i know folks there like the classic look but most of the buildings don't seem to have had any repairs/updates in a few decades. every business looked like it cut landscaping from their budget this year. roads mid and cover with legal warnings everywhere. honestly, London feels like it could just be Detroit or Cleveland.
as an American muslim i always hear about how big the muslim population is in the UK. in reality i'm goong to go out on a limb and say this is mostly media hype. every other major EU city has 10+ times the demographic density. i wore a thobe this week and got more stares than i do in red states. and (here's the worse part) the rummors about sexual preditors is sadly true as my wife had to deal with that from locals! 😡
and i actually want to lean into that last part becuase that sort of stuff only happens when normalized in a culture. guess what, front display at the tech store i stopped in was all dildos (this was in the airport itself - first time i've very seen sex toys marketed front and center like that in an airport). my observation is the UK has a higher degree of this hypersexual normalization than in the USA. idk if this is true. clearly this is a biased and limited experience i've had but i can't say it makes me all that interested in taking my family back for holiday.
i do wish the muslim community there the best. you clearly have at least nearly as much running against you as we do across the pond. however, i am inclined to believe that muslims there are exagerating your degree of influence and the anti-islam crowds there probably do have something worth listening to that needs to be addressed.
@nprofile…kclk when receiving nip17??????
Nobody said that. But they're getting enough to make a decent living off it and buy some fancy IT gadgets.
Especially this constant argument "you can't make things too hard for people" yada yada. Like what? When it comes to getting naked and acting without any restraint, it's always "we live in the 21st century". But heaven forbid you expect even the slightest bit of intellectual ability from someone in the 21st century. Total idiocracy here.
Nobody's getting money here, no? No funding? For real?
I'm not talking about "shoulds". I try to assess things at least somewhat realistically.
You're right, but I meant the chip industry as a whole, not only storage.
It's not just key pairs that are old news to me, but human-machine relationships too. But whatever you say. I've got nothing against hopeless optimism.
Do you think that has any chance of succeeding? Key pairs aren't anything new. We already explained ourselves silly back in the PGP days and it still didn't do any good.
Yeah could say the same man. Is it beginning already?
we need a good way to wake up the lurkers. there's at least a couple hundred i know that pop in and out every 9 months or so. getting those folks to pick a side requires community and we are getting close.
i had to explain to a manager the differences between an inclusive statement and an exclusive one today. 🤦🏻♂️
we already were there before nostr or the internet. it is an intentional development focus on quanitative results (number of users go up) vs qualitative experience of the community. and sadly, most people are never trained to think qualitatively.
Bro we can't even find 2 Nostr users in one city 😂
But why are we even catering to them? See
#nevent1q…cuxs
Catering to the dumbest of the dumb is a straw man argument. And it always has negative consequences. Just think a few steps ahead. What do normal users deal with? A username and password combination like
dumbFerret : myPet123
On Nostr the equivalent would be
npub1983hifi24jb8248t3r... : nsec189df2487dcwjz3dg...
It's basically not much different. It just looks a bit more cryptic on Nostr. And that scares off "normal" users? Can't they just put it in a password manager?
If so, then we're really dealing with the dumbest of the dumb. And what happens then? When we've got the dumbest of the dumb users on here?
The discussions get dumber.
The arguments too.
We've got more pigeons shitting on the chessboard.
We've got no consensus anymore.
No people who understand language, who still know the definition of words.
=> We've got Twitter/X!
Is that what we want? At any cost? If so, my next question: Who benefits from it, who profits from it? Follow the money and you know where this nonsense comes from.
#nevent1q…y3wu
China kind of already does own the industry though. allocation is pretty centralized atm but that should be changing soon
probably depends on individual bandwidth. if you have 40 people in an ai mesh in the same city it's probably also faster than if you're in 8 different countries.
🤔idk what Amethyst defaults are and can't check right now. but that should be nip17 i think so it's probably a relay alignment issue. personally i've used relay.0xchat.com and auth.nostr1.com and rarely miss a DM (sometimes connection delays but that's been about it).
But then it would be much slower, right?
But you're linking your (anonymous) npub to a KYC'ed Google account when using it. How is that ok with any of you?
For sure.. It's part of geo-techno-political cold war. 100%.
In a pure capitalist world, China would have owned the industry already. But misallocation of resources will get you to prices volatility. No?
who says i need fromtier. it will be under $1M soon enough for high new worth folks. but i'm talking about us poors pooling local compute for AI in a way similar to what is already being done with stuff like Mesh LLM and RENDER.
honestly if you can't learn keypairs you have no business being online in post-AI cyberspace. just drink government coolaid and be a robot in a digital penal colony.
#nevent1q…tzk0
So what's the point in being anonymous on Nostr then?
Also for the cost of your anonymity?
https://image.nostr.build/9636b9cd8a0c440c56e5dacfc18fec50a12b6eb2c0f80a748df7a98194a919b3.jpg
what client are you using and do you have any assigned DM relays set?
a lot of folks already do this with Crapple
And? How has it worked out so far? Any new users here that are too dumb to understand key pairs?
And every once in a while there's a damsel in distress to add some plain and simple complexity to the plot..
Everywhere I look, I see the world unraveling one way or the other.. Fiat at work..
#nevent1q…hsjj
Dude, what's up with this crap lately with Google services being built into Nostr apps? Have you all lost your minds? If Google put out a key signer, you'd probably all jump right on it.
Google never offers a service without getting usable/sellable data or information out of it. People always forget that.
what's it going to do with socks?
That was a question for @npub1l8t…5t9v. She was talking about "one more door in" and I wanted to know how?
I think a large part of Eastern Europe and Central Asia do that clapping thing (which I love, great community bonding moment). I've seen it in African too. The little things matter and getting to see what you can get on different airline and different countries is interesting.
sadly no as i have a prior commitment.
Are you coming to the MBS in London?
Martial arts movies always follow the same pattern (I'm watching one rn):
- First, an intro, like a little sneak peek at the main character's martial arts skills during training or something.
- Then his student situation. It's usually pretty bad. Hardly anyone shows up, or the few students who are there end up leaving.
- Then a villain shows up, and the protagonist just beats him up. Or gets interrupted.
- Then there's a quiet break where the main character waters his flowers or trims his bonsai tree, all set to calm Eastern ambient music.
- Then back to training his students.
- Then the villain shows up again. This time with buddies or another school backing him up.
- Then a bigger challenge builds up.
- Protagonist trains.
- Wins.
- Success.
- His student numbers go back up.
- Happy end
More "stranded in London" layover musing coming soon... 🛩️
#nevent1q…qyyn
been a few years since i've last been to CR but it felt a lot like a 51st state.
Family first impressions of the UK:
"Heathrow smells like ass"
i don't think it is trying to be an everything nostr app. just nip29 focused group chat niche
that's why a mesh network of some sort is needed. get six people to pool their RAM and you might only need 40GB yourself.
anyhow, need to mess around with it and find out what's possible but from early research this seems like the way to go.
it's a door with doorman that's known to sell your data to advertizers and governments. you seriously think that is a good idea?
your nsec is your only form of access. it deserves being treated like your btc seed phrase and not YOLOed into low security environments.
adoption can't be anything more than vibes without key soverienty. otherwise how is your identity different from an AI?
I don't understand anything you say