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by nout 8mo ago
Everyone has to balance how much pain they get on Windows from the restarts, slowness, updates, etc versus how much pain they get from occasionally having to run some command in terminal window. I get your points about there being rough edg
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by nout 8mo ago
What about web app? Or desktop?
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by nout 8mo ago
My (user) solution would be to use Patreon on the web, or on Android. No one is forcing you to use specifically the native Apple app. On top of that Patreon is a closed centralized platform that's bound to have issues like this and tha
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by nout 8mo ago
Why would you want to give the government such power? That always amazes me... when there is an issue, people jump on "let's vote for government to regulate this", but then they are surprised when a new government gets to pow
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by nout 8mo ago
I got used to the Mac keyboard layout and I think it makes more sense - I now remap all Linux (using keyd) to actually use the Mac layout. The main thing that I like is that it's more ergonomic for me to press command + something with
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by nout 8mo ago
If you have older Mac (based on the Intel CPUs), then it may actually already work out of the box for you to run linux. I'm running Debian on Macbook Pro 2015, fully replaced the original system and I haven't looked back.
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by nout 8mo ago
For a while when I bought new computer (recently Intel NUC), I'd just keep the Windows installed there in case I needed it and I'd dualboot into Linux. More recently I just reflash the whole ssd with Debian and I haven't look
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by nout 9mo ago
It's not business critical to answer your curiosity now. File it as a ticket, put it on a backlog and move on.
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by nout 9mo ago
Crypto is just extension of the banking system and VC powered money extraction schemes. Bitcoin is the only notably different thing in my opinion.
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by nout 9mo ago
A fairly common conversation starter for eastern europeans is "how are you doing?", "it sucks", "yeah it does, doesn't it?". The American style of being all flowers and butterflies can indeed be perceived
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by nout 9mo ago
I'm a big fan of markdown, it's easy enough to remember the basic syntax and your files are portable across hundreds of different editors. If one day I decide to switch away from Obsidian, I can just plug the same files into anoth
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by nout 10mo ago
This is a good time for trying Linux. If you are coming from Mac, then a distro with GNOME interface (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu...) will feel like at home after a couple tweaks. I recommend "Dash to Dock" to get the MacOS dock experi
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Show HN: Zapstore – Alternative android app store with social network ratings(zapstore.dev)
5 points by nout 10mo ago|0 comments
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by nout 10mo ago
Federated solutions are quite annoying, because you still have to rely on single server that's hosted most often by someone else. When you build decentralized protocol for public messaging, you want your messages to be replicated in a
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by nout 10mo ago
Sandboxing keys on the device is indeed removing one point of nostr, but to clarify on your point: The difference between Signal and Nostr is that in nostr there are hundreds of independent servers (relays) that your app broadcasts even
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by nout 10mo ago
Marmot is a subprotocol based on Nostr (and MLS signatures): https://github.com/marmot-protocol/marmot that's used for private messaging while using Nostr for identity. Your specific example is true - nostr curren
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The Great Decentralization Swindle: Every Protocol but One Betrays Its Promise(habla.news)
3 points by nout 10mo ago|2 comments
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by nout 10mo ago
It's not easy to spam someone on Nostr. The apps that users use have multiple options that make it into a non problem. There is a lot of spam and offensive content, but you just don't get to see it unless you look at "global&
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by nout 10mo ago
Well, you are right. This article sort of sucks in explaining anything and it is also already outdated. Understandably your summary of how it could work is wrong and the article is indeed to blame. My suggestion would be to skip it and lear
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by nout 10mo ago
Yeah, there are some stupid memes about nostr. I'd rephrase it as "nostr is harder to censor than other networks" like ActivityPub or AT Proto based.
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by nout 10mo ago
I meant "good" in the formatting, grammar, vocabulary sense. I'm not arguing that LLMs are "good" in writing amazing prose. I mean look at two of us - I have typos, I use half broken english, I'm not good in do
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by nout 10mo ago
Well, his writing style is too good. The sentences flow too beautifully, he uses rich vocabulary and styling. It's unusual to see that style of writing online. I definitely don't poses that power. I don't know the author of t
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by nout 10mo ago
This once again brings up the point that while Meta and other "single company" social networks can easily exclude you, you can't get excluded on Nostr. It's designed in a way that that's not even a thing. Anyone can
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by nout 10mo ago
Bar tab is so very bad analogy here that breaks for multiple reasons: - At the bar is almost always a single direction: customer pays the bar. Lightning is both directions - sending money between friends and sometimes to shops. - In this (b
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by nout 10mo ago
It does guarantee double spend protection, that's exactly what the lightning nodes do. If someone tries to double spend, they lose their bitcoin. I have a different definition for "using bitcoin" than you do. Similarly I beli
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by nout 10mo ago
Depending on the direction, but there are ways to actually make a little extra on top of the middle exchange rate (e.g. on the USD to EUR path), since there are many people that want to buy no-KYC bitcoin in Europe and they are willing to p
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by nout 10mo ago
For larger amounts it makes sense to use the bitcoin rails for international transfers. I'm doing bank to bank international transfers and using bitcoin saves around 3% compared to Wise and you get the money immediately (or within 1hr,
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by nout 10mo ago
When you start transacting on Bitcoin Lightning network (which is essentially sending pre-signed bitcoin transactions in a smart way, without submitting them on the main chain), then you no longer see each transaction. Lightning introduces
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Big tech alternatives built on Nostr(noalt.app)
4 points by nout 10mo ago|0 comments
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by nout 10mo ago
I know I'll get hated for this on Hacker News, but this has been solved quite well on the bitcoin & Nostr side of things. It's easy to tip couple cents or whatever amounts and there are many apps / websites that support t

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