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169 sats \ 1 reply \ @DannyM 2 Jun \ on: Parent Corner: Bedtime is fiat alter_native
I'm not a parent yet, so my advice probably doesn't hold as much water as others' in this thread, but: kids are people too.
Their world view is smaller, their brain is still developing, and they don't yet understand all the implications of their choices, but they are still human beings!
Bedtime, mealtime, and similar rules can feel arbitrarily restrictive when they see the adults around them operating by different standards.
"But daddy doesn't go to sleep this early, why should I?"
"Mommy doesn't always eat at the same time, why should I?"
Kids have an innate sense of fairness, and when they see different rules for different people without understanding the reasoning, it can feel unjust.
If we want them to develop good judgment, perhaps giving them small opportunities to practice decision-making (even if the results aren't perfect) teaches them more than forcing compliance ever could!
This. And many people, including "scientists" especially those who scream "trust the science" do not understed the scientific process anymore
Can we talk about how the word native lost all of it's meaning? Neither React "Native" nor Flutter generate native apps!
Traditional native apps meant writing platform-specific code - Swift/Objective-C for iOS, Kotlin/Java for Android. You'd use the platform's own UI components, APIs, and development tools directly. React Native promises "native" experiences while actually running JavaScript in a bridge that translates to platform APIs; Flutter doesn't even use native UI components.
-U uppercase allows you to install a package from a local file, while still downloading dependencies from the db, so if you do for example
pacman -U ~/firefox.tar.gz will download all the dependencies for firefox specified in the tar.gz, but then install the version in your .tar.gz not the one in the sync db.And if I remember correctly, there's also another -u, that only works with -R, which removes packages only if they're not needed as a dependency of something else.
Pacman has some pretty weird flag choices, but they make more sense once you get the logic behind them:
-S (sync): Grabs and installs a package from the database
-s (search): Just a modifier telling pacman "don't install anything, just search"
-y (refresh): Updates your package database so it knows what's new out there
-u (update): Upgrades your installed stuff to the newest versions
-Q (query): Shows what packages you've got installed
-R (remove): Kicks a package off your system
So when you run
pacman -S firefox, you might not get the newest Firefox version if your local database is outdated. For the latest, you'd need pacman -Sy firefox, which refreshes your database first, then installs Firefox.pacman -R firefox just removes Firefox from your system
pacman -Ss firefox searches for any packages with "firefox" in the name
pacman -Qs firefox searches for any installed package with "firefox" in the namethe only flag that that never made sense to me is -y, I have no idea why refresh is y
2/ What type of content (and how much) is currently on nostr (topics, formats - short text, long, images, videos, podcasts, etc). Is there a good site where I can get some stats for most popular relays?
There's an API from nostr.band (not affiliated) at https://stats.nostr.band/stats_api?method=stats that shows what kinds of content are being used and when. For example, daily.datasets.kind_0 tracks how many user profile events (kind 0) were found across various relays. The data looks like this:
{
"d": "2025-03-15",
"c": 36349
},
3/ If you could get NOSTR-reader custom made just for you, what would be the interface? How would you like to tell the app what content you wanna see? No stupid answers, the more creative the better.
the client I personally want to use is what I'm building, an invite-only private community focused nostr client
300 sats \ 0 replies \ @DannyM OP 13 Mar 2024 \ parent \ on: Rendering The Gatekeepers obsolete bitcoin
definitely! I don't agree with everything that Richard Stallman says, but one thing I agree with him on entirely is Software.
and as for nixos, I'm deeper into nix than most people, almost all of my machines (including servers) run nixos!
131 sats \ 0 replies \ @DannyM OP 13 Mar 2024 freebie \ parent \ on: Rendering The Gatekeepers obsolete bitcoin
there is a link in the post, but yakihonne (nostr client for long form posts) can be rough sometimes, copy pasted the content for anyone else:
For too long, our lives and activities have been surveilled and trackedby powerful third-parties like Big Tech platforms, banks, payment networks and governments. They have erected a panopticon prison of monetized monitoring, analyzing our most personal data and transactions for their own undisclosed interests. This is a fundamental violation of privacy and economic freedom.
it is time to stop. A pivotal shift is underway and we need you!
Free and open source software is the antidote to this suffocating climate of surveillance.
FOSS liberates code from the controlling grip of proprietary licenses, allowing users to examine, modify and truly own the software they run without informational monopolists looking over their shoulders. And Bitcoin takes away the government and banking sector's choke-chain over money itself.
This is a revolution, but we don't seek chaos, we don't seek destruction; we're not going to burn buildings down or engage in violent protests. We won't march down the street and demand change, instead, we'll code our way to freedom.
Our revolution is digital, fueled by lines of code and secured by cryptography. We will build decentralized systems and platforms where privacy is the default and freedom is non-negotiable. We shall rebirth genuine privacy rights.
Compare the transparent code of Linux's codebase to the opaque nature of proprietary software, compare the transparent mathematics governing Bitcoin's codebase to the concealed algorithms Big Tech Platforms use to surveil and manipulate. Bitcoin's rules are open for all to verify, while Microsoft's are a collusion-prone black box.
They will fight us, they always do, but we will persevere. The petty bureaucrats and Big Tech CEOs will keep fighting us how they can, they will fight to preserve their ability to monitor and control not because they have any real legitimacy, but because FOSS and Bitcoin threaten to make their invasive rackets obsolete.
We shall create amenable territories where true privacy is the default.
Does this terrify the corporatist data oligopolies and bureaucratic surveillors? It should! No longer will free individuals be tracked and traced without consent. Value exchange, speech and human action will be freed from the shackles of centralized control, operating in a world where trust is built into the system, not imposed from above.
We will not fight with guns or bombs, there will be no blood shed; instead we will fight with ideas. We will fight with the most potent weapon at our disposal: knowledge. Encryption is our shield, and open-source protocols are our weapons. We are simply restoring privacy as the bedrock, putting the individual squarely in control over what information gets optionally revealed rather than having our data surreptitiously expropriated by middlemen.
We are coding a future where privacy is sacrosanct, economic freedom is a given, and surveillance capitalism is a relic of the past. We are crafting tools that empower the individual, disempowering the surveillance state and the oligarchs of information.
This is our battle. Not fought with weapons, but with wisdom. Not with anger, but with algorithms. Our armor is anonymity; our shield, encryption.
So we call on you, the coder, the thinker, the dreamer. Join us. Take up the tools of freedom. Contribute to the code of liberation. In every line you write, see the chains breaking. Witness the old world of control and surveillance crumble.
Join us, join the revolution, start coding. Together, we will reclaim our privacy, our freedom, and our dignity.
GENESIS