Ask me questions about electronics on the circuit level. I don't know about Raspberry Pi:s, programming modern microcontrollers etc, but I do know about resistors, capacitors, inductors, voltage regulators, op-amps, digital logic, and so on and so forth. I can probably help you repair something or build something. I also know a thing or two about mechanics. If my service is free or paid is up to you! Nostr and Lightning is new to me, I'm trying to learn, so please excuse any errors on my part regarding it. I live in Sweden.
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Last Notes npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Quality surge protector for your computers? Spray bottle that makes sodium hypochlorite (bleach) from salt water? (yes, they exist) Onion chopper, that you put the onions in and pull a cord or twist a knob, that keeps the nasty gases from getting to the eyes? npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Great playing and singing! Haven't decided what to run when I do get a node, but probably not Core 30 without reconfiguring the value anyway. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Yes, looking again, the stickmen are indeed drifting a little bit, so it's unlikely to be faked. But in person, you would just see a blur. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions reply to you and @npub10jz…ar98 The hovering coin is definitely bullshit. The positive poles of the batteries aren't even connected, and the spoons are connected together. Even if they weren't and the batteries were in circuit, I doubt the one-turn coil would do anything to the coin with the current in question. Even if it did, the coins behavior is not what I would expect from being placed in a magnetic field from a coil. The battery with magnets in a coil should work. The animated stickmen on the spinning disc would only be visible on camera, not in person, and only when speed and framerate are perfectly synchronized - a little bit off, and they would be drifting clockwise or counter-clockwise, a lot off, and it wouldn't be recognizable. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions It's just a silly drawn figure. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dick-butt npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions @npub1jt9…la9y : Hi! (I'll write this in English even though we're both Swedish, just in case the same problem affects anyone else who wants to know.) Since a while ago, BIS #177 to be precise, your new episodes doesn't show up on Podbean. (I still use Podbean since I have to download the podcasts, and that doesn't seem possible from Fountain. If I didn't have to, I would've tried it a long time ago.) They still exist if I open the feed, and I can download them by marking the MP3 address, right click, click 'save link as', so they obviously exist, but something has broken the Podbean website's ability to update its page for your podcast. Probably something related to podcasting 2.0. Just a small annoyance and not a huge problem for me, as mentioned, but it looks as if your podcast was dead for anyone nontechnical, in a hurry, or not thinking that particular problem is likely, i.e. at least 99.9% of people. I don't know if you or anyone you know and/or work with can do anything about it, or if it's a problem with Podbean in particular, but I thought you'd want to know. Love your podcast, especially the BIA episodes! npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Advertisements are probably responsible for 1/10 of the bad stuff in the world that fiat money is. I'm not saying that to diminish it, it's a huge amount. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions I'm probably going to attract trolls with heavy cognitive dissonance by this post, who didn't think through its meaning, but whatever: Nostriches: Potato, become an egg! Potato: How? I'm a potato. Nostriches: You need the boiling water! Potato: I told you, I'm a potato, it doesn't harden me, it softens me! Nostriches: Well, become an egg then! (return to second line and repeat, or go off into how being a potato is a moral failing etc.) (The mandatory: Not all nostriches of course. But probably 3/4 of them.) npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Thanks. I thought "wasn't this already approved, and didn't concern self-custody?" That countries can set lower limits for cash is concerning. Sweden, where I live, is probably going to set it low, since cash use is already rare here, and only about half of stores, restaurants, etc. accept it, and despite efforts by lots of people to convince politicians to protect the right to use it, resulting laws has been weak. They obviously don't want to. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Put another way: Who decides what is a wrongdoing... npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions I've never been on Twittex, but I've noticed something here, that only recently floated up to conscious level: There is rarely the hating on each other and picking sides, but when someone writes something IMO rotten of a certain few varieties, it invariably gets huge amounts of zaps and likes, and very rarely opposition in the comments, even though I know there are lots of people here with the same opinion in the matter as me, i.e. thinking it's rotten. The reverse is also true, but not to the same extent - they get opposition a bit more often. It simply seems like people here are afraid to take conflicts head-on, and I have noticed that in myself too, and I think that one of my reasons is that I don't want to be muted, as many of the people having IMO rotten opinions in some matters, like most of the people here, have good opinions in matters of wanting freedom, and are in one way or another involved with something good with Bitcoin and/or Nostr. Another reason is that I recognize the style that I associate as common with a specific type of troll, that sometime pops up on Reddit when I was there, and has done here a couple of times, that can provide endless arguments that are very hard to prove wrong even though they are, combined with concealed attacks on not what, but the way, I think (it's hard to explain), and an incredible ability to turn around and draw attention away from a part of the argument they are about to lose, and twist it into another part, intentionally misunderstanding my point of view, etc. It's just exhausting to try to debate them. It's weird, and sometimes feels very wrong, but good in some ways. And it probably helps Bitcoin and Nostr which is of course good. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Privacy tech is good and completely necessary, but this shit that is spreading around the world needs pressure against it from more angles. How do we get the obvious fact into the heads of people that this isn't about protection, but grabbing more power through controlling narratives, and eventually locking up political opposition? "We can't" isn't a good enough answer if we want to even be able to use privacy tech in the future. If left with as little pushback as is currently the case, they will not stop until it's literally impossible to use private systems, either through being completely blocked or guaranteed to go to prison. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions They taste pretty strong, but also sweet. And of course, like cinnamon. Where I live, rice porridge, (similar or identical, not sure, to rice pudding) is a traditional Christmas dish, with cinnamon sticks in it. I've always liked to chew on those when I've eaten the porridge, but they are probably a bit milder since some of the flavor has gone into the porridge while cooking it. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions It's far more sinister than that. If it imploded, there would at least be a possibility to rebuild. If enough of these surveillance and control laws goes through, it will be on an exponential, inevitable path to eternal complete totalitarianism. No hope in decades, our entire lifetimes, or even far beyond them. Not ever. And it's not just the EU, similar things are rolling out faster or slower in most parts of the world it seems. I think the event horizon is within 10 years, at the current rate. Maybe much sooner, as it's accelerating Freedom technology alone won't solve this, as many people on Nostr seem to believe. It's an important part, but pressure on the politics is needed too. And, I think, most needed of all is spreading information - I doubt even 10% of Europeans know that this is going on, at the very least not to what extent, or its consequences. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions I seem to always run in to the strangest problems with YouTube, which few others seem to be having. This time, when I try to search, nothing happens when I press enter or click the magnifying glass icon. If I search the web for a channel and click it, nothing happens when I click "videos". If this was Youtube's anti-firefox or anti-adblock campaigns that I've heard of, I would at least expect others to have written about the same problem, but searching the web - nothing. Disabling the adblocker makes no difference btw. Alternative sites work for some creators - for example Louis Rossmann is on Odysee too - but the vast majority of comments are on YT. It would be great if the video hub of the world could be on Nostr instead of in Google's claws - if one client stopped working, just try another one! npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions You mean the stuff about a year ago that someone had managed to extract the secret with some crazy apparatus when having physical access? (can't remember if it was X-ray laser or what it was - expensive thing anyway) npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions "Please let your parents read it, and tell them to hurry. Especially in UK, but EU and everywhere else too." npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Seems kinda shitty to do, but does it make it insecure? npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions A few of these are actually decent. Usually, pretty much all of this kind of quotes feels more like punching down than something uplifting... Also, there's a typo in #2, a "not" too much. (as it is, it doesn't make it either uplifting or like punching down, but nonsensical, so I assume it's a typo.) npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions It's a catch 22. If the current system were to actively block any information of the new, or even punish those who spread it, either legally or technically, the new can't bootstrap. And if allowed to continue without protest, I'm sure they'll sooner or later find a way to mandate ISP:s to block and/or report usage of the new system. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions The Trumpian way being practiced in the EU. Suggest something outrageous, then back off to something terrible but somewhat less so, and hope that everyone agrees because it's not quite as bad as the first... Banning anonymity is still a huge step in the direction of totalitarianism, probably the event horizon, from which freedom can never recover, ever. And banning children and youth from installing programs on their own computers, which smartphones are... That's just stupid. If it had happened in the 90's, 00's, with PC:s, I'd say the majority of today's experts in programming and other IT stuff would be working in some completely different field, and we wouldn't be anywhere near where we are today in this technology. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions While I haven't listened to the podcast or watched the video, there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that this push towards "age verification" around the world has absolutely nothing to do with protecting minors. Forcing KYC on everyone isn't their method, but their goal. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Have I stumbled into some other Nostr system that this client renders as regular posts? I'm using Iris. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions This is gonna mess with some people's heads. Hating on trans people seems to be a popular sport here, yet this current owner is more free and sovereign than the 1st owner, and way more so than modern counterparts running Windows 11... npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions "You don't give your car keys to the company and ask for permission to drive". Unfortunately, things are going in this direction too. Watch Louis Rossmann's videos. Functions that are already installed in the car requiring subscription fees to work, from full power to heated seats... npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions It's a problem that people can do such a thing without meaning harm. You can't punch someone without meaning harm, taking someone's photo without consent, to use in whatever services with whatever "privacy" policies should be held to the same standard in people's minds... npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions That's essentially impossible. Either resistance succeeds, at least in some part of the world that remains free(er), or it's 100%, minus the elites who control it. If not shortly, within 20 years. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions The problem with that is that "freeple" will be maybe 1-5 % of the amount of "sheeple". No network effect, no wealth, as the rest wouldn't want to trade with "terrorists" and whatever they come up with. And no defense if they were to decide the "freeple" are a serious threat. This is not a viable way alone. Advocacy, lobbying, etc. is also required. And most of all information, not many even know that things are being planned, at least here in EU. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions While dark, this seems more and more true, not just for Ross, but everyone in currently more-or-less free countries. This needs to be fought on every level possible - privacy tech, lobbying, political parties where applicable (won't work in US), and most of all informing people who don't know - mainstream media rarely if ever does. For example, I doubt 10% of people here in EU know about Chat Control 2.0 or the other surveillance/censorship stuff in the pipeline, despite the former being discussed and almost implemented several times, for years. I don't know what's holding people up. Risk? There are many essentially risk-free things to do. Time? It doesn't have to take any considerable amount. Money? 0.1% of a whale's stack, or 0.1% of several millions of regular people's should do quite a lot. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions If the craze about ID and age verification keeps going, and doesn't spill over too much to Nostr clients, we might get some more privacy oriented people here. But given what I've seen so far since the internet surveillance insanity started about two decades ago, it won't be too many, unfortunately. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions What's insecure and what have they done in the past? (I'm not trying to defend them, I want to know.) npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions It's possible it's random, every time it doesn't happen, people don't post about it, and it's bound to happen to someone at random. Otherwise, there could be an internet connected security camera at that community garden, by some company with highly unethical practices (facial recognition of the two people, linking them together, object/picture recognition identifying the pickleball shirt, system connected to the ad/algorithm feeds on YT and Xitter). npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Who put the spam in the spam-spam-spam-spam-spam, who put the spam in the spamalamadingdong? npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Didn't mean to sound patronizing, sorry. These things are often sold without any warnings and sometimes with fake laser protection glasses, and many people doesn't know how dangerous they are... npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Please be careful and either wear real laser safety goggles for the wavelength and power emitted, or leave the room before starting it and wait until it's done before re-entering. A single tiny reflective surface, in an unsuitable angle, on what you're marking is all it takes for permanent eye damage. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions The cheap ones without internet connection or an app, that are "stupid" and just drive around randomly, if they still are sold. Crappy batteries last time I checked though, old NiMH technology, which can be decent, but certainly wasn't in those, it was lowest imaginable quality. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions I don't think that opinion is unpopular. But media and others want everyone to believe it is. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions And someone who has bitcoin and is willing to pay it for your goods or services. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Let's hope this isn't too true, since if it's too late this time, it's likely too late literally forever. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Depending on how it's implemented, that could be great: the Eurocrats get to feel that they have actually done something (even if it's useless in reality), so that they leave the question alone, at least for a while, while E2E encryption is safe. But it wouldn't surprise me if they manage to turn even this proposal into mass surveillance or censorship of other messages somehow... I think that what they say is the reason and what is actually the reason for all this are completely different things... npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Same to you. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions BankID is happening in Sweden, has been for over a decade, more and more. Knowing how things are likely to be abused is not waste of time, but an indication to what direction to not build, in order to not build in an open invitation for it, but instead do it another way, or what to watch out for and attempt to speak out against when it comes to what's happening in society, etc. A basic safety/security precaution, much like "worrying" about not mixing chlorine-containing bleach and certain other cleaning products. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Given your question for a point, I guess you want an actionable answer. There is none. I'm not suggesting to abandon or change Nostr, it isn't a technical problem, but a societal and/or governmental one, depending on circumstances. Having an identity isn't necessarily a problem, being forced to verify it for every occasion is. The example of jobs was to tie it with the current British example. For a better example, read the post I wrote on Stacker News a while ago, BankID - evil made easy: https://stacker.news/items/402596 npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions In the future I was referring to. I don't know by whom, maybe government, maybe some kind of employers' union. Maybe it's one of those things that just happen in a bad way by themselves, even though nobody really wants them, because it comes packaged with some benefit that seems to overrule the bad thing among the masses, yet lead to serious consequences later, such as the surveillance and locked-down-ness of smartphones. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Have we, if one linked to your actual identity is required for you to work? npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions I see this from the "outside", as I'm not religious, I have seen this mentioned as a warning for a decade or so, regarding digital ID:s, implant chips, etc., but a worrying trend recently is people who advocate for this kind of surveillance, or at least discourage opposition to it, because it's "God's plan, and can't be avoided" or similar. I'm not sure if these are people/bots working for the people pushing these things, or regular people who has not just given up themselves, but for some (for me) inexplicable reason feel the need to convince others to give up too. IMO, if you give up yourself, I don't blame you - being busy with life's necessities, bad mental health, whatever, I get it - but if you actively spend your time telling others to not fight totalitarianism for your religious reasons, you have joined the evil people, plain and simple. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions I think it's mixed. Some experts lie blatantly, but many others think they're right, sometimes because they base their "expertise" off the stuff the ones who lie say and write. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Even though it certainly looks like it, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you are not just a troll for one round of reply: I was implying a future where Nostr is much bigger than today, used by pretty much everyone. A future where most of today's Nostriches/Bitcoiners, if still alive, think they've won because bitcoin is the main currency, Nostr is the main protocol for social media and much more, there are no centralized digital ID:s in most places, etc. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Obviously in a way that shortened my life by at least 3 years, according to the text... npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Seriously, this is slightly worrying. For example, imagine a future where you will need a Nostr identity, tied to your real identity, in order to work. Apart from being decentralized, and thereby not being a honeypot for governments and regular criminals in the same way, what's the difference to what's going on in Britain now? I mean, it's less bad, but it's still control. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions But it isn't permanent, as usual, I assume? Like, it's a few months and then CC2 will come up again. This thing feels like being in a movie with a bomb, but we just can't defuse it, only reset the timer, and it takes a herculean effort every time... What would be needed to throw this proposal out permanently? npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions No, there needs to be some thinking and common sense, risk evaluation. Otherwise, this mentality is what leads to things like the Tide pod challenge. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Why? Is it about to come flying at me? :-P npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions No risk of last-second U-turn? In that case, great! npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Not a girlfriend AI, but a friend AI, literally called "friend", has ads in the subway. They have been defaced with messages about AI not being a good replacement for a real friend, and it being a surveillance device (which it is, to a truly concerning degree). See Louis Rossmann's recent video about it. Comments to said video are fun to read, they include many like "they named it "friend" because "Big Brother" was already taken". npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Doesn't have to mean that, if I understand it correctly. It could also, sadly, mean that in the same places that has the highest levels of hatred for trans people, others are more likely to search for trans porn. Possibly even because trans people and people who love them are forced to hide and turn to porn instead of finding each other. This is one of the things I don't get - why many Bitcoiners, at least many of the more-or-less public ones, who often self-describe as libertarian, are so opposed to LGBTQ people, and especially trans. Did I miss something when I thought that libertarianism valued consent and the right to do whatever you want with what's yours, including your body, as long as it doesn't harm others, highly? npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions I hope this is real and not AI or Photoshop. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions The first time I thought something similar was probably around 2010-2015 sometime, regarding EU data retention. Every time since then, I've been wrong. I don't know if there's any level of repression that could cause any serious protests or such, as long as it's done as gradually as it is. And for every step, it's getting less and less possible. I hope you're right about this time. There won't be too many more before it's too late. Forever. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions They seem way more common here than elsewhere though. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Then there's something wrong (or right, if you have actively set filters for it) with your client... npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions This is not intended as "FUD", but to direct attention to something important. Please don't dismiss, but think through. Not perfectly on topic, but closely adjacent: Something I find that the stereotypical bitcoiner doesn't seem to (want to) think about is that there's a catch 22 here. Even Bitcoin and other freedom technology is dependent on a free enough internet, or the good will of the government. One of the two. There's mandatory digital ID:s planned in the UK, surveillance backdoors on all devices being discussed in the EU, and the list goes on, and no doubt more is being thought about everywhere in the world. And in the US you have the stuff about private transactions and the Patriot act. Everyone talks about having a long time preference, and whether you define that as 10, 50 or even hundreds of years, I don't think we have that time. Maybe not even five if things go real bad. If every device is surveilled, it's easy to put anyone using freedom tech the "wrong" way in prison. If mandatory ISP filtering is introduced, it can probably filter out even encrypted data that doesn't conform to "allowed" standards somehow, some kind of mandatory identifier for approved websites and services. I haven't heard of such a scheme yet, but these things can come extremely quickly. Either freedom technology becomes as bad as fiat technology, not in itself, but through the surrounding structure of devices and communication networks, or it is forced to centralize or disappear. Then, after 10, 100, 1000 or even more years, everything is still controlled, impossible to even think about it being any other way, since any such thoughts can't be shared. Freedom technology has already started to fix problems, but in my estimation it's not over the event horizon yet. Maybe it will be in 10, 30 or 50 years, maybe even shorter or longer, it's impossible to predict, but either way it requires that it survives until then. Building freedom tech or lobbying governments for both privacy and the right to use freedom tech, I don't think that one front is enough for this. I think both are absolutely necessary. (And for those who say "just move", right... literally billions of people? Or a few, slashing division of labor to nothing, not being allowed to trade with the rest of the world? I can pay you in bitcoin for the potatoes and you can pay me for the horse and the wooden plough? Hoping that the rest of the world doesn't want to attack us for using bitcoin, and in that case defending ourselves with sticks? This trend of crackdown attempts is too fast and too widespread for that approach.) npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Yeah, I know it's a real thing, but it seemed strange that a paper comes out in the US, especially given its nature, and then just days later Swedish media talks about it being a thing with Swedish ticks, something I didn't know. Everything I've heard about the ticks here before has been about TBE and Lyme disease. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions I guess it also depends on exactly how the law is worded, I don't know that. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions How much money is freedom worth for you? You could take that amount off the exchange and risk not being able to spend it. However include the other risk in that calculation: having bitcoin IOU:s instead of bitcoin (i.e. having it on the exchange) poses a risk of neither getting bitcoin nor fiat from it, if the exchange rug pulls/gets hacked/is ordered by the government. Main point: you don't have to keep everything in the same place, you can divide it according to your own perception of type and severity of risk. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions One of the most important (for them) reasons for that type of news is probably to give people some news to read, to cover for the intentional lack of any news that are actually important (for the readers). npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Is something strange going on? A few days ago, same day or the day after @npub1vwy…zugd talked about the paper regarding the Lone Star tick that can cause meat allergy, Swedish public service (AKA government (AKA theft) funded) radio had a segment mentioning that tick-caused meat allergy has increased in Sweden (no surprise mentioning the warmer weather due to global warming as a factor). I had never heard that the ticks we have in Sweden could cause meat allergy. Is this some kind of campaign, for example to prepare people for mass outbreaks of meat allergy, or as a coming "explanation" of a side effect of a certain medical product that was pushed heavily a few years ago? Is this something that anyone in any other country has read/seen/heard on mainstream media recently? Also asking @npub1pjx…drrv given the nature of his research. (Hope I got the right person, I haven't interacted with him on Nostr before.) npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Something else that's annoying, that I've noticed in more and more podcasts recently is that the ads start in the middle of a sentence. Not sure if this is some kind of scientifically proven manipulation tactic to get people to pay more attention to the ad, or just crappy ad injector AI. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions AFAIK it's been common here (Sweden) for at least decades (I haven't researched how it was before I have memories). Not like separate doesn't exist, but I've never seen it as strange or uncommon with unisex. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Seems like this is made up for the sole purpose of making Bitcoin look bad. For example, would someone legitimately thinking it's that weird capitalize the B? npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions I wonder if (but doubt that) there's a way to get mainstream media to talk about this, and all of the problems with it. Here in Sweden, it seems like nobody even knows that it's going on. When I tell people, they, rightly, think it's incredibly bad, but they've never heard of it before. If this is the case across the union, getting it on mainstream media would be at least a 1000x multiplier in people doing something to stop it. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions Have you had that address earlier? When I switched wallets, some zaps went to the old and some to the new, probably because not all relays updated. I had to update one more time, and wait for a while as the system was working (I don't remember which web client I was using, I think it was Iris), and then it went to the right one. npub152jgfxwyqfpj5d448pq5sdevv37t66xshm8gpvkszp6kc0za7dyshftfmu ElectronicsQuestions It can be good when it's important issues, for example self custody, but when it's things that are only tangentially related or not at all related to keeping coins secure etc., it probably scares people off unnecessarily, hence delaying mass adoption.