L'uomo comune si sveglia solo dopo essersi bruciato le dita. Sinché non si trovano un C/C bloccato in banca non sentono il bisogno di mollar la banca, sinché i prodotti di banca inculia gli rendono meno dell'inflazione ma vedono comunque un segno più restano li. Solo quando capiscono di essersi bruciati le dita muovono e spesso senza saper dove andare, così prendono altre scottature e scappano ancora.

Ci vorrebbe la conoscenza, io me medesimo BTC lo conosco da illo tempore, ma lavoro nell'IT (sysadmin) e ho scoperto Nostr per caso poco tempo fa, sto ancora sperimentando, il grosso dei colleghi non l'ha mai sentito nominare, ancora non ho un mio nodo Lightning e quindi non uso Lightning che tanto dove vivo non avrei un uso a parte zap-are on Nostr purtroppo, ad oggi c'è tantissimo codice che sembra scritto di getto senza idee troppo strutturate/chiare e poi abbandonato e questo non incentiva molto i più. Solo la gestione della liquidità di un nodo Lightning è qualcosa che per il bipede medio è poco comprensibile. Chi è attivo in community FLOSS ci si aspetta capisca e sappia, ma oggi come oggi non è granché più così, oggi i dev spesso han conoscenze iper-limitate perché vengono da percorsi accademici obsoleti (io stesso, ing. informatico, se mi fossi limitato all'uni non saprei far praticamente nulla) e non han visto manco granché sul lavoro, dove l'IT è quasi sempre pessimamente organizzato e spesso malvisto, vissuto come un male necessario.

GM! I see not much negativity on Nostr, just many simply do not know it exists and are confused by many (often unfinished/abandoned) clients and not much better relays for self-hosting... Nostr IMVHO need a single app, go install-able, pip-able, cargo build-able who is:

- a relay for self hosting

- a WebUI for manage the relay

- a client to post short and long form notes

- a media storage for images/video one might want to attach/show in notes

- a contacts manager, allowing exporting/importing vcards and obviously with Nostr npub integration

- a "mail-on-nostr" client, meaning notes ciphered with the recipient's public key if he/she/it is on Nostr

- a "blog-on-nostr" with a public WebUI that could be served locally/proxyed by NGINX/*

There is almost anything already, only not packaged in a single, easy-to-deploy (especially for those who have zero Nostr knowledge), compact app, also easy for distro packagers. Without such "easy entry barrier for geeks and techies" it's hard to became popular.

Interesting, considering that the money to "pay back" the "debt" do not exists, and they could be created by loan, in USA since 2020 without limits, in EU 1% fractional reserve (meaning the bank could create 99€ per any € it have)...

I see no reasons to restrict freedom of expression, but I see some for privacy. A small example: let's say you've done some work for someone and they haven't paid you. You go to court and win your case: who can force them to pay what is owed, and how?

I can imagine using escrow, sure, but it's not straightforward because, depending on the type of work, locking up the full funds upfront isn't that easy. Likewise, it's not always easy to estimate the total cost in advance, and in other cases, it's hard to define when the work has been completed correctly so that the funds can be released. How do you manage all that while remaining completely anonymous?

If we play with our cards relatively open on the table, the issue of information asymmetry doesn't arise; if everyone knows everything about everyone else, or if no one knows anything about anyone else, it isn't a major social problem. The problem occurs when some people know almost everything, while others know almost nothing about those who know almost everything.

If we eliminate that asymmetry, I don't see much in the way of "limits" to privacy. There's obviously a long way to go from here to having cameras even in the bathroom as Larry Ellison wants, and in that case, what he wants is clearly asymmetrical, because some people have the cameras and access to the videos while everyone else has to wear them. Where the game is played, rules as code, public blockchain, well, I don't see it as being that problematic.

People, do as I say, not as I do!

-- ancient motto...

> i expect the rise of ai will result in massive job loss

Mh, personally, I'm not really convinced: the bulk of the current layoffs are due to the general economic crisis and automation where ML has little to do with it. It's a factor, but the majority is just plain automation that was possible decades ago but was never really implemented due to IT ignorance. Put simply, bank staff are being laid off because we use internet banking and there's hardly any cash or cheques etc. left, so having a physical place called a "bank" scattered across the country no longer makes sense.

Then of course, translators are losing their jobs because an LLM can do the work of 10 of them, with only one remaining to act as a proofreader, but let's just say I don't see it quite the way it's often portrayed today.

As it stands, I don't think LLMs are much more than a Stochastic Parrot essentially the implementation of Conrad Gessner's dream of a universal library, where books are shredded and you can find only the snippets of information you want within the mass. We're starting to see automation in this area, but with what's available today, it doesn't go much further than that.

> increased economic inequality, more big tech surveillance and control

That's very obvious and LLM will help because of

- https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/19/1116779/ai-can-do-a-better-job-of-persuading-people-than-we-do/

- https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09662

- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61345-5

- https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047

- https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13919

> all of which leads to societal conflict

Very yes but just the social fracture between those who live in the present vs those who are stuck in the past suffice, economic crisis to impoverish the most will do the rest.

> open source ai tech will empower those of us who demand freedom while chaos provides opportunity if we recognize it early and seize it

As it stands, we are in an extremely fragile situation; while it is technically very accessible today to set up a personal home server and ditch every other service besides the internet connection, it is also becoming increasingly expensive due to high hardware costs. It is also quite unapproachable because the bulk of recent FLOSS projects lack a systemic vision. Nostr itself could potentially do a great deal, but buggy clients, numerous semi-abandoned relay implementations, and the lack of a "single self-hosted application that does everything" vision, an Emacs model for the network, well... Cut out a huge portion of the potential audience...

Fundamentally, I quite agree that we ought to ENFORCE FLOSS and open hardware, but what I see is that most people are becoming less and less capable of being autonomous, and society is doing everything it can to enslave them, with massive success compared to the past.

> push forward, never stop

Always.

I agree. Denying sex and pleasure has been a technique for governing the masses since time immemorial; on one hand, people are divided by gender, while on the other, sexual frustration is used to enforce obedience, and pleasure is sold (eg, brothels for troops at the front) to guarantee it...

But this is difficult to explain to those who live with a submissive mindset...

HA is very nice, but also written in a really hard to manage way, recent push toward deprecating pip install are even worse, it's start to get hard deploy HA o a personal home server without wasting resources and enlarging our attack surface with containers... I hope a day enough people will understand why declarative distros matter and why containers are crap needed just to push a commercial model harmful for the society...

A certain degree of traceability is necessary to protect the population: the number of people kidnapped and tortured to force them to transfer BTC is significant, and there is no better protection than being able to find those who commit the crime and go after them.

There are many problems with this; one could imagine a future "rules-as-code" model, where elections are on-chain votes and a country's (world) general decisions are made via human on-chain voting, so that if a state becomes criminal, it faces major physical limits. However, there will always be a fault line that must be accepted in order to have a functioning civil society.

I could hide how much wealth I have, but I could also be caught and robbed, and the person doing it might or might not believe that what I've given them is actually all I have. Then we're back to the stereotypical Wild West where crime is used to justify power and repression, because on one hand you're creating criminals and on the other you're selling fake security. Playing with your cards relatively open ensures a sufficient trade-off so that you aren't at someone's mercy but can still have a civil society.

In reality, you can't expect a society of rational beings who act with a certain level of civility every day, especially when things go wrong.