Hat's off, and a shout out, to Guy Swann, and, of, the Bitcoin Audible, for his beautiful, inspiring, empowering, ongoing work and continuity in gifting us with, and sharing about, freedom tech and other "bright spots" (i didn't coin this phrase; rather it is an invent of certain brothers who i don't remember their name!) in this new, slightly foreign and enigmatic world of modernity! Guy, you are the tireless proponent, gifted reader, speaker and host of such a gem of a creation. I like the way he--"The guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anybody else you know!"--differentiates, "forks", creates edges in, categorizes,... his podcst into chats, reads and Guy's take.
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Specifically, i would like to highlight the Wormhole app which i found out about in the below-referenced recent Bitcoin Audible podcast episode.

BitcoinAudible "Guy’s Take104 – The User Doesn’t Care About Your Mission
https://bitcoinaudible.com/guys-take_104-the-user-doesnt-care-about-your-mission/

Though my experience using the Wormhole app is limited so far, i am pretty impressed. The speediness, brevity of downloading files--since i am used to a rather low-bandwith/througput internet connection: patched in via mobile service hotspotting--is mind-boggling! Just as shattering, is that one can set this up withOUT requiring centralisation, permissioned systems, fiction, layers, masks--these last three being used a bit more in a fluid, playful, exploring, vague sense.

One thing to get used to, or design around/for (limitations can be good and help define things better, as, amoung others probably, is an important element of permaculture--see the fine works of co-originators David Holmgre and the late Bill Mollison) is the (relatively) short time the files (which YOU upload) are stored there. You also specify the amount of downloads.
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To sweeten the offerings, i would also draw your attention to a bunch of other powerful (as in empowering) tech stacks and resources listed in the shownotes of this same episode... with links.
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I also liked the main thread running through the episode which showed the beacon or keystone direction which the design of software, products should go in that the user is first and does not (necessarily) care or should not be forced to know, comprehend, support or care about the technology. Instead the focus is that the user, pleb gets to do what they need done. Anyways it is explained more eloquently in this podcast which i think was a presentation at some Bitcoin event.
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Just so you know dear Guy Swann: my late uncle, my cousin and the middle name of my son, ALL share your same name: Guy!
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Thank you.
Merci.
Gracias.
Danke schoen. (#AskNostr: How do i do special characters in Nostr like "umlaut"?)
Grazie. (Spelled by sound rather than necessarily accurate spelling. NOT AI checked.)






@Guy Swann
@Bitcoin Audible
#AskNostr

I am wondering about the Nostr x RSS nexus. What is available in the Nostr world for RSS feeds? Would Fountain perform this function?

What sparked this was crappy backup practices on my part: i did not have an updated, current, list of all my feeds. My keystone app for feeds--mostly audio, radio, podcast--was RSS Guard. When it automatically updated (i use Arch Linux OS) to v. 5.0.3, i lost everything. Well, maybe it would be possible to find it again, but i would be challenged by wondering where to look.

This experience--of going down RSS shit's creek--reminds me to also follow the permaculture principle of making sure every important function be serviced or provided by various means: in this case having several iterations, file formats, backups, lists,... of my current version of feeds, my meta (not the corporation--the word corpse is keystone in the definition of corporation) feeds. Seems like i have travelled this similar path in the bookmark (for browsers) world.

#AskNostr
#RSS
In case that (the hashtags) doesn't work:
'#AskNostr'
'#RSS'

Reinforcing, shocking, encouraging conversation. Second citizenship. Kanada, as currently iterated, NOT a model to follow, yet heating up guinea pig we are here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYHkJL5r8Q0

Fuck you Walker.
@walker
@THE Bitcoin Podcast

https://www.fountain.fm/episode/fZAu5hKJ7vgcOhGIUeui

@Obi 🔅 provides a unique perspective given his bridging of Africa and UK and provides a glimpse of the power of federations with other tech stacks.

A beautiful and amazing story full of courage and transformation. Ana was born twice into a monetary reset (once physically in the former Soviet Union as it collapsed/disintegrated, and then again when she moved to the USA at the time of the 2008 crash) which made her eventually, but more quickly than most (probably because of here own, her parents' and her grandparents' experience with currency evaporating in value overnight), see the value, premise behind, and need for, Bitcoin. Her story and journey reveals the importance of spirit and energy, and not dismissing it. As but one example, Anastasia cured herself of a growth on her arm by working through her issues and forgiving others through 7 days of writing it out, journaling using Susan Hay's method. I was pleasantly surprised and inspired of what can happen in the medical system of other countries, cultures and paradigms, like in this story where the nurse at the orphanage she was living at was the one who told her that the growth was a result of her anger, negativity or past trauma... and that it could be reversed and transformed. Probably more likely to happen via a nurse than a doctor wouldn't you say?! Ana turned out great with the help of an orphanage in Russia, where she spent about 12 years of her life--as this was a way she (and her sister) could be guaranteed food as well as other opporunities (e.g.: to walk around and see new things in the Siberian city in which the orphanage was located and to be able to use e-mail at a time when the internet was hardly available, at least to the public!). All of this was contrary--at least to me--to my preconceived ideas of what an orphanage is all about: my conception was that such a place and institution was largely negative. Opportunities and another exponential change occured when she was adopted by a family in the USA where her young brother--that she had only seen twice before--was already living and where she took on the great challenge of learning English.

There seems to be a lot that can be learned of the degenerative and limiting experiences of people who lived during the former Soviet Union or other people who were under the boot of communism, socialism. There is much we can gain from the wisdom and the crappy experience of these folks so that we might be able to leap-frog or dampen our particular government's characteristics or desire to be like these communist systems.

Efrat, thank you for setting up this beautiful interview, conversation, and for sharing it to the world.

Born Into Monetary Reset: A Russian Orphan's Path - Anastasia Canonica
You're The Voice (with Efrat Fenigson) Ep. 124
https://fountain.fm/episode/PdzqKV0wY2S8KinvDkjd

@Efrat Fenigson

Is there a way to distinguish between reposts of mine or referencing others' works such as with BIBLIO or bibliographic links? I would like to be able to, when in my profile section of Primal, be able to get a listing of just my posts, notes to others which are NOT a response or reply to some other event?!

Will there ever be a way to highlight in notes?

I have asked one from the Project Alexandria team, maybe others may reply!? How does versioning work in Nostr. Laeserin never got my question or responded so i thought i would ask others of that team or those interested in the digging into the way communication happens and can be worked with when it is rather emergent, as in emergent design of the lady who wrote the book by that same name.

#asknostr
@liminal 🦠