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Karnage · 37w
Are the credit card charges really as big of an issue as people claim? I ask because when I freelanced, it was just the cost of doing business. I wrote it all off as expense and in some cases just ba...
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The issue is the monopoly. You can pay weekly to your local mobster for protection and it doesn't mean you are happy with it.

Back when systems were not online, there was risk and the fees kinda made sense - insurance. Nowadays, most systems are online, making risk way lower while fees are not.

No worries, alternatives are already a thing and their hand will be forced.
mleku · 38w
ɪ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇꜱ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴍᴏꜱᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴍʏ ʟɪꜰᴇ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀꜱᴛ, ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ɪ ʙᴀʀᴇᴅ ᴍʏ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴛᴏ ...
slapsquat profile picture
Buddy, I don't know you and you don't know me yet here we are.

I am an empath and it hurts me to see you hurting.

You can never have full control of whatever happens around you but you do have the power to control how you feel about it.

Don't rationalize. Assimilate, introspect, feel - but, in conscience with clarity. Practice, work hard, on yourself - like you do with your trade already.

We're about the same age and not long ago this book changed my life: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

I believe it can change your life too, if you read it the right way.

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L0la L33tz · 38w
My guy, I spend all day educating people on stuff. Give a girl a break. Contrary to the stuff I write about as part of my job, none of the things discussed in this thread, such as the violence of the state, are hard to research for anyone actually interested in these issues.
L0la L33tz · 38w
Oh so not needing to see someones intellectual diarrhea in my replies is where the self determination ends eh?
Laeserin · 39w
I think the current right-wing is fighting yesterday's battles because they underestimate how much the Internet, AI, automation, and advancements in energy production and storage (like Bitcoin) are ab...
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The left-right itself is a battle of yesterday already. The extreme polarization is a symptom of its decay. Populism on steroids driven by social media in tandem with a decrepit journalism class are the tools of the trade.

At this rate, all I see retiring before the next 60 is democracy.
Shawn · 42w
I tried. That UI made my eyes bleed.
jack · 62w
my weekend project to learn more about bluetooth mesh networks, relays, store and forward models, encryption models, and a few other things: https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat nostr-only TestFli...
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This is great! Ever heard of LoRa radio and/or meshtastic? Bitchat's protocol looks vastly superior, especially because of cache/announce/tx by design - really cool.

Unfortunately meshtastic is too tied to mqtt but even still, there are huge meshes running worldwide. Would be cool to have this working over LoRa just for the kicks
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jack · 62w
i have, but i'm not sure yet how to implement LoRa.
franzap · 68w
Relays are databases, period
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Was a joke, because, yes, they should be.

The protocol is just not there yet so all you can do for now is a shitload of requests and be a database, which in itself is funny.

Rest assured, as more use cases that make this kind of filter needed arise, the protocol will have to adapt to it.

There is some motivation behind the current limitations tho. In my opinion, useless efforts of premature optimization that resulted in limited database querying capabilities, which in turn limits possible use cases which ultimately limits growth.

No biggie, this journey is just starting. We'll get there. Keep building 💪
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