As we saw, PWAs open up the path for UI manipulation that can trick users into believing they’re on a different website. This technique clearly has some disadvantages such as the requirement of the target user to install the application. Additionally, the PWA window briefly displays the actual domain name in the top right corner. However, I believe people’s habits of checking the URL bar will lead them to disregard that domain name (security awareness is required for this).
It may also be worth mentioning that prior to posting this blog I did find someone raising a security concern regarding the abuse of PWA for phishing back in 2018.
Interestingly, SN is in a bit of a sweet spot for me. Large enough to generate interactions on most posts you make, but small enough that you don't need to be hypercompetitive for attention. In that sense, I think to me the definition of flourishing is:
People can post their genuine thoughts and expect a diverse range of genuine responses in return.
Communities that are too small fail that definition because you can't always expect a response, or diverse responses. Larger communities can fail because they lack authenticity---people start having to optimize for likes and attention, rather than simply posting what they think.
Working out: I have all I need at home (pullup bar, basic set of weights). I do my strength training in around 20-30 min. Sometimes I even use the minute of rest between sets to cook. I couldn't be fit if I had to go somewhere like a gym to train, it just takes a lot of time. Unless you are into lifting super-heavy and you need advanced equipment, why not stay at home?
Meals:
Rule #1 is to have your kitchen well stocked. Every saturday, I decide what I'll eat during the next week. Then, I write what I need in order to cook all of that and I go and buy it. This way, I never find myself not having the ingredients I need.
Rule #2: always cook some extra servings. If I do pasta bolognese for someone else and me, I'll actually cook 4 or 6 servings of sauce instead of 2. The additional servings go to the freezer. Now I can have lunch some week day in 15min by just boiling pasta and heating up the sauce again (and I'll probably do that while I work out). So, I get a healthy, home cooked, tasty lunch and workout in ~30 min. If you want to take this to the extreme, you can do some batch cooking on the weekend and have all your meals for the week. I don't need to got that far, so I don't.
Not a rule, but more of a tip: knowing how to cook a lot of different things let's you find meals that suit your life (due to the time you have right now for cooking, due to the ingredients you have right now if your fridge, etc). Investing in knowing how to cook many different meals provides you more flexibility that makes things easier.
On the rest of them: my work organization is a mess. But let me challenge you here: why do you wanna be so crazy efficient?
I think it's much more important to pick the right tasks than to be crazy productive in doing them. I don't mean to say being productive is not nice, but I wouldn't obsess over it. There is a lot of people doing stupid/unnecessary/pointless stuff in a super efficient way, effectively getting them... nowhere.
Instead, you could make sure you are doing the right things, peacefully do them at a normal, sustainable pace, and happily go to sleep every night knowing you did what you could and you are one step closer to whereever it is you want to be.
I haven't been following the drama, nor do I care. But I am very interested in the debate around what open source means and drama is an interesting vehicle for learning about it.
A mining node can only "censor" any block it mines. A miner with huge percent of hashrate could mine 6 blocks in a row somewhat regularly.
Lightning nodes are often under pressure to get their transactions confirmed quickly. Maybe they manage money for others and need to provide excellent service, or maybe their node was offline and they need to respond to a fraudulent channel closure in time to penalize the peer and avoid losing funds to them.
Lightning channel transactions are easy to identify so a miner could decide to censor them. This could force the LN nodes to pay higher fees and/or wait longer for channel operations.
By delaying or censoring transactions related to the miner's own fraudulent channel closes, the miner has an advantage over non-mining routing nodes at succeeding in an attempted fraudulent channel close. A very slight advantage that can be mitigated massively by simply setting a higher CLTV delta on your channels. That would give you more time to respond. Its highly unlikely that the miner would be able to censor you for more than 20 blocks for example.
Many believe that bitcoin's various roles should be done by as many different actors possible to prevent any concentration of power or potential conflicts of interest.
In my opinion, multiple actors, each performing multiple roles is acceptable as long as there is competition between them.
We all hate antagonistic experiences, like Mortal Combat combos of pop-ups, flashing banner ads, and abusive javascript practices. What's worse are antagonistic experiences that promise to make it all go away if victims pay a fixed amount. The term for this is extortion—the protection racket kind. This is the state of play. Ok, maybe that's way too dramatic. But In my opinion, this behavior is acceptable when there's etiquette and not coercion, just ask, if you're providing value most will say yes, you know what I mean?
We don't know all the innovation a lightning model will bring to advertising, but I feel it fits perfectly into the coming techno-cultural change, where you have Ai supercharging FOSS, decentralized hard money, and this sort of deflationary bare metal essence. 🤷♂️
Can I just say that I see you all the time making quality contributions here. I think you may be cheating yourself of sats with your method. You will earn far more by tipping more. Build up some more sats, then tip quality posts early. For more details, check @Natalia's recent post. It really pays to pay others before yourself, as crazy as that sounds. As an example, the first thing I do in the morning is donate a load of sats to the site. It's not completely out of the goodness of my heart. First of all, then I don't need to worry about my cowboy hat. Secondly, I know I have a chance to earn it back with good tipping and posting throughout the day.
This article assumes the continued legalization of fractional reserve banking and you know under a gold standard they're probably right to assume that given you need custodians to transact with gold.
That volatility is coming from credit expansions and deleveragings. People taking out debt (which is money printing under fractional reserve banking) and people paying off debt.
It's worth a shot. People on nostr ignorant of bitcoin immediately wanted to get zapped sats without really knowing what they were. Same thing happened on fountain with non bitcoin podcasters.
And many farmers. The minority but also the backbone industry. Without agriculture this area would suffer pretty drastically.
Many state wide polices that don't even make since in the bay area or socal are applied here where the average annual income is drastically lower. Its a classic case of rural vs. urban policies making little sense.
There are battles over water, taxes, and immigration policy. I remember being a kid and hearing conservative farmers talk about the need for better immigration policies that allowed migrate workers to work in the fields. I remember field workers organizing to fight for better working conditions and pay. When your status is illegal after all the farmer has a lot more power over you.
There are many complex issues in Central California that really are after thoughts for the state government. Its a shame.
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail by William Ophuls -- probably a lot of people here have read or come across the Fourth Turning, it's in a similar vein. Cycles of rise and fall, and a pretty strong argument that we're in the falling part now, but this time it's global.
Short but amazing - I'd say one of the better books I've read in a few years not just 2024
I believe that most people suffer from the inability to question authority and are susceptible to state-funded propaganda. This is especially the case among today's youth, which is extremely disappointing. I had absolutely no friends in my teenage years and early 20's because most people my age were new age Marxists at heart, who had never experienced a day of communism or repression in their lives. It always confused me why Maoists weren't equated to the Nazis on the "spectrum of evil". The whitewashing of socialism is truly evil.
Another factor I believe is "depression and anxiety". A majority of young people these days - my peers - find it fashionable to claim to be depressed or anxious. This is such a massive big-pharma psyop that is only now becoming mainstream. The "chemical imbalance" story of depression is absolutely falling apart. Plenty of friends of mine were medicated using depression meds from the time they were 5 years old. This has led to the creation of like-minded robots that are programmed to accept narratives. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/20/depression-not-caused-chemical-imbalance/
We live in a baffling world of dichotomies. When I talk to peers, I am absolutely devastated by the state of this world. When I talk to bitcoiners and scroll through SN, I am looking forward to having a family in the monetary renaissance ahead :)
Anyway, thank you very much for all the replies. Now I'm getting a picture of how this platform works. It's a community where you share and contribute your thoughts about topics that help others to learn or be updated
Small podcast recommendation for you @k00b: the podcast "Land of the Giants" has a season about Facebook right now. The first few episodes are about the early days and I think this could be very interesting to you.
Tl;dr in case you don't have time: Zucc encouraged platform growth under the motto "move fast, break things" - they were rolling out changes every f-ing day. And the by far the most important software wasn't the social media or the algorithm or anything like that - surprisingly the most important code was an algorithm to segment the userbase int A/B tests which means they rolled out changes to a part of the users and not to another group of users. And then they could evaluate which of these 2 groups used Facebook more.
Maybe this could also be something for SN. e.g. the sorting algorithm how long things stay at the top and how fast new content rises can probably adjusted by tweaking one or two Integers? Maybe the perfect ratio can be narrowed down with A/B test through the userbase.
You are expected to leverage Machankura as an amazing payment infrastructure rather than a long term self Custody product.
That this disclaimer needs to be written shows that this USSD-based solution is less than ideal.
With Machankura being a custodial wallet, there are risks that we know very well (back-end systems hack, rogue employee, shotgun KYC, rugpull, etc.). With Machankura using a third party USSD gateway (Africa's Talking), those risks extend to that third party (and to the telecom networks for each country as well). And finally, the mobile phone devices are not secure as well. Rarely are feature phones "locked" requiring a PIN, or otherwise secured so that anyone who grabs the phone cannot spend the bitcoin from the Machankura account for that number.
There's also regulatory risk. Some of the countries where Machankura is supported are hostile to bitcoin (e.g., Nigeria and Kenya). It would take only one "memo" sent to the telecom providers by their regulator and Machankura gets blocked in that country.
That being said, this low tech solution can be today used for receiving (and sending) remittances, P2P trading, for paying merchants, etc, without requiring KYC, and in a peer-to-peer manner.
Many will receive their first bitcoin on Machankura, and then progress to where they use a device where they self-custody bitcoin or use platforms with less risk than they are exposed to with Machankura. But for those with only a feature phone today, there is no alternative, so the benefits (of being able to receive some funds and then spend those funds) likely outweigh the risk (of potentially someday losing access to the account's balance).
Thanks. I was wondering about this.
Interestingly, SN is in a bit of a sweet spot for me. Large enough to generate interactions on most posts you make, but small enough that you don't need to be hypercompetitive for attention. In that sense, I think to me the definition of flourishing is:
People can post their genuine thoughts and expect a diverse range of genuine responses in return.Communities that are too small fail that definition because you can't always expect a response, or diverse responses. Larger communities can fail because they lack authenticity---people start having to optimize for likes and attention, rather than simply posting what they think.
If you still need to save time, try eating cereal while driving to work.
Are we moving on?
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I am going back to continue building my Bitcoin Citadel into the mountains.
My goal for this week is another 3-4 levels of sacks.
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Pizza last weekend, and I really need to onboard my fruits/veg/smoothies people this week!
A few ideas on some points you touch:
On the rest of them: my work organization is a mess. But let me challenge you here: why do you wanna be so crazy efficient?
I think it's much more important to pick the right tasks than to be crazy productive in doing them. I don't mean to say being productive is not nice, but I wouldn't obsess over it. There is a lot of people doing stupid/unnecessary/pointless stuff in a super efficient way, effectively getting them... nowhere.
Instead, you could make sure you are doing the right things, peacefully do them at a normal, sustainable pace, and happily go to sleep every night knowing you did what you could and you are one step closer to whereever it is you want to be.
I haven't been following the drama, nor do I care. But I am very interested in the debate around what open source means and drama is an interesting vehicle for learning about it.
both refer to the same result: get a tx confirmed when is stuck with a low fee. But yes are a bit different.
Its 404ing. They've deleted the article.
Here is the archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/20220705153241/https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/benefits-world-hunger
A mining node can only "censor" any block it mines. A miner with huge percent of hashrate could mine 6 blocks in a row somewhat regularly.
Lightning nodes are often under pressure to get their transactions confirmed quickly. Maybe they manage money for others and need to provide excellent service, or maybe their node was offline and they need to respond to a fraudulent channel closure in time to penalize the peer and avoid losing funds to them.
Lightning channel transactions are easy to identify so a miner could decide to censor them. This could force the LN nodes to pay higher fees and/or wait longer for channel operations.
By delaying or censoring transactions related to the miner's own fraudulent channel closes, the miner has an advantage over non-mining routing nodes at succeeding in an attempted fraudulent channel close. A very slight advantage that can be mitigated massively by simply setting a higher CLTV delta on your channels. That would give you more time to respond. Its highly unlikely that the miner would be able to censor you for more than 20 blocks for example.
Many believe that bitcoin's various roles should be done by as many different actors possible to prevent any concentration of power or potential conflicts of interest.
In my opinion, multiple actors, each performing multiple roles is acceptable as long as there is competition between them.
Miniscripting very underrated and in the first inning.
Hi @evankaloudis just wanted to say thank you for ZEUS, such a good application. I'm a localization contributors on Transifex.
You can test also with old browsers here: https://oldweb.today/?browser=ns4-mac#https://stacker.news/items/675753
You are constantly killing it. Keep it up!
We all hate antagonistic experiences, like Mortal Combat combos of pop-ups, flashing banner ads, and abusive javascript practices. What's worse are antagonistic experiences that promise to make it all go away if victims pay a fixed amount. The term for this is extortion—the protection racket kind. This is the state of play. Ok, maybe that's way too dramatic. But In my opinion, this behavior is acceptable when there's etiquette and not coercion, just ask, if you're providing value most will say yes, you know what I mean?
https://imgprxy.stacker.news/timALbG4k5lQI3kapPGrpUqM20Y19sz26lDIKVRIUPY/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4ubm9zdHIuYnVpbGQvaS8xYzg2MWQyN2ZmN2MzZjhjZDQ1MTRmNGE1YjZiMzEzNTIzNDhhYTJhNTVmMGQ3NDU3ZDA5MWY3NGQzNjkwZDZiLmpwZw
We don't know all the innovation a lightning model will bring to advertising, but I feel it fits perfectly into the coming techno-cultural change, where you have Ai supercharging FOSS, decentralized hard money, and this sort of deflationary bare metal essence. 🤷♂️
Can I just say that I see you all the time making quality contributions here. I think you may be cheating yourself of sats with your method. You will earn far more by tipping more. Build up some more sats, then tip quality posts early. For more details, check @Natalia's recent post. It really pays to pay others before yourself, as crazy as that sounds.
As an example, the first thing I do in the morning is donate a load of sats to the site. It's not completely out of the goodness of my heart. First of all, then I don't need to worry about my cowboy hat. Secondly, I know I have a chance to earn it back with good tipping and posting throughout the day.
This article assumes the continued legalization of fractional reserve banking and you know under a gold standard they're probably right to assume that given you need custodians to transact with gold.
That volatility is coming from credit expansions and deleveragings. People taking out debt (which is money printing under fractional reserve banking) and people paying off debt.
There are many unknown risks of not activating BIP300.
BIP300 might help with that.
BIP300 might help with that too.
BIP300 might even help with this.
I think it's much more risky not to activate BIP300.
It's worth a shot. People on nostr ignorant of bitcoin immediately wanted to get zapped sats without really knowing what they were. Same thing happened on fountain with non bitcoin podcasters.
The two rows on mobile was my biggest annoyance too.
And many farmers. The minority but also the backbone industry. Without agriculture this area would suffer pretty drastically.
Many state wide polices that don't even make since in the bay area or socal are applied here where the average annual income is drastically lower. Its a classic case of rural vs. urban policies making little sense.
There are battles over water, taxes, and immigration policy. I remember being a kid and hearing conservative farmers talk about the need for better immigration policies that allowed migrate workers to work in the fields. I remember field workers organizing to fight for better working conditions and pay. When your status is illegal after all the farmer has a lot more power over you.
There are many complex issues in Central California that really are after thoughts for the state government. Its a shame.
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail by William Ophuls -- probably a lot of people here have read or come across the Fourth Turning, it's in a similar vein. Cycles of rise and fall, and a pretty strong argument that we're in the falling part now, but this time it's global.
Short but amazing - I'd say one of the better books I've read in a few years not just 2024
Back to the old routine. It's actually 32F and 0 celsius out there. I figured it would be spring when I got back from vacation.
I believe that most people suffer from the inability to question authority and are susceptible to state-funded propaganda. This is especially the case among today's youth, which is extremely disappointing. I had absolutely no friends in my teenage years and early 20's because most people my age were new age Marxists at heart, who had never experienced a day of communism or repression in their lives. It always confused me why Maoists weren't equated to the Nazis on the "spectrum of evil". The whitewashing of socialism is truly evil.
Another factor I believe is "depression and anxiety". A majority of young people these days - my peers - find it fashionable to claim to be depressed or anxious. This is such a massive big-pharma psyop that is only now becoming mainstream. The "chemical imbalance" story of depression is absolutely falling apart. Plenty of friends of mine were medicated using depression meds from the time they were 5 years old. This has led to the creation of like-minded robots that are programmed to accept narratives. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/20/depression-not-caused-chemical-imbalance/
We live in a baffling world of dichotomies. When I talk to peers, I am absolutely devastated by the state of this world. When I talk to bitcoiners and scroll through SN, I am looking forward to having a family in the monetary renaissance ahead :)
Day 156 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
__@_'-'
At some point, though I think I’d need to keep myself busy else I’ll go insane
Anyway, thank you very much for all the replies. Now I'm getting a picture of how this platform works. It's a community where you share and contribute your thoughts about topics that help others to learn or be updated
Small podcast recommendation for you @k00b: the podcast "Land of the Giants" has a season about Facebook right now. The first few episodes are about the early days and I think this could be very interesting to you.
Tl;dr in case you don't have time: Zucc encouraged platform growth under the motto "move fast, break things" - they were rolling out changes every f-ing day. And the by far the most important software wasn't the social media or the algorithm or anything like that - surprisingly the most important code was an algorithm to segment the userbase int A/B tests which means they rolled out changes to a part of the users and not to another group of users. And then they could evaluate which of these 2 groups used Facebook more.
Maybe this could also be something for SN. e.g. the sorting algorithm how long things stay at the top and how fast new content rises can probably adjusted by tweaking one or two Integers? Maybe the perfect ratio can be narrowed down with A/B test through the userbase.
That this disclaimer needs to be written shows that this USSD-based solution is less than ideal.
With Machankura being a custodial wallet, there are risks that we know very well (back-end systems hack, rogue employee, shotgun KYC, rugpull, etc.). With Machankura using a third party USSD gateway (Africa's Talking), those risks extend to that third party (and to the telecom networks for each country as well). And finally, the mobile phone devices are not secure as well. Rarely are feature phones "locked" requiring a PIN, or otherwise secured so that anyone who grabs the phone cannot spend the bitcoin from the Machankura account for that number.
There's also regulatory risk. Some of the countries where Machankura is supported are hostile to bitcoin (e.g., Nigeria and Kenya). It would take only one "memo" sent to the telecom providers by their regulator and Machankura gets blocked in that country.
That being said, this low tech solution can be today used for receiving (and sending) remittances, P2P trading, for paying merchants, etc, without requiring KYC, and in a peer-to-peer manner.
Many will receive their first bitcoin on Machankura, and then progress to where they use a device where they self-custody bitcoin or use platforms with less risk than they are exposed to with Machankura. But for those with only a feature phone today, there is no alternative, so the benefits (of being able to receive some funds and then spend those funds) likely outweigh the risk (of potentially someday losing access to the account's balance).